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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM *SK AGIT*ISL AND COUNTIES
THRILLINGHAMThe dead
can dance, P.16
HalloweenHAUNTS
Sounds like a Spooktacular, P.20
The NightGALLERY
Scary sights at Fourth Corner, P.18
Grisly Gristle, . Paddlers in Peril, . Milk Men, .
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ThisWeekA glance at this week’s happenings
WEDNESDAY [10.28.15]
ONSTAGE Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU
MUSICJamie Stillway, Ben Bonham: 7:30pm, Roeder Home
THURSDAY [10.29.15]ONSTAGE Scream Fair: 6:30-9:30pm, NW Washington Fair-grounds, LyndenClown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Rocky Horror Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
FILMRocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount Baker Theatre
WORDSMurders in the Fourth Corner: 7pm, Ferndale Library
COMMUNITYSpooks & Spirits: 5-7pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall
FOOD Final Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street
FRIDAY [10.30.15]ONSTAGE Nightmare on Railroad: 6:30-11:30pm, Boundary Bay Brewery Scream Fair : 6:30-10:30pm, NW Washington Fair-grounds, Lynden Clown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Rocky Horror Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
FILMRocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount Baker Theatre
DANCE Witch’s Ball: 8-11pm, Bellingham Dance Company
MUSIC Creepy Cabaret: 6:30-8:30pm, Bellingham High School A Nightmare Before Halloween: 7-11pm, Depot Arts Center, AnacortesPeter Mawanga: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
WORDS Halloween Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Ferndale Library
COMMUNITY Monster Mash: 4pm, Village Books
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Scream Fair: 6:30-10:30pm, NW Washington Fair-grounds, Lynden Nightmare on Railroad: 6:30-11:30pm, Boundary Bay BreweryClown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront TheatreRocky Horror Show: 10pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon
FILMRocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount Baker Theatre
DANCE Halloween Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Thrillingham: 8pm, Maritime Heritage Park
MUSIC Fidalgo Youth Symphony: 1pm, McIntyre Hall
WORDSHalloween Book Sale: 10am-5pm, Ferndale LibraryExtremely Scary Stories: 7-8:30pm, Fairhaven Library
COMMUNITY Family Activity Day: 10am-4pm, Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building Haunt the Park: 5-7pm, Pioneer Park, Ferndale A Masquerade Eve: 6pm, Fairhaven Middle SchoolBellwether Halloween: 7-11pm, Hotel Bellwether
GET OUTBoneshaker Bike Fest: 9am, La Conner Channel Lodge Haunted Garden: 9am-6pm, Garden Spot Nursery Fall Family Fun: 10am-6pm, Glen Echo Garden, Everson Trick-or-Treat: 2-4pm, downtown AnacortesTrick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown FerndaleHalloween Trick-or-Treat: 3-6pm, historic Fairhaven Trick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown Mount Vernon Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, downtown Bellingham
FOOD Pancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Community Center Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square
SUNDAY [11.01.15] DANCE Open Rep Rehearsal: 12-1:30pm, Firehouse Perform-ing Arts Center
MUSICFestival of Music: 2pm, St. John’s Lutheran Church John Reischman & Friends: 2pm, YWCA Ballroom
WORDSHalloween Book Sale: 1-5pm, Ferndale Library
FOOD Community Breakfast: 8-11am, Rome Grange Taste of Skagit: 4-7pm, Maple Hall, La Conner Grape & Gourmet: 5-8:30pm, Silver Reef Event Center
MONDAY [11.02.15] ONSTAGE 42nd Street: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog
WORDSRick Steves: 7pm, Bellingham High School Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library
Whodunit? Find out when the perennially popular improvised
murder mystery known as Hellingham shows Oct. 30-31 at
the Upfront Theatre
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with viewings Oct. 29-31 at the Mount Baker Theatre (the film version) and the Lincoln Theatre (the stage version)
Bingo Spooktacular: 5:30-8:30pm, Bellingham Senior Activity Center
GET OUTWild Things: 9:30-11am, Stimpson Nature Reserve Trick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown BellinghamNight of the Running Dead: 6pm, Aslan Brewing Co.
Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven
SATURDAY [10.31.15]ONSTAGE Standing on Ceremony: 2pm and 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Monstrous Mailbag
6: Gory gristle, Views
8: Paddle to Paris
10: Last Week’s News
11: Police Blotter
ARTS & LIFE 12: Dead or disappeared?
14: Full moon fever
16: Thrillingham
18: Scary sights
20: Spooktacular!
22: Clubs
24: Milk Men
26: Film Shorts
REAR END 27: Bulletin Board
28: Wellness
28: Crossword
30: Free Will Astrology
31: Advice Goddess
32: Comix
33: Slowpoke, Sudoku
34: Pumpkin power
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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM *SK AGIT*ISL AND COUNTIES
THRILLINGHAMThe dead
can dance, P.16
HalloweenHAUNTS
Sounds like a Spooktacular, P.20
The NightGALLERY
Scary sights at Fourth Corner, P.18
Grisly Gristle, . Paddlers in Peril, . Milk Men, .
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NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
COVER: Illustration by Angel Bolligan
TOC LETTERS STAFF
PROP. 8 IS GREATYour assessment of the proposed Charter
Amendments, published last week, accurately de-scribed the majority of the choices placed before Whatcom County voters on this year’s ballot. Your publication does a great public service by help-ing the voting public understand these complex issues. However, I must take great and personal issue with the way that Proposition 8, regarding the Districting Committee, was characterized.
Your statement that Prop. 8 “appears to be another way of gaming the County’s political districts” is both unfair and inaccurate. As the Charter Review Commissioner responsible for in-troducing and championing this amendment, I’d like to clarify its intent and purpose.
The system is already being “gamed” by two political parties, who hold all of the seats on the Districting Committee under the current charter. In fact, the charter allows for only four mem-bers of this body, “two from each major political party,” despite the fact that Washington State has had more than two “major” political parties active in recent elections.
We have nonpartisan elections and nonpartisan offices, so why do we have a partisan Districting Committee? Is our County well-served to sustain a charter that allows the two parties that fight to divide us to strengthen that divide through back-room handshakes? Proposition 8 was intended
to give access to those other parties, provided they have support in our county, and bring more transparency and compromise to the process. This proposition fixes a broken section of our charter and is not driven by ulterior motives.
Proposition 8 received multi-partisan support from the commission and the public. Not only was the “pro” statement in the voter’s pamphlet writ-ten with support from both sides of the politi-cal spectrum, there were no volunteers to write a “con” statement. This is important to point out, considering the vast divide on the Commission on almost every other proposed amendment.
I urge you, and your readers, to read the vot-er’s pamphlet and listen to the commission’s re-corded debate prior to casting your vote. If you choose to stand by your recommendation of a “no” vote, that is your prerogative and I respect your editorial view. However, making that sug-gestion based on an insinuation of impropriety, some vague charge of “gaming the system,” is in my view irresponsible coming from a respected and influential publication such as yours.
—Eli Mackiewicz, BellinghamCharter Review Commissioner, District 1
STAKE OUT THE MIDDLE GROUNDDon’t be fooled by partisan organizations in
the election.Vote yes on Propositions 1 and 9, and no on
THISWEEK
In a story custom-made for Halloween, this week a deer in Rochester, NY, staggered through automatic doors into a hospital emergency room after being hit by a vehicle near a local cemetery. After being strapped to a gurney by two sheriff’s deputies, animal control was called and the injured deer was euthanized.
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Propositions 2, 3 and 10. Prop. 9 cre-ates five county council districts. Sup-porters of this amendment claim that every community of interest would be represented on the County Council with five districts. That is undoubtedly the truth. However, they also oppose Prop. 1, which would provide for district-only voting instead of countywide voting for County Council members. If everyone in Whatcom County gets to decide on the representatives from other communi-ties of interest, then it totally defies the point of five fair and equal districts. Communities of interest would not choose their own representative with countywide voting. Props. 2, 3 and 10 are all proposals that limit power of vot-ers—vote against all three of them.
Vote Todd Donovan and Kathy Kersh-ner for Whatcom County Council. Todd Donovan is simply better qualified than his opponent, having very pragmatic ap-proaches to local issues. Voters are mis-led about Kathy Kershner and Satpal Sid-hu. Highly partisan organizations hope to brainwash voters into thinking that Kathy Kershner is a tea party Republican who cares nothing about the environ-ment, while Satpal Sidhu is a qualified environmental hero. However, after thor-oughly looking through Kershner’s voting record, she always looked out for What-com County during her four years on the council, and has made many decisions to protect the environment of Whatcom County. Satpal Sidhu has very few envi-ronmental accomplishments, and tries to appeal to large conventional non-organic berry farmers who pollute our environ-ment, while at the same time supporting very heavy regulations. He also comes across uneducated on issues. At the Tea Party forum, when asked about flood is-sues, Sidhu didn’t have an answer and
dismissed the question.Remember to vote by Nov. 3.
—James Gibson, Bellingham
ELECT FISCAL CONSERVATIVESI normally vote Republican. This elec-
tion I am voting for two democratically endorsed candidates, Satpal Sidhu for County Council and Bobby Briscoe for Port Commissioner. Both are fiscally conserva-tive, and hold strong family values. Both hold the common taxpayers interest in the highest regard.
For Satpal, his education in engineering and having a Masters of Business Admin-istration puts him in a unique position to save us millions on the jail. Satpal is fru-gal and a friend of the farmer. He under-stands that pouring five million gallons of water a day on a pile of coal would be put to better use obtaining water rights for our farms, which many do not have today. Farming is the economic backbone of Whatcom County, and without water, farming would wither.
Briscoe understands that the port has spent itself into a hole, and the port’s revenue predictions have failed for the last three major projects. Now the port finds itself in triple the debt that it started this ill-conceived waterfront project and $100 million still to go. His opponent, Mayor Gary Jensen, while a good man, left Ferndale buried in debt also. Ferndale went from $11 million to $28 million during his tenure.
Mayor Jensen is supported by two port commissioners who want to continue to build the new yacht marina at a cost of $50 million to provide parking spots for 350 million-dollar yachts. Yacht parking, luxury condos, and water to pour on coal. And more debt.
It is time to change course at the port, and Jensen is more of the same. We should
be refocusing the port on improving the daily lives of all taxpayers who support the port, not grandiose projects which only benefit a few.
Both of these candidates understand that water is the future for Whatcom County, and we should not be wasting such a valuable resource on a pile of coal. Water for food production should be priority number one. Only once that is secured on paper should we be talking about other uses.
Please consider joining me in supporting Satpal for Council, and Briscoe for Port.
—Doug Karlberg, Lynden
LOUWS MUST GOThe recent Gristle provides all of the
necessary details to demonstrate the slimy performance of Jack Louws as Coun-ty Executive.
He must go before he completely wrecks the county governing system. His mismanagement of Lake Whatcom water issues, the jail construction debacle com-bined with the outrageous sales tax in-crease, and his cozy relationship with the sole-source contractor manipulating the entire voting dialogue reveals the depth of incompetence and corruption of his dictatorial reign.
No more Jack Louws! No more sales tax increase without true financial infor-mation of all aspects of a new jail com-plex! The blatant corruption has been re-vealed, now its up to the voters to fix it.
—Richard Morgan, Bellingham
MORE PARTICIPATION, NOT LESS
It is important to reject Propositions 1, 2, and 3, which were placed onto the bal-lot by the conservative majority of Char-ter Review commissioners who, all but one, received the benefit of independent
expenditure advertising from the coal terminal interest-funded SAVEWhatcom/Whatcom First affiliated Political Action Committees when they ran for the Charter Commission in 2014.
Prop. 1 district-only voting would re-sult in disproportionately minor repre-sentation for the City of Bellingham and would render Bellingham voters mute to a large degree when voting for County Council members.
Conservative commissioners created two mechanisms to try to lock-in dis-trict-only voting indefinitely—Props. 2 and 3. Originally, the conservative com-missioners attempted to outright pro-hibit the County Council from proposing Charter amendments to previous Charter amendments that have been approved by two-thirds majority of voters, and to prohibit Council from proposing Charter amendments pertaining to nominating and electing County Council members. In July, our County Attorney explained to the commissioners that was against our state constitution, so they revised the language to then require a 7-0 unani-mous vote by Council. A unanimous vote is a ridiculously high bar to impose on the Council, ultimately resulting in the con-striction of voters’ rights.
Proponents of Props. 2 and 3 often mis-lead the public, saying that Props. 2 and 3 make it harder for the Council to “overturn” district-only voting as they claim the Coun-cil did eight years ago. That is incorrect. The Council cannot “overturn” a proposi-tion; the Council can only place a Charter amendment, via ordinance, on the ballot, thereby giving voters the power to decide.
What actually occurred eight years ago, was that district-only voting was approved by voters in 2005; voters expe-rienced district-only voting in the next
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THE GRISTLE
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsYOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE
AS BALLOTS for the November election roll out this month and we consider the Jail Tax Measure, one gets the feeling we’ve been here be-fore. More than 10 years ago Sheriff Bill Elfo, along with other county officials, painted a grim picture regarding the state of the What-com County Jail: It’s unsafe—for inmates and corrections staff alike; it’s unsanitary, out of date and “lit-erally falling apart.”
As any officer or deputy who works in this county will tell you, that’s exactly the case. Which is why, in 2004, all of us supported the Jail Tax. In fact, we convinced our friends and family to vote in favor and put signs in our yards showing support.
The tax passed, authorizing 0.1 percent sales tax to be collected in a special fund set aside to build a brand new jail. That was the mes-sage to the public and to local law enforcement.
This year is different: None of the largest local law enforcement organizations have supported this new tax measure, and the Belling-ham Police Guild and Bellingham/Whatcom Firefighters Local 106 ask that you vote no on Proposition 2015-1, the Jail Tax.
