By Katauna Loeuy “The Truth about Plastics,” a day-long educational forum hosted at Whatcom Community College, brought together a variety of experts and concerned citizens to study the hard truth about plastics and their environmental impact. The Mt. Baker chapter of the Sierra Club, Zero Waste Washington, and the Sustainability…
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Find Your Pod helps students connect
By Sydney Mitchell Find Your Pod is a student-led conference that helps introduce students who are on the same academic pathways to each other. Joy Kumala, a student and the ASWCC director for Academic Success, and adviser Kunbi Ajiboye, the Associate Director for Student Life and Development are the organizers….
The Olde Fashioned Christmas shines
By Kaila Cove The Olde Fashioned Christmas, which is held at Pioneer Park, is an event that includes live performances, holiday cookies and refreshments, horse-drawn sleigh rides, games, arts and crafts, baking, and a visit from Santa to kick-start the holiday season for Whatcom County. This event is held by…
Sustainability Club hosts a fall festival
By Apple Parry In order to recruit new members, the Sustainability Club set up “Fall Fest,” a Halloween themed event in front of Heiner Center on Oct 30. Fall Fest included games like pumpkin bowling and tic-tac-toe with potatoes. Sustainability Club members go “pumpkin bowling” in front of Baker Hall…
Men’s soccer wins North Conference Title
By Kaila Cove The Whatcom men’s soccer team has won the North Conference title, a competition between regional community college soccer teams. The team has defended this championship title for the second year in a row. Bakary Dibba, a forward on the Whatcom men’s soccer team, is satisfied with the…
Remembering Fran Hudson
By Catherine Wallace Fran Hudson, who helped students navigate their network accounts, who calmed faculty when their computers crashed, and who warned the campus community as a whole NOT to click on that email, died Oct. 16, five days after suffering a stroke at her desk at Whatcom Community College….
Lummi Nation hosts truth panel
By Lincoln Wallace Tribal leaders and scholars from across the country came to the Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Nation as part of an event to discuss reconciliation for indigenous people in Washington State. The panel, which was held on Oct. 18 and co-hosted by Whiteswan Environmental, Northwest Indian…
Bleedingham: the PNW’s Cannes of chills
By Brock Seaman Bellingham’s biggest horror film festival, Bleedingham, is back at the Pickford Film Center for the seventh year running. Filmmakers from all over the world show their short horror movies at Bleedingham — however, many of the people who submitted are locals from Washington State. Bleedingham has a…
Art show highlights environmental issues
By Brock Seamen The Whatcom Art Museum is currently holding the “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity” art show. The exhibit features sculptures of wolves and dodo birds, paintings, photography, and such from the 1700 and 1800s through today. A diverse array of species is represented in…
Pickford hosts Doctober film festival
By Kaila Cove The Pickford Film Center’s annual Doctober film festival runs this year from Sept. 28 through Nov. 1 and features documentaries about subjects as diverse as rodents and ballerinas. “[Doctober is] Pickford’s month-long documentary film festival,” said Cole Wilder, who works at the theater. “This year, we’re playing…