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BIZARRE AND DELIGHTFUL
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On Stage
Comedy of Errors: At 8pm at
On Stage
Poetry Open Mic:
A Strange and Terrible Evening: With
Edgewater Park,
Mount Vernon.
At 8pm at Stuart’s
at the Market, 1530
Cornwall Ave.
The Sound of
Music: At 7:30pm
Jana McBurney
Lin: Reads from
at the Performing
Arts Center, WWU.
My Half of the Sky
at 7:30pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th
Music
Ruzivo Marimba: And Ruvara
Marimba perform
from 5:30-9pm in
the alley between
Mindport and Wild
Buffalo.
The Marriage of
Figaro: At 7:30pm
at the Mount Baker
Theatre.
Community
Wednesday
Market: Open
from 3-7pm on the
Village Green.
Skagit County
Fair: From
10am-10pm at
the Skagit County
Fairgrounds, Mount
Vernon
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monday
saturday
friday
Words
plan it
post it
Black and Blue Burlesque will be part
of the vaudevillian fun when the Yard
Dogs Road Show hits town Aug. 15 at
the Nightlight Lounge
Music
Theater.
Dance
Festival Orchestra:
Tango by the Bay: At 9pm at
Evan Puckett at 8pm
at the Pickford Dream
Space, 1318 Bay St.
the Squalicum Yacht Club, 722
Coho Way.
Music
Upfront Anniversary
Show: At 7:30pm and
Subdued Stringband Jamboree: From noon-11pm at the
9:30pm at the Upfront
Theatre, 1208 Bay St.
Deming Log Show Grounds.
Cody Rivers Show:
Flowmotion Summer Meltdown: At the Whitehorse Moun-
Volume #10 at 8pm at
iDiOM Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave.
tain Amphitheater, Darrington.
The Kooks: From 7-9pm at
Boulevard Park.
The Sound of Music: At
7:30pm at the Performing
Arts Center, WWU.
Open House: At 8pm at
the Anacortes Community
Theatre, 918 M Ave.
Hamlet: At 8pm at
Mount Vernon’s Edgewater Park.
Words
Beyond the DaVinci
Code: Talk from 36pm at Canterbury
Court Clubhouse, 3790
Canterbury Lane.
Community
Farmers Market: From 10am3pm at the Depot Market Square,
Bellingham.
Skagit County Fair: From
10am-10pm at the Skagit County
Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon.
Reefnet Festival: From noon9pm on Lummi Island.
Porterhouse Brewfest: From
2-7pm in downtown Mount
Vernon.
Bellingham Flea Market: From
10am-3pm at 1111 Cornwall Ave.
Civil War Reenactment: From
9am-5pm at Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale.
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On Stage
Cody Rivers:
Volume #10 shows
at 8pm at iDiOM
Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave.
Night: At 9pm at
Wild Buffalo, 208
W. Holly St.
Music
Howlin’ Wood:
Good, Bad &
Ugly: New works
Perform from 68pm at Elizabeth
Park.
night at 8pm at the
Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St.
Community
The Comedy of
Errors: At 8pm
Skagit County
Fair: From
10am-10pm at
the Skagit County
Fairgrounds, Mount
Vernon.
at Mount Vernon’s
Edgewater Park.
Godspell: At 6pm
at the Fairhaven
Village Green.
Bellingham Bay
History Cruise:
Dance
Begins at 7pm from
Squalicum Harbor.
Coco Loco Latin
Visual Arts
On Stage
Music
Subdued Stringband
Jamboree: From 7-11pm
at the Deming Log Show
Grounds.
Flowmotion Summer
Meltdown: At the White-
Upfront Anniversary: At
7:30pm and 9:30pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St.
A Strange and Terrible Evening: With Evan Puckett at 8pm
at the Pickford Dream Space,
1318 Bay St.
horse Mountain Amphitheater, Darrington.
Jazz Concert: With Greta
Matassa at 7:30m at the
Fairhaven Village Green.
from Beneath the Surface
Books, 1200 11th St.
Community
Skagit County Fair:
From 10am-10pm at the
Skagit County Fairgrounds,
Mount Vernon.
Cody Rivers Show: Volume #10
at 8pm at iDiOM Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave.
Hamlet: At 2pm and the Comedy of Errors at 8pm at Mount
Vernon’s Edgewater Park.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: At
7:30pm at WWU’s Underground
Pacific Northwest Printmakers in Florence: Exhibit opening
from 5-7pm at Lucia Douglas
Gallery, 1415 13th St.
Artwood Carving Demo: From
noon-4pm at Artwood Gallery,
1000 Harris Ave.
Poetry Night: All are
welcome at a poetic
Open Mic at 8pm every
Monday at Fantasia
Espresso, 1332 Cornwall Ave.
Community
Northwest Washington Fair: Kicks off
today at the NW Washington Fairgrounds,
Lynden.
Bocce Ball: Weekly
tournament starts at
5pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green.
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tuesday
On Stage
Godspell: Summer
Stock offering at 6pm at
Resort Semiahmoo.
Yard Dogs Road
Show: At 9pm at the
Nightlight Lounge, 211
E. Chestnut St.
On Stage
The Sound of Music: At
7:30pm at the Performing Arts
Center, WWU.
Hamlet: At 8pm at Mount
Vernon’s Edgewater Park.
Music
Flowmotion Summer Meltdown: At the Whitehorse Moun-
More Mozart: As part
of the Festival of Music
at 7:30pm at McIntyre
Hall, Mount Vernon.
Words
Philip Garrison:
Reads from Because
I Don’t Have Wings:
Stories of Immigrant Life
Books, 1200 11th St.
Community
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Words
Bill Lightfoot: Reads
Words
Music
Legendary musician Don McLean will be drivin’ his Chevy to the levee when he performs
Aug. 10 at the Silver Reef Casino
thursday
As part of the Festival
of Music at 7:30pm at
the Performing Arts
Center, WWU.
sunday
Northwest Washington Fair: Continues
tain Amphitheater, Darrington.
Corvette Show and Shine:
through Aug. 19 at the
NW Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden.
Burnaby Blues Festival:
From 10am-2pm at the Sehome
Village Haggen, 210 36th St.
From 3-10pm at Deer Lake Park,
Burnaby, B.C.
Bent Grass: From 4-7pm at the
Fairhaven Village Green.
Firefighters Competition:
From 9am-4pm at the Ferndale
Haggen, 1815 Main St.
Community
Visual Arts
Civil War Reenactment: From
Artwood Carving Demo: From
9am-3pm at Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale.
noon-4pm at Artwood Gallery,
1000 Harris Ave.
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The Gristle
CONFESSIONS OF SAINT JOAN: Bellingham City
Council’s newest member, Joan Beardsley, issued an odd statement at this week’s regular
session.
Describing comments she had made at
a July 20 Greenway Advisory Committee
(GWAC) meeting, Beardsley said, “I have discovered that I spoke as if I were representing
council and not as if I were giving my impressions that came from… open discussion. What
I said makes it sound as if some members of
this council had made a prior commitment to
support a purchase of Chuckanut Ridge. This
is absolutely untrue. Nothing of the sort would
ever take place.”
Joan’s apology refutes earlier statements
she made to (GWAC) members at her first
meeting with the group since she took office
in January and the Greenways III levy passed
by a wide margin last May.
As enacted by voters, approximately 60 percent (or $26 million) of Greenways funds are
intended for land acquisitions—with roughly
half that amount slated for Bellingham’s woefully park-free north side. Half again that—or
$6 million—is earmarked for the Southside.
In February, supporters of an alternate levy
proposal, Greenways Legacy, threatened to
work against the Greenways levy unless funds
were made available for the purchase of property within the proposed Chuckanut Ridge
(CR) development, pastorally known as Hundred Acre Wood. A compromise measure was
passed 7-0 by City Council on March 13.
Under the compromise, $2 million was
made available for “undesignated property
acquisitions,” a euphemism for Chuckanut
Ridge. The measure also specified that the
council, in its discretion, could allocate more
than $2 million for CR acquisitions.
Suddenly, Greenways Legacy people were
evidently appeased and—in several cases—
endorsed the official Greenways III levy.
But on July 20, as GWAC members began
work on a land-acquisition timetable, Joan
informed them she did not believe their plan
for the Southside was something the council
would adopt.
According to GWAC recollections of that
meeting, Beardsley said that, back in March,
she had reached an agreement with council
colleagues Barbara Ryan, Terry Bornemann,
and Gene Knutson to allocate Southside
funds solely to Chuckanut Ridge. According to
GWAC members, Joan wanted to make sure
they understood she felt ethically bound by
this earlier agreement.
Greenways Advisory volunteers were thunderstruck.
“I never would have agreed to work for Greenways if I’d known this deal had been made,”
GWAC volunteer John Blethen said.
Others echoed his outrage.
“For us to put something to the voters,
ask them to support a measure that had already been undermined by private agreement
among elected officials… if it is true, it is just
unconscionable,” a dismayed Del Lowry said.
“We asked Joan about her remarks after
the meeting. I wanted to make sure we’d understood her correctly.” GWAC member Jack
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Mercury problems
Mr. Gristle, in his glee to support the
goals of the “Healthy Bay Initiative,” printed some chemical nonsense in his most
recent column. Elemental mercury, and
many of its chemical compounds, have
limited solubility in water. Therefore, they
don’t necessarily mix better in water than
in soil (the surface effects in the soil are
then important).
More significant is that this really has
nothing to do with the potential problems
caused by the mercury in the sediments
of the GP site. Environmental mercury cycling from elemental to inorganic to more
toxic methylated forms and back again
mostly involves either surface reactions,
or anaerobic biota supported by surfaces
such as soils and sediments. Conditions
for the transformation of relatively nontoxic
elemental mercury to more toxic methylated forms are likely present both in the
sediments of the current GP site and at any
landfill disposal site. All that is needed are
anaerobic conditions, a source of carbon
to be oxidized and an electron acceptor
(most likely sulfate).
It is possible that moving the sediments
to a local landfill site such as the ASB may
result in the future atmospheric release of
toxic methylmercury in either aerosolized
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monomethylmercury or in dimethylmercury vapor forms. Atmospheric dispersal
could then result in it being carried to another area—the Lake Whatcom watershed
for example.
Now, I might not have a highfalutin’ geology degree like Mr. McShane, but I do
think I have some valid concerns regarding the supposed environmental benefit of
land-filling the sediments in the ASB rather
than restoring the marine and intertidal
habitat of that same structure.
By the way, is that a deafening silence
I hear from mainstream environmental
groups regarding the “Healthy Bay Initiative”? Makes one wonder....
—Tom Pratum, Bellingham
Big, Baggy
Bellingham
The quotes put forward in your editorial
comment, “Big, Baggy Bellingham” point
to two problems some have with growth
management.
First, some just hate the idea the Growth
Management Act does not require cities
to destroy the character of their neighborhoods as growth takes place in them.
Second, many dislike the idea that facts
matter in the discussion about how cities
and counties manage growth. Their reaction to reality, on accidently bumping into
an inconvenient bit of real life, is to give a
Winnie the Poohish, “O bother,” then wander off into an alternate reality not inconvenienced by ordinary people trying to make
an everyday living and build lives ordinary
people want to live rather than bowing
to force and living the way someone tells
them they should want to.
I am leaving on a business trip, so I won’t
see the promised follow-up editorials for a
couple of weeks, but I ask that when I’m
back you entertain a column by myself on
the issues you address. Aside from your
unwarranted and unfair slaps at Mr. Watts
and Mr. Vega, you’ve avoided citing anyone
disagreeing with the position you seem to
have taken on growth management. It
would be good for your readers to hear
“The Rest of the Story.”
I would, however, ask two things of you
now. Before you prepare the next installment of your piece, take the time to actually read Bellingham’s new Comprehensive
Plan and the Growth Management Act. It
seems to me many of the loudest voices in
the discussion belong to those who have
not bothered to do even the most rudimentary research on the issues they proclaim
and disclaim about.
Second, take a look at Birch Bay. Several
of the people you quote had a free hand
there because Birch Bay is an unincorporated growth area completely under County
control. There is no better location in the
county for the dozens of 25–30 story skyscrapers some want to stuff into Bellingham.
Instead, we see “maximum” density zones
of only four or six units per acre, almost no
jobs (how many millions of extra commute
miles does that amount to yearly?) and severe concurrency problems. Hmmmm.
By the way, when all that planning was being done at Birch Bay just a couple of years
ago, I didn’t hear your voice calling for higher
densities and mixed use either. Shouldn’t areas designated as resorts have both?
As always, thank you for your time and
energy as you participate, along with the
rest of us, in the discussion about how
Bellingham and Whatcom County can best
work together to retain those things we all
value so much about them as growth continues through coming decades.
—Jack Petree, Bellingham
Editor’s Note: Jack Petree is a consultant
for attorney Robert Tull, who represents
Caitac U.S.A. Corp., owner of the property
proposed for the Larrabee Springs development. In our view, Caitac’s position on
growth has been well represented within
the Bellingham Planning Department, and
in media and the public record. In our research, we discovered some challenges by
contrast have been little examined in local
media. We look forward to reading Jack’s
proposed column.
Dept of Corrections
Placemaking Woprkshops: Presentation and
discussion of Bellingham’s proposed Arts District and its relation to Flora Street will take
place at 216 Grand St., future home of the
Children’s Museum, from 11:30am-1pm and
5:30pm-7pm Weds., Aug. 9 and Thurs., Aug.
10. We encourage your participation in these
important forums.
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the gristle
By Wendy Sfeffensen
Bellingham Bay Cleanup
Details on the waterway, uplands and ASB
cleanups in
Bellingham Bay have gotten a lot of press
recently, but not a lot of context. To better understand and advocate for the best
cleanup in Bellingham
Bay and the GP upland area, we should
be clear on the procedures and timing
of the cleanups, the
mercury levels at different sites and the
differences between upland and water
cleanup standards.
Mercury contamination from GP can be
found in the Whatcom Waterway and adjacent waters, the treatment lagoon (also
known as the ASB), and the uplands. All
of these areas need to be cleaned up. To
direct these cleanups, the Department of
Ecology engages in a lengthy decisionmaking process that includes the publication of a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) for the target area. The
RI/FS details the level and extent of contamination, compares different possible
alternatives for cleanup, and presents a
preferred cleanup remedy. As part of this
process, Ecology must accept and address comments and concerns from the
public. Currently, Ecology is working on
the RI/FS for the Whatcom Waterway and
ASB. The RI/FS for the uplands is years
away. That means the cleanup before us,
right now, pertains to the Whatcom Waterway and the ASB.
How contaminated are the Whatcom
Waterway and ASB? According to the
Gristle in last week’s issue of the Cascadia
Weekly, the lagoon is not very contaminated when compared to the Whatcom
Waterway. Rather than argue about how
contaminated the ASB is, it seems useful to look at the numbers. Sampled surface sediments in the Whatcom Waterway
contain mercury ranging from 0.20 to
2.55 parts per million, whereas sampled
sludges in the lagoon range from 0.13 to
20.5 parts per million. (Deeper sediments
in the Whatcom Waterway sediments are
more contaminated than waterway surface sediments, but not as contaminated
as the ASB sludges.) As a toxicologist, I
We do not believe that the desired end land use
of the ASB (whether it be a marina, a park, or
housing) should define the cleanup.
am familiar with the contamination in the
bay, as well as its implications for wildlife
and human health. The lagoon is, in fact,
more contaminated than the Whatcom
Waterway in many areas where sampling
has occurred. In addition to mercury, the
ASB also contains toxic levels of other
contaminants, notably wood-breakdown
products, such as phenolic compounds.
The next question is how much does
contamination in the ASB matter? Contamination with mercury matters a great
deal. Mercury is a bioaccumulative toxin;
it affects our nervous and reproductive
systems, with developing fetuses and
young children especially sensitive to its
effects. Mercury is considered more toxic
staff
The upcoming
in water than in soil, and thus, there are
somewhat more stringent cleanup levels
for sediment (in water) than for soil.
