Hundreds gathered at Village Green Sunday Apr. 26 to celebrate and honor Historic Fairhaven’s founding father, Dirty Dan Harris. This year’s 13th annual Dirty Dan Harris Festival included a wide variety of local food and merchandise vendors, competitions, Dirty Dan lookalikes, live music, a beer garden, and a chili cook-off. …
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‘Small studio, big sound’
Local musician helps students record music at a lowered price by Tyler Bergen Joe Douglas, 25, is the man behind Big Hare Studios. Big Hare is a recording studio Douglas uses to help artists record their music. Over the last 8 years, the Fairhaven based studio has helped friends, bands…
Barry Maxwell, the poli-sci guy
by Tyler Bergen Barry Maxwell, 59, teaches political science, economics and history classes at Whatcom Community College. Known by one of his colleagues as the “godfather of sustainability,” he even designed a course called The Science, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Resource Use. Maxwell has been a full-time instructor since…
Lucas Nydam: The man around campus
by Alex Martinez Lucas Nydam, 21, former student body president at Whatcom Community College has been hired as the new Admission Outreach Recruiter. Nydam was born in Bellingham and raised in Lynden, went to Lynden High School and graduated in 2012, and started at Whatcom in the fall of 2012.
Mini computers for the masses
By: Greg Lane The IT Professionals Club at Whatcom Community College successfully assembled and disassembled a supercomputer made up of 32 Raspberry Pi (RPi) boards on May 30.
Drag show fundraises for Bellingham’s Pride Festival
By: Lynette Martinez *Note: The Horizon editorial staff formally apologizes for the wrong inclusion and referal to ‘Betty Desire’ in the Article.* Men in high heels with long lashes and elegant dresses were placed center stage when Whatcom Community College’s Queer-Straight Alliance (QSA) presented its annual “Drag and Variety Show”…
A spin on thespian
By: Max Singer Whatcom Community College’s drama classes are teaming up with the Drama Club again this year to produce both full-length productions and shorter segment plays. This spring quarter, Whatcom’s annual One-Act Play Festival was held June 5 through June 7.
Marine ecology class returns to Whatcom
By: Kelly Rockey After being discontinued ten years ago, Whatcom Community College once again offered its students a course in marine biology this spring, Intertidal Marine Ecology.
Criminal justice students band together
By: Jamie Leigh Broten The Criminal Justice Leadership Program (CJLP), a club at Whatcom Community College, is thriving with opportunity for students interested in a career in the criminal justice field.
Make your miles count
By: Dylan Nelson Whatcom Smart Trips is a program created by the Whatcom Council of Governments to encourage Whatcom County citizens to walk, bicycle, carpool, or use public transportation instead of driving alone.