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Verizon Foundation Grant in partnership with WWU supports start of a language and literacy center at West View Elementary
3.15.10
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community | education | grants | Woodring

The Verizon Foundation is helping to support the start of a new Community Language and Literacy Center established at West View Elementary School in Burlington by the school in partnership with Western Washington University’s Woodring School of Education.

The Verizon Foundation is providing $15,000 for the center. In addition, Skagit State Bank is providing $500.
Librarians' program gets many in the county reading | The Bellingham Herald
12.22.09
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community | events | town_gown
Thousands of Whatcom County residents have read the same book by Seattle author Sherman Alexie, and many saw him speak last spring. The book, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," was the pick of the first "Whatcom Reads!" program that united local libraries and other community sponsors with the goal of encouraging people of all ages to read and discuss the same book.
100 Community Conversations being held about Western
10.23.09
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administration | Bruce Shepard | community | discussion

What does the future hold for Western Washington University, and how does the public view the role of public universities like WWU? To get feedback on those and related questions, Western has begun an effort titled “100 Community Conversations.”
Neighborhood discussions explore student-community relations today, Oct. 20
10.20.09
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community | students

The Campus Community Coalition will host a “Let’s Talk” forum today, Oct. 20, on “Living Together in Bellingham: Student Parties, Enforcement Practices and Neighborly Relations.”

The discussion will begin at 7 p.m., in the Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Auditorium on the WWU campus. Free parking is available in the nearby gravel C lots after 5 p.m.