MICEC holiday closures and reduced hours | City briefs
Published 1:48 pm Tuesday, December 8, 2015
MICEC holiday closures and reduced hours
The Mercer Island Community and Event Center (MICEC) will adjust its normal operating hours for annual maintenance as follows:
-Monday, Dec. 21 through Friday, Dec. 25: CLOSED
-Saturday, Dec. 26: Open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-Sunday, Dec. 27: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-Monday, Dec. 28 to Wednesday, Dec. 30: Open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-Thursday, Dec. 31: Open 8:30 a.m. to noon
-Friday, Jan. 1: CLOSED
-Saturday, Jan. 2: Open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-Sunday, Jan. 3: Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-Monday, Jan. 4: Resume normal operating hours.
The Fitness Room is available for use beginning Sunday, Dec. 27, while the facility is open. The Game Room and Landing area are available for use while the facility is open. No programs are offered during this time. Rental rooms and the Gymnasium will also be closed.
Visit http://www.mercergov.org/micec or call 206-275-7609 for more information on the MICEC.
Donate your fridge or freezer, help families and save power
The Island’s electric utility, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), has pledged to double up on donations this season. Customers normally receive a $25 PSE rebate for recycling old, unneeded (working) fridges and freezers. But from now until Dec. 15, customers can donate their $25 rebate to Food Lifeline, and PSE will match it with another $25, totaling $50, which is enough to help feed a family of four for two weeks. And retiring these old appliances also saves a lot of wasted electricity.
Food Lifeline provides up to 82,000 meals a day to local food assistance programs by capturing food that might otherwise go to waste. Last year this partnership with PSE collected 365 old, working fridges or freezers, and generated $18,250 for food programs.
PSE electric customers should visit www.pse.com/donate to learn more, or call 1-877-577-0510 to schedule a free pickup of their old working fridge or freezer.
Comcast upgrades one-third complete
Since early summer, Comcast cable technicians and other contractors have been performing maintenance projects on the Island’s cable infrastructure, both above and below ground, to support greater capacity.
Currently, Comcast is switching customers over to new cabling, generally by service districts, depicted as “MUX” areas on its project map. The project is now approximately one-third complete.
The switchovers usually progress by neighborhood across the Island: residents in affected areas should receive a door hanger a few days in advance, as well as a mailed letter, before any service interruption. Commercial customers will be switched overnight to avoid business impacts.
For questions about this maintenance work, or service interruptions related to the upgrades, customers are directed to call the contractor (CableCom) at the number listed on the door hanger, which is 425-939-9510, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
