Popular Bellingham beach will not have lifeguards this summer

Bellingham’s most popular beach has no lifeguards this summer, leaving families to fend for themselves.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The weather is beautiful right now but there is a perfect storm brewing in Bellingham, bringing additional dangers to a popular beach.

You won’t find a lifeguard for all the people packing Bloedel Donovan Park along Lake Whatcom this summer.

Bertha Costemalle is not worried about sunburn as much as she is about a sore neck. She keeps craning it to keep her son and three nephews within eyesight as they swim in the lake. 

“I am constantly counting them, like 1,2,3,4,” Costemalle said. “Okay,

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