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THE MANY WORKS YOU CAN SEE
AT THE OPENING OF THE “PRINT
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A glance at what’s happening this week
06.10.09
WEDNESDAY
ON STAGE
Lincoln Elementar y Talent Show: 7pm, Lincoln
Theatre
WORDS
Wr iters’ Theater: 7pm, Firehouse Café
COMMUNITY
Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
A Decade of Healing: 6pm, Maritime Heritage Park
06.11.09
THURSDAY
ON STAGE
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Boys from Syracuse: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
Bard on the Beach: Continues through Sept. 26 at
Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C.
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC
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ON STAGE
Spitf ire Gr ill: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre,
Mount Vernon
The Boys from Syracuse: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
The Children’s Hour: 8pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
Cagematch: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Summer Love Dance: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance
Mount Vernon
The Boys from Syracuse: 8pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
Rooster: 8pm, Melody Hall
The Children’s Hour: 8pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
Cagematch: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
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Dancing for Joy: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
MUSIC
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06.13.09
SATURDAY
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Spitf ire Gr ill: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre,
MUSIC
The Paperboys: 7-9pm, Boulevard Park
BHS Alumni Band: 7pm, Bellingham Golf & Country
Club
Janne Mer tanen: 7pm, Whatcom Museum
Seattle Men’s Chorus: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall,
Mount Vernon
The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore:
8pm, WWU Performing Arts Center
COMMUNITY
Deming Logging Show: 11am-7pm, Deming Logging Showgrounds
Ferndale Farmers Market: 9am-3pm, the Riverwalk
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Metaphysical Fair: 10am-6pm, Center for Spiritual
Living
Street Law: 1-4pm, Railroad Avenue
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Bark in the Park: 10am-3pm, Storvik Park, Anacortes
Douglas Gallery
Smith and Vallee Reception: 5-8pm, Smith and
Vallee Gallery, Edison
06.14.09
SUNDAY
ON STAGE
The Boys from Syracuse: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre
Guild
Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
DANCE
Dancing for Joy: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
VISUAL ARTS
Grand Opening: 11am-4m, the Ground Floor
Salmon at the Bay: 12pm-12am, Boundary Bay
Brewery
Pr int Invitational Reception: 5-7pm, Lucia
MUSIC
Nor thern Lights Jazz Orchestra: 1:30-3:30pm,
Fairhaven Village Green
Swing Connection: 2-4pm, the Leopold
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Scot Ranney: 2pm, Whatcom Museum
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COMMUNITY
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After initial speculation
that Kung Fu and Kill
Bill star David Carradine
had committed suicide
by hanging himself in a
Bangkok hotel room late
last week, Thai authorities are now speculating
that the actor, 72, may
have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation. Autopsy
results are pending, and
another autopsy has been
scheduled stateside.
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NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
INCORRECTNESS
Tim Johnson, writing of his former teacher,
Perry Mills, tells a complicated story well and
with sympathy for Mills, whom he apparently escaped unmaimed. In the end, it seems, we are
to accept Mills as a latter day Lenny Bruce operating at Western Washington University under
a license from the state, ambushing unknowing
students with “challenges” they may or may not
be able to see as such; said “challenges” apparently requiring exceptional ego strength and/or
a rhino-like hide, among other survival aids.
Mills is said to charm some students, while
others “stumble from his classes bewildered,
insulted, even feeling cheated. He laughs at
them.”
I don’t know Perry Mills and I do think it
of significance if, indeed, no student has ever
lodged a grievance against him. Still, Johnson’s
take—“perhaps what is really being condemned
is an expression of intellectual freedom that was
once more common on campuses before they
were corporatized and sanitized, rendered correct and ‘safe’”—is a stretch.
A faculty committee concluded Mills’ behavior
was abusive beyond the pale. A judge agreed.
The case against Professor Mills failed on a procedural error. WWU may be too tame for Johnson’s taste, but it is not without its share of
“intellectual freedom.” Something else is at
work here.
Perry Mills, as portrayed, is a person who has
found his way to a protected and privileged po-
sition, that of teacher. He comes to it, however,
confused about the nature of the mission.
Having signed on at a public university, he is
contracted to teach, not only those of his students whose presence he finds worthy of his elevated standards, but also all of those duly registered for his classes. Any teacher deserving of the
calling knows this. I fear Mills may be, if his habit
is truly to laugh at students whom his approach
offends, unable to manage the power of the position, seeking his own gratification at the expense
of some he is counted upon to serve.
There is no law against a teacherly loss of patience or, should it come to that, overt anger
directed at some student shortcoming or other.
However, students have a right to expect such
displays to be inflicted without malice and in
the hope of a curative effect. If that is the intent in Mills’ classroom, let him save his stinging wit for more deserving targets.
I know something of Tim Johnson’s work on
behalf of our community and therefore regret
finding him, in this instance, making a case for
downright meaness of spirit in the name of intellectual freedom and falling back on the tired cry
of political correctness, a cry we hear too often
these days in defense of speech that is simply
crude, without civility or human decency.
—Sy Schwartz, Bellingham
It would seem that the 1960s “march through
the academy” by the far Left is not quite complete. There are still a few professors who don’t
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Waterfront Seating
—Allen Peterson, Bellingham
I am responding to Larry Horowitz’ letter about the lack of public response to
1,000 parking spaces proposed for the
waterfront redevelopment. The truth is,
the public becomes weary after years of
public meetings scheduled in the middle
of the day, or a single weeknight, or simply not at all, and eventually the Port Of
Bellingham rams another piece of their
agenda through Bellingham City Council.
But wait, the community can have a
voice where it counts.
John Blethen is running for a seat on
the three member port commission. John
has been a part of the public process as a
member of the Waterfront Futures Group
and later the Waterfront Advisory Group.
He’s spent his own money on an alternative to the port plan. His plan generated
real public enthusiasm at the last public
meeting I attended, but that was the last
anyone saw of it.
The central idea that has emerged from
public input is the “best of our waterfront
should be reserved for the benefit of our
entire community.” Elect John Blethen to
the port commission and he will restore
public process and give voice to the entire community about the most critical
decisions for the future of Bellingham.
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tow the politically correct line and must
pay the penalty for being individuals (as
opposed to the “collective”).
I took Perry Mills’ “Introduction to
Cinema” class while at WWU and found
him to be quite entertaining and not a
pushover. The description of him as a
pirate fits nicely, and I still have vivid
memories of running into him hobbling
across campus. He always seemed to remember me.
Perhaps the university should get rid
of some of the professors who feel it is
their duty to preach the same old predictable leftist bilge that infects higher
education. Mills adds a bit of real diversity to the campus atmosphere and that
cannot be tolerated.
I was pleasantly surprised by the fair
article on Mills in the Cascadia Weekly
since the magazine generally drives in
the left-lane only. Thank you for your
fairness.
My only beef with the article would be
to blame the P.C. problem on the “corporatized and sanitized” university when it
is pretty obvious that it is the collectivists who infect the institution.
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THE GRISTLE
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THE TYRANNY OF DEAD IDEAS: We observed recently that leadership without opposition is tyranny,
and that peculiar strangulation is evident in Election ‘09, where most city and county races drew
no credible opposition. Instead, our local elections are mostly an exercise of position jockeying
and entrenchment by veteran career politicians.
In City of Bellingham races, Stan Snapp and
Gene Knutson walk back to office without opposition. Louise Bjornson received the 3am phone
call from Democratic Labor forces that they would
not support her reelection habit for a second decade and would throw their weight instead to Seth
Fleetwood, who was retrenching from the At-Large
position on Whatcom County Council to one more
suited to him on Bellingham City Council.
The situation is equally bleak in county races,
with Laurie Caskey-Schreiber—unloved in her
own district—moving into Seth’s seat, where her
chances of protracted survival are improved. In
perhaps the ultimate retrenchment, Dan McShane,
who two years ago retired from District 1, seeks to
return to that district in a different position, one
vacated by his erstwhile colleague, Ward Nelson.
In his May announcement for office, McShane
accurately scoped the problem: “The number of
people [seeking office] that are informed and engaged seems to be declining. This trend opens the
community to elect ill informed candidates that
show up at the last minute as single-issue candidates who cry it’s time for new blood. They may be
really great people, but when they arrive to city
or county government without any understanding
of the issues they either take three years to begin
figuring out how to get anything done or simply
become yes men (we could use some more women
around here) to either staff or political handlers.”
McShane’s concerns were borne out, presciently,
in the final hours of Filing Week, when a coordinated cluster of weak sisters (one of them a brother) announced their run for County Council.
As we noted at the height of the local election
cycle in 2007, there is a tested avenue to seek
public office: “You serve on various boards, committees and neighborhood associations. You work
on candidates’ campaigns, knocking on doors and
talking to citizens. You become familiar with the
issues, the challenges; you meet government staff
and begin to associate faces with projects. You
volunteer for a community project or serve pancakes at a hospice center. In this way, you learn
public service.
“You also build a public record that confirms
professed values. You get your hide toughened
and your spine nailed straight.”
Now ask yourself, what are the odds that four
people, each relatively inactive politically, would
file independently for four different but coordinated offices and who would, without communication or coordination, choose the same Internet
service provider to host their campaign websites?
Mary Beth Teigrob, Kathy Kershner, Michelle
Luke, and Bill Knutzen each filed for a different
County Council seat (KGMI host Teigrob earns
chutzpah points for filing against KGMI host Ken
Mann). They also, within hours of one another, selected Dotster as the ISP for their websites. Or
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OP INIONS
T HE GR I S T L E
BY CARL WEIMER
Real Change
PIPELINES HAVE BECOME SAFER SINCE WHATCOM CREEK DISASTER
TEN YEARS
ago, the Olympic
pipeline blew up here in Bellingham
and caused this community to learn
about pipeline safety the hard way.
The question I get asked most frequently here these days is, “Has pipeline safety really gotten any better?”
Thankfully, the answer to that
question is yes.
In this short space I can’t explain
all the changes that have occurred,
but here are three examples to help
back up my belief.
Changes in regulations: Congress
has passed two major pipeline safety
bills since 1999 that put into place
a whole range of new regulations.
The most important one of these
is a requirement referred to as “integrity management,” which basically requires the large transmission
pipeline companies to spend tens of
millions of dollars to inspect their
pipelines that fall within “high consequence areas” (populated and environmentally sensitive areas).
Liquid pipelines, such as Olympic,
are now required to be inspected every five years. Natural gas pipelines,
such as the Northwest Pipeline that
blew up in 1997 east of Everson, are
now required to be inspected every
seven years. For liquid pipelines,
this high-consequence-area requirement captures a little more than 40
percent of all the liquid pipelines in
the country, or about 73,000 miles
worth. For natural gas pipelines the
definition of high consequence area
is different (since natural gas doesn’t
pollute water in the same way as
liquids) so the regulation only captures about 7 percent of all the natural gas pipelines, or about 19,000
miles worth. While the regulations
only require this many miles to be
inspected, the companies are going
far beyond the regulations for a variety of reasons. Because of this new
regulation by the end of 2007 the
liquid pipeline operators had found
and repaired about 85,000 problems
on their pipelines, and the natural
gas pipeline operators had repaired
more than 2,500.
In 1999 there were no such requirements for inspections and repairs. These new regulations came as
a direct result of the push for greater
pipeline safety after the Bellingham
tragedy, and as the above numbers
indicate, tens of thousands of problems that could have potentially become Bellingham-like tragedies have
been avoided.
