Updated Dec. 31, 2021

We’ve met the challenge!

Thanks to you, Salish Current met its NewsMatch challenge!

Thank you for making it possible to provide independent, fact-based news that is free to read and free from advertising — and for supporting nonprofit community journalism in Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. You’ve given us a vote of confidence to continue — and we will — into 2022.

Publisher’s NewsMatch Circle (as of Dec. 30, 2021)

Eric Hirst, Elsie Heinrick, Barbara and Mike Ryan, John Binns and Julie Fleetwood Binns, Betsy Gross, John and Kathy Whitmer, Floyd and Dixie McKay, Sarah Spotts and Kevin Covey, Shaun Hubbard and Harold Kawaguchi, Alan Fritzberg and Lisbeth Hadden Fritzberg, Cindy Madigan, David and Bonnie Dick, Tony Angell and Lee Rolfe, Jill Bernstein, Kathy Fletcher and Ken Weiner, Ellyn Murphy, Carol Comeau, Theresa Morrow and Bill Ristow, Hank Kastner; and

Jim Wavada, Boyd and Lovel Pratt, Steve Horn and Polly Ham, David and Allison Roberts, Mary Humphries, Annette Holcomb, Marian Exall, Beverly Faxon, Flip Breskin, Carl Davis, Heather MacKay, Jeffery Thompson, John and Barbara Nason, Eden Alexander, Darcy Carlson, Barry Mason, Debra Goldman, Rick Haley, Gretchen Wing, Bob Gay, J. Loch and Susan Trimingham, David Harsh, Dean Kahn, Joanne Wester, Jennifer and Tom Dolese; and

Lane Morgan, Tom Anderson, John Egbert, Stephen Swan, Chuck and Dee Robinson, Eleanor Hartmann, Stuart Thompson, Janet Brownell, Jill Clark, Michael Pickett, Sue Ming, Allison Williams, Pete Haase, Shannon Wright and Todd Paglia, Christopher Russell, John and Patricia Rose, Jess and Karen Cook, Ted Wolf and Karen McKay, Chris Moench, Nancy Gale, Bud Thompson, Tom Banse, Carl Weimer, Judith Culver, Janet Alderton, Lynn Colson, Ron Cubellis, Bill Dietrich, Matt Thuney; and

Hedrick Smith, Dan Raas, Janice and Scott Walker, Jai Boreen, Andy Schreer, Marge Laidlaw, Daneet Steffens and Alan Brewis, Remigijus and Vince Biciunas, Susan Anderson, Bill Appel, Patricia Decker and Jack Delay, Lori Murphy, Sharon Streams, Barbara King, Kay Sardo, Kathy Sheehan and Chuck Dingée, June and Ben Thompson, Mariluz Villa and Tom Reynolds, Andrea and Russ Borgmann, Howard Sharfstein and Mary Francell-Sharfstein, Susan Parrott, Kathleen and Don Robinson; and 

David Hall, Posel Gockley Fund of the Whatcom Community Foundation, Ann Osterberg, Carolyn Dale and Tim Pilgrim, Leslie Langdon, Jackie Landsem, Marian D’Onofrio, Brett Whitney, Barbara Hudson, Jerry and Jane Rosenfeld, Kongsgaard-Goldman Fund of the Seattle Foundation, Amy Nelson and Michael Sato, Wendy Ann Miller, Edwina Norton, Varya Fish, Julie Johansen, Jim Syck, Ernst Kaemke, Judith Koontz, Cynthia St. Clair and Phil Humphries; and

Naomi Bunis, Jean Carmean, Katherine Velasquez, Steven James, Sheri Lambert, Nancy DeVaux, Louise Dustrude, Ingrid Taylor, Christopher Grannis, Mary Baker, Allan Tamm, Al Bergstein, Goel Giving Fund, Daniel Larner, Alan Chapman, Lynne Masland, Edwina Kleeman, Mary Swenson, Andrew Miller, Charlotte Sutton, Ron Shrigley, and Cheryl Crooks.

— Mike Sato, Managing Editor

Updated Dec. 23, 2021

Additional match funds awarded

Thanks for helping us serve our community — and, look: the reward just grew greater! Share the news with your friends and contacts, and help us reach our goal by the end of this month.

Salish Current has been selected to receive an additional $3,500 in matching funds from NewsMatch for our dedication to serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit communities of color. Funders Knight Foundation, Facebook Journalism Project, Walton Family Foundation and the Democracy Fund will double donations made before Dec. 31 to Salish Current in support of our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. 

