National Police Week was honored during the May 13 Blaine City Council meeting. Mayor Mary Lou Steward, r., read a proclamation for the week while police chief Rodger Funk remembered the three members of Blaine’s police force who lost their lives in the line of duty: former interim chief Michael Knapp, who died while working for Lynden Police Department in 2019; and assistant chief Larry Duronso and officer Douglas Krenz, who died in a plane crash in 1978. “There have been numerous police officers and agents who have served federal, state and local agencies who have lost their lives in Whatcom County,” Funk said.