Example of change within the industry: In 2001 the Association of
Oil Pipe Lines and the American Petroleum Institute started a new effort
called the Performance Excellence
Team with the goal of “zero injuries,
zero spills.” This effort has been underway for nearly ten years now and
has developed a data collection and
reporting system that helps the entire industry put their efforts where
they can gain the biggest safety bang
for the buck. It also gives a companyby-company comparison that tells
executives how well they are doing
compared to their competition. The
current leader of the Performance Excellence Team is a Vice President from
Marathon Pipe Lines, who in 2006,
mandated that all new employees as
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part of their initial training watch a
movie about the Bellingham pipeline
tragedy. I have been known to drink
beer with this man.
Example of change within the
regulators: In 2000 when SAFE Bellingham held the first-ever citizenorganized national pipeline safety
conference in Washington, DC, the
head of the federal Office of Pipeline
Safety refused to attend or have any
of his employees attend. Instead he
had a pipeline industry representative take notes for him.
In 2008, when the Pipeline Safety
Trust held their conference in New
Orleans, the new head of the Office
of Pipeline Safety was there, and he
brought 12 staff people from around
the country with him to participate.
He also came to Bellingham in September to participate in the Pipeline
Safety Trust’s strategic planning retreat. He is here in Bellingham this
week to talk about how his agency
has changed because of Bellingham.
I have been known to drink beer
with this man.
Hopefully these three examples
will give you a sense of the change
that has occurred in the regulations
and the cultures of the industry and
regulators. Certainly there is still a
good deal more that needs to be accomplished, like expanding those high
consequence areas. But the amount of
change that has happened in the last
10 years, based to a large degree on
the efforts started here in Bellingham, is quite impressive considering
that when this all began on a beautiful
afternoon on June 10, 1999 it was just
the small town of Bellingham against
the entire oil and gas industry.
Carl Weimer is executive director of
the Pipeline Safety Trust.
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rather somebody did, as Dotster makes
it easy to register websites through undisclosed third parties. (the Vancouver,
Wash., webhoster came under scrutiny
in 2008 for hosting a web site linked to
known radical Jihadists, the Somali Al
Shabaab terrorist group, a story picked
up by the conservative blog “Right in a
Left World” [not to be confused (perhaps) with the blog of the Whatcom GOP
chair, Luanne Van Werven’s “Right on
the Left Coast”]).
Adding to the amusement, Dotster
was originally managed by Doug Palin,
Jr., cousin-in-law of Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin and namesake of the Clark County
real estate broker who was past president of—wait for it—the Washington
Association of Realtors and active in the
Building Industry Association of Washington. Sense a connection?
The four candidates are loosely coordinated in other ways as well.
At April’s TEA Party organizing event
for Whatcom conservatives, Kershner
(running against McShane) exhorted
protest from “Americans who are fed up
with higher taxes, increased spending
and wasteful, fraudulent government
action…. We are fed up with paying for
your mortgages, your healthcare, your
education, your car, your food, your
childcare, your publicly supported basket
weaving classes, your rehab, your credit
card debt, your debt in general, your retirement… and the list goes on.”
Last November, we reported the BIAW
had similarly organized property rightistas against the county’s Shoreline Master
Program (SMP), a framework so remarkable it drew praise from Gov. Chris Gregoire (and commensurate scorn from the
BIAW trying to gin up support for challenger Dino Rossi). The BIAW managed to
prod a hornets’ nest of property owners
over state-imposed regulations Whatcom
County government had little control
over. A staged effort, but the stunt did
serve to activate the guileless core.
Will candidates and voters activated
and organized through viral emails and
TEA parties and lapel pins really bring
the rigor and breadth needed to vitalize
Whatcom’s democracy?
In his new book, The Tyranny of Dead
Ideas, author Matt Miller examines ingrained identity politics so decrepit
they “prevent us from responding forcefully… to improve people’s lives.” Nowhere is this more true than in Whatcom County, where the entrenchment of
polar political views have fossilized for
25 years.
Veteran officials, comfortably entrenched in office, are certainly in need
of challenge. But the challenge did not
arrive in this election.
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commentary
briefs
Tragedy
RIGHT: A cloud of black smoke
billows from Whatcom Creek after
a gasoline pipeline leaked more
than 200,000 gallons of fuel into
the creek and became ignited,
as seen in this June 10, 1999,
file photo in Bellingham, Wash.
The five-year anniversary of the
explosion, which killed two boys
and a young man, was Thursday,
June 10, 2004, and $4 million
in criminal fines against the
Olympic Pipeline company helped
set up the Pipeline Safety Trust,
but families of the victims are
still working to improve pipeline
safety laws nationwide.
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Remembering a
AP PHOTO
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residents view
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along Whatcom
Creek after the
explosion.
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news
ABOVE: Checking for gas, Olympic Pipe
Line Co. workers cold tap a section of
the petroleum pipeline near the City
of Bellingham water treatment plant
Wednesday, June 16, 1999, near the
point of a break in the pipe. Approximatley 100 gallons of gas will be pumped
from the upper end of the pipeline that
caused an explosion in Whatcom Falls
Park June 10, 1999.
ATTEND
3:29PM
4:16PM
4:24PM
4:35PM
WHAT: “Whatcom Creek Pipeline
Explosion: A Decade of Healing”
WHEN: Wed., June 10
WHERE: A guided, interpretive tour
starts at 3:30pm at the stone bridge in
Whatcom Falls Park. At 6pm at Maritime
Heritage Park, a community gathering
will feature local, state and national
speakers, live music and prayers for the
future.
INFO: Pipelinesafetytrust.org
WHAT: Community Displays
WHEN: June 10-12
WHERE: Bellingham City Hall
INFO: Pipelinesafetytrust.org
4:45PM
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ON OCT. 8, 2002, The National Transportation Safety
Board, after a three-year investigation, ruled the
Olympic Pipeline explosion was caused by a cascading series of events rather than a single catastrophic
failure of the fuel pipe. The NTSB cited damage caused
in 1994 by IMCO General Construction Company while
conducting excavation work at nearby Whatcom Falls
Water Treatment Plant, the failure of the Olympic
Pipe Line Company to identify or repair the damage,
a faulty computer system that failed to respond to
repeated indications pressure was building up inside
the pipeline, a faulty pressure relief valve and failure
to adequately train its employees.
A criminal investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency resulted in a seven-count indictment by a
federal grand jury in Seattle in September 2001. The
indictment charged Olympic Pipe Line, and Equilon
Pipeline, which had operated the pipeline in 1999,
with five felony violations of the Hazardous Liquid
Pipeline Safety Act and two misdemeanor violations of
the Clean Water Act. Included in the indictment were
three Olympic employees, a vice-president/manager,
a supervisor, and the controller at the time of the
accident.
ON JULY 28, 1999, the parents of Wade King and
Stephen Tsiorvas filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in
Whatcom County Superior Court naming the Olympic
Pipe Line Company, the Equilon Pipeline Company
and three Olympic employees as defendants. On April
10, 2002, in an out-of-court settlement, Olympic and
Equilon agreed to pay the families of King and Tsiorvas
$75 million. The Wood family reached a separate,
undisclosed settlement with the companies.
ON DEC. 11, 2002, Olympic Pipe Line pleaded guilty
in U. S. District Court, Seattle, to one felony count
under the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act and
two Clean Water Act misdemeanors. Equilon Pipeline
entered no-contest pleas to the same violations. Under
the plea agreement, the companies agreed to pay a
record $112 million to settle all federal criminal fines
and most civil claims against them. According to U. S.
Attorney John McKay, the pleas marked the first time a
pipeline company had been convicted under the 1979
Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act.
Rep. Kelli Linville (D-Bellingham) sponsored a bill
that would give the state responsibility for regulating
intrastate pipelines and improve pipeline safety.
ON MARCH 28, 2000, during a ceremony at Bellingham City Hall, Gov. Gary Locke signed into law the
Washington Pipeline Safety Act (House Bill 2420),
which allows the Washington State Utilities and
Transportation Commission to inspect 2,500 miles of
intrastate pipelines and oversee the state’s pipelinesafety program.
Gov. Locke told reporters the law “sets us on a clear
path toward stronger and more effective regulations of
pipelines and better prevention of accidents.” Annual
fees levied against the pipeline operators pay for the
program, which costs about $1 million a year.
—Various sources
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CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
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AP PHOTO
3:28PM
a river of fire from the rupture
site near the Whatcom Falls Water
Treatment Station, one and a half
miles down the creek, to Interstate-5. The massive fireball sends
a plume of smoke 30,000 feet into
the air, visible from Anacortes to
Vancouver, BC. Dense black smoke
cause the closure of Interstate-5
for more than an hour.
Fearing the fire would continue flowing down the creek into
downtown Bellingham, police officers began evacuating businesses.
Gasoline migrated into the city’s
sewer system, and the vapors were
at explosive levels for an hour.
The U.S. Coast Guard, concerned
the fuel could ignite dock pilings
and vessels, closed Bellingham
Bay for a one-mile radius from the
mouth of Whatcom Creek.
The first victim was Liam Gordon
Wood, age 18, who was fly fishing in Whatcom Creek when the
rupture occurred. According to
Whatcom County Medical Examiner
Dr. Gary Goldfogel, Wood was
overcome by noxious fumes, and
fell into the creek and drowned
prior to the explosion.
The other two victims, Wade King,
10, and Stephen Tsiorvas, 10,
schoolmates at Roosevelt Elementary School, were playing north
of the Hanna and Whatcom creek
confluence when the explosion
occurred. The boys survived the
blast but suffered terrible burns.
The boys died the following day,
June 11, 1999.
6:30PM firefighters manage to get the
major blazes under control
7:00PM the black smoke had largely dissipated. The inferno, estimated
to have reached 2,000 degrees
Fahrenheit, caused a high-voltage
power line and two substations
to be shut down, disrupting
electrical service to about 58,000
Bellingham customers for several
hours.
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3:25PM
4:55PM Gasoline vapors explode, creating
MAIL 4
3:18PM
ler notices an error in computer
logs monitoring valves and
gasoline flow. After a check, the
worker concludes everything is
fine and restarts the flow.
As the flow is restarted, pressure builds along the pipeline.
Controllers start a back-up pump
at Woodinville to relieve the
pressure, but the transfer fails,
sounding alarms and crashing
computers.
A pressure relief valve fails. Pressure in the pipeline builds and a
section weakened as a result of
recent excavations in the area of
Whatcom Falls Park begins to fail.
The pressure surge leads to a
catastrophic rupture in the line
traversing Whatcom Falls Park,
and sends 277,200 gallons of
highly volatile gasoline into
Hanna Creek and Whatcom Creek,
which flows through downtown
Bellingham into Bellingham Bay.
The leak drops pressure in the
pipeline to normal levels, but
pipeline failsafes shut the system
down between Cherry Point and
Renton.
Heedless, Olympic Pipe Line Co.
again restarts the flow of gasoline
from Cherry Point.
Calls begin to arrive at emergency
services from residents reporting
the strong odor of gasoline in the
vicinity of Whatcom Creek.
An Olympic Pipeline field worker
who happened to be in the area
calls the company’s command center in Renton, reporting a strong
odor of gasoline.
Bellingham Fire Department Hazardous Materials Teams, sent to
investigate, find copious amounts
of gasoline flowing down the
creek toward Bellingham Bay. The
water is pink and the fumes overwhelming. Hazard officials begin
evacuating the area and setting
up barricades. Gasoline floods
down Whatcom Creek toward
downtown.
