Category: Corona Virus

CONTENTS 9/3/2020
Missing Kitten
Eviction Rent Assistance
Halloween Ideas
Write Your Will
Free Truck Bed Liner
Houseplant For Adoption
Free Cherry Tomatoes
Free “Urbanite”
Free Desk Is Gone
Is Anyone Going Shopping?
Room Or Mil Wanted
Fairhaven Online Concert Tonight
Radio Free Fl!p: Tide And The River Rising

MISSING KITTEN

Last night both of our 5 month old kittens went missing in the 2500 block of Elizabeth Street. Our male kitten came home about 1 am meowing like he had quite a story to tell. Our female (light grey tabby, very small) is still missing. Our kittens are incredibly friendly and are the delight of our entire block. I often see them being petted and loved by people walking by. We are SO worried! A whole block of kids are on a mission to find her. She has made so many people happy this summer. Both kittens are constantly getting out of their collars. They are scheduled to be spayed/neutered and microchipped on Tuesday. Spent hours last night and early morning looking and calling for her. We are all worried that someone might have thought she should come with them or that she is in a garage/shed. Her name is Cora, extremely friendly and LOVED by us and many children on our street. If you have any info PLEASE call or text 360-920-2145. ~ Wendy Blum, 2518 Elizabeth Street

https://bellingham.craigslist.org/pet/d/bellingham-missing-kitten/7189469277.html

EVICTION RENT ASSISTANCE

Commerce’s Eviction Rent Assistance program, funded with federal CARES Act dollars, may prevent evictions by paying past due and current/future rent for people in distress. Rental assistance is provided through local housing providers in each community, not directly from Commerce. Over 20 counties have partners established to distribute funds and application periods currently open. Funds are limited. Community members are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Click here for a full list of currently open application periods. Looks like this is available in Whatcom County through the Opportunity Council. ~ Aurora Fox 206.372.2750

HALLOWEEN IDEAS

I have an idea for trick-or-treating. I work at the library and we are following guidelines to quarantine all items for four days, so I assume that unopened treats would be very similar. That being said, I wonder if, for trick-or-treating, we could draw up a map of flow so that people aren’t walking close together/toward each other…we could possibly draw large arrows on the sidewalk/street with chalk. Something like that? ~ Candice Munson, Walnut St
[Or maybe organize even-sides and odd-sides of the streets as one ways?]

WRITE YOUR WILL

This August was National Make-A-Will month, and the Southern Poverty Law Center recently introduced a new online tool to help you write a will, for free. We shared this tool in the spirit of providing easy-to-use, accessible resources to help you protect the people you love. Writing a will is the best way to create a plan for your future on your own terms. This tool removes the expensive legal costs associated with writing a will and may take as little as 20 minutes to complete. Sheltering at home gives us more time to complete this important task if we haven’t yet done so. You can also use this resource to create other estate planning documents like a living will (also known as Advanced Healthcare Directive) and a Financial Power of Attorney.  Learn more and get started. Consider writing your will soon and get some much-needed peace of mind knowing you’ve protected what matters most.

FREE TRUCK BED LINER

We have a bed liner for a Chevy 6 ft bed. Free on the corner of Victor and Illinois.  ~ Amy Devaney. 360-410-1264

HOUSEPLANT FOR ADOPTION

I took in a lovely 6” Maidenhair Fern that unfortunately has become a living snack tree for my kitty. It needs a new (safer) home!  ~ Jessica Burchiel, Henry Street  jessicaburchiel@gmail.com

FREE CHERRY TOMATOES

We have an excess. You pick. For that matter, we have more chard than we can reasonably get through. Fl!p 360-671-4511

FREE “URBANITE”

Hi! I am redoing my walk and have lots of chunks of concrete for garden projects if anyone wants them. I am leaving all of it on the parking strip in front of my house at 2627 Park St between North and Connecticut for the next couple of days, and then I will haul whatever is left away. Help yourself if you want some! ~ Tom Crestodina, Park Street

FREE DESK IS GONE

Thanks everybody….

IS ANYONE GOING SHOPPING?

We could use some items from each of these: Costco, Winco, Rite-Aid and Haggens. If anyone is going to any of these, we’d love to piggyback on your expedition. ~ Fl!p 360-671-4511

ROOM OR MIL WANTED

Hello neighbors, I have a wonderful friend who is searching for a place to call home during the school year. If you or anyone you know has a link, please reach out.  Thank you! ~ Shelley Wilfong

Looking for room to rent or mother-in-law home/tiny home to rent in Bellingham area. Hi all, my name is Patty and I am looking for a room to rent or a one bedroom in or just outside of Bellingham. I will be working towards going back to graduate school at Western Washington University in the Mental Health Counseling program. I am an avid climber, runner and mountaineer. I have worked as an outdoor educator for the last 8 years and currently have two other masters degrees in public health and recreation. I am a healthy non-smoker, vegetarian. I am an active anti-racist, feminist and LGBTQ+ ally. In my free time I love to recreate, play music, sing, dance and get together for friends for fun in whatever way we are able to play during COVID. I love animals and am open to any house with pets. Because I am very active in a lot of areas of my life I tend to shell up and need introvert time when at home. It is just something I need in order to recharge, so if I am in my room it is probably because I just need alone time. I am looking to rent for under $750. Please let me know if you are interested or know of anything. Thank you! ~ Patty Haltom  pmhaltom10@gmail.com

