Watch for it.  Businesses in this community are working together and bringing you the best Whatcom and Bellingham have to offer.  We are a part of that.  What can you do?  Support the Chamber of Commerce.  Join today.

Bellingham Chamber of Commerce has a great monthly award: The Most Valuable Person of the month award.  This Month was awarded to Nancy Leavitt of American Family Insurance.  This new mom to be has been a big part of the chamber and the various activites around our great community.  Congratulations Nancy!!!

It’s a summer BBQ with salmon, hamburgers, hotdogs, beer, wine, pop and live music.

What could be more fun?!

Tickets for the salmon dinner will be $20.00 in advance/$25.00 at the door.  Hambuger or hotdog dinner will be $15.00 in advance/$20.00 at the door.

Where: Depot Market (Farmer’s Market) Bellingham, WA
July 25, 2009
5:30 – 11:00

To order tickets or for more information visit: www.marianneshouse.org or call 360.319.8125

Kiwanis Bingo has brought back family fun to Bellingham. And this is not your typical old folks and retired peoples pastime. All ages 8 to 80 are playing weekly and enjoying the game very much. Kiwanis is a Service Club that supports children and this is one of their more entertaining fundraisers! Check it out on Tuesday at the Elks club… 710 Samish Way in Bellingham. Cashier opens at 6 and games start at 6:30.

Note, too, you can bring a donation of food for the food bank and receive a free card for the 1st 2 games of the night. We love the fun and the fact that it supports the food bank as well as the children of Whatcom county. Check out their link for more info: Kiwanis noon club.

Gateway Centre had a few participants in this years Ski to Sea event and wanted to congratulate them all for a job well done!

Lucid Consulting (suite 219) had a team and Lis Edwards tackled the running leg.
Overall they placed 176th and in their division (Competitive Open) they placed 52nd.

Both Kevin Faris of the Custom Prescription Shoppe Pharmacy and his wife Samantha participated as well.
Kevin was in the canoe leg of team Hertz So Good $#@! which placed 152nd overall and 26th in the Recreational Open division.
Samantha was the running leg on team We’re Bookin’ Now which placed 362nd overall and 8th in the Whatcom County Women division.

Jolie McGrath, wife of Jon McGrath from Service Alternatives (suite 304) did the running leg with team Bellingham Health Care which placed 398th overall and 38th in their division (Whatcom County Open)

To these participants and all the others who raced – Congratulations!

The Kiwanis Club is an international Service club started in the early 1900’s to serve the children of the world. About 9 years into it’s life they adopted the 6 Objects of Kiwanis. Are they good for your business? Are the good for you? Here they are:
The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver Colorado:
#1 To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
#2 To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
#3 To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
#4 To develop by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
#5 To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
#6 To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

Through the decades, these Objects have remained unchanged.

Gateway Centre donated some children’s treasure baskets as well as some magic show tickets and they were a big hit and helped the Whatcom County Pregnancy Clinic raise over $61,000!

Over 500 people participated in this years event!

Those funds will allow the clinic to provide, without-charge, services to young women facing an unplanned pregnancy – tests, ultrasound, parenting education, mentoring and practical help – baby clothing and care items. 

For more info on the clinic – go to www.whatcomclinic.com.