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Category: FEATURES
Whatcom basketball enters home stretch
Story by Kara Veldman, photos by Vica Kazantseva This year, the basketball teams at Whatcom Community College have the strongest sense of family than in any other year.
Whatcom offers new scholarships for studying abroad
By: Katie Linton “As the saying goes, ‘to boldly go where you haven’t been before.’” Says Ulli Schraml, the associate director and study abroad coordinator of international programs. Whatcom Community College offers several scholarships to help make study abroad programs more accessible to all students.
Whatcom Running Start director retires
Story by Kara Veldman, Photo by Alex George The Running Start community makes up a large population at Whatcom Community College, with over 900 students participating in it. The program allows high school juniors and seniors to attend Whatcom tuition-free and have the credits count for both high school and…
Student wins Transforming Lives award
By Cailean McLeod Jonathan Tyler Gilmore received the 2016 Transforming Lives Award last quarter for his success at Whatcom Community College. “The award is very significant to me because it represents what not only veterans are capable of, but also what people from broken families are capable of,” Gilmore said.
Veterans drive sustainable farming within the county
By Vica Kazantseva “To empower military veterans to grow food, communities and each other.” This is the mission statement from Growing Veterans, a non-profit organization located in Mt. Vernon and Lynden, dedicated to “creating a holistic solution” to fighting multiple issues veterans face- unemployment, homelessness, suicide, and depression, through empowering…
Jim Hollingsworth: World Citizen
By Kara Veldman You may have noticed Jim Hollingsworth walking around the Whatcom Community College campus in shorts every day no matter what the weather outside is like.
Ideas ‘Hatching’ in Bellingham
By Katie Linton Ideas are hatching in downtown Bellingham. “We want to create more opportunities for people to get involved with each other and network” said Dylan Green, Hatch co-founder. Hatch is an “idea incubator” that aims to fill vacancies in downtown Bellingham, by making the necessary changes to create…
Reel Change
By Joel Longnecker One of the last remaining video rental stores in town, Film Is Truth, re-opened last month at its new location inside of The Public Market shopping center
National book tour finishes in Bellingham
By Meg Jackson The New York Times bestselling authors Jandy Nelson, Meg Wolitzer, and Ally Condie visited the Bellingham Public Library Saturday Nov. 7 for the final stop on their national book tour. They came to discuss the recent paperback releases of their young adult novels.