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Halloween events coming up in Ferndale Downtown Trickor-Treat no longer closing Main Street; interactive Mystery in the Park taking place in Pioneer Park after downtown event The Ferndale Chamber of Commerce’s Downtown Trick or Treat returns from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30. This year, Ferndale’s Main Street won’t be closed for the event. The candy route begins at Fourth and Main streets, with trick or treating happening on both sides of Main Street. Crossing guards will be at each intersection to help keep our trick or treaters safe. Once at the First Avenue intersection, guests can cross the street to the Riverwalk and visit candy stops at businesses without Main Street storefronts. From the Riverwalk, guests can head over to Pioneer Park for the City of Ferndale’s annual Mystery in the Park, a free interactive mystery taking place in the park. Participants can search for clues, interview suspects and figure out who’s guilty. Look for a full feature on the event combo later in October in the Ferndale Record.
Statewide plasticbag ban takes effect Friday During the 2020 legislative session, the Washington Legislature passed a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags in an effort to reduce plastic pollution, litter and waste. According to the state Department of Ecology, when the law takes effect, it will: • Prohibit single-use plastic carryout bags in all retail and grocery stores, restaurants, takeout establishments, festivals, and markets. • Require an 8-cent charge for all recycled content paper carryout bags and reusable carryout bags made of film plastic. • The fee may not be collected from anyone using a voucher or electronic benefits card issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Temporary Assitance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Assistance Program (FAP). • Require a minimum of 40% post-consumer recycled content and meet composting requirements in all retail-provided paper bags. • Require that a reusable bag made of plastic film contain 20% post-consumer recycled content and be at least 2.25 mil thick. • Require compliant paper and reusable plastic film bags to be labeled with the above specifications • Create consistent policy and fees across the state. • This ban does not apply to food banks and food assistance programs, however, those programs are encouraged to take actions to reduce the use of single-use plastic carryout bags. Green or brown compostable bags are also available for an optional fee. These bags must be compostable.
Already offering a wide variety of activities, a new STEM Education Center is coming to the Lummi Nation Boys & Girls Club, with a groundbreaking coming soon. (Courtesy photos/Jason Brockie)
Lummi Boys & Girls Club to get new STEM center Phillips 66 grant makes center possible; 3-D printing, new computers, infrastructure upgrades part of package By Brent Lindquist brent@lyndentribune.com
LUMMI — From 3D printing
to brand-new new computers, the Lummi Nation Boys & Girls Club is about to get a technological upgrade. The club announced earlier in September via a press release that it had received a $250,000 grant from Phillips 66 Ferndale Refinery for the creation of a new Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education center, complete with infrastructure upgrades; new computers, monitors and workstations; 3-D printers and new STEM curricula. The STEM Education Center will be constructed in the former Wellness Center facility located at 2530 Kwina Road.
“Science and technology is always something that is important to our way of life and our people,” said Henry Cagey, a senior council member on the Lummi Indian Business Council and chair of the club’s fundraising committee. “This has been in the works for a little over a year now. It’s going to really bring our kids back, getting them interested science and technology.” Club Director Jason Brockie said he is excited for the parts of STEM learning related to natural resources. “We are people of the water. We are people of the sea,” he said. “Integrating some of the stuff with
natural resources into that STEM education is going to be one of the main focuses of our movement when we get this new STEM Center.” Brockie said this could be related to surveying lands and understanding the Lummi Nation’s rivers, beaches and homelands, as well as teaching about salmon, animals and shellfish that reside in and around the water. For Brockie, his job as director is all about giving kids extracurricular activities to participate in so they can work toward finding their way in the world. “When I come to work, I look forward to watching the kids grow and having them realize there are opportunities out there, other than just what they go through in school,” he said. “School is definitely a bit part of their life, but it takes those big extracurricular activities to figure out who they are.” These extracurriculars can include sports, IT, STEM, any kind of secondary activity that kids can build upon, Brockie said. “Just something that they can go home and say, ‘Hey, I learned about this at the Boys & Girls Club,’” Brockie said. “So they can say, ‘This is what’s out there, this is what we can do.’” Brockie said he remembers learning about reef net fishing when he was a Boys & Girls Club kid in the Tulalip system. In learning about these kinds of practices, Brockie said he had his eyes opened to the history of his people. For the leaders of Lummi See STEM on A2
Lummi Nation receives project grant for Nooksack River Project will look at alternative designs to benefit endangered salmon, trout species LUMMI — The Lummi Nation recently received a grant from the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office’s Salmon Recovery Funding Board for a project in the South Fork of the Nooksack River. See Grant on A5
The Lummi Nation’s proposed project will center around the Nooksack River.
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