By Catherine Wallace Fran Hudson, who helped students navigate their network accounts, who calmed faculty when their computers crashed, and who warned the campus community as a whole NOT to click on that email, died Oct. 16, five days after suffering a stroke at her desk at Whatcom Community College….
Category: EVENTS
Lummi Nation hosts truth panel
By Lincoln Wallace Tribal leaders and scholars from across the country came to the Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Nation as part of an event to discuss reconciliation for indigenous people in Washington State. The panel, which was held on Oct. 18 and co-hosted by Whiteswan Environmental, Northwest Indian…
Bleedingham: the PNW’s Cannes of chills
By Brock Seaman Bellingham’s biggest horror film festival, Bleedingham, is back at the Pickford Film Center for the seventh year running. Filmmakers from all over the world show their short horror movies at Bleedingham — however, many of the people who submitted are locals from Washington State. Bleedingham has a…
Art show highlights environmental issues
By Brock Seamen The Whatcom Art Museum is currently holding the “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity” art show. The exhibit features sculptures of wolves and dodo birds, paintings, photography, and such from the 1700 and 1800s through today. A diverse array of species is represented in…
Pickford hosts Doctober film festival
By Kaila Cove The Pickford Film Center’s annual Doctober film festival runs this year from Sept. 28 through Nov. 1 and features documentaries about subjects as diverse as rodents and ballerinas. “[Doctober is] Pickford’s month-long documentary film festival,” said Cole Wilder, who works at the theater. “This year, we’re playing…
Bellingham Bells play ball this summer
By Justin Busby The Bellingham Bells welcomed the 2017 summer baseball season with a series win against the Gresham GreyWolves. The Bells kicked off the new season of baseball with two wins in their opening three game home stand of the year. The Bells are coming out swinging, attempting to…
Bellingham racing for another Ski to Sea
by Kai Vieira da Rosa Whatcom Events and the Whatcom County Chamber of Commerce hosted the 44th annual Ski to Sea Race and Blossomtime Parade. Whatcom President Kathi Hiyane-Brown was selected to lead the floats as the Grand Marshal for the Blossomtime Parade at the annual Ski to Sea event.
Ski to Sea is ready, set, and about to go
By Kai Vieira de Rosa Recreation fanatics from across the U.S. will line up at the Mt. Baker Ski Area and begin the seven leg race down to the Bellingham bay for Ski to Sea’s 44th annual team relay on May 29. Ski to Sea is an annual team relay…
Whatcom students lead change in community
By Eric Hermosada The fourth annual Students Leading Change Conference (SLCC) was held on May 20 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Whatcom’s campus in the Syre Student Center Auditorium by the Social Justice, Equity, and Pluralism Committee (SoJEP).
Immigration rights celebration on campus
By Justin Busby Whatcom hosted a celebration of Immigration Rights free to the public in Syre Student Center on Wednesday, May 3. Syre auditorium was filled with an audience of students and many Bellingham community members eager to hear the words of Hiroshi Motomura, a professor of law at UCLA,…