The Bainbridge Youth Services 34th Annual 4th of July Fun Run—with a 5K, 1 Mile, and Kids’ Dashes—is just around the corner, and BYS is opening pre-registration for the event with some additional news: the launch of its new website and the selection of the Fun Run Logo Contest winner. Website. The new website includes…
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Registration Opens for 4th of July Fun Run with New Website and Logo Contest Winner
Posted on 13 June 2013.
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Take 25 on May 25 to Talk to Your Kids About Safety
Posted on 22 May 2013.
The Bainbridge Island Police Department wants you to take 25 minutes out of your busy lives to talk to your kids about safety. A good time to do that is this Saturday, May 25, National Missing Children’s Day. Take 25 is a grassroots safety initiative to make child safety a national priority, raise awareness of…
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Make Some Noise for Kids with Cancer Friday with Eilen Jewell at Treehouse
Posted on 05 May 2013.
The numbers about pediatric cancer are shocking. One in 320 kids gets diagnosed with the disease, but only 3 percent of all cancer research funding is for pediatric cancer. This Friday you can make some noise about that and have some fun too at Treehouse for a special benefit and performance by alt-country star Eilen…
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Peerless Hockey Jock Mo Greason Has Her Sights on Division I Play
Posted on 26 April 2013.
Maureen (Mo) Greason is one of the toughest Bainbridge athletes you may have never heard of. That’s because she plays most of her games away. As a member of the Western Washington Female Hockey Association’s Washington Wild Rep 19 and Under team, she has to travel each week from Bainbridge where she lives, to Shoreline…
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New Scholarship Available to High School Students
Posted on 03 April 2013.
The Kitsap Community Foundation just announced a new scholarship for students seeking degrees or certification in engineering or construction management. The scholarship, available to all high school students in Kitsap County, is funded by employees of the Nova Group, a general engineering contractor based in Napa, California. For 2013, one $1,000 scholarship will be awarded…
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The Old Boar Teaches New Tricks
Posted on 25 March 2013.
What, you might reasonably ask, is The Old Boar, the new business on Madison right next to the former Shima Sushi? The answer is complicated: It is a combination of Hogwarts, a university library, a tea shop, and your best friend’s living room. The effect it has on you is of making you want to…
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Young Bainbridge Suzuki Musicians’ Concert Fills Benaroya (with Video)
Posted on 17 March 2013.
Piano teacher Keely Sawyer was pretty happy about the 2013 Suzuki student piano and violin concert held last Saturday, March 9, at Benaroya. She said, “It was great, it was awesome. It was one of my teaching career highlights.” It was also an organizational feat. Getting 87 performers ranging in age from 4 to 18…
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Winners of the 2013 Bainbridge Student Art Contest
Posted on 06 March 2013.
The 13th annual Bainbridge Island Metro Parks and Recreation District (BIMPRD) art contest for local students drew out talent from 150 kids in kindergarten through high school. The entires were put on display at the Pavilion on Sunday. Entrants competed for first, second, and third place awards in eight different categories. A sophomore nabbed Best…
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Young Artists, Enter the Bainbridge Student Art Contest
Posted on 13 February 2013.
Whether you’re in kindergarten, a high school senior, or anywhere in between, you’re invited to enter the 13th annual Bainbridge Island Student Art Contest. Open to Bainbridge students and/or residents, the contest is Sunday, March 3, at the Pavilion. The categories are as follows: K-2nd, 3rd & 4th, 5th & 6th, 7th & 8th, 9th-12th. Each…
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Tools for Raising Resilient Kids/Teens All-Day Workshop February 9
Posted on 02 February 2013.
The Just Know Coalition, a Bainbridge organization founded in 2003 to support families, has organized a series of workshops all day Saturday, February 9, focusing on nurturing mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy kids and teens. Parents, teens, teachers, professionals, and other interested community members are invited to attend classes throughout the day or choose those of…
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Pig-napping Leaves “Babe Lincoln” in the Lurch
Posted on 25 January 2013.