The problem is the ASB is now in a nether land—neither land nor water. There has
been no definitive answer to whether the
lagoon is or will be considered an upland
or water site. If it’s considered an upland
site, the mercury will need to be cleaned
up to the level of 2.0 parts per million.
If it’s determined to be a water site, the
cleanup standards will range from 0.591.2 parts per million (which is 2-4 times
more stringent).
The upcoming cleanup will determine
whether we convert the ASB to an upland or
water site, and therefore whether we clean
it to lesser or greater standards. Removal of
contaminated material in the lagoon, and
use of the more strict standards is required
to turn the ASB into a marina. Leaving contamination in the lagoon, made easier by adherence to upland standards, will preclude
that option. It will also mean, however, a
lesser cleanup for the lagoon, and the likely
conversion of the lagoon into a landfill.
I, as the North Sound Baykeeper, and
my
organization,
RE
Sources, do
not endorse
the idea of a
marina, nor
do we endorse making another
landfill on our waterfront. We are working
for the most healthful cleanup of the bay
for fish and for people. The most healthful cleanup attainable may, in the end, include a marina or a landfill, but we do not
believe that the desired end land use of
the ASB (whether it be a marina, a park,
or housing) should define the cleanup.
Let’s work together for the best cleanup
possible for all of Bellingham Bay. I believe
we can do that through acknowledging our
agendas, moving forward, and engaging in
open and honest community dialogue.
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Wendy Steffensen is the North Sound Baykeeper for ReSources, a nonprofit conservation organization.
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The Gristle
Weiss related. “She was very detailed and
candid that she believed an agreement had
been reached that all $6 million planned for
Southside acquisitions would be made available for Chuckanut Ridge, along with the $2
million undesignated funds, or $8 million total. I think she was feeling regret about it.”
Council members Knutson and Bornemann
deny any such agreement ever took place.
By the time the Gristle spoke to Joan, she’d
recanted earlier remarks and expressed regret she’d been misunderstood.
“I simply wanted the committee to understand that, according to the ordinance we
passed in March, the council had the option
of dedicating more than $2 million to Chuckanut Ridge,” Beardsley said.
Joan’s two confessions are difficult to reconcile. Was such an agreement ever forged?
Back in February, Barbara Ryan was fervently working with Legacy people to avoid a
dispute that could splinter Greenways III. Of
particular concern to Barbara was sending a
mixed message from City Council by a likely
4-3 split (or possible veto) on their ordinance
authorizing Greenways. Ryan was under no
illusion about Legacy demands.
“The $10.5 million for Chuckanut Ridge is a
firm bottom line for Legacy out of Greenways
and should be considered as such,” Legacy
spokesperson Gerry Wilbour declared in February.
Ryan duly proposed that $8 million in
Southside funds should be directed toward
CR, with an additional $2 million gathered
from park impact fees.
“We need one levy which can pass, meaning that needs and desires in all parts of the
city must be addressed,” Ryan insisted, arguing that the compromise aided the success of
a $44 million levy.
Supported by Bornemann and Beardsley,
Ryan dubbed her proposal the “Knutson
Kompromise” in what some observers view as
a bold attempt to co-opt its namesake. Gene
Knutson—one of the last to actually hear of
the so-called Knutson Kompromise—erupted at his “guilt by association,” ending any
veto of the impending Greenways III levy but
certainly still presenting a rift in the council.
When did that rift heal? What turned a 43 vote in mid-February into a 7-0 vote one
month later?
Such apocrypha has become heretical, and
heretics have recanted. Only scribes are left
to ask if there was any truth in Joan’s original
confession. Perhaps we may learn, should
the other Gospel be unearthed: If Legacy has
been betrayed by a “kouncil kiss-off,” we expect they’ll soon go public.
But before Joan’s confessions vanish entirely into catechism and absolution, we’ll
comment on two aspects of her martyrdom:
First, the candor with which she attempted
to make aware the comittee of what she perceived as prior commitment by City Council.
Second, the courage with which she accepted blame for misperceptions that resulted
from her original sin.
We suspect St. Joan may be more noble
than events that ensnared her.
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Part II: Parks, profits and peanuts
challenge land supply
By Tim Johnson
The City
peers north, into what looks to be the natural direction in which
to grow. There, land is flat and dry, with relatively few critical areas or anticipated
environmental impacts. Thanks to a key City Council decision to enlarge water and
sewer capacity north of Bellingham in tandem with state Department of Transportation improvements to Interstate-5, the area is well supplied with infrastructure to
accommodate considerable growth.
Yet is the purpose and intent of the state’s Growth Management Act (GMA) merely to accommodate growth?
Within standard definitions, accommodate means “to make room for; to hold
without crowding or inconvenience.” Manage means “to work upon or try to alter
for a purpose.”
“Taking the Washington State Legislature at its word, the Growth Management Act
should be used to ‘alter’ growth, not to ‘make room for it,’” argues Larry Horowitz,
who—together with Helen Green and Harold and Donna Macomber—this week filed
a citizen’s challenge to the City’s Comprehensive Plan for growth with the Western
Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (WWGMHB). Their complaint is
yet another in a series of challenges to the City’s land-supply analysis.
“In no event can ‘manage’ be construed to mean ‘to force crowding or inconvenience’ on residents. Based on its definition, even ‘accommodate’ cannot be
construed to mean that,” Horowitz insists.
Passage of the GMA in 1990 created the growth management hearings board
Horowitz intends may resolve these land use disputes. Three independent boards
were established to focus on characteristics unique to central, eastern and western Washington. In practice, unless overridden by the courts, these boards are
intended as final interpreters of GMA, an act with goals frequently in conflict with
one another.
“The 13 different goals of GMA really are conflicting values,” Bellingham Planning Director Tim Stewart said in a recent interview. “You’ve got protection of the
environment and you’ve got accommodating growth. Well, some might argue that
you can’t do those at the same time. The challenge is to find the balance, and that
is really the duty and obligation that we have as a local government to find that
balance.”
The Act directs Washington cities to estimate future land-supply needs and pass
them as recommendations to their respective county. While county government has
final say on what lands may be incorporated into a city’s Urban Growth Area (UGA),
even this authority may be challanged by
the hearings boards.
As City Planners worked through GMA
requirements, a land-supply shortfall
appeared unavoidable.
To the north, developers presented Larrabee Springs, a solution—Donna Macomber
says—that fits the problem oh-so-well.
Enter Caitac
Larrabee Springs is a planned residential development on 580 acres of rural land
north of the city. Currently, development
there can only occur by extending the city’s
UGA north to Smith Road. Properly developed, the area could support as many as
2,000 homes, according to the property’s
owners, Caitac U.S.A. Corp.
Based in Bellingham with leverage from
Japan, Caitac is a privately held company,
active here since 1989. In 1990, Caitac
founder H. Kaihata and company President M. Kaihata were named honorary citizens of Bellingham. Caitac owns a number
of properties along the Guide, including a
golf course in roughly the center of their
planned development. The course and
other properties are managed by Caitac
Vice President Terry Teraoka, who lives in
Bellingham.
As an indicator of the level of technical
sophistication of the company, Terry Moore
and David Helton serve as consultants for
Caitac. Both work for ECONorthwest, the
Seattle consulting firm the City employed
to develop Bellingham’s population growth
estimates. Similarly, Caitac employs consultant Kurt Gahnberg. Gahnberg also
works for the Transpo Group, Inc., the analysts who helped the City forge its transportation plan.
Caitac is active in the community and,
whether directly or through agents, has
contributed substantially to the campaigns
of elected officials, according to public disclosure documents. In 2003, Jones Engineers—then project representatives for
Caitac—made the largest single contribution to the re-election campaign of Bellingham Mayor Mark Asmundson. The company and its agents have been similarly
generous in recent City Council elections.
Caitac has invested significant funds—in
excess of $40,000 per month, according
to some estimates—to assist the City with
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its land-supply methodology. Financial detials are difficult to obtain, as Caitac is a private corporation.
Caitac consultants and advisors routinely
attend meetings of the Bellingham Planning
Commission. Attorney Robert Tull has filed
dozens of documents on behalf of his client, helping educate City planners on land
supply needs. Tull’s detailed contributions
are compelling and persuasive, staff admit.
Susan Kirsch, a citizen who attended
many of those planning meetings, has a different view of Caitac: “Buy cheap resource
lands—forest, farm or rural lands—and
lobby long and hard for rezoning. Hire
some lawyers. The money spent is peanuts
compared with the potential profits. Make a
lot of noise about property rights, like you
didn’t know the zoning when you bought it.
“Soon enough,” she predicts, “the suburbs become the city, more rural lands
become suburbs.”
The alleged profit potential is considerable for Caitac—on the order of hundreds
of millions of dollars in the event they succeed in their bid for an upzone and incorporation into Bellingham’s UGA.
As Donna Macomber likes to relate, a
real estate agent contacted her family in
2001 with an offer to purchase their property for twice its assessed value. When the
Macombers refused, the real estate agent
wrote them a letter stating that selling their
property, financially, would be like winning
the lottery.
The Parks Challenge
Horowitz complains that a lottery of
developer interests may have “cooked the
books,” skewing land-supply equations.
“The [Building Industry Association] has
created the contagious meme that it is an
either/or situation,” he says. “Either we
create sardine-like zoning densities or we
gobble up every piece of ag land and forest. While the BIA has been successful in
spreading this meme, it is a false creation.
Bellingham residents are not required to
live like sardines. Rather,” he says, “Bellingham residents can and should fight to
preserve Bellingham’s livability and quality
of life, as Whatcom County residents should
fight to protect their ag land, forests and
other critical areas. If our leaders would
truly manage growth, neither Bellingham
residents nor Whatcom County residents
would be required to sacrifice what they
have worked so hard to achieve.”
Horowitz is a former financial officer
and auditor with Price Waterhouse, an
international accounting and consulting firm. Employing compatable analysis
skills to examine the City’s future parkland
assumptions, Horowitz discovered what
he believes to be a significant error.
The City, Horowitz alleges in his GMA
complaint, drew from the wrong analysis
in determining acreage needed to supply
Bellingham’s future needs for park and
recreation spaces.
“The Bellingham land-supply analysis
materially overstates the number of acres
needed for parks and understates the
number of acres available for residential
development,” he claims. “The correct
number of total park and recreation land
acres through 2022—including watershed
acres—is 1,896 acres.”
Horowitz does the math: “Of the 1,896
total acres, 1,000 acres are designated for
the acquisition of land in the Lake Whatcom Watershed and Stewart Mountain
area. But watershed acquisitions are not
parks. They are acres set aside to protect
the drinking water and, according to the
regional
Five ways to grow
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In an April memo from the Department of
Community, Trade & Economic Development, the
state’s equivalent of a planning department, analysts gave City planners the following advice:
1. Cluster development to avoid critical areas;
2. Develop multi-family residences in multi-family zones;
3. Employ low impact design to reduce stormwater volumes;
4. Allow accessory dwelling units;
5. Set minimum lot sizes and minimum densities.
“We have discussed all of these over the past
six months. These are fairly concise recommendations from a disinterested third party that I think
we need to give close consideration to. I would
ask the City, how have they implemented these
five things that CTED has put forward? It doesn’t
appear that they have.”
—Whatcom Planning Commissioner John Lesow
guidelines developed by our Watershed
Advisory Committee, are to be returned to
forestry acres as soon as possible.”
Horowitz argues that because these
1,000 acres are outside of the City of Bellingham and its UGA, only 896 acres of the
1,896 total are to be acquired from parcels within the City and its UGA.
“Of these 896 acres,” he continues,
“500 are set aside for resource conservancy, leaving a balance of 396 acres to
be acquired from developable acres.
The land-supply analysis understates
the number of acres available for residential development by 61 percent. Correcting this 830-acre error would change the
entire planning paradigm from a residential
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land supply shortage to a residential land
supply excess, would immediately relieve
the pressure to upzone, and would provide
the ‘time-out’ needed to creatively plan for
Bellingham’s future,” Horowitz maintains.
His analysis, which he filed with the
WWGMHB, is not without controversy.
“Numbers are important,” Stewart
cautions. “But what’s really important is
understanding the balance in the direction
of growth. The decision that came out of
council was to accommodate some growth
downtown, to accommodate some growth
in infill and accommodate some growth at
the edge.”
While city officials and staff have
reserved comment about Horowitz’ findings, outside City Hall, some find his argument compelling.
Associate professor of economics and
data analyst Mark Springer told Bellingham Planning Commissioner David Auer,
“...My summary conclusion is that Larry
has correctly identified several major
errors and unjustifiable assumptions with
the City’s analysis.”
“I think there is a wide range in the credible numbers,” Whatcom County Planning
Commissioner Dave Pros agreed in March.
“I think that Mr. Horowitz’s numbers are
absolutely as credible as the City’s numbers. We can pick between the two.”
“This is a critical story to tell,” Horowitz
explains. “Not because of the park error
and the effect on the Comp Plan and UGA,
but because it symbolizes the arrogance
and unresponsiveness of our local government. Why do our City officials behave this
way? Is there some unseen force manipulating the situation?”
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Lawsuit Challenges
Nooksack Casino Project
Critics want federal oversight
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Opponents of the Nooksack Indian Tribe’s
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development of a casino north of Lynden filed a lawsuit in federal court Aug. 2 asking federal regulators
to halt construction.
The suit by North County Community Alliance is a
complaint against the National Indian Gaming Commission and the U.S. Department of the Interior (the
parent agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs), plus
agency top officials.
“We’re saying, ‘Step up and do your job,’” said
Craig Mayberry, a leader of North County Community Alliance who is also the Republican candidate
challenging State Representative Kelli Linville in
the 42nd district. Mayberry wants the agencies to
require a public process in conducting an environmental review of the casino project.
The Nooksack Tribe is constructing Northwood
Crossing Casino on a 20-acre parcel of tribal trust
land at the corner of Halverstick and Northwood
roads, in a residential and agricultural area near the
Canadian border.
Nooksack Tribal member Julie Jefferson is also a
member of North County Community Alliance. She
supports the lawsuit because she wants environmental issues to be resolved before a multi-million-
Northwood Crossing Casino will be a
Class II casino, unlike Lummi Nation’s Silver
Reef Casino and the Nooksack Tribe’s Nooksack River Casino, which are Class III. According to the National Indian Gaming Commission web site, states have regulatory
authority over Class III casinos, but “Tribal
regulatory authority over Class II gaming
was preserved in full” by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. “The Act further
provided for general regulatory oversight at
the federal level and created the National
Indian Gaming Commission as the responsible agency.”
dollar investment is made in construction, and because she believes tribal
members are not benefiting from the
Tribe’s Nooksack River Casino, which
opened in Deming in 1993.
“Financial records are never presented to tribal members,” she said.
Jefferson said she and the other
Nooksack tribal members in North
County Community Alliance hope the
suit will make casino administrators
accountable.
“They have to be accountable to us,”
Jefferson said.
Mike Wootan, manager of Nooksack
River Casino and spokesperson for the
construction project, did not reply to
requests for comments.
Richard Stephens, the Bellevue lawyer
who filed the complaint in U.S. District
Court, said he would wait a few weeks
for a response from the National Indian
Gaming Commission before asking for a
court order.
But Jeffrey Nelson, staff attorney for
the gaming commission, already put
the agency on record disputing some
of the contentions of the lawsuit in a
July 25 letter to project critics.
“Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), the Nooksack Tribe
does not have to receive permission
from the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) to construct a gaming
facility on this site,” Nelson wrote.
The letter explains that because the
construction site is located on Indian
lands acquired in trust for the Nooksack Tribe before Congress enacted
IGRA in 1988, the Nooksacks have the
right to build a gaming facility there.
