The Bellingham Herald

• Fitness Fanatics offers fun, free training
  Joining a gym isn't the only option of exercise in town - especially during the summer months. Local fitness trainer Jesse Johns wants people to think outside of the gym, so he created Fitness Fanatics, a free fitness club that meets outdoors four days a week from May to mid-September.
  Johns was a local athlete at Nooksack Valley High School and also participated with the men's crew team at Western Washington University.
  "I have a broad training philosophy," Johns said. "The focus is on cross training and being able to do any of kind of physical activity any time, any where."
  

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• Icing ruled out in Cascades crash
  Federal investigators say a plane that crashed in Washington’s Cascades, killing the pilot and nine skydivers – two of them from Whatcom County - likely didn't experience significant ice buildup.
  Among those aboard were Hollie Rasberry, 24, of Bellingham, and Cecil Elsner, a 20-year-old Western Washington University student.
  

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• Parker named West region all-star
  On Wednesday, May 13, the National Golf Coaches Association announced its Division II award winners with Parker being named to the West Region all-star team for the second straight year.
  Parker tied for fifth place last week in medalist play at the NCAA II West Super Regional, the Vikings also finishing fifth as a team.

eMedia Wire

• Pulitzer winner to speak at Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference
  Michel du Cille, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post, will speak at the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference sponsored by Western Washington University's Department of Journalism. The conference will take place at Western on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.

Great Falls Tribune

• "Thick" border may deteriorate U.S.-Canada relations, says expert
  Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, discussion of the borders with Canada and Mexico has become increasingly negative, said Victor Konrad, keynote speaker for the Wheeler Center's "Reaching Across the 49th Parallel" conference.
  Discussion of the border rarely differentiates between the country's northern and southern borders, which have very different issues, said Konrad, adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa and visiting fellow at Western Washington University's Border Policy Research Institute.