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Suspect in Ferndale homicide found dead in California By Bill Helm bill@lyndentribune.com
Todd Andersen
On July 9, Ferndale Police detectives received information that Todd Andersen, the suspect in the recent homicide on Portal Way in Ferndale, had been found dead in Northern California. According to a July 11 press release from City of Ferndale Communications Officer Riley Sweeney,
Andersen allegedly sent an email to a family member the previous evening indicating that he was in the Clear Creek area of Lassen County, California. It was further reported that he had childhood connections to that area. Lassen County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) was notified of the possible location of Andersen, Sweeney reported. Later that afternoon, LCSO told
the Ferndale Police Department that they had spotted Andersen. At approximately 5:20 p.m., Lassen County deputies notified the Ferndale Police Department that Anderson fatally shot himself. Anderson reportedly shot himself as LCSO deputies attempted to contact him. At just after noon on July 7, Andersen, 49, fatally shot 58-year-old Ferndale resident Douglas Scoggins
in the 6200 block of Portal Way, the City of Ferndale reported. Further investigation determined that Scoggins had been shot multiple times. According to Sweeney, probable cause exists to arrest Andersen for first-degree murder. For more information, please contact Lassen County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Lt. Dave Woginrich at 530-251-8013.
2022 ELECTIONS
Two-party competition for multi-partisan races
Cicchitti’s Pizza serves the community of Ferndale slices of thin crust East Coast style pizza during the City of Ferndale’s Food Truck Fridays. (Leora Watson/Ferndale
Ben Elenbaas, Simon Sefzik and Sharon Shewmake are running for LD42 state senator.
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Aug. 2 Primary, Nov. 8 regular elections for state senator, state representatives; 3 candidates for non-partisan district court judge By Bill Helm bill@lyndentribune.com
WHATCOM — On Aug. 2, and again on Nov. 8, Whatcom County voters will have a chance to decide who they want to serve in the state’s senate and house. This year, voters will fill three seats in Legislative District 42, with three candidates for state senator, three candidates for state representative position No. 1 and four candidates for state representative position No. 2. In the state’s senatorial race, Simon Sefzik, a Republican, will look to keep the seat
he was appointed to fill in January following the death of Doug Ericksen in December 2021. Sefzik has two challengers in that race: Republican Ben Elenbaas and Democrat Sharon Shewmake. Since 2020, Elenbaas has served Whatcom County as District 5 councilor. Since 2019, Shewmake has served Washington as state representative. This partisan seat is a four-year term. State Representative Incumbent Alicia Rule has two challengers for her seat as State Representative
Slices on wheels
Pos. 1. A Democrat, Rule is in her first term as state representative. She also serves on Blaine’s city council. This year, Rule has two first-time challengers, Republicans Kamal Bhachu and Tawsha Thompson. For Pos. 2 state representative, there are four candidates to take Shewmake’s seat: Democrats Richard May and Joe Timmons, and Republicans Kyle Christensen and Dan Johnson. May, on Blaine’s city council, is the city’s mayor pro tem. Timmons is a first-time candidate. See 2022 Elections on A3
Editor’s note: On July 20, the Ferndale Record will publish campaign statements by each of the state’s LD42 candidates. On July 27, we will publish a special Q&A we have solicited of each candidate. We already have contacted each candidate to solicit their statements and their responses to our Q&A. For any candidate who does not participate, we will publish the statement they have already provided at the VOTE WA website: https://voter.votewa.gov.
By Leora Watson Leora@lyndentribune.com
FERNDALE — The first Friday of the summer months, an assembly of food trucks make an appearance in Pioneer Park in Ferndale to participate in Food Truck Fridays. The food trucks during the event serve a wide variety of options to the community of Ferndale, such as Indian food, ice cream sandwiches, barbeque, Mexican food and Whatcom County’s favorite pizza food truck: Cicchitti’s East Coast Pizza. According to owner Niki Shannon, Cicchitti’s East Coast Pizza opened in 1976 as a restaurant on State Street in Bellingham, where it would sell its pizza into the local bars. In 2013, Cicchitti’s shut down its final restaurant location in Bellingham and has been runSee Food Truck on A4
Embodiment of service and community Fire-in-the-hole cornhole tournament to honor late Assistant Fire Chief Dean Crosswhite July 22 By Leora Watson Leora@lyndentribune.com
FERNDALE — The Fire-inthe-hole cornhole tournament is chance for the Ferndale community to honor and celebrate the memory of Assistant Fire Chief Dean Crosswhite and raise money for a good cause, according to R.B. McKeon, president of the Board of Directors of the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce.
The cornhole tournament will take place Friday, July 22, at the Pioneer Pavilion in Ferndale. Ferndale Chamber of Commerce and Fire & Iron station 152 Motorcycle Club will host the event. Tickets are $5 for spectators. For a team to enter the cornhole contest the cost is $100, with a chance to win a $250 cash prize. Upper Left Cornhole, a professional cornhole organization, will run the tour-
nament, according to McKeon. Fire-in-the-hole is a 21-andolder event with food and drink available for purchase. There will also be a small silent auction with items available such as a stay at the Swinomish Casino, stay at a lake house at Lake Chelan and more, according to McKeon. All proceeds from the event will go toward Whatcom County Fire District #7 benevolence fund to benefit Crosswhite’s
family and other firefighters or their families, according to McKeon. “This is really a chance to just do something that Dean loved, which was being together and being in community and playing a fun game that he really enjoyed,” said McKeon. When the idea to host a cornhole tournament for Crosswhite came up, it felt like See Crosswhite on A7
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