Local Politics at the Old Firehouse

<< Back to archives | Thursday, October 6, 2011

Hosting a forum for candidates this evening, the old Fairhaven Fire Station, now the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, provided a perfect cozy venue for candidates and voters.  24 candidates attended, including both from virtually every contested city and county contest.  While the seating capacity is modest, south side Bellingham politics is taken quite seriously and candidates know that.  The place was standing room only. 

Shown above are the Bellingham City Council candidates for the four open seats of the seven on the council.  Two are running unopposed, but they showed anyway to present their views and answer questions.  The Coalition of Southside Neighborhoods produced the forum.  Besides Fairhaven, that includes South Hill, South, Happy Valley and Edgemoor.  It was a very well run forum and all enjoyed it.  A tip of the hat and thanks to all who helped put this on.  We had a perfect opportunity to compare candidates for all local offices.

If you are not familiar with the Firehouse, it was Bellingham’s #2 fire station for almost 80 years.  After a new station was built a few blocks away, it was renovated and is now a community meeting place, coffee shop, theater and classroom.  It hosts classes in dance, martial arts, relaxation, ballet and more.  And it is now showing movies once a month during the winter.  And tonight it hosted a very good political forum.  Thanks folks. 

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