Historical Society to meet at Symphony house

The Mercer Island Historical Society meeting on Monday, Nov. 16 is changing location for this meeting only to the Symphony house, located at 2740 West Mercer Way. The start time will be 1 p.m.

Clay Eals, Mercer Island High School graduate and executive director of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society, will speak about original social media and how we’re creating history today – and how we should be preserving and documenting it.

The public is invited to attend the free meetings of the historical society, including this one in a grand old 1910 Island home and historic building which has been carefully renovated by the new owners, JayMarc Homes.

Marc Rousso of JayMarc Homes will talk about preserving and updating this island home, which is now for sale. Parking is available across the street in the former MI Boys and Girls Club or East Seattle School lots.

Islander awarded for real estate

Allen Uyeno, a Seattle-based real estate agent and one of the directors of the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce, was honored with a 2015 Five Star Real Estate Award.

Uyeno grew up on the South end of Mercer Island, spending summers at the Mercer Island Beach Club, and graduated from Mercer Island High School in 1970.

He is the “Home and Land Magazine” Neighborhood Specialist for Mercer Island.

Uyeno said he considers the Five Star Award to be “a crowning achievement in real estate… It must be earned the old fashioned way, with hard work and diligence.”