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3:10PM An Olympic Pipe Line Co. control-
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SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Explosions broke windows in homes and businesses and
leveled a house on Valencia Street near the creek. The
creek bed and surrounding greenbelt were charred and
blackened.
Crews aextinguished remaining fires in Whatcom Falls
Park and triaged immediate hazards.
The water treatment plant and pump station at Whatcom Falls sustained extensive damage. The fuel spill
occurred about 150 feet in front of the facility, and
the subsequent explosion shattered all the windows
and blew the doors off the building. For all practical
purposes, the pump station was destroyed, with equipment and control systems melted in the fire. Bellingham residents were advised to conserve water until all
the water pumps were repaired and back on-line.
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JUNE 10 marks the 10th anniversary of a huge blast created when gas leaked from a pipeline in Bellingham and was ignited into a fireball along Whatcom Creek. Two 10-year-old
boys playing in the creek were severely burned and died in a Seattle hospital. A teenage
fly-fishing enthusiast was pursuing his quarry in the creek’s shady pools and eddies when
he was overcome by gasoline vapors and drowned before the explosion.
On Thursday afternoon, June 10, 1999, a 16-inch fuel line owned by the Olympic Pipe
Line Company ruptured in Bellingham, spilling 277,200 gallons of gasoline into Hanna and
Whatcom creeks. The volatile fuel exploded, killing three youths: Liam Wood, 18, and Wade
King and Stephen Tsiorvas, both age 10. The massive fireball sent a plume of smoke 30,000
feet into the air, visible from Anacortes to Vancouver, BC.
AFTERMATH
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW
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THAT WAS
06.05.09
FRIDAY
Port commission seats draw primary challenges, along with the
county’s At-Large position and COB’s Ward 6.
In last minute filings, Bellingham resident Kathy Kershner says
she’ll stop Dan McShane’s attempt to return to County Council.
Carl Weimer matches up against Michelle Luke, active in Lummi
Island planning and shoreline issues. It’s KGMI vs. KGMI, as
Mary Beth Teigrob squares off against fellow radio host Ken
Mann. Laurie Caskey-Schreiber, moving to the At-Large position,
faces two challenges from Lynden’s Bill Knutzen and Dave Pros,
active in county growth management.
Seth Fleetwood, moving into the vacant At-Large position on
Bellingham City Council, faces activist Yoshe Revelle. Southside’s Michael Lilliquist faces two opponents in the 6th Ward,
Democratic Party activist Catherine Chambers and glass artist
Christopher Morrison.
PORT OF BELLINGHAM
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John Blethen
Ham Hayes
Scott Walker
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More than 100 people file
for public office in Whatcom
County, yet most Bellingham
positions remain without challengers. Both Port of Bellingham
races draw an August primary.
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Health officials say a second
person with a confirmed case of
swine flu has died in Washington
state. A Pierce County woman in
her 20s dies after being hospitalized since May 21. A Snohomish
County man in his 30s died May 6.
Scott Walker
DISTRICT 1, POSITION A
Kathy Kershner
Dan McShane
Doug Smith
Aurora, a 21-year-old beluga whale, gave birth June 7 at her aquarium home in Vancouver, British
Columbia.The calf is the second whale to be born at the aquarium during the past year. Last June,
Aurora became a grandmother when her daughter Qila gave birth to a calf named Tiqa.
06.02.09
TUESDAY
A three-alarm fire kills about 180,000 chickens at an egg farm near
Stanwood. The Snohomish County fire marshal’s office says the exact
cause of the fire remains under investigation, but is believed to be an
accident.
DISTRICT 3, POSITION A
Michelle Luke
Carl Weimer
AT-LARGE*
Bill Knutzen
Dave Pros
Laurie Caskey-Schreiber
06.04.09
THURSDAY
State economic forecasters say the end of the recession is in sight,
despite a new report that shows the state’s economy doing worse than
expected a few months ago. “The good news is things are still getting
worse, but at a slower rate,” the state’s chief economic forecaster tells
BELLINGHAM CITY
COUNCIL
WARD 2
Gene Knutson
(no challenger)
Gene Knutson
WARD 4
Stan Snapp
(no challenger)
WARD 6*
Catherine Chambers
Michael Lilliquist
Christopher Morrison
06.10.09
WEDNESDAY
Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaims
Pipeline Safety Day in memory
of the rupture and explosion
of Olympic Pipeline that killed
three in Bellingham on this day
in 1999. Rep. Rick Larsen and
Sen. Patty Murray have introduced similar measures to their
congressional committees.
DISTRICT 2, POSITION A
Mary Beth Teigrob
Ken Mann
MONDAY
Bellingham City Council sponsors an angry public debate over
whether local law enforcement
efforts should decline to detain
or report AWOL military personnel. Despite impassioned (or because of) testimony, City Council
is unlikely to consider making
Bellingham a ”sanctuary city.”
Mike McAuley
Doug Karlberg
Doug Smith
WHATCOM COUNTY
COUNCIL
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Police called to an Everett
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Federal investigators believe the
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their a small sailboat overturns
in Chuckanut Bay, throwing
six people into the water. Four
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AT-LARGE
Stan Snapp
Seth Fleetwood
Yoshe Revelle
BELLINGHAM
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Debra Lev
(no challenger)
Debra Lev
*August primary
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CURRENTS
Also in April 2007, USCBP officers used
imaging equipment to intercept a Honduran national attempting to illegally enter
the United States aboard a rail car.
In March 2005, USCBP officers used imaging equipment to intercept a Tacoma man
attempting to illegally enter the United
States aboard a rail car.
On June 2, the Cool Beans coffee drivethru on Lakeway Drive was robbed by a
man who walked up wearing a motorcycle
helmet and demanded money. He showed
no weapon, nor did he imply he had one.
The barista gave him an undisclosed
amount of cash and he rode off in what
Bellingham Police described as a “crotch
rocket” style motorcycle.
On May 27, Bellingham Police learned a
man living in a trailer had threatened the
life of the owner of the property where
the man’s trailer was parked. Police found
the man highly intoxicated and unwilling to come out of his trailer. From inside
the trailer, he continued to threaten to
kill people, including the officers on the
scene. After a two-and-a-half hour standoff, the 44-year-old was coaxed out of
his trailer. He was promptly arrested for
felony harassment, assault and obstructing law enforcement efforts.
‘HEALING CRYSTALS’
CHIHUAHUA BROUHAHA
On May 29, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection officers in Blaine arrested a
69-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man
for allegedly attempting to smuggle into
the United States 48,244 tablets of ecstasy, worth more than $500,000. More than
27 pounds of particolored MDMA tablets
were discovered hidden in vacuum-sealed
packages in the gas tank of his minivan.
On May 31, Blaine Police were advised of
dangerous animals at large on E Street.
Police arrived to find two marauding chihuahuas chasing around a park with children. “The diminutive doggy duo were detained by their owners,” police reported.
“They were chastized to not let their chihuahuas charge about uncollared or risk a
citation.”
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APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF gas and oil pipelines in the United States in miles.
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In April 2007, USCBP officers intercepted a Honduran national attempting to illegally enter the United States
aboard a rail car.
On May 31, a teen with a
tire iron smashed a glass display case in the Bellingham
Wal-Mart. He allegedly took a
Play Station 3 and fled. A store
employee located at the exit attempted to block the suspect from
leaving with the merchandise. The
teen raised the tire iron in a threatening manner, and the employee dodged
aside. A shopper witnessed the incident
and chased the suspect across the parking lot to a nearby car wash. The suspect
threw the tire iron at the man chasing
him, but missed. The citizen detained the
suspect until Bellingham Police Officer
arrived. The 18-year-old was booked for
first-degree robbery.
GALLONS OF GASOLINE that spilled into Hanna and Whatcom creeks on June 10, 1999,
in a catastrophic pipeline failure.
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MILLION PAID TO the families of Stephen
ESTIMATED AMOUNT, IN millions, paid
by Olympic Pipe Line Co. and Shell Oil for
improved inspection and damage prevention measures following the disaster.
Tsiorvas and Wade King following the 1999
rupture of Olympic Pipeline in Bellingham.
An undisclosed amount was paid to the
family of the third victim, Liam Wood.
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and Shell in additional criminal and civil
settlements.
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following the 1999 pipeline rupture and
explosion in Bellingham.
NUMBER OF REPAIRS and problems
BILLIONS IN PROFITS posted by Exxon
reported under new pipeline safety requirements imposed since June 10, 1999.
Mobil in 2008.
SOURCE: Associated Press; Pipeline Safety Trust
VIEWS 6
In October 2008, USCBP officers used imaging equipment to intercept a Mexican
national attempting to illegally enter the United States
aboard a rail car.
MAIL 4
On March 28, USCBP officers used imaging equipment to intercept a Honduran
national attempting to illegally enter the
United States aboard a rail car.
On May 26, Bellingham Police were summoned to Best Buys on Meridian after a
man there caused a disturbance, annoying
customers in the store’s parking lot. The
suspect was caught after a brief struggle.
He did not have any identification on him
but he provided a name to the officers.
Using that name, a warrant was located
for his arrest. As the handcuffed suspect
was being escorted to a patrol car, he
threatened to kill two of the officers. Failing that, he spat at them. His true identity was gleaned in jail. The 27-year-old was
booked on assault, felony harassment, obstructing a police officer and making false
statement.
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On May 31, US Customs and Border Protection officers in Blaine used imaging
equipment to intercept a Mexican and
a Guatemalan national who were riding
aboard a railroad car after their illegal
entry into the United States from Canada. Service Port Director Gregg Alvarez
said, “It isn’t everyday that we discover
illegal aliens hiding on rail cars.”
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BUT OFTEN ENOUGH
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He told border officials he was traveling
to Seattle to purchase healing crystals.
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PHOTO BY MIKE YOSHIDA
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LEFT: Photographic artist Gunther Frank
BELOW: Snowboarder Sean “donnkie” Mansfield
GET OUT 18
NO SIGN OF MEN MISSING
FROM CAPSIZED SAILBOAT
!
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06.10.09
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MAIL 4
VIEWS 6
PHOTO BY GUNTHER FRANK AND CHRIS FULLER
CURRENTS 8
WORDS 16
riends and family in kayaks and
small boats continue to comb
coastal waters for signs of Gunther
Frank and Sean Mansfield, missing
since their boat capsized near Chuckanut
Bay early Friday morning. A rudder, a few
seat cushions are all they’ve found since
Frank’s 18-foot sailing dory washed ashore
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. The two friends, well known and loved in Bellingham’s night scene, were active and athletic.
Frank, 35, was a seasoned sailor. Mansfield, 29, was
an avid snowboarder steeled to cold temperatures.
Despite these advantages, the Whatcom County
Sheriff’s Office declared the men missing and presumed drowned Friday, but volunteers continue
their search undaunted.
Three people—a man and two women—made
it to shore without assistance. A third woman
knocked against steep cliffs along the southwestern edge of Clark’s Point and held on for nearly four
hours until she was rescued. She was transported
to the hospital, where she was treated for scrapes,
bruises and the effects of exposure.
Survivors say their trip out from Bellingham was
uneventful, in calm and pleasant weather. Evening
fell, bringing a strong weather system up from the
south with heavier winds. The boat was reportedly knocked down by strong winds, tossing all six
people into the 48-degree waters of the bay.