Publisher’s NewsMatch Circle (as of Dec. 23, 2021)

Eric Hirst, Elsie Heinrick, Barbara and Mike Ryan, John Binns and Julie Fleetwood Binns, Betsy Gross, John and Kathy Whitmer, Floyd and Dixie McKay, Sarah Spotts and Kevin Covey, Shaun Hubbard and Harold Kawaguchi, Alan Fritzberg and Lisbeth Hadden Fritzberg, Cindy Madigan, David and Bonnie Dick, Tony Angell and Lee Rolfe, Jill Bernstein, Kathy Fletcher and Ken Weiner, Cindy Madigan, Ellyn Murphy, Carol Comeau, Theresa Morrow and Bill Ristow, Hank Kastner; and

Jim Wavada, Boyd and Lovel Pratt, Steve and Polly Horn, David and Allison Roberts, Mary Humphry, Annette Holcomb, Marian Exall, Beverly Faxon, Flip Breskin, Carl Davis, Heather MacKay, Jeffery Thompson, John and Barbara Nason, Eden Alexander, Darcy Carlson, Barry L. Mason, Debra Goldman, Rich Haley, Gretchen Wing, Bob Gay, J. Loch and Susan Trimmingham, David Harsh, Dean Kahn, Joanne Wester, Jennifer and Tom Dolese; and

Lane Morgan, John Egbert, Steven Swan, Chuck and Dee Robinson, Eleanor Hartmann, Stuart Thompson, Janet Brownell, Jill Clark, Michael Pickett, Sue Ming, Allison Williams, Pete Haase, Shannon Wright and Todd Paglia, Christopher Russell, John and Patricia Rose, Jess and Karen Cook, Ted Wolf and Karen McKay, Chris Moench, Nancy Gale, Bud Thompson, Tom Banse, Carl Weimer, Judith Culver, Janet Alderton, Lynn Colson, Ron Cubellis, Bill Dietrich, Matt Thuney; and

Hedrick Smith, Dan Raas, Janice and Scott Walker, Jai Boreen, Andy Schreer, Marge Laidlaw, Daneet Steffens and Alan Brewis, Remigijus and Vince Biciunas, Susan Anderson, Bill Appel, Patricia Decker and Jack Delay, Lori Murphy, Sharon Streams, Barbara King, Kay Sardo, Kathy Sheehan and Chuck Dingée, June and Ben Thompson, Mariluz Villa and Tom Reynolds, Andrea and Russ Borgmann, Howard Sharfstein and Mary Francell-Sharfstein, Susan Parrot; and 

David Hall, Posel Gockley Fundof the Whatcom Community Foundation, Ann Osterberg, Carolyn Dale and Tim Pilgrim, Leslie Langdon, Jackie Landsem, Marian D’Onofrio, Brett Whitney, Barbara Hudson, Jerry and Jane Rosenfeld, Boyd and Lovel Pratt, Kongsgaard-Goldman Fund of the Seattle Foundation, Amy Nelson and Michael Sato, Wendy Ann Miller and Edwina Norton.

— Mike Sato, Managing Editor

Updated Dec. 17, 2021

Publisher’s Circle donors give vote of confidence to community journalism

We’re not done fundraising for matching funds yet, we still have a few thousand dollars more to raise — but we’ve come a long way with the votes of confidence cast by donors in our Publisher’s Circle. The Circle’s grown and shows the breadth and depth of support from readers in Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. Please vote for nonprofit independent news by donating before the end of the month. Read more to see who’s in the Circle — and we hope to see you in the Circle, too. Thank you.

— Mike Sato, Managing Editor

Publisher’s NewsMatch Circle (as of Dec. 17, 2021)

Eric Hirst, Elsie Heinrick, Barbara and Mike Ryan, John Binns and Julie Fleetwood Binns, Betsy Gross, John and Kathy Whitmer, Floyd and Dixie McKay, Sarah Spotts and Kevin Covey, Shaun Hubbard and Harold Kawaguchi, Alan Fritzberg and Lisbeth Hadden Fritzberg, Cindy Madigan, David and Bonnie Dick, Tony Angell and Lee Rolfe, Jill Bernstein, Kathy Fletcher and Ken Weiner, Cindy Madigan, Ellyn Murphy, Carol Comeau, Theresa Morrow and Bill Ristow, Hank Kastner; and

Jim Wavada, Boyd and Lovel Pratt, Steve and Polly Horn, David and Allison Roberts, Mary Humphry, Annette Holcomb, Marian Exall, Beverly Faxon, Flip Breskin, Carl Davis, Heather MacKay, Jeffery Thompson, John and Barbara Nason, Eden Alexander, Darcy Carlson, Barry L. Mason, Debra Goldman, Rich Haley, Gretchen Wing, Bob Gay, J. Loch and Susan Trimmingham, David Harsh, Dean Kahn, Joanne Wester, Jennifer and Tom Dolese; and

