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Good morning, Bellingham. This is your Friday update from The Hamster Wheel.
Happy Fathers Day to all you dads.
Have fun, and stay safe out there!
Nature, Community, Sasquatch, UAP
Photos From the Hoods
Hummingbird - 📷 by Donnett Brown
Chuckanut Drive Fossils - 📷 by Sonja Max
Bellingham Sloth Patrol - 📷 by Phil Kuyper
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Weather Forecast
Friday: 67°F 🌡️ 51°F | ⛅ Partly Sunny | 🌧️ 21% | 💨 WSW 3 to 7 mph
Saturday: 69°F 🌡️ 50°F | 🌤️ Mostly Sunny | 🌧️ 2% | 💨 SSW 8 mph
Sunday: 72°F 🌡️ 52°F | ☀️ Sunny | 🌧️ 16% | 💨 SW 2 to 7 mph
Moon Phases
Events, Updates & News Around Town
Get off the Hamster Wheel
For Busted Up Loggers
This weekend is the Deming Log Show, a Whatcom County staple that's been around for generations. It's a show featuring competitions and educational exhibitions centered around the logging industry. You get to watch people climb poles at break-neck (or knee!) speeds, chopping and sawing logs, log rolling, axe-throwing, and a huge tug-o-war match.
There's multiple food options available including burgers, taco salad, and a salmon, beef or chicken dinner with baked potato and more. There's also vendors with treats and other promotions outside the ring for people to visit. All of the proceeds go to benefit the Deming Log Show charity, which benefits "busted-up loggers", or people who have been injured working in the logging industry.
The Log Show is fun for the whole family. I have wonderful childhood memories filled with the smells of sawdust and chain oil. Bring the whole fam and support Whatcom’s logging community. All the details.
In other news…
In late July, when you children’s brains are nearing stasis from all the iPad-time, kick them into gear and send them off to Squalicum Storm Cross Country Camp. It’s co-ed, ages 11-18yrs, and runs Monday-Thursday (July 21-24).
Camp highlights include guest speakers on topics related to running and running lifestyle, games, ultimate frisbee, team games, relays, weight training, daily runs and a great opportunity to make new friends before school starts. Sign up those whippersnappers.
🥚 The Whatcom County Public Health Department posted an egg recall due to Salmonella contamination. The recalled eggs are “brown cage-free and brown certified organic eggs” from August Egg Company, with sell-by dates from “March 4, 2025 to June 19, 2025”. It sounds like they were primarily sold through Walmart in Washington state. Read the Public Health News post for all the details. 👆️
⛏️ Volunteer Opportunities This Weekend: We tracked down one work party this weekend. 👇️
📸 COB
Mayflower Bridge: Join the City in supporting urban creek and trail stewardship efforts by weeding and mulching near the Mayflower Bridge and WeGrow Garden! All ages and abilities welcome. Details and registration.
Garage & Estate Sales
Your Source For Vintage Can Openers
McKenzie Ave near 14th Street (Fri-Sun 10 am)
Older Fairhaven home that served as a museum of sorts for many years. Hundreds of Pcs. of Collectible Pottery. Mainly McCoy, Shawnee & with Many Others Too. Gobs and Gobs of antique and vintage items. map
G. Green, Inc.
Pest and Wildlife Management
Celebrating 20+ Years
Keep an eye out for our brand-new sign on Guide Meridian. Celebrating 20+ years in business and 10 years at our current location!
At G. Green, Inc. Pest and Wildlife Management, we’ve been proudly serving the community with expert rodent control and full-service pest and wildlife solutions.
Whether it’s bugs, rats, raccoons, or anything in between, we’re here to help—local, reliable, and ready when you need us.
Mention “The Hamster Wheel” for free setup ($250 value) of rodent bait stations, residential or commercial.
Call Today: (360) 389-3599
Food & Drink
Hamsters Gotta Eat
Because it’s fun to be a lookie-loo
Crash an Open House
1160 St Paul Street (Open Sat 2-3:30 pm)
This is a fun one. It’s cottagey from the front, but hiding a surprisingly large home behind. Cute yard, nice interior spaces with opportunities to freshen up the finishes, and it seems to have a partial suite in the basement. Listing.
