Garden educators Tessa Bundy and Kelly Morgan from Whatcom County Collectives, spoke at the Birchwood Neighborhood association meeting held May 25 at Birchwood elementary regarding the updates and plans for Birchwood elementary and Shuksan Middle schools Gardening projects. Bundy, who is assigned to the Shuksan project shared with the community the current $5,000 grant they currently received with the Native Habitats Grant. Starbuck who also funds the planting project with its organization Make Your Mark, helped the Shuksan group pay for their current fencing. Bundy said, “This project is created more for service learning, and that is why we are doing it.”
Followed right after Bundy was Morgan who is currently assisting with the Birchwood elementary project, the committee currently received the same grant as Shuksan from the Native Habitats Grant along with a $5,000 grant from Lowes. Currently around 300 students from Birchwood are working on a greenhouse and shelter to be placed near the school garden. Funds for this project are coming from Make Your Mark foundation with Starbucks Cooperation. Morgan also added the committee was going to start a new program; Garden Angels where volunteers would be paired up with low-income families and provide food for the families from the garden and through donations.
Plans for the plants grown in the garden are still trying to be incorporated into being served in the school cafeteria next year.
Learn more about the project and its donors by visiting:
Starbucks Make Your Mark:
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=HOM_GEN_SPLASH_Starbucks_new
Native Habitats Grant:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2008/dec/27/grant-to-help-school-restore-native-habitats/
Birchwood Elementary:
http://birchwood.bellinghamschools.org/
Sunday, June 6, 2010
“Gardening Organizations attend Birchwood Neighborhood Meeting and Present gardening potential in Birchwood lots”
"Birchwood Residents attend Neigborhood Meeting and learn more about the importance of gardening"
A cafeteria full of Birchwood neighborhood residents attended the last neighborhood meeting before summer begins. The meeting was held May 25 at Birchwood Elementary at 6:30 p.m. in the school’s cafeteria; the meeting was focusing on gardening education and activities in the Neighborhood. A few people that came to speak at the event included Bellingham Food Bank Gleaning Project, Bellingham Urban Garden Syndicate, Homestead Habitats, Whatcom County Collectives, and Backyard Beans and Grains Project Director Krista Rome came and spoke at the meeting.
Meeting focus “Gardening”
Facilitator and Board member John Walsh opened up the meeting informing residents that tonight’s meeting was going to be “Garden Themed.
The main focus of the meeting was to inform and educate residents about the importance of gardening and how vital it is to the environment and how Birchwood is an ideal place for garden life because of the rich soil and large lots in the neighborhood.
Bellingham Gardening Syndicates’ Nick Spring and Chris Elder touched on this specifically during their presentation. Gardening Syndicate focuses primarily on gardening and producing produce in garden lots. They currently have 30 to 40 active members which tend to seven garden plots that are owned by homeowners.
What the organization does is it tends to and educates homeowners about the importance of gardening and producing produce. The produce that is grown on these lots are distributed to the volunteers and homeowners, the largest lot they have currently is right across the street from Birchwood elementary. Nick spring said, “Birchwood is truly blessed with space for gardening”.
Birchwood Ideal Area for Gardening
Bellingham Gardening Syndicate was not the only organization that acknowledged the space and
open lots Birchwood has to offer. Homestead Habitats co-owners Dyana Fiediga, Seth June and Paul Kearsley also touched on the subject of how Birchwood has so much potential for great gardening life in area. Homestead Habitat is a landscape and design build organization that is fully operational; there organization provides consultation, garden services and education.
They currently however want to focus right now on helping people grow their own produce. This is essentially why they choose to speak with Birchwood, Paul Kearsley pointed out that residents have large lots and have room to essentially grow their own produce. Homstead Habitat has been working in the Birchwood neighborhood with two projects so far, with Shuksan Middle School and Birchwood Elementary on their designs for their current gardening projects. They have seen the potential that Birchwood lots have for expanding garden life.
Backyard Bean and Grains Highlight Gardening Importance
Krista Rome with Backyard Beans and Grains project also agreed with the other presenters and recognized that Birchwood is an ideal area for garden life. Rome who is the Director of (BBGP), wanted to spread the awareness of growing beans and grains in local gardens. Rome said, “The organization I founded is based on the premise that crop diversification is vital for long-term sustainability of local food systems.” Rome chose Beans and Grains as her main focus because they can be grown on marginal soil and are common staple foods that provide protein in combination.