The Miller Road pig near Day Road who sits ceremoniously garbed each holiday has gone missing. No, the blue piggy did not blow down into the adjacent ditch, which given her surprising lack of heft has happened before. Her keeper, Don Roose, reports that she has been stolen. We hope her present handler intends to return her…
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Eight-Year-Old Carlos Field-Bennett Helps Kids in Poverty Get Educations
Posted on 17 December 2012.
11:35 a.m. In August, when 8-year-old Carlos Field-Bennett saw the global premiere of the film Living on One, which was made by three BHS graduates, he was moved into action. In fact, he took so much action that he raised $1700 for education scholarships in Guatemala. Living on One chronicles the struggles of four young…
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Letter to the Editor: Response to the Newtown Tragedy
Posted on 16 December 2012.
by Brenda Berry, December 16, 2012, 5:41 p.m. Like most of you, I am feeling gutted with sorrow and frustration. I can’t imagine a Christmas with presents wrapped and now forever waiting for a first grader who will never have the joy of opening them. A child, just barely past babyhood, shot for no reason,…
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Bainbridge 7th Grader Wins National NASA Essay Contest
Posted on 04 December 2012.
8:43 p.m. Odyssey Multiage Program 7th Grader Michaela Leung wants to be an astronaut someday. She just took one giant leap forward in her quest by winning a national NASA-sponsored contest, the 2012 Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest, with her essay on Saturn. More than 2,000 entries were submitted from students in 36 states on three…
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Happy Birthday Lucy and Austin!
Posted on 15 November 2012.
November 15, 2012, 11:30 a.m. Hey Scorpios, you’re each one decade old. Wow! Your parents love you, and the world is lucky to have you. Happy day and welcome to the tweens! Photo courtesy of Omer Wazir.
Bainbridge’s Teen Talking Circles Turns 20 with Gala Celebration
Posted on 14 November 2012.
8 a.m. Teen Talking Circles, which was launched on Bainbrige Island in 1993 by well-known photographer Linda Wolf, is an internationally recognized teen mentorship program that rekindled the use of talking circles to foster the skills of speaking truthfully and deeply and listening compassionately. To celebrate and to continue its fundraising efforts, TTC is hosting…
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Letter to the Editor: Nominate a Teen for the Compassionate Action Award
Posted on 26 October 2012.
October 26, 2012, 12:15 p.m. Over the past ten years Bainbridge Youth Services (BYS) has provided an opportunity for the community to recognize the volunteer efforts of our youth ages 12-19. The Compassionate Action Award is given in recognition to those youth who go beyond the expected volunteerism of team memberships, school requirements, and club…
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Letter to the Editor: Kudos to the Kiddos Who Watered Downtown’s Flower Baskets
Posted on 16 October 2012.
9:30 a.m. This past summer when most 16 and 17 year olds were just thinking about going to bed, there was a dedicated group of a half-dozen Island teenagers who were just hitting the streets. Dylan Lehotsky and his loyal Downtown Watering Crew spent many midnight hours driving the quiet streets of downtown Winslow making…
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Growing Resilient Children Event Thursday
Posted on 08 October 2012.
10 a.m. Bainbridge Island’s Just Know Coalition, an organization dedicated to supporting Bainbridge families, is holding a free event October 11, from 7 to 9 p.m., about growing resilient children. The topic was identified by parents in a survey the Coalition conducted last winter. Parents expressed a goal for themselves and their children of finding…
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From Oxy to Bath Salts and Spice: Take Action Against Drugs on Bainbridge
Posted on 25 September 2012.
9:53 a.m. At last week’s police town hall meeting, detective Trevor Ziemba acknowledged the prevalence of drug abuse on the island. However, he stressed that what we are seeing here on Bainbridge is not that different from what other communities across the nation are experiencing. The one difference, according to Ziemba, is in terms of…
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