“IGRA does not require the Tribe to
obtain NIGC approval before constructing the facility, which is why there has
been no federal public planning process or environmental assessment,”
Nelson wrote.
The North County Community Alliance lawsuit also challenges the legal
status of the site, stating, “Plaintiff
believes that no agency of the federal
government has made a proper determination as to whether this parcel of
land is held in trust status.”
But a November 2005 letter to the
Tribe’s chairman from the superinten-
dent of the Puget Sound Agency of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the
Tribe’s purchase of the property “was
a trust to trust conveyance with trust
ownership of the parcel transferring to
the Tribe as of Feb. 2, 1984.”
The BIA letter says the Tribe has
jurisdiction over the Northwood parcel,
the Tribe’s land use and environmental
regulations are applicable, and the Tribe
has jurisdiction over preparation and
approval of environmental documents.
An environmental report completed
for the Tribe in May by Ridolfi, a Seattle
engineering company, contends that
because the project will not use federal
funds or require federal permits, it does
not have to comply with federal environmental law. The report concluded
the project would have minor impacts
on traffic, groundwater, vegetation and
growth of the area. It says there will
be beneficial effects on recreational
and educational opportunities and on
socioeconomics.
Nelson’s July 25 letter says the casino
will not be exempt from federal environmental laws: “These federal regulations
do not require compliance with local
zoning regulations, but they do require
the Tribe to construct and maintain its
facility in a manner that protects the
environment and the public health and
safety. We plan to coordinate our oversight and monitoring of this site with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
in order to ensure that the Tribe follows
these regulations.”
Nelson said in a phone interview Aug.
7 that his agency would start regulating
the casino, under IGRA rules, as soon
as it opens. “The NIGC’s regulations
affect casino operations.”
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Whatcom County Auditor Shirley Forslof
determined Aug. 8 that the Healthy Bay Initiative has a sufficient number of signatures
to be put on Bellingham ballots in November. Forslof verified 3,663 signatures, providing a cushion above the required 3,652
signatures.
The initiative would require the City to
advocate and support cleanup plans that
would permanently remove mercury and
other contaminants from the Whatcom Waterway and would clean the former mill site
to meet residential standards.
10th Street will get parallel parking
Bellingham City Council voted Aug. 7 to
install parallel parking on 10th Street north
of Taylor Dock, instead of the angled parking called for in the 1998 master plan for
the dock and adjacent open space.
Council members Terry Bornemann,
Barbara Ryan, Bob Ryan, and Gene Knutson voted for parallel parking. John Watts
and Joan Beardsley voted against. Louise
Bjornson was absent because of a death
in the family.
Parallel parking will retain about 3,500
square feet more green space than angled
parking would, but produce 12 fewer parking spaces. Local residents formed an organization to lobby to retain as much as
possible of the level lawn that was created
after the Parks Department cleared blackberry bushes in 2003.
Affordable housing clears hurdle
Bellingham City Council unanimously
approved the final plat on Aug. 7 for Matthei Place. The 14-home development will
remain permanently affordable for households at or below 80 percent of the area’s
median income.
Plat approval clears the way for Kulshan
Community Land Trust to apply for building
permits for the project, which is on Harris
Avenue at 15th Street in Fairhaven, on land
purchased from the city.
This will be Kulshan CLT’s first construction project. The land trust has contracted
with Wellman & Zuck to begin construction,
and its subcontractor, Callen Construction
Company, started site development the
first week of August.
The 14 homes will meet Built Green,
LEED, and Green Community Initiative
guidelines, three of the most advanced
programs for quality, energy-efficient
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ON AUG. 1, Bellingham Police promoted the first woman to lieutenant
in the department’s 100 year history. Flo Simon, who started out as a
patrol officer in 1989, has been promoted from sergeant to lieutenant.
ON AUG. 1, Bellingham Police
announced the retirement of Lt. Dac
Jamison after 30 years on the force.
Jamison began his career as a jailer
in 1975 and the following year was
hired as a police officer. He was promoted to sergeant in 1984 and then
to lieutenant in 1989. The burly officer held a variety of positions on the
force, including the “Officer Friendly” special unit attached to schools.
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ON JULY 24, a caller reported that a
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On Friday Rick,* a sergeant assigned to United States Army 82nd Airborne
division, will attend a rally in Seattle. Immediately afterward, he will surrender
himself to military justice at Fort Lewis, the latest casualty in a conflict that has
claimed thousands of lives.
You won’t find these names listed among those killed
or wounded in combat. They are among the more than
40,000 U.S. service personnel who have deserted
since 2001.
WHO: Veterans for Peace
Members of the armed forces are considered absent
WHAT: Picnic at Peace Arch
without leave when they are unaccounted for, military
Park to Support Soldiers Refusregulations say. They’re listed as deserters after they’ve
ing to Serve in Iraq
been AWOL for 30 days.
WHEN: 12-3pm, Sun. Aug. 13
Earlier this summer, Pentagon officials admitted that
WHERE: Peace Arch Park,
more than 40,000 troops from all branches of the miliCanada
tary have deserted over the past five years. That figCOST: Free
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tion estimate, in March, of just 8,000. The Pentagon
reports 46 percent are U.S. Army volunteers. Marines—a service branch where
desertion was once virtually unheard of—now represent about one in every 10
active duty desertions.
Hundreds have fled to Canada. Others, like “Rick,” surrender to military jus-
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*Name changed to protect the soldier’s anonymity until he surrenders later this week.
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tice. Some stay AWOL.
“For many, desertion is the only way
out,” explains Larry Hildes, a Bellingham
attorney defending American soldiers
who—for one cause or another—walk
away from duty in the Middle East.
A civil rights attorney for 11 years, Hildes
has been practicing in Bellingham for the
past four, approximately the same amount
of time he has been defending service
personnel in military courts. His clients are
detained at Fort Lewis and the U.S. Navy
base at Bangor.
“I got recruited,” he laughs. “I have a
good friend who is chair of the Military Law
Task Force.” The MLTF is a committee of
the National Lawyers Guild composed of
attorneys, law students, legal workers and
advocates. The organization provides legal
support for military personnel.
“Mostly my wife and I got involved as part
of our contribution to the anti-war effort.”
All Ranks,
All Branches
Hildes’ most recent client, Rick was an
interrogator for the 82nd Airborne. Stationed at Mosul, some 250 miles northwest of Baghdad, Rick described a re-
wards system where Iraqis were routinely
rounded up and interrogated if they ran
away when shooting started.
“Imagine,” Hildes’ wife and legal assistant, Karen Weill, says, “anyone who
wouldn’t run for cover when shooting
started.”
“But the way you got promoted—if you
wanted to go from Mosul to Abu Ghraib
to Baghdad to Guantanamo and out of
there—is that you got X number of successful interrogations. Which means they
are torturing routinely in order to receive
promotion,” Hildes claims.
Nine times out of 10, Rick estimates
people they interrogated just happened to
be on the scene or were huddled in doorways. If a door closed in response to gunfire, it was torn down by soldiers and the
occupants interrogated. If soldiers didn’t
meet their quotas, they would interrogate
at random.
“He couldn’t take it anymore—the torture, the actions against unarmed noncombatants,” Hildes says. “It was not what
he signed up to do. Later, at Fort Bragg, he
refused to go back. He walked away.”
Many soldiers experience moral fatigue
similar to Rick. Others are characterized
by Hildes:
“Some were lied to by their recruiters,”
he says. “In fact, we find nearly all were
lied to by recruiters in one way or another. Some were promised they’d never be
shipped out. Others were promised benefits or assignments they never received.
“In civilian life, when an employer lies to
you about your job or pay or benefits, it’s a
breach of contract and you can leave. Not
the case with the military.”
“They’re called GIs,” Weill agrees. “Government Issue. They’re considered property of the U.S. government.”
Still others, they explain, were young
and naïve when they signed up and have
since discovered—through age and experience—that they object to war on a fundamental level. “They grew up,” Hildes says,
“the way we expect people to grow up when
they serve in the military. Some object to all
war, but a lot object to this war.”
Regulations do not permit soldiers to be
choosy about the wars they’re assigned to
fight. Because today’s military is an all-volunteer force, troops seeking objector status must convince superior officers they’ve
had an honest change of heart about the
morality of war.
“None of us can choose our wars,” says
Joe Davis, a spokesman for Veterans of
Foreign Wars. “They’re always a political
decision.”
Conscientious objector status, as defined
by the military, means a total rejection of
war, Hildes explains. “But a lot of these
guys would fight a World War II, against a
real enemy for a just cause. They’ve just
lost faith and heart in this war.” For that variety of objector, he explains, there’s little
choice but to walk away.
Many enlist from a high sense of moral
purpose, believing the cause was just.
“They learn very quickly they’re mistaken,”
Hildes says.
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Prominent among this group is U.S.
Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the
first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq.
The Army filed charges against Watada
after he refused to deploy to Iraq in June.
Watada says he doesn’t object to war, but
he considers the conflict in Iraq illegal.
The Army refused his request to resign. If
convicted, Watada faces as many as seven
years in prison.
His attorney, Eric Seitz, says, “What the
Army has clearly tried to do by the nature
of these charges is send out a message
to people in the military, that if you criticize the war and if you criticize the decisions that were made to bring the United
States into this war, that you, too, could be
charged with disloyalty, contemptuous remarks and disrespect for higher officers,
and in this case, specifically in this charge,
the President.”
Hildes predicts other officers may refuse
to serve in what they see as a unwinnable
conflict.
“Everyone from the prime minister of
Iraq, whom they installed, on down is saying that the U.S. has to leave, that the situation will not stabilize until the U.S. pulls
out of the region.
“The Administration has admitted they
knew there were no weapons of mass
destruction,” Hildes continues. “They’ve
admitted that Saddam Hussein was no
threat. The next excuse was to restore
democracy. Now the story is that we have
to stay for the memory of those who died,
which makes absolutely no sense. They’re
not even making a pretense anymore that
we’re there for any reasonable purpose. It
takes its toll on those who serve.”
“I wish everyone in the country could
talk to someone who has actually been in
Iraq, because it is a totally different mindset,” Weill furthers. “Their world is very,
very different than we imagine.”
“One thing we’re finding more and more
is that a lot of these folks are against the
war before they even go. When they come
back, they’re just that much angrier.” In
early cases, Hildes found this anger and
resistance to war was slow to come out.
“We learned about it eventually. Now it
comes right out, first thing.”
Growing Resistance
Across all branches of service, resistance
to the war is building. Belief systems, so
important to a soldier’s morale, are in collapse, Weill says. Suicide and suicide rates
continue to climb among service personnel in Iraq.
Hildes says, “When revelations of massacres came out, all of a sudden, GI Rights
Hotline started receiving hundreds of calls
from Marines wanting to get out.” The GI
Rights Hotline provides information to service personnel about discharges, grievance
and complaint procedures, and other civil
rights. “Marines are not the first people
you hear from, let me tell you. When they
start calling by the hundreds, saying, ‘I’m
not going to go, I am not going to do as I
am told,’ you have a very serious situation.
“Those atrocities,” he says, “are only
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the ones that make it to the front page. We
understand by talking to our clients that
atrocities are occurring every day.
“When the war started, GI Rights Hotline
logged a few hundred, maybe a thousand
calls a month. It went to 2,000 by about
May 2003. It’s more than 3,000 a month
now and I am told that is a low estimate,”
Hildes explains.
“That’s just the GI hotline. That’s not
soldiers calling local groups for assistance;
that’s not people who don’t know where to
go; that’s not even most of the folks who
are going to Canada. There are a lot of angry soldiers out there and it is growing rapidly,” Hildes continues. “And the more that
come forward, the more that come forward
after them.
“If they’re admitting to 40,000—out of
200,000 total active duty personnel—my
God, that is a huge, huge problem.”
It’s just the tip of the iceberg, Hildes
maintains. “These are the people who
stood out and declared they wanted out
or didn’t want to go. Think of the many
thousands more who are now adamantly
opposed to this war but who won’t leave
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WHERE: Village Books, 1200 11th St.
COST: Free
MORE INFO: 671-2626 or villagebooks.com
NOTES: This event will be televised on
C-SPAN
WHAT: Journalist Dahr Jamail, on Iraq and
Lebanon
WHEN: 7pm, Sun., Aug. 13
WHERE: Christ the Servant Lutheran Church,
2600 Lakeway Dr.
COST: Free
MORE INFO: 734-0217 or WhatcomPJC.org
NOTES: Currently reporting from the LebanonSyria border, Jamail is a special correspondent
for the BBC, Democracy Now!, the Inter Press
Service, and others. He will be joined by Mike
Ferner, author of Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran
for Peace Reports from Iraq.
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or who just don’t want to get into trouble or
go to jail. It’s staggering.”
Weill agrees. “Army Times did a survey
that found 70 percent of service personnel
are against the war—70 percent. That’s an
amazing figure.”
Hildes shrugs. “It’s a house of cards,
waiting to fall.”
Women As
Well As Men
Hildes’ most prominent client was Army
Specialist Suzanne Swift. Swift, 22, was arrested in Oregon in June and confined to
Fort Lewis, where she awaits the outcome
of an investigation into allegations that she
was sexually harassed and assaulted by
three sergeants in Iraq.
Swift says the sergeants propositioned
her for sex shortly after she arrived for her
first tour of duty in February 2004. She remained in Iraq until February 2005. “When
you are over there, you are lower than dirt;
you are expendable as a soldier in general,
and as a woman, it’s worse,” Swift said during a recent interview.
Returned to Fort Lewis, Swift was initially
placed under the command of the very personnel she claims assaulted her. Egregious
but not unusual, said Hildes, who was recently removed as Swift’s counsel.
“What she experienced you can call
‘command rape,’” Weill explains, an experience among U.S. servicewomen more
broadly termed “military sexual trauma.”
Veteran’s Administration researchers say
the term covers everything from verbal
abuse to forced rape.
“When we took this case, we had women
coming out of the woodwork. We still get
calls.” Hildes says a National Public Radio
segment on Swift in July generated hundreds of calls to KUOW-FM. “Their phone
lines were totally jammed with women calling to say, ‘This happened to me.’”
Estimates of sexual abuse among women
soldiers in Iraq tops 63 percent, according
to GI Rights Hotline reports.
Despite the high media attention given
to Swift’s case, Hildes explains that “most
cases we try to do quietly. We try to get them
a discharge, we try to avoid getting them
court martialed; we just want to get them
out. A lot of times they don’t even care what
kind of paper they get” upon discharge, he
says. “We try to get them a general if not an
honorable discharge, but these days a lot of
them just don’t care. They just want out.”
Hildes figures that “for every one we get
out of military service, we save not only
their lives but the lives of everyone they
might have killed in combat.
“It’s very satisfying to realize that we’ve
not only kept these soldiers from being
killed but also have gotten their lives back
for them. We’re winning the war,” Hildes
says, “one life at a time.”
community
lectures
books
STREET LAW: Get free legal advice and referrals at Street Law from 1-4pm every Saturday
through Aug. 26 at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Magnolia Street. For more info: 6716079.
BREWFEST: Live blues tunes and brews from
10 regional breweries will be part of the Porterhouse Brewfest from 2-7pm in downtown Mount
Vernon. Tickets are $20. For more info: (877)
754-6284 or lincolntheatre.org.
TOUR DE WHATCOM: Take a 25, 50 or 100-mile
bike tour through Whatcom County as part of
the Tour de Whatcom Big Brothers Big Sisters
fundraiser starting in downtown Bellingham.
Cost is $25-$45. For more info: 739-9953.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST: All are welcome at a
Blueberry Pancake Breakfast from 8-11am at
the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. Cost is $2.50-$4 or $12 per family. For
more info: 676-1450.
FLEA MARKET: Support the Opportunity Council
by attending the Bellingham Flea market from
10am-3pm at 1111 Cornwall Ave. For more info
on renting booths: 724-5121, ext. 213.
