Ferndale Food Truck Friday

The smell of east coast pizza from Cicchitti’s food truck along with Chispita de Sabor’s topselling birria tacos, Mix Masala’s Indian delicates, Mobile Mouth Hole’s fried foods and Outlaws

BBQs and Street Dogz summer meals filled the air on July 7, the second of three Ferndale Food Truck Friday events. To top the night o , the Mighty Bayou Opossums took the stage playing various tunes from trumpeters Louie Armstrong and Louis Prima, pianist Fats Domino and jazz-singing legends Dr. John, Harry Connick Jr. and Irma Thomas. The third and final Food Truck Friday event will take place Aug. 4 in the village at Pioneer Park, 2004 Cherry St. (Taras McCurdie/Ferndale Record)

FERNDALE — Taylor Lupo, a Ferndale High 2019 alumnae, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Gonzaga University in Spokane on May 14. Lupo earned a Bachelor of Arts with degrees in history and economics. is fall, Lupo will pursue his passion in theater and acting.

BELLINGHAM — On July 4 at approximately 6:30 p.m., Whatcom County Corrections Deputies were alerted to an inmate out of his cell.

e inmate, 23-year-old Christian Dillard, was being held in one of the highest security units in the downtown jail.

“When he kicked the cell door, the door lock experienced a mechanical failure and the cell door opened into an outer security area,” said WCSO Program Specialist, Communications & Outreach Deb Slater in a July 5 press release.

According to the press release, Dillard “then began kicking the lock on the door to the hallway.”

“Deputies responded and for over an hour, attempted to convince Dillard to return to his cell,” the press release stated. “He refused. e corrections emergency response team was deployed and moved Dillard to a safety cell.” e WCSO press release explained that because of the age and failure rate of the locks and doors, the lock to Dillard’s cell was replaced in 2020, as part of a facility-wide project.

County Sheri Bill Elfo stated in the press release that Dillard “is an extremely dangerous and violent inmate.”

“He previously committed a very serious assault upon a corrections deputy that resulted in a debilitating traumatic brain injury,” Elfo stated.

“Dillard poses a very serious threat to our deputies and the public at large. is breach is just one more example of a long series of failures involving jail infrastructure and security systems and illustrates that retro ts to the deteriorating jail facility cannot be relied upon.”

Elfo also stated that he has requested that the county facilities department, which is responsible for maintaining the jail, to “carefully inspect all locking mechanisms to help prevent a recurrence of this nature.”

“I have also ordered that all public tours of the jail and visits non-es-

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