Western Today for Friday, July 17

KVOS segment spotlights Center for Service Learning program at Shuksan Middle School

The Youth For REAL mentoring program, which pairs Woodring students with students at Shuksan Middle School through the Center for Service Learning with partial funding through the Washington Campus Compact, was featured in a segment on KVOS recently; click here to view.

image capture courtesy/KVOS

Graphic designers move to University Communications

Graphic designers Chris Baker and Shona Fahland have moved from their former offices in the commissary building to the Office of University Communications suite at 300 Old Main due to a reorganization within the University Relations Division.

The work of the two graphic designers, which had been charged to campus users on an hourly basis because the designers formerly were part of the self-sustaining Print and Copy Services, will no longer incur charge-backs to campus users. Read more at FAST Online.

The Bellingham Herald

Grandparents, grandchildren bond through WWU program
June Hartstra's family roots run deep in Western Washington University's history. Her mother attended Western when it was still the Washington State Normal School, Hartstra graduated from Western in 1952 with a degree in art and a minor in recreational science and Hartstra's son graduated in 1990. This summer, Hartstra, who is 79 and now lives in California, is sharing her love of Western and Bellingham with her grandchildren, Scott Davis, 7, and Claira Davis, 11. The trio are participants in Grandparents U, a program by Western's Extended Education and Summer Programs.
Homestead taps 'immigrant investor' program to buy Ferndale condos
Homestead Northwest of Lynden has found a buyer for its Correll Commons retirement condo project in Ferndale, tapping into money raised through a low-profile "immigrant investor" program that gives participants a shot at U.S. residency.
In a deal that closed in late June, Correll Retirement LLC paid Homestead $1 million for vacant property that is ready for construction of 26 attached condo units at a site south of Main Street, just west of downtown Ferndale. A related entity, New WORC Development and Management LLC, also paid Homestead about $220,000 for a completed condo unit.
Among other things, each "regional center" for immigrant investment must present an economic analysis demonstrating that each $500,000 invested in the center's projects will generate 10 U.S. jobs. The Whatcom regional center invests in retirement living facilities and has an economic analysis from Western Washington University indicating that each $500,000 invested in these facilities generates almost 12 jobs.

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