In an updated report, the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office said four of the boaters—Mansfield,
Frank, and two of the women—eventually decided
to swim for shore. The remaining two—a man and
woman—decided to stay with the boat and attempt to free a dog trapped aboard. None of the
boaters was wearing a life jacket or flotation device at the time of the accident.
This report was compiled with materials
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Before they parted, all of the boaters attempted at first to bring the boat upright.
They eventually abandoned the effort,
but the six of them found their combined
weight was sinking the craft. Mansfield
and Frank urged the group to set out, realizing they couldn’t last long in the cold,
dark water.
Two of the women began to swim, with
Mansfield and Frank bracketing them.
Quickly, however, the swimmers became
separated in the waves and darkness.
One of the women was able to reach the
shore at about 1:40am. Looking back in
the direction she had swam, she was unable to see the boat or other swimmers in
the water. She ran through the woods to a
home near the waterfront and knocked on
the door. The home’s occupant called 911,
and a search was launched for the other
boaters within the hour.
Still clinging to the capsized boat, the
other two passengers abandoned their efforts to free the dog. As they’d worked,
the boat had drifted closer to the shore.
They set out and made safe landfall.
The Coast Guard air group stationed in
Port Angeles received a distress call at
approximately 2am from the Bellingham
Police Department. They dispatched a
HH-65C Dolphin search helicopter. The
Coast Guard Cutter Terrapin and a small
rescue craft, both homeported in Bellingham, were also launched. Rescuers
reported 49-degree water with swells of
up to two feet and visibility of 10 nautical miles.
The following morning, Frank’s boat
was discovered beached, the dog,
drowned, still inside.
The Coast Guard reports searchers covered 50 square miles using an 87-foot
patrol boat, a 33-foot patrol boat and a
Dolphin helicopter before the search was
suspended Friday afternoon.
The search was resumed Saturday
morning using a Coast Guard vessel and
a search craft belonging to the Whatcom
County Sheriff’s Office, but was called
off by mid-afternoon.
The Coast Guard says it has no plans
for further searches. The Whatcom
County Sheriff’s Office has also halted
its search. Frank’s boat, Scumdinger, was
cut up and hauled from the beach.
Friends continue their search. Their loss
is a wound through the downtown arts,
music and nightlife communities that will
not heal until the friends are found.
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FIRE FROM CONSERVATIVES
But the people answered, “Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they
will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now
thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succor us out of the city.”
—2 Samuel 18:3
MARINE MANUEL Leonard Perry, 30, is in jail after he quietly
turned himself in June 1 at the international border in Blaine. Perry, a
Marine reservist, went AWOL in April 2003 after his unit received orders
to deploy to Iraq. He is one of many soldiers who, sensing a change in
America’s commitment to war, have begun to surrender to what they
hope are more sympathetic authorities for their dereliction of duty.
Within days, he is moved out under a Marine guard.
Blocks away and days later, a mob gathers to debate whether deserters
like Perry should receive mercy for their crimes.
Conservatives turned out—angry and strong—against a public forum approved by Bellingham City Council to discuss whether Bellingham should become the nation’s third “GI Sanctuary City,” where
police will be directed not to arrest or report AWOL soldiers like Perry
who are refusing to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan. Supporters hope
Bellingham will be the third such city, following Ithaca, N.Y., and
Berkeley, Calif., and—being a border community—an important addition to the roster.
City Council declined to consider such a proposal, but agreed to at least foster debate on
the topic, a topic so likely to draw blood that the
city issued rules of conduct for the forum. The
rules were ignored. Hours before the meeting,
the mood had clouded to the point where police
presence seemed a reasonable precaution.
A sprinkling argued for amnesty that allows
AWOL soldiers to come in from the cold. Others,
more circumspect, thanked the City of Bellingham for at least fostering a discussion of the
concept, even if COB was unlikely to become a
sanctuary.
“I’m disappointed we can’t even talk about
these issues without people flying into a rage,”
one speaker commented as he left.
Supporters appeared outmatched. A hundred letters to City Hall had poured in, condemning the event; none voiced favor for it.
Elected officials, sweating in the heat and
gloom, appeared subdued, even embarrassed.
“It is insulting to those of us still alive and
doubly insulting to the memories of those
who served their nation with honor and have
since passed on,” former City Council member
Bob Hall observed. “It is particularly difficult
to suppress my anger at those who would even
take such a proposal seriously.”
Crammed shoulder to shoulder in the pews of
Bellingham’s “temple of justice,” the municipal courthouse, groups delivered hard words
to one another. When a meeting moderator
warned continued angry outbursts could shut
down the meeting, someone snarled, “Good!”
Conservatives—galvanized and mobilized
by what is arguably the last expression of
patriotism in support of an unpopular and
unwinding war—complained that City Council
is having things both ways by saying it does
not support the resolution yet still provides
a forum for the GI Sanctuary City movement
to present its views. Combat veterans formed
a similar wall.
“I am just one person who represents hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people
who are very upset with the whole idea of
Bellingham being a sanctuary city for deserters,” Luanne Van Werven, chair of the Whatcom County GOP, said in a nationally televised
interview on FOX News.
“If it’s just to allow them the opportunity
to express their view, why not encourage
them to have a forum on their own dime?” she
asked. “I’d be curious if they’d also consider
having an opportunity for a maybe more conservative group to express their perspective
on a particular issue.”
“What’s important right now is that we get this
critical discourse taking place,” Gene Marx of
Veterans for Peace told conservative broadcasters on Monday. Marx supports the resolution.
“Right now we’ve got soldiers of conscience
that… are reevaluating their lives,” Marx
said. “They’re caught in a situation they
didn’t think they’d ever be caught in.”
“The patriotic citizens of Bellingham are
making no such call for legal protection for
AWOL soldiers,” Van Werven argued to conservative radio personality Dave Ross. “It’s just
a small group of college students, and that is
certainly not a gauge of citizen support.”
Others were stronger in their condemnation.
“Why in the name of heaven would you
even consider inviting more lawbreakers
into this community?” John Geier asked.
“They volunteered to serve in the military.
Just because they think they changed their
mind, does not make it legal, nor does it
make it right. All you will be doing is slap
the faces of every veteran who has and who
is serving and honoring their commitment.”
“It is absurd that an individual would join
the military and then be surprised when
sent to a war zone,” Diane Ford observed.
“What did these people think was going to
happen? That they would be given monetary
benefits in return for nothing more than sitting around and drinking with their buddies?
Our armed forces are not in the business of
vacation getaways.
“My understanding is that when one joins
up, a legally binding contract goes into effect,” Ford continued. “Apparently the deserters who would be protected by the ridiculous resolution now before you have
no sense of obligation to live up to a contract that they signed voluntarily. The idea
that one can get out of a contract simply
by running away like a coward is offensive.
Hundreds of thousands of brave and dutiful
Americans have put their lives on the line
for us for over 200 years. Making our city a
haven for deserters would do our proud military personnel a great disservice.”
CHILDREN’S LIT: If you’re interested in writing for the younger set, attend an info session for WWU’s “Writing Children’s Literature”
extended ed program at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
650-6854 OR VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SAT., JUNE 13
SUMMER READING: Kids can check out area
libraries for “Summer Reading” kickoff events
today. Silly Dan the Magic Man will be at the
following venues: 10:30am at Everson Library,
12:45pm at the Lynden Library, and 3pm at the
Blaine Library. Young magician Sterling Dietz
will be on hand at 2pm at the Bellingham Public
Library event.
WCLS.ORG
SEAT TLE NOIR: Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper,
and Curt Colbert will read from the Seattle Noir
collection at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St.
VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SUN., JUNE 15
BBQ FOR LITERAC Y: Alma Alexander, Carol
Reed Jones, Rosina Lippi, Nina Laden, Paul
Owen Lewis, and others will be on hand at today’s “BBQ for Literacy” meet and greet from
12-3pm at the Cordata Co-op. Entry is free,
lunch is $3.
734-8158
MON., JUNE 15
POE TRY NIGHT: Sign up to read from your written words at the weekly Poetry Night at 8pm
at the Darkroom, 310 W. Champion St. Readings
begin at 8:30pm.
POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., JUNE 16
CRAZY STORM: Norm Ollestad reads from his
autobiographical tome, Crazy for the Storm, at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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LOGGING SHOW: The 47th annual Deming Logging Show happens from 11am-7pm through the
weekend at the Deming Logging Show Grounds.
Hot saw bucking, speed climbing, log rolling,
axe throwing, food and music and much more
will be part of the festivities. Entry is $3-$6.
592-3051 OR DEMINGLOGGINGSHOW.COM
SUN., JUNE 14
PICKE T T HOUSE: Take a tour of the oldest
wooden structure in Washington State at an
open house from 1-4pm at the Pickett House,
910 Bancroft St.
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and advice at the bimonthly “Street Law” from
1-4pm on the corner of Railroad Avenue and
Magnolia Street. The free event happens again
June 27.
671-6079 OR LAWADVOCATES.ORG
SEARCH FOR SASQUATCH: Captain Dave Button talks about “The Search for Sasquatch on
the Skagit River” from 4-6pm at the Canterbury
Court Clubhouse, 3710 Canterbury Lane. Entry
is free.
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PENNIES FOR PENNY: A benefit auction, raffle, live music and food will be available today’s
“Pennies for Penny” fundraiser from 12-4pm at
the Eagles Hall, 1125 N. State St. (Penny is a local mother of four who is recovering from a bone
marrow transplant.)
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monthly Writers’ Theater at 7pm at the Firehouse Café, 1314 Harris Ave. The event is free.
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ME TAPHYSICAL FAIR: The second annual
Alternative Healing and Metaphysical Fair happens from 10am-6pm at the Center for Spiritual
Living, 2224 Yew Street Rd. Talks and demos,
practitioners, readers, healers and products will
be part of the event. Admission is free.
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MON., JUNE 15
ROCKS AND GEMS: All are invited to the monthly
meeting of the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club at 7pm
at Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave.
384-3187
TUES., JUNE 16
BORDER PATROL: Dr. David L. Curley will give
a talk on “Border Patrol: Afghanistan/Pakistan”
at 1pm at the First Congregational Church, 2401
Cornwall Ave.
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at the Depot Market Square, located at Railroad
Avenue and Chestnut Street.
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Oct. 17 at the Riverwalk on Main Street.
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GARAGE SALE: An “all-church” Garage Sale
happens from 9am-3pm at St. James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St. Proceeds will benefit
local charities, including Maple Alley Inn and
Agape House.
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Fairhaven Village Green.
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Deming Logging Show comes to the eponymous
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STOMMISH FEST IVAL: The 63rd annual
Lummi Stommish Water Festival happens
through the weekend on the shores of
Gooseberry Point on the Lummi Reservation.
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Letters from Lake
Squalicum
TOO HOT TO TROT
“Hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirty and gritty. Been
down, isn’t it a pity? Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city. All around, people looking half dead. Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head…”
—LOVIN’ SPOONFUL
IT’S HOT. Hotter than a jalapeno in a hula skirt. People are slithering
down the streets of Bellingham like giant, sweaty slugs—and, unfortunately, at this point Global Warming facts and figures won’t help us any;
what we need is something to cool our jets. So here are a few tips to help
you beat the heat.
Crawl. After doing a little Internet research, I have come to understand
this heat wave we are experiencing is directly related to our planet’s proxim-
ity to the sun. If you’ve ever massacred ants with
a magnifying glass, you know the sun could easily
melt us, like giant chocolate bars, if it were ever
to get a few magnificent degrees closer. When we
crawl, we instantly double the distance between
us, and the terrible, vengeful sun.