Each presenter at the meeting kept circulating around the importance of garden life and the need for people as a whole to become active and produce their own produce.
Birchwood is known for its lot space and large open areas and now gardening organizations have seen a potential in this to create functional gardens that contribute to producing produce and essentially making the environment healthier.
A cafeteria full of Birchwood neighborhood residents attended the last neighborhood meeting before summer begins. The meeting was held May 25 at Birchwood Elementary at 6:30 p.m. in the school’s cafeteria; the meeting was focusing on gardening education and activities in the Neighborhood. A few people that came to speak at the event included Bellingham Food Bank Gleaning Project, Bellingham Urban Garden Syndicate, Homestead Habitats, Whatcom County Collectives, and Backyard Beans and Grains Project Director Krista Rome came and spoke at the meeting.
Meeting focus “Gardening”
Facilitator and Board member John Walsh opened up the meeting informing residents that tonight’s meeting was going to be “Garden Themed.
The main focus of the meeting was to inform and educate residents about the importance of gardening and how vital it is to the environment and how Birchwood is an ideal place for garden life because of the rich soil and large lots in the neighborhood.
Bellingham Gardening Syndicates’ Nick Spring and Chris Elder touched on this specifically during their presentation. Gardening Syndicate focuses primarily on gardening and producing produce in garden lots. They currently have 30 to 40 active members which tend to seven garden plots that are owned by homeowners.
What the organization does is it tends to and educates homeowners about the importance of gardening and producing produce. The produce that is grown on these lots are distributed to the volunteers and homeowners, the largest lot they have currently is right across the street from Birchwood elementary. Nick spring said, “Birchwood is truly blessed with space for gardening”.
Birchwood Ideal Area for Gardening
Bellingham Gardening Syndicate was not the only organization that acknowledged the space and
open lots Birchwood has to offer. Homestead Habitats co-owners Dyana Fiediga, Seth June and Paul Kearsley also touched on the subject of how Birchwood has so much potential for great gardening life in area. Homestead Habitat is a landscape and design build organization that is fully operational; there organization provides consultation, garden services and education.
They currently however want to focus right now on helping people grow their own produce. This is essentially why they choose to speak with Birchwood, Paul Kearsley pointed out that residents have large lots and have room to essentially grow their own produce. Homstead Habitat has been working in the Birchwood neighborhood with two projects so far, with Shuksan Middle School and Birchwood Elementary on their designs for their current gardening projects. They have seen the potential that Birchwood lots have for expanding garden life.
Backyard Bean and Grains Highlight Gardening Importance
Krista Rome with Backyard Beans and Grains project also agreed with the other presenters and recognized that Birchwood is an ideal area for garden life. Rome who is the Director of (BBGP), wanted to spread the awareness of growing beans and grains in local gardens. Rome said, “The organization I founded is based on the premise that crop diversification is vital for long-term sustainability of local food systems.” Rome chose Beans and Grains as her main focus because they can be grown on marginal soil and are common staple foods that provide protein in combination.
Each presenter at the meeting kept circulating around the importance of garden life and the need for people as a whole to become active and produce their own produce.
Birchwood is known for its lot space and large open areas and now gardening organizations have seen a potential in this to create functional gardens that contribute to producing produce and essentially making the environment healthier.
Shuksan Gardening Project Continues to Move Forward
Student and Volunteers at Shuksan Middle School have completed the second letter in their planting project with Whatcom collectives. The plants will be designed to read out “SMS”, which is to be visible in front of the school garden. The work party was held on Saturday morning by students and volunteers as they put forth efforts to complete the project.
The next work party will be held March 21 from 9:30 a.m. - 11a.m. Tessa Bundy, garden educator will be there to direct this work party as students will be completing the last phase in the project.
The committee still doesn’t have a definite idea how long the school will be a part of the Whatcom Collectives, since membership costs an annual fee of $2,500. Funding for the current year is still being discussed said, Bill Angle a current volunteer. At this time the P.T.A has become more involved with the project and with the help of the P.T.A, volunteers such as Angle hope for the school to continue being a part of the collectives next year.
The committee is still open to any volunteers that wish to help out or join the club. People interested are welcome to join the next work party that will be held later this week. “If you’re a fan of nature or just want to help out and work with kids this would be a great opportunity for you,” said Angle.