FAIRHAVEN ONLINE CONCERT TONIGHT

Local singer/storyteller David Donohue. Look for Fairhaven College Music Festival Streaming Series, and scroll down to the link when it goes live tonight, Thursday at 7 PM. https://www.facebook.com/groups/298533994557015/

RADIO FREE FL!P: TIDE AND THE RIVER RISING

A particularly beautiful song by Cindy Kallet. She is an extraordinarily dextrous and complex guitarist who has often taught for Guitar Camp over the years. Her voice tends to calm me down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nRygg6yYs&list=PLuVviDccPmWpy2vfGP6ev_LFgy7b7SFxg

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 9/2/2020
Neighborhood Assn Meeting Minutes
New COVID Theory
Halloween?
Charm Bracelet
Free Pallets
Mattress Mess
Student Desk Success
Tumbleweed Folk Festival
Fairhaven Online Concert Tomorrow
Radio Free Fl!p: Night Songs Of A Neighboring Village

NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES

To Columbia Neighborhood Association members,
The link  to the minutes from the August 25, 2020, Zoom meeting is included here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVlKiqPeAByEjenqQqqfumZrz1MvAO_7wffALeAUMs8/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for your membership in CNA. The board welcomes your feedback at columbianeighborhoodassociation@protonmail.com.

Note: Memberships purchased at the 2019 Block Party will be honored through the end of 2020. New membership applications and renewals will begin again at the first 2021 meeting.

CNA Board members:
Jill MacIntyre Witt, President and Mayor’s Neighborhood Action Commission (MNAC) Rep
Aaron Silverberg, Vice President
Aaron Ignac, Treasurer
Deb Valentine, Secretary
David Crook, Board member at-large
Jennifer Moon, MNAC Alternate Rep

New COVID Theory

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged. I found this fascinating. No final answers, but we get to watch science happening right before our eyes!

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

HALLOWEEN?

Has anyone started thinking about Halloween and how we could plan for it as a neighborhood? I’d love to help us share ideas.

CHARM BRACELET

Found:  Pandora charm bracelet near  Williams and North September 1^st. Contact JA at 831 566-6012 to identify and retrieve. ~ Julie Anne Hopkins

FREE DESK (Gone Already) 

Free new IKEA desk, two tiered. Needs to be put together.  All parts are present with directions. Please email woodelainemike@gmail.com or call 360 734 7403.

FREE PALLETS

We have three pallets remaining from a back yard project.  They are on the parking strip in front of our house at 1609 E. Maplewood Ave.  Check out Pinterest for all the creative ways to use pallets. And the price (FREE) is the best! ~ Joan Gaasland-Smith

STUDENT DESK SUCCESS

We have a perfect desk for a successful school year. We had several neighbors reach out and we just feel so blessed to be a part of this community. Thank you so much!

Keri & Chlöe Clark
Meridian Street

FAIRHAVEN ONLINE CONCERT TOMORROW

Local singer/storyteller David Donohue. Look for Fairhaven College Music Festival Streaming Series, and scroll down to the link when it goes live Thursday at 7 PM. https://www.facebook.com/groups/298533994557015/

TUMBLEWEED FOLK FESTIVAL

To experience some of the best Northwest performers, go to this site https://tumbleweedmusicfestival.org/ The festival goes live this weekend, and will stay up afterwards to visit at your leisure. Zeke and I will be performing online as part of it on the Art Gallery stage. Check out the full schedule in advance at http://www.tumbleweedfest.com/tmfvirtual2020.html

RADIO FREE FL!P: NIGHT SONGS FROM A NEIGHBORING VILLAGE

Julian Kytasty and Michael Alpert performing “A Recruit’s Song” from a concert at The Ukrainian Museum, New York City, February 12th, 2010.

My husband Zeke spent some years learning to play the bandora, a harp/lute that is national instrument of Ukraine. Zeke first met the bandora at the Seattle Folklife Festival. Teachers in Bellingham were in short supply, though we learned that there were bandura camps around North America. However, all camps were conducted in Ukrainian.

My skillset included decades of running guitar camp, folk music concert series at the Roeder Home and such. So we invited the pre-eminant teacher and ambassador of Bandura to come from New York to Bellingham instead, and to teach in English. I coordinated a series of concerts and workshops for Julian Kystasty in the Northwest and in Vancouver BC. We drove him around, and stayed up late into the night talking with him. He has an amazing story.