Why are we opposing the Jail Tax in 2015? If this passes, all of our public safety tax authority will be locked up for 30 years, yet some of our most critical needs—for mental health or substance and alcohol abuse treatment—are left unanswered. As our community grows we may need to fund a police station, a mental health treatment facility or new fire stations to serve our neighborhoods. But if this tax passes, we may find that we can’t pay for programs and
facilities that will keep your family safe and the mentally ill out of jail.
We can’t even be certain we’ll have the new jail. Since 2004, $31.5 million has been collected for that purpose. Land was purchased (at an astronomical price) and our old jail is still unsafe, overcrowded and “literally falling apart.” Unfortu-nately, the same loopholes that al-lowed the 2004 jail sales tax to be squandered on other things are in this ballot measure, too.
We believe any fiscally respon-sible plan must include mental health and substance abuse treat-ment facilities.
There is currently a mental health crisis in our community. Routinely half of the calls for service our of-ficers, deputies and fire personnel respond to are people in varying stages of crisis due to mental ill-ness. Many times officers are un-able to offer available respite or resources because they are simply unavailable and so people in crisis often end up in jail. This commu-nity is in dire need of a secure, safe mental health facility.
The Bellingham Fire Department recently implemented a Community Medic Program. This offers many homeless and mentally ill individu-als a chance to receive non-emer-gent treatment in the field when they would otherwise not have it. Sometimes it’s just as simple as a blood sugar check and a ride to a place of shelter. Other times it may identify a medical condition re-quiring immediate treatment.
The Bellingham Police department has recently outfitted their officers with body worn cameras, in an effort to provide transparency in policing and maintain the public trust.
These are examples of pressing public safety needs. All of these come at a cost, and many will be ignored for decades if we vote for the Jail Tax.
The members of the Bellingham Police Guild and your Local 106 Firefighters know for certain that we need a new jail. We support a fiscally responsible new jail and ask that the 2004 sales tax be used ex-clusively to build the new jail from this point forward.
We cannot support another new jail tax that locks up 100 percent of our public safety tax capacity for the next 30 years. As careful stewards of your tax dollars we ask you to vote No on the Jail Sales Tax Measure.
April Mitchelson is president of the Bellingham Police Guild. She has been an officer of the Bellingham Police Dept. for 15 years. Robert Glorioso is president of IAFF Local 106 Bell-ingham Whatcom County Firefighters and a professional Fire Fighter Para-medic for 12 years. He has served the Bellingham Fire Dept. since 2010.
BY APRIL MITCHELSON
Jail Déjà VuWRONG TAX, WRONG RESPONSE TO MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
If this tax passes, we may find that we can’t pay for programs and facilities that will keep your family safe and the mentally ill out of jail”
TRICK OR TREATY: The coal industry zombies and their hobgoblins were haunting Cherry Point again last week—Montana delegates and corporate shills arriv-ing in hungry packs to scan our coast with red-rimmed eyes, drooling it might someday be theirs. They brought with them an infection, dark money in greasy wads of campaign contributions dumped into vampiric political action committees and onto Frankensteinian political operatives by the carpetbag.
Pacific International Terminals (the PIT, and its pen-dulum that slices but one way) in 2014 dumped about $17,000 into the election of the obscure Charter Review Commission, an amount sufficient (thanks to the par-titions of district-only voting) to elect a hunchbacked horde who immediately set to work to queer all future elections on behalf of the coal industry. In March and again in October, PIT shoveled nearly $30,000 to What-com Republicans, who are then free to launder the cash among spurious shell PACs like DOVE and dark money operatives like Common Threads NW that proliferate like contagion, making it all but impossible to follow the money in a transparent and timely manner. On Oct. 19, PIT opened yet another Orwellian PAC—Clear Ballot Choices—and larded it with $25,000 in cash and $13,500 in in-kind contributions, according to filings with the Public Disclosure Commission. This week, PIT contrib-uted another $20,000. The PAC also received a large con-tribution from the Affordable Housing Council, the po-litical arm of the building industry and contractor lobby.
All told, the coal industry and their allies and as-sociates have shoveled nearly $130,000 onto local elections over the past two cycles, distributed by a bewildering network of spontaneously created spe-cial-purpose PACs.
They have a plan, and its design is to cripple the ability of citizens to participate fully in an informed democracy and in their choices for who represents them. In slasher films, the victim carelessly wanders through the house without lights; and these folks are here to turn the lights off permanently.
The goblins try to mask their bubbling black caul-dron of outside money by conjuring the phantom bug-bear of California gazillionaire liberal Tom Steyer, oh my!, everyone’s doing it! But Steyer has not pitched one mouldy red nickel into the reeking backwaters of What-com County politics. It’s a lie, a complete lie ; but lies never stopped liars.
What can’t be easily hidden through thimblerigging and in-kind logrolling simply goes unreported, or re-ported in slipshod way that serves as concealment.
The cryptkeepers who hope to collect $100 million in sales tax revenue in support of a new jail have been shambling in their accounting, another red flag against the jail. The laws governing campaign contributions re-quire filing to be electronic when amounts are in excess of $5,000, to allow the public to timely understand who is financing their elections. The Humane & Safe Jail Now PAC has not only ignored this requirement, they’ve been scofflaws indifferent to every reporting deadline, setting a horrible standard for financial accountability that only feeds other public concerns about financial accountability related to the jail. The PAC’s utter con-tempt for the rights of voters prompted detailed mul-tiple complaints to the PDC, but those complaints will not be resolved until after the election.
As of last week, Gary Jensen hadn’t filed a finance disclosure in his campaign for Port of Bellingham Com-
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THE GRISTLEmissioner since Aug. 31. His opponent, Bobby Briscoe, has filed nearly two doz-en reports in the same period. This is a complete abdication of Jensen’s legally binding responsibility to disclose the source of his receipts and spending in a timely manner. What’s most discourag-ing, the man knows better. The Mayor of Ferndale is no amateur, no newcomer to the obligations of public disclosure; and the PDC reporting procedures and tools are not the arcane stuff of mad scientists.
When he was legally required to file by the close of the reporting window for candidates, Jensen produced a document littered with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from allies, consultants and beneficiaries—shells and shills—to the coal indus-try, including Whatcom Republicans and their infusion of cash from PIT. Payoff for Jensen’s full-throated sup-port of coal export as CAO of Ferndale and influential lead on the Caucus of Small City Mayors? Or, as some observ-ers have considered, insurance in some obscure but vital role the port commis-sion may one day play in the siting of a coal dump on the county’s shoreline?
It’s a lot of political mucking, but to what end?
The Gateway Pacific Terminal is like a seized gear, the broader environmental studies required for permitting stalled indefinitely pending review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the proj-ect’s potential impacts to tribal fishing rights protected by treaty. Either could proceed independently, but neither will. The Corps is under no deadline require-ment to produce a speedy determina-tion of de minimis impacts of the coal pier project to tribal treaty rights (and, indeed, one could surmise the federal government is well served in holding off that determination and the precedents it might establish for energy exports), and the Corps’ finding holds such poten-tial to be a project-killer there’s little purpose in PIT pressing forward with the environmental review required by Whatcom County and the state Dept. of Ecology. The shambling state of the zombie coal export industry suggests the pier may never be built, but all this dark money acts as a form of pollution in political outcomes that have little to do with GPT.
The important takeaway is the viola-tions are not symmetrical—“everyone’s doing it.” No; they’re of a pendulum that cuts but one direction, favoring a particular political outcome. Other cam-paigns, other candidates follow the law, a law created to assist voters.
End the tricks. Honor the treaty.
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BEFORE THERE were roads, inter-state highways, light rail systems and air-ports, there were... canoes. For thousands of years, Native people living on the Salish Sea, the area along the southwest coast of British Columbia and the northwest coast of the United States, used canoes not just for travel, but also as a profound form of cultural expression. Their creation and use were spiritual, teaching respect, camarade-rie and selflessness. They used no fossil fu-els and created no pollution. And they were powered by the most mysterious of engines, the human heart. So what could be more fitting to use when confronting a 307-foot-tall giant capable of poisoning vast areas of ocean and shoreline?
That’s what happened when Royal Dutch Shell brought the massive offshore oil-drilling rig, Polar Pioneer, to Seattle’s Terminal 5 on May. A flotilla of Natives in canoes joined the ranks of environmental activists in kayaks that day to protest the rig’s arrival. Among them was Justin Fink-bonner, a member of the Lummi Nation, a canoe skipper and creator of a Lummi
youth program called The Awakening. For him, the protest, which culminated two days later, was more than just a chance to speak out. It was a powerful teaching moment for the youth in his program.
The emotional power of canoe travel was demonstrated when Finkbonner in-structed his crew to paddle within a few hundred yards of the skyscraper high oil rig instead of remaining some distance away at the mouth of the Duwamish River.
“Bill Moyer, head organizer of the Back-bone Campaign, said to lead the kayaks to the mouth of the river, stop and do our speeches. I said, ‘Hell no! I’m going up the river to the rig and bring the kayakers up there to surround it.’ The kayakers fol-lowed, hence the pictures.”
A picture of Finkbonner standing in a Native canoe at the base of the oil rig, surrounded by kayakers and canoe families was shared widely on social media after
the protest. The passion exhibited by this bravado has roots that go back decades.
Many Natives have painful memories of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 that dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Be-cause of the resulting loss of marine life, the subsistence lifestyle of the local Alas-ka Native people collapsed, resulting in long-term emotional trauma, increases in domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and damage to social relationships.
But Royal Dutch Shell doesn’t appear concerned about that tragedy, nor about the spill caused by British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Not to mention the May 19 oil pipeline rupture in Santa Barbara County that released more than 20,000
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Bill Moyer, head organizer of the Backbone Campaign, said to lead the kayaks to the mouth of the river, stop and do our speeches. I said, ‘Hell no! I’m going up the river to the rig and bring the kayakers up there to surround it.’ The kayakers followed.”—JUSTIN FINKBONNER
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gallons of oil into the Pacific. When the Bu-reau of Ocean Energy Management recently granted conditional approval for Shell to be-gin exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off the northern coast of Alaska, the mul-tinational energy corporation began moving the Polar Pioneer to Seattle, where it’s cur-rently being prepped and outfitted for drill-ing in the Arctic. Protesters liken this to pre-paring a time bomb to go off in a heretofore untouched and pristine environment.
“But the greater story is about the Duwa-mish tribe,” Finkbonner revealed.
ALONG THE DUWAMISHTerminal 5 sits on land the Duwamish peo-
ple had lived on for an estimated 10,000 years. In 1855, the Duwamish and several other tribes from the area signed the Treaty of Point Elliott, in which they gave up 54,000 acres of land in return for hunting and fish-ing rights and four reservations. Since then the tribe has seen the river that bears their name turned into a sewer, where byproducts of manufacturing processes were dumped in-discriminately for years.
Finkbonner, a Lummi and resident of the Lummi Reservation, first became involved with the Duwamish when he worked for the Potlatch Fund, a Native grant-making and leadership development organization in Se-attle. Representatives of several local foun-dations approached him asking if he would assist the Duwamish in applying for grants to build a longhouse. He worked with Duwamish chairwoman Cecile Hansen and together they raised 2 million. In 2009, the Duwamish Long-house and Cultural Center was opened near the mouth of the Duwamish River.
“They were given [federal] recognition by the Clinton administration, but then turned over when Bush Jr. came into power and ve-toed the bill,” Finkbonner said. “Now the government is holding them back for another seven to 10 years from being considered.”
Finkbonner’s frustration is understand-able. Gaining federal recognition as a tribe strengthens sovereignty, creating a govern-ment-to-government relationship with the United States and facilitating federal budget assistance and other services.
To this atmosphere of political oppression and environmental recklessness, Finkbonner brings the healing power of the Native ca-noe. In his program, The Awakening, young people of his tribe learn the old way of trav-el, pulling together as one unit to bring help and healing to another tribe. Their common destination is as much internal as it is ex-ternal: “Ignite the people. Bring fire to our hearts. Cedar smoke from our collective spirit will rise to the edge of the sky, where our ancestors are dancing forever.”
In all the hoopla surrounding the contro-versy and protests, it’s good to be reminded of the bigger picture, of which the mountainous oil rig is just a little piece.
This article originally appeared in Indian Coun-try Today and is reprinted with permission.
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HELP THEM GOThe Lummi Youth Canoe Family will be
traveling to Paris for the United Nations climate negotiations, Dec. 5-12, 2015. They are joining the Indigenous Environ-mental Network’s Indigenous Delegation to Paris and their Canoes to Paris action. The 17 members of the Lummi Youth Canoe Family will have their great 38-foot traveling canoe barged to Europe to paddle to Paris together with other indigenous canoe people from Norway, the Amazon, Great Lakes and kayaktivists from Europe.“Our canoe family will travel to Paris
to inform the world about our waters, our air, our lands and impacts of global warming in our community, said Justin Finkbonner, skipper of the canoe family. “It will be an honor to usher our kids into a once in a lifetime opportunity to see leadership on a global scale and learn about other activities that the world is working on. I dream that our youth will return home to our Salish communities wanting to unite youth councils from around the territory to learn about how they can make a difference.”The group needs help covering the
cost of shipping the canoe across the ocean and covering the costs of travel, lodging and food. You can assist them at gofundme.com
Lummi youth leader, Justin Finkbonner, relaxing with his son, Liam, during a break in the protest activities.
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10.20.15TUESDAY
An inmate in Whatcom County Jail who tried to flood his cell broke the seal in a valve in the jail over the weekend, causing water to leak into the sheriff’s offices below. A few ceiling tiles were saturat-ed with water and at least one broke and fell to the floor, allowing water to leak onto desks in the major crimes detectives’ office, ac-cording to Sheriff’s officials.
