Agenda for June 2 Greenways Advisory Committee
Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 3:00 pm John Servais
This evening, Tuesday, June 2, at 7 pm, the Greenways Advisory Committee will meet at the Bellingham Municipal Court Building. On the agenda is basically one item – an executive session and followup public vote on a land acquistion issue. Continue reading
A Great Blue Heron on its way back to the colony in south Bellingham. It is building or improving its nest in preparation for laying eggs in early spring. Our thanks to Alan Fritzberg for use of his photos.
Tue, May 31, 2016, 9:51 pm John Servais
The Greenways Advisory Committee voted unanimously in early May to provide partial funding from their available free funds to purchase the platted but unbuilt house sites bordering the Great Blue Heron colony in south Bellingham.
I called BP’s environmental hotline last evening, telling the woman who answered the phone call that I was hearing a rumbling noise that I have never heard before coming seemingly from BP Refinery, and the flares were going off and on, and it looked like it was some operation or something that is not normally going on at BP. Continue reading
May 31, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
[Wendy originally made this post on Whatcom Hawk, but added the following additional text when she reposted it in the Bellingham Racial Justice Coalition Facebook group: Continue reading
Familias Unidas por la Justicia President Ramon Torres, shown on left, Whole Foods Market Pacific Northwest Regional President Joe Rogoff, center, and Andrew Eckels, boycott organizer, right, at the May 11, 2016 Whole Foods Market store opening ceremony in Bellingham, WA. Photo credit James Leder
May 30, 2016 Sandy Robson
On May 19, 2016, I called Whole Foods Pacific Northwest Regional office and asked to speak to Joe Rogoff, President of the Pacific Northwest Region. I wanted to speak to him about the new Whole Foods Market store that opened in Bellingham, Washington, on May 11, 2016, and the protest by a delegation of farm workers and their supporters from the local community, that occurred during the store’s grand opening ceremony. Continue reading
Photo by Dick Conoboy
Mon, May 23, 2016, 5:21 am Dick Conoboy
As the city slides down the razor blade of the comprehensive plan process, the Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Commission took up the discussion in a lively session on 18 May. Continue reading
Fri, May 20, 2016, 1:25 pm John Servais
Elisabeth Britt has posted a good article on her Latte Republic website. It concerns the safe locating of our public schools.
I emailed the Executive with regard to the Trump visit and received a prompt response, which included an email that Sheriff Elfo had prepared when responding to another citizen on this issue. Continue reading
County Council, please take note. Despite all the positive changes you have made to the county comp. plan [Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan], your efforts to address water quality and quantity problems are destined to fail for this reason: incentives. Continue reading
Facebook event banner for May 28, 2016, 1 p.m., informational picket at Whole Foods Market, Lakeway Center location in Bellingham. Click on the graphic to go the the event page.
May 19, 2016 Dena Jensen (Updated May 19, 2016 at 5:15 p.m.)
In mid-March 2016 Familias Unidas por la Jusiticia launched a 28 day tour of the West Coast to “energize a major offensive on the boycott of Driscoll’s berries.” The second stop on their tour was at at Whole Foods Market in Portland, Oregon. I wanted to put together a few pieces of information about this month’s opening of Whole Foods Market here in Bellingham as it relates to the boycott of Driscoll’s Continue reading
noisy waters northwest 
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