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Chris Fabry, gentle giant, beloved son and brother, hero uncle and cherished partner shuffled off this mortal coil on May 10 from his childhood home in Fairfield with his family at his side.
Chris was a graduate of Roger Ludlowe High School in Fairfield and attained his bachelor s and master s degrees in biology from Western Washington University, spurred on by the relentless encouragement of his mentor, Roger Anderson. He went on to inspire countless other students through the many trips he led doing fieldwork in the Alvord Desert in Oregon. Along with his life partner, Joni Riccitelli, he was a founding member of Ecological Methods LLC, working with species of concern in the Mojave Desert.
11 May 2021
The superintendent of the Bellingham School District in the state of Washington responded to parents’ reactions to the report last week that a first-grade teacher read a transgender book to her young students, by defending his district’s practice of “reading diverse books and learning about all kinds of lives” as “consistent with our values in our strategic plan, The Bellingham Promise.”
In his response message, Superintendent Greg Baker did not appear to address parents’ concerns their alarm was ignored, but instead complained the national attention to the reading of
I Am Jazz to first-graders, is “prompting hate speech and harassment based on our values as a district and our commitment to equitable, diverse and inclusive education.”
Washington Territory’s race-based, discriminatory Chinese Police Tax May 12, 2021 at 12:05 pm
The earliest known image of what s now Bellingham the community of Whatcom, as it appeared in 1873; the Chinese Police Tax, for some reason, was legally higher in Whatcom County. (Whatcom Museum)
The violent expulsion of Chinese people from West Coast cities in the 1880s – including Seattle and Tacoma – is a dark chapter of Northwest history. But anti-Chinese discrimination in the Northwest can be traced back even further, to a law passed by the Washington Territorial Legislature in 1864.
A thesis about the evolving boundaries of counties in Washington Territory and the state of Washington published back in the 1920s (and reissued by the Yakima Valley Genealogical Society and Klickitat County Historical Society in 1979) mentions an 1864 law that created the race-based “Chinese Police Tax.” This law – and this tax – writes original author Newton Carl A