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  Marine Park: Best Restored Beach
The Ski to Sea Race Finish Line is in Marine Park.

FORT MYERS, FL – The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) today announced winners of its 2009 Best Restored Beach award.

This year’s winners are: Fire Island, N.Y.; South Padre Island, Texas; Marine Park at Bellingham, Wash.; St Joseph Peninsula, Fla.; Encinitas (Pacific Station), Calif.; Lido Key, Fla.; and Duval County, Fla.  

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Norka Recreation-Designers of the new Ski to Sea Mountain Bike Course.

  Mountain Bike Course Practice 

Practice on the new Mountain Bike Leg can take place on

Saturday, May 23, from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM ONLY

Starting in Hovander Park in Ferndale

The course is a mix of many things...and reminds me of various courses I've raced around the world.  It will be a very challenging course for all riders though not overly technical.   It will have some very challenging sections where some people might be walking.  I have to reiterate that this is a true mountain bike course... Rigid bikes, arrow bars and slicks won't get you to the finish line.

An ideal bike would be a super light cross country full suspension rig (with lockouts) or a hardtail or a 29'er...running on an aggressive semi-slick tire.

The course has a little bit of everything: some mellow (and fast) greenway trials, quite a bit of mid-west style grassland riding, some urban assault pavement chasing, some classic northwest sections of mud, ladders and single track, and, my favorite... a little taste of Costa Rica over railroad ties mixed with some good northwest mud and handlebar grabbing saplings.

  Experience Northwest on KVOS 
It's experiencing everything our amazing community has to offer. From the Eggs Benedict at Mount Bakery to Bellingham's Mr. Peanut...Real Beauty tips from Jude Grimm and commentary from Peter Gunn...Footnotes from Village Books and a tour of the new Bellingham Food Bank.  See what you can experience on Experience Northwest with Whatcom County native, Deb Slater.  Saturdays at 5pm, Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30am and always on kvos.com!

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 Mt Baker Ski Area Course Grooming
The course at the Mt Baker Ski Area is groomed and being touched up daily and is ready for practice.  Have a great time on it, as they have been getting a few inches of snow every day it seems for past week.

CROSS COUNTRY SKIER
The race starts at 8:00 AM. Don’t jump the start! If you jump the starting gun, a five minute time penalty can be assigned. If you break a rule once underway, you risk disqualifying the entire team. No skating is allowed for approximately the first 100 yards. 

DOWNHILL SKIER / SNOWBOARDER
The downhill skier/snowboarder must be in the staging area or he/she will be penalized by the race committee.  The skier will first ski directly down to the bottom of Chair 2, hike up Lower North to North Face, then hike to the top of Chair 1, ski down Gunner’s Ridge, down Blueberry Cat Track, down Home Run, down 7-Hills, and on to the finish line beside the ski shop. 

   Ski to Sea Junior Race a Success 
The Ski to Sea Jr Race was held last weekend at Lake Padden in Bellingham.  By all accounts, it was a major success.  View the winning teams by clicking here.  Thank you to Western Washington University Recreation Department  -  WWU-PEHR Dept., Physical Education, Health and Recreation, and its students for organizing the race legs and supplying volunteers and to Bellingham Parks & Recreation for the organizational staffing and timing of the race.  Way to go!

 Top Gun Hats for Fastest Racers
This year, the TOP GUN winners (the fastest racers for each leg, both Females and Males) will be getting something they can wear to work and have their coworkers oggle and ahhh over them.  Winners of the TOP GUNS will receive these great Top Gun Hats! Go ahead, and strut your stuff you Top Guns!  You know who we're talking about! 

Hats supplied by Bellingham Kite Boarding.  Thanks!

  

	Live Music at Marine Park Finish Line
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Come cheer all the teams and competitors! 

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 Horizon Air and Ski to Sea Partnership
In 1987, Horizon Air and Bellingham (and the rest of Whatcom County) kicked off a partnership that’s still going strong.

And in that time it’s also grown to include our sister carrier, Alaska Airlines, which is launching nonstop service from Bellingham to Las Vegas starting June 25.

It all started modestly enough. Horizon operated its first flight from Bellingham International Airport with an 18-seat Metroliner turboprop headed to Seattle. In that first month, just 148 people boarded Horizon flights in Bellingham.

Since then, more than 1.3 million people have flown with us from Bellingham. As Bellingham has grown over the years, Horizon has kept pace, increasing capacity and evolving to much larger aircraft.

Our current five daily flights to Seattle are all operated with 76-seat Bombardier Q400s, the most technically advanced – and environmentally friendly – turboprop aircraft in the sky. In fact, Bellingham was the first city in Horizon’s route system where we converted all flights from 37-seat Q200s to the larger Q400s. By moving to the highly fuel-efficient Q400s, Horizon was able to increase total seating capacity to Seattle by 50 percent while reducing fares.

The word has spread about what our Bellingham customers have told us they’ve appreciated for so long. Horizon was named Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 2007, and has also been ranked among the top 10 domestic airlines by Travel+Leisure magazine readers every year since 2004.

Although we’ve grown a lot in these years and greatly appreciate the increased recognition, we’ve never lost our focus on the motto we established early on: “It’s our privilege to serve you.”

Horizon’s service provides residents of Bellingham and British Columbia’s Lower Mainland area with frequent and convenient links to national and international transportation systems via Seattle. From there, you can connect to flights headed around the Northwest, across the country, or around the world on Horizon, Alaska or one of our many airline partners.

But the Horizon experience is about much more than getting you from point A to point B safely and reliably. Our aim is for the experience to be distinctly memorable – one that you will want to experience again and recommend to family and friends.

Our main ingredient is what we call Horizon Heart, something that is expressed and experienced in myriad ways. It takes many forms, from the sincere care and patience with which we assist a first-time traveler to the warm smile of recognition given to a frequent guest on an early-morning flight.

The Horizon team is made up of a diverse and talented group of individuals who share one trait: We are genuinely energized by serving others. And we are grateful to have the opportunity to express that innate passion for service through our work.
 
In addition, Horizon strives to be not just another business, but a good neighbor. For example, our Bellingham station helped organize a baby food drive at the airport last summer, with all donations going to the Bellingham Food Bank. Thanks to the efforts in combination with those of other airport tenants, more than 1,300 jars of baby food – plus monetary donations – were delivered to the food bank.

Horizon has enjoyed being a part of the Bellingham community, and we look forward to many more years together.