A big and complex ballot means a heavier piece of mail, but you won’t need to double up on stamps to vote. Whatcom County Auditor Debbie Adelstein says just one stamp is needed for general election ballots. The county will help pick up the cost for heavier ballots with insufficient postage.
10.21.15WEDNESDAY
CenturyLink must pay for an outage in the San Juan islands in 2013. The utility must provide customer credits totaling $271,000, pay a $50,000 fine and do nearly $3 million in repairs and improve-ments. An investigation found a 10-day service outage in 2013 resulted from a severed underwater cable. Regulators say the com-pany broke laws related to major outages and communicating with the public.
10.23.15FRIDAY
A Bellingham woman is kidnapped and brutally assaulted for more than two days before she escaped, according to the What-com County Sheriff’s Office. Police say Robert McGlothern lured the 30-year-old woman to his home and locked her in a closet. Over the course of two days, McGlothern beat her with a baseball bat, which left injuries to her head, face, hands and arms, according to investigators. McGlothern, 31, has a history of arrests for assaults involving former girlfriends. He is arrested after a brief stand-off with deputies and booked into Whatcom County Jail on charges of kidnapping and assault.
Seeking to change Whatcom County’s governing documents, Pacif-ic International Terminals creates the Clear Ballot Choices political action committee and floods it with more than $58,500. Today,
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Week that WasBY TIM JOHNSON
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they’ll report another $20,000 contribution. The company intends to build a coal export facility at Cherry Point. Whatcom County government will approve the permit.
Cowlitz County and the Washington Dept. of Ecology propose a new environmental review schedule for the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export facility in Longview. The plan divides federal and state timelines in a manner that allows the county and Ecology to move forward at a more rapid pace, competitive with Cherry Point. Millennium’s proposed project
would bring 16 new trains a day to Longview, 840 additional ships on the Columbia River annually, and ultimately export 44 million metric tons of coal a year.
10.25.14SUNDAY
Five British nationals are dead after a whale-watching boat carrying 27 people sinks off the coast of Vancouver Island near Tofino.The cause of the deadly sinking in calm, sunny condi-tions remains a mystery.
Bertha gets her head examined. Seattle’s broken-down tunnel-boring machine won’t resume digging a replacement for Seattle’s Alaskan Way Via-duct until late December, a month later than transportation officials initially said the delayed work would restart. The latest delay would push back the opening date for the $3.1 billion downtown tunnel replacement project to April 2018. The four-lane toll tunnel was supposed to open to traffic at the end of 2015. Bertha broke down in December 2013, and crews have been struggling to repair it ever since.
The sixth orca calf born since December—and the fourth born into J pod—is spotted off the west coast of San Juan Island. Two years of robust chinook salmon runs are being credited for the baby boom. Researchers believe the healthy calf has a good chance of survival.
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GUN GAFFEOn Oct. 26, a Whatcom Community Col-lege student formerly with U.S. Cus-toms and Border Protection dropped his handgun in class, according to the school. The handgun was concealed in the student’s holster but not properly secured. It fell to the floor when he got out of his seat during class, Bellingham Police reported. The 47-year-old imme-diately recovered the weapon and apol-ogized. He had a concealed carry per-mit, but Whatcom Community College prohibits firearms on campus.
AIR RIFLEOn Oct. 26, Bellingham Police checked on a man near Safeway at Sunset Square. The man was reportedly “air shooting” with a make-believe rifle. “The male was ‘tweaking’ but coopera-tive,” police reported. “He admitted to having used meth earlier. He declined officers assistance.”
PIT STOPOn Oct. 26, Whatcom County Sheriff ’s deputies learned of a man who was re-ported walking around the parking lot of a church, apparently on drugs. He en-tered a Mercury Cougar that was not his and drove off northbound on the Guide Meridian. “Two deputies were able to catch up to the stolen vehicle to make a stop,” deputies reported. “The vehicle then accelerated away at speeds up to 80 mph, and then cut through a parking lot at Guide and Smith roads. The ve-hicle then went west on Smith Rd. The deputies terminated the pursuit due to increasing speeds and the danger cre-ated to the public due to erratic driv-ing. The vehicle was observed a short time later,“ deputies reported, driving at a slower rate. Deputies were able to get into position and perform a pursuit intervention technique (PIT) maneuver and get the vehicle stopped.” They took the suspect into custody without fur-ther incidents. He appeared to be high on methamphetamine.
BATHROOM BREAKOn Oct. 12, Anacortes Police checked on a report of a man inside a woman’s re-stroom. Police approached a woman and asked if she had seen anything refer-ence the restroom incident. Police later learned the woman had a warrant for her arrest and returned to find her. “At the time of contact, she was hiding behind a bush and appeared to be trying to hide something,” police reported. “She was
arrested without incident and a search incident to arrest yielded some baby as-pirin and one Oxycodone pill. Officers asked the woman if there was anything else on her person they should know about and she told them that there was not.” The woman was transported to the Skagit County Jail on her warrant and a single charge of violation of the Con-trolled Substance Act. Further searching at the jail revealed that the woman had concealed a plastic baggie containing a white crystal substance presumed to be methamphetamine in one of her body cavities,” police noted. She was addi-tionally charged for possession of meth-amphetamine.
On Oct. 21, a man was reported shop-lifting Huggies diapers from the Rite Aid store on Telegraph Road north of Bellingham.
HIGH LIFEOn Oct. 26, a transient entered a hotel on Lakeway Drive and began to drink te-quila and smoke cigarettes in their lob-by. He was contacted by police and cited for consuming alcohol in public. He was escorted from the hotel.
On Oct. 23, a man who was banned from Walmart for stealing merchandise in 2013 returned and stole a bottle of Hennessy Whiskey. He was detained by store security. Bellingham Police arrived to remind the 28-year-old of his previous lifetime trespass notice and booked him into jail on changes of burlgary.
On Oct. 23, a man concealed a bottle of vodka in his pants and left the Bar-kley Haggen with the concealed mer-chandise. “He was detained and cited for shoplifting and issued a lifetime notice of trespass from all Haggen Food stores and locations,” Bellingham Police reported.
FAHRENHEIT 451On Oct. 23, a custodian discovered the remains of a burned box of papers by the fire exit door of the downtown branch of the Bellingham Public Library. “No dam-age was noted to the building.”
ASPHALT GESTALTOn Oct. 15, Bellingham Police took a woman to the hospital, involuntarily, for a mental health exam after she insisted on sleeping on the pavement in an active parking lot near the County Courthouse at 2pm in the afternoon.
THAT’S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOUOn Oct. 26, Bellingham Police “got sev-eral calls from citizens today that the IRS scam is making the rounds again.”
FUZZ BUZZ CANDIDATES
WHATCOM COUNTY EXECUTIVE
Jack LouwsSteady and capable administration across a broad number of county activities.
PORT OF BELLINGHAM COMMISSION
Bobby BriscoeWill refocus port emphasis on blue - collar jobs.
COUNTY COUNCIL ISTRICT
Todd DonovanIntelli ent and supemely uali ed.
COUNTY COUNCIL ISTRICT
Satpal SidhuA farmer, a businessman and a representative for an important north county community.
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Elizabeth, so each day she writes herself more notes, bits of evidence she’s found that may lead to Elizabeth’s whereabouts.
She darts out of her house to look for her friend, files numerous police reports and gets lost repeatedly. As the book goes on, Maud’s memory becomes increasingly frag-mented, yet certain flashbacks figure viv-idly in her mind. There’s her sister Sukey, married to a rough sort. There’s Sukey’s
compact, and a box of her clothing. There’s Ma and Dad, worry etched into their faces. And there’s a madwoman, lurking in the bushes.
Healey does an excel-lent job building sus-pense, dropping clues and drawing readers into the mystery—or myster-ies—of Maud’s life. At the same time, Healey delivers a remarkable portrait of one woman’s experience with demen-tia, exploring the bound-aries of memory and the power of love that en-dures even when one’s mind is failing. Scenes in which Maud struggles to understand that the woman talking to her is her daughter are particu-larly poignant. The read-er sees Maud’s internal dialogue, and hears the words people are saying
to her, and feels the frustration of all as they try to comprehend one another.
While Elizabeth is Missing is fiction, it does raise many issues about the difficul-ties of caring for a family member with dementia. In Whatcom County, there’s help available from the Northwest Regional Council’s Family Caregiver Support Program; information is online at www.nwrcwa.org/family-caregiver-support-program.
Christine Perkins is Executive Director of the Whatcom County Library System. She loves a good mystery, particularly one with a twist at the end. Her own imperfect memory means she can sometimes enjoy the same book over and over without remembering how it ends. She also reviews fiction for Li-brary Journal.
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WED., OCT. 28 WILD POETRY: Lorna Crozier’s poems and Ian McAllister’s photographs can be experienced at a reading for The Wild In You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
THURS., OCT. 29MORE MURDERS: Mature audiences can hear more about true crime stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bellingham and Whatcom and Skagit counties when Todd Warger reads from More Murders in the Fourth Corner at 7pm at the Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
SEATTLE JUSTICE: Former King County pros-ecuting attorney Christopher T. Bayley shares ideas from Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle at 7pm at Vil-lage Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
OCT. 30-NOV. 1HALLOWEEN BOOK SALE: Hundreds of paperbacks in perfect condition by all the best authors are dying to belong to you—get them at a Halloween Book Sale taking place from 10am-6pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, and 1-5pm Sunday at the Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
SAT., OCT. 31HALLOWEEN TALES: While you’re trick-or-treating in the Fairhaven district this year, drop by to listen to pros from the Bellingham Story-tellers Guild share ghoulish “Halloween Stories” for all ages from 3-6pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
EXTREMELY SCARY STORIES: The brave of heart are invited to listen to “Extremely Scary Stories” by members of the Bellingham Story-teller’s Guild from 7-8:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. These stories are so truly scary, the event is recommended for adults only! Entry is free.
WWW.BELLINGHAMSTORYTELLERSGUILD.ORG
SUN., NOV. 1NOVEL WRITING MONTH: Attend a kickoff for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) from 1-5pm at the SkillShare Space at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The library will be offering many “Come Write In” sessions and other events throughout the month, as well as opportunities to meet local authors and hear about their adventures in writing.
778-7217 OR
WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG
MON., NOV. 2RICK STEVES: Travel guru and bestselling guidebook author Rick Steves presents “Europe Through the Back Door: Celebrating European Travel on a Budget” at 7pm at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. Tickets to the pre-sentation and slideshow are $5.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is by donation.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
REVIEWED BY CHRISTINE PERKINS
Where’s Elizabeth? OF MYSTERIES AND MADWOMEN
ELIZABETH IS Missing, the title of British author Emma Healey’s debut novel, makes it clear: This is a mystery. Someone is missing. What happened? Whodunnit?
We’re introduced to Maud, an elderly woman still living at home despite increasing dementia. Her house is covered with Post-It notes to remind her of everyday things—“Eggs. Milk? Chocolate.” and “Coffee helps memory.”
Maud passes her time watching TV, boiling eggs and waiting for people to visit her. The one thing she knows for sure is that Elizabeth, her best and last-surviving friend, has not visited in a long time. “Haven’t heard from Elizabeth,” Maud tells everyone. Elizabeth is missing.
It’s not hard to understand why nobody seems too troubled by Maud’s revelation. Maud, after all, can-not seem to remember that she’s already bought innumerable cans of tinned peaches and stockpiled them in her pantry. She eats the cheese-and-tomato sandwich her carer prepared for her lunch as soon as Carla heads out the door in the morning, not comprehending the note Carla left her atop the Saran Wrap: “Lunch for Maud to eat after 12pm.” Maud revisits themes over and over, asking, “Did you ever grow summer squash?” until her daughter Helen is at wit’s end.
But Maud can’t let it go, the nagging worry that something has happened to
GET ITWHERE: You can find library copies of Eliza-beth is Missing in several formats: book, eAudiobook, and eBookMORE: Use the free Library Now app to place a hold from your mobile device, or visit www.wcls.org (or bellingham publiclibrary.org if you live in the city lim-its of Belling-ham) to search your library catalog
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TUES., NOV. 3PONDERABLES: Robert Erickson reads from his new collection of poetry, Ponderables, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
OLD TIMERS’ TALES: The Burlington Historical Society hosts a free “Old Timers’ Tales” gather-ing at 7pm at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington St. Duane Stowe, Jim Neff, and Don Mapes are planning an entertainment stroll down memory lane for the community to enjoy.
WWW.BURLINGTON-CHAMBER.COM
WED., NOV. 4COWED: Denis and Gail Hayes share ideas from Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture and Environment at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. In the book, the couple offers a revealing analysis of how our mutually beneficial, 10,000-year relationship with bovines has become tragically dysfunctional.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
THURS., NOV. 5NATURE’S TRUST: Christina Wood, author of Nature’s Trust, will present a free public talk at 7pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Professor Wood has published exten-sively on climate crisis, natural resources, and native law issues.
WWW.BUF.ORG
CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Simon Win-chester, the author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers, will be the featured guest at the live taping of the Chuckanut Radio Hour at 7pm at Whatcom Community College, 237 E. Kellogg St. Tickets are $5.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
COMMUNITY WED., OCT. 28ARCHAEOLOGY FAIR: Kids of all ages will engage with hands-on activities, learn about archaeological projects and more at an Archae-ology Fair taking place from 5-7pm at the Syre Student Centre Auditorium at Whatcom Commu-nity College, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. Entry is free.
WWW.WHATCOM.CTC.EDU
THURS., OCT. 29 SPOOKS & SPIRITS: Attend a 5th Thursday gathering focusing on “Spooks & Spirits” from 5-7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Attendees can sip cocktails pro-vided by Bellewood Distilling and delve into the shadier side of the building’s history. At 7pm, those who want to can head out with the Bureau of Historical Investigation for a 30-minute walking tour around the neighborhood to learn more about spooky local history. Entry is $5-$10 (plus an extra $5 for the after-tour).
