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Saturday, October 20th the Sudden Valley Golf Course hosted Western Washington University’s annual CrossCountry meet. WWU leased the front nine e day kicked with community 5k race that WWU graciously o ered to administer for us. Sudden Valley community members including Karen Borchert of the turned into bene for Sudden Valley’s
ward to making the 3rd Annual even bigger and better! Next up at 9:45 was the kids 500-meter event of the day with kids aged 3-10 taking part in this modi ed race with loop that started at the bottom of the driving costumes, and all were sporting ear-to-ear grins!
kids gave way to the Men’s Collegiate 10k which kicked at 10:00 with over 180 competitors. eir course involved making laps around the approximately 2500-meter loop that started at the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th holes before heading back over to the driving range to the nish line. rst runners crossed the nish line in under 33 minutes and by 10:50 all runners had completed the race. women’s race which got going 11:00 Viking Men nished 3rd overall and the Viking Women nished 4th. e teams are ranked 19th and 14th respectively in the nation. Roe were instrumental moving the race to Sudden Valley from Lake Padden andto make for wonderful student-athlete experience. weather was great, the course was great, the racing was great. It was a good day for the Vikings,” said HalIt was great day for Sudden Valley with over 500 athletes and spectators being
Reser ve your space today! Mitze, Mary Jo, Laurie • 360-354-4444 Jan • 360-384-1411 Pick up your ad into our Spanish-language publication, El Periodico, for 25% off regular rates Weekly (every Wednesday) Track: Meridian’s Stuit wins big at state MAY 30, 2018 Exclusive online content: Hear from prep athletes 16 pages Volume CXXXI Number 15 Weather 113 Third Street, Lynden Time to Go See Jeff! 360-354-5333 www.jefflamphere.com Almost two-fifths of households struggle to cover basic needs United Way 2016 analysis shows recession isn’t over for many working families WHATCOM — Nearly two in food, child care, health care, transportation and smartphone, according to reports put out last week by the United 2016 data showed 39 percent Whatcom County’scategory earn above the federal poverty level, but have less thancal modern economy.erty level. to shed light on those essenhealth aide, store clerk. ALICE every working person in low-wage job, with little or no “Whatcom County may places to live in the U.S. It’s also one of the least ordable placesneed to focus our impact work Way of Whatcom County. project is grassroots nancial hardship in the U.S. by providing comprehensive, unstart of the Great Recession, the research is being embraced by United Ways in 18 states. United Ways and partners are using the“Despite seemingly positive economic signs, the ALICEship is still pervasive problem,” New Jersey. research dispels longstanding myths about nancial-es and ethnicities,” Hoopes said. Additional data analysis reAmong the 39 percent of households in Whatcom Countyhouseholds within each census county division ranges from 31 percent to 48 percent. infant, and one preschooler) had risen 28 percent in Washington State, compared to nationwide in ation rate of onlyers still struggle. Low-wage jobs dominate the landscape, with 50 percent of all jobs in Washington State paying less than Gaps in wages persist and vary based on the type of employer as well as the gender, education, race and ethnicity of workers. “Despite seemingly positive economic signs, the ALICE data shows that financial hardship is still a pervasive problem.” — Stephanie Hoopes, project Honoring a beloved educator At Bernice Vossbeck Elementary School on Friday, principal Becky Midboe and students witness a flowering dogwood tree being planted on the grounds in memory of the lady for whom the LC running pair finishes out strong Scottish event returns to Hovander Park Dinner auction June 15 aims to raise $450,000ers of new Agricultural Education Center on the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds hope Junethis year.place several of the fairgrounds’ oldest structures award-winning “Farming: For Life” presentation of photos and educational panels.26,000-square-foot building, envisioned for just be-ington Fair Foundation is hosting the fundraiser in the Expo Building. A soand live auction at 7:30. Tickets are $30 apiece. Reservations are due June by contacting Major pledges fromnesses already have metNorthwest Washington Fair Event Center Final push for a new fairgrounds ag building Fair building Both Ericksen and Van Werven have two challengers By Calvin Bratt races and County Council contest on the Aug. primary election ballot, along with monster list of Appeals judge position. Both 42nd District incumbent Sen. Doug ErickLuanne Van Werven of Lynden drew two challengbased youth crew supervisor with the Department of Ecology, and Dean Berkeley, of Blaine and sittingEricksen will be in runo involving Bellingham City Council mayor pro-tem Pinky Vargas and now in short term on the Whatcom County Council. Council At-Large position sought by: Eric Bostrom, who ran for the Bellingcounty resident; Aaron omas, Native Ameri-Rud Browne, County Council member, is one of six running for an open po-Due the retiring of incumbent Mary Kay Beckspot serving four northwest Washington counties is up for grabs for the rster Leishman is chief legal adviser for Western Washington University, Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez an litigation. Tom SeGuine, Mount Vernon, has been both prosecutor and private attorney in courts. RitaState legislator, County Council races on Aug. 7 primary ballot See Filings on A2 Brooks DeWaard medals at the 