Go barefoot. I know what some of you are
thinking: I’m not gonna walk into WECU looking like a dirty hippie! Not to worry. It would
be entirely irresponsible for me to write a “tips”
column without considering the diversity of the
audience to which I am writing; for some of you
it will be easy to shed your claustrophobic cotton socks and part the green grass with your
stinky feet; others of us face the oppression of
bosses and business casual. If the latter applies
to you, there is a surprisingly simple solution: go
to Griggs Office Supplies and buy a few markers.
When you get back to the office, slip into the
bathroom and color your feet to look like shoes.
Douse a friend. The only true relief from oppressive heat like this is cold, cascading water.
When we were children, hot days were for going
to the lake or skidding on the slip-n-slide, but
as we grow older most of us find other things to
do besides hanging out all day in our swimsuits.
However, I’ve come up with an adult solution to
our purely adult problem: just ask a friend or coworker to dump a bucket of cold water on your
head when you least expect it.
“Ice cube” your armpits. This is a tip for
those of us who are a little too shy to douse a
friend, but wish to beat the heat just the same.
It goes like this: take two ice cubes from the
freezer, gently place them in your armpits, and
then casually disappear back into the humdrum
of work, school or whatever; only now with a
little warm-weather secret, and a thoroughly
cooled core. A variation to this tip is called the
“temperate triangle,” which introduces a third
cube, but it’s not for beginners.
Complain. Misery loves company, and there
is nothing more miserable than being hot and
lonely, so turn to a fellow commuter and say
something like, “Boy, it’s hot!” No doubt this
will spark an interesting conversation, and perhaps a lasting friendship. And let’s face it; there
are a few hard-to-reach places when markering
on a new pair of slacks, and it never hurts to
have an extra set of eyes.
And if none of this helps just remember the
words of the Lovin’ Spoonful, “…at night, it’s a
different world. Go out and find a girl. Come-on,
come-on, and dance all night. Despite the heat
it will be alright.”
For more Letters from Lake Squalicum go to
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BOAT ING SAFE T Y: A “Boating Safety”
workshop takes place from 8am-4:30pm at
the Squalicum Yacht Club on Harbor Loop
Rd. Cost is $25.
733-5633 OR BLIAUX.COM
VOLK SWALK: Choose from a 3.8- or 6.2mile walk when you hook up with the NW
Tulip Trekkers for a free Volkswalk starting
at 9am at Daniels Field in Anacortes.
NWTREKKERS.ORG
HUMAN RACE: The Whatcom Volunteer
Center hosts today’s annual Human Race
starting at 10am at Maritime Heritage Park,
1600 C St. Cost is $15, and you can raise additional funds for your favorite nonprofit by
getting pledges.
734-3055 OR WHATCOMVOLUNTEER.ORG
WORK PART Y: For 10am-12pm, attend a
work party and help weed the newly planted
hillside above the stone bridge at Whatcom
Falls Park.
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FUN RUN: The 15th annual Tesoro March
Point Fun Run begins at 10am at March Point
in Anacortes. Cost is $10, free for kids.
(360) 293-9132
PARK AND BARK: The “Bark in the Park”
Dog Festival happens from 10am-3pm at
Storvik Park in Anacortes.
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SAFE SEAS: A “Safe Sea Kayaking in the
PNW” slide presentation and two-hour guided kayaking outing happens from 1-5pm
at the Bellingham Bay Community Boating
Center, 501 Harris Ave. The event is free,
but registration is required.
SAILPADDLEROW.ORG
SUN., JUNE 14
ADAP T IVE K AYAK ING: A free “Adaptive
and Beginner Paddling Workshop” will be
held from 12-5pm at Bloedel Donovan, 2214
Electric Ave.
SAILPADDLEROW.ORG
MON., JUNE 15
BACKPACKING 101: Glean details about
the basics at a free “Backpacking 101” clinic
at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
SURFER’S TALE: Amy Waeschle shares tales
from Chasing Waves: A Surfer’s Tale of Obsessive Wandering at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
671-2626
TUES., JUNE 16
LEARN TO BIRD: Ken Salzman will lead a
“Learn to Bird” class starting at 7pm at the
Whatcom Museum’s Syre Education Center.
The event is free, but you must register by
June 12.
778-8960
TRAIL MIX: Expand your culinary camping talents at a free “Backcountry Cooking”
clinic at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
THE UNICORN, THE GORGON AND THE
MANTICORE
JEALOUSY, MURDER, music, mythical creatures and life
lessons can be found under one roof this weekend when Gian Carlo
Menotti’s The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore brings a few
of Bellingham’s arts organizations together for a unique evening of
entertainment.
Choreographer John Bishop, of Northwest Ballet, says he was aware
of the Italian composer’s “madrigal fable,” but, on his own, wouldn’t
have thought of bringing it to life. After receiving a call from Bellingham Chamber Chorale’s Tim Fitzpatrick, though, he agreed to get
on board. With help from Bellingham Repertory Dance members and
Northwest Ballet stalwarts such as Seth Wetherby, they’ve been busy
rehearsing to give the story legs.
For those who are unaware of the tale, here’s a quick primer: once
upon a time, an odd man lived in a mythical castle. According to
Menotti’s score, he shunned the countess’ parties, yawned at town
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THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE:
Watch a musical retelling of
Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
when The Boys from Syracuse
shows at 8pm Thurs.-Sat. and
2pm Sun. at the Bellingham
Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Expect mistaken identities, shipwrecks and, perhaps, happy
endings. Tickets are $8-$12.
733-1811 OR
SUMMER LOVE: Don a summer dress or fancy Hawaiian
shirt for tonight’s “Summer
Love” semiformal dance happening from 9-11pm at U & Me
Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry
is $7-$12.
UANDMEDANCE.COM
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CHILDREN’S HOUR: Secrets,
lies and scandals will take center stage when The Children’s
Hour shows at 7:30pm Thurs.,
8pm Fri.-Sat., and 2pm Sun.
at the Anacortes Community
Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets
are $16 and additional shows
happen through June 27.
ACTTHEATRE.COM
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BARD ON THE BEACH: Othello, The Comedy of Errors, All’s
Well That Ends Well, and Richard
II play in repertory through
Sept. 26 during the 20th season of Bard on the Beach at
Vancouver, B.C.’s Vanier Park.
Ticket prices vary.
BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
SAT., JUNE 13
FERRY BOAT DANCE: The
Bellingham Country Dance
Society will host its annual
“Ferry Boat Dance” on the afternoon ferry from Anacortes
to Friday Harbor and back.
676-1554 OR
BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG
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DANCING FOR JOY: Watch
movement that explores the
different seasons of life when
Dancing for Joy brings “A
Time to Dance” to the stage
at 6:30pm at the Mount Baker
Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.
Tickets are $10.
734-6080 OR
MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
JUNE 12-13
CAGE MATCH: Attend “Cagematch” shows—where each
team has equal time to wow
the audience—at 9pm at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St.
Tickets are $8-$10.
733-8855
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SPITFIRE GRILL: Watch the
musical Spitfire Grill and have
some supper at 7:30pm at
Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle
Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery. Tickets are $16-$40,
depending on whether or not
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COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly
Comedy Night happens at 8pm
every Sunday at the Fairhaven
Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Harris Ave.
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch
“The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront
Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,
stick around for “The Project:
Mad Comedy in the Making.”
Cost is $5 for the early show,
$3 for the late one.
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ROOSTER: The four-man improv group known as Rooster
performs at a fundraiser for
“Off the Mat, Into the World”—
who are aiming to generate
funds for villages and children
in Uganda—at 8pm at Melody
Hall, 4071 Home Rd. Tickets
are $10-$12.
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TALENT SHOW: Students from
Lincoln Elementary will perform at an annual Talent Show
at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St.
Admission is by donation.
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meetings and did not let the doctor take
his pulse. One day, he came into town
with a unicorn. The countess of the land
was at first jealous, then angry, then
made her hubby, the count, procure a
unicorn for her, as well.
When the man next came to the public
square, it was with a snake-headed Gorgon in tow. The countess was infuriated,
and ended up poisoning her unicorn
before making her henpecked husband
find a Gorgon for her, too. The cycle repeated when the man brought a horrifying, Sphinx-like Manticore into the town
square. This beast was not so pretty, but
she wanted one, whatever it took. When
the countess thought the man had gotten rid of his Manticore, it was lights
out for the animal. I won’t give away the
ending, but suffice it to say the countess’ murderous rampage was for naught.
“It was hard trying to wrap my brain
around the story,” Bishop says of the
strange tale. “There is a lot of metaphor,
and it’s a very psychological piece. That
can be challenging for dancers, because
there’s a lot of pantomime, which can be
difficult if you haven’t done a lot of it.”
The dancers seem up to the task,
though, and have managed to infuse the
rarely performed opera with both humor and pathos (not to mention some
nimble moves). By the time they finally
meet with the Bellingham Chamber Chorale members for a live rehearsal—for
now, they’re working with a prerecorded
score—they’re hoping the final pieces
will fall into place.
“Tim Fitzpatrick
wanted it to be representative of ballet, not just choir,”
Bishop says, “so I
came up with my own
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INTRO TO IMPROV: Learn to
think on your feet at a free
introductory improv class
happening at 7pm at 302 W.
Illinois St. Instructor Sheila
Goldsmith will lead the way.
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Seth Wetherby (the man) and Miye Bishop (the unicorn) rehearse for the June 13
production.
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Head to the Bellingham Theatre
Guild this weekend for your
final shot at seeing The Boys of
Syracuse. If music and mistaken
identities aren’t enough to lure
you in, don’t forget about the
togas!
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PHOTO CONTEST: Residents and visitors
can enter the “Lummi Island in Springtime”
photo contest through June 20. Entry costs
are $2-$8, and proceeds will benefit Friends
of Island Library.
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NORTHWEST PAINTERS RECEPT ION:
Works by Carol Weiss, Pat Fleeson, Carol
Merrick, Gerry Friberg, Esther McLatchey,
and Meredith Runstrand will be represented at an opening reception for the
Northwest Painters’ 30th anniversary show
from 6-9pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301
W. Holly St. The works will be on display
through June 26.
671-2305 OR BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM
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SALMON AT THE BAY
WHILE THEY wend their way through the streams, rivers and tributaries
of Whatcom County, the salmon that spawn each year in local waters are likely
unaware of all that’s happening aboveground to help them get to where they
need to go.
But thanks to folks at the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
(NSEA)—who’ve been “serving salmon” since 1992—the underwater denizens can breathe a little easier. With a mission to restore and retain sustainable wild salmon runs in Whatcom County, the group reports that, last year,
volunteers and students contributed 27,000 hours to helping clean up fishy
habitats. Eighty work parties were held, and 17,000 native trees and shrubs
were planted.
To celebrate the efforts of those who’ve put muscle behind their visions, raise
funds for future projects and educate those who are unaware of NSEA’s mission,
the entity will host its 7th annual “Salmon at the Bay” June 13 at Boundary
Bay Brewery. A plethora of art focusing on the theme “Yes We Can! Our Hope
for Our Salmon” will be up for auction, and both lunch (12-3pm) and dinner
(5:30-8:30pm) salmon barbecues will be on the menu (yes, the fish served will
have been sustainably harvested). Live music by Celtic purveyors Warren Street
Station aim to lighten up the sunny part of the festivities, while Lucky Brown
and the Funk Revolution take the stage to provide grooves at a 9:30pm, 21-plus
dance party in the beer garden.
