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The Northern Light 225 Marine Drive, Suite 200, Blaine, WA 98230 Tel: 360/332-1777 Vol XXVI, No 51 Circulation: 10,500 copies Circulation Independently verified by:
Next issue: June 17 Ads due: June 11 Letters
The Editor:
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) raises our rates every year. The company is asking for the Utilities and Transportation Commission’s (UTC) approval again. The problem is UTC turns a blind eye to the following blaring facts: PSE paid (2019) their top 5 CEOs almost $40 million over 3 years in salaries, incentives, compensations and bonuses. It took in $3.4 billion in energy revenue (2019).
PSE belongs to a group of five utility companies called Investor-Owned Utilities (IOU) that service electric and gas customers across Washington. They are monopoly franchises and they exist to make profits for their shareholders. The IOU paid out a total of $395.3 million in dividends in 2019. PSE takes in over $100 million every month from electric customers alone.
The company is allowed to include raising our rates due to “decreasing customer electricity usage” (we use less electricity because we can’t afford the higher prices). The UTC gave PSE an order for a sharing mechanism that requires PSE and its customers to share in any earnings in excess of the authorized rate of return of 7.6 percent. This has never happened, while PSE has become a money making, profit-churning machine.
We shouldn’t have to pay for an overly top-heavy utility company with way too much money floating around at the top.
There are obviously conflicts of interest here. How is it that PSE’s millions and billions of dollars in wealth at the top has never trickled down to the bottom to translate into savings to lower our electric rates?
Originally, UTC was established to protect the needs of the customers. UTC says it has to “ensure rates are fair, just and reasonable for all interests involved.” Shareholders’ interests/needs refers to money made, while customers’ interests/needs refers to being able to pay their PSE bill and still feed their families.
Who has the greatest need? The already wealthy becoming wealthier, or the people trying to keep warm in the winter and struggling to feed their families?
Cindy Kisska
Birch Bay The Editor:
Blaine is a home to many objects of street art, especially on Peace Portal Drive and H Street. However, these pieces of art are currently in a state of neglect.
Let us restore and beautify these streetart objects. Now that we are looking forward to the reopening of the border, time is just right for renovating and beautifying these objects that would charm tourists, shoppers and residents alike.
One of the best street objects among all is perhaps the stone bust of Joan of Arc. It lies almost hidden in the overgrowth of plants on H Street. If a small area is cleared around the bust, it would again attract the attention of passersby.
Also, there is a beautiful stone carving of a tortoise on Peace Portal Drive needing a pedestal to bring it into prominence. There are two wooden sculptures of owls on H Street. They lie hidden at a height of about 15 feet on less visible sides of the building. I wish both owls were painted and brought from the sides of the building to the H Street facade.
Many objects of street art made from welded-iron (for example, a butterfly, storks, flag-holder, seagull, windmill, etc.) need a little sandblasting and then painting them using multiple bright colors.
Restoration of these art-objects is not expensive. It would be a very low-cost project and yet would transform the streets and make Blaine a more charming city, would make residents proud of their prowess at creativity and make our town stunningly beautiful.
For the further involvement of the community in this creative activity, they can invite more objects of street-art from the annual Peace Arch Park Sculpture Exhibition and from the art competitions in schools of Blaine.
The city of Blaine could organize ‘spotting’ competitions for spotting of streetart-objects on occasions of Christmas or the Fourth of July, giving away small prizes to winners.
I hope these suggestions can help boost the street-art scene of Blaine.
Nilesh Shukla
Blaine The Editor:
The Blaine Harbor Music Festival (BHMF) is pleased to announce that we have reduced the fee to attend our virtual camp during the week of July 12-18 to a flat rate of $100. This amount will cover as many classes as students aged 12-20 can fit into their schedules, a virtual musical buffet to choose from. Adults (ages 21+) can also participate in several of these courses for the same tuition.
The same faculty members who have been the cornerstones for many years of our live camps will teach the classes. We look forward to welcoming back current students as well as BHMF “alums,” and to offering this remarkable experience to musicians young and old around the world. As friends of the BHMF, please spread the word.
The entire program is presented in detail at our new website: blaineharbormusicfestival.org. Please visit it, sign up and also share this incredible opportunity with anyone who loves music.
See you in July!