The banduristy were the voice of Ukraine, blind bards who kept the history in song, and also spoke truth to power through their music. Stalin rounded them up and executed them all. Except one man, who had been a lead-boy for banduristy. That man had emigrated to Australia. He was left as the sole apparent repository of centuries of music. When his nephew, Julian, showed musical promise, Julian was given the mission of saving his people’s music. Many songs told stories of the origins of the Kozaks (Cossacks) who defended their peoples against raids. My own people told quite different stories about the Cossacks…

In his travels, Julian met another musician who had also been tapped to save the vanishing music of his own people, Michael Alpert. That music was Yiddish music from The Jewish Pale, in the same geographical part of the world. The two of them sat down to play together and discovered that the musicians who created each of their heritages had clearly been secretly listening to each other. Across all the horrors, musicians had heard, respected and learned each other’s music. Night Songs Of A Neighboring Village is a program created by Michael & Julian. Sometimes we change the world one song at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUTOE2IMp2w

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 8/28/2020
No-Contact Benefit Yard Sale
Is That Pecking You Hear?
Outdoor Education Programs
Six Feet?
Lock Anyway
Tumbleweed Folk Festival
Fl!p’s Birthday Concert For Later
Radio Free Fl!p: Only Missed It By Two

NO-CONTACT YARD SALE
TO BENEFIT THE BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK

Saturday, August 29, starting at 10:00 A.M.
2231 Williams Street

All items will be offered without prices, and will be on a donation-basis. Please pay what it’s worth to you! I am offering my leftover inventory from my craft booth at the Bellingham Farmers Market, which I had for thirteen years. This will include garden flags, infinity scarves, garlands/bunting, and fabric cards. Some general household items will also be in the mix.  Please follow the state requirements of wearing a face mask and keeping your distance from people. I will space the tables accordingly. Bring cash, or a check made out to Bellingham Food Bank. A locked mailbox is attached to the fence for you to drop your payment in. Thank you for helping our community!
Zip Jelineo,  corner of Williams and Washington
[Zip makes such beautiful art!!!! ~Fl!p]

IS THAT PECKING YOU HEAR?

We recently heard a gentle rhythmic pecking or tapping sound and, from indoors, our first guess was someone riding a skateboard on the sidewalk. After a few repeat performances, we quietly stepped onto our front porch and discovered that a feathered friend had been pecking on our posts. After comparing our brief sighting with a list of birds observed in Whatcom County and a list of birds that peck, we think we have narrowed him (yes, him) down to a Downy Woodpecker. There are several reasons that birds peck and there are several options for encouraging them to express their birdiness elsewhere. We opted to staple a few shiny streamers near those pecked posts and hope that this mild intervention will be sufficient. Do you hear pecking around your house? Look for splinters on the ground (or deck) and then look upward for confirmation (after all, it could be someone passing on a skateboard). The references we used are linked below. Let’s also remember that birds are our buddies and help to manage the local insect pest population!

https://www.northcascadesaudubon.org/birding/whatcom-checklist

https://www.audubon.org/news/hear-hammering-dont-assume-its-woodpecker

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/why-do-woodpeckers-like-to-hammer-on-houses-and-what-can-i-do-about-it/

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Downy_Woodpecker/id

Greg Hope, Victor Street

OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS

This school year looks very different for most students and many students will be engaging in academic activities online supported by parents and guardians. However, physical activity, time spent outdoors, and connection with peers is vital to mental, physical and emotional health. 

Learning and exploring outside can be a powerful complement to classroom time, and we are learning more about how gathering outdoors (with masks and distance) is much safer. 

If you are hoping to augment your student’s learning experience this year with outdoor programming, join Wild Whatcom, a local outdoor education non-profit, on our new Weekday Programs. Options include: after-school for K-8; half-day programs M-Th; and Wednesday hikes for highschoolers. Financial assistance available. Registration open today!

Any questions? Feel free to reach out to Wild Whatcom’s Executive Director (and Columbia neighborhood resident) Licia Sahagun at Licia@wildwhatcom.org.

Licia Sahagun 

SIX FEET?

I read the Business Insider article referenced in your blog (https://www.businessinsider.com/6-foot-distancing-rule-is-outdated-oxford-mit-new-system-2020-8). To my thinking, it has the potential to mislead and deserves rethinking if not outright rejection.

I have three areas of criticism.[ Disclaimer: this is based on the article quoted, not on the original research paper.]

FIRST, the article encourages people to take a “nuanced” approach to a highly consequential health decision: “What activities are COVID-safe?” It appears to base this on the physics of virus transmission, but I see no consideration of the psychology of decision-making in complex, stressful situations. As we’ve seen with far too many mass COVID transmissions, people’s rational threat analysis can be overridden by what they want to do. The idea of substituting the 6-foot rule with a chart containing 84 discrete situations will encourage fuzzy thinking and more risk taking. It’s like telling a young child “Don’t cross the street without me, unless you have eye contact with the passing drivers and they’re at least 100 feet away and driving no faster than 27 miles per hour and you run at least 6 miles per hour without tripping over something.”

SECOND, the researchers embrace a “traffic light” model with green, yellow, and red coding. But a traffic light is an external device that instantly does the math for you, telling you when to stop, when to go, and when to slow down. The traffic light metaphor implies instant, unambiguous, external direction that doesn’t exist here.

THIRD, even with 84 situations described, the chart is far from definitive. For example, it would lead one to conclude that any outdoor space with low occupancy (which is not defined) is safe without masks for extended conversation at any distance.

MY ADVICE? Establish and follow simple rules that err on the side of safety—the fewer, the better. Revise them only as evolving COVID science demands. In situations where you’re excited or scared, back up, slow down, and think things through.

