A dozen or more volunteers came to North Mercerdale Hillside Park, a woodland just minutes from downtown, during snowy and rainy weather on Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and Dec. 4 to plant more than 100 ferns salvaged from King County homeowners and about 175 native plants purchased from a King County Small Change grant.
Last week, Bill and Dana Isherwood personally experienced the community connections that attracted them to Mercer Island three years ago.
Driver’s education; that universally lamented teenage rite of passage. For many, the two words conjure up memories of early Saturdays in a stuffy classroom, outdated instructional videos and weekly scantron tests.
African Children’s Choir makes a stop on MI
Reporter staff
The Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce’s art gallery has a new style. Over the past five years, the MI Chamber gallery exhibited numerous painters from MIVAL and artists associated with MIVAL. The nature of the gallery, however, did not lend itself to the atmosphere of a regular art gallery. Therefore, the Chamber analyzed the situation and decided to move the gallery in a new direction.
To the untrained eye, the chaos of dirt and heavy equipment isn’t a thing of beauty. Yet, the tangle of cranes and concrete that accompany construction of new roads and bridges is was what attracted Florence Palmer to paint I-90 as it took shape. In fact, construction is one of her favorite subjects. Among the 500 art pieces to her credit are scenes of cranes operating over Eastside condos and businesses.
Bill Morton
On Travel
Linda Stephens-Urbaniak
In the Garden
This season, the majority of Island merchants and city agencies have had special drives or events to benefit others. The Reporter has already run mentions of many.
The 2007 tapestry of Island people and their passions includes the likes of Walter Witt, Mariner fan of 2,000 games … two mothers of five turned entrepreneurs — Lori Moll of Dooz and Carole Airut Murphy, the pop-top jeweler … Ashley Brewer and her mini-menagerie on the Island’s tiniest farm … Fran Call and Erica Hill, former and current track coaches who build fitness into young people’s lifestyles.
Dee Hitch
On Wine