Bryan Johnson, Blaine Harbor Music
Festival president
Blaine
The Editor:
I live in Bellingham but visit Blaine fairly frequently to enjoy dining, mainly at the Drayton Harbor Oyster Company. On several occasions I have noticed one of your citizens out mowing city right of way property. I am not sure you are aware of this but wanted to bring it to your attention.
Apparently he has been doing it for a number of years and on a regular basis. It strikes me as quite uncommon to have a citizen with such community pride to put forth the effort and time improving one’s city. I did find out his name, Mike Hill, owner of the Chevron Station next to Starbucks. Possibly a good community interest story! Thank you for your time.
Wayne Harrington
Bellingham
Prizes ...
From page 1 Association of Washington Business. The state Department of Health will give out $500,000 in gift cards, Washington State Parks will give out 80 gift cards for one week of free camping, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will give out 80 $100 gift certificates for fishing and hunting licenses, and 400 Discover Passes will be handed out.
Participants can only win one prize and must call a Washington State Lottery representative within 72 hours.
Proof of Washington residency is required to obtain the items, but proof of citizenship is not, according to the governor’s office.
The sooner people get vaccinated, the sooner they will be included in the draw.
Get vaccinated and win a vehicle in Whatcom County
Whatcom County residents 18 and up who receive their first Covid-19 vaccine between June 1 and July 31 are eligible to win any vehicle, as long as it doesn’t exceed $60,000, Chuckanut Health Foundation announced June 3.
Chuckanut Health Foundation, Bellingham Regional Chamber of Commerce and Whatcom County Health Department are organizing the drawing, with registration opening Tuesday, June 15. Vaccination proof isn’t required when entering the drawing and people don’t need to be fully vaccinated by the drawing date, but the car will only be awarded after the winner is fully vaccinated.
Joints for Jabs
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board is providing a temporary license for cannabis retailers to hand out one pre-roll joint to people vaccinated at their cannabis store. The license is effective June 7 to July 12 and joints will only be given to those 21 years of age or older.
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CiviC Meetings
Birch Bay Water & Sewer District: Second and fourth Thursdays, 4 p.m., district offices, 7096 Point Whitehorn Road, Birch Bay. Info and Zoom meeting link: bbwsd.com. Blaine City Council: Second and fourth Mondays, 6 p.m., Blaine City Council chambers, 435 Martin Street. Info and virtual meeting login: ci.blaine.wa.us. Blaine Planning Commission: Second and fourth Thursdays, 6 p.m. Info: blainepc@cityofblaine.com. Info for joining Zoom meetings: bit.ly/2CiMKnk. Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation: Second Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., location varies. Info: bbbparkandrec.org. Virtual meeting info: bbbparkandrec.org/board-meetings. Blaine Park and Cemetery Board: Second Thursday, 9 a.m., virtual meeting. Info: 360/332-8311, ext. 3330. Blaine School Board: Fourth Monday, 7 p.m., Blaine school district offices. Info and virtual meeting link: blainesd.org. North Whatcom Fire & Rescue: Third Thursday, 1 p.m. Info: nwfrs.net.
Union reports December 22 Custer train derailment caused by sabotage
Seattle National Public Radio station KUOW reported June 7 that sabotage caused the December 22, 2020 Custer train derailment, according to the union representing BNSF rail crews.
In an article titled “Sabotage caused Washington oil-train disaster,” Korey McDaniel, who is with the union’s safety team, told BNSF Railway investigators, “We know from the FBI investigation, from how trains operate, how trains work, how the couplers work, how the pin lifters work, that this incident was caused without a doubt by sabotage.”
The 11:40 a.m. train derailment forced evacuations and caused fire to burn into the night after 10 train cars overturned from tracks near the 7500 block of Portal Way. The 108-car train was carrying highly flammable crude oil as it traveled to Ferndale.
The derailment occurred less than a month after two Bellingham women were arrested in late November for tampering with tracks in Bellingham. Over 40 shunts, or devices that can cause derailment, had been placed on Whatcom and Skagit county tracks in 2020. s The December 22 Custer derailment caused 10 cars to leave the tracks near 7500 block of Portal Way.
Photo courtesy Washington State Department of Ecology
No injuries in Birch Bay house fire
What started as a summer BBQ turned into a Birch Bay house fire on June 3.