Words
Wed., Aug. 9
SPOKEN WORDS: Peter Gunn hosts the poetrydriven Spoken Word Wednesday at 8pm at Stuart’s at the Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. For more
info: 714-0800.
DEBUT NOVEL: Jana McBurney Lin reads from
her debut novel, My Half of the Sky, at 7:30pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The event is free.
For more info: 671-2626.
BOOK TALK: Join a free discussion of Laurie R.
King’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice at 6:30pm
at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian St. For more
info: 647-7018.
Fri., Aug. 11
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Bill Lightfoot reads
from Beneath the Surface: Submarines Built in
Seattle and Vancouver, 1909-1918 at 7:30pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St. The event is free.
Sat., Aug 12
Aug. 12 - Aug. 13
STORIES: Bring the kids to listen to stories such
as Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House and do
projects at 11am at Barnes & Noble Booksellers,
4099 Meridian St. For more info: 647-7018.
BEYOND DAVINCI: G. David Bock leads a discussion dubbed “Beyond the DaVinci Code” from
3-6pm at Canterbury Court Clubhouse, 3790
Canterbury Lane. Entry is a suggested $5. For
CIVIL REENACTMENT: Battle reruns, military
camps and family activities will be part of the
Civil War Reenactment and Living History Reenactment from 9am-5pm Aug. 12 and 9am-3pm
Aug. 13 at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead
Park, 5200 Nielsen Rd. Tickets are $2-$7. For
more info: (360) 398-8914.
Sun., Aug. 13
Sun., Aug. 13
GAY MEN’S LIT: A free discussion of Tom Spanbauer’s The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon
starts at 2pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
The event is free. For more info: 671-2626.
Mon., Aug. 14
POETRY NIGHT: Spoken word and acoustic performances can be shared at Poetry Night at
8pm every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 1332
Cornwall Ave. For more info: 715-1632 or poetrynight.org.
Tues., Aug. 15
IMMIGRANT LIFE: Philip Garrison gives a free
reading based on his book, Because I Don’t
Have Wings: Stories of Immigrant Life, at 7:30pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info:
671-2626.
Wed., Aug. 16
WOMEN’S SUPPORT: Join the Women Writers’
Support Group for reviews and critiques of your
work at 7pm at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian
St. The event is free. For more info: 647-7018.
ZANESVILLE: Kris Saknussemm reads from
Zanesville at 7:30pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. The event is free. For more info: 671-2626.
Commun ity
Wed., Aug. 9
WEDNESDAY MARKET: The Wednesday Market is
open from 3-7pm on the Fairhaven Village Green
(behind Village Books, 1200 11th St.). For more
info: 647-2060 or bellinghamfarmers.org.
CHOWDER CHARTER: Get on board the Shawmanee for the weekly Chowder Charters happening
at 6pm every Wednesday at Squalicum Harbor.
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Country music vixen Terri Clark performs Aug. 15 as part of the
Northwest Washington Fair in Lynden
Cost is $45. For more info: 734-9894 or bellinghamsailing.com.
Aug. 9 - Aug. 12
SKAGIT COUNTY FAIR: A rodeo, stage shows, exhibits, live music and more can be experienced
at the Skagit County Fair from 10am-10pm at
Mount Vernon’s Skagit County Fairgrounds,
1410 Virginia St. Entry is $5. For more info:
(360) 336-9453.
Thurs., Aug. 10
HISTORY CRUISE: Whatcom Museum’s Richard Vanderway helms the Bellingham Bay History Cruise leaving at 7pm every Thursday from
Squalicum Harbor. Cost is $10 for museum
members, $20 general. For more info: 6766981 or whatcommuseum.org.
BABY FOOD: Learn to make your own natural
baby food at a free class at 11am and again at
1:30pm at Haggen, 2900 Woburn St. For more
info and to register: 650-8371.
Sat., Aug. 12
REEFNET FESTIVAL: From noon-9pm, head to
Lummi Island for the second annual Reefnet
Festival at the Village Point Marina. A wild salmon barbecue, live music, skiff rides to fishing
boats, art and craft vendors and more will fill the
day. The event is free, and shuttles will be available from the ferry. For more info: 758-2620.
FARMERS MARKET: Attend the Bellingham
Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every Saturday
at the Depot Market Square. For more info: 6472060 or bellinghamfarmers.org.
SHOW & SHINE: Attend or take part in the Corvette Show and Shine from 10am-2pm at the
Sehome Village Haggen, 210 36th St. Entry fee
is $15, the event is free for spectators. For more
info: 676-7779.
FIRE FIGHTS: More than 40 firefighters from the
region will compete at today’s Firefighters Competition from 9am-4pm at the Ferndale Haggen,
1815 Main St. Cost is $20 for competitors, free
for spectators. For more info: (360) 384-0303.
Mon., Aug. 14
HOME ED: A free Home Buyer Education Workshop happens today and Aug. 16 from 6-9pm at
KulshanCLT, 215 W. Holly St. For more info and
to register: 671-5600.
Aug. 14 - Aug. 19
NORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR: Live music
from the likes of Terri Clark and Merle Haggard,
a carnival, agricultural displays, vendors and lots
of food will be part of the Northwest Washington
Fair through Aug. 19 at Lynden’s NW Washington Fairgrounds. Entry is $8 for general admission. For more info: 354-4111 or northwestwashingtonfair.org.
Tues., Aug. 15
STUMBLER’S GUIDE: Wendy Friel and Kathy
Thurber give a free “Stumbler’s Guide to England’s Coast to Coast Walk” at 12:30pm at the
Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. For more
info: 676-6981.
Wed., Aug. 16
FREE RIDE: Members of the Mt. Baker Bike Club
will lead a free, guided family ride for new and
returning bike riders starting at 6pm at the Depot Market Square and continuing to the Bloedel
Donovan Park. For more info: 676-6974.
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Local chalk artists
create street art for
the masses
Chelm, Yogoman, and Courtney Fortune,
and a plethora of food vendors and family
activities. “Chalk Art is destined to grow,”
explains La Bella Strada organizer Christine Scheid-Zurline, who’s been involved
off and on with Allied Arts since its inception in 1979. “It’s part of the strategic
plan for the arts in Bellingham to have
a juried arts festival. On the second day
you can come see all the art; it’s kind of
like an art fun run.”
Scheid-Zurline encourages people
to come peruse the event while it’s still
“small and sweet” and says she gives
props to the artists who are lending their
talents to the debut event. It’s part of Allied Arts’ mission to enrich the community by supporting local artists, nurturing
children’s arts education and connecting
the public to a vibrant arts community,
and La Bella Strada and the Chalk Artfest
merges these tenets.
“We plan to build this into a full-fledged
festival,”
Scheid-Zurline emphasizes.
“I’m proud of the people who stepped
up to participate in a new event. They’re
taking a chance. They’re putting themselves out there. I hope the public will
back them.
“It’s a chance for people to get some
fine art in their homes and help out local and regional artists. Come find a treasure, buy something from an artist and
show your support. Make it part of the
culture in Bellingham.”
Ongoing Exhibits
By Amy Kepferle
Beautiful Streets
The real meaning of urban art
Something unusual
happens to the
sidewalks of downtown Bellingham every year during
the second weekend of August. Artists of all shapes,
ages and ability levels take colored chalk to cement
WHAT: La Bella Strada and Chalk
and create art that will likely be washed away by rain
Artfest
or soon scuffed by passerby. But that doesn’t seem
WHEN: 10am-7pm Aug. 12, 10amto stop the artists from putting their all into the tem6pm Aug. 13
porary works as part of the Chalk Art Festival.
WHERE: Downtown Bellingham
This year, the 14th for the inclusive community
COST: Free to peruse, $10-$20 for
event, the Allied Arts-helmed fundraiser will be up
chalk artists
to something a little different. In addition to featuring
MORE INFO: 676-8548 or althe chalk art of more than 200 willing participants,
liedarts.com
the La Bella Strada Arts Festival will make its debut.
Translated as “the beautiful street,” the juried
arts festival will include as many as 80 fine art and craft vendors selling their
original creations. There’ll also be music by the likes of REdux, What the
Festival
ALLIED ARTS: Paintings and pottery by Nancy
Leshinsky and Lynn Dee will be featured through
August at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. For
more info: 676-8548 or alliedarts.com.
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum
is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and
Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. For more
info: 393-7540.
BLUE HORSE GALLERY: “The Blue Horse Artists” exhibit can be seen through August at
the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. Tom
Schlotterback, Tom Wood, Rachel Foreman,
Helen Dorn, Lanny Little, and Tracy Powell are
among the artists being displayed. For more
info: 671-2305.
BOUNDARY BAY: Peruse “Salmon at the Bay”
through Aug. 26 at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107
Railroad Ave. Bid on the pieces throughout the
month to benefit the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association. For more info: 715-0283.
FIREHOUSE ART: Pamela Willett’s “Photos of
Nepal” are on display through Aug. 31 at the
Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris
Ave. For more info: 676-5387.
HANDPRINT ARTS: See works from more than 50
local artists at Handprint Arts, 1611 N. State St.
For more info: 647-9087 or handprintarts.org.
INSIGHTS GALLERY: New paintings by Anne
Schreivogl can be seen through Aug. 31 at
Insights Gallery in Anacortes. For more info:
(360) 588-8044 or insightsgallery.com.
LYNDEN PIONEER MUSEUM: “Putting Old Dobbin Out to Pasture,” an exhibit featuring buggies, antique cars and photos, shows through
April 2007 at the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217
Front St. Entry is $3-$5. For more info: 3543675.
MINDPORT GALLERY: View paintings by Alan
Weydert, Kathleen Harris, and Dawn Kimberling at the “Three Views” exhibit through Aug.
20 at Mindport Gallery, 210 W. Holly St. For
more info: 647-5614 or mindport.org.
MONA: “All in the Painted View” presents the
Northwest landscape through the eyes of various artists through Oct. 8 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. The
Benaroya Glass Gallery will also feature a tribute to legendary artist Italo Scanga. For more
info: (360) 466-4446.
MOUNT BAKERY: Works by Robert Finnigan
can be seen through August at the Mount Bakery, 308 W. Champion St. For more info: 7151772.
VIKING UNION: Haida and Apache artist Andrew Morrison’s “Beyond Words” can be seen
through Aug. 18 at WWU’s Viking Union Gallery. For more info: 650-6534 or onestaa.com.
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Contrasting Objectives:
Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers” and
“Bert Huntoon and the Mount Baker Lodge”
are currently showing at the Whatcom Museum
of History & Art, 121 Prospect St. For more
info: 676-6981 orwhatcommuseum.org.
Openings/Events
Fri., Aug. 11
IVERSON OPENING: Attend an opening of Mark
Iverson’s latest works from 6-9pm at La Conner’s Café Culture, 109 E. Commercial St. The
exhibit will be on display through Aug. 24. For
more info: (360) 421-0985.
ART NETWORK: Share information at an Art
Network meeting at 8:30am every Friday at
Fantasia Espresso, 1324 Cornwall Ave. The
free gathering is open to all artists and cultural
organizations. For more info: 676-8548.
Sat., Aug. 12
LUCIA’S LATEST: An opening reception for the
exhibit “Pacific Northwest Printmakers in Florence” happens from 5-7pm at Lucia Douglas
Gallery, 1415 13th St. Heidi Epstein, Thomas
Wood, Tom Sherwood, Gerald Purdy, Dana
Mattson, and Courtney Lang are among the
artists who’ll be on display through Sept. 9. For
more info: 733-5361 or luciadouglas.com.
PAINT LA CONNER: Regional artists will take
part in today’s Paint La Conner! event throughout the town. An auction preview of the day’s
creations starts at 4:30pm and a silent auction begins at 5:30pm at the La Conner Quilt
Museum, 703 S. 2nd St. Tickets are $10 at
the door. For more info: (360) 466-4288 or
laconnerquilts.com.
Aug. 12 - Aug. 13
CARVING DEMO: Rocky MacArthur and Thu
Nguyen will be among the sculptors sharing
their talents at the 15th annual Artwood Carving
Demonstration from noon-4pm at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. For more info: 647-1628.
Tues., Aug. 15
FARM FOR LIFE: Peruse the “Farming for Life”
agricultural photo display from 10am-10pm
today through Aug. 20 at Lynden’s Northwest
Washington Fairgrounds as part of the NW
Washington Fair. For more info: (360) 3541337 or wcfarmfriends.com.
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An evening with Evan Puckett
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On Stage
Aug. 9 - Aug. 13
Evan Puckett
WHAT: A Strange and Terrible Evening with Evan
Puckett
WHEN: 8pm, Aug. 11-12.
WHERE: Pickford Dream Space, 1318 Bay St.
COST: $6
MORE INFO: evanpuckett.com
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VILLAGE BOOKS
1200 11th St • 671-2626
www.villagebooks.com
GOOD, BAD & UGLY: Sketch comedy, stand-up
and improv can be experienced at the Good, the
Bad & the Ugly, every Thursday at 8pm at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Entry is a paltry
$5. For more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com.
fun of everyone and everything—including
myself. I don’t take anything too seriously.”
Although Puckett was active in drama in
high school in Port Townsend, it wasn’t until
his senior talent show, when he got up and
started making fun of his classmates and
teachers and was subsequently asked to be
the class speaker at graduation, that he realized how much fun one person could have
alone on stage.
“I felt drunk with power over it,” he admits. “I really liked performing, but hated
working with other people stepping on the
joke. I’m kind of a control freak where performing is concerned.”
Puckett warns that topics such as gay sex
and racism might rear their heads during
this weekend’s shows, but invites us all to
come along for the ride. After all, he notes,
his Republican pharmacist father and elementary schoolteacher mom will be there,
front and center, like they are for most of
his performances.
“My parents go to almost every show
I’ve ever done,” says the comedian.
“They come to see me in gay bars,
etc. My standup is just a bigger
version of myself. The show has
definite queer sensibilities, but
it’s not just for a homo crowd.”
Puckett says his one-anda-half hour show will likely
end with an ’80s power ballad complete with a costume
including angel wings, bling,
silver men’s hot pants and a Freddy
Krueger glove.
“It’ll be bizarre, upsetting and delightful,” Puckett promises.
Bizarre and Delightful
LIVE!
Thurs., Aug. 10
performance
By Amy Kepferle
uptight soccer moms:
“A Strange and Terrible Evening with
Evan Puckett” probably isn’t your thing.
And if you do come, you’ll want to leave
your progeny at home. Puckett has
slapped a “parental advisory” sticker
on his Aug. 11-12 shows at the Pickford Dream Space, which means he’ll
be free to open up about the things that
are important to him.
“No kids,” Puckett, 25, reiterates. “My
humor is part of my personality and there
may be some swearing and disgusting
sexual jokes. I won’t be performing
at children’s birthday parties anytime soon.”
Considering that Puckett’s last
one-man show at the Pickford,
“American Idle,” covered everything from stories about him having
to relieve himself in a bag perched
in the bathtub when the toilet at his overpriced San Francisco apartment went out
(“my MacGyver instincts kicked in”) to his
resemblance to singer Clay Aiken (“I’m an
altogether different gangly sexually ambiguous fxxker”) to an open letter to women
in stretch stirrup pants, white people with
dreadlocks and folks who wear sandals
with socks (“you look like an asshole”),
it’s safe to say Puckett’s stand-up comedy could include almost anything.
“It’s like a dirty mixed tape,” the blond,
impish Puckett explains. Audiences at the
multi-media show can expect a mishmash
of rock covers tagged on to the end of monologues and stories—some about Puckett
himself and others about the strange and
terrible world at large. “I’m basically making
water Park. Tickets are $12. For more info: (877)
754-6284 or shakesnw.org.
AUGUST 13
SUNDAY
5:00p
SOUND OF MUSIC: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version of The Sound of Music shows as
part of WWU’s Summer Stock season at 7:30pm
Aug. 9, 11 and 13 at the Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are $8-$10. For more info: 650-6146.
