The spirit of giving was overflowing on Nov. 30 at Ann Peterson’s Mercer Island home, as she and a large group of friends helped military mom Debbie Kane put together 26 care packages to be sent to Kane’s son and his platoon mates who are deployed in Afghanistan.
George Kane III, 24, is a 2004 graduate of Mercer Island High School and Gonzaga University, where he received his degree in finance. He joined the service, went through Army Ranger training last summer, and is now a second lieutenant with the 101st Airborne Division. He has been in Afghanistan since Sept. 13.

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The students in Carol Wiseley’s International Entrepreneurship class at Mercer Island High School are bright, motivated and focused. Not only are they international traders with their corporation, Mercer Trade Inc., which is a public company, but they are excelling in competition.

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Bill and C.C. Crenshaw have always wanted to do some sort of relief work, but the right opportunity had never come up — until they were called to help in Haiti. On the last leg of their journey, they flew from Miami on a one-hour, 40-minute flight into another world.
They could not have imagined the suffering they saw.
“One minute you’re sipping your coffee at Starbucks, then you’re in a war zone,” C.C. said.

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Island resident and artist Marianne Bond finds all kinds of inspiration for her art. She paints everything from dachshunds to florals and she used to design and build furniture.
But the motivation for her latest artistic venture came from a most unusual source.
It was actually black and white images of India that her husband, Michael, saw in one of his issues of The Financial Times, a newspaper that moved the Mercer Island artist to put her creativity to work, and also to help out a good cause.

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A new fountain which “embodies the enthusiasm of childhood play” now graces the front of Early World Montessori on Mercer Island.
Earl Caditz, one of the owners of the school, said it puts people in a good mood when they’re walking in. He bought the bronze fountain online, and after four months it was delivered and installed on Nov. 20.

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On the third day of inclement weather, members of the Mercer Island Local IFF (International Fire Fighters) 1762 bundled up and gathered outside the Mercer Island Albertsons on Wednesday to collect food for the Mercer Island food bank.
With a bright red fire truck parked at the store’s entrance, the firefighters set up a barrel to collect food and a red helmet on the ground to collect cash donations as shoppers emerged from the store.

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After sitting vacant for years, the two acre tract of land at the North end of 76th Avenue S.E,, which at one time was a Safeway store, will be re-developed.

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