“Our thought for this
year’s ‘Salmon at the
Bay’ was to honor our
community’s history of
salmon fishing and canning,” says Randy Leventhal, Advancement
Coordinator at NSEA.
ATTEND
“‘Yes We Can’ parallels
WHAT: Salmon at
our efforts and vision
the Bay
for the hope of salmon
WHEN: 12pm-12am,
recovery. It’s an opSat., June 13
portunity
to celebrate
WHERE: Boundary
Bay Brewery, 1107
community and salmon
Railroad Ave.
together.”
COST: Lunch is
Unlike past years,
$10; dinner is $20;
where
salmon-shaped
concert is $8
templates
were given
INFO: 715-0283 or
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to participating artists
to fill in the blanks, this
year’s event was more open, and will include
everything from oil paintings to watercolors,
stenographs, lithographs, recycled metal,
wood and ceramic sculptures and jewelry.
While not every piece will feature renderings
of the iconic fish as its main focus, it’ll be at
the heart of each and every one of them.
Since the donated artwork will be up
through Aug. 15, don’t worry if you can’t
make it to the kickoff event. If you do go,
though, consider asking representatives
from NSEA how you can help, and find out
what they’re doing in the here and now
to make a difference. Because salmon are
an indicator species—meaning their wellbeing reflects other facets of the environment—they are a vital element of the land
and waters.
“When people ask me what our benefit is,
I tell them we’re demonstrating our commitment to the health of Whatcom County
in general,” Leventhal says. “Stream restoration is invaluable. It’s such a critical
piece that speaks to more than just salmon.
It’s why I think our theme this year helps
tie a lot of those pieces—environment,
culture, community—in.”
GROUND FLOOR: A grand opening for the
Ground Floor happens from 11am-4pm at
1105 N. State St. (enter via the alley entrance behind the Farmers Market). The free,
interactive event will feature installation
art, food and lots of fun.
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PRINT INVITAT IONAL: Works by 20 of our
region’s finest artists working in various
print techniques can be seen at an opening
reception for the “Summer 2009 Print Invitational” from 5-7pm at the Lucia Douglas
Gallery, 1415 13th St. The exhibit will be up
through July 25.
733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
SMITH AND VALLEE: A reception featuring new works using sustainably harvested
woods and salvaged trees by Wes Smith
and Andrew Vallee can be seen at an opening reception for the artists from 5-8pm at
Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey
Ave. The works can be seen from 11am-5pm
every Fri.-Sun. through June 28.
(360) 305-4892 OR SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
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DECEPT ION SKE TCHING: Naturalist and
artist Libby Mills will helm a “Field Sketching at Deception Pass” outing today at
Deception Pass State Park. Cost is $95 and
includes lunch.
(360) 856-5700 OR NCASCADES.ORG
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LIGHTCATCHER UPDATE: Patricia Leach
will give an update about the new Lightcatcher Building scheduled to open in November at a free brown bag talk at 12:30pm
at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
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ALLIED ARTS: “Journeys,” including pieces
by Linda Bergeron, Yvette Neumann, Tom
Semple, and Chris Shreve, shows through
June at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
676-8548
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The
museum is open to the public from noon5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
393-7540
BIG FAT FISH: “Human Condition,” an exhibit featuring works by Rebecca Meloy, Robert Finnegan, Rachel Forman, Jackie Hunsk-
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DEPOT ARTS CENTER: The 5th annual Cascade Clay Artists’ exhibit and sale, “Clay,
Fire and Form,” can be seen until June 28
at the Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave, Anacortes.
(360) 293-3663
1053 N. STATE ST. -ALLEY
DOWNTOWN BELLINGHAM
DIGS: Kelly Bjork’s mixed media drawings
can be perused through June 30 at DIGS,
200 W. Holly St.
306-8301
Production Wineryt Wine Bar
Light Appetizers & Desserts
GOOD EARTH: Clay artists Eugene and Ene
Lewis will be featured through June at Good
Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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MINDPORT: “Bones: Essential Grace” shows
through July 14 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W.
Holly St. Entry is $2.
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MONA: “Finds Refined” and “Phillip Levine
Survey: Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings” can
be perused through June 14 at La Conner’s
Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
(360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
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Pat Fleeson’s “Last Light” watercolor rendering
will be up for display at a reception for the
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June 12 at the Blue Horse Gallery
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of the Shipwright,” “On a Grand Scale” and “ARTIFACTual: The Object In View” are currently on
display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
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SK AGIT MUSEUM: Peruse “Harvesting the
Light: Images of Contemporary Skagit Farm
Life” at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical
Museum, 501 S. 4th St. Entry is $3.
(360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNT Y.NET
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PAPERDOLL: View Karie Jane Von Allmen’s
“Vignettes” through July 11 at the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St.
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QUILT MUSEUM: Sheila Groman’s “Visions
in Fiber” and Karin Franzen’s “Birdscapes”
can be seen through June 28 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St.
Admission is $5.
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INSIGHTS: Gallery artists will take part
in the “Summer Show” on display until July
31 at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave.,
Anacortes.
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CHUCK ANUT BREWERY: Brett Baunton’s
landscape and outdoor photography works
are on display through June 13 at the Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
752-3377
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BLUE HORSE: “Light, Form and Perspective,” a one-woman show by Bellingham artist Laurie Potter, can be seen until June 27
at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
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at the Big Fat Fish Co., 1304 12th St.
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SINCE ITS
inception five years ago, the annual Urban Music Festival has gone from being merely a decent-sized show
featuring a few popular, likeminded bands, and has become a
musical behemoth of sorts. Case in point: this year’s incarnation
features no less than 14 bands, which will appear on a multitude of stages at two venues during what is now a weekend-long
festival. And while the focus of the event is definitely on its
musical components, there’s still ample room enough in the festival’s schedule and on its stages for such entertainments as an
interactive community art project, light show, fire dancers, local
vendors and more.
So, what exactly is the Urban Music Festival, and how did it come
to be?
Initially, the festival was dreamed up
and executed by Acorn Productions, the
same folks capable of drawing hundreds of
people every time they take the stage as
the much beloved Acorn Project (who are
set to headline one of Saturday’s shows).
These days, their efforts—the net result of
which has grown into a pretty sizey undertaking, to say the least—are augmented by
those of pretty much every other local concert promoter including the Blessed Coast
Sound System, Boogie Universal, Conquest
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Rumor Has It
LAST WEEK, WE all remembered what it is to
pray. Many of us probably had no idea who,
exactly, we were praying to, but we all knew
what we prayed for: the safe return of Gunther
Frank and Sean Mansfield, who went missing
in Bellingham Bay after a late-night windstorm
capsized Gunther’s sailboat, throwing them
into the frigid water.
As of press time, our prayers have not been
answered. What was, last Friday, when word of
the accident and subsequent search began to
circulate among Gunther and Sean’s legion of
friends, disbelief cautiously balanced by hope,
is becoming resignation tempered with the
pain of a loss that has not begun to be truly
felt. The disbelief remains, but is now directed
toward an inconceivably nightmarish outcome we are not yet ready to accept.
For me, as with so
many others, this
loss is a deeply personal one. I first met
Sean—Donnkie
to
most everyone who
knew him—almost a
decade ago, when he
burst into my life, on
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rollerblades, no less,
making me laugh so hard I had a difficult
time catching my breath. It was an auspicious and memorable beginning to a casual
acquaintance that would marked by many
such mischief-filled and laughter-laden
scenes over the years.
My association with Gunther dates just as far
back—if not farther—than that. My relationship with him began as a professional one, but
quickly morphed into a longstanding friendship. I was, like so many of you, drawn to his
goofy good nature and the singularly unique
way he viewed his world. I’m not sure what
Gunther got out of it, but I was happy to be
one of the many, many friends he seemingly
effortlessly accumulated during the course of
his varied and interesting life.
To know Gunther, was to be photographed
by him—how you might’ve felt about having your picture taken notwithstanding. And
while I never thought I’d ever say this, I’m
grateful for all the times he stuck that everpresent camera in my face and blinded me
with its flash. When it came to his camera, he
could never leave well enough alone, and because of that we now have a visual chronicle,
not only of his life, but of ours as well. The
world seen through his lens is a vibrant and
colorful place, haunting and hilarious by turns,
and infused with the peculiar beauty that was
part of everything he created. It is perhaps the
hardest irony that the photographer whose
pictures ooze with noise and vitality, light and
life might no longer be with us. But literally
thousands of his photographs are, each one a
precious gift and a piece of an artistic legacy
we are all enormously lucky to be part of.
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ALUMNI BAND: The
Bellingham High School
Alumni band will perform
at 7pm at the Bellingham
Golf and Country Club,
3729 Meridian St. Dancing and live music by 10
Feet Thick will follow.
Tickets are $15.
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FINNISH
FINESSE:
Janne Mertanen, a renowned Finnish pianist,
will perform a variety of
classical works at 7pm at
the Whatcom Museum,
121 Prospect St. Tickets
are $18-$20.
714-8600
SEAT TLE MEN’S CHORUS: The Seattle Men’s
Chorus gives an a capella
concert dubbed “SMC
SCOT RANNE Y: Enjoy
an afternoon of original
piano music when Scot
Ranney explores the “Music of Summer” at a free
gig at 2pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
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BIG BAND: The Swing
Connection Big Band
performs from 2-4pm at
the Leopold Hotel, 1224
Cornwall Ave. The event
is free, and you can
dance along.
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CONCERT
ON
THE
GREEN: Frank Sinatra
(a.k.a. Arthur Alder) will
join the Northern Lights
Jazz Orchestra for a
performance from 1:303:30pm at Fairhaven’s
Village Green. Admission
is by donation.
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CONCERT IN THE PARK:
The Paperboys bring
their Irish, Mexican, and
Roots-inspired music to
the stage to kick off the
“Summer Music” evening
concert series from 7-9pm
at Bellingham’s Boulevard
Park. Additional concerts
happen through the season at Elizabeth Park, Big
Rock Garden Park, and
the Bellingham Public
Library lawn. All concerts
are free.
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Unplugged” at 7:30pm
at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College
Way. Tickets are $25.
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SYMPHONY OF INFAMY:
Members of the Music
Club at Whatcom Community College will perform
a “Symphony of Infamy”
at 6:30pm in the Heiner
Auditorium. Admission is
by donation.
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But this tragedy has made
me oddly grateful for other
things as well. Grateful for
the community of people
who, at this moment, are
searching rocky shorelines
and wooded areas, looking
for something—anything—
so the families may have answers and we all might have a
little peace. Grateful for their
perseverance and their hope.
In not giving up the search,
they are helping us all find
our way through this.
During the past several
days, I have had the opportunity to watch the people
who care about Donnkie and
Gunther care for each other.
It is an enormously powerful
thing, and without that care,
this hard, sad time would be
much harder and sadder for
many of us. I am grateful for
that as well. Immeasurably so.
While the loss of Donnkie and
Gunther leaves an enormous
well of sadness behind, even
now that well is being filled
by a million tiny kindnesses.
That is also their legacy. And I
can’t imagine a more appropriate or fitting one.
You are so incredibly loved,
Gunther and Donnkie. We will
miss you. We already do.