Aug. 9 - Aug. 16
HAMLET: Shakespeare Northwest performs the
dramatic Hamlet at 8pm Aug. 9, 11, 13 and
16,and at 2pm Aug. 12 at Mount Vernon’s Edge-
Peter
LAUFER
CODY RIVERS 10: The Cody Rivers show presents
all-new material with Volume #10 at 8pm at iDiOM
Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $5 Thursdays, $10 otherwise. For more info and to make
reservations: 201-5464 or idiomtheater.com.
Aug. 10 - Aug. 13
BARD COMEDY: Shakespeare Northwest stages
The Comedy of Errors at 8pm Aug. 10 and 12
and at 2pm Aug. 13 at Mount Vernon’s Edgewater Park. Tickets are $12. For more info: (877)
754-6284 or shakesnw.org.
Aug. 10 - Aug. 15
GODSPELL: Jesus gets his groove on when Summer Stock presents Godspell at 6pm Aug. 10 at
the Fairhaven Village Green and 6pm Aug. 15
at Resort Semiahmoo. Tickets are $8. For more
info: 650-6146.
Aug. 11 - Aug. 12
UPFRONT ANNIVERSARY: Celebrate two years of
funny business at special Upfront Anniversary
shows at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at the Upfront
Theatre, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $8-$10.
For more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com.
Aug. 12 - Aug. 16
CAT ON A ROOF: Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof shows at 7:30pm Aug. 12 and 16
at WWU’s Underground Theater. Tickets are
$6-$10. For more info: 650-6146.
Mon., Aug. 14
GALLUS FAREWELL: Help send Devin Champlin—from the Gallus Brothers—off in style at a
farewell celebration/ vaudevillian variety show at
8pm at Boundary Bay, 1107 Railroad Ave. Cost is
$5. For more info: 647-5593.
Tues., Aug. 15
YARD DOGS: Sword-swallowers, dancing dolls, fire
eaters, hobo poetry and a cartoon gypsy band will
be part of the burlesque extravaganza that is the
Yard Dogs Road Show at 9pm at the Nightlight
Lounge, 211 E. Chestnut St. Entry is $10. For
more info: 527-1531 or nightlightlounge.com.
Dance
Sat., Aug. 12
TANGO BY BAY: No partner or experience is necessary to partake in “Tango by the Bay” at 9pm
at the Squalicum Yacht Club, 722 Coho Way. Entry is $5. For more info: 733-2663.
former NBC correspondent &
Edward R. Murrow Award Winner
presents
–MISSION REJECTED
U.S. Soldiers Who Say NO TO IRAQ
“Here’s a book that talks turkey about the BushCheneyRummy mess
in Iraq. Every congress critter should read Mission Rejected–and then
apologize for their role in creating the mess. —Jim Hightower
Aug. 10 - Aug. 12
”I hope this book
will be widely read, especially
by young people who may be
enticed, by false promises
or deceptive patriotic
exhortations, to go to war.”
-Howard Zinn
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Reviewed by Robert Koehler
Commune
Four decades of Flower
Power
Often mocked and rarely understood, the move-
Trade Center with John and Will and—except for essential and heartrending visits with their concerned and increasingly panicked families, and rescue attempts from
above—keeps us there.
It’s as harrowing as moviegoing gets; the sound of the
imploding towers is numbing, and the fear felt by the
trapped officers as millions of tons of debris crashes
around them is palpable.
Cage and Pena, doing most of their acting from their
necks up and in near darkness, are completely convincing as men trying to help each other stay awake and
Reviewed by Jack Mathews
World Trade
Center
Stone keeps it simple
As we watched the twin towers collapse on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, it seemed a case of life imitating
art—the images looked like scenes from a disaster movie.
Now, with Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, art is imitating life and, in completing the circle, Stone shows the
transcendent power of film to capture the moment.
World Trade Center is not the first great Sept. 11 movie—that distinction goes to Paul Greengrass’ United 93,
released earlier this year—but it’s the first one that taps
the main emotional vein of that day.
Politics and division would come later; on Sept. 11,
Americans were united in the single hope that survivors
could be found.
As it turned out, only 20 people would walk, crawl or be
pulled out of the rubble and World Trade Center focuses
on two of the last: Port Authority Officers John McLoughlin
(Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Penal).
After scenes establishing the calm under a dawning
blue sky over New York City, World Trade Center follows
McLoughlin and Jimeno from their homes in Orange
County, N.Y., and New Jersey, into the routine of their
jobs, and then, as first responders, into the twin towers.
Just as Jim Cameron put us aboard the Titanic and
took us down with the ship, Stone puts us in the World
It’s as harrowing as moviegoing
gets; the sound of the imploding
towers is numbing, and the fear
felt by the trapped officers as
millions of tons of debris crashes
around them is palpable.
alive, and the anxieties and near-hysteria of their wives
are conveyed with heartrending conviction by Maria Bello
and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
This is as uncomplicated a movie as Stone (Born on
the 4th of July, JFK) has made, and one of his most powerful. Look closely at the last scene, of a staged reunion
two years after Sept. 11, and you’ll see the actors meeting
the characters they play.
It’s a nice touch.
ment in communal living that blossomed with Flower Power
during the ’60s gets its most honest appraisal yet on film
with Jonathan Berman’s Commune. Rather than taking on
the phenomenon, Berman delves into the genesis and dayto-day reality of the Black Bear Ranch commune, one of
the most radical and durable of such communities spread
around the United States.
In 1968, Black Bear cofounder Elsa Marley, now a college art professor and painter, hatched the slogan “free
land for a free people,” and ignited interest among hippies,
intellectuals and young people who wanted to connect with
the land and reinvent a small agrarian society. “We tried,”
says original Black Bear-ite Peter Coyote, “to create an alternative culture.”
Like tales of how movies are made, the film’s early discussions revolve around how cash was raised to pay for
and organize the commune, which included pitching sympathetic stars like James Coburn (a pitch which incongruously featured a flag burning).
Judging by the wide-ranging, eclectic and generously
provided comments by the many residents who speak to
Berman’s camera, the practical needs of providing for a
community starting from scratch trumped theoretical niceties of pure communalism. Yet the documentary leaves no
doubt Black Bear was a largely successful experiment in
Marx’s credo of “from each according to his ability, to each
according to his need.” Hardships of weather and scarcity
forged intense bonds that gave the commune its staying
power when many others in the country faded away.
Fortunately, Berman isn’t tempted to play up too many
of the personal dramas, though he’s interested in how the
community was sometimes torn between those who wanted
more individualism and those who wanted the group above
all, as well as the ever-present gender divide.
Commune takes on further poignancy when the Black
Bear kids emerge with their own memories and stories,
including a hair-raising adventure experienced by Creek
Hanauer’s daughter, Tesilya. Some of these kids still live
and work on the commune, continuing their aging parents’
legacy; others, such as Aaron, son of Elsa and Richard Marley, want nothing more to do with it.
The film forms a fluid intertwining of present-day interviews and documentary footage with past archival work (including home video shot on the ranch during the late ’60s),
which reinforces the sense that the old commune and the
new one are one and the same.
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Film Shorts
SCHEDULE STARTS FRIDAY
By Carey Ross
An Inconvenient Truth: Former Vice President Al Gore addresses the “myth” of
global warming using an army of frightening facts and sobering statistics. He
knows what he’s talking about—and he’s
figured out how to say it without doing
that droning thing. ++++ (PG • 1 hr. 35
min.)
Pickford 7:00
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals:
More animated animal antics, this time
centering around Otis, a “carefree party
cow,” who is thrust out of the party scene
and forced to become the leader of the
pack. +++ (PG • 1 hr. 23 min.)
Sunset Square Call 676-9990 for show
times.
Cars: Pixar and John Lasseter once again
prove they’re a winning pair with this
kid- and adult-friendly story of the secret
world of the cars we drive. ++++ (G • 1
hr. 56 min.)
Bellis Fair 1:20 | 4:15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Tim
Burton teams up once again with Johnny
Depp to create a visually sumptuous film
featuring memorable characters—and a
ridiculously edible-looking river of chocolate. Music by Yambique opens the show.
+++++ (PG • 1 hr. 55 min.)
Fairhaven Village Green Sat. @ 7:30
Commune: See review previous page.
+++ (Unrated • 1 hr. 18 min.)
Pickford Sat. & Sun. @ 2:30
The Descent: A group of attractive 20something women descends into a cave
and are killed, one by one, with escalating
gore by bloodthirsty cave-dwellers.. +++
(R • 1 hr. 33 min.)
times.
John Tucker Must Die: Three high school
girls all find out they share the same boyfriend and, instead of turning on each
other, they decide to ruin his life. Crazy
teen hijinks ensue. + (PG-13 • 1 hr. 27
min.)
times.
Lady in the Water: Director M. Night Shyamalan sees wet people in this film that
was so important to him that he ended
his lucrative partnership with Disney in
order to make it. The movie’s utter failure
proves, once again, that you can’t mess
with the House of Mouse. + (R • 1 hr.
50 min.)
times.
Little Women: Long before the Spice Girls
sang songs about it, Meg, Jo, Beth, and
Amy March taught us what Girl Power
was really all about. This 1994 adaptation of the classic story stars Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.
++++ (PG • 1 hr. 55 min.)
Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs have
traded their trademark pastel garb for
black on black—always good in the Miami heat—but the lifestyle is still just as
decadent and the criminals as colorful in
Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation
of
Poseihis small-screen trendsetter. +++ (R • 2
hrs. 12 min.)
times.
Monster House: Animated flick about
three kids who realize that the house
down the street is haunted—and angry
enough to want to eat everyone in sight.
They vow to destroy it before it destroys
the neighborhood. ++ (PG • 1 hr. 31
min.)
Bellis Fair 11:50am | 2:15 | 4:40 | 7:00
The Night Listener: Robin Williams takes
on another serious role (that’s how you
know the film might be worth watching)
as a late-night radio host who befriends
an abused boy who may not really exist.
+++ (R • 1 hr. 30 min.)
times.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
Chest: Johnny Depp reprises his role as
troublemaking buccaneer Jack Sparrow. Expect swashbuckling aplenty when
creepy-faced Davy Jones shows up to lay
claim to Sparrow’s soul. +++ (PG-13 • 2
hrs. 25 min.)
Sehome 12:15 | 3:30 | 6:55 | 10:15
Pulse: Kristen Bell takes a break from
solving whodunits on Veronica Mars to
take on a big-screen mystery about a
mysterious force that transmits itself to
unsuspecting college students via e-mail.
+++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 30 min.)
times.
A Scanner Darkly: Director Richard Linklater, actors Keanu Reeves, Robert
Downey Jr., and Winona Ryder—not to
mention a crew of animators—team up to
interpret the fantasies of author Phillip K.
Dick. Everything is not going to be OK.
++++ (R • 1 hr. 40 min.)
Pickford 4:40 | 9:15
Step Up: A boy with mildly criminal tendencies and a penchant for dancing
meets a ballerina in need of a partner.
Think Dirty Dancing meets The Cutting
Edge, but far more played out. + (PG-13
• 1 hr. 38 min.)
Bellis Fair 1:50 | 4:25 | 7:10 | 9:45
Superman Returns: Director Brian Singer left one comic mega-franchise—XMen—to helm Superman’s long-awaited
return. Although he’s no Christopher
Reeve, Brandon Routh does not disappoint as the Man of Steel. ++++ (PG-13
• 2 hrs. 37 min.)
Bellis Fair 9:25
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Jesse Sykes
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By Graham Isaac
Subdued Stringband
Jamboree
A weekend’s worth of pickin’ and grinnin’
For the last six years, the Subdued Stringband Jamboree has been taking
roots-based, acoustic and bluegrass music and putting it in a family-friendly
festival context. The event has given wider audiences access to bands that
typically play to bar-goers in Bellingham and the surrounding area. This year,
the festival features perhaps its biggest names to date, as well as a more singer/
songwriter-oriented lineup.
“It’s definitely more songwriter heavy this year,” says festival organizer Robert
Blake. “That’s partly because that’s what I’m into right now. It isn’t necessarily a
direction the festival is heading in permanently, it’s just how it is this year.”
Blake, who is a singer/songwriter himself, will take a break from overseeing
the festivities to play a set Friday night on the Flat Stage before the evening’s
headliner, Jesse Sykes. The bulk of singer/songwriters are set to perform Friday,
while Saturday will take on a more old-timey party/hoedown feel.
New to this year’s festival are workshops for musicians honing their craft, put
on by some of the performers in two different designated areas. Ron Hardesty
and Kristin Allen-Zito will host a songwriting workshop in one area, while the
other workshop will feature “harmony singing” with Laurel Bliss.
WHAT: Subdued Stringband Jamboree features
Jesse Sykes, Robert Blake, The Gallus Brothers,
Sweetheart of the Rodeo, many others (including Saturday’s all-band jam)
WHEN: Fri. and Sat., Aug. 11-12
WHERE: Deming Log Show Fairgrounds,
Deming
COST: Weekend passes are $25 and are
available at Avalon Music and the Co-op. At the
gate, tickets are $15-$20 per day. Kids under
15 get in free. Camp for an additional $5-$10.
MORE INFO: stringbandjamboree.com
“We’ve talked about that for a long time,”
Blake says. “As it goes on, it gets easier to
add things. There’s a lot of talent at the Jamboree I figured, why not let them share it?”
In addition to the formal performances
and workshops, there will be tons of impromptu picking and jamming over the
course of the weekend. Attendees often
cite this as the festival’s biggest highlight:
actually being able to hang out with the
musicians and watch the late-night pickin’
party around the campfire.
The lineup this year consists of half re-
spent the past
week with your head shoved someplace
dark and silent, undoubtedly you already
know about the sudden closure of Casa
Que Pasa. In case you’re unaware, the pertinent facts are these: early Thursday evening, Aug. 3, state Department of Revenue
agents shut the doors of the beloved local
burrito house
and
revoked
its business license,
citing
almost $45,000
in back taxes
owed by the establishment.
Signs of trouble at the popular eatery have
been
evident
for some time,
By Carey Ross
with indicators
of its downfall coming in the form increasing complaints about the quality of Casa’s
once notably excellent burritos. By the
time the rodent population had made itself
known, employees’ paychecks began to
bounce and rumors of possible illegal activities started to swirl around the restaurant, the writing was on the wall for anyone
not too distracted by their potato burrito to
see it. With the possibility of reopening the
restaurant in the face of enormous debt
(not to mention the probable bureaucratic
nightmare of reinstating Casa’s business
license) almost nonexistent, Bellingham
now has to figure out what it will do without
its de facto dining destination.
What does all this have to do with music? Well, nothing really, unless you consider the fact that, during its seven years
of operation, Casa employed many of this
town’s musicians—and probably regularly
fed all of them. Some were current employees when the eatery was shut down,
and now must search for employers as
forgiving with regard to touring schedules
and band practices—to say nothing of the
droves of lost musicians who will wander
the streets searching for that one last potato burrito with extra sauce.
But the week’s losses didn’t end Thursday. A few days later, news also came
from the Gallus Brothers of their imminent
split. Unlike Casa, the wildly popular duo’s
breakup did not involve the aid of any
law-enforcement officials, but rather was
prompted by the happy news that Devin
Champlin, one half of the mighty musical act, is relocating to Phoenix, Ariz. to
study “luthiery” for six months. I’m told
this “luthiery” is the art of guitar building,
not black magic as I first assumed. At any
rate, the Gallus Brothers’ last performance
is set to happen Mon. Aug. 14 at Boundary
Bay. Please show up to thank both Devin
and Lucas Hicks for the many hours of entertainment they’ve so willingly and capably provided.
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work covers (Nine Inch Nails, anyone?) all serve
to make it a party.
