THE GRISTLE P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ P.09 + BOB BALLOT P.21 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 09-11-2019 • ISSUE: 37 • V.14 WHATCOM WATER WEEK A resource roundup P.12 HERBSSTOCK THINK Party on Bay Street P.16 BLACKClyde Ford breaks the code P.10 EDGAR ALLAN Reconsidering Poe P.13 Ibidunni Ojikuta, Rebecca Manalac: 7:30pm, A brief overview of this Jansen Art Center, Lynden 26 WORDS FOOD week’s happenings THISWEEK Sara Donati: 4pm, Village Books COMMUNITY Anacortes Community Energy Fair: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center Warbird Weekend: 10am-4pm, Heritage Flight REAR END 21 Museum, Burlington FOOD 20 Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts FILM Center German-themed Saturday Market: 9am-3pm, Concrete Community Center 16 food and drink Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island Twin Sisters Market: 10am-2pm, North Fork Library MUSIC can be found Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial Sat., Sept. 14 at Park 14 Blaine Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza an Oktoberfest Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot ART Market Square celebration Surf and Turf by the Sea: 11am-5:30pm, G Street 13 Plaza, Blaine at Chuckanut Farmtoberfest: 12pm-9pm, Farmstrong Brewing, Mount Vernon STAGE Brewery, and at Oktoberfest: 1pm-10pm, Chuckanut Brewery Farmtoberfest 12 GET OUT taking place Out of the Darkness Walk: 8am-12pm, Bellingham High School GET OUT at Farmstrong Run with the Chums: 10am, BP Highlands, Birch Bay Bellingham Traverse: 12pm, Boundary Bay Brewery Brewing Co. Nooksack River Walk: 3pm, Horseshoe Bend 10 Trailhead WORDS SUNDAY [09.15.19] ONSTAGE 8 WEDNESDAY [09.11.19] And Then There Were None: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild ONSTAGE Murder at the Manor: 2pm, ACT Annex, Anacortes CURRENTS Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 21, Vanier Park, Steve Hofstetter: 7pm, Upfront Theatre Vancouver, BC Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab 6 Celebrated soprano MUSIC MUSIC VIEWS Jerry Steinhilber Trio: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Ibidunni Ojikuta will be Gangspil: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Diana Krall: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre joined by award-winning 4 FOOD Eat Local Month: Through September, throughout pianist Rebecca Jordan WORDS MAIL Whatcom County Clyde Ford Book Launch: 4pm, Village Books Wednesday Market: 2pm-6pm, Barkley Village Green Manalac for a Sat., Sept. 14 2 2 Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3pm-7pm, Hammer concert in Lynden at the COMMUNITY Heritage Square Chinese Moon Festival: 3pm-5pm, Bloedel Donovan DO IT DO IT Jansen Art Center. THURSDAY [09.12.19] GET OUT Fueling Education Run: 10am, Washington Park, ONSTAGE Anacortes 09.11.19 Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Improv Mash-up: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Theatre Guild SATURDAY [09.14.19] FOOD Murder at the Manor: 7:30pm, ACT Annex, Birchwood Market: 10am-3pm, Park Manor Shop- .14 Anacortes ping Center 37 DANCE ONSTAGE # Folk Dance: 7pm, Fairhaven Library 48 Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 10pm, And Then There Were None: 7:30pm, Bellingham Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, Sylvia Center for the Arts Theatre Guild Lynden MUSIC Improv Evolution: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Murder at the Manor: 7:30pm, ACT Annex, Anacortes Space Band: 5pm-9pm, Hotel Bellwether 48 Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 10pm, VISUAL MUSIC Sylvia Center for the Arts Handmade Market: 11am-4pm, Goods Nursery and WORDS Pickled Okra: 6pm-9pm, Bellewood Acres Improv Evolution: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Produce Cheryl McCarthy: 7pm, Village Books Imagine Music and Arts Festival: Through Sun- day, Doe Bay Resort, Orcas Island DANCE CASCADIA WEEKLY MONDAY [09.16.19] FOOD Contra Dance and Potluck: 6pm-10:30pm, Bow Farmers Market: 1pm-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Fairhaven Library 2 GET OUT ONSTAGE Wild Things: 9:30am-11am, Whatcom Falls Park WinkWink, YesYes: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge FRIDAY [09.13.19] FOOD MUSIC WORDS ONSTAGE Ferndale Farmers Market: 2pm-6pm, LaBounty The Gothard Sisters: 7pm, Guemes Island Com- Poetrynight: 7pm, Alternative Library And Then There Were None: 7:30pm, Bellingham Drive munity Center 26 FOOD 7 S BBQ ysters REAR END 21 Y Shuck. 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I could go on for hours but as we distribution@ 18: Clubs 4 4 cascadiaweekly.com the roads in the Northwest Washington area. say in China, shui zhang chuan gao, a rising tide 20: Film Shorts Whatcom: Erik Burge, Recently, while driving to Ferndale down Pole lifts all boats. MAIL MAIL Stephanie Simms Road West and Northwest Drive I couldn’t stand By working together (rising tide) we all can im- 2 Rear End Skagit: Linda Brown, it any longer and took it upon myself to stop my prove the world (lift all boats). If you have ques- 21: Hustlers, BOB ballot Barb Murdoch car, get out, and pick up some of what I saw. tions, feel free to contact me via this newspaper. DO IT I stopped across from Open Door Fellowship —Peter Baker, Lynden 22: Free Will Astrology Letters SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ church, also at the intersection of Pole Road and 23: Crossword CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Northwest Drive, and again at a couple of spots CHERRY POINT IN THE CROSSHAIRS 24: Comix nearby. I collected about 25 drink cans (mostly The future health and safety of Whatcom Coun- THE GRISTLE P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ P.09 + BOB BALLOT P.21 09.11.19 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS beer), about three cubic feet of plastic (cups, ty citizens are in voters’ hands this fall. At issue 25: Slowpoke, Sudoku 09-11-2019 • ISSUE: 37 • V.14 HATCM straws and wrappers, etc.), a couple of 10 X 10 is the expansion of new fossil fuel projects at WATER EEK .14 A resource 26: Cider house rules roundup P.12 37 plastic sheets, a 14-foot-long 2-foot-wide strip Cherry Point. Industry pressures to increase the HERBSSTOCK # Party on THINK Bay Street P.16 of plastic, an empty Purina calf feed pellets bag export of highly volatile unrefined fuels, coal BLACKClyde Ford breaks ©2019 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by the code and about 20 cigarette butts and more. and gas from the west coast have put Whatcom P.10 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 This took me 30 minutes, so mei wenti (Can- County and Cherry Point in their crosshairs. EDGA ALLAN [email protected] Reconsidering Poe P.13 tonese for “no worries”); however, this is part of If Satpal Sidhu is elected County Executive and Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy.