The Bellingham Herald

• WECU donates to local organizations
  Whatcom Educational Credit Union recently donated more than $12,900 to local organizations.
  The groups receiving donations include ALS for the Walk to Defeat ALS, Arthritis Association for the Jingle Bell Run, Birchwood Elementary School garden, Ferndale School District, Interfaith Community Health Center, Kulshan Supported Employment, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, Rebound of Whatcom County, Whatcom Center for Early Learning and Western Washington University for Woodring College's Latino Empowerment Project.
  

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• Legendary Lynden AD retires
  Longtime Lynden athletic director Terry DeValois never set a number of years he wanted to work or a specific age that he wanted to retire from the Lynden School District, but he did jokingly set another goal.
  "I used to tell people that as soon as we filled up the wall of the gymnasium with championship banners, that's when I'd retire," DeValois said in a phone interview. "Sure enough winning the state boys' golf and boys' track and field state championships this spring, darned if the wall isn't full."
  With the love he showed for his job, that would make DeValois one of the most successful people Whatcom County has ever seen.
  Though he never intended to get into teaching after graduating from Lynden Christian in 1955 and going on to Western Washington University, DeValois soon found it to be a rewarding career.