1A The Bellingham this Saturday. Financials — Pages , , , Halloween — Pages - 12 pages Volume 44 Number 11 www.suddenvalley.com Postage Paid Lynden, By Lee Langdon 2018 in the Community Center (Barn) at 10 AM. Members brought piece of art to share with the group (often with ooh’s and aah’s). All work was then hung, until January, in either the Barn or the Library. theme for this exhibit was harvest, trees the Valley and the Arts Group. Entries for the Valley Arts Group 2019 calendar were voted on as well. Again, look for the calendar sale! It would make great holiday gift--each month celebrating a di erent artist. We held great featured artists reception on October 20. entire communitywork: hope you enjoy my representational watercolor and acrylic paintings, in which pass along the brilliant color that feel. tercolor and plein air. In the fall, tend to draw inward, oftentimes turning to black and white linocut and drawing. rough the winter, lay on thick with acrylic and heavy gel medium. Spring? New beginnings all around. do tend to paint withfounding company... manufacturing rm that made children and adult accessories which were distributed throughout principal of Strong Design, where she promotes sustainable design practices in every project. Stephanie is now fascinated
bythe results--of our own, and of Stephanie’s brush. You can learn more about each artist and see some their art by visiting our webe Valley Arts Group encourages artists to join the group, and members to For the Valley Arts Group, see our Facebook page https://www.facebook. com/ValleyArtsGroup/ or our website at http://valleyartsgroup.org
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results are in New budget under WUCIOA passes e rst Sudden Valley election under the new WUCIOA law took place on Saturday, Nov. 3, and while the proposed budget (including a dues increase) only received about 47 percent approval, passed in accordance with the new law.sociation’s total membership must vote against budget for to fail. passed with almost 68 percent approval. Measure 3, allowing for electronic voting and simplifying certain election language, also passed, with 67 percent approval. On the Board front, Whitney Pearce, Ann Gray, Sharon Wash and Hannah Oliphant each received two-year terms on the Nominations Elections Committee, and both Robert Gibbs and Richard Bailey both received three-yearThursday 73°/57° Friday 71°/57° Saturday 71°/58° Sunday 70°/53° FERNDALE, WASHINGTON $1 AUGUST 14, 2019 News: Ericksen wants Seattle to undo its locks, dams A5 Exclusive online content: News throughout the week www.ferndalerecord.com www.facebook.com/ferndalerecord Elderly couple murder-suicide at Ferndale home
Note left says they didn’t have money to pay for medical expenses FERNDALE — Whatcom County Sheri ’s O ce reports the murder-suicide of coupledale, man at rst called 911 at 8:23 a.m. to say to the dispatcher, “I am going to shoot myself,” Sheri Bill Elfo said in press with information and instructions. dispatcher attempted to keep the caller on the lineeter around the house. A crisis negotiator attempted to contact anyone in the home via phoneparent gunshot wound. He was lying next to his wife, age 76, also deceased from an apparent gunElfo said several notes were left citing severe ongoing medical problems with the wife and expressing concerns that the couple and detectives were working with notify these relatives. pair were later identi ed custody and turned over the Whatcom Humane Society for impounded for safekeeping.desperate circumstances where the only option. Help always Larrabee and Dellinger take new roles in administration FERNDALE — Cascadia, Central and Skyline elementaryship this coming school year. For-School District. executive director for teaching and learning while Dellinger has will also be part of the planning team for the new Ferndale HighThree new FSD elementary principals hired Kelly Parsons new role as principal at Central Elementary on Aug. Superintendent Linda“He rst and foremost people person,” Quinn said. “One thing about internal candidates is with sta Obadiah DeWeber was selected as the new principal of Skyline Elementary back in March July 1. He previously served aslot of experience at the elementary level with him to Skyline. “He’s an experienced principal,” Quinn said. “He’s really spring and has already proven himself as great teammate with sta Quinn said. At Cascadia Elementary, Kelly Parsons o cially took over as principal on Aug.1. She was Parsons brings experience in multiple areas of education, Quinn said. “We were very impressedhas] strong instructional skills. She’s also bilingual in Spanish — that’s not requirement, but we’re always happy to hire stavertising the open positions, interviewing applicants and then narrowing down to nalists. She said the process doesn’tere’s no general rule for that. Sometimes we have people who are ready and a good and sometimes that doesn’t happen,”also make sure that our internal folks know there’s career pathway open to them.”“All of the people we hired are multi-faceted and brings lots skills to the table,” she said. Weekly (every Wednesday) Monthly Inserted into the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record several times a year with additional local distribution locations. Call for details. (first of the month) Incredible Coverage - One Low Price BUNDLE & SAVE RATES Add full color for $99 per publication. Publication Regular Rate (per issue) Combo Rate (per issue) Lynden Tribune $22 per column inch (pci) $14 pci Ferndale Record $16 pci $8 pci Sudden Valley Views $14 pci $7 pci Choose two or more of the publications listed below to get the low Combo Rate Over 20,000 Whatcom County Readers!
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