Links:
Whatcom County Collectives: To get in touch and help volunteer with Shuksan Middle School project or any other schools:
http://www.commonthreadsfarm.org/content/view/22/36/
Shuksan Middle School: Where the Gardening Project is taking place
http://shuksan.bellinghamschools.org/
Importance if Gardening in our Society:http://about-green-living.com/the-importance-of-gardening-in-the-global-warming-era/
The next work party will be held March 21 from 9:30 a.m. - 11a.m. Tessa Bundy, garden educator will be there to direct this work party as students will be completing the last phase in the project.
The committee still doesn’t have a definite idea how long the school will be a part of the Whatcom Collectives, since membership costs an annual fee of $2,500. Funding for the current year is still being discussed said, Bill Angle a current volunteer. At this time the P.T.A has become more involved with the project and with the help of the P.T.A, volunteers such as Angle hope for the school to continue being a part of the collectives next year.
The committee is still open to any volunteers that wish to help out or join the club. People interested are welcome to join the next work party that will be held later this week. “If you’re a fan of nature or just want to help out and work with kids this would be a great opportunity for you,” said Angle.
Links:
Whatcom County Collectives: To get in touch and help volunteer with Shuksan Middle School project or any other schools:
http://www.commonthreadsfarm.org/content/view/22/36/
Shuksan Middle School: Where the Gardening Project is taking place
http://shuksan.bellinghamschools.org/
Importance if Gardening in our Society:http://about-green-living.com/the-importance-of-gardening-in-the-global-warming-era/
“Oeser plans to clean-up part Squalicum Park due to contamination found in the creek and soil”
"Plans are being set as Oeser and E.P.A set up plans to clean-up Squalicum Park"
During an Oct. 30, 2009 cleaning at Squalicum park, the Department of Ecology found that parts of the creek in the Squalicum had multiple contaminations in the water that were related to Oeser Co. Squalicum Park is an underdeveloped 21-acre area on the northwest end of Bellingham, located in the Birchwood neighborhood. It is a local spot and well known park to residents of the Birchwood neighborhood.
Substance food in the Creek
One of the hazardous substances found in the water and soil was creosote, a substance that is used in wood products. Oeser, which has line poles on Squalicum Park, uses this substance as a preservative in their products. Over the years the preservative that Oeser used for their products flowed into the creek and accumulated into the creeks path that turns in a “U” shape. “The contamination accumulated over 40-50 years, where there was little risk and contamination found in Squalicum in 1991” said Howard Orlean, EPA Project Manager.
Oeser, took a look at the E.P.A (Environmental Protection Agency) report and acknowledged that the contamination was in fact related to Oeser and Superfund. Superfund is the federal counterpart to the states’ toxic clean-up law and is with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. Oeser has been around since the 1940s.
Oeser Plans to change its substances in Products
Oeser plans at this time to now think of an alternative substance other than creosote, “Which they have now found is hazardous and dangerous to the environment in their location sites” said Mary O’Herron, Department of Ecology. Other toxic substances that were found in Squalicum but were not related to the Superfund and Oeser site included pentrachlorophenol, dioxin, copper,zinc and polycyclic aromactic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds.
These which are found in some wood products and others which are carried in oil, coal, and products of fuel burning substances. Other parts of the creek and surrounding soil which need clean-up will be carried out by the Department of Ecology.
Investigation at Squalicum Park first began in 2007 when City of Bellingham, planned on extending Squalicum and making it a larger park, findings and drafts of remedial investigation have been put together and was first publically announced during a meeting held June 10, 2009. The park is owned by the City of Bellingham and Whatcom County, due to the contamination Superfund and Oeser will now be responsible of a part of the creek where they will work on the clean-up. Efforts of clean up alternatives have been presented with the March 18 clean-up public comment by Orlean, EPA Project Manager.
EPA and Superfund take the lead
EPA and Superfund are now working on drafting reports and alternatives to the clean-up that will be done at Squalicum Park, a final decision has not been made yet. “There have been five alternatives presented on the clean-up at Squalicum, but they are still being worked out by the two parties [EPA and Superfund]” said, Gina Gobo, Parks Project Engineer.
EPA will now work on the alternative and final draft of the project clean-up. When this is finalized clean-up will begin in summer 2010 with all organizations working on site. Oeser will pay millions on the cleanup at Superfund site located in Squalicum. The alternative costs range all the way up to $7.5 million. Oeser is not fully responsible for the cost but they will be paying a majority of these costs.