Marc Hoffman

LOCK ANYWAY

Interesting advice on locking a car.  “Okay to leave valuables in car if you lock it.”  Not true

John Egbert

TUMBLEWEED FOLK FESTIVAL

The Tumbleweed Music Festival was unable to be live in Richland’s Howard Amon Park this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions. However, the organizing committee has been able to pull together a team to bring the festival to life virtually -TMFVirtual2020!  Just like the “regular” festival, there will be musicians, “stages”, MCs, product sales (buttons anyone?!), workshops, dances, a Saturday Night benefit concert, and a live Contra Dance!

Zeke and I will be performing virtually while staying safely at home. I’ll be joining over 60 other performers sharing acoustic music ranging from Folk, Nautical, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Neo-folk, Blues-Rock, Filk, a little bit of Rock and Roll and more!

It all begins on Thursday, September 3, 2020. See www.tumbleweedmusicfestival.org and our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tumbleweedfest/ for more details.

FL!P’S BIRTHDAY CONCERT FOR LATER

Thank you to all the friends and neighbors who tuned in last night! And my apologies to the many who were unable to access. It was a steep learning curve for me, trying to livestream for the first time. I think I’ll need months of practice! We had originally recorded at the Firehouse, with a professional crew of video and audio folks with great equipment in a beautiful space. That performance is being edited and will be available in the fairly near future. I’ll put links here when I get them. Playing an online concert was an amazing thing to do, and a huge gift to me. And I slept almost all day today. Zeke took me out for belated birthday dinner (actually lunch) at Magdalena’s Creperie in Fairhaven. Eaten outdoors. It gave me one more chance to wear my floral garland/crown/wreath. Great food. We’ll be back… And I got to teach my granddaughter Lucy her very first guitar lesson, by Zoom!

RADIO FREE FL!P: ONLY MISSED IT BY TWO

Performed by the Canote twins, and written by Carl Jones. This song reminds me of all the details that went sideways on my concert. I feel so light hearted about the whole thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcCDtGXHvaY

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

ALERTS 8/24/20
Found Keys
Correction
Radio Free Fl!p: Stuff

FOUND KEYS

I just found some keys in the middle of the intersection of Keesling and Jefferson. They are three car keys and one tiny little key that looks like it fits a file cabinet. I would prefer that people email me if they are the owner. And then I will give them my phone number. kateyisonline@gmail.com Thanks, Katey Roemmele

CORRECTION

For our neighborhood meeting tomorrow it is ‘Columbia Conversations’ NOT Climate Conversations.

Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30pm

TOMORROW: COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING
‘Columbia Conversations’
Online – Zoom Call
FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/332973577749440

Our Neighborhood Quarterly Meeting will be focused on conversations with our neighbors to share ideas, tips, strategies during this time of COVID-19.

AGENDA
1) Welcome and CNA Announcements
2) CNA Treasurer’s  and MNAC Report
3) Get to Know Your Neighbors Activity
4) Columbia Conversations in Breakout Rooms. Room Topics – 1- Strategies for staying home, staying healthy, 2- Neighborhood Facebook Page, 3- Parenting and education in the Pandemic, 4- Sharing things you can do at home and outside, 5 – Other

*Join Zoom Meeting
https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95083839982?pwd=Ny95eFZVNncyeGZMZk5WQmxkWFd3Zz09
Meeting ID: 950 8383 9982
Passcode: 570291
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,95083839982# US 

RADIO FREE FL!P: STUFF

My friend Kathleen Fallon of the band Motherlode is just releasing a new album. This song is on it! And it has all her band buddies and a bunch of other Guitar Camp friends…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9HPDIJVq0Q

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 8/24/2020
Procession Tonight For Young Fallen Marine
Tomorrow: Columbia Neighborhood Association Meeting
Free Local Covid Testing
Cat & Coyote
Twin Bed Set Loan?
Fl!p’s 70th Birthday Concert

PROCESSION TONIGHT FOR YOUNG FALLEN MARINE

Please consider lining the Route this evening at 8:30 for USMC Lance Corporal Jack-Ryan Ostrovsky, who was taken too soon.  Jack grew up in Bellingham and will be “arriving back home” this evening. Jack-Ryan was 1 of 9 service members killed in a training accident in San Diego, CA on July 30. 2020. 🇺🇸

You are invited to honor LCpl. Jack-Ryan Ostrovsky at any point along the procession as he arrives in Bellingham. LCpl. Ostrovsky will be escorted by a motorcade, arriving approximately at 8:30 PM on Monday, August 24. The procession will travel north on I-5 to the Sunset Drive exit 255, west on Sunset Drive, which turns in to W. Illinois Street, to Northwest Avenue, south on Northwest which turns into Elm Street, Elm Street to Broadway, south on Broadway ending at Westford Funeral Home, 1301 Broadway.

 You can find frequent updates of the procession’s location at Support Officers of Whatcom County’s Facebook page. Please follow the Governor’s rules for social distancing, including the use of masks. This link can be found on: Facebook.com/WhatcomSupportOfficers/ 

This is also in the Herald. 