North Whatcom Fire and Rescue (NWFR), Whatcom County Fire District 7 and Lynden Fire Department firefighters responded to a 5:37 p.m. call about a house on fire in Clamdigger Drive, NWFR chief Jason Van der Veen said.
The fire started when a BBQ propane tank caught on fire and spread on the house’s siding before climbing onto the roof. Firefighters extinguished the fire on the back deck and then simultaneously pulled the ceiling down as they cut a hole in the roof to ventilate the fire, a tactic Van der Veen said helped save the house’s structure.
Chasing the fire and getting tactics set took firefighters about 20 minutes, Van der Veen said.
Three people were at the home during the fire and are now being taken care of by family. No residents or firefighters sustained injuries.
As BBQ season fast approaches, Van der Veen wants to remind residents to put used charcoal in the metal containers away from the home.
s Local firefighters responded to a house fire on Clamdigger Drive in Birch Bay on June 3. Photo by Molly Ernst
BHS graduation plans finalized
CITY OF BLAINE
Due to COVID-19 and the Governor’s Proclamation, meetings are now only open to the public telephonically. Information on how to listen to the meeting live will be on the City Council agenda which is located on the City’s website homepage under Your Government, City Council, City Council Agenda. Please check the agenda prior to each meeting as the call in number or location may change.
Thursday, June 10 9:00am – Park and Cemetery Board Meeting 6:00pm – Planning Commission Meeting *CANCELLED*
Monday, June 14 6:00pm – City Council Meeting
Tuesday, June 22 3:00pm – Civil Service Commission Meeting
Thursday, June 24 6:00pm – Planning Commission Meeting
Monday, June 28 6:00pm – City Council Meeting
All City offices are currently closed to the public. Contact information for staff and Councilmembers can be found on the City’s website.
Call (360) 332-8311 or visit our website. www.cityofblaine.com
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CITY OF BLAINE Continued Electrical Work
Crews will continue improvements on the electrical system in central Blaine through June 30. Public Works will notify affected residents three days prior to an outage with door hangers providing information on when the outage will occur and the duration of the outage.
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Blaine High School graduation is back in person this year after last year’s pre-recorded ceremony.
In a June 7 community Q&A, Blaine school district superintendent Christopher Granger announced high school graduation will be held outside at the football stadium 6 p.m. on Friday, June 11.
Each student is allowed four tickets. “That’s the official decision, after looking at everything, meeting with [the Whatcom County Health Department] again on [June 4], and spending the weekend measuring the bleachers,” Granger said. “We are able to afford all students four tickets.”
Lisa Moeller, public relations supervisor for the school district, said in the case of severe weather, the ceremony will be moved into the gymnasium and tickets will be limited to two per senior.
The ceremony will be livestreamed on the district’s YouTube page at youtube.com/c/BorderiteSportsandLiveEvents.
Blaine residents make Dean’s Lists
Blaine resident Benjamin Bruvold made the Dean’s List at Montana State University for spring semester 2021.
Blaine resident Taylor Leach made the Dean’s List at Southern New Hampshire University for winter 2021.
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Blaine High School Recognition Night
2021 Awards/Scholarship Recipients
Abrams Family – Jerusalem Sintayehu
Blaine Booster Club – Odelia Dahl, William McKinney
Blaine Education Association
