COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Local events

Friday, Jan. 20
Bingo in the Barn: Join in the Bingo fun and help build the South Whatcom Public Library at Sudden Valley. Families welcome. All proceeds will benefit the building fund. Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Gate 2, follow the signs. 7 to 9 p.m. Sponsored by the Friends of Sudden Valley Library. For more information [...]

Mount Baker, Nooksack Valley drama students perform Annie, Hide and Shriek

by the Foothills Gazette
DEMING/EVERSON – Drama students at Mount Baker and Nooksack Valley schools are preparing to hit the stage with their winter productions over the next few weeks.
Mount Baker High School drama students present the Broadway hit musical ANNIE, during  two weekends in February. Annie is the story of the depression-era orphan girl, played [...]

Letters

Thank you Little Caesar’s
Little Caesar’s Pizza deserves recognition for their continuing contribution to our Community Garden in Everson.
When Gretchen Hoyt, a long-time farmer, and I envisioned a community garden in  Everson, we wanted a place where residents of the mobile homes and apartments, people without access to gardening space, could grow food.  We also wanted [...]

News Briefs

North Fork Brewery awarded
DEMING – Sustainable Connections awarded five Whatcom County businesses as sustainability champions at the organization’s annual All Members Meeting & Potluck on January 12. The North Fork Brewery was awarded as a Leader in promoting Healthy Environment. “The North Fork has been a leader in choosing local first, buying green power and [...]

Nooksack Valley, Mount Baker school levies put to voters

Measures on Feb. 14 ballot
by Marnie Jones
COUNTY – Voters in the Nooksack Valley and Mount Baker School Districts are being asked to approve levy measures on the Feb. 14 ballot.
Nooksack Valley
Voters in the Nooksack Valley School District will decide on the district’s request for a general fund levy for educational maintenance and operations as well [...]

Public meeting to take residents’ suggestions for resource center

COLUMBIA VALLEY – Local residents are invited to attend a community meeting at the new East Whatcom Regional Resource Center (EWRRC) on Thursday, Feb 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. to discuss ideas and suggestions for how the new facility can be used to meet local needs.
The facility, constructed and owned by Whatcom County, is [...]

Man, 20, dead after gang confrontation

PARADISE LAKES – A 20-year old man was killed late Saturday night, Jan. 14, following an altercation in Paradise Lakes.
According to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a report of a stabbing in the 8400 block of Cimarron Way in Paradise Lakes at approximately 11 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14. “An adult male [...]

Superintendent position: School board sets community input meetings

DEMING – The Mt. Baker School District Board of Directors has begun the search process to select a successor to Interim Superintendent Karst Brandsma.  The Board has engaged consultants Dr. Michael Boring and Dr. Al Cohen to assist with the process and the first step will be to gather input from a variety of stakeholders.
Two [...]

RESCHEDULED: Fundraiser to help injured Acme boy, 10

ACME – A fundraiser for an Acme boy who was seriously injured in a fall will be held Saturday, Jan. 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Acme Elementary. The benefit was rescheduled from Jan. 21 due to weather.
Kaden Fox, a 10-year-old student at Acme Elementary, was on a family outing in December when he [...]

Foothills Gazette now printing monthly

Dear readers, The next issue of the Gazette will be out this Friday, Jan. 13 (deadline Tuesday at 4). Please note the Gazette will now print once a month. We have been struggling for a long time to keep this free community newspaper afloat. We are no longer able to publish twice a month, [...]

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