RON HARDESTY: (7pm Fri.): Songwriter Ron
Hardesty melds classic folk and classic country,
creating tunes that are both instantly familiar
and wholly their own. His songs are alternately
hilarious and heartbreaking, stories of characters faced with all the hardships, big and small,
that life tends to throw quite unexpectedly.
BROTHER MUD: (12pm Sat.): Devin Champlin—
who’s already been mentioned in this article as
one half of the Gallus Brothers—writes gentle,
amusing songs that stick to your ribs with their
subtlety and depth. Chances are, he’s destined
for stardom—or at least some form of cult following—so see him now and you can say you
saw him when, if you’re into that sort of thing.
He’ll be playing in the round with Shawnee
Kilgore and Kevin Carlson.
Music Miscellany
Lucas Hicks
Photo by Chris Fuller
peat performers, and half newcomers to
the festival. Gates open at 3pm Friday, with
music kicking off at 5:30pm with a square
dance called by Lucas Hicks. Saturday’s
lineup hits the stage at noon and the party
goes until 11pm, when it culminates in an
all-band jamboree. For those who choose
to camp, however, the music continues all
night long. Here are some of this year’s notable performers.
JESSE SYKES: (10:15pm, Fri.): A near-legend in
her own time, Northwest country-gothic singer
Jesse Sykes plays dark, atmospheric twang,
transcending the easy categorization of “altcountry” through sheer gravity. At times sad,
at times menacing, but nearly always gorgeous,
expect goosebumps from the haunting chanteuse. For her Friday performance, she’ll forgo
the whole-band treatment and play as half of a
duo, the first time she’s done that in a while.
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: (8:15pm Sat.): Bellingham’s best-loved acoustic act will be calling it
quits mid-August so that Devin Champlin can
pursue his guitar-making education in the sunnier climes of Arizona. Throughout the duo’s
too-brief existence in town, the Gallus Brothers have built a massive following due to their
engaging live shows, which feature not only
the playing skills of both Champlin and Lucas
Hicks, but also juggling, acrobatics, vaudevillian
elements and much more.
KASEY ANDERSON: (5:30pm Sat.): Though he
hasn’t been playing shows much these days,
instead focusing on creating new material,
Bellingham’s alt-country darling and longtime
Stringband veteran can still pluck as many
heartstrings as guitar strings.
BAR TABAC: (4pm Sat.): Bar Tabac make some
of the most interesting music in the region right
now, with their dark, intriguing mix of gypsy
folk, classical and Russian traditional music.
At once both “fun” and thought provoking, Bar
Tabac have been igniting spaces of all sizes
and shapes.
THE DIRT BROTHERS: (5pm and 6pm, Sat.): Like
to dance? Good for you. The Dirt Brothers’ tight
mix of old-timey, bluegrass and country is made
to get feet out on the floor. A lively mix of traditional tunes, originals and a few so-odd-they-
Wed., Aug. 9
MARIMBA TIMES TWO: Ruzivo Marimba and
Ruvara Marimba perform from 5:30-9pm in
the alley between Mindport and Wild Buffalo as
part of the free Downtown Sounds Summer Alley Concerts. For more info: 527-8710.
MIDDAY MELODIES: Various artists taking part in
the Bellingham Festival of Music will give a free
concert at 1pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121
Prospect St. For more info: 676-6981 or whatcommuseum.org.
FIGARO’S FATE: See and hear Mozart’s operatic
Marriage of Figaro at the Festival of Music offering at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre,
104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $25-$30.
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HOWLIN’ WOOD: Hear “blues with a groove”
when Howlin’ Wood gives a free concert from
6-8pm at Elizabeth Park. For more info: 7393660.
Fri., Aug. 11
JAZZ CONCERT: The Bellingham Festival of Music features a free jazz concert with Seattle vocalist Greta Matassa at 7:30pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green. For more info: 734-6080.
Sat., Aug. 12
KOOKS: The Kooks will supply “island dance
music” from 7-9pm at Boulevard Park to close
out the park’s series of live tunes. For more info:
676-6985.
Sun., Aug. 13
GREEN JAZZ: The Northern Lights Jazz Orchestra
gives a free concert at 1:30pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green. For more info: 733-6872.
BENT GRASS: Bluegrass tunes by Bent Grass
will be provided at a free dance-friendly concert from 4-7pm at the Fairhaven Village Green,
courtesy of Fiddlin’ Fox.
Mon., Aug. 14
MORE FOM: The Bellingham Festival of Music
features the festival’s orchestra, pianist Andrew
von Oeyen and others at 7:30pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $22-$25. For
Wed., Aug. 16
SUMMER SOUNDS: Latin Expression and Yambique will provide the tunes at the final Downtown
Sounds Summer Alley Concert of the season
from 5:30-9pm in the alley between Mindport
and Wild Buffalo. For more info: 527-8710.
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Brewery
Chiribin’s
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Yogoman’s Wild Rumpus
Feed and Seed (early),
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The Jak, Final Dissent
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Panda & Angel, Snow Cuts
Glass, Chip and Pan
Commodore
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Armonikos, Bad Lucas,
Focuspoint
Mouseheart Factor, Argo,
Cantona, Tennis Pro
Green Frog Cafe
Acoustic Tavern
Karaoke
The Walrus
Jason Herrod
Ten Feet Thick
Matt Novak
Gertrude’s Hearse
Nathan Wade
Open Mic w/Chuck D feat.
Scott Greene
Death by Radio
Death by Radio
Comedy
Pacific Northwest Ambient
Music Night
World Party
Rockfish Grill
The Duntons
Merle Haggard Tribute
Night
Open Mic w/Chuck D
feat. Walt Burkett
College Night
A Strange and Terrible
Evening w/Evan Puckett
A Strange and Terrible
Evening w/Evan Puckett
Blues Union
Blues Union
Karaoke
Zilla / Aug. 9 / Nightlight Lounge
Yard Dogs Road Show, Bar
Tabac
French Kicks
Paul Green and Straight Shot
Dinner and a Movie
Stacks Getaway, The Blakes,
Ordinary State
Cast of Characters, Scarlet
Room
Jazz Night
Karaoke w/DJ Komodore
80s Night
DJ Flex, DJ Izzy B
Ladies Night
Party Night w/DJ Flex
Betty Desire Show w/DJ Velveteen
Bump w/DJ Dougee
Full Out w/DJ Scooter and
DJ Q-bnza
Bang w/DJ Marcus Purnell
Don McLean (Pavilion),
Kenny Hess (Portage Bay
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Tweety & the Tomcats
Tweety & the Tomcats
Skagit Valley
Casino Resort
Comedy Night
Expertease
Expertease
Skylark’s
Walt Burkett
Latalianova
Spencetet
Happy Hour wAlfredo
Barranco and Ed Solem
(early) DJ Lucy Bella (late)
ReDUX
Chryslers
Silver Reef Casino
Karaoke
The Freestylers
Rogue Hero
The Wild Buffalo
Karaoke w/Poops
Tender Situation
Black Eyes and Neckties,
Derge, The Russians
Zilla
Richard’s on
Richards
Stuart’s at the
Market
Scot Ranney’s Jazz Jam
Bent Grass
Poppe’s Lounge
Rumors Cabaret
The Gallus Brothers
Poetry Night
Pickford Dream
Space
The Royal
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Ruzivo Marimba w/Musekiwa
Chingodza, Ruvara Marimba
Main Street Bar
& Grill
Nightlight Lounge
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Fantasia Espresso
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Spoken Word Wednesdays
Acoustic Oasis Open Mic feat.
Thione Diop
Weekly Blues Invitational
Jam feat. Fat James
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35 With 39-across,
angry threat?
39 See 35-across
41 Oscar-nominated
actor Bruce
42 54-across’s rank:
abbr.
44 Year in the Yucatan
(or something else
without the tilde)
45 The heebie-jeebies?
48 Tiny tee sizes: abbr.
51 Cabbage Patch, e.g.
52 Actress Turner
53 Way off base?
54 North of the IranContra hearings
56 Barrel’s partner
57 With 65-across, take
the easy road?
62 Attack, like a cat
63 European city known
for being expensive
64 TV part
65 See 57-across
66 Word in a locker
combination
67 Is sick with
Down
1 High point of the
ride?
2 Chevy model named
after an element
3 Healing D&D
character class
4 Chipper greeting
5 “El ___” (1998 Soul
Coughing album)
6 “Time After Time”
singer
7 Pizza chain whose
logo has three dots
8 “___ homo” (“behold the man”)
9 “Heeeeeeeeere’s
____!” (“The Shining” line)
10 “Hostel” director
Roth
11 Gear tooth
12 Syllable before
“la la”
13 ID to guard from
identity theft
18 Uninspired Father’s
Day gift
19 Donald Trump’s
daughter
23 Sexually ready
25 Lesser ___ evils
26 Corrida opponent
27 Late Blind Melon
lead singer Shannon
29 “Ben-___”
30 The day after hoy
31 “Super” primary
day: abbr.
32 Group of experts
35 Lofty poem
36 Bill Gates, snarkily
37 Small jazz combo
38 Verdi reworking of
a Shakespeare classic
40 Part of ESL
43 “Does she...or
doesn’t she?” brand
46 Like some arrangements
47 Existing
48 1980s fad around
wrists
49 Godzilla combatant
50 Comes down hard
53 Kennel noise
55 ___-Brite (Hasbro
toy)
56 Form a scab
57 Univ.
58 Ending for spat
or form
59 ___ de deux
60 Cries of disgust
61 Will Ferrell’s shortest movie title
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Furnished Room including Utilities for Long/
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adult near WWU in large house
with
existing
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Choice of bedrooms available. Rent is less for smaller
rooms. Landscaped yard and
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includes room with kitchen
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are included in price. Shared
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Personal Cable/internet hookups allowed. WTA Bus stops
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and no Pets. Rent is for one
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512 E Chestnut Rent $430.
Deposit $400. WSG paid. Available September. Studio in duplex, 1 bath, on site laundry,
near WWU and downtown, no
smoking, pet possible w/ fee.
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3+ BR/1.75 Ba Great View,
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and Western. Fireplace with
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Off-street parking for two cars,
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porch, and full size bathroom. It
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of light. Bus stops are right outside of both sides. Minutes of
a walk to WWU. Need to leave
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ASAP for SEPT. 1 until Feb. 1 (5
months) or longer if requested.
Please email [email protected] or contact me at
(253)686-9242.
2+
bdrm
house,
Fairhaven,
private.
5
blocks from WWU. 2+
Bedroom craftman house in
Fairhaven. Uniquely private
from street, lots of light, nice
and clean, nice character,
slightly hippy. No garage, but
lots of storage. Off-street parking provided. Rent includes water, sewer, garbarge. Washer
and dryer included. Source of
heat is gas forced air. Nice yard
surrounded by bushes. Wood
floors throughout, extra living
room, and large enclosed porch
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1-year lease. Ideal party wishes
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CLOSE TO BUS-STOP cute
house....all appliances....great
backyard please feel welcome
to call Kimm at 360 201-5764
1601 Alabama Rent $595.
Deposit $500. WSG paid.
Available September. 2 bed, 1
bath duplex, garage, gas heat,
fireplace, washer/dryer hook
up, no smoking, no pets, 900
s.f. Windermere Management
(360)733-7944 (360)733-7969
Victorian Flat 1 Bedroom,
1Bath Clean and bright apartment available for rent September 1st. The rent is 525.00 per
month, single occupancy and
there is a 500.00 deposit. We
are looking for a NON-SMOKER
and NO PETS, please. W/S/G/
and Heat (natural gas) are included. The unit is in the 1908
Victorian apartment building,
Magnolia Court, located in the
500 block of East Magnolia be-
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It is close to downtown and
about 8 blocks from campus on
the bus line. Drive by and see if
you like the neighborhood and
call (360)671-1992 to set up a
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House for Rent 1 continental bath(2 doors; 1 to hall &
1 to a bedroom) with 2 sinks,
unique setting in Birchwood
area, close to Bellingham Tech
School, d/w, w/d, double garage. Gas forced air. New paint
& carpet, $1000/month & 1000
sec/dep (360)734-7530
Alabama Hill Hideaway
Sunny, secluded, double .33 ac.
lot with bay and city view potiental, abuts city parkland on
two sides. Historic, renovated
1905 railhouse, 2 bdrm, 1bath
and hardwood floors. Large
shop 900sq. ft. with utility hook
ups and two 10’ roll up doors.
Walk to Barkley Village, Whatcom Falls park, Lake Whatcom
and 5 minutes to downtown
Bellingham. email: [email protected]
1 bath House, Lake Whatcom w/dock Cute and clean
house that sits across the street
from Lake Whatcom in Geneva
area of Bellingham. Lake access and private dock in fenced
waterfront area. Kitchen with
garbage disposal, dishwasher,
gas stove and frig. Living room
has charming gas stove for
heat, electric baseboard heat in
bedrooms. Washer and electric
dryer hookups. Built in drawers
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soul will soon come to an end. Don’t you dare linger any longer
than you have to.
Free Will
Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1986, an accident at the Chernobyl
power plant in the Ukraine caused a nuclear meltdown. Radioactive waste spewed into the air, making the area uninhabitable. Twenty years later, humans are still absent, but wildlife
is thriving. Native populations of badgers, wild boars, and
deer have multiplied, and species that had disappeared before the disaster, like the lynx and eagle owl, have returned in
abundance. Birds are even nesting in the steel and concrete
“sarcophagus” built over the exploded reactor. This is not to
say that everything’s peachy. There are many problems lingering from the original devastation. I propose to you, Aries, that
the situation in Chernobyl is a metaphor for something in your
personal life. A place within you that endured a trauma has
rebounded surprisingly, though it’s still wounded. Take inventory, then raise the ante on the healing process.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The UK is populated by hordes of “overweight, alco-pop-swilling, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed television addicts,” according to the travel book Rough Guide to
England. I recommend, therefore, that you avoid traveling to
that part of the world if you’re a sensitive person who’s susceptible to taking on the attitudes of the people around you.
The astrological omens suggest that you should take stringent
measures to exorcise any impulses you might have to indulge
in excessive consumption of bad food, numbing intoxicants,
superficial sex, dumbed-down entertainment, and mindless
gossip about famous lightweights. For that matter, you should
be ruthless in sealing yourself off from influences that tend to
bring out the worst and the mediocre parts of you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The wife of pro baseball pitcher Chris
Benson has made public her desire to experience a wide array
of erotic diversity while remaining faithful to her husband. “I
would like to have sex with Chris in every major league stadium
in North America,” Anna Benson told the press. She’s your role
model for the coming week, Gemini. Your assignment is to
expand the variety and explore the frontiers of your familiar
pleasures.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A reader named Amanda Jarosz has offered an alternative to the traditional name for our astrological sign: Canswer, a blend of “can” and “answer.” It’s not a
viable long-term solution, but it would make a lot of sense in
the immediate future. Here’s why. According to my analysis of
the omens, you’ll be able to get a useful answer to just about
any question as long as you craft it with thoughtful precision. So for example, “How can I get more love?” is a sloppy
formulation that won’t yield fruitful insights, whereas “What
long-term plan can I set in motion that will help me earn more
of the care and blessings I deserve from doing what I’m good
at?” will be a gem.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A few weeks ago, eight-year-old Harrison
Vonderau was playing golf with his dad on a course in Cleveland when he shot a hole-in-one. Father and son experienced
an even more shocking delight 20 minutes later when the boy
scored yet another hole-in-one. It was an almost unbelievable
accomplishment for anyone, let alone a kid. Harrison is your
role model for the coming week, Leo. I predict that a young part
of you—either your inner child or your inner teenager—will
score an unlikely and spectacular coup, the equivalent of two
holes-in-one.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Of all the times in your life when you have
been in captivity, this has to be one of the least arduous and
frustrating ever. I’ll go so far as to say that I have rarely seen
a more beautiful prisoner than you; for a drudge in bondage,
you’re ravishing. As hard as it may be to contemplate, however,
it’s almost time to escape. Your dark though sexy night of the
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): USA Today did a profile on business guru
Doug Hall, who’s famous for his unconventional approaches to
stimulating creativity. One of his techniques is “left brain, right
brain storming.” Transcending plain old everyday brainstorming, it’s done with a team that blends people who specialize in
rational, linear thought (left brain) and those who are skilled
at letting their imaginations go a little crazy (right brain). May
I suggest you try it out? The coming week is a perfect time to
undo your attraction to what has always worked before, and
start heading in the direction of the unknown future.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Physicists at Washington University
in St. Louis have found that introducing disorder into certain
messy situations may actually spawn order. It happened as
they worked with a network of interconnected pendulums that
were all waving around chaotically. When they brought random
forces to bear on the tumult, the pendulums locked into sync.