– Benjamin Arps, Bailey Bleazard, Odelia Dahl, Edison Hao, Joshua Kim, William McKinney, Ashlyn Pixley, Clarissa Renskers, Linnea Wertz, Hailey Wilson
Blaine Fine Arts – Odelia Dahl, Edison Hao, Hailey Karuza
Blaine Fishermen’s Memorial
– Lauren Dohner
Blaine Food Bank – Kylaya Armstrong, Matthew Cochran, Brinn Duke, Joshua Kim, Anthony Lenton, Ashlyn Pixley
Brad Ambrose Memorial –
Bailey Bleazard, Odelia Dahl
Cory & Leah Crews – Benjamin Arps, Hailey Wilson
Dennis and Audrey Brown
Charitable Trust – Emma Shelton
Jason Ans. Smith – Ethan Coyle
Liam Lyons – Brinn Duke
Norma R. Smith – Everett Simpson, Brayden Skinner
The Northern Light Newspa-
per – Odelia Dahl
PEO Chapter J – Clarissa Renskers
Blaine Scholarship Foun-
dation – Benjamin Arps, Kayla Brown, Matthew Cochran, Odelia Dahl, Simonee Dalgliesh, Edison Hao, Hailey Karuza, Joshua Kim, William McKinney, Ashlyn Pixley, Clarissa Renskers, Myrthe Scheepens, Brayden Skinner, Everett Simpson, Jerusalem Sintayehu, Linnea Wertz, Hailey Wilson
Dr. Steven C. Bunch – Jerusalem Sintayehu
Teacher Awards
Teacher: Akers – Ava Freeman (Theater Arts – Set Design), Ryder May (Theater Arts – Acting/Research), Ruby May (Theater Arts – Acting/tech/Visual Arts), Zoey Parks (Theater Arts – Acting), Emma Pettit (Theater Arts – Costume Design), Trevor Roberts (Theater Arts – Actor/ Jazz Combo Liaison), Natalie Schmidt (Theater Arts – Choreography), Juniper Shea (Theater Arts – Choreography), Emma Stauffer (Theater Arts – Costume Design), Pele Thornton (Theater Arts – Playwright/Visual Artist), Adia Twitchell (Theater Arts – Playwright/Composer), Hannah Vanmantgem (Theater Arts – Student Director, Playwright), Chance Vanmantgem (Theater Arts – Playwright), Hayden Veals (Theater Arts – Actor/Composer), Emma Wydur (Theater Arts – Stage Manager)
Teacher: Alexander – Myca Andruscavage (Estrella de Español), Elizabeth Johner (Estrella de Español), Madelyn Reiss (Estrella de Español), Milania Rodriguez (Estrella de Español), Noah Tavis (Estrella de Español), Hope Weeda (Estrella de Español), Gabriel Wylie (Estrella de Español), Evellina Yuryev (Estrella de Español), Shaden James (Spanish)
Teacher: Balfour – Kayla Brown (Senior Spanish Award – outstanding senior), Stephanie Boczek (Spanish), Samantha Lunde (Spanish 1), Piper Nissen (Spanish 1), Samuel Radke (Spanish 1), Ella Wannamaker (Spanish 1), Rahul Chandran (Spanish 2), Ava Curtright (Spanish 2), Krystin Kamrath (Spanish 2), Ryder May (Spanish 2), Shaelyn Shields (Spanish 2), Colson Swope (Spanish 2), Logan Thiessen (Spanish 2)
Teacher: Beals – Avery Dohner (English 11), Michelle Villalobos (English 11), Milania Rodriguez (English 9), Ellie Tanjuaquio (English 9), Prabhji Kaur (World History)
Teacher: Birklid – Ruby May (Biology), Jonathan Morris (Biology), Marcela Sarantes (Biology), Cameron Saunders (Biology), Sylvie Lausier (Chemistry), Tommy Olinger-Stirrat (Chemistry), Jack Russell (Chemistry), Natalie Schmidt (Chemistry), Logan Thiessen (Chemistry),
Teacher: Bugbee – Owen Bankston (Learning Skills), Ryleigh Clark (Learning Skills), Juel Marquez (Learning Skills), Corey Oldham (Learning Skills), Gracie Renskers (Learning Skills)
Teacher: C. Fakkema – Madison Klander (Culinary Arts), Aarzuh Sattar (Independent Living – Outstanding Senior)
Teacher: D. Fakkema – Odelia Dahl (Civics – Outstanding Senior), Edison Hao (Civics – Outstanding Senior), Joshua Kim (Psychology – Outstanding Senior), Stephanie Boczek (US History), Alexandra Streeter (US History)
Teacher: Dahl – Ben Arps (Calculus – Outstanding Senior), Stephanie Boczek (Calculus), Rhyan Fuks (Calculus), Sabrina Boczek (Engineering), Edison Hao (Engineering), Ruby May (Engineering), Stephanie Boczek (Jazz Band)
