Last Sunday was the final day for the inaugural season of the Mercer Island Farmers Market. The market, held for 10 Sundays along S.E. 32nd Street adjacent to Mercerdale Park, was blessed with a nearly perfect run of good weather throughout August and September.
At the end of 2003, a few guys in a small-tech company decided to birth an online social networking site called MySpace. It was designed to be a more desirable alternative to a then-popular social networking site called Friendster. Little did this group realize what they had created and what it would become.
My wife and I are lucky. We sleep soundly throughout the night, with only the rare “off” night. Our lifestyle is tailor-made for adequate rest, as our work involves serious doses of exercise a couple of times each day, with most afternoons free for recovery. Lunch and a quick nap before heading back to work are luxuries that we don’t take for granted, especially now that my wife, Katie, is six months pregnant. Growing a person is hard work and requires cellular transformations of monumental proportions just to keep up with the increased circulatory, bone, blood, and tissue needs for both mom and baby.
Mercer Island native Jack Fellows spent most of his time in high school algebra class drawing war planes. Fifty years later, Fellows is still drawing war planes. But today he makes a living out of it.
Shannon Storie and T. Ryan Johnson were married on Sept. 5 at the bride’s home on Mercer Island. Rev. Paul Fauske officiated the wedding ceremony. A reception followed at Salty’s on Alki.
Mercer Island Rotary awarded the Islander of the Month award to Mercer Island High School seniors Zach Rowe and Michele Zemplenyi.
Mercer Island high school students will be collecting used and broken technical equipment for proper disposal on Oct. 25 and 26. The project is part of King County’s Take it Back program, which provides consumers with options for recycling certain wastes and their hazardous components. Students are collecting old cell-phones, computers and computer parts, TVs, microwaves and other electronic equipment — as well as fluorescent light bulbs — to be collected at the Bayley Construction Parking Lot (8005 S.E. 28th St.) next Saturday and Sunday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Most donations are free except for larger equipment such as monitors and TV screens, which cost around $10 to recycle. Money raised through the project will go toward the Mercer Island Senior Class Safety and Scholarship Fund. For more information, call (206) 940-4611.
The Mercer Island cross country teams made a statement this week as both the boys and girls exceeded expectations.
Senior Rachel Godfred has achieved Ironman status for the fourth year in a row as an Islander girls swimmer.
Kelsey Ingram, a 2006 Mercer Island High School graduate, will return to Seattle on Oct. 25 as a member of the University of Notre Dame’s varsity cheerleading squad when the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame meet the University of Washington Huskies at Husky Stadium. A Notre Dame pep rally will be held on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Seattle Hyatt Hotel.
The Mercer Island football team did not fare well against the high-powered Mount Si Wildcats on Friday, as they gave up 28 first-half points, losing 41-16. The loss extends Mercer Island’s losing streak to five consecutive games, but the hope for the future got a little brighter during the second half with the play of the defense and starting freshman quarterback Jeff Lindquist’s two touchdown plays.
Two days after losing its first game of the season, the Mercer Island girls soccer team traveled to Juanita High School, looking to get back on track. But the team struggled to connect on scoring opportunities and a lapse on defense resulted in a 1-1 tie.