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article245150100.html

TOMORROW: COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING

Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30pm
“Climate Conversations”
Online – Zoom Call
FB event page:
 https://www.facebook.com/events/332973577749440
Our Neighborhood Quarterly Meeting will be focused on conversations with our neighbors to share ideas, tips, strategies during this time of COVID-19.

AGENDA
1) Welcome and CNA Announcements
2) CNA Treasurer’s  and MNAC Report
3) Get to Know Your Neighbors Activity
4) Columbia Conversations in Breakout Rooms. Room Topics – 1- Strategies for staying home, staying healthy, 2- Neighborhood Facebook Page, 3- Parenting and education in the Pandemic, 4- Sharing things you can do at home and outside, 5 – Other

*Join Zoom Meeting
https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95083839982?pwd=Ny95eFZVNncyeGZMZk5WQmxkWFd3Zz09

Meeting ID: 950 8383 9982
Passcode: 570291
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,95083839982# US 

FREE LOCAL TESTING

I was tested yesterday On York St Bellingham, drive up, no wait,  and received the results today (negative.) we all have access to free testing, even those  With no car,   asymptomatic, no doctors referral! You must make an appointment by phone or email.  Check out this link: https://www.testdirectly.com/patient/report
~ Dominique Coulet du Gard, Northwest Ave

CAT & COYOTE

I’m sorry to report that we found the remains of a tuxedo cat (mostly black with a little bit of white) in our yard this morning not quite under the big junipers on the corner of Jaeger and Monroe. Can’t tell what got it–perhaps a raccoon or a coyote? I’m sorry to the person or family who lost their cat this way.
Ginger Oppenheimer
Jaeger St
gingeropp@gmail.com

TWIN BED SET LOAN?

Hi neighbor’s. Do you have a twin bed that you are holding on to, because you might want it someday, but would be willing to let live at my house, and be very rarely used? I want to see how a twin set could serve my guest room;as a set or as an occasional King bed. I rarely have guests, especially now, but when I do I need more than the one twin that I now have.  I will take VERY GOOD care of it.
Thank you,
Beth Fuller
Williams St.
(360)389-1391
fullermitchell2@comcast.net

FL!P’S 70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Thursday August 27, 7 PM online

I will post links on FlipAndZeke.com as soon as they are available (maybe not till Thursday). I am recording late this afternoon so we have time to do a little editing. I can’t wait to sing to you, my beloved neighborhood. On Thursday evening when the concert airs, I will be at my computer, watching along with you, and responding as best I can to any comments. You’re all invited, and your presence will of course be a huge gift to me!

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 8/23/2020
Found Keys
Neighborhood Meeting Tuesday
“Play Music On The Porch” Day
Not All Antibodies Are Alike
Foodbank Music
Women’s Suffrage Program
In Search Of Canning Lids
Seeking Help To Set Up A Simple Website
Suffrage Video Series
Fl!p’s 70th Birthday Concert
Radio Free Fl!p: FlatWorld

FOUND KEYS

We found a set of keys on the 2200 block of Henry St on August 21st. A couple of identifiers are a car fob and a fitness pass.
Scott Rice
2223 Henry Street
360-961-5641

COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING

Online – Zoom Call
Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30pm
Our Neighborhood Quarterly Meeting will be focused on conversations with our neighbors to share ideas, tips, strategies during this time of COVID-19.

AGENDA
1) Welcome and CNA Announcements
2) CNA Treasurer’s  and MNAC Report
3) Get to Know Your Neighbors Activity
4) Columbia Conversations in Breakout Rooms. Room Topics – 1- Strategies for staying home, staying healthy, 2- Neighborhood Facebook Page, 3- Parenting and education in the Pandemic, 4- Sharing things you can do at home and outside, 5 – Other.
5) Meeting Wrap up
*Join Zoom Meeting

https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95083839982?pwd=Ny95eFZVNncyeGZMZk5WQmxkWFd3Zz09

Meeting ID: 950 8383 9982
Passcode: 570291
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,95083839982# US

PLAY MUSIC ON THE PORCH DAY

Next Saturday is “Play Music on the Porch Day.” Here’s a web site: http://www.playmusicontheporchday.com/

I’d not heard of it before, but since we had so much fun playing on my back deck on July 4th, I’m having another double-reed session next Saturday, weather permitting. it would be great to let the neighborhood know to stroll by. It will be in the afternoon, but haven’t nailed down the times yet. ~ Ken Bronstein

Hey neighbors! If you want to join in, send me your address, time, and a blurb about the music you play, and I’ll post a list! I’ll check and see if we can find a way to put them all on the map.  Love/Fl!p   flip@columbianeighborhood.org

NOT ALL ANTIBODIES ARE ALIKE

From BetsyBrownMD

I’m not actually including this article to scare you. Yes, C-19 spreads. And there is still a lag between getting a test and being pretty sure you don’t have it. But Betsy’s article focuses hopefully on what and how researchers are learning about antibodies. And about how various tests work. It’s worth reading this whole article not only about what they are learning, but about how research works.