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
FRI., OCT. 30MONSTER MASH: Kids ages 6 and up can wear their Halloween costumes to a “Monster Mash” Costume Party and Parade starting at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. .
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
BINGO SPOOKTACULAR: Bingo, karaoke, a Halloween costume contest and more will be part of a “Bingo Spooktacular” fundraiser tak-
ing place from 5:30-8:30pm at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. Tickets are $15.
733-4030 OR WWW.WCCOA.ORG
FRIGHT NIGHT: Middle and high school students can attend a “Halloween Fright Night” gathering from 6:15-9pm at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. Sign up in advance for the free event.
(360) 305-3637
SAT., OCT. 31FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY: Come dressed as your favorite story character (or in other costumes) at “Family Activity Day” events from 10am-4pm at Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. “Tell a Tale of Halloween!” will feature “positively un-frightful” Halloween stories, face-painting, bookish arts and crafts and more. Entry is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
HAUNT THE PARK: Prepare to get spooked at the inaugural “Haunt the Park” event from 5-7pm at Ferndale’s Pioneer Park, 2004 Cherry St. Visit a haunted jail and other buildings in the park, take part in family-oriented activities such as Pin the Tail on the Black Cat, and take tours of decorated houses. Entry is free.
WWW.FERNDALE-CHAMBER.COM
A MASQUERADE EVE: Rooted Emerging hosts “A Masquerade Eve” starting at 6pm at Fairhaven Middle School, 110 Parkridge Ave. The fourth annual event will feature food by Richard Balogh of Rifugio’s Country Italian Cuisine, entertainment by Bellow Wing and Gallowglass, fortune-telling, mask-making, bobbing for apples, a photo booth and more. Entry to the all-ages event is by donation.
WWW.ROOTEDEMERGING.ORG
BELLWETHER HALLOWEEN: Live music by the Atlantics, a costume contest with prizes, dancing and more will be part of a Halloween Party taking place from 7-11pm at the Hotel Bellwether Ballroom, One Bellwether Way. Entry is $10 in advance or $15 at the door.
WWW.HOTELBELLWETHER.COM
NOV. 4-5GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE: Earth Day founder Denis Hayes and Common Agenda’s Corey Weathers will be the keynote speakers at Sustainable Connections’ “Green Building Con-ference” taking place from 8am-5pm Wednesday and Thursday at Settlemyer Hall at Bellingham Technical College, 3028 Lindbergh Ave. Entry is $145-$175.
WWW.SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG
Todd Warger shares spooky stories from More Mur-ders in the Fourth Corner: True Stories of Whatcom & Skagit Counties’ Earliest Homicides Oct. 29 at the Ferndale Library and Nov. 6 at Vinostrology
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MoonstruckTHE NIGHT THAT WOULDN’T END
SHADOWS CREPT into the valley early that evening, shrouding the snow-glazed peaks and frostbitten ridges above us in a vaporous veil.
From the damp, meadowy side slope where my trusty assistant and I were working, all we could see of the sunset was a faint molten-pink glow smol-dering through the drizzle to our west.
“Looks like an airplane crash over there,” my helpmate shouted over the engine noise as we maneuvered our walk-behind mini-excavator through the muddy trough of rocks and roots into resting position for the night.
“Either that or some kind of cataclysmic nuclear explosion,” I added, groping around the control panel for the kill switch.
“Yeah,” he chortled, as the droning roar of our fancy machine whirred mer-cifully to a puttering halt, “Maybe being stuck here on this soggy old moun-tainside is actually the safest place in the world for us to be at the moment.”
“Truer words were never spoken, brother,” I said, stepping triumphantly off the operator’s platform into a fetid pool of boot-sucking muck. “Clearly,
WED., OCT. 28GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are wel-come at a weekly Group Run beginning at 6pm in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is great for be-ginners or for others wanting an easy recovery. Entry is free and no registration is required.
WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG
FRI., OCT. 30WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventur-ers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for a “Wild Things” excursion from 9:30-11am at the Stimp-son Nature Reserve. Suggested donation is $5.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
DOWNTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT: Costumed kids and their keepers are invited to collect candy and goodwill as part of the annual “Downtown Trick-or-Treat” event taking place from 3-5pm at businesses throughout Belling-ham’s urban core. Look for the balloons!
WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM
RUNNING DEAD: Avoid the zombies at all costs at the inaugural “Night of the Running Dead” event starting at 6pm at Aslan Brewing Co., 1330 N. Forest St. Runners and zombies taking part in the “urban adventure” will be making their way from ground zero to three checkpoints, and then back to the start. Entry is $50; day-of registration is available.
WWW.DATABAREVENTS.COM
MARTIN VOLKEN VISIT: Attend “An Evening with Martin Volken” at 7:30pm at Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. The professional guide and guidebook author will be sharing sto-ries and expertise gained from a lifetime in the mountains and raising awareness for Bellingham Mountain Rescue Council, a volunteer organiza-tion dedicated to saving lives through rescue and mountain safety education. Entry is $10.
WWW.BACKCOUNTRYESSENTIALS.NET
OCT. 30-31GORE & LORE TOURS: Find out more about the spooky side of local history when the Good Time Girls present “Gore & Lore” Tours for the final weekend starting at 6pm Friday in historic Fairhaven and 6pm Saturday at the Bureau of Historical Investigation, 217 W. Holly St. Entry is $15.
WWW.THEBUREAUBELLINGHAM.COM
SAT., OCT. 31BONESHAKER BIKE FEST: Tour the “boo-tiful” Skagit Valley as part of the fourth annual “Boneshaker Metric” ride starting with a mass start at 9am at the La Conner Channel Lodge, 205 N. First St. Riders can choose from a 25K, 50K or 100K—routes include views of the coun-tryside and hypnotic Cascade Mountains. Cos-tumes are strongly encouraged, and there will be a variety of festive tour stops along the way. From 3-6pm, attend a post-event celebration at Hellam’s Vineyard. Entry is $35-$40 per person, $70-$75 for families of four; funds raised ben-efit the La Conner Library Foundation.
WWW.BONESHAKERBIKEFEST.COM
HAUNTED GARDEN: Expect spooky twists and turns around every corner at a “Haunted Garden Spot Halloween” taking place from 9am-6pm at the Garden Spot Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Activities for ghouls and goblins of all ages, a photo booth and tricky treats will take place throughout the day. At 1pm, there’ll also be a Costume Contest. Entry is free.
WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM
we’ve both got our priorities right.”“Funny thing about it, though,” my as-
sistant mused as we crawled back to camp a few minutes later, “If earlier this summer you’d told me I’d still be grubbing trails in the North Cascades come mid-October, and loving it, I wouldn’t have believed you at all.
“I mean, what happened to me? My clothes are rotting off my back, my once-brand-new tent smells like a pack of wild dogs have been living in it, and right now I’m so bleeping hungry I could eat a horse!”
“Mmmm,” I concurred, splashing shin-deep through a burbling freshet. “A carcass that size would certainly get the job done. Al-though if I had my druthers, you could throw some fresh greens in there as well. I’m more of a Cobb salad man, myself.”
Dinner happened in a flash.One minute we were huddled beneath our
kitchen tarp beside a roaring campfire oblit-erating a potful of beef ravioli, and the next, we were dead to the world in our collapsible camp chairs sawing logs.
I thought the night was finished. But it had only just begun.
It was just a shade past midnight when I fi-nally stirred. Overhead, the starry sky blazed crystal clear. Peering over the ashen rem-nants of our campfire, I gazed deep into the shimmering vault of the cosmos and beheld its infinite expanse.
Across the ridge line to my north, Big Dip-per pointed the way to Polaris and I could see Great Bear winking at me. Just behind and eastward of those burly sky-bound haunches, I traced the queenly M-shape of Cassiopeia that gleamed so alluringly above the orbital plane.
Perseus stood guard nearby, brandishing his sword in one hand and the disembodied head of Medusa in the other. Then, just as the blue-hued eeriness of the Pleiades came stealing into my sightline, a full moon of ex-traordinary eminence came creeping through the timber to beguile me with its transcen-dent beams of luminescence.
It’s hard to say exactly what sort of hocus-pocus that bloodless blazing orb played on me up there, but I haven’t been the same man since.
I went hiking through the moon-dappled topography for a while, I remember that much. But just when exactly I decided to fire up the excavator and go chewing my way across the illuminated mountainside—until my buddy showed up at the crack of dawn to snap me out of it—is a mystery that will forever remain unsolved.
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FALL FAMILY FUN: Hot dog and marshmallow roasting, leaf pile jumping, hay rides, sheep feeding, games, huge stump history and photo opportunities will be part of “Fall Family Fun” events from 10am-6pm Saturdays through Nov. 21 at Everson’s Glen Echo Garden, 4390 Y Rd. Entry is $10 per family (up to four kids).
WWW.GLENECHOGARDEN.COM
WORK PARTY: Join Bellingham Parks and Recreation to remove invasive plants and mulch at a Work Party from 1-3pm along Padden Creek. Come in costume, and organizers will provide the treats. Park on Harris Street and look for signs to the trailhead.
778-7105
ANACORTES TRICK-OR-TREAT: A “Downtown Trick-or-Treat” event takes place from 2-4pm throughout downtown Anacortes. At 4pm, kids 12 and under can attend a Halloween Party featuring ghoulishly fun treats and prizes at the Majestic Inn and Space, 419 Commercial Ave.
WWW.ANACORTES.ORG
FERNDALE TRICK-OR-TREAT: Kids in costume can drop by more than 40 Ferndale Chamber of Commerce businesses participating in a “Down-town Trick-or-Treat” event from 3-5pm throughout downtown Ferndale. Entry is free.
WWW.FERNDALE-CHAMBER.COM
FAIRHAVEN TRICK-OR-TREAT: Kids and adults in costume are invited to take part in the annual “Halloween Trick-or-Treating” event from 3-6pm throughout historic Fairhaven. Shops in the district will be decorated for the holiday; look for posters at participating locales. Since Fairhaven Pharmacy closed its doors after 126 years re-cently, the annual Halloween photos will be taken in the Finnegan’s Alley Atrium (just across Harris Avenue from the pharmacy and Dos Padres). Photos will be printed immediately and given to parents. Entry is free.
WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM
MOUNT VERNON TRICK-OR TREAT: Skagit County residents are invited to participate in a safe “Trick-or-Treating” event from 3-5pm on First Street—from Kincaid to Division—in downtown Mount Vernon. At 5pm, kids are also invited to join in the annual Costume Contest at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. Prizes will be awarded in a variety of age categories.
WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG
PUMPKIN POLKA: All children—especially children with disabilities—are invited to the in-augural “Pumpkin Polka” from 4:30-6:30pm in the Sunnyland neighborhood. Participating homes will be handing out non-candy treats, have their porches well-lit, and ensure that the kids coming
to their houses will encounter a “more gentle and inclusive version of traditional trick-or-treating.” Maps identifying participating homes can be found online.
WWW.PUMPKINPOLKA.COM
SUN., NOV. 1LAKE ANNE HIKE: Join members of the Mount Baker Club for a hike to Lake Anne today. Meet at 8am at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool; sug-gested carpool fee is $6. A NWF Pass is required for trailhead parking.
WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG
RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mount Baker Bicycle Club for a “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8am every Sunday at Fairhaven Bike, 1108 11th St. The 32-mile route takes riders down Chuckanut and back via Lake Samish. The group also holds weekly rides Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG
MON., NOV. 2HIDDEN GEMS: Discover hidden parks, trails, restaurants and more at a “Hidden Gems in Whatcom County” presentation at 5:30pm at the SkillShare Space at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Your guides will provide a treasure map for you to leave with so that you can see for yourself what you’ve been missing. Entry is free.
(360) 778-7217
DIG INTO FALL: “Micro Climates” will be the focus of a multimedia presentation with Skagit County Master Gardener Sheri Hunter as part of a “Dig Into Fall” series at 6:30pm at the Mount Ver-non City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. Come learn about the ways pockets of climate exception create special challenges and special surprises all over Skagit County. Entry is free.
WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV
TUES., NOV. 3ALL-PACES RUN: Staffers and volunteers are always on hand to guide the way at the weekly All-Paces Run starting at 6pm every Tuesday at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20 minutes out and back on two key routes—by the water or through the woods. Entry is free.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
WED., NOV. 4GARDEN CLUB MEETING: “The Wonders of Hellebores” will be the focus of a presentation by Danielle Young from Skagit Gardens at a Birch-wood Garden Club meeting at 7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. All are welcome.
WWW.BIRCHWOODGARDENCLUB.ORG
THURS., NOV. 5 TRAVELOGUE: “Traveling to the Top of the World” will be the focus of a Travelogue Series presentation from 7-9pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Jeannie Dodd will be sharing her visit and understanding of the Jhamste Gatsal Children’s Community in north-eastern India. Suggested donation is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
FITNESS FORUM: Watch The Forgotten Four Min-ute Mile movie and then listen to and ask ques-tions of Jim Bailey—the man who ran the first sub-four-minute-mile on U.S. soil in 1956—at a free Fitness Forum at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Bailey currently lives in Bellingham.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
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THEATER DANCE PROFILES
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
ThrillinghamDARKNESS FALLS ACROSS THE LAND
I’VE SEEN some weird and wonderful things in the years I’ve attended “Thrill-ingham” performances in downtown Bellingham.
For example, the first time I encountered the spectacle of a horde of dancing zombies recreating Michael Jackson’s spooky “Thriller” dance—the same year the troubled 50-year-old singer accidentally overdosed on prescribed meds and left his earthly remains behind for his siblings to fight over—the resulting hubbub shut down a good portion of the Holly Street corridor. For blocks, all that could be seen in the urban core were costumed revelers and the undead dancing (and partying) in the streets.
