The public sent in several submissions and now we need your help deciding which one is the best. Click here to hop on over to our facebook page and click “like” or “love” on the ones you like the best. The winner will get to wield a golden shovel at the Thornton groundbreaking later this year.
Big thank you to ALL of our artists who participated, we appreciate your incredible creativity and efforts on this.
Earlier this year, the City Council formed the North Whatcom Poverty Task Force and they are scheduled to convene their first meeting on Weds. May 8th, at 5pm in the City Council chambers (5694 Second Avenue).
The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
The North Whatcom Poverty Task Force is a temporary advisory body tasked with conducting a needs assessment for the greater Ferndale community and presenting a set of recommendations to the Ferndale City Council that will address the impacts of income inequality, homelessness, food insecurity and rising housing prices.
The task force will be looking at issues across North Whatcom because the effects of poverty do not stop at the city limits and a holistic approach is needed to address these issues.
For questions or more information, please contact Communications Officer Riley Sweeney by clicking here or calling (360) 685-2353.
Notice
Traffic Revisions and Possible Delays: Monday, April 15, 2019 to Friday, May 3,
2019, 7:00am to 7:00pm
Thornton Street, between
Maureen Drive and Vista Drive
Drivers should expect delays as
traffic is reduced to single lane traffic on Thornton Street, between Maureen
Drive and Vista Drive, from Monday, April 15, 2019 to Friday, May 3, 2019, from
7:00am to 7:00pm. Flaggers will be on-site directing traffic. This work is to
complete improvements associated with a private development project. Road will
remain open during nonworking hours.
If you have questions regarding this notice, please contact Ferndale Public Works Department at (360) 384-4006.
–On Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Ferndale Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public its 17th opportunity in nine years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your pills for disposal to Ferndale Police Department at 2220 Main Street. (Sites cannot accept liquids or needles or sharps, only pills or patches.) The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
Last fall Americans
turned in
nearly 460 tons (more than 900,000 pounds) of prescription
drugs
at more than
5,800 sites operated by the DEA
and
almost 4,800 of its state and local law enforcement partners.
Overall, in its 16 previous Take Back events, DEA and
its partners have taken
in almost 11 million pounds—nearly 5,500 tons—of pills.
This initiative addresses a vital
public safety and public health
issue. Medicines that languish in
home
cabinets are highly susceptible to
diversion, misuse, and
abuse. Rates of prescription
drug abuse in the U.S.
are alarmingly high, as
are the number of accidental
poisonings
and overdoses due
to these drugs. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration’s
National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows year after year that
the majority of misused
and abused prescription
drugs are obtained from
family and friends,
including someone else’s medication
being stolen
from
the
home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans
are now advised
that
their usual
methods for disposing of unused
medicines—flushing them down
the toilet
or throwing them
in the trash—both pose potential safety and health
hazards.
For more information about the disposal of prescription drugs or about the April 27 Take Back Day event, go to www.DEATakeBack.com
City offices will be closed Friday, April 19, 2019. We will reopen Monday, April 22nd during our normal business hours (9am-5pm). In the event of an emergency, please dial 911.