Teacher: Grambo – Ava Curtright (World History), Madeleine Ernst (World History), Elizabeth Johner (World History), Sukhveer Kaur (World History), Owen Millsap (World History), Bailey Wildermuth (World History), Dylan Conour (World Problems – Outstanding Senior), Hailey Karuza (World Problems)
Teacher: Gray – Chloe Gorgue (Concert Band – Director’s Award), Stephanie Boczek (Jazz Band – Director’s Award), Byanca Holguin (Wind Ensemble – Outstanding Soloist), Joshua Kim (Wind Ensemble – Director’s Award)
Teacher: Hayes – Aimar Carpintero (Algebra), Emily
Kober (Algebra), Ava Curtright (Algebra 2), Tyken Morris (Algebra 2), Kolby Boyer (Geometry), Liam Callow (Geometry)
Teacher: Jones – Anastacia Brys (Learning Skills – Responsibility), Hunter Conn Beck (Learning Skills – Respect), Madison Green (Learning Skills – Compassion for all), Sarah Hoksch (Learning Skills – Responsibility), Jonathan Livingston (Learning Skills –Resilience), Dayanara Ramirez (Learning Skills –Compassion for all), Angelina Rigsby (Learning Skills – Resilience), Rylee Taht (Learning Skills – Compassion for all)
Teacher: K. Smith – Caleb Conaway (International Business), William McKinney (International Business), Calvert Fitzgerald (Intro to Business), Danny Michaud (Intro to Business)
Teacher: Lehnert – Caleb Conaway (English 11), Athena Creasey Pulphus (English 11), Eleeshiyah Faulkner (English 11), Hailey Pike (English 11), Ryleigh Pitcher (English 11), Celise Stowe (English 11)
Teacher: Lexin – Ben Arps (AP Environmental Science), Bailey Bleazard (AP Environmental Science), Joshua Kim (AP Environmental Science – outstanding senior), Emily Bilson (Biology), Christian Bullard (Biology), Allena De Soto (Biology), Anastacia Brys (Earth and Space Science), Preston Bushman (Earth and Space Science), Christopher Granger (Earth and Space Science), Clarissa Renskers (Earth and Space Science), Natalie Schmidt (Earth and Space Science)
Teacher: Mangan – Jane Beighley-Baird (Community Transitions), Emma Welter (Community Transitions), Jess Fisher (Life Skills), Deborah Kirkwood (Life Skills)
Teacher: Marshall – Jeb Broyles (Composers Award – Choir), Brinn Duke (Directors
Award – Choir), Brinn Duke (Most inspirational)
Teacher: Massman – Jeb Broyles (Bridge to College Math), Madison Klander (Bridge to College Math), Nick Martin (Bridge to College Math), Max Martin (Bridge to College Math), Kasey Zinn (Bridge to College Math – Outstanding Senior), Prabhji Kaur (Geometry), Colson Swope (Geometry), Landen Carlton (Precalculus), Krystin Kamrath (Precalculus), Kayla Shipp (Precalculus), Gabriel Wylie (Precalculus)
Teacher: Messenger – Allena De Soto (Algebra 1), Tenley Jensen (Algebra 1), Mandy Yang (Algebra 1)
Teacher: Rouse – Isabel Witt (Algebra), Sukhveer Kaur (Geometry), Gunisha Malhotra (Geometry), Ellie Tanjuaquio (Geometry)
Teacher: Rucker – Clarissa Renskers (Economics –Outstanding Senior), Preston Bushman (US History), Alina Gamdysey (US History), Hailey Pike (US History), Ryleigh Pitcher (US History), Carson Sothy (US History), Celise Stowe (US History), Victoria Yarovoy (US History), Mark Ageyev (World History), Alyssa Bacon (World History), Genesis Vazquez (World History)
Teacher: Sayegh – Mark Ageyev (Algebra II), Madeleine Ernst (Algebra II), Connor Hettinga (Algebra II), Elizabeth Johner (Algebra II), Kylie Lovrich (Algebra II), Om Patel (Algebra II), Jonathan Puha (Algebra II), Victoria Yarovoy (Algebra II), Evellina Yuryev (Algebra II), Kolby Boyer (Physical Science), Avery Dohner (Physical Science), Julia Hubbard Maxey (Physical Science), Gunisha Malhotra (Physical Science), Ryder May (Physical Science), Nathan Rahm (Physical Science), Kali Walker (Physical Science), Jackson Wright (Physical Science), Kasey Zinn (Physical Science), Alyssa Bacon (Physics), Caleb Conaway (Physics), Malachi Crump (Physics), Jaidon Gutierrez (Physics), Benjamin King (Physics), Kylie Lovrich (Physics), Thomas Stiles (Physics), Colson Swope (Physics), Xiaozhou Yang (Physics)