In recent years, those organizing the annual event have moved off of public roadways and made the amphitheater at Maritime Heritage Park the nexus of the scary spectacle. It’s a good call, as there are plenty of places to perch for bird’s-eye views of the marvelous madness—which include, but are not limited to, the performers taking part in the undulating of the undead.
Last Halloween was a doozy. In addition to the hordes of dancers shuffling around as in-sync zombies during the execution of “Thriller,” other area perform-ers also shared their moves and musical talents prior to the main event, making the night come alive with sound and spectacle.
But that’s wasn’t all; not by a long shot. “Thrillingham” crowds tend to get into
the Halloween spirit. This means that part of the fun of coming to Maritime Heritage Park after darkness falls across the land is sussing out the amazing cos-tumes that are on display—whether it’s a person who painted themselves blue to more closely make themselves resemble Papa Smurf, a human-turned-Pterodacyl, a man-sized bear or an eerily spot-on child vampire.
I’m still not sure if it was a hallucina-tion, but something especially weird hap-pened at the culmination of last Octo-ber’s “Thrillingham.” After the performers had left the stage and a community dance party had commenced in the same space, out of nowhere a man on a horse—along with a woman sitting behind him on the
saddle who looked like she was hanging on for dear life—rode his gi-ant steed up the main walkway of the park. People got out of his way as he approached the stage, so I’m pretty sure they saw him, too.
But almost as quickly as the cowboy and his panicked passenger had entered the party, they soon departed, disappearing into the night. Only hoofbeats could be heard as peo-ple turned to each oth-er murmuring, “Did you just see what I saw?”
My point is this: Part of the fun of “Thrill-ingham”—which also acts as a fundraiser for Lydia Place and sees a variety of community
members practicing their moves for up to a month to make Halloween memorable for the masses—is never knowing exactly what to expect.
While you’re guaranteed to see approxi-mately 100 zombies groaning, moaning, snarling, dancing and generally acting like they’re hungry for brains, brains and more brains, what you don’t know is how the night will end, or who else will make a Halloween-night visit to downtown Bell-ingham. It could be a man on a horse—or it could be your worst nightmare.
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OCT. 28-31 STANDING ON CEREMONY: Experience unique takes on the moments before, during and after “I do” when Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays concludes this week with showings at 7:30pm Wednesday through Friday, and 2pm and 7:30pm Saturday at Western Washington University’s DUG Theater in the Performing Arts Center. The short plays “are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships and the often hilarious power of love.” Tickets are $7-$12.
650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU
THURS., OCT. 29GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “Haunted House.” Bring your ghost stories to give the performers, and it could be played out right there. Entry is $8 for the early show, $5 for the late one.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
OCT. 29-31SCREAM FAIR: Brave souls can journey into the darkness as they come face-to-face with creepy creatures and the undead at the annual Scream Fair Haunted House taking place from 6:30-9:30pm Thursday and 6:30-10:30pm Friday and Saturday at the Henry Jansen Building at Lynden’s Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Tickets are $10-$13 at the door.
WWW.LASTCHANCEPRODUCTIONS.COM/
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CLOWN BAR: Watch what happens when a former clown named Happy returns to the seedy underground clown world to find his brother’s killer when Adam Szymkowicz’s Clown Bar continues this weekend with shows at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday at iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets to see the “gritty, violent film noir mob drama—about clowns” are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Ad-ditional showings take place through Nov. 7.
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
ROCKY HORROR: Celebrate the 40th anni-versary of the cult classic known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show at viewings at 8pm and midnight Thursday through Saturday at the Mount Baker Theatre’s Walton Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Bellingham actors—including Miss Betty Desire as the criminologist—will help bring the film to life in front of the movie screen. Tickets are $15; $5 “survival kits” will be available at the door.
734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
ROCKY HORROR SHOW: The Theater Arts Guild presents The Rocky Horror Show at 8pm Thursday and Friday, and 10pm Saturday at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. Audiences are encouraged to come in costume to view the story of a “sweet transvestite from Transylvania” and an eclectic cast of characters who will bring the cult classic to life. Be ready to dance to “The Time Warp” and participate in audience shout-outs. Tickets are $12-$25. Additional showings take place Nov. 6-7.
WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG
OCT. 30-31 BAAY HAUNTED HOUSE: Students from the Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth will present “The Nightmare on Railroad” Haunted House & Show from 6:30-9:30pm (all-ages)
ATTENDWHAT: “Thrillingham”WHEN: 8pm Sat., Oct. 31WHERE: Maritime Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St. COST: Donations collected during the event will benefit Lydia Place. Raffle tick-ets will be sold at Lydia Place and the Bureau of Historical Inves-tigation the week of HalloweenINFO: www.thrill ingham.com
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and 9:30-11:30pm (21 and over) at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Lisa Markowitz’ BAAY Dance Company will start festivities with a “daz-zling and artfully ghoulish” performance, then audiences will be led down a scary road to the Garden of Doom Dungeon, laden with scary rooms of unspeakable horrors (with BAAY students and other actors providing the spirit). Entry is $5; proceeds raise scholarship money for students.
WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM
HELLINGHAM: Help figure out whodunnit when the perennially popular improvised murder mystery known as “Hellingham” returns to the stage for 8pm and 10pm shows every Friday and Saturday through October at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets to view the comedic carnage are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
SUN., NOV. 1OKLAHOMA: In partnership with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth will produce an exclusive, bonus featurette that will precede a showing of Oklahoma at 2pm in Mount Vernon at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. The performance footage will be interspersed with Chenoweth singing a few of the classic songs at the Rodgers & Hammerstein warehouse with backstory about the history of the film and musical. Tickets are $12-$16.
WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG
MON., NOV. 242ND STREET: A new touring production of the quintessential backstage musical comedy classic 42nd Street can be seen in Bellingham at a 7pm performance at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. During the play, expect to hear classic songs such as “We’re in the Money,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Lullaby of Broad-way.” Tickets to the show are $30-$69.
734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for come-dians, “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm every Monday at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. Entry is free.
WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM
NOV. 4-6LAST DAYS OF MELVILLE: The world premiere of Glenn Hergenhahn-Zhao’s The Last Days of Melville Malloy can be seen at 7:30pm Wednes-day through Friday at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Described as a “drug-fueled mystery about a famous singer gone missing,” the story reconnects the playwright with former Bellinghamster Nate Smith. Tickets are $12-$15; additional showings happen through Nov. 21.
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
DANCE THURS., OCT. 29FOLK DANCE: Join the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers to learn lively folk dances from Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Israel from 7:15-10pm every Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested donation is $5; students and first-timers are free.
(360) 380-0456
FRI., OCT. 30PARKINSON’S DANCE CLASS: Kuntz and Com-pany’s Pam Kuntz leads a dance class for people with Parkinson’s disease and other movement or neurological disorders at 10am at Ballet Bell-ingham, 1405 Fraser St., suite #103. Suggested donation is $5-$7. No registration is necessary; just show up ready to dance.
(360) 510-4711 OR WWW.KUNTZANDCO.ORG
WITCH’S BALL: All witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls are invited to a “Witch’s Ball” taking place from 8-11pm at Bellingham Dance Company, 1705 N. State St. Dance lessons in swing, ghoulish treats and a costume contest (with prizes) will be part of the Halloween fun. No partner is necessary, and all levels are welcome. Entry is $8-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY.COM
SAT., OCT. 31HALLOWEEN CONTRA DANCE: Join the Bellingham Country Dance Society for an all-ages Halloween Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Costumes are op-tional; no partner is needed, and no experience is necessary. Entry is $6-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG
SUN., NOV. 1REP REHEARSAL: See how professional dancers prepare for a performance at a Bellingham Reper-tory Dance open rehearsal taking place from 12-1:30pm at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. The company’s members can be seen practicing and refining dances for their upcoming 10th Anniversary Fall Performance taking place Nov. 19-21.
WWW.BHAMREP.ORG
TUES., NOV. 3 SKAGIT FOLK DANCERS: Join the Skagit-Anacortes Folk Dancers for a weekly International Folk Dancing event from 7-9:30pm at Bayview Civic Hall, 12615 C St. No partners are needed; just show up and dance. Entry to the drop-in event is free for the first session, $3 afterwards.
WWW.SKAGITFOLKDANCERS.ORG
CIDER BREWING BASICS
1-2p enter online $10 entry winners take pot
3-5p$15 2-4p Robert Arzoo of Northcorner Brewing Fill your carboy @ BelleWood!
Students from the Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth will present “The Nightmare on Railroad” Haunted House & Show Oct. 30-31 at the beer garden at Boundary Bay Brewery
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ONGOING EXHIBITS A.C.M.E. CREATIVE SPACE: View the “Steamroller Block Printing Project” through October at A.C.M.E. Creative Space, 705 Com-mercial Ave. The exhibit features work created curing the Anacortes Arts Festival.
WWW.ACMECREATIVE.COM
ALLIED ARTS: View “Whimsey” through Oct. 31 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The exhibit features work by Helen Dorn, Christen Mattix, Ellen Clark, Brian Simpson, and Nathan Waterstreet.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
ARTWOOD: Dining tables and chairs will be highlighted through October at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. Paintings by Francy Blumhagen will also be on display.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
BISON BOOK BINDING: A retrospective of letterpress show posters is currently on display at Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress’ new locale at 112 Grand Ave., #101.
WWW.BISONBOOKBINDING.COM
CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Nature and land-scape photographs by Damian Vines are on display through Nov. 27 at Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM
DAKOTA ARTS: View work by artists who took part in this month’s Whatcom Artist Studio Tour through October at the Dakota Art Store Gallery, 1322 Cornwall Ave.
WWW.DAKOTAARTSTORE.COM
DEMING LIBRARY: Oil paintings inspired by a collection of old black-and-white photos that feature families and their automobiles can be seen at Helen Dorn’s “Snapshot” exhibit through Oct. 30 at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem-porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
FOURTH CORNER: “The Night Gallery,” a take-off of Rod Serling’s television series of the same name, shows through Oct. 31 at Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St.
WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM
GALLERY CYGNUS: Maggie Wilder will show a “feast” of new paintings through Nov. 1 in La Conner at Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St.
WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM
GOOD EARTH: Rob Beishline’s “Broadcast News: Prints and Patterns on Clay” will be highlighted through October at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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HONEY SALON: Multimedia artist and entre-preneur Rebecca Ogden’s “Sound the Alarm” can be seen at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St.
WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM
I.E. GALLERY: An exhibit featuring works by Warren Dykeman and James Reisen is on dis-play through Nov. 15 in Edison at i.e. Gallery, 5800 Cains Court.
(360) 488-3458
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
The Night Gallery SCARY SIGHTS AWAIT YOU
“UNUSUAL” AND “startling” are two of the adjectives used to describe the word “outre.”
All three of the descriptions are apropos when it comes to talking about the art on display at Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery’s latest exhibit, “The Night Gal-lery,” which pays homage to Rod Serling’s television series of the same name.
“We invited a handful of regional artists to help us create our own ‘shadowy museum of the outre,’” read the press release that caused me to venture through the doors of the Holly Street business on the Saturday preceding Halloween.
In the early 1970s-era program—which focused more on stories of horror and the supernatural, rather than the science-fiction tales that made Serling’s The Twilight Zone series so popular—the host appeared in an art gallery setting, where he’d introduce the creepy tale that would be brought to life that night by unveiling a few of the paintings that it depicted.
“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time,” Serling would typically say. “Each is a collector’s item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each cap-ture on a canvas, suspend in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.”
At the end of each episode, the art was also what viewers saw before the
show went off the air, with the camera pausing on the strongest image before go-ing to black.
I wondered what Serling would make of Trish Harding’s oil painting “Decoy,” in
which a character that looks a lot like Little Red Riding Hood bares her fangs to someone outside of the realm of the viewers’ vision. She’s got pigtails and a red cape, but she also has a long tail, a pistol strapped to her waist and a basket full of curi-ous piglets.
“The pigs are only too happy to help,” reads a missive accompanying the painting, helping further the story of this particular (and pecu-liar) fairytale. “They are
acutely aware of the peril they have put themselves in. If only its hunger were no so insatiable. If only it were not so driven by envy, because then and only then, such covert actions would not be necessary.”
In Laurie Potter’s pastel work, “Mercu-rial,” a bare-chested madman with dark lips, aviator glasses and Medusa-esque hair looks to be cackling into the cosmos. “What do you believe is happening in this moment of his life?” the artist questions in a note underneath the painting. (If pressed, I’d say he just pressed the big red button that obliterates the world, and is happy about going nuclear.)
Other pieces that made me want to know more about the stories behind the artworks included Potter’s “The Magpie Thinks She’s Queen Bee;” Francis X. Dono-van’s big-headed multimedia “Trotsky” sculpture; multiple works by Erin Libby with maritime themes (including “Dinner at Sea,” an oil-on-wood painting with a fish whose face is more human than pi-scine); and a wonderfully complex work by George Jartos, in which it’s not clear whether it’s humans or alien-like crea-tures being sucked into some sort of gravity-defying vortex.
“The Night Gallery” is only up through Halloween, so if, like Rod Serling, you’d like to ponder unusual and startling works of art, please be aware that time is running out to do so.
SEE ITWHAT: The Night GalleryWHEN: 10am-5:30pm, through Sat., Oct. 31WHERE: Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St.INFO: www.fourthcorner frames.com
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LUCIA DOUGLAS: An exhibit featuring the work of regional artists working in a variety of mediums—including Cathy Schoenberg, Mi-chael Clough, Mary Moore Bailey, Janel Bragg, Chloe French, Margaret Van Patten, Sheryl Funkhauser and more—shows through Dec. 19 at Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St.
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LUCKY MONKEY: Photographer Jeanne McGee’s “Sanguine Landscapes” exhibit and images taken during the Day of the Dead in Mexico show through October at the Lucky Monkey, 312 W. Champion St.