Lane Morgan, John Egbert, Steven Swan, Chuck and Dee Robinson, Eleanor Hartmann, Stuart Thompson, Janet Brownell, Jill Clark, Michael Pickett, Sue Ming, Allison Williams, Pete Haase, Shannon Wright and Todd Paglia, Christopher Ruseell, John and Patricia Rose, Jess and Karen Cook, Ted Wolf and Karen McKay, Chris Moench, Nancy Gale, Bud Thompson, Tom Banse, Carl Weimer, Judith Culver, Janet Alderton, Lynn Colson, Ron Cubellis, Bill Dietrich, Matt Thuney; and

Hedrick Smith, Dan Raas. Janice and Scott Walker, Jai Boreen, Andy Schreer, Marge Laidlaw, Daneet Steffens and Alan Brewis, Remigijus and Vince Biciunas, Susan Anderson, Bill Appel, Patricia Decker and Jack Delay, Lori Murphy, Sharon Streams, Barbara King, Kay Sardo, Kathy Sheehan and Chuck Dingée, June and Ben Thompson, Mariluz Villa and Tom Reynolds, Andrea and Russ Borgmann, Howard Sharfstein and Mary Francell-Sharfstein, Susan Parrot, David Hall, Posel Gockley Fund of the Whatcom Community Foundation, Ann Osterberg, Carolyn Dale and Tim Pilgrim, Leslie Langdon and Jackie Landsem.

— Mike Sato, Managing Editor

Originally posted Dec. 10, 2021

New match grant awarded

Dec. 10, 2021

We sincerely thank our readers listed below in our Publisher’s Circle for their donations to our NewsMatch campaign. We’ve just about reached our NewsMatch goal — and this week we received the great news that Salish Current has been selected to receive additional matching funds from a group of NewsMatch partners who want to recognize service to communities of color and newsrooms led by people of color. Knight Foundation, Meta Journalism Project and the Walton Family Foundation are funding this Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Partner Fund, as an augmentation to NewsMatch.

Reader, when we meet this new fund match total by Dec. 31 — and we feel confident we will with your donation — we will have met our 2021 fundraising goal and secured our 2022 operating budget. 

That means you can count on continuing to read original, fact-based news reports, a weekly newsletter of curated local news links, and lively commentary that affirms our commitment to work for truth, justice, equity and healing for all people. 

We’re committed to a paywall-free website and advertising-free content because we believe in journalism as a public service. To those who have donated to make this happen, a sincere thank you.

Through this month, a one-time suggested donation of $120 or a recurring monthly donation of $10 matched for the full 12-month amount will bring Salish Current $240; or donate more or less, as you can afford, and that amount will be matched. You can make your donation online using PayPal or your credit card of choice, or by check and mail, the old-fashioned way.

Thank you for reading Salish Current — and thank you for supporting news for our community.

Publisher’s NewsMatch Circle (as of Dec. 9, 2021)

Eric Hirst, Elsie Heinrick, Barbara and Mike Ryan, John Binns and Julie Fleetwood Binns, Betsy Gross, John and Kathy Whitmer, Floyd and Dixie McKay, Kevin Covey, Shaun Hubbard and Harold Kawaguchi, Alan and Lisbeth Hadden Fritzberg, Cindy Madigan, David and Bonnie Dick, Tony Angell and Lee Rolfe, Jill Bernstein, Kathy Fletcher and Ken Weiner, Cindy Madigan, Ellyn Murphy, Carol Comeau, Theresa Morrow and Bill Ristow, Hank Kastner; and

Jim Wavada, Boyd and Lovel Pratt, Steve and Polly Horn, David and Allison Roberts, Mary Humphries, Annette Holcomb, Marian Exall, Beverly Faxon, Flip Breskin, Carl Davis, Heather MacKay, Jeffery Thompson, John and Barbara Nason, Eden Alexander, Darcy Carlson, Barry L. Mason, Debra Goldman, Rich Haley, Gretchen Wing, Bob Gay, J. Loch and Susan Trimingham, David Harsh, Joanne Wester, Jennifer and Tom Dolese; and

Lane Morgan, John Egbert, Steven Swan, Chuck and Dee Robinson, Eleanor Hartmann, Stuart Thompson, Jill Clark, Michael Pickett, Sue Ming, Allison Williams, Pete Haase, Shannon Wright and Todd Paglia, Christopher Russell, John and Patricia Rose, Jess and Karen Cook, Ted Wolf and Karen McKay, Chris Moench, Nancy Gale, Bud Thompson, Tom Banse, Carl Weimer, Judith Culver, Janet Alderton, Lynn Colson, Ron Cubellis, Bill Dietrich, Matthew Thuney, Hedrick Smith, Dan Raas, Jai Boreen and Andrew Schreer (plus a number of donors who have asked to remain anonymous).

— Mike Sato, Managing Editor