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GO TO currents:: news commentary briefs BY ERICA HAM & AMY HARDER Town in Transition Residents happy to call Marietta home MARIETTA RESIDENT Ken White juggles his seven-month-old son Corban and two-year-old daughter Lexi Rose while refl ecting on his changed life in the small fl ood-prone community a few miles north of Bellingham. Winter, 32, says moving to Marietta nine years ago helped him overcome his heroin addiction and build a family with his 25-yearold wife April. “The bathtub,” as some residents call the twoblock community, sits on the bank of the Nooksack River on the edge of the Lummi Indian Reservation. Floods threaten the area every fall because of its low-lying location in a fl ood plain. “I was actually the guy who was on the local news station in a little boat rowing down the street,” White says, referring to a fl ood in 2005. “I’ve been here long enough not to even really think about it anymore. It’s just something that happens. It’s the cost of living in paradise.” A homemade 25-mph sign and numerous neighborhood dogs welcome drivers to the community lined with rundown mobile homes, deserted houses and remodeled buildings. A faded “Baker’s Market” sign is all that remains in the vacant lot that used to have a convenience store, post offi ce and gas pump. Approximately 40 residents live in this unincorporated area of Whatcom County on the edge of Bellingham Bay. Land values in the area barely reach $3,000, and dip as low as $600. Marietta residents contend with the physical battles of fl ooding and the social issues of a town transitioning from decades of drug activity, fl ood debris and poverty to the quintessential small-town America. Resident Paul Ridley, 66, said a close-knit atmosphere has developed throughout the years of cleaning up the town. Literature LIVE! EVENTS VillageBooks.com “If somebody yells here, the whole town shows up,” Ridley said. “This is a good place. We share everything—food, clothes. If someone has a downed tree, they’ll call one of our guys who cuts wood to come help them.” HELPING RESTORE MARIETTA White says the small-town feeling of Marietta that has replaced its troubled reputation is what keeps him and his family here. “There aren’t many people who are outside the sphere of Marietta that really want to come here because it’s had such a bad reputation,” White says. MONDAY KEN April 30th, 7:00pm WILCOX & THE NORTH CASCADES CONSERVATION COUNCIL present FOR MORE! COMPARING MARIETTA’S ASSESSED LAND VALUES: “The Bathtub,” as some residents call the two-block community of Marietta, rests beside the Nooksack River, fi ve miles north of downtown Bellingham. Assessed land values drop dramatically when entering the fl ood-prone area nearest the river’s edge. The 40-some residents live in this unincorporated area of Whatcom County battle fl ooding and the social issues resulting from decades of fl ood damage, drug activity, and poverty as they try to build and strengthen their community “It’s just that everybody helps each other and we do everything we can for neighbors. Besides that, where else would a lower-class working family be able to afford a house?” When he read an article in the Bellingham Herald that stated that the county was going to buy out the area in 2005, White contemplated his family’s uncertain future. “The only two options I’ve come up with is buying a trailer and living in a mobile court somewhere,” White says, “or moving out of Whatcom County because the land here is just too expensive.” He says their property and house are only valued at JOHN LOMBARDD VILLAGE BOOKS • 1200 11th St in Historic Fairhaven • 671-2626 TUESDAY March Award-Winning 1st, Author 7:00pm – SAVING PUGET SOUND: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century Cascadia Weekly #2.17 04.25.07 Do it 3 | Letters 4-5 | Views 6-7 | CURRENTS Currents 8-16 | Get Out 18 | Words & Community 19 | On Stage 20 | Art 21 | Music 22-25 | Film 26-29 | Classifi eds 30-38 | Food 39 11
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