Fascinating report in The Seattle Times about an outbreak of COVID-19 on a fishing boat out of Seattle. The owners had worked with the virology lab at UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research to screen 120 out of 122 employees just prior to departure. Luckily, they also tested for antibodies to look for prior exposure. Out of 120, 6 had positive levels of antibodies that bind to the viral capsule, indicating prior exposure. Only 3 of the 6 also had positive levels of neutralizing antibodies which keep the spike protein from attaching to human cells. Everyone tested negative for the virus at the time of departure.

However, as we know, a negative test for the virus one day can become positive the next day, since it takes a few days after exposure for the infection to show up. Within 18 days the boat returned to port due to a crew member being sick. That was just the beginning. By the end of the outbreak, 104 out of 122 had been infected, as confirmed by SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing. That’s 85% of the crew. The 3 with neutralizing antibodies did not get sick or show signs of reinfection. The other 3 crew members with the capsule antibodies did get infected. Researchers thinks this implies false positives, but it is not clear yet.

The protection the neutralizing antibodies afforded is good news. These are small numbers but add to the optimism of finding an effective vaccine that develops the neutralizing antibodies. This also supports the concerns cited in this article that the capsule antibody test may show prior exposure, but is not helpful in confirming immunity. A positive test may be a false positive from a prior coronavirus (common cold) infection, as well. Hence, some of the confusion over antibody testing and results…
https://betsybrownmd.substack.com/

FOODBANK MUSIC

I got this today from some local music buddies who are likely to be familiar to Farmer’s Market regulars, playing sing-alongs for little ones and their parents (and everyone else of course)! Since we haven’t been able to sing at the farmer’s market this year, we have been looking for another way to enjoy singing and support the food bank. Yesterday, we got together and recorded a song, posted it on our FB page and invited people to donate to the food bank.  it was so much fun! https://www.facebook.com/hotlunchfunband/

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE PROGRAM

Former Utter Street neighbor (for 30 years or more) Linda Allen sent me this: This week, we are celebrating the Suffragists who battled for the vote 100 years ago.  At the heart of the Suffrage story is both the silencing and the raising up of women’s voices.    With this in mind, some of you know that a decade ago, I began developing a program with original songs, stories and historical images called “Here’s to the Women!”.   I believe strongly that it is a story worth telling, particularly in these times when our own right to vote is under attack.

In normal times, I would be on the road now, with bookings from Seneca Falls to Washington State.  But then, of course, everything changed.  So I made the decision, with the help of my tech-savvy spouse, Scott and others to create a video of the performance.  This weekend, “Here’s to the Women!” will be premiering at Seneca Falls.  I would have been there in person in the Spring, but I’m glad to be there virtually now.

I’m going to let this link to the trailer on my web site speak for me about the program.  It’s right at the top of the page.  I invite you to take three minutes to watch it, and then please share it!  www.lindasongs.com/suffrage

If you or someone you know would like to view an individual showing of the 53- minute program at home (on your own schedule), please go to the link directly below to purchase your $15.00 ticket through FireHouse Performing Arts Center.  A portion of your purchase will help support FireHouse and the League of Women Voters. http://www.firehouseperformingarts.com/studio/gallery/

Or, if your  group would like to book this video version of  “Here’s to the Women!” please contact me for information via email: linda@lindasongs.com

Thanks so much for watching! it is so important to remember those who have gone before and to honor their courage by voting! 

IN SEARCH OF CANNING LIDS

I’m looking for 5-10 new wide-mouth canning jar lids. All of the local stores seem to be sold out of lids and jars! I am happy to pay or share a jar of dilly beans with you. Thanks!  ~ Cynthia May, Keesling Street

SEEKING HELP TO SET UP A SIMPLE WEBSITE

I am seeking help setting up an individualized teaching website on wordpress. I would be happy to hire someone with experience or newly started out in website-creation work. One page with likely three linked pages–simple site.  Text with some photos.  If you are interested, please contact Kara Black 360-676-2300, kb@treefrognight.com.

SUFFRAGE WHISTLE STOP VIDEO SERIES

Lots of celebrations of women’s suffrage are happening. Washington State Historical Society. Our State Historical Museum has an online program on Suffrage. It’s about an hour long.

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/event/the-suffrage-special-whistle-stop-tour/

FL!P’S 70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Thursday August 27, 7 PM online

I will record an online concert tomorrow afternoon & evening down at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center in Fairhaven, and my concert will air right on my birthday. I would love to get to sing to you, my beloved neighborhood. I will be playing my Columbia Neighborhood guitar and singing at least a couple neighborhood-specific songs. Here is one link, for facebook. You don’t have to me a facebook member to watch there. I will post other links on FlipAndZeke.com as soon as they are available (maybe not till Thursday).

I’m thinking that tomorrow I will do my best to be “Mr Rogers” – believing somehow that when I look into the camera, there will be people who want to connect. If you know you’re planning to watch the concert, it would be a gift to let me know before I record, so I can hold you in my mind as I sing. For me, songs have always been about community, gathering our voices together and resting in the strength of them. This time I will have to imagine that.  I’d love your help to cheer me on.

On Thursday evening, I will be at my computer, watching along with you, and responding as best I can to your comments. What an odd, out-of-body experience! But I’m eager to try something new.