LEE T YLER: “Rock n’ soul
gypsy troubadour” Lee
Tyler Post gives a free
performance from 7-9pm
at Stuart’s at the Market,
1530 Cornwall Ave.
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Presents, and BuildStrong. All of this copromotion and musical cross-pollination
makes for a festival that will not only
take over the stage at the Wild Buffalo
Friday and Saturday June 12-13, but
will also likely draw a capacity crowd to
Boundary Bay’s beer garden Friday night,
and will spill over into the alley next to
the Wild Buffalo (the former home of
Downtown Sounds,
for those of you who
are unfamiliar with
the locale) Saturday
night. So, for those
of you who are keeping track, that’s 14
bands, two nights,
two venues, three HEAR
stages and a whole WHAT: Urban Music Festival feat.
lotta music making.
Acorn Project,
Speaking
of Mind Orchestra,
music—as that is Ten Mile Tide,
the whole point of more
this sonic soiree— WHEN: Fri. and
despite the fact Sat., June 12-13
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is an integral part St.; Boundary Bay
of the Urban Music Brewery, 1107
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draws, they’re cer- 739-5430
tainly not the only
band on the roster.
Music both local and regional can be
heard at the fest, all loosely grouped
and unified by their “urban” sound.
So, whether this takes the form of
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San Francisco band Mind Orchestra’s
electronica, the psychedelic blues of
Seattle’s Brothers Coolley (no strangers to the Buffalo’s stage), or one of
the many local acts, such as the more
rock-oriented Growers, the jazzy bent
of the Hedonists, the soulful sounds
of Vaughn Kreestoe, or the weird and
wonderful Savage Henry, the Urban
Music Festival offers a little something for every music-loving soul. In
fact, there is little danger of not finding something to love at the festival,
really the only risk is reaching your
musical saturation point—or crippling
yourself with too much dancing and
sheer revelry—before the last band
takes the stage Saturday night.
Although the Urban Music Festival
comes with a pretty reasonable price
tag—an advance pass for both nights at
both venues will only run you $20—the
deal gets even sweeter if you happen to
be a recent graduate. One of the purposes of the fest, aside from bringing
the community together in the name of
good music and a good time, is to celebrate graduation (college graduation,
that is, not the high school kind, as the
festival is not all ages). As such, newly
minted grads get in free to Saturday’s
festivities, making this a way better
graduation party than whatever else
you happened to have in mind.
Even if you don’t come bearing your
brand-spanking college degree, and all
the fancy higher learning that comes
with it, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the Urban Music Festival
is a sound investment in some solid
sonic merrymaking.
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Back Porch Alley
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Brown Lantern
Alehouse
DJ Flex
Karaoke with Caleb
Yogoman's Wild Rumpus
Happy Hour Music w/
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DJ Flex and DJ City
Scary Monster and the Super Creeps (early), Urban
Music Fest (late)
Salmon at the Bay feat.
Lucky Brown and the Funk
Revolution
Paul Klein (tap room),
Monday Night Project,
(beer garden)
Jazz Jam feat. Sambatuque
Open Mic
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Grove Street Library Band
Julian MacDonough Jazz
Trio
Barb Furlan (early), The
Otters (late)
Commodore Ballroom
The Orb
Common Ground
Coffeehouse
Edison Inn
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Chuckanut Ridge Wine
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Bob Caloca and Friends
Howlin' Lane Fernando &
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Ron Bailey, Al Katz
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JARMUSCH’S LONG, STRANGE TRIP
THE PROCESS
of travel—of getting from Point A to Point B, and the
unexpected encounters, detours, and downtime presented to the traveler—
has long been a theme of Jim Jarmusch’s films.
Night on Earth, after all, is about taxi drivers and the fares they pick up
in various cities around the globe. Bill Murray’s quest to find a long-lost
son in Broken Flowers isn’t really about finding that son, it’s about the journey, about his encounters with the women along the way—his character’s
exes—and discovering what they’ve become, and maybe discovering what
he’s become, too.
So it’s no surprise to find that the pioneer indie filmmaker’s take on the
international thriller—and that’s what The Limits of Control is—isn’t exactly
teeming with elaborate action sequences and grand confrontations.
Almost absurdly quiet and observant, The Limits of Control is about the
space between the action, the steps along the way. Set in Spain and starring
the mesmerizing Isaach De Bankole (the Parisian cabbie in Night on Earth,
and also the exiled African prime minister on this season’s nothing-butaction 24), Jarmusch’s movie essentially follows its unnamed protagonist
as he moves into town, goes to a cafe,
orders two single espressos (not a double), and, well, waits. Eventually someone
meanders by, sits at his table, asks if he
speaks Spanish (he says he doesn’t), and
then slips him a matchbox containing a
piece of paper written in code.
The someones he meets along the
way—in Madrid, in Seville, in the parched
Spanish countryside—include Tilda Swinton, blond-wigged and talking Hitchcock;
John Hurt, sporting a guitar case and a
worried mien; and Gael Garcia Bernal, acting tough and driving a truck.
De Bankole's character drops in on a
club to watch (and listen to) a flamenco
dance, and has several encounters with a
raven-haired mystery girl (Paz de la Huerta) in high heels, a see-through raincoat
and nothing else. This woman is, depending on your view, a kind of film-noir muse
or a parody of a femme fatale. (Or both.)
In fact, for the impatient viewer, Jarmusch’s pulpy, poetic exercise will probably feel hopelessly, unintentionally parodic, prompting disdain and derision.
Consider yourself warned: not everyone’s
going to go for this business. But I did.
The Limits of Control is an odyssey where
small moments loom large, and where the
simplest of pleasures take on, if not a
deeper significance, a more mindful one.
Shot by Wong Kar Wai’s great cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, The Limits
of Control opens with a shot of De Bankole
in an airport men’s room stall, doing tai
chi—a silent ritual he continues throughout the film. Full of great architecture and
art (the Lone Man, as he is called in the
credits, visits a Madrid museum, where he
studies paintings keenly), the film boasts
a soundtrack alert to the noises of the
street, the rhythms and hums of a city.
The movie, like Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog (with
Forest Whitaker as a kindred sort of hitman hero), displays a Zenlike awareness of
the sensorial and auditory universe.
The Limits of Control succumbs to genre
convention in its final act, offering a frustratingly fateful meeting between this
man we’ve been accompanying and the
man that is the reason for all this travel,
all this trouble.
I would have preferred to have watched
De Bankole simply head for another town,
to another cafe. Let the Lone Man order
two more single espressos and see who
turns the corner to strike up a conversation. Who needs violence? Who needs
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THE ADVICE
GODDESS
BREAKING THE NICE
Can you help a nice guy become a bad boy?
Being nice is a curse, and not just with
women. I do volunteer work, and always
hear stuff like, “You’re the only one we
can trust, so stay and guard the door while
we’re at a party with people we don’t trust.
Clean up for us, too, because we won’t
want to when we return tired and drunk.” I
know a cooperative spirit can be mistaken
for weakness, but I feel like Cinderfella.
Still, I don’t want to stop being the guy my
ex called “the brick” (because I’m always
propping somebody or something up). I
just want people to think I’m bad so they
won’t try to get away with so much. When
I’ve tried acting like a bad boy, I’m told
I come off angry or antisocial. Maybe I
should start smoking or get a motorcycle...
maybe a tattoo? —55 Years Of Too Nice
Sure, all you need to change everybody’s opinion of you is a smoking habit
and big, scary tattoo—and since you’re
always mopping up after people, perhaps a skull crossed with a couple of
Swiffers?
You call yourself a nice guy, but you’re
really a “nice guy,” an approval-seeking,
conflict-avoiding suckup. In No More Mr.
Nice Guy, Dr. Robert Glover clarifies the
difference. The “nice guy” might seem
generous, but he actually isn’t; he gives
to get. He thinks he just has to hide how
flawed he is and become what others
want him to be, and he’ll be loved, get
his needs met, and have a problem-free
life. This is unlikely to happen, as he’s
passive-aggressive, chronically dishonest and brimming with “toxic shame.”
Thanks to a lifetime repressing his feelings and denying his needs, he’s filled
with rage, especially at women. Women,
on the other hand, do love this guy—to
wash and wax their cars while they’re on
dates with guys they are sleeping with.
And whaddya know, all it takes is calling
him “the brick” instead of “a tool.”
Yes, the bad boy does have allure. He’s
masculinity on steroids: arrogantly confident, aggressive in bed and out, unpredictable and untamed. He’s fast cars,
alcohol, tobacco and firearms. And he’s
sometimes in jail for using the latter to
hold up the 7-Eleven. Many women are
drawn to him, but those who have it the
least bit together hold out for a guy they
can get conjugal with without first being cavity-searched by the guards.
You’re right to want to change, but
the answer isn’t trading in your wallet
for one you chain to your pants and
slouching in a doorway with a cigarette
hanging out of your mouth. People will
warm to the real you or they won’t, but
they’re unlikely to be fooled by the fake
you, “nice” or “bad.” After 55 years of
people-pleasing, don’t be surprised if
you need to mount an archeological dig
to figure out who you really are—what
you like, want, need and actually care
about (even stuff that seems not so
nice to care about). After you do, work
on accepting yourself, faults included.
Glover’s book should help. Finally, be
who you are, and have the guts and the
self-respect to expect a thing or two
from people—beyond what time they’ll
return from the party so you can stop
staring at the door.
CHASING TALE
I’m supposedly jealous and insecure
because I don’t want to hear about my
girlfriend’s former lovers. I’ll discuss issues
that carry over, but detailing past sexual
experiences “to know each other better,” as she puts it, seems unnecessary
and ill-advised. When, against my better
judgment, we shared our number of sex
partners, I had far more, which disturbed
her. She initially lied about her number, upping it after hearing mine.
—Insecure Or Discreet?
The truth is everything to her, and
oh, she’s sorry...about that number she
gave you...multiply that by three, carry
the two (the Vegas guys she forgot
about), and do you have a graphing calculator she can borrow? She’s actually
revealed more about herself by redoing
her math after hearing your count than
she would’ve by giving you the specifics on Sex Partner #12. And yes, insecurity probably is at root here—hers,
not yours. It isn’t a character flaw to
want to experience a person firsthand,
uninterrupted by a loop of mental images of their sex with their exes. It’s
perfectly OK to say, “I’m not gonna talk
about it and I’m not gonna talk about
not talking about it.” She needs to respect that, and get to know who you
are instead of who you did last summer.
That’s her business only if there’s some
ongoing issue—the kind you send off
on a swab so lab technicians can see if
there’s anything doing the backstroke
on a slide.
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Jul. 25: The Muppet Movie
Aug. 1: Young Frankenstein
Aug. 8: Twilight
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Aug. 29: The Princess Bride
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2 “Hey, sailor!”
3 Radiator problem
4 Big name in semiconductors
5 My ___ Massacre
6 One who gets the
door
7 Longtime grape
soda brand
8 Early production
company for “I
Love Lucy” and
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host Ken
52 Former “Entertainment Tonight”
host John
54 Rapper/singer
Jackson, exgirlfriend of Kevin
Federline
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short
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62 2003 straight-tovideo Ione Skye
romcom that starts
at a laundromat
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character Silas
66 Initial recording
67 Gas station
freebie
68 ___ Palace
(Nicolas Sarkozy’s
current home)
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70 Your, in France
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4 “Sophie’s Choice”
director Pakula
8 Tiara
14 “___ Hate Me”
(2004 Spike Lee
movie)
15 Horse hair
16 “I’ve got it!”