The physicists’ results may not necessarily imply a universal
law you should invoke in every circumstance, but it does happen to be applicable to you right now. The more unpredictable,
effervescent, and even unruly you are—especially in the face
of confusing circumstances—the better chance you will have
of generating elegant success, and maybe even some beauty,
truth, and love as well.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Britain’s last census, 390,000
people declared themselves to be members of the Jedi faith—
a fictional religion depicted in the Star Wars movies. That was
heartening to those of us who lobby for a wider array of belief
systems. My ultimate hope, however, is for there to be 6.5 billion different religions—a singular form of worship for each
person on the planet. It happens to be a perfect astrological
phase for you to advance that cause, Sagittarius: to break out
of the pack and fashion your own unique spiritual path. It’s
also an excellent time to dream up a new political party that
intimately reflects every one of your idiosyncratic views, and to
identify yourself as a member of a brand new racial or ethnic
group that has never before been defined. Whip up your own
niches!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Recently my nine-year-old bike has
developed an unfortunate glitch. When I ride up hills, and only
when I ride up hills, the chain periodically gets lodged in the
transmission mechanism. If I act quickly, taking action the
instant I hear the incipient grinding noise, there’s something
I can do to fix the problem and keep from lurching to a halt:
I have to temporarily pedal backwards; doing that frees the
chain from its stuck place. So picture this scene: As I ascend,
I’m able to push forward for long stretches, but now and then
have to pedal in reverse, slipping backward a few feet. From
what I can tell, Capricorn, this is similar to the rhythm your
life has right now. It’s OK to bitch about it, as I do during my
travail, but you should also feel grateful for the way it’s building your strength and character. P.S. I predict you will reach
the top by September.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The often-inebriated Calamity Jane
character on HBO’s TV show Deadwood uttered words that are
important for you to take to heart. I’ll paraphrase her observation in order to streamline her drunken syntax: “Every day you
have to figure out how to live all over again.” Of course this is
always true, Aquarius, but it’s even more intensely apt for you
right now. The good news is that you’ll be unusually skilled at
deciphering the ever-changing rules of the master game, and
you’re also likely to have maximum fun while doing so.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Anger or bitterness toward those who
have hurt you will block your path to higher ground,” said
inspirational author Vernon Howard. “You can have anger
toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you
can’t have both.” I suggest you make that one of your guiding
thoughts in the coming week, Pisces. An undreamed-of burst
of liberation is now possible for you if you compel yourself to
experiment with radical generosity on the wild frontiers of forgiveness.
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second bedroom. Large lot (no
fenced area) with large storage
shed and covered carport. Deck
with nice view of lake. House
sits close to busy street. 1 year
lease, 1st and last months rent
and cleaning deposit ($500).
Renter pays all utilities including cable, garbage and water/
sewer, gas and electricity. Prefer no pets. Call 319-1104.
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Fantastic Modular - Private, Quiet, and Peaceful - 4 Acres! This property
is FANTASTIC! I wish I didn’t
have to move. This 3BR, 1.75BA
house is approximately 1000
sq. ft. nestled in 4 acres of
woods next to the radio station
on top of Yew St. Rd.. Water,
Sewer, Garbage are included
- Big Deck, Big Fire Pit, Storage Shed, Big Water Heater
all electric & LOW utility bills.
Vaulted Cielings! Washer/dryer hookups - Dishwasher, Stove
and Fridge all Stay. Wired for
Cable and Dish, tons of parking
space. Great place to share rent
and a FANTASTIC study retreat.
10 minutes from I-5 in BOTH directions. Near enough to bike
or jog to Lake Padden. Pets
Welcome! Rent is $975/Month
and the 1 year lease begins
Sept. 1, 2006 so act fast! First/
Last Months rent + $500 Damage Dep. due at signing. $25
application fee per tennant.
$200 REFUNDABLE deposit per
pet (if applicable). DON’T MISS
THIS! All interested applicants
e-mail me for Contact Details!
Leave your phone number!
email: [email protected]
Funky Huge 4 Bedroom
Character Home Funky,
huge 4 bedroom, 1.5 bath
two-story character home in
York neighborhood. Gas heat,
washer/dryer, dishwasher, offstreet parking. Near bus line.
Close to shopping, within walking distance of downtown. Convenient to I-5. Looking for quiet
tenant(s) to fit in with the other
tenants who are long-term.
Sorry, pet lovers—no dogs.
Cats allowed on a case-by-case
basis and smoking outside only.
$1200. Available September
1. 1615 King St. Call Maxine at
(360) 527-9482 for answers to
your questions or to view. Equal
opportunity housing.
Large One Bedroom Apt
w/ Extra Storage, W/D Extra large 1 bedroom apartment.
Comes with a big storage room
inside unit. Washer/dryer onsite. Inexpensive to heat with
PSE energy package. There’s
off-street parking plus it’s close
to two bus stops. Convenient location, close to shopping. Looking for quiet tenant(s) to fit in
with the other tenants who are
long-term. Located upstairs in
a four-plex for greater privacy.
Sorry, pet-lovers but no dogs
or cats allowed and smoking
outside only. Equal opportunity
housing. Owner/agent. There
is a $25 application fee. We’re
happy to discuss individual details to make sure you qualify
so you don’t spend the $25 if
there’s a small likelihood of you
passing the screening (credit,
background, employment/financial screens). We’re very
upfront and don’t believe in
taking your $$$ if you probably
won’t qualify. $485 / month.
Available now. Address is 1619
King St #4, Bellingham. Call
Maxine @ (360) 527-9482 for
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answers to your questions or
to view.
Newer 4bdrm 3 full bath
house avail. Sept 1st Very
large 4 bdrm house with three
full bathrooms. 3 bed and 2
bath upstairs and 1 bed, bath
down stairs as well as a living
room on each floor huge attached garage and yard. w/d,
d/w, very nice deck w/ veiws of
bellingham veiw pics link below
please contact Rick at 201-8341
avail. Sept.1st
Beautiful Horse Property
1 bedroom available in beautiful farmhouse 5 minutes east
of Bellingham. Private, quiet
setting in beautiful valley. 10
acre property and horse boarding facility on site. Large bedroom with own private office
and walk in closet. $350/month
with $200 security deposit and
share of utilities. Available
September 1st. 20 minute commute to Western campus. No
illegal drugs and no smoking.
Steady employment and good
references a must. Outdoor
dogs ok but must be cat friendly. email: anon-190152364@
cascadiaweekly.com
Share a cool and cozy
house in Lakeway We have
a room available right away for
$440 which includes utilities,
plus a $100 refundable deposit,
month to month, for the next
one to three months. The house
is on a dead end street, plenty
of parking and on the bus line. It
has three decks and it’s pretty
much in the woods with a creek
running through it. Within
walking distance to trails and
Whatcom Falls Park. Your room
has french doors that open onto
the back deck with a view facing the beautiful ravine. Digital
cable, wireless internet, house
phone with free U.S. long distance. Washer and dryer facilitites inside the house as well.
NO PETS, NO CRAZY PARTIERS,
NO SMOKING inside please (no
exceptions). Live with three
laid back, respectful roomates.
Room would be great for someone looking to save money for a
couple of months or a student
new to the area. Call or email.
360-656-6051
Quiet 1 bedrm avail Oct
1 One bedroom, unfurnished ,
very private , quiet and secure.
Private front, main floor of four
plex apartment. This apartment has full parking in front.
Carpets, dishwasher, fridge ,
stove. Approx 475 sq ft. Private
deck in back, bright airy, and
sunny side of street. Steps from
corner of Northwest & Cedarwood, one block to shopping
mall, and bus. Sorry, no pets, no
smoking , and no parties. Must
be responsible working adult.
Absolutely no pets. Available
Oct 1st or Sept third week. One
month’s rent deposit required.
One year lease, rent is $475
month. Water and garbage
collection provided.. You must
register for power with Puget
Power. Located at 2513 Cedarwood, Bellingham, Wa. Must be
able to provide one year’s postdated checks for the rent If you
are interested or have further
questions, please email Bill at
[email protected].
Quiet, Private Home With
Huge Yard 2 bedroom, 1 bath
home on huge lot with great
shade trees, private setting.
Off-street parking. Washer/
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dryer, dishwasher. Deck for
outdoor relaxation. Big backyard. Animals considered on
a case-by-case basis. $750.
Available September 1. 2700
1/2 Cedarwood. Call Maxine
at (360) 527-9482 or to view.
Equal opportunity housing.
Owner/agent. There is a $25
application fee. We’re happy
to discuss individual details to
make sure you qualify so you
don’t spend the $25 if there’s a
small likelihood of you passing
the screening (credit, background, employment/financial
screens).
Two bedroom Victorian
duplex Two bedroom Victorian duplex, first floor. $635
double occupancy. Yard with
garden space. Gas heat. Off
street parking. Great for couple because you have to walk
through one bedroom to get to
the other. Unique features, bay
windows and breakfast nook.
Washer and dryer. No smokers,
please. No dogs. Mature neutered cat OK with additional
deposit. 360-441-5693.
Sunset Studio Apts. 1&2
Deluxe studio apartments with
all utilities paid except for
electricity. Expanded cable
TV included. All apartments
are corner units with a patio
or balcony. Laundry room with
locked mail boxes provided. I5
to Sunset Drive. Proceed west
past Sunset Square three stop
lights. Studio 1 located on
south side and Studio 2 located
on the north side. Managers office is located at #26 Studio Ln,
Sunset Studio #2. Telephone
360-647-9287. First, last and
deposit required. Small pet accepted with pet deposit.
Room for rent available
in September Room for
rent! Available Sept, must love
dogs we have 2. The house is
great, we have a fenced yard,
parking and just minutes from
WWU. email: [email protected]
Charming, Spacious &
Sunny Studio w/ Breakfast Nook Downtown I
am looking to have my lease
taken over Sept. 1st for a very
large studio in the heart of
downtown Bellingham. With
hardwood floors, high ceilings,
nine windows (not counting a
skylight in the bathroom!), a
spacious breakfast nook with
built-in hutch and ample storage space, this apartment is
perfect for couples or individuals who would like a bit more
room in one of the most charming apartments available downtown. Walking distance from
Film is Truth, multiple bars,
restaurants, boutiques and the
downtown bus depot. One year
lease, no pets, non-smoking.
Email me with any questions,
or if you’d like to come over and
take a peek! email: [email protected]
4 Bedroom house for rent.
4 bedroom 1 and 1/2 bath house
with W/D,dishwasher and huge
yard walking distance to WWU.
Large 2 Bedroom Nice
Residental Area 2320 I st.
2 Bedroom 1 Bath upper unit in
8 plex Close to downtown and
Meridian in a quiet residental
area. Available mid August.
Water Sewer and Garbage
Paid. Laundry Room. Off street
parking for tenants only. NO
SMOKING NO PETS. Call 360734-4321 for showing.
City Suites 1 bed room
loft with garage 1 bedroom
loft for rent in bellingham.
garage, w/d, d/w included.
w/s/g paid. awesome location.
available 8/15! please email at
[email protected] for
more information.
Townhouse duplex 3BD/
2BA 4-yr old townhouse duplex,
all appl incl W/D, WSG pd, Gar,
gas heat,$1050 sec. dep. Call
Pat or Jim 360-733-6060
Rentals: Blaine
Share roomy Blaine house
with absentee roommate
Three minutes from the freeway, about 5 minutes from the
border. Share large old house
with yard near Drayton Harbor/walking areas. You’ll have
the place to yourself for about
9-10 months out of the year.
Your share includes large country kitchen, laundry, full bath,
a large room with hardwood
floors, storage. I’ll keep one
room and store some things;
share common areas when I’m
in town. Great deal for someone
who likes space - there is nothing but nature on 3 sides of the
house, and, when I’m around,
I like lots of privacy. Single or
couple - sorry, no families. Cat
possible. Starting September
or October. Email to discuss!
8597 Harborview Rent
$1050. Deposit $1000. Month
to month. View home on 1.4
acres with mature landscaping,
washer/dryer hookup, 2 car
garage, storage, bonus room,
small greenhouse, no smoking,
cat possible with fee, 1200+ sq.
ft. Windermere Management
(360)733-7944 (360)733-7969
Rentals: Whatcom
House on Farm for rent
Looking for one or two persons
to rent house on farm. Well
maintained. View of Sumas
Mountain. 1500 sq. ft.; 2 BD;
den, 2 full Baths. W/D; D/W;
NS. Propane/electric heat.
Pets negotiable. Potential for
horse boarding. Deposit, first
and last. Available MID-August. 7101 Goodwin Road outside Everson. 20 minutes from
Sunset Square. email: anon-
189531426 @cascadiaweekly.
com
Rentals: Skagit
House for Rent in Sedro-Woolley
$1000 per
month(12th Lease) First &
Last month rent. $500 Damage Deposit & No indoor pets
(dog cage outside) Features:
4 beds/1 bath, gas heat stove,
electric hot water heater,
range w/oven, refrigerator,
washer/gas dryer, large yard, 1
carport. Renter responsibilities
inclue: Maintain yard, garbage,
gas, water, electric, cable, &
phone. If interested potential
renters must fill out application
& a rental agreement is available. Will need references and
will do credit check and background check. Call Richard or
Dina 360-856-2812
Roommates Wanted
3Bdr Craftsman style
house, Needs Two Roommates I am a young profesional woman with a dog, in
need of two roommates, preferably female to share a bright
3Bdr home in the York Neighborhood. Newer W/D, fenced
yard, very spacious, w/lots
of light and build in shelving,
large kitchen, gas stove, close
to downtown, great neighborhood. Looking for individuals
with some common interests:
progressive thought, outdoor
oriented, and who might love
dogs, or other animals. Please
contact me at, (360) 303-4778
Rentals Wanted
Nice girl and fuzzy cat
need a home! Nice girl, (a
quiet professional) and grey,
fuzzy, indoor, cat, (enjoys
plastic mice and wet food) are
seeking new digs. We have lived
happily in our current home for
the past six+ years and are now
seeking a more perfect place
for the next six. Were hoping
to find a one bedroom or large
studio (500+ square feet) in
the York, Downtown, Sehome,
South Hill or Fairhaven area,
an older building with some
charm preferred. The nice girl
is very creative and would like
someplace that she could paint
and decorate (when our building was sold a few years ago
ours was the show place, she’s
good!) The fuzzy cat is mostly
just interested in wet food
and windows. We (well mostly
the girl) would like to spend
no more that $550 and hope
utilities are included. We feel
pretty confident in saying we
are perfect renters, we are not
irresponsible students and we
are not destructive in any way
(unless you have issues with
gardening) so please drop us
a line if you have some intriguing! NO new mega buildings,
Southside student barracks, or
housemate scenarios! email:
a n o n -19 017 3 4 6 2 @ c a s c a d i aweekly.com
Small
country
rental
wanted by Sept. 1st The
house I live in has been sold
and I must vacate no later than
August 31st. I am looking for
an out-of-the-way place. Must
be within 40 miles of a good
sized grocery store. Will help
with animals or what not. A one
bedroom cottage/cabin will do
just fine as long as it is accessible by car. Please contact me
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I am responsible, clean, quiet,
semi-retired, in my 50’s with a
6 y.o. cat who is house trained
and sleeps all day. I work on the
internet. I do not party or bother anyone. I pretty well keep
to myself. I like hiking, nature,
boating, tranquility. Non-smoking, no drugs. Email Michael:
[email protected]
HELP! I need a place to
rent 19 year old female needs
a room to rent in a house that
allows pets, I have one german shepard/retreiver/chow
dog that is the sweetest pup
in the world.... she’s VERY well
behaved, and im willing to pay
extra deposit.... i really need
a place..... email: [email protected]
Need 1-2bd. w/acreage
for horses We are a reasonable, responsible couple, over
50yrs old with jobs, pension
and pets. Can make improvements to property. Very good
references. Been in same house
for 5 years, but owner has decided to sell. Prefer place in
County, North of Bellingham.