Teacher: Smith – Kayla Brown (Advanced Art), Alysan Ceranova-Brogdon (Art), Allena De Soto (Art), Arman Grewal (Drawing), Jaxon Kortlever (Drawing), Marcela Sarantes (Drawing), Brielle Solomon (Drawing), Aiden Holley (Drawing/Ceramics), Madelyn Reiss (Drawing/Ceramics), Max Martin (Most Inquisitive), Hailey Karuza (Advanced Art –Outstanding Senior)
Teacher: St Pierre – Jeb Broyles (Creative Writing – Outstanding Senior), August Moon (Creative Writing), Clarissa Renskers (Creative Writing), Liam Callow (English 10), Rahul Chandran (English 10), Julia Hubbard Maxey (English 10), Tyken Morris (English 10), Justin Ascencio (English 9), Stella Nunamaker (English 9)
Teacher: Tillson – Elizabeth Johner (English 10), Tim Pomeroy (English 10), Shaelyn Shields (English 10), Allena De Soto (English 9), Ava Freeman (English 9), Chloe Gorgue (English 9), Ruby May (English 9), Noah Tavis (English 9), Maximus Wiederspohn (English 9)
Teacher: Weeks – Myca Andruscavage (Biomedical Science), Noah Chilson (Biomedical Science), Lucy Dahl (Biomedical Science), Sophia Delligatti (Biomedical Science), Tenley Jensen (Biomedical Science), Josie Johnson (Biomedical Science), Rahul Chandran (Human Body Systems), Byanca Holguin (Human Body Systems), Prabhji Kaur (Human Body Systems), Baleigh Meyer (Human Body Systems)
Teacher: Wheeler – Ashlyn Pixley (Yearbook – Outstanding Senior)
Teacher: Worthy – Madeleine Ernst (English 10), Sylvie Lausier (English 10), Logan Thiessen (English 10), Pele Thornton (English 10), Hope Weeda (English 10), Emma Wydur (English 10), Evellina Yuryev (English 10), Stephanie Boczek (English 101), Angela Gutierrez (English 101), Jaxon Kortlever (English 101), Natalie Schmidt (English 101), Tommy Stiles (English 101), Joshua Kim (English 111)
Photo by Josie Shelton
Class of
Belen Guzman Cody Hallberg Owen Hansen Abigail Higgins Sarah Hoksch Bryann Johnson
Hailey Karuza Joshua Kim Tyson Kirk Madison Klander Benjamin Langley Anthony Lenton
Joshua Lopez Madison Luna Emma Lunde Adam Macauley Zoe Marshall Hayden Martin
Maximus Martin Nicholas Martin Taylor McCarty William McKinney Jacob Miller Gilbert Minjarez Jr.
Elishka Monnik August Moon Alexandro Ochoa Tommy Olinger-Stirrat Makenna Olmsted Taylor Olson
Brianna Page Colton Pedersen Benjamin Peterson Ashlyn Pixley Nicole Polinder Harrison Reid
Proud to celebrate this year’s graduating seniors. Congratulations on reaching this milestone and we wish you the very best on your next adventure. Good luck!
Part of this community since 1954
Congratulations Class of 2021
From Birch Bay Water and Sewer District & City of Blaine
Owen,
You did it!! We couldn’t be prouder of you. Your future is bright, so light it up! Remember your tribe is cheering you on near or far. We’ll always be with you. Love, Mom & BJ (dad)
"And which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"
-Rudyard Kipling
Anthony,
You are a man, but you will never outgrow our love and support! It has been a privilege to raise you, and though you are the one graduating, you have taught us so much through this journey! Congratulations on this big accomplishment! We are very proud of you!
Love, Grandma, Dad, Mom & Baren
Madison,
You made it through many obstacles! We are so proud of you! Make sure that you treat your education as a springboard, not a finish line.
Love, Gma & Gpa Luna
Jones & Jones, L.L.C.
Best of Luck & Congratulations
Michael, Kim, Matt & Staff of Jones & Jones
Customs Brokers & Trade Consultants
Congratulations Grads!
SaliShan neighborhood aSSociation
Congratulations to the Class of 2021
Supporting our community through our youth. Supporters of the Class of 2021, helping fund Safe & Sober Grad Night. Supporters of Blaine High School Sports Programs.