(360) 647-8137
MAKE.SHIFT: View “Working Stiffs” and Dan-iel Whitsell’s “Bundles in the Rafters” through Oct. 31 at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. The exhibit features works by staff at its local business sponsors, including the RE Store, Toni & Guy Academy, and more.
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MATZKE GALLERY: The multi-artist “Visual Poetry and Abstract Expressionism” exhibit shows from 11am-5pm weekends through Nov. 8 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way.
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MINDPORT: San Francisco-based artist Romy Randey’s “Umbra” is currently on display at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. The exhibit features an interactive wall panel made from fused glass, bamboo, sensors and LEDs. Admis-sion is $2.
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MONA: “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expres-sions in Indigenous Art” shows through Jan. 3 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. The exhibit features more than 40 artists from tribes throughout the region.
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QUILT MUSUEM: “Best of the Festival,””Illusions and Shadows,” and “Great Lakes Seaway: War of 1812 International Chal-lenge” are currently on display at the La Con-ner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.
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RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related workshops happen on a regular basis at Ragfin-ery, 1421 N. Forest St. This week’s workshops
include “Nuno Felt a Wingy Scarf” (Oct. 28); and “Blooming Scraps for Kids” (Oct. 29). A “Beginning Quilting” series begins Wed., Nov. 4. See more details and register online.
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SCOTT MILO GALLERY: Marie Powell’s new monoprints will be highlighted through October in Anacortes at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. Also showing are abstract pastels by Amanda Houston, oils by Brooke Borcherding, pastels by Jan Wall, oils by Keith Sorenson, and steel mesh with glass tables by Lanny Bergner.
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SCULPTURE NORTHWEST: “Emerge”—an eclectic show of figurative, non-objective and experimental sculpture by regional artists in bronze, stone and wire —shows through Nov. 22 at Sculpture Northwest Gallery, 203 Prospect St.
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SKAGIT MUSEUM: “Mysteries of the Museum” is showing through November 8 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St.
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SMITH & VALLEE: View “Boats and Water,” featuring vessels by Lummi Island-based sculptor Anne Morris and castings made by Allen Moe, through Oct. 31 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
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WESTERN GALLERY: “The Art of Seating” shows through Dec. 11 at the Western Gallery on the Western Washington University campus. Entry is free and open to the public.
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WHATCOM ART MARKET: From 10am-6pm every Thursday through Monday, stop by the Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Helmi’s World: Symbol, Myth, Fantasy,” “The Owl and the Woodpecker: Photographs by Paul Bannick,” “Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge” and “Chipping the Blck, Painting the Silk: The Color Prints of Norma Bassett Hall” can currently be viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus.
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musicSHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT
AS USUALLY HAPPENS when I get word of a big show—this time via a slip of the tongue of one of the bands in question—it gets announced about five minutes after I say something about how I’m not allowed to announce it.
Such is the case with a Dec. 30 show at the Shakedown featuring Red Fang and Black Breath. Even as I type that sentence, I feel excitement welling up inside me. In case you’re math and commonsense deficient (it’s O.K., I am generally deficient in both those areas as well), here are a few bits of info you might find pertinent.
On their own, Red Fang is a surefire, guar-anteed sellout at the Shakedown. For certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt. On their own, Black Breath is a surefire, guaranteed sellout at the Shakedown. Also for certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt. The show was announced by the venue last week, and two days later, a quarter of the tickets had already been sold. What I’m trying to say here is, I know tickets for the show run $22 (approximately $17 more than most people are willing to pay in this town to see any band) and I’m also aware the show is two months away. However, none of that makes a difference when it comes to the following piece of advice: for the love of whatever it is you love the most, buy your tickets early. This is the number of tickets that will be left at the door the night of: zero. This is the number of eye rolls I have to dole out to everyone who does not heed my advice and then complains to me that they’ve waited too long to buy their tickets: infinite. And no one likes it when I roll my eyes at them. Just ask my mother.
Here’s a question: When was the last time you saw a show at the Sudden Valley Dance Barn? While the Sudden Valley jazz series (which re-cently announced its 2016 lineup) makes good use of the venue, you’re more likely to find tai chi classes or knitting clubs there than you are live music. However, up-and-coming local pop-punk band Trust Me I’m Scared is trying to change that, in part by hosting a Nov. 6 album-release event at the barn. The show is the first in a purported “Sudden Valley Nightlife” se-ries, and will also feature Minor Plains, a band I continue to love despite the fact that they’ve apparently become a barefoot band of late, in direct opposition to my personal squickiness about bare feet in public. (Seriously, Minor Plains, do you even know where that stage has been?) Footwear (or lack thereof) aside, Minor Plains’ math rock remains impeccable, they re-main extraordinarily skilled and seeing them play is well worth the trip to Sudden Valley. Encourage a new band, see a known quantity and help foster a new(ish) location for live mu-sic—it might just be the best five bucks you’ve ever spent in Sudden Valley.
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BY CAREY ROSS
It’s Spooktacular!HAVE A HAUNTING GOOD TIMEI’VE LIVED in Bellingham half my life, so you’d think that by this point, I would have some insight or understanding as to why this town straight loses its mind when it comes to celebrating Halloween.
But I don’t.As a person who neither tricks nor treats, I am more observer than
participant in this yearly bacchanal. But that doesn’t keep me from hitting the streets in search of hot Halloween action—although you won’t see me donning a costume anytime soon. And with this year’s holiday taking place on a Saturday, I expect the Halloween-loving masses to reduce this town to smoldering rubble by the time Novem-ber gets underway. Here’s your lowdown on the Halloween hoedown.
BOUNDARY BAY BREWERY: I’ve said it before and I will no doubt say it many more times before I’m done: Ain’t no party like a Boundary Bay party because a Boundary Bay party don’t stop. Bellingham’s longstanding brewpub is ground zero for most holiday happenings around these parts, and Halloween is second only to St. Patrick’s Day when it comes to occasions the fun-mongering Boundary crew loves most. As has become tradition in the past few years, the beer garden will be transformed into the Nightmare on Railroad on Oct. 30 and 31 (with a little help from the creative cadre at Bellingham
Arts Academy for Youth), and Scary Monster & the Super Creeps will headline what is always a righteous party on Halloween proper. Will it top the year the Thriller dancers showed up out-side for an unexpected flash-mob performance? That remains to be seen. WHERE: 1107 Railroad Ave.
INFO: www.bbaybrewery.com
CABIN TAVERN: If ever Bellingham had a zombie band, it would have to be Clambake. Just when I think we’ve heard the last from these local rock-ers, Halloween happens—and so does Clambake. Always good for an entertaining evening, this time Clambake takes their show to the Cabin Tavern, where they will no doubt roar back to life with their own inimitable, swaggering style. But lest you think you’ve heard the last from this capable quartet, it should be known they’re already hard at work on their annual Christmas extravaganza, not to mention a new album titled Too Dumb to Die, an appropriately cheeky name for Bellingham’s own walking dead. WHERE: 307 W.
Holly St. INFO: www.facebook.com/clambake
GLOW NIGHTCLUB: Like the broken record that I am, I have a habit of repeating the same thing about Glow, time and again: When it comes to being able to observe the shit-show that is Hal-loween in downtown Bellingham, there is no
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FRI., OCT. 30CREEPY CABARET: Lively entertainment and delicious food combine at the fifth annual “Creepy Cabaret” taking place from 6:30-8:30pm at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. While you’re enjoying a chili dinner, talented students will entertain with solo and ensemble performances. Entry is $10.
(360) 676-6575
NIGHTMARE BEFORE HALLOWEEN: A rare performance by Captain Fathom will be part of “A Nightmare Before Halloween” taking place from 7-11pm in Anacortes at the Depot Community Center, 611 R Ave. The Openers will also perform, and there’ll be costume contest, a photo booth, a no-host bar provided by Ana-cortes Brewery, and more. Tickets are $8-$12.
WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM
PETER MAWANGA: Traditional Malawian rhythms can be heard when Peter Mawanga & the Amaravi Movement perform at 7:30pm in Mount Vernon at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $22-$30.
WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG
SAT., OCT. 31YOUTH SYMPHONY: Talented students from Skagit, Island, and Snohomish counties will take part in a Fidalgo Youth Symphony Concert at 1pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $1-$10.
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SUN., NOV. 1FESTIVAL OF MUSIC: St. John’s Ensemble, Bellingham Damekor, Men of Immanuel, Bell-ingham Mannakor, and pianist Nick Swanson will be among the performers taking part in a “Festival of Music” concert at 2pm at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 2530 Cornwall Ave. The free concert will celebrate St. John’s 125 years of service to Whatcom County.
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POWER TRIO: The power trio of mandolinist John Reischman, guitarist Scott Nygaard, and bassist/mandolinist Sharon Gilchrist can be heard at a 2pm concert at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. Tickets are $15.
(360) 733-5960
WED., NOV. 4MUSIC CLUB CONCERT: Hear Martin Kuusk-mann on bassoon and Jeffrey Gilliam on piano at a Bellingham Music Club concert at 10:30am at Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 Texas St. Entry is by donation.
WWW.BELLINGHAMMUSICCLUB.ORG
THURS., NOV. 5 MVHS JAZZ: The Mount Vernon High School jazz bands perform at a “Live at the Lincoln” concert at 7pm at the town’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. Entry is by donation.
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SAPPHIRE WINDS: Listen to works by Reich, Shapiro, Kurtag, and Davidovsky when Sapphire Winds performs at a free concert at 7:30pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU
NIGHT BEAT: Grammy-nominated bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann, accompanied on piano by WWU professor Jeffrey Gilliam, will perform at a Bellingham Music Club “Night Beat” concert at 7:30pm at the First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $20.
WWW.BELLINGHAMMUSICCLUB.ORG
better vantage point than the Holly Street hotspot. They’ll be celebrating all weekend long with Halloweekend Ghouls and Ghosts parties happening Friday and Saturday that will feature dance music, drink specials and more. And when you need to take a break from dancing, order a cocktail and wander up-stairs to watch the spectacle unfolding in the streets below. Trust me, you will not regret it. WHERE: 202 E. Holly St. INFO: www.glowbellingham.com
THE GREEN FROG: Halloween is probably thought of as a holiday with no soul, but that’s all going to change if Baby Cakes has anything to do with it. Bellingham’s eight-piece funk, soul and R&B band will no doubt pack the Green Frog’s stage to capacity—and most likely the venue itself as well, so you may not want to be tardy to this party. However, you’ll want to make certain your costume is not so restrictive that it keeps you from dancing, as that’s the main item on this Halloween menu. WHERE: 1015 N. State St.
INFO: www.acoustictavern.com
HONEY MOON: Bellingham’s low-key meadery might not be the first place one thinks of when one thinks of places that go all out for Halloween, but mak-ing such assumptions would be dead wrong for a couple of reasons. The first is the Scary Stories for Adults event happening Fri., Oct. 30, which promises to highlight “true ghost and fairy tales” for the aforementioned adults and “ma-ture children willing to be spooked.” The second is the yearly Dead Musicians Hal-loween Party taking place on Halloween that encourages musicians (and come-dians, poets, etc.) to not only perform music as their favorite bygone artist, but also to dress as them too. WHERE:1053 N. State St. INFO: www.facebook.com/
honeymoonmead
MAKE.SHIFT ART SPACE: Given the suc-cess of the Valentine’s Day Cover Show that has happened for the past five years or so at Make.Shift, it only makes sense that the arts nonprofit would decide to rope another holiday into the cover-band action, and what more appropriate holiday than Halloween, when everyone dedicates considerable effort to being something or someone they’re not? The all-ages show, which takes place Fri., Oct. 30, will feature music by Bauhaus, Danzig, My Chemical Romance, the Cure, and more, all performed by your favorite local musical luminaries. WHERE: 306 Flora
St. INFO: www.makeshiftproject.com
PRESENCE STUDIO: For those who de-sire a kinder, gentler way to celebrate
All Hallows Eve, Sacred Bass Sessions is planning the party for you. Taking place Fri., Oct. 30 at Presence Studio, the costume ball and dance party is dubbed “Lifting the Veils Between the Worlds” and will offer yoga, a community circle, live art and, of course, music (by the likes of Yaima, Subaqueous, Mr. Moo, and more) pumped through Boogie Uni-versal’s formidable sound system. Art, music and community will converge to create an event that is all-ages, family-friendly and an alternative to the rowdy bar scene. WHERE: 1412 Cornwall Ave. INFO: www.sacredbass.org
THE SHAKEDOWN: As Halloween plans firmed up at venues all over town, and I didn’t see Horror Business listed any-where, I began to be concerned that this longtime Halloween tradition had final-ly met an undesirable and unwelcome end. But then the Shakedown came to the rescue with a lineup that includes the Misfits tribute band (devillocks and all), as well as Flannel (who will play a set of Weezer songs) and Ween cover band Brown Town. Bands in Bellingham come and go, but Horror Business will never die. WHERE: 1212 N. State St. INFO: www.shakedownbellingham.com
THE SWILLERY: Do I know what kind of Halloween-specific action the Swillery has in store for us all? Nope. Seems to be a bit of a mystery. But with a mu-sical lineup that includes Eagle Teeth, Cat Bomb, and Second Hand Suits, you’ll get original music rather than covers, strong drinks from the bar and horror movies shown on the wall all night long. The Swillery also bears the distinction of being the place where a kindly man once told me I was beautiful—right before he tumbled off his barstool and onto the floor—and I wasn’t even dressed as a naughty nurse at the time. WHERE: 118 W. Holly St. INFO: www.facebook.
com/swillery.whiskeybar
WILD BUFFALO: Never ones to be out-done by, well, anyone, the Wild Buffalo is going all out this year for Halloween. The holiday starts early, on Fri., Oct. 30, when Beat Connection will take the stage. But that’s just a warmup for Hal-loween itself, when Polecat—the wildly popular bluegrass stomp band that has come to rule Halloween around these parts—will don what will no doubt be some wildly inventive costumes and bring down what is sure to be a sold-out house. If all that were not enough, somehow the powers that be at the Buff nabbed Beats Antique for a post-Halloween, Sunday-night show, which is also sure to sell out. Yes, that’s a lot to cram into one weekend, but you can al-ways recover at work on Monday. WHERE:208 W. Holly St. INFO: www.wildbuffalo.net
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filmMOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS
BY CAREY ROSS
Milk MenOF FILMS AND FARMS
I FIRST met documentary filmmaker Janice Haaken a few months ago at a screening of a rough cut of her latest effort, Milk Men, at the PFC’s Limelight Cinema. The show-ing brought together those involved in the movie—which documents the challenges and day-to-day lives of commercial dairy farmers, both in this area and beyond—from people who provided financial support to crew members to dairy farmers themselves.