17 1991 comedy with
a behind-thescenes look at a
daytime drama
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apart
20 Little guy
21 Internet cafe offering, maybe
23 Word before due
or tense
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the man, in Latin)
27 Shake like ___
29 With “The,” 1948
Red Skelton movie
about door-todoor sales
34 The cube root of
ocho
35 Cookie that once
had “Sandwich” in
its name
36 Million-___ odds
37 Certain hangings
38 1976 movie that
parts of the other
four movie titles
describe from start
to finish
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network
42 “___: Dinosaur
Hunter” (Nintendo
64 game)
44 Gull’s tail?
45 “___ Haw”
46 1978 biopic about
DJ Alan Freed
50 Nighttime problem
51 “Remote Control”
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10 Native Wyomingite
11 It’s chocolatey,
without all the
kick
12 Squeaks by, with
“out”
13 Navy pole
18 Orange coat
22 Out of reach
25 Start the workday
26 Actor Michael of
“Year One”
28 Lover of 37-across
29 Speaker’s seminar
30 It make a lot of
dollars
31 “I love you when
you ___ your
mosque...” (Kahlil
Gibran)
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33 One of the “Real
Housewives of
Atlanta”
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39 Hated with every
inch of one’s being
40 Piggish person
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brother
48 Sound at the
dentist
49 “King Kong”
actress Fay
52 “Person of the
Year” awarder
53 Equal, at an ecole
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(blog link)
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test
58 Nobelist Wiesel
59 Gen-___ (1970s
kids, today)
61 Word before a
maiden name
63 Peruvian singer
Sumac
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In honor of the karmic
clean-up phase of your astrological cycle, I invite you to
do the following exercise: Imagine a pit in the middle
of a desert that holds everything you’ve ever used up,
spoiled, and outgrown. Your old furniture is here, along
with stuff like once-favorite clothes, CDs, and empty
boxes of your favorite cereal. But this garbage dump
also contains subtler trash, like photos that capture
cherished dreams you gave up on, mementoes from
failed relationships, and symbols of defunct beliefs and
self-images you used to cling to. Everything that is dead
to you is gathered here. Got that vision in your mind’s
eye? Now picture yourself dousing the big heap of stuff
with gasoline and setting it on fire. Watch it burn.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a good time
to activate your sleeping potentials by chanting positive declarations about your relationship to what you
need. Instead of typical New Age affirmations, however,
I think you’ll benefit from something edgier and more
poetic. That’s why I’m offering you the statements
below. They were originally written by Andrea Carlisle
for use by spiders. Say the following several times a
day: “I am now receiving many fine fat flies in my web.
My web is strong and masterful. My web is irresistible
to all the attractive creatures I like to nibble on. I am
amazingly clever and extremely popular. Even now,
hundreds of juicy tidbits are headed towards my web.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A talent scout who
has the power to change your course is drawing closer
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of the 190
short films the Three Stooges made for Columbia
Pictures, only five actually had pie fights. However,
those classic scenes sum up all there is to know about
the mythic meaning of pie fights, as well as the needs
they address and the techniques involved. I urge you
to study up on the Stooges’ teachings concerning these
matters—and put them to immediate use. Nothing
could be more effective in dealing with stalled negotiations, convoluted mind games, superficial exchanges,
excessive gravity, and bureaucratic slowdowns than a
righteous pie fight. You can find a Youtube clip of a
Three Stooges pie fight here: tinyurl.com/yvv8hm.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some people use
sly intelligence rather than mindless rage to escape
limitations that have outlived their usefulness. Do
you know any? If so, soak up their influence. You
could use some inspiration and counsel as you make
your own break for freedom. The best way to ensure
that your liberation will be permanent, not just a
temporary reprieve, is to go about it with humor and
subtlety and humility.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Writing in Earthwatch magazine, Anne Marcotty Morris rhapsodized
about her trek into Brazil’s rain forest. The jungle is
a fecund place, she said: “Several barbed seeds that
had attached themselves to me on our walk into the
forest had sprouted by the time we walked out.” These
fast-growing seeds happen to be an apt metaphor for
the state of your psyche, Aquarius. You’re a hotbed of
lush fertility. Given that fact, I advise you to be very
discriminating about which influences you give your
attention to. Whether they’re good or bad, empowering
or corrosive, they will grow fast.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There has rarely been
a better time than now to blend your fresh sparkly
innocence and your deep ancient wisdom. The childlike
aspects of your intelligence are especially available,
and so are the visionary elements. Furthermore, the
two have a great potential to complement and enhance
each other. You might be amazed at how dramatically
you could transform long-standing problems by invoking this dynamic tandem of energies.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My astrological charts
suggest that your immediate future is wide open—so
much so that it’s difficult to predict which scenarios
are more likely than all the others. This might mean
that your free will is especially free right now. But in
the interest of giving you something specific to grab
on to, I’ll name a few of the myriad possible scenarios.
1) A self-styled anarchist scholar, heir to the fortune
of a famed Japanese anime artist, will invite you to a
sushi feast at a speakeasy club called “Planet Mars” to
discuss the Theory of Everything. 2) A clownish saint
with a tattoo of a cobra swallowing the Earth will get
you high by sniffing the pimple medication Clearasil,
and then tell you a secret about who you were in one
of your past lives. 3) A familiar stranger will hand
you a Cracker Jack toy and whisper, “Are we never
going to see each other again? Or will we get married
tomorrow?”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A lesbian reader
who calls herself “Speedy Slow-Hand” wrote to me
asking for advice. She explained that she keeps getting
obsessed with the half-feral amazons whom her intense
Scorpio self lusts after, and this causes her to miss
making contact with the warm, nurturing women her
softer side craves. Is it better to have someone to run
the race with, she asked, or someone to massage her
feet after the race? Whether or not you yourself are
in the hunt for love, Scorpio, I think her testimony is
an apt metaphor for your current dilemma. Should you
go with the choice that makes your spirit burn with
pungent excitement, or should you opt for what feeds
your soul with rich relaxation? I would like to suggest
that there’s at least a 30 percent possibility you could
have both.
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musician Attiss Ngoval told the San Francisco Chronicle
that he’d want the superpower of X-ray vision “IF and
ONLY IF I could use it to see people naked under their
clothes. I don’t want it if all I see is skeletons.” That’s
a good standard for you to keep in mind during the
coming weeks, Taurus. I definitely think you’ll have
an ability to see deeper into the multi-layer levels of
reality than you’ve had in quite some time. But your
challenge will be to employ that gift to explore sights
that are really interesting and useful to you, not just
everything and anything that’s usually hidden.
VIEWS 6
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In an interview,
MAIL 4
tell me that the way out is the way in. Is that right?
And that the “wrong” answer just might be the right
answer? And that success, if it makes an appearance,
will most likely happen by accident? I don’t know,
Aries. It’s tricky to get away with this upside-down
approach to life unless you have a lot of discipline and
yet also don’t take yourself too seriously. You’ve got to
be both rigorous and flexible—a stickler for detail and
a master of improvisation. I do suspect you’re up for
the challenge, but what do you think?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The formula ‘two and
two make five’ is not without its attractions,” said
Dostoevsky. I believe you’ll benefit from embracing
that perspective in the coming week, Libra. Transcending logic will be your specialty, especially if you do
so with a spiritual gleam in your eye. Being a little
crooked could awaken sleeping wisdom within you, as
well as boost your life force and enhance your physical
attractiveness. So please follow any hunches you have
that inspire you to stop making so much sense. Explore
the pleasures of using imaginative flair in your search
for the truth.
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and closer. Find out why, and capitalize on it. Meanwhile, a chameleon who has always had your number
just lost it. Find out the details, and take advantage.
If that’s not enough to keep you busy, I’ll clue you in
to the fact that a cool fool only recently realized you
have something that he or she wants. Find out who
and what, and exploit the possibilities. (P.S.: I should
also mention that there’s a wild thing out there who
would love to lick your hand. Find out why, etc.)
Aggressive.
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Frittata a la Amy
RE V IE W S
10 eggs
1 large onion
1 large zucchini
1 bell pepper
Goat or gorgonzola cheese
Parmesan cheese
2 avocados
2 tomatoes
8 cloves of garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
Fennel leaves (optional)
Soy sauce
Olive oil
1 jalapeno
BY AMY KEPFERLE
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Dice the onion, zucchini and
bell pepper and saute in olive
oil, a dash of soy sauce and
water, using an oven-safe
cooking pan. Keep on medium
heat. Cook until the onions
are translucent. Finely dice
garlic and jalapeno, and add.
Whisk eggs, and then add
to the mix, making sure the
eggs are evenly distributed
with the veggies. Add goat
or gorgonzola cheese on top.
Add sliced tomatoes, avocado
and fennel leaves. Sprinkle
Parmesan cheese over the
whole shebang. While the bottom is cooking, turn the oven
on to broil. When it’s hot,
stick the frittata in the oven.
Keep an eye on it—don’t let
it burn!—and move back and
forth from oven to stovetop
until it’s done. Serves 8-10.
HARBINGERS OF
summer are abundant. The green stalks of emerging sunflowers seeded in the ground a mere two weeks ago have quadrupled
in size and, conversely, the amount of clothing most humans are wearing in
public has diminished at the same rate. People have been going swimming,
for Pete’s sake.
Although the legal change of seasons doesn’t happen for a couple weeks
yet, there’s no denying the recent spate of cloudless—and, let’s just admit it,
hot—days has made it clear spring is no longer welcome around these parts.
I knew it was long gone when I called an impromptu brunch in the garden
Sunday before last and announced to the invitees I’d be providing omelets,
coffee and the first Summer Sippers of the season.
The sippers—a refreshing, yet heady mix of lemonade, cranberry juice,
sun tea, club soda, vodka and mint—aren’t typically offered until it’s hot
enough to brew tea on my back porch and harvest fresh spearmint from the
back 40, so when it’s finally time to partake, my friends now know to fortify
themselves with the edible offerings served alongside the liquid goodness.
In addition to the two frittatas I rustled up, other attendees contributed
mounds of bacon, roasted potatoes with herbs and a watermelon the size of a
toddler. Preparations ran late, so we didn’t end
up eating until well after noon.
As the sun dappled our exteriors, we cleaned
our plates. Bees buzzed. Butterflies flapped.
Birds chirped. Cups were refilled. Laughter was
passed around with the hot sauce. The bocce
set waited nearby, but—unlike the last Sunday
garden party, which wasn’t quite as torpid, and
had featured hours of the rolling sport and one
maimed garden gnome—went unused for the
day as we sat dazed and delighted in the heat
of the day.
With the solstice on the horizon, I’m guessing Sunday brunches in the backyard will become a regular thing. I won’t depend on formal
invitations, but I will keep a pitcher of tea on
hand in case the lure of the season brings my
friends and I together under the sun.
Vodka
Lemonade
Club soda
Cranberry juice
Ice tea (you can use storebought, but sun-brewed is
better)
Fresh mint
Ice
Acquire a large glass pitcher.
Fill it a fifth of the way full of
ice. Pour in approximately two
cups of vodka (can use less
or more, depending on the circumstances. If you’re abstaining from the hard stuff, feel
free to leave out the liquor).
Add about the same amount
of sun tea (I prefer decaffeinated) as spirits. With a casual
air, pour in generous splashes
of lemonade, cranberry juice
and club soda. Add muddled
mint, stir with fervor and dole
out. (If you can taste the vodka, you’ve added too much.)
Serve to your guests, and take
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