2526 Moore Street (Open Sun 12-2 pm)
When this house was built in 1918 it was probably surrounded by farmland. I-5 was not even a glimmer in the mind of some DC bureaucrat. If you picture wide open fields on all sides it looks right at home even though you know it’s in the heart of Bellingham. I think it’s charming. Listing.
Performance Arts This Week
Dance of The Hamsters
A Gentalmen's Guide to Love and Murder
LIVE ARTS & FILM
iDiOM Theater
Your Grace | Fri-Sun 7 pm
Mount Baker Theater
Opus’ Spring Showcase | Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 pm
Bellingham Theatre Guild:
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder | Fri, Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm
New Prospect Theatre:
Molly’s Comedy Cabaret – Disney Edition | Sat 7 pm
New Prospect Theatre:
To Whom It May Concern | Sun 7:30 pm
The Upfront Theatre
Various performances.
PARTICIPATORY DANCE
Salsa & Bachata
Salsa Collective - The Majestic - Sun 5:30 pm
Other
Sunset Silent Disco - Zuanich - Sat 8:00 pm
Contra - Everson Glen Echo Hall - Sat 7 pm
Open Floor Movement - Presence Studio - Sun 10:30 am
Family Dance Party - Boom! - Sun 10 am
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Events & Nightlife
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A night of circus, spectacle, and shenanigans! Vaudevillingham is a monthly community open stage that’s uncurated, uncensored, unapologetic, and UNBELIEVABLE! The best part is that you never know what might happen... Axe juggling? Aerial silks on roller skates? A mad-lib singalong? A symphony made purely from conch shell noises? Grab tickets for the Sunday show.
Sprawl on a blanket, the Bellingham Bay stretching out in front of you, and a DJ is dropping beats that make you want to move. That's exactly what you'll get at this open-air DJ sessions at Boulevard Park. 6-9 pm on Sunday.
Naturalists will be roaming the beach to help people explore the tidepools and learn about what they find. There will also be 4 tours: 1 about plants and birds along the 3/4-mile trail to the beach, 2 about the geology and geologic history of the park, and another about how the ocean waves and currents work with the bluffs to maintain the beach. The Marine Life Center will be on the beach, and a number of community organizations will have informational tents at the trailhead. Explore low tide.
FRIDAY
Tool Fair, Hardware Sales - The Tool Fair is the biggest power tool sale of the year, bringing together 20+ top vendors, massive savings, live demos, and unbeatable giveaways! Open all weekend.
North Sound Soul, Kulshan Trackside - North Sound Soul is a 9-piece horn-backed band comprised of veterans of Bellingham's local music scene. With an ever expanding catalog, the music will take the listener on a journey from the early Motown days to the horn-driven rock of the 1970's. Be there at 7:30 pm.
SATURDAY
Lynden Tractor Trot, Bender Fields Park - The 2025, “Lynden Tractor Trot” (5K & 10K) will start and finish at the south end of Bender Fields Park. Since this is Fathers’ Day weekend, bring family and friends. Join the trot.
Wild Whatcom: All-Ages Community Field Trip, Marine Park - Search the shore during a very strong low-tide, where we often find sea stars, nudibranchs, baby fish and even clams that shoot water. Also a great spot to view the Great Blue Herons and their babies nesting in the trees along the shore. Register to attend.
SUNDAY
Father's Day Car Show, Bellewood Farms - Presented from 9 am to 3 pm by Gear Heads of Whatcom County, admission is free for spectators at the family friendly show that includes live music. Farm-made spirits and hard cider from Bellewood’s distillery, plus breakfast and lunch at the Ten Mile Café Grill, will be available.
County Rose, Boundary Bay Brewery - Celebrate Dad with live music from County Rose in the beer garden from 5 - 8 pm. Doors open at 5 pm with music starting at 6 pm.
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