Can pay around 1000./mo plus
utilities. Please reply to: anon190094661@cascadiaweekly.
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Calm, clean boy needs a
place for next school year
(near campus) Hi! I am a
mellow, fairly introverted guy
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who needs a place to move by
the end of August at the latest.
I am good at keeping common
areas clean, but maybe not the
best at cleaning my room. Have
all my own furniture for a room,
but none that need communal
space. Looking to pay something around $300. Prefer a
laid-back, open minded sort of
place. I do smoke, but am able
to keep it outside. Just need a
place to sleep and eat, and do
homework really. Proximity
to WWU a plus. email: anon189813274 @cascadiaweekly.
com
In need of dog friendly
housing We’re a couple in our
forties, looking for a home for
us and our dogs. We currently
own our home in Corvallis Oregon but must relocate because
of allergies and to be near family. We have great references.
We are not afraid to give attention to a home that needs
it. Call Jan or Jacob at 903-3761017, or 541-929-5604
21 year old female student looking for a room
I am looking for somewhere
to live (apartment or house,
doesn’t matter) beginning Sept.
1. My rent in my apartment now
is up at the end of August, and
I have one more year to finish
at Western. Looking for a group
of girls who are easy-going and
friendly. I don’t have any pets
but I would love it if the place
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If you are interested, please
call me as I will need somewhere to go at the end of the
month! Email Bethany: anon189668787@cascadiaweekly.
com
Young
couple/WWU
grads looking for dogfriendly house We are a
young couple (24 year olds)
looking for a house to rent in the
Bellingham area. We both work
full time and are looking to get
a dog. Please help us out if you
can. We don’t want to spend
more than $1000 per month.
Responsible renter looking for B’ham housing for
Sept Responsible single male
looking for house or apartment
to rent in the Bellingham area
beginning in Sept. I’m willing
to pay up to @$600/mo. I’d
prefer a small house or cabin
somewhere in north Bellingham. I’m returning to school for
a second degree at Bellingham
Tech College and will be in the
area for at least 2 years. I have
a cat and a VERY clean, quiet,
well-behaved dog. I can provide references for myself and
my pets. Call 509-395-2723 or
email [email protected].
Looking for detached studio/apartment I love living
with other people however I
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looking for a detached studio
space to rent. A little cottage in
your backyard or an apartment
over the garage or....??? If you
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the apt. or live in the apt and receive $1,700 a month rent from
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included This is a brand new
condo in 12th street village, in
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entry feature, meaning you
must have a key to get in so
break-ins will not be a problem.
There is a $1200 a month rent,
and to get in you must pay a
$1000 deposit, as well as first
and last months rent. All applicants will be subject to a credit
check. There is also a one year
lease required. In the price water, sewage, and garbage are all
included, and with the inclusive
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319-7776
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MAGNIFICENT
LAKE
WHATCOM VIEW This pristine rambler style home is full
of charisma, located on a 1/4+
(100’x 125’) acre lot. Built in
1993, the 2, 276 square foot
home has 3 bedrooms & 2 full
baths, jacuzzi tub, formal dining & family rooms, oak kitchen
cabinets, hardwood & carpet,
gas hot water & forced air, attached 2 car garage. Quality
throughout. 4933 COLUMBUS
AVENUE, Lakeway Drive turns
into Cable Street, then turning into Lake Whatcom Blvd.,
Right on Coronado Ave., Left on
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HOME & INCOME Appraised $470,500 Just appraised for $470,500. Act this
week, before I list it and it’s
yours for $52,000 less than
the appraisal. Great Barkley
Village Haggen Area. Property
borders Interurban Trail. Front
house has 5 bd. 3 ba. and 2 are
big master suites (downstair
master is 400sq ft with 12 ft
closet and dressing area and
upstairs master is 300sq. ft.
with bath has 2 man air jetted
tub). There is a legal 700sq. ft.
1 Bedroom Townhouse Apartment that rents for $700mo. in
the rear and is very private with
little back yard. There are 5
concrete pad pull in car spaces
next to the driveway, not in the
driveway. The front house will
rent for $1700mo. There is a
possibility of a 5 year lease to
ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL if you
want to rent it all out. Rent per
month would be negotiated
with St. Joes, but should be approximately $2,400 mo. +. Also
possibility of a conditional use
permit. Either way you slice it,
even if you want to live in it, you
have income to help you pay
your mortgage payment. If you
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Immaculate 4 bedroom home
on sunny 1/4 acre lot. Seasonal
stream borders backyard, walking trails to Barkley Village.
Close to Squalicum High School
and Northern Heights Elementary. Great for growing family
or investment home. Freshly
painted inside & out. Tile entry,
oak cabinets and newer carpeting. Bonus room and bedroom
downstairs with 1/2 bath. Sunny deck for entertaining. Beautifully landscaped and garden
space ready. Squalicum School
district (a good one!) For more
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to I-5, Bellis Fair, Sunset Square
& Whatcom Community College. Open Greatroom w/pergo
floors & vaulted Ceilings. Detached 960 sq. ft. 3-car garage/
shop which has an attached 320
sq. ft. finished office and a 1/2
bath for a versatile home office.
Bonus outbuildings for gardening tools and extra workspace.
High efficiency gas furnace,
gas hot water heater, F/P and
dryer. 2-10 Home Buyer’s Warranty included with sale (1
yr). Features: 3 Bedrooms 2.75
Bathrooms 2,346 Sq. Ft. Built in
1994 Call: Dave Ulrich Re/Max
Whatcom County Office (360)
384-1010 or Cell (360) 510-5478
4
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bath
home-creek borders 1/4
acre lot Beautiful Northern
Heights neighborhood. Elementary school blocks away,
Squalicum High School just
a few minutes walk. Both are
excellent school districts.
Garden space, grassy yard.
Pet friendly. Freshly painted
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Affordable Mount
Baker
2 BD, 2 BA, traditional
doublewide manufactured
home with possible 3rd
bedroom conversion from
office/den area. Lots of
trees for added privacy,
extra storage in outside
sheds. Mt. Baker school
district. $89,900
Great
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Backing onto a Park This
cozy 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom
character home features nearly
900 square feet of living space.
The totally remodeled kitchen
features an extra large pantry,
new countertops, cupboards,
tile floors and light fixtures.
Beautiful crown molding, a gas
fireplace, new hardwood floors
and wiring for a home theater
system also make it a great
place to entertain. Just across
the alley from the backyard is
the Sunnyland neighborhood
park. Lots of potential, awesome location, and loaded with
upgrades, this is an incredible
opportunity at just $239,800.
For your own private showing,
simply call our office at 360738-3900.
A Quiet Location With
Endless Possibilities This
spacious, well maintained
home is situated on a quiet
cul-de-sac and features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, vaulted ceilings, family room with cozy
fireplace, master bedroom with
full bath and walk-in closet and
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to the large sundeck, which is
perfect for entertaining friends
and summer barbeques. Your
kids can cut loose in the private rear yard. The outbuilding
comes very handy if you need
additional storage space. Several cars including an RV can
be parked on the extra large
concrete area. If you would like
to build a carport or garage,
there is room for it as well.
Association amenities include
golfing, swimming, tennis and
marina with boat launch! This
is an incredible opportunity at
146,800. For your own private
showing, simply call our office
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Restored
Character
Home A glassed in entry sun
porch warmly greets your
family and guest into this
completely restored Character
Home! The inside is impeccable! All is new and restored
with quality: laminate flooring
throughout the living areas,
kitchen cabinetry, surface
tops with ceramic backsplash,
stainless steal appliances, recessed lighting and an updated
bathroom. 10-foot ceilings create a bright and roomy atmosphere. The home is situated
on a double lot and features a
detached garage with ample
room for shop & storage. This
is an incredible opportunity at
$183,000. For your own private
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1930’s Inspired Craftsman Brand new 6 BR, 4 BA,
4450 SQFT custom built home
on 1.26 acres Views of the
mountains and Lake Samish
700 unfinished SQFT 2 car attached garage Fir and black
walnut parquet flooring 5
decks totaling 1000 SQFT Extravagant master suite with
claw-foot soaking tub, beautiful steam shower, and his &
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First months rent, plus deposit
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Katrina
Whitefield
Near Kulshan
School
$338,900
4 BD 2.5 BA
Spacious—2447 sf
Super clean
Tasteful decor
Spa rm & 2 family rms
Katrina 820-3805
Charming
Starter
or
Rental Sunnyland Remodeled
Charmer Featuring New Carpeting, Fixtures, Doors, Wiring,
Gas Stove, Appliances including W/D. 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath,
approximately 912 sf. Bathroom has been completely gutted and tastefully redone. Gas/
Baseboard Heat. Poured Concrete foundation, Roof in Great
Shape. New Gravel Driveway/
Parking area. Fixer Outbuilding
a possible Accessory Dwelling
Unit (grandfathered)-was once
rented as a studio apartment.
Zoned Multi-Family. Level front
yard with Pear tree. For More
information, please call Bryant
Davis with RE/MAX Whatcom
County at 360-815-1262 or go
to www.BryantDavis.net.
Katrina
Whitefield
Top of Sehome Hill
$357,500
4 BR, 2.75 BA 2457 sf,
built 1990
Beautiful!
Walk to WWU, downtown.
Possible owner 2nd—easy
financing!
Katrina 820-3805
Great Family Home 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath 2000+ sf home
in well established Hillside Estates. This home features a bonus room above the garage, attractive landscaping with large
fenced backyard and sprinkler
system. All kitchen appliances
included with sale of home. For
more information, please call
Bryant Davis at RE/MAX Whatcom County 360-815-1262 or go
to www.BryantDavis.net.
Houses: Blaine
4 Bdrm Single family
house - Blaine Loomis Trail
gated community. Quality built
custom home, 3417 sq. ft., 2
story, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths,
3 car garage, open floor plan,
9 foot ceilings, formal dining
room, great room with fireplace, cherry wood hardwood
and granite flooring, gourmet
kitchen withstainless steel
appliances, maple woodwith
cherry trim custom cabinets,
central vacuum system, large
master suite with fireplace,
custom slate tile shower with 2
shower heads, and 2 person jetted spa tub. Fully landscaped
yard backedup to woods and
home has golf course and Mt.
Baker views! More Information:
www.8676AshburyCt.com
Large, Sunny 2 Bedroom
Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath, ca-
500
Real Estate
thedral ceiling, private washer/dryer, dishwasher, ceiling
fan, deck, park-like setting
with unfenced backyard, sunny. Off-street parking. Looking
for quiet tenant(s) to fit in with
the other tenants who are longterm. Dogs or cats are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Smokers: smoking only allowed
outside. Close to bus route, off
main streets. 2316 Valencia # 4.
Located upstairs in a four-plex.
Looking for quiet tenant(s) to
fit in with the other tenants
who are long-term. Available
now. Call Maxine at (360) 5279482 to view. Equal opportunity
housing.
Home on One and One
Half Acres Large Lot features
1.5 acres. The 2 bedroom home
is meant to be lived in only
while building a $500,000 or
greater home. The home could
be moved. Temporary living
2+ bedrooms. The appliances
stay. No warranty’s, home sold
as is. Roof was new 5-6 years
ago. New well/septic with acceptable offer. Call Dave Ulrich Re/Max Whatcom County
Office (360) 384-1010 or Cell
(360) 510-5478 Or visit my web
page at: www.whatcomhomessite.com
Houses: Lummi
A true viewer’s delight!!
Lummi Island living at its best!
Sit on the spacious wraparound deck and take in the
views of the Rosario Strait,
Legoe Bay and the San Juan Islands. Watch the barges, Alaska
Ferry, tankers and fishing boats
pass through as they head out
to sea. Interior features a wide
open floor plan that allows you
to enjoy the sceneries while
entertaining inside. Inculdes
3 bedrooms and 2 baths and a
large bonus area downstairs.
Would be an ideal location to
run a bed and breakfast. A true
viewer’s delight!! Call Marshal
Watson @ 360-305-1806 your
RE/MAX agent
Gorgeous
Waterfront
Home for Rent This gorgeous living space is part of a
mother-in-law suite located on
the rear of a stunning waterfront home on beautiful Sandy
Point. With breath-taking views
of the mountains and sound,
this rental will never cease to
amaze. Featuring three bedrooms, a full bath, kitchen, hard
woods throughout the home, a
large deck and parking on site,
all located in a quiet, private
neighborhood. With a large
living/dining space connected
to the kitchen, this is a perfect
home for a family. Only $1400
per month, utilities and garbage included 3 bedroom, 1 full
bath. email: anon-190087744@
cascadiaweekly.com
Low bank waterfront
home with views to Mt.
Baker Beautifully renovated
home with least expensive salt
waterfront in Whatcom County.
2 bedrooms/1 bath, oak flooring and new carpet throughout, solid fir window trim and
baseboards. Completely new
kitchen with new appliances
and custom tile counter tops including breakfast bar, washer
and dryer. Anderson wood/
vinyl clad windows & french
doors. Spacious deck overlooking the bay. Professionally
landscaped. New cedar shake
exterior on home and shed.
500
Real Estate
Sharon Allen, Windermere Realty 360 305 0111
Property for Sale
Build Your Dream Home
Vacant Lot totals 8 acres. Build
your dream home in this area of
upscale homes. There is a barn
with 3+ stalls which can be
for horses. Riding trail can be
established. Electric service is
in place and Gas is available to
the barn from the road. Contact
Dave Ulrich Re/Max Whatcom
County Office (360) 384-1010
or Cell: (360) 510-5478 Or Visit
my web site at: www.whatcomhomessite.com
Keith Cook
739-5600
Blaine Acreage
4.57 acres ready for
dream home. Septic
design, water share,
great neighborhood, end
of private road, beautiful
creek and pond. Blaine
address, Lynden schools.
$275,000
Bellingham Acreage Wooded 1.71 acre parcel measuring
125’x600’ +/-. Well and septic
area. Located at very good end
of Sehome Ave just off Yew St.
Happy Valley, Fairhaven, & Sehome schools. Keith Cook ABR,
CRS, SRES Associate Broker
RE/MAX Whatcom County Inc.
(360) 739-5600
Bellingham Building Lot
1/3 acre building lot in the popular Silver Beach neighborhood
Sloped lot with sunny, Southwest exposure Possible bay
views Extension of road and
utilities required Keith Cook
ABR, CRS, SRES Associate Broker RE/MAX Whatcom County
Inc. (360) 739-5600
5+ Acres Tract - Drilled
Well, Power In, Septic Installed, Park Like 5+ Acres
Tract - Drilled Well, Power
In, Septic Installed, Park Like
This track is treed with mature Cedar Maple Alder Fir &
Spruce trees. All you need to
do is bring in your new double
wide or build your home. A
few out buildings. Very quiet,
secluded and close to all kinds
of recreation. 45 minutes to I-5.
Older mobile is on the property
now and rented with LT renters. Keep them until you need
the place or have them move
to build your new home. The
mobile home is livable so your
choice, you can have it or I will
remove it before you take possession. Great Country Setting.
600
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