Love Your Waterfront

03/11/2025

Fun times ahead! Dan Tucker and Kevin Coleman share upcoming waterfront fun: Ocean Trivia at Stone's Throw Brewing this Thursday, March 13? Wine and painting with Kevin on April 2nd? Tide to Table dinner and auction on April 26? Finally, international sail racing on Bellingham Bay, July 21-25!

Listen to Love Your Waterfront this Thursday at 5:30 on KMRE 88.3 or stream it at KMRE.org.
You can also catch this episode on SoundCloud and Spotify.
For details:
https://www.bellinghamseafeast.org/
https://www.whatcomworkingwaterfront.org/

03/11/2025

Fun events, explained: Dan and Kevin review what's on tap this summer in Whatcom County. How about sailing races on Bellingham Bay? Sip and paint with Kevin? Beats on the Bay with the Community Boating Center? Plus, did you know bull kelp is now the official "marine forest" of Washington state?

Join us this Thursday for Love Your Waterfront at 88.3 KMRE, or streaming on SoundCloud or Spotify:
https://soundcloud.com/kmrefm/sets/love-your-waterfront
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Xaz1p9govAGE06kLSmJi7?si=RCn2Cf5dSQ6vXh5-9aqWLQ

02/13/2025

What does a small port city in Georgia have in common with Bellingham? More than you'd guess...Dan Tucker shares interviews from the National Working Waterfront conference in San Diego at 5:30 today. Plus, Kevin Coleman gives his Valentine's Day dining recommendations, and Paul Meyer asks about the new gravel operation at Bellingham's port. Listen to Love Your Waterfront on KMRE 88.3, or find us on SoundCloud and Spotify. (PC: Andrew Silverman, POB)

01/09/2025

Today at 5:30 on KMRE FM: hosts Dan and Kevin talk with Kolby LaBree of Bellinghistory's Good Time Girls and Anna Booker of Whatcom Community College about the Georgia Pacific plant, once the anchor of the Bellingham Waterfront. It was such a great conversation, we'll air part 2 in our January 23rd episode. Enjoy!

Stream at https://kmre.org/

12/21/2024

In this Thursday's Love Your Waterfront episode, Beth Pielert, co-director of Children of the Setting Sun's "Salmon People; Preserving a Way of Life" shares the journey of this new local documentary.

See it now: https://settingsunproductions.org/salmon-people-film

Learn more about Scha'nexw Elhtal'nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life, a Children of the Setting Sun Production, including a comprehensive teaching guide for educators at settingsunproductions.org/salmon-people-film The Salmon People film is free to view, visit our website for more informat

10/24/2024

What's with all the cranes down on the Bellingham waterfront? KMRE reporter Paul Meyer gets the scoop (literally) from the Port's Mike Hogan and Brian Gouran. Listen today at 5;30 pm on KMRE 88.3

10/10/2024

On today's Love Your Waterfront at 5:30pm: SeaFeast was a blast! Last weekend's festival included a panel discussion featuring Whatcom County movers and shakers: Port Commissioners Micheal Shepherd and Ken Bell, Representatives Sharon Shewmake and Alicia Rule, Xochitl Castaneda of US Dept of Transportation Maritime Administration, and Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund, hosted by Dan Tucker. Topics included infrastructure, "Blue Schools," a vision for the waterfront...and dog parks! Listen in at KMRE 88.3

08/21/2024

On tomorrow's Love Your Waterfront: a bus to our waterfront...at last! And Dan Tucker talks with Dr. Alex Parker of Astraeus Ocean Systems about autonomous vessels that collect sea data, designed and built here in Bellingham.
https://www.astraeusocean.com/
Listen in at 5:30 on KMRE 88.3 or streaming at kmre.org

Ocean Intelligence, Redefined Forget the complexities of traditional ocean data collection. Astraeus Ocean Systems is building a platform for direct access to a smart network of Autonomous Surface Vessels deployed across the ocean, enabling rapid, cost-effective data delivery tailored to your specif...

08/08/2024

On today's Love Your Waterfront on KMRE 88.3, Kevin and Dan broadcast from the Port of Bellingham's Marine Life Center (on a breezy day, of course). Renee LaCroix, Assistant Director of Public Works/Natural Resources for the City of Bellingham describes the challenges in creating the new award-winning estuary at Little Squalicum Park...trestles and trains and fish, oh my!
Tune in tonight at 5:30 or find us at https://soundcloud.com/kmrefm/sets/love-your-waterfront

06/20/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWPO0R4Tks&t=66s
Love Your Waterfront is proud to be part of Maritime Washington and a recipient of an Interpretive Grant. This psa won a regional Emmy! Check it out: beautiful storytelling here by a small agency in Port Townsend.

Welcome to the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area—3,000 miles of shoreline shaped by sea and story. We're here to help you dive headfirst into Washin...

06/17/2024

Today on "Love Your Waterfront" we visit The Loggie, a private museum dedicated to the work of B'ham artist Helen Loggie. Heidi Wasson tells the story of this museum and its historical home, the T.G. Richards Building, a waterfront presence since 1858, and the oldest brick building in Washington State. Listen in at 5:30 Thursday, KMRE 88.3

06/06/2024

On today's episode of "Love Your Waterfront"...Lindsey Gerhard of Bellingham/Whatcom County Tourism shares the "Love Your Waterfront" Quest Pass story: you could win some fun prizes (that SeaFeast apron, yes?). And Riley Stark of Lummi Island Sea Greens details his adventures as a kelp farmer, with Paul Meyer reporting. Listen to KMRE at 5:30, or stream at https://kmre.org/

10/18/2023

What a great time at Bellingham SeaFeast this past weekend!

Many thanks to our guests Mayor Seth Fleetwood, Representative Joe Timmons, Port Commissioner Michael Shepard, and Economic Development Specialist Gina Stark for going live with Dan and Paul.

We look forward to many great shows to share with our community! Be sure to listen to us on KMRE 88.3 FM!!

Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition Program Manager, and co-host of the Love Your Waterfront podcast, Dan Tucker, with Paul Meyer of KMRE interview Seth Fleetwood (Mayor of Bellingham), Michael Shepard Port of Bellingham Commissioner, Joe Timmons (WA State Representative 42nd District), and Gina Stark (Economic Development Project Manager with the Port of Bellingham)!

09/14/2023

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09/03/2023

Yesterday, we got to hang out at Bellingham Dockside for Education Day!
Your hosts Kevin from Bellingham SeaFeast and Dan from Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition were around to share all the things happening with Love Your Waterfront.
Be sure to check out our newest show coming up soon on KMRE 88.3 FM.

07/19/2023

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