Pacific Northwest Health Perks

January 2023 Feature, Keeping your mind and body healthy and active.

Easy Steps to Skin Success

Our largest organ often gets overlooked and taken for granted, but you can start making small changes to your daily routine to see and feel big differences in the health and appearance of your skin.

New Wednesday Bellingham Farmers Market at Historic Waterfront

The Bellingham Farmers Market (BFM) is kicking off the summer with a brand-new market located in the historic waterfront district.

Spice Things Up with Mr. Frank’s Kitchen

Love, legacy, and integrity. These three ingredients may not show up on the nutrition label on Mr. Frank’s Kitchen spices, but they are at the heart of each and every product.  For Lisa Campbell, opening Mr. Frank’s Kitchen in 2016 was all about carrying on her father’s legacy. Mr. Frank Postl — Lisa’s father — immigrated to Ontario in the 1950s and opened Frank’s Steakhouse and Tavern in 1964. It quickly became one of the top restaurants in…

Bellingham Resident Named WA’s New Poet Laureate

Bellingham resident Rena Priest was recently named the 6th Poet Laureate of Washington State.

Planning and Designing a Productive Vegetable Garden

Whether planning your first, second or tenth vegetable garden, it can be overwhelming. There are so many tasty vegetables and never enough space and time to grow them all. 

Belly Dancing in Bellingham

Rachel Carter took her first belly dancing class while attending Washington State University in Pullman. She loved it so much she continued taking classes when she moved to…

Q&A with Health & Wellness Expert Sonia Jhas

A leading voice in Canada’s health and wellness scene, Sonia Jhas offers practical, positive, and down-to-earth advice meant to help people live their best life. I asked her a few questions about how to reset health goals after an unusually stressful year.  -Becky Mandelbaum  Many of us have picked up bad habits during the pandemic. What do you recommend for undoing them?    When trying to undo bad habits, we typically take the “all or nothing” approach. We decide we…