Many business clan across the coun...

Many business clan across the country were quite happy to end the books on 2002: The stock market was down, unemployment was up very large companies were embroiled in accounting scandals and anyone working in the airline industry was resigned to the fact they would probably receive a pink slip.

With all of the bad of the present days resulting in business closures, single in kind would think Bellingham would have been impacted as well, certainly after what the town had experienced in 2001

Georgia-Pacific had finished the proces of closing down the soft mass mill, laying off more than 400 living-wage jobs; Intalco had idled its