Christopher Wise, an English professor at Western Washington University, has been one of the organizers for the Bellingham community's recognition and numerous events about the forced removal of the Chinese from the Puget Sound region around 1885.
Jennifer Karchmer, current editor of Whatcom Watch, received three Communicator of Excellence awards recognizing her reporting from Vancouver, B.C. of the 2010 Winter Olympics. She won First Place for Social Issues & Minority Affairs (Non-Daily Publication) with her story “Not All Fun and…