On Saturday, Aug. 15, the 22nd annual Gala Auction will be on the grounds of Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville. The menu will be prepared by world-renowned chefs and accompanied by an impressive selection of Washington wines. The auction benefits Children’s Hospital and the Washington Wine Education Foundation.
What do you do when you look up from cleaning your boat to see four frantic people in a classic wooden boat waving their arms and screaming, “We’re sinking! We’re sinking!”?
Mercer Island High School graduate Janna Cawrse Esarey published her first book this year. Yet when looking at a full picture of the Seattle resident’s life, this accomplishment is swept up in a backdrop of adventure.
The Dore brothers, Barry and David, raised on Mercer Island, are in the top 10 of the first Homecookingstar.com recipe contest.
Greenway Days is a celebration of the conservation and education efforts in the Mountains to Sound Greenway and the over 4,000 annual volunteers who give their time to keep the 100-mile long stretch of I-90, from Puget Sound to Central Washington, clean and green.
Robert Burnett was one of the first teenagers on Mercer Island to own a VCR. A self-proclaimed movie fanatic at age 13, the Island resident had the neighborhood kids lining up to watch “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Star Wars,” “The Exorcist” — or any of the hard-to-come-by movies released on VHS in the early ’80s — on his South-end living room couch. Movies, the Hollywood producer asserts today, were his calling.
Blue is a color that is longed for in the garden by many people. It is a great foil for other colors and, as such, melds easily into a perennial border.
The West Mercer Elementary School announces the production of their annual end-of-year play, “House on Haunted Hill”. Two 7 p.m….
City Councilmember Mike Grady is, without a doubt, an environmentally conscious man. This is why, when it recently came to his attention that one of the Island’s four trees with eagle nests was in danger of being destroyed by real estate development, he stepped right in to asses the matter.
When Mercer Island High School’s June 11 graduation arrives, seniors Elise Lerstad and Diego Corvalan will be taking a slightly different path than the rest of the class of 2009: back home to high school in Norway and Paraguay.
No one wants to go to a nursing home to live. Sometimes, however, it is inevitable. Both older adults and families struggle mightily with this decision. So, one would hope that if you need to move into a long-term care setting, it should be trouble free, right?
Love can be a messy affair. So can being a cast member in the upcoming Mercer Island High School production of “Big Love,” opening Thursday at 7:30 p.m.