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Week
of July 19 - 25, 2001
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“It’s
fantastic! There’s art, there’s music,
there’s entertainment, there’s food!
Walk, take a bike, take a trike – don’t
miss it!. |
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| Rainbows
and art and food and entertainment... “It’s
fantastic! There’s art, there’s music, there’s
entertainment, there’s food! Walk, take a bike,
take a trike – don’t miss it!. |
| Birch
Bay’s Discovery Days get underway in big way
Well, it’s here again. The time of year when families
dress up clams, wave at people in loud clothes with
really big red noses and race yellow rubber duckies
for prizes. That’s right, from July 20 through
July 29 Birch Bay will celebrate its annual community
festival, Discovery Days. |
| City
to present stormwater solutions A permanent solution
to Blaine’s sewer overflow problems and a temporary
solution to the shortfalls of the city’s old sewer
treatment plant are ready to be unveiled. |
| Inside
Stories |
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Hard
at work
The city of Blaine has appointed well-known lawyer
Jonathan Sitkin as city attorney. His first official
appearance was at Monday’s council meeting. |
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Do
you swear....
...to
uphold the law? Stephanie Christianson and Michael
King were sworn in as Blaine’s newest police
reserve officers Monday night. |
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| Council
puts two election questions to voters Blaine city
council agreed to have voters decide on funding a new
fire station and a resident-led drive to change the
city’s form of government although the latter measure
failed to muster much enthusiasm.. |
| Expect
delays Drivers may find they have more time to
admire the scenery along Grandview Road until mid-August,
due to traffic delays caused by construction of a sewer
line from the BP/ARCO refinery to the Birch Bay sewer
treatment plant. |
| Police
ask for assistance in theft Blaine police are asking
for the public’s help finding the thief who stole
specialized fishing equipment from a local web locker. |
| OK
by us Blaine city council has approved a $14,000
contract with the consultant firm of Chandler, Brooks
and Donahoe, Inc. to provide tourism commercial recruitment
services. |
| The
Arts: Alive and well and living in Blaine The Blaine
Open Studio held its inaugural celebration on Friday,
July 13, as an estimated 600 enthusiastic art lovers
jammed the new studio on Martin Street for an artists’
reception, complete with live music. |
| Impatience
be thy name Maintenance on Interstate-5 began Sunday
in Bellingham between Fairhaven Parkway and Bakerview
Road. |
| And
free daycare be thy game Early Childhood Opportunities
Northwest (ECONW) of Bellingham will be sponsoring an
open house to register children for various Head Start
programs... |
| Go,
Becky! Becky Riddle is off to California to compete
in the Junior Olympics and you can help send her.. |
| Congratulations
The following Blaine students graduated from University
of Washington. |
| Break
a leg! The Rising Tide Summer Theater program’s
performances of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
will occur on July 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. |
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"Not
suspicious" The reason why the fishing
boat Glory sunk a week and a half ago... |
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| ON
THE WATERFRONT The salmon fishing fleet has
gotten much smaller, due to the license buy-back which
took place during the last week of June. Licenses for
non-Treaty Indian fishers who fished for Fraser river
sockeye were bought by the state government to decrease
the number of sockeye that would be caught by U.S. fishers. |
| SPORTS
Neil's Notes...Force fights back for a win. |
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