NVHS Improv Night to benefit breast cancer research

by Stephanie Kosonen
EVERSON – Work equals play in some instances, such as in one local high schooler’s choice for her senior project.
A love for improv has sent Nooksack Valley High School student Tessa McLeod sailing easily through a graduation requirement that looms at the end of many high school careers: the senior project.
The project is [...]

CALENDAR: Community events

SATURDAY, MARCH 13
Free Community Pancake Breakfast: The Mount Baker Lions Club will be offering its free Community Pancake Breakfast from 8–11 a.m. at Kendall Elementary School. All are welcome from the community.
Whatcom Farm Forestry Association Tree Sale: 10 a.m. to noon at the Lynden Fair Grounds, Henry Jansen Ag Center. Fifteen types of trees are [...]

Seed & Plant Exchange, potluck set in Van Zandt

VAN ZANDT – The South Fork Valley Community Association is sponsoring an event on Sunday, March 28 at 3 p.m. at Van Zandt Community Hall. A poppy seed toss, seed and plant exchange, and demonstration on how to make paper seedling pots will be held. Participants should bring seeds to plant onto the septic system [...]

Grand opening of Everson Community Garden on March 27

EVERSON – The Everson Community Garden will hold its grand opening on Saturday, March 27 from noon to 2 p.m. Residents can grow their own vegetables or team up with a friend to have a plot on site. Experienced gardeners will be on hand to offer advice and tips, and tools, seeds and plants will [...]

4-H group lends helping hand in cemetery clean-up

by Stephanie Kosonen
ACME – The Saxon Cemetery got a post-winter clean-up on Saturday, March 6 courtesy in part of the Foothills 4-H Club.
Members of the club, who are between the ages of 11 and 16, helped with the community service project, filling several truckloads of wind-blown evergreen limbs and other debris that had been strewn [...]

Suspects sought in burglaries

by the Foothills Gazette
COUNTY – The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information and suspects following several burglaries reported in the South Fork Valley and an attempted robbery in Everson.
According to the WCSO, recent South Fork Valley incidents have included burglaries in the in the 3800 and 2500 blocks of Valley Highway and the 4900 [...]

Crews to shift part of highway away from Nooksack River

by the Foothills Gazette
GLACIER – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is starting a project that will hift a quarter-mile of Mount Baker Highway (SR 542) away from the Nooksack River near E. Church Mountain Road, four miles east of Glacier.
Crews are moving equipment into place as work will begin at the site on [...]

Suspect arrested after fleeing police, booked on multiple felony charges

by the Foothills Gazette
MAPLE FALLS – A suspect wanted for multiple felony charges was arrested on Wednesday after law enforcement agencies tracked him for nearly an hour in the town of Maple Falls.
According to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s office, suspect William Anderson, 45, was wanted in connection with a domestic violence incident that took place [...]

Parks and Rec Foundation possible short-term solution for skate park

by BRENT COLE
GLACIER – The Glacier Skate Park Association is eyeing the possibility of joining the non-profit Parks and Recreation Foundation as a short-term solution to maintaining the park.
The non-profit Foundation is not affiliated with the Whatcom County Parks and Recreation Department.
Glacier Skate Park organizer Jeremy Miller, as well as the group’s lawyer, Dannon Traxler, [...]

Everson Lions Club holds food drive March 26

EVERSON – In honor of International Lions Day on Friday, March 26, the Everson Lions Club will sponsor a food drive at the Everson Market from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Working together in the spirit of giving, the Club is holding a friendly competition between the communities of Everson and Nooksack to see whose [...]

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