Cub Scouts picking up trees

Last year, scouts picked up more than 400 trees in three hours Cub Scout pack 4026 is offering Christmas tree pickup on Saturday, Jan. 7. Residents who want to take advantage of this ...

Help Readers Care Fund reach $2,000 goal for food bank

WHATCOM ­— Readers have until the end of this week to still contribute to the Ferndale Record Readers Care Fund benefiting the Ferndale Food Bank. It’s essential to make sure that ...

Public Meetings — Dec. 28, 2016

Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Ferndale City Council committees meet at City Hall, 2095 Main St., starting at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 2 All public offices closed for the New Year’s Day holiday. ...

Law enforcement needs citizens’ backing

This is a guest column by Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo. Law enforcement officers across our nation have been subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism alleging widespread, reckless ...

Award-winning lecture series begins Jan. 4 at Lynden church

LYNDEN ­— The award-winning January Series of Calvin College is video streamed to Lynden from Jan. 4 through Jan. 24, 2017, to the basement Gathering Room of Third Christian Reformed ...

Calendar for Dec. 28

Friday Big-band dance Dance (or just listen) to big-band music with DJ David Black at An Afternoon of Elegance from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, in the Lynden Community Center, 401 ...

Juan Plata

Lynden resident Juan Plata passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, after a short battle with lung cancer. Juan was born in Bishop, Texas, on Nov. 8, 1925 to Jesse ...

Everett Zuidmeer

Everett Zuidmeer, 93, died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 at Lynden Manor from complications of pneumonia. Everett was born Aug. 20, 1923 in Lynden in a house on the corner of Pine and Eighth ...

Virginia Creekman

Virginia Chapman Creekman, age 93, of Lynden, passed away on Dec. 20, 2016. She was born in 1923 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and had lived in Lynden for the last 20 years. During World ...

Rane Olson

Rane K. Olson passed away at the age of 67 on Dec. 16, 2016, after a brief illness. Rane was born in Bellingham to Sig and Charlotte Olson. Being raised in Ferndale on Legoe Lane, ...