A colorful sunset reflects off the waters of Lake Washington at Proctor Landing on Mercer Island, Thursday.
The Mercer Island Children’s Hospital Guild Association will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21, at Cheryl Hansen’s home on Mercer Island, 6115 93rd Ave. S.E..
With a lot less fanfare than when they moved to the Island, Tent City 4 folded their tents and left the Island on the first of November.
This view of the full moon rising over The Mercer Apartments last Friday combines two exposures on the same frame.
The Mercer Island girls basketball sixth-grade select team won its first tournament of the season. The girls played in the 2008 Skyline Girls Select Basketball Tournament on Nov. 7-9 and went undefeated in all five of their games, including the title game against the host team, Skyline. This is the second consecutive year that the team has won this tournament. Team members include: Julia Blumenstein, Brooke Behrbaum, Gretchen Peterson, Molly Bucklin, Katherine Vetter, Megan Diamond, Jamie Mounger, Amanda Tsang, Olivia Snell, Stephanie Silke and Jessica Blakeslee.
The Islander girls swim team placed third at state behind broken records, state titles and personal bests.
The undefeated Islander volleyball team has had just one problem this season: the third game. Time after time, Mercer Island takes a 2-0 lead only to let up and lose the third game. They nearly always win the fourth game but that third one has become superstitious for the team.
As the holiday season approaches, many of us snowsport aficionados will be making travel plans to mountain resorts near and far. There was a time, not so long ago, when travel by air with skis and snowboards was fairly easy. Then came the aftermath of 9/11 when things got more complicated. Because of the extensive and often silly security checks, travelers were encouraged to check their luggage as much as possible, and to carry on very little.
Mercer Island senior Rachel Godfred has achieved a lot in four years of swimming. Earning “Ironman” status all four seasons, winning a state title in the 200-yard individual medley during her junior year and being named team captain this year are just a few of her accomplishments. But nothing compared to Saturday’s performance during the state meet at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
The City Council got a look earlier this month at the 768-square-foot pump house at the emergency water well in Rotary Park. A 60-horsepower submersible motor will be housed in the new building, which will be 24-by-32-feet and also contain three pressurized tanks with a total capacity of 3,000 gallons. The pump will be able to produce 200 to 250 gallons per minute. Rectangular in shape, the new building will have a single dormer and some skylights on the metal roof above a cedar siding.
A light rail station is coming to Mercer Island. With the passage of Sound Transit’s Prop. 1 by 58 percent of the vote, the funds will be raised to add a cross-lake route from Seattle to Bellevue with a stop on Mercer Island.
Dozens of Civil Rights photographs, some from the 1960s and others from 2008, sat in silent auction at the Community Center at Mercer View on Nov. 16 as viewers browsed over and discussed the images. The exhibit, titled “Images of Change,” raised money for the Multicultural Scholars Program, which educates students from Mercer Island and Franklin High Schools on contemporary and historical civil rights issues.
The adage often used by planners and real estate developers that the Island is built out seems to be a misnomer.