RADIO FREE FL!P: FLATWORLD

From a long-ago concert at the Roeder Home, playing with dear old friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEUleno8rE

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 8/17/2020
Last Elizabeth Park Concert For 2020!!
Neighborhood Meeting
Parker Has Been Found
Avellino
Painter
Outdoor Adventure Nanny Needed
Free Ink Jet Cartridges
Washing Machine
Yamaha Keyboard For Sale
Storm Door Gone
Fl!p’s 70th Birthday Concert
The Right “Wrong Post”
Radio Free Fl!p: Friend For Life

LAST ELIZABETH PARK CONCER FOR 2020!!

Craig O’s Planet Groove
Thursday Aug.18 at 6 pm
YouTube

https://youtu.be/uyBGsPjcOQo

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethParkSummerConcerts/videos/619268542334605/?notif_id=1597441322570863&notif_t=premiere_video_processed

KMRE-FM 102-3

www.KMRE.org

COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING

Online – Zoom Call
Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30pm
Our Neighborhood Quarterly Meeting will be focused on conversations with our neighbors to share ideas, tips, strategies during this time of COVID-19.

AGENDA
1) Welcome and CNA Announcements
2) CNA Treasurer’s  and MNAC Report
3) Get to Know Your Neighbors Activity
4) Columbia Conversations in Breakout Rooms. Room Topics – 1- Strategies for staying home, staying healthy, 2- Neighborhood Facebook Page, 3- Parenting and education in the Pandemic, 4- Sharing things you can do at home and outside, 5 – Other.
5) Meeting Wrap up
*Join Zoom Meeting

https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95083839982?pwd=Ny95eFZVNncyeGZMZk5WQmxkWFd3Zz09

Meeting ID: 950 8383 9982
Passcode: 570291
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,95083839982# US

PARKER HAS BEEN FOUND

My son Parker ran away earlier today and I asked many folks if they had seen him and to keep an eye out for him. For those who were on the lookout, please know that he’s been located (hiding on our property) and thank you so much for helping to keep an eye out. Regards, ~ Tim Sturtz

AVELLINO

Gluten-Free Bakery on Cornwall is still in business. They are a dedicated gluten free facility and sell breads, baked goods, gluten free flour blends, and beverages. My favorite item to splurge on is their cream puff pastry. Love the staff there. -Kaleigh Downing on Washington St

PAINTER?

I am looking for a skillful, experienced painter who can do some touch-up painting on the exterior of my small house within the next 2 weeks or so. Please let me know if you have worked with someone you feel good about recommending. Thanks. ~ Pamela Fuller  (360) 920-6843

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE NANNY NEEDED 

(Part Time, Flexible Schedule, $15/hr) We are in search of an Outdoor Adventure Nanny for our two boys, ages 4yrs and 1 1/2 years.  Our boys love running around in the back yard as well as bike rides/Bob stroller rides along any trail in Bellingham.  We are looking for someone who could lovingly oversee their adventures on a part-time basis at least through January, while we are working from home.  We are possibly open to Nannying inside our home as well, but during COVID, it is something we’d need to discuss.  Please text or call if interested.
~ Heather Leque. 206-406-4498. Victor Street

FREE INK JET CARTRIDGES

One box of two Canon 225 PGBK cartridges, one each Canon 226 BK, M, C, plus 2 Cannon 226 Y cartridges. Bought them recently then discovered that my printer had died. Bought a new printer but these don’t fit. Thanks! Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Williams St, beoakstone3@gmail.com

WASHING MACHINE

2014 LG HE washing machine for sale.  Runs great! $350   360-734-0474. Thanks, Kim Rideout

YAMAHA KEYBOARD FOR SALE

$75 – Electric keyboard with adapter and stand in good shape. 3’wide and adjusts up to 3′ tall.
Jacks in back for headphones and for amp.  If you’d like to see pictures, go to Craigslist: https://bellingham.craigslist.org/msg/d/bellingham-yamaha-keyboard/7176942229.html
We wiped it down last week and haven’t touched it since.  If interested, email Lizanne Schader on Victor St. at  zanjer@q.com.

 

STORM DOOR GONE

The storm door has found a home! Thank you!  ~ Hannah Stone

FL!P’S 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Thursday August 27, 7 PM online
When I was invited to play an online concert as a Fairhaven College alumnus on August 20th, I said I couldn’t possibly because that would be in conflict with our Elizabeth Park concerts. So they asked if I could do the following week. And that was exactly on my 70th birthday! So I said yes. If you want to tune in, you’re welcome. I will be playing my Columbia Neighborhood guitar and singing at least a couple neighborhood-specific songs. I don’t yet have links for you to click, but as soon as I do, I’ll post them on FlipAndZeke.com. This will be a family friendly affair, though not a ‘children’s concert.’ There is room for everyone!

