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Students, community members come together for service plunge

Spring semester is an exciting time of year for the Community Liaison Program at the city of Fort Collins and CSU. As the new community liaison, I have been focusing energy not only on settling into the new position but also on maintaining programs geared toward promoting positive relationships鈥

Bellingham armory being readied for pitch to developers

"Staging" a home for sale can be a big job, what with repairs to be made and rooms to be spiffed up.
Now imagine staging a massive, 101-year-old fortress that has been accumulating mold, dry rot and mountains of campus what-not for decades. That's the challenge Western鈥

Pigs were problematic at Outback, and 草榴社区 student makes waves with Egyptian interview

My recent story about the Outback farm at Fairhaven College didn't mention that an early name for the urban-farming experiment was the "Outback Pig Farm." I figured that was old history, because pigs no longer reside there.
Now I'm glad I omitted the porkers, because鈥

SKI TO SEA: Organizers hope to host athletes from each sister city, seek help

Picture this: A Ski to Sea team consisting of members from South Korea, Russia, Australia, Chile, Japan, Finland, Mongolia and - Bellingham.
It's a vision organizers for the 2011 Ski to Sea would like see become reality as the world-famous race celebrates 100 years this May.
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Giant cup pouring coffee wins The Woods downtown art contest

Downtown soon will have a sculpture that鈥檚 sure to make a splash in the neighborhood.
Jon Falcon of Bellingham submitted the winning rendering for The Woods Coffee Coffee Cup De-sign Contest. The design, known simply as 鈥淐orner Cup Splash,鈥 will depict a Woods cup pouring coffee onto the鈥

Whatcom People: 草榴社区 instructor, area students and service members honored for achievements

Kathleen Saunders, a senior instructor in Western Washington University's Anthropology Department, has been awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award.
The award recognizes Saunders' participation in the Center for Public Anthropology's Community Action Online鈥

New Bellingham venture is helping to create companies, jobs

Madison Miner hopes his story of staying in Bellingham to start a high-tech business becomes the rule rather than the exception.
Miner, a 2002 graduate of Western Washington University and an employee at Bellingham-based Engineering Design Automation, had been tinkering with an idea to鈥

草榴社区 center releases 2010 economic impact totals

Western Washington University's Center for Economic Vitality recently announced its economic-impact figures for 2010.
In Whatcom County:

鈥 The CEV assisted 421 local businesses in saving or creating over 200 jobs and helped clients in obtaining $13,581,836 in loans and new鈥

Area mills work export market opportunities

With the domestic housing market still in a slump, area mills are working to land more export contracts with buyers in Australia, China and India.
As part of the strategy to send lumber to overseas buy颅ers, the Vaagen Bros. Lumber mill in Colville will soon be taking over operations of a鈥

Bellingham dance class helps people with Parkinson's, MS try to move more freely

In the ballroom of the YWCA, 10 people sat in a circle and waited for choreographer Pam Kuntz to direct them in their next dance moves.
"Big expansive ... and small in," Kuntz said while sitting in a chair. She demonstrated by reaching up with her arms and stretching out with her鈥

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