The Chilly Hilly ride came to an early end for one cyclist, who lost control on a gravelly corner of Sunrise Drive and slid into a mailbox post. The rider was transported to a Seattle for treatment of knee and shoulder injuries. It was one of two bicycle wrecks reported in the Sunrise Drive area Sunday.
Also this week, fluorescent green was the color of choice for a vulgar vandal, and a rental truck savaged a tree on High School Road.
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The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art announced a June 14 opening date this week, while beginning a final fundraising push. The museum needs another $1.2 million in donations to close out its capital campaign, according to a Tuesday news release. The overall campaign goal is $15.6 million.
The 20,000-square-foot museum is under construction on the northwest corner of Winslow Way and Highway 305. It will house a permanent collection of contemporary art as well as traveling exhibits and arts programs. Initial exhibits and programs will be announced in April.
“Our main areas of focus are on arts education, documenting artists’ lives, and integrating other cultural activities including literary and performing arts into the museum programming,” museum board member Bill Baran-Mickle said in the release.
The museum will operate in an “open house” format for its first month, with hands-on activities for visitors, according to the release. Admission to the museum will be free.
The museum opened an auditorium and classroom spaces in 2011, providing new venues for community events. A full opening was scheduled for the summer of 2012 but the date was pushed back as fundraising lagged.
(Illustration by Coates Design)
Street of the Week: Ericksen Avenue
Location: Runs north/south between Winslow Way and Wallace Way
History: At one point last century almost half of the crew at the Eagle Harbor shipyard had parents who hailed from or who were themselves born in Scandinavia.
Although each man had his own unique background, the group shared similar roots in the countries of Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Besides working together, several of the men were also neighbors living along Ericksen Avenue. It was a good move since the street was named for their boss, shipyard foreman Chirstian Ericksen.
Sources: “BIMH Museum News,” May 2012.
Guest Contributor John Quitslund, “Winslow in 1930: Insights from Census Data,” pages 6 and 7.
This occasional Islander series explores the history of island street names, as compiled by Elinor Ringland and fellow Bainbridge Island Historical Society volunteers. If you have an island road story to share, email Ringland at elinorjoe@msn.com.
Here’s the Friday preview: Bainbridge edition for Feb. 22. Feel free to give your event a plug in the comment section below. Above, riders depart the Bainbridge ferry for the 2012 Chilly Hilly ride. The wildly popular tour de Bainbridge returns Sunday. Watch for coverage at KitsapSun.com. We welcome your photos on our Facebook page. (Josh Farley photo)
Weather: A strong
weather front will
move into the area Friday, the National Weather Service warns.
The front is expected to produce heavy snow in the mountains, with
rain and gusty winds in the lowlands.
Conditions on Bainbridge should be milder, with gusts up to 30 mph and rain on Friday. Rain showers should continue through the weekend.
Sports: The Spartans sent athletes to state championships last weekend in gymnastics, swimming and wrestling.
Among the standouts at state was gymnast Sarah Rice, who medaled in the all-around for the second time in her career and took seventh on the vault. Swimmer Spencer Alpaugh placed fifth in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:56.38.
See a full Spartans schedule here and follow the Sun’s Prepzone on Facebook for updates.
A handgun and up to $10,000 in rare coins were reported stolen Feb. 19 from a home on the 11000 block of Sunrise Drive NE. The home’s residents were in the process of moving when the items disappeared.
Also this week, loose dogs tangled with a poodle on Madison Avenue and someone cut the cover off a manhole on Halls Hill Road.
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I had fun over the weekend reporting on the opening of the MO Creek Little Free Library. The Mandus Olson book exchange is the island’s newest Little Free Library installation, but not its first. That distinction belongs to the Shepard Path Little Free Library (pictured).
Islander Donna Dahlquist started the project after seeing a program on Little Free Libraries on the nightly news last summer.
“I saw it and the next day I was on it,” she said.
She and her neighbors installed Little Free Library No. 892 along the popular walking trail west of Winslow last June. It was a colorful contraption. Dahlquist painted the box yellow and decorated it with keys. She shingled the roof with tin can lids and mounted the library on a post studded with bottle caps.
A few weeks later the little library burned to the ground. Dahlquist suspected an arson. The fire happened a few days before the Fourth of July, so fireworks may have been involved.
The fire burned through the roof of the
library, melting the tin. The fire department was called and
firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading into the dry grass
and trees along the trail.
After the fire, Dahlquist wrote an email to Little Free Library founder Todd Bol, relating the tragic story of her library and asking if similar vandalism was common. Bol responded by shipping Dahlquist a brand new library box to install. It’s not as flashy as the first, but Shepard Path Little Free Library No. 1125 has become a popular stop for walkers and neighbors. A string of solar powered Christmas