THE RIGHT “WRONG POST”

More on your inadvertent post of “Welcome to the World”: it came on the day a Bellingham friend emailed me with photos of a new baby grandson just born the day before. I sent her the link to the song, she loved it and was sure the baby’s parents would too. It was already such a coincidence to have the perfect song appear in my inbox less than an hour after our correspondence about the birth. Even more amazing to realize it was not the song you meant to post. But, meant to be!
~ Anita Holladay, Orcas Island

RADIO FREE FL!P: FRIEND FOR LIFE

Bryan Bowers phoned this morning to share a new poem he’s written. We hear from him from time to time and love him dearly. So when I was thinking about what to share today, of course I thought of Bryan. This is one of my favorites of the many songs he sings. As a child back in Virginia, Bryan would tag along with the field workers and gandy dancers and learned to sing old call-and-answer songs. He’s the real deal. Bryan wrote this, collaborating with Bill Danoff who also co-wrote the John Denver hit Country Roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZI36QfJMM0

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.

CONTENTS 8/17/2020
Neighborhood Meeting
Lost Basset Is Home
Free 32″ Storm Door
Cleaner & Cook?
Black Sheet
Vise?
Radio Free Fl!p:  Happy Adoption Day

COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING

Online – Zoom Call
Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30pm (Note date correction!)

Our Neighborhood Quarterly Meeting will be focused on conversations with our neighbors to share ideas, tips, strategies during this time of COVID-19.

AGENDA
1) Welcome and CNA Announcements
2) CNA Treasurer’s  and MNAC Report3) Get to Know Your Neighbors Activity
4) Columbia Conversations in Breakout Rooms. Room Topics – 1- Strategies for staying home, staying healthy, 2- Neighborhood Facebook Page, 3- Parenting and education in the Pandemic, 4- Sharing things you can do at home and outside, 5 – Other.
5) Meeting Wrap up
*Join Zoom Meeting

https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95083839982?pwd=Ny95eFZVNncyeGZMZk5WQmxkWFd3Zz09

Meeting ID: 950 8383 9982
Passcode: 570291
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,95083839982# US

LOST BASSET IS HOME

Thanks everyone!

FREE 32″ STORM DOOR

We have a brand new 32″ right-hinged white storm door (with both a screen insert, a glass insert, and an oiled-bronze handle set) that is looking for a home. We decided to go with a black frame instead. We were unable to return the white door and we don’t have another use for it. Please note that it is a 32″ frame. If it fits your needs, you are welcome to come pick it up.
Thank you!
Hannah and Brad Stone
2730 Kulshan Street
(360) 582-7543

CLEANER & COOK?

A neighbor of mine, who is a good guy and community-spirited person, is fairly new in Bellingham, after living in the Tacoma area for many years. We’ve met over neighborhood issues up here on the hill. (They both live up by Toad Lake – this is from my Pix list. I’ve known Margie for years.) I feel comfortable endorsing him as a good, safe person. He asked me if I wanted to do some housework for him, and as a hater of housework, I had to decline. But I told him I’d put in a word for him on your blog if that’s OK. Also he is looking for a personal chef since he isn’t much of a cook, and has a tech business he is trying to run almost single-handedly from his home and has little time for these home-ly tasks. Here’s a quick blurb:

~ Margie Katz

Hi! My name is Maximilian and I’m looking for someone to help me with housework.  I’m 40-ish, moved here last year from the Tacoma area. I need a 7 a.m. early morning type of person who is trustworthy about wearing a mask and is unlikely to bring Covid-19 exposure along. I’m also interested in finding someone who might be able to prepare regular meals for my freezer or refrigerator. I’m honest, fair and trustworthy, have a great sense of humor, and am happy to pay appropriately for this work. I have no pets. You’d need a car as I live up a steep hill far from any bus service. Please contact me at (253) 279-6638.

BLACK SHEET

Looking to borrow a black sheet to use as a backdrop for a video interview. Fl!p 360-671-4511

VISE?

One of those big clamps. We’re looking for someone who could put the 4” square plastic top of an under-counter water filter into their clamp, and then turn the filter, to get the top off. The filter might still have some residual water in it.  Fl!p 360-671-4511

HAPPY ADOPTION DAY

That’s funny! I linked the wrong song in my last post. I linked to Welcome To The World. Here’s the one I meant to share. Still John McCutcheon. And here’s a neighbor’s response to yesterday’s mix-up: I am sitting outside in my backyard  in this amazing warm evening. I just looked  at the newsletter and saw this song you put on it and listen to it. It was perfect for me to hear. Here’s why. My best friend (from meeting in kindergarten)  was a nurse in the Appalachian Mountains/Kentucky hills I early 1980s  and introduced me to John McCutcheon.    Then when we adopted in 1998, she turned me onto the “happy adoption day “song which we sang probably hundreds of times over many years. (I heard that he wrote it because I think his sister had adopted.) And it’s not the song that you sent, there’s actually one that is called Happy Adoption Day which is different. So you can Google that. But, my friend’s son and his wife just had a baby two days ago and I will be sending them this song. They live in Connecticut. My friend lives in Wisconsin now. She is the person I traveled  to Washington state with back in 1974 when we were just visiting a friend of mine hat had moved here from Maryland and we had zero intention of staying – but I never left. So thank you for pushing a button and a memory and I know that my friend and her son and his wife are going to appreciate this song. ~ Jana Williams, Walnut Street

hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ZZtUe0l2Q

Love/Fl!p 360-671-4511  2518 Cherry Street flip@columbianeighborhood.org

If you want to ask me to post something, just email me. If it’s urgent, phone. If it’s a real emergency, call 911.