During an Oct. 30, 2009 cleaning at Squalicum park, the Department of Ecology found that parts of the creek in the Squalicum had multiple contaminations in the water that were related to Oeser Co. Squalicum Park is an underdeveloped 21-acre area on the northwest end of Bellingham, located in the Birchwood neighborhood. It is a local spot and well known park to residents of the Birchwood neighborhood.
Substance food in the Creek
One of the hazardous substances found in the water and soil was creosote, a substance that is used in wood products. Oeser, which has line poles on Squalicum Park, uses this substance as a preservative in their products. Over the years the preservative that Oeser used for their products flowed into the creek and accumulated into the creeks path that turns in a “U” shape. “The contamination accumulated over 40-50 years, where there was little risk and contamination found in Squalicum in 1991” said Howard Orlean, EPA Project Manager.
Oeser, took a look at the E.P.A (Environmental Protection Agency) report and acknowledged that the contamination was in fact related to Oeser and Superfund. Superfund is the federal counterpart to the states’ toxic clean-up law and is with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. Oeser has been around since the 1940s.
Oeser Plans to change its substances in Products
Oeser plans at this time to now think of an alternative substance other than creosote, “Which they have now found is hazardous and dangerous to the environment in their location sites” said Mary O’Herron, Department of Ecology. Other toxic substances that were found in Squalicum but were not related to the Superfund and Oeser site included pentrachlorophenol, dioxin, copper,zinc and polycyclic aromactic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds.
These which are found in some wood products and others which are carried in oil, coal, and products of fuel burning substances. Other parts of the creek and surrounding soil which need clean-up will be carried out by the Department of Ecology.
Investigation at Squalicum Park first began in 2007 when City of Bellingham, planned on extending Squalicum and making it a larger park, findings and drafts of remedial investigation have been put together and was first publically announced during a meeting held June 10, 2009. The park is owned by the City of Bellingham and Whatcom County, due to the contamination Superfund and Oeser will now be responsible of a part of the creek where they will work on the clean-up. Efforts of clean up alternatives have been presented with the March 18 clean-up public comment by Orlean, EPA Project Manager.
EPA and Superfund take the lead
EPA and Superfund are now working on drafting reports and alternatives to the clean-up that will be done at Squalicum Park, a final decision has not been made yet. “There have been five alternatives presented on the clean-up at Squalicum, but they are still being worked out by the two parties [EPA and Superfund]” said, Gina Gobo, Parks Project Engineer.
EPA will now work on the alternative and final draft of the project clean-up. When this is finalized clean-up will begin in summer 2010 with all organizations working on site. Oeser will pay millions on the cleanup at Superfund site located in Squalicum. The alternative costs range all the way up to $7.5 million. Oeser is not fully responsible for the cost but they will be paying a majority of these costs.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Birchwood elementary and Shuksan Middle school become a part of Whatcom County School Garden Collective
School projects have evolved as Shuksan Middle School and Birchwood elementry take on gardening for their school grounds
Birchwood elementary and Shukan middle school have newly became members and are a part of the Whatcom county school collectives which are a part of common thread farms. Whatcom collective is an organization that assists schools throughout the county on gardening projects.
Gardening on school grounds have already been put in efforts as committees of middle school students and parents at Shuksan have already started their first project, gardener educator, Tessa Bundy, who has been assigned to work with the Shuksan middle school project said, “We are going to start with small projects beginning with the design of SMS in the front of the school grounds”.
The project took the group of students and volunteers around three hours, Bundy said, “a lot of the time spent was the set up process of the formatting of soil and chips, the next two letters we apply will go by much faster”. The team of volunteer started their first work party on one of the projects earlier this month where the group worked from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Homestead Habitat which is located in the Bellingham area assisted the group of volunteers on there first work party on creating the first “S” on Shuksan school grounds.
How Shuksan became apart of Whatcom Collectives
How Shuksan became a part of the collectives was by the efforts of a local parent, Bill Angle, who currently has a child attending shuksan middle school. Shuksan which was newly rebuilt this earlier this year doesn’t have much gardening done to the school that symbolizes the schools originality, students and parents want more a personalized spin on the grounds of Shuksan. Adrienne Battis, President of Birchwood Neighborhood Association, said, “I don’t know much about the project but I think what they are doing is great and will defiantly, make the schools look beautiful”.