Since that first meeting, Haaken has been hard at work further polishing Milk Men in hopes of reaching an expanded audience with her insightful documentary. The public will have a chance to view her labor of love at sneak-preview screenings taking place Oct. 30 and 31 at the Pickford Film Center. Haaken will be on hand at the showings to answer audience questions, but first she answered a few of mine. Cascadia Weekly: This is not your first foray into documentary filmmaking, but it does
seem a bit removed from your previous subject matter. What drew you to dairy farmers and the dairy industry, and what made you realize there was a story to be told here?
Janice Haaken: In terms of my background professionally as a filmmaker, I am pro-fessor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University and have a long history
of field research and documentary films focused on stressful jobs, particularly jobs carried out in places that have be-come the focus of public controversy and confusion. I have carried out projects in refugee camps, war zones, centers for asylum seekers, psychiatric hospitals, VA clinics, hip-hop clubs and drag bars. These are all places where people are dealing with complex and challenging human issues, and I’m interested in
how people in such settings can provide insights on what is going on. I try to find bridges between the unique features of a locale and the people that inhabit it and the larger world beyond its borders...
I became very curious about what was going on with dairy farms since many of my stu-dents...expressed deep moral concern about dairy farm-ing—and most of their information was coming from highly sensationalized or
over-simplified online sources. So as an academic as well as a filmmaker, I thought I could contribute to a more thoughtful and complex look at what is going on with some of these farms as they deal with intense economic and technological pressures… Many of the progressive documentaries on dairy farmers tend to over-idealize the small farmer, with his handful of cows, and do not really address the dilem-mas of commercial dairy farmers. The more I learned about surviving dairies, the more I became aware there was an important story to be told from their point of view about modernity itself.
CW: Your documentary focuses on a variety of dairy operations. How’d you come to choose farms in Whatcom and Skagit counties? What are your ties to this area?
JH: Part of my motivation for making Milk Men was in using the medium of film to help bridge the deep cultural divides in this country as well between urban and
rural people. There are crude stereo-types on both sides. (In my extended family, we were the “city slickers” and they were “country hicks.”) I have deep family roots in the Whatcom and Skagit areas. My grandparents, John and Ragla Hawkinson, settled in Whatcom County as immigrants from Norway. My mother’s parents, Sigrid and Gunhard Gunderson, were also Norwegian immigrants who settled in Whatcom County. Many of my relatives from both sides of the family are still in the Whatcom area, as well as in the Skagit Valley. My parents moved to Seattle where my dad worked in fisheries and then for the airlines, but we spent most summers and holidays up in the Skagit and Whatcom areas. I remember my Uncle Chap and Aunt Annie (Dykers)—dairy farmers in Mount Vernon—because they were one of the hubs for family gatherings.
Milk Men uses the storytelling device of the personal journey—in this case the journey of returning to a place in childhood to understand how things have changed... But this personal his-tory was also the basis of engaging local dairy producers in the project. The first producer that I approached—Alan Mesman—knew my Uncle Chap. His dad and my uncle had farmed together in Mount Vernon. I also asked relatives in the area about farmers they knew and respected and then visited them to see if they might be interested in being part of a documentary film project. I ended up selecting four families that captured some of the diversity in size of farms and different personality characteris-tics. The participants saw work samples at different phases of the project and stayed with me in part because they be-lieved in the importance of community education about farming.
CW: What drives you to make documenta-ries, and what’s next for you?
JH: A big part of the joy of making documentaries is in using the medium of film to stimulate dialogue on issues that people care passionately about. The challenge—as a filmmaker and psy-chologist—is to help people to be able to listen to each in the midst of intense emotions, particularly where whole ways of life are at stake.
Milk Men is my sixth feature-length documentary film. My most recent films are Guilty Except for Insanity (focused on patients and staff at the Oregon State Hospital and their explanations for how people get in and out of that facility) and Mind Zone (a film focused on combat stress control in the U.S. military)... Milk Men is being submitted to festivals and under review by several distributors. I am currently working with the University of Michigan Ann Arbor on a new documen-tary about women’s health care in East Africa, expected to begin in January.
ATTENDWHAT: Milk Men, w/director Janice HaakenWHEN: 6:15pm Fri., Oct. 30; 1pm Sat., Oct. 31WHERE: Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St.COST: $7.50-$10.75INFO: www.pickfordfilm center.org
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County Council election and were dis-satisfied with it. So, in 2007, the County Council placed a Charter amendment for countywide voting on the 2008 election ballot, and the voters of Whatcom chose to return to countywide voting after hav-ing experienced district-only voting. Vot-ers exercised their will.
Whatcom voters deserve to have as many options as possible available to them. Props. 2 and 3 are specifically de-signed to limit voters’ options, by severe-ly restricting the County Council’s ability to offer those options to voters.
Please don’t allow coal terminal inter-ests and their supporters to try and stack our County Council makeup in their favor. “Reject” Propositions 1, 2, and 3.
—Sandy Robson, Blaine
REJECT THE JAIL TAXThe Bellingham Herald recently report-
ed, “the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) very rarely takes 17-year-olds into foster care, too often leaving them to their own devices. But consider this: Washington leads the na-tion in jailing kids for non-criminal of-fenses, such as running away.”
Community involvement in a jail plan is essential. “Build it and they will come” should not be the design for a jail. Like death, most people do not want to think about the incarcerated, “they are someone else’s problem.” But these people are part of our community and we must be aware of their situations. Pub-lic policy, poverty, social constructs and disassociation with other people mani-fests as our growing incarceration rate: our war against “bad” people. The solu-tion is not larger jails, it is in looking at causes, alternatives and doing the work it takes as families and communities to stop disenfranchising our neighbors and their kids.
America has a proud tradition of inde-pendence. It also has a tradition of de-fending the troubled and those in need of defense. We can focus this tradition lo-cally, not just letting mechanical govern-ment policy dictate the community and world we want.
Vote no more taxes for this jail and de-mand community involvement in the vi-sion and creation of a justice system that represents our values.
—Donna Starr, Blaine
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. That is a fact. It is so high that just yesterday it was reported in the New York Times that
the police chiefs of some of America’s larg-est cities (including New York City, Los An-geles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Seattle) have joined in a nationwide call to reduce the prison population.
Our Top Cops have concluded that we are jailing too many people. They argue that criminalizing so much nonviolent behavior and long mandatory sentences fail to improve public safety and cost too many tax dollars.
This is one more reason to oppose the construction of this oversized and too-expensive proposed new county jail. Please pause long and hard before you tax yourselves, and then join me in vot-ing NO on Whatcom County Prop 2015-1.
—Tom Goetzl, Bellingham
END THE INSANITYHere are direct quotes from CBC Radio.
“After the long 11-week election season, election day is finally here. If you’re not registered, it’s not too late. Go to any polling place today.” This is an interest-ing contrast to our system of endless elec-tions and difficulty registering for some.
Justin Trudeau favors lower taxes on the middle class and higher taxes on the ultra-rich and a generous benefit system. Does that remove the incentive to work and create jobs?
Denmark has universal health care, free college education, and heavily subsidized daycare. The ultra-rich are highly taxed. Employment percentages and happiness (via numerous studies) are much higher than here.
Locally there is a flood of coal company money coming into our election to sup-port Propositions 1, 2, and 3. They want to pillage Whatcom County’s pristine coastline and the planet for a few years of profitability, before leaving us with a monumental environmental cleanup.
Support sanity and Propositions 9 and 10. Elect leaders that will think ahead, such as Todd Donovan and Satpal Sidhu.
—Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham
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A Brilliant Young Mind: This heart-warming and life-affirming story follows the unconventional and hilarious relationship between student and teacher—whose roles are often reversed—and the unfathomable experience of first love—even when you don’t understand what love is. (Unrated • 1 hr. 51 min.)
The Assassin: An intensely beautiful, robustly styl-ish and thoughtfully paced samurai movie the likes of which you’ve never seen before from one of cinema’s unsung (but rarely underestimated) greats, Hou Hsiao-hsien. (Unrated • 1 hr. 47 min.)
Bridge of Spies: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks team up for the fourth time to tell the true(ish) story of a lawyer, a spy and some seriously suspenseful 1950s Cold War “diplomacy” in what is seen by some as the first big contender of this year’s Oscar season.
(PG-13 • 1 hr. 43 min.)
Burnt: Somehow, Bradley Cooper has transformed himself from the epitome of a comedic playboy and lightweight rom-com star into the kind of actor with four Oscar noms to his credit. That said, although harmlessly entertaining, this movie is not going to earn him a fifth nod from the Academy—but as food porn goes, it’s not so bad. (R • 1 hr. 40 min.)
Crimson Peak: You can have your artless, lowest-common-denominator torture porn; I’ll take my horror movies made with extraordinary vision and creepi-ness to match by writer/director Guillermo del Toro.
(R • 1 hr. 59 min.)
Doctober: This week in Doctober offerings you’ll find a study of dairy farmers (Milk Men), the story of those with and without disabilities coming together to film a Western (Becoming Bulletproof), a look at counterin-telligence in the War on Terror from the point of view of an FBI informant ((T)error), a glimpse at a great art collection and the remarkable life of the woman who cobbled it together (Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict), the story of country-music royalty the Carter Family (The Winding Stream), and more. (Unrated)
Experimenter: I will watch anything that stars Peter Sarsgaard, even when he’s portraying Stanley Milgram, made famous for conducting experiments in which he compelled ordinary people to shock the hell out of strangers in the name of studying obedience. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 30 min.)
Freeheld: New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester’s pension ben-efits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 43 min.)
Goosebumps: Maybe you didn’t grow up on R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books. Maybe you didn’t have a childhood. That’s perfectly fine—now you can watch all of them at once (well, maybe not quite all of the 200-something of the tomes currently in existence) with Jack Black playing the role of the prolific and iconic kid-lit author. (PG • 1 hr. 43 min.)
Hotel Transylvania 2: On the one hand, this animated sequel has Adam Sandler (kiss of death) attached to it. On the other, it’s a kids movie with a Halloweenish theme, and how much damage can
Sandler do as just one member of an ensemble cast? It’s not like he wrote the script or voices the main character. Oh wait... (1 hr. 29 min.)
The Intern: This comedy finds Robert De Niro star-ring as a business owner and widower who some-how (I’m sure you’ll probably have to suspend your disbelief to buy this plot conceit) becomes an intern at Anne Hathaway’s fashion website. I suppose bigger crimes in Hollywood have been committed by those far less qualified than De Niro and Hathaway. (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 1 min.)
Jem and the Holograms: Jem is neither excitement nor adventure, glamour, glitter, fashion or fame in this ill-advised live-action adaptation of the short-lived ‘80s cartoon. Truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. (PG • 1 hr. 58 min.)
The Last Witch Hunter: Quoting directly from the synopsis, this is a movie in which “Vin Diesel is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.” The jokes, they make themselves. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 46 min.)
The Martian: Based on a bestselling book (by Andy Weir), directed by a master of large-scale, cinematic sci-fi (Ridley Scott), starring a universally competent and compelling actor (Matt Damon) and an excellent ensemble cast (Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Chiwe-tel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig), this is the sci-fi epic you’re looking for. (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.)
Our Brand is Cr isis: Based (loosely) on the excel-lent 2005 documentary of the same, this mediocre adaptation starring Sandra Bullock is worthy neither of the story nor its star, but it probably won’t make you scorn your entire existence either. (R • 1 hr. 48 min.)
Pan: All I have to say about this movie is, if you’re going to give critics such a pun-worthy title to work with, you’d better make a real good film. Critics, cue the pan puns. (PG • 1 hr. 51 min.)
Rock the Kasbah: Even Bill Murray can’t save this one. (R • 1 hr. 40 min.)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Directed by Michael Landon’s son and with a cast that includes Cloris Leachman, Tye Sheridan, and David Koechner, this horror comedy is either real bad or so bad it’s good. (R • 1 hr. 33 min.)
Steve Jobs: Does the world need another movie about Steve Jobs? No. But is the Steve Jobs movie the world needs the one written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Michael Fassbender, and lauded by critics far and wide? I’d argue the answer is yes. (R • 2 hrs. 2 min.)
Woodlawn: An Alabama high school desegregates, all racial hell breaks loose and the entire fabric of society is on the verge of collapse until a football player leads the team to a religious awakening and likely some kind of athletic glory as well. This is purportedly based on a true story. I’m sure no artistic license was taken because God sees all. (PG • 2 hrs. 3 min.)
