The Editor:
Karen Burke is the Whatcom County executive candidate who has the credentials, experience and good, common sense decision-making to make our amazing county – people, businesses and environment – thrive. She understands business, jobs, environment and governance. Besides those qualities, she has solid plans for the hard-to-deal-with emotional issues of homelessness, housing, legal diversion and accountability when it makes sense for the person and our society.
I’m excited to think about our beautiful, wonderful Whatcom County under her leadership. We all are lucky to have her as a candidate for county executive – she is worthy of everyone’s vote. She is definitely getting mine!
Lydia Bennett
Bellingham
(Ed. Note: According to preliminary primary results as of August 7, Karen Burke has been eliminated from the race.)
The Editor:
We at the Blaine Community Theater (BCT) were fortunate enough to be included in the entertainment lineup at Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation District 2’s Pirate Daze this past weekend, performing our second annual water balloon Pirates of Penzance.
It was fabulous to see so many families and community members at the event, and deeply heartening to receive positive feedback from folks who enjoyed our confessedly silly production.
BCT has struggled to come into its own in the year we’ve been back together, following an eight-year hiatus. Events like these, which connect us to the community, revitalize our spirit and renew our commitment to keep doing what we love in the beautiful and ever-more-vibrant place that we’re proud to call home.
Thank you, Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation District 2 and the Blaine Chamber of Commerce, for continuing to involve BCT in your events. And thank you Blaine and visitors for your contagious enthusiasm. Keep supporting your community theater!
Mikael McDonald, BCT vice president
Blaine
The Editor:
County council member Todd Donovan praises Satpal Sidhu as the right choice for county executive. Donovan is the tenured university professor who refers to anyone who disagrees with his political ideologies, as I do, as “racist” and “fascist.” Donovan knows, because he’s got the data, although I cannot remember “Mr. Data” ever coming over to have coffee with me. He knows nothing of my ethnicity, nor the fact that my father, who served, did not fight fascism; he killed fascists. Dad was no John Wayne; he was 5 foot 6 inches and weighed 120 pounds in 1942. But of course, Professor Donovan and Mr. Sidhu must pander to their sycophants.
Facts are stubborn things that they want no part of. Mr. Sidhu, the Fulbright Scholar, waxes eloquent over his native country, a land of peace and harmony that has invaded no one for a thousand years. Makes me wonder why he would want to live in an evil, violent nation such as ours, amongst evil invaders, like my dad. I think France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands kind of liked being invaded by us. Germany, not so much. Political hopefuls always come out this time of year with nice-sounding platitudes, such as “I will represent everyone in my district,” as our freshman 42nd district representative constantly affirmed. Where was she when an important vote concerning our oil refineries was taken? AWOL.
I am an old dog; I don’t know what you call someone who says one thing and does the opposite, but we used to call them hypocrites. We need to be represented, not by people with vacuous smiles on their faces and meaningless promises in their mouths, but workable ideas in their heads. We need people who can find common ground for commonsense solutions to our common problems.
Mark Aaron Aamot
Custer
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