Funds for the project
Funding for the project came from the Whatcom collectives in a loan based form. Other funds came from parent, teacher, and business donations. Angle said, “Efforts of how to pay back the loan that was collected from the Whatcom collectives will be discussed at the next work party on May 15th”. The committee has been working with the Cordata starbucks, which has been showing interest in funding the group for their future projects.
The company provided lunch for the group on their first work party that was held earlier this month. Other organizations that have helped supply the group with donations is the Growsource gardening company which helped supply materials for the project. Park services also helped with donation of materials for the project, they provided woodchips for the project from left over supplies that they had in stock.
Upcoming projects in store for Shuksan
Future projects have not been discussed yet but Bundy says the group is excited for the upcoming projects that they wish to think up. As of right now the group does not have set meeting dates due to the fact they just started this committee. They also don’t have a group of set people that will permanently be a part of the gardening project, Bundy said, “a lot of the people who have helped so far, were just volunteers that don’t know if they have time to be fully committed to the committee for the long run”.
The group is open to anyone who would love to join and become a part of the committee. The second meeting will be open to anyone who would like to join and learn more about the club.
Learn more about Whatcom Collectives at:
http://www.commonthreadsfarm.org/content/view/22/36/
Birchwood elementary and Shukan middle school have newly became members and are a part of the Whatcom county school collectives which are a part of common thread farms. Whatcom collective is an organization that assists schools throughout the county on gardening projects.
Gardening on school grounds have already been put in efforts as committees of middle school students and parents at Shuksan have already started their first project, gardener educator, Tessa Bundy, who has been assigned to work with the Shuksan middle school project said, “We are going to start with small projects beginning with the design of SMS in the front of the school grounds”.
The project took the group of students and volunteers around three hours, Bundy said, “a lot of the time spent was the set up process of the formatting of soil and chips, the next two letters we apply will go by much faster”. The team of volunteer started their first work party on one of the projects earlier this month where the group worked from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Homestead Habitat which is located in the Bellingham area assisted the group of volunteers on there first work party on creating the first “S” on Shuksan school grounds.
How Shuksan became apart of Whatcom Collectives
How Shuksan became a part of the collectives was by the efforts of a local parent, Bill Angle, who currently has a child attending shuksan middle school. Shuksan which was newly rebuilt this earlier this year doesn’t have much gardening done to the school that symbolizes the schools originality, students and parents want more a personalized spin on the grounds of Shuksan. Adrienne Battis, President of Birchwood Neighborhood Association, said, “I don’t know much about the project but I think what they are doing is great and will defiantly, make the schools look beautiful”.
Funds for the project
Funding for the project came from the Whatcom collectives in a loan based form. Other funds came from parent, teacher, and business donations. Angle said, “Efforts of how to pay back the loan that was collected from the Whatcom collectives will be discussed at the next work party on May 15th”. The committee has been working with the Cordata starbucks, which has been showing interest in funding the group for their future projects.
The company provided lunch for the group on their first work party that was held earlier this month. Other organizations that have helped supply the group with donations is the Growsource gardening company which helped supply materials for the project. Park services also helped with donation of materials for the project, they provided woodchips for the project from left over supplies that they had in stock.
Upcoming projects in store for Shuksan
Future projects have not been discussed yet but Bundy says the group is excited for the upcoming projects that they wish to think up. As of right now the group does not have set meeting dates due to the fact they just started this committee. They also don’t have a group of set people that will permanently be a part of the gardening project, Bundy said, “a lot of the people who have helped so far, were just volunteers that don’t know if they have time to be fully committed to the committee for the long run”.
The group is open to anyone who would love to join and become a part of the committee. The second meeting will be open to anyone who would like to join and learn more about the club.
Learn more about Whatcom Collectives at:
http://www.commonthreadsfarm.org/content/view/22/36/
Monday, May 3, 2010
Plans for Shuksan middle school as they to prepare take on students from Whatcom
Administration and School officials begin to prepare for the transfer of the entire 7th grade class to attend Shuksan middle school in the fall.
Pressure is beginning to rise for the staff and faculty at Shuksan middle school as they prepare for next fall, as they plan to take on two hundred plus students from Whatcom Middle School. Class capacity, schedules, and finding room for filing of these students were some of the main concerns brought up by attendance secretary Kim Schmitt.