BY CAREY ROSS
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A “Yoga for Daily Living” class takes place from 6:30-7:45pm Wednesdays at Lyn-den’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. The class consists of breathing practices, physical exercises, and mental focus. No experience is necessary. Entry to the ongoing event is $60 for six classes. More info: www.jansenartcenter.com
Abby Staten leads “Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis” class-es from 10-11am Tuesdays and 11am-12pm Fridays at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly events are free for people with MS, and no reg-istration is required. Please bring a blanket or yoga mat. More info: [email protected]
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Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) meets at 7pm Tues-days and Thursdays and 9am Saturdays at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth St. More info: (360) 420-8311 or www.puget-soundsaa.org
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“Neurofeedback” will be the focus of a presentation with Joan Cross at 6:30pm Thurs., Oct. 29 at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. If your identity is gripped by hyperactivity, in-somnia, post trauma, mood swings, anger, headaches, in-efficiency, etc., find out how you can change your persona drug-free. More info: www.skagitfoodcoop.com
The Arthritis Foundation presents a “Better Joints: Strategies for Living with Arthritis” series from 3:30-5:30pm Tues., Nov. 3 and Tues., Nov. 10 at St. Luke’s
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Michelle Mahler schools attendees on “Natural Skin Care” at 6:30pm Tues., Nov. 3 at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. Learn to make luxurious and healing skin and hair care products with essential oils, jojoba oil, Vitamin E oil, borageseed oil, and more! Entry is free; there’s an optional supply fee of $10-$20. The class happens again. Nov. 19. More info: www.skagitfoodcoop.com
Jim Ehmke focuses on “De-tox and Fasting” at a class from 6:30-8:30pm Wed., Nov. 4 at the Cordata Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. He’ll discuss colon cleansing, enemas, colonics, and other gut-cleansing systems. Learn why longevity is directly linked to calorie restriction and the advantages of intermittent fasting. Entry is $5. More info: www.communityfood.coop
Jean Christensen dis-cusses “Craniosacral Ther-apy” at 6:30pm Wed., Nov. 4 in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. She will discuss how the cranial bones and the sa-crum move in relation to one another and why dysfunction in this system and their sur-rounding structures can have profound effects throughout the body. Entry is free; reg-ister in advance. More info: www.skagitfoodcoop.com
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often26 Schwarzenegger
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portraits41 Type of card for
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Last Week’s Puzzle
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): On a January morn-ing in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather. At 7:30am the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, ther-mometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn’t have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. “They are danc-ing for joy,” Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when clues about the real key’s location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice
about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and enter-tains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flour-ishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, border-ing on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you will choose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby sus-pended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who.
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BY AMY ALKON
THE ADVICE GODDESSTHE ALONE RANGERSometimes, when my boyfriend is upset, he wants comforting, just like I would. He’ll vent or lay his head in my lap, and I stroke his hair. But sometimes, he just sits on the couch and says nothing. How do I know what he needs, and how do I feel better about it when it isn’t me? —Man Cave Confusion
Just like women, men often verbal-ize complex emotions—for example, “I want sausage and pepperoni on that.”
The truth is, men have feelings; they just don’t hang them out to dry on the balcony railing like big cotton granny panties. Developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson, who studies sex dif-ferences, notes in Warriors and Worriers that men, who evolved to be the war-riors of the species, typically express emotions less often and with less intensity than women. Men are espe-cially likely to put a lid on fear and sadness, emotions that reflect vulner-ability—though it’s also the rare man you’ll hear chirp to his buddy, “OMG, those are, like, the cutest wingtips!”
Men’s emotional coolness is an evolved survival tactic, Benenson ex-plains. “Emotions communicate feel-ings to others. They also affect our own behavior.” In battle, “a person who loses control of his emotions cannot think clearly about what is happening around him. Revealing to the enemy that one feels scared or sad would be even worse.”
Women, on the other hand, bond through sharing “personal vulnerabili-ties,” Benenson notes. Men and wom-en do have numerous similarities—like having the adrenaline-infused fight-or-flight reaction as our primary physi-ological response to stress. However, psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women also have an alternate stress response, which she named “tend-and-befriend.” “Tending” involves self-soothing through caring for oth-ers, and “befriending” describes “the creation of and maintenance of social networks” to turn to for comforting. (And no, she isn’t talking about Face-book or Instagram.)
So, as a woman, you may long to snuggle up to somebody for a restor-ative boohoo, but for a man, opening up about his feelings can make him feel worse—and even threatened. The problem is we have a tendency to
assume other people are emotionally wired just like us. Being mindful of that and of the evolutionary reasons a guy might need to go off in a cor-ner to lick his wounds might help you avoid taking it personally: “I’m upset about how you’re upset!” (Great! And now his problem has a problem.)
It would be helpful if an upset man would hang a “Do not disturb” sign on his face when he just wants to drink a beer (or four) and watch South Park. You could try to read his body lan-guage—like crossed arms and stiff posture saying “go away.” But if his body isn’t speaking up all that clearly, you could say, “I’m here if you wanna talk—or if you don’t.” If it’s the latter, stock the fridge; make him a sandwich; make him some sex. In other words, comfort him in the way a clammed-up guy needs to be comforted. It beats being the girlfriend version of the en-thusiastic good Samaritan who, on a slow day, forces little old ladies across the street at gunpoint.
WAKING UP RUSTEDMy girlfriend loves to “spoon” when we sleep. She says it makes her feel safe and loved. I have recently developed spinal problems and have to sleep on my back like a corpse with this weird neck pillow. I’ll put my hand on her thigh to make her feel connected, but it’s not really cutting it. I suspect this reminds her of her marriage fall-ing apart and her now ex-husband sleeping on the other side of the bed with a bunch of pillows between them. —Ouch
Sometimes a person’s need feel to safe and loved has to be forgone for the other person’s need to not be an Oxy-addicted hunchback at 45.
You can surely understand where she’s coming from. Nothing like going from sleeping lovingly intertwined with somebody to feeling as if you’re sleeping next to an open casket. This may feel even worse for your girl-friend if she does associate physical distance with emotional distance, having had an ex who built a Berlin Wall of pillows between them and would only have been farther away in bed if he’d slept on the floor.
What you can do is promise to make it up to her with extra affection when you’re out of bed—and do that: Go to cuddlesville when you’re watching TV together; shower with her; put your arms around her and kiss her head while she’s washing a mug. (P.S. This is also a smart practice for men who don’t sleep on a foam log.) Love does involve making sacrifices, but one of them probably shouldn’t be no longer being able to feel your toes.
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Pumpkin Power MORE THAN JUST A SCARE TACTIC
As I was leaving his farm a few weeks ago, the farmer tossed me a parting gift in the form of a large green and orange orb.
“It’s a special variety of pumpkin, called a Kakai, grown specifically for its seeds,” he told me.
It was curiously light for its size, suggesting a big air cavity inside. My wife and kids carved it into a scary face. She then came into the house and an-nounced how good the seeds were.
“I’m not surprised, dearest,” I prepared to lecture. “It’s a special pumpkin bred for—wait, are you eating the seeds raw?”
Indeed she was. I munched on one myself, had another, and was struck not only by how delicious they were, but also how soft. They were a bit slimy, too, but that air-dried away in a few minutes. Roasted, the seeds were divine pump-kin seed glory. They puffed out in the heat, into oblong chunks of seed meat that were bereft of the usual seed coat. Alas, there were surprisingly few seeds inside, for such a large pumpkin.
Pumpkins are a powerhouse plant in human history, one that can produce tremendous amounts of edible material in the flowers, flesh and seeds. A Na-tive American food, pumpkins were one of Christopher Columbus’ most valuable New World acquisitions. They were originally cultivated in Spain, but soon found their way to Austria, where they were adopted in a major way.
The province of Styria in southeast Austria became ground zero for all things
pumpkin seed oil. By the 1700s, Styrian bu-reaucrats were regulating its production. In the late 1800s, a mutant came along in which the seed’s hard shell was replaced by a soft membrane, and the naked-seeded pumpkin was born. Its soft-seeded descen-dants became the progenitors of the finest edible and oilseed pumpkins in the world. Today, there are about a dozen varieties of naked-seed pumpkins, all of Austrian de-scent, according to Jay Gilbertson of Hay River Pumpkin Seed Oil company in Prairie
Farm, Wis. And despite its recent tune-up in Europe, pumpkin is more American than apple pie, he told me on the phone.
When they got started in 2006, Gilbert-son and his partner Ken Seguine planted as many pumpkin seed varieties as they could get their hands on, and finally settled on a variety that grew well on their land. While he wouldn’t tell me which variety—“it’s our only secret”—he said the seeds are considerably larger and more plentiful than the ones in a Kakai pumpkin.
I went to the store and picked up a few bottles of pumpkin seed oil, one Austrian and one domestic, and played around with them. The domestic, Omega Nutrition brand, is lighter; the Austrian Castelmuro brand is darker and stronger. Both have a deeply toasted smell that’s almost burnt, almost smoky, but not quite. It is a nutty, oily chord, in baritone, and I could see why it’s occasionally used as a replacement for toasted sesame oil in Asian dishes.
The culinary uses of pumpkin seed oil are limited by the fact that you can’t cook with it, as it readily breaks down in heat. So it’s often added raw to dishes as a fin-ishing touch. In Austria, pumpkin seed oil is added to various preparations of meat, like rare slices of beef, or mixed into sal-ad dressings, often with cider vinegar. It is even added to sweets like vanilla ice cream, to which it imparts its nutty flavor in a pleasing way.
That night I went Styrian style and put Kürbiskernöl, as they call it, on everything. I drizzled it on salad, salmon and squash, dipped tomato slices into it, and tried to follow a recipe for pumpkin seed and wal-nut oil mayonnaise, which failed.
The flavor of pumpkin seed oil is not for everyone. My wife thinks it is quite dis-gusting, and busts me whenever I try to adulterate with it. That didn’t sound right, but in any case, I at least am a fan. And it seems I’m not alone.
“If I had a million bottles, I could sell every one,” Erickson said. Unfortunately, the pumpkin-farming conditions in his area have not been favorable recently. “The last two years have been disastrous,” he says. “Cool summers and too much moisture.”
This made me appreciate my Kakai pump-kin all the more deeply. Those seeds. While they are quite edible raw, cooked they are straight-up spectacular, thick and meaty and bursting with flavor. Straight out of the oven and dressed with olive oil, salt and garlic salt, they exploded in my mouth.
It also made me appreciate all pumpkin and squash seeds. Well, the yummy ones, anyway. They really are worth eating, so don’t forget the seeds when you carve that pumpkin. At the farmers market, growers can direct you to the pumpkins and squash with the best seeds.
And yeah, those seeds will probably have husks. I chew them up and swallow, husks and all. With all the pumpkin pie I’ll soon be eating, I could use a little extra fiber.
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THURS., OCT. 29LYNDEN FARMERS MARKET: Procure goods from local growers at the final Lynden Farmers Market of the season from 12-5pm at 324 Front St. (across from the Jansen Art Center).
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BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKET: Peruse and purchase a plethora of locally grown produce, ready-to-eat foods, crafts and more at the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, 1100 Railroad Ave. The market runs every Saturday through Dec. 19.
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SUN., NOV. 1COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Meet and greet local politicians as they serve you coffee and made-from-scratch pancakes, french toast, sausage, eggs and more at the monthly Community Break-fast taking place from 8am-1pm at the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. Entry is $2 for kids, $5 for adults.
(360) 354-4501
TASTE OF SKAGIT: Those 21 and over can celebrate fine wine, spirits and artisan food procured locally at the Cantabile Chamber Choir’s “Taste of Skagit Valley” fundraiser taking place from 4-7pm at La Conner’s Maple Hall, 104 Com-mercial. Attendees will be enjoying the bounty of the Skagit Valley as they support musical excellence in the community. Live jazz and songs by the choir will be part of the fun. Tickets are $30 and include five beverage tastings, a variety of food, a souvenir tasting glass, access to local vendors, a raffle and a silent auction.
WWW.CANTABILEOFSKAGITVALLEY.ORG
GRAPE & GOURMET: Sip on selections from more
than 35 regional wineries and eat fare from some of Whatcom County’s best restaurants at Belling-ham Bay Rotary’s annual “Grape & Gourmet” fun-draiser from 5-8:30pm at the Silver Reef Casino, 4876 Haxton Way. Entry is $80-$100; funds raised benefit local charitable organizations.
WWW.BELLINGHAMBAYROTARY.COM
MON., NOV. 2 SMALL PLATES: Chef Jesse Otero focuses on the culinary culture of the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean at a “Small Plates of the World: Meze” course from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Grilled haloumi cheese with pomegranate and za’atar, grape-leaf pie with mint-yogurt sauce, and merguez lamb sausages will be on the menu. Entry is $45.
WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM
TUES., NOV. 3CARIBBEAN KITCHEN: Fried plaintains with Trinidad callalo soup, garlic cassava, and stew pork with red beans will be on the menu when Trinidad native Sarah Chen leads “The Caribbean Kitchen: Classic Creole Cuisine” from 6:30-9:30pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $39.
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WED., NOV. 4ADVANCED KNIFE SKILLS: Chef Erik Morris helms a hands-on “Advanced Knife Skills” course from 6:30-8:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Students will practice on fruits, vegetables and meat that will be put to good use in a communal meal at the end of class. Registration fees are $40.
WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM
THURS., NOV. 5 HEALTHY HOLIDAY FEAST: Alissa Segersten of Whole Life Nutrition demonstrates recipes that will boost your health and keep you balanced during the holidays at a “Healthy Holiday Feast” class from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Winter quinoa salad, pumpkin soup, brined turkey breast, raw chocolate truffles, and dandelion root chai tea will be made. Entry is $39.
WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM
NOV. 5-6BAKE SALE: Homemade baked goods (including Dutch specialties) can be purchased at a Holiday Baked Goods & Crafts Sale happening from 9am-3pm Thursday and Friday at the Lynden Com-munity Center, 401 Grover St. Lunch will also be available for $5. Entry to the event is free.
WWW.LYNDENCOMMUNITYCENTER.ORG
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