Whatcom fire and where students are set to attend
On Nov. 9, Whatcom middle school burst into flames around 1 a.m, destroying the oldest and most historic school in the Bellingham district. Flames destroyed an historic building and hurt many of those who saw Whatcom as a home. With this devastation came the loss of an institution for over five hundred middle school students. Cause of the fire is still under investigation, the aftermath however caused Whatcom students to be immediately split up and have 6th graders attend Geneva elementary. While 7th graders attend Fairhaven middle school, and 8th graders attend Bellingham high school. Resulting in a huge change to the schools current class size, curriculum, scheduling, and staffing making it a lot more difficult to handle. Plans for next year involve moving the 8th grade class to Fairhaven middle school while 6th graders will stay at Geneva and 7th graders of around two hundred students will move to Shuksan middle school.
With the arrival of these additional students Shuksan plans on adding portables on its school grounds to accommodate the extra students attending in the fall. “Room is our biggest concern and managing paperwork” said office assistant to the principal Peggie Foster. Shucksan which currently was just newly remodeled and opened this year hold 700 students currently which is not over its buildings capacity. This was one of the main reasons the school district decided to transfer the current 7th grade class from Whatcom middle school to Shuksan.
Students concerns
Current 7th and 8th graders show concern for the additional students attending expressing that things have become a lot stricter this year with the current remodel of the school. They feel that with the additional students coming in, school is not going to be a fun environment anymore. With administration rushing to figure out how everything is going to work including the student’s curriculum, students feel they will just be constantly being told what to do.
Pressure is beginning to rise for the staff and faculty at Shuksan middle school as they prepare for next fall, as they plan to take on two hundred plus students from Whatcom Middle School. Class capacity, schedules, and finding room for filing of these students were some of the main concerns brought up by attendance secretary Kim Schmitt.
Whatcom fire and where students are set to attend
On Nov. 9, Whatcom middle school burst into flames around 1 a.m, destroying the oldest and most historic school in the Bellingham district. Flames destroyed an historic building and hurt many of those who saw Whatcom as a home. With this devastation came the loss of an institution for over five hundred middle school students. Cause of the fire is still under investigation, the aftermath however caused Whatcom students to be immediately split up and have 6th graders attend Geneva elementary. While 7th graders attend Fairhaven middle school, and 8th graders attend Bellingham high school. Resulting in a huge change to the schools current class size, curriculum, scheduling, and staffing making it a lot more difficult to handle. Plans for next year involve moving the 8th grade class to Fairhaven middle school while 6th graders will stay at Geneva and 7th graders of around two hundred students will move to Shuksan middle school.
With the arrival of these additional students Shuksan plans on adding portables on its school grounds to accommodate the extra students attending in the fall. “Room is our biggest concern and managing paperwork” said office assistant to the principal Peggie Foster. Shucksan which currently was just newly remodeled and opened this year hold 700 students currently which is not over its buildings capacity. This was one of the main reasons the school district decided to transfer the current 7th grade class from Whatcom middle school to Shuksan.
Students concerns
Current 7th and 8th graders show concern for the additional students attending expressing that things have become a lot stricter this year with the current remodel of the school. They feel that with the additional students coming in, school is not going to be a fun environment anymore. With administration rushing to figure out how everything is going to work including the student’s curriculum, students feel they will just be constantly being told what to do.
Staff and faculty
Bellingham school district expressed that teachers currently from Whatcom will be incorporated into the staff of the schools of which they are transferred to and will work together for the upcoming school year. Currently Shuksan, Geneva, and Fairhaven are still working out the plans and hope to make the transition as smoothly as possible for the students.
Student set to be at Shuksan and the other middle school for the next two years as Whatcom is being remodeled. Remodeling has already started on Whatcom with the exterior walling of the school. Whatcom is set to be completely remodeled by the 2012 school year. The Nov. 5 fire not only affected the students of Whatcom middle school, but also the hundred of other students in the Bellingham school district.
Bellingham school district expressed that teachers currently from Whatcom will be incorporated into the staff of the schools of which they are transferred to and will work together for the upcoming school year. Currently Shuksan, Geneva, and Fairhaven are still working out the plans and hope to make the transition as smoothly as possible for the students.
Student set to be at Shuksan and the other middle school for the next two years as Whatcom is being remodeled. Remodeling has already started on Whatcom with the exterior walling of the school. Whatcom is set to be completely remodeled by the 2012 school year. The Nov. 5 fire not only affected the students of Whatcom middle school, but also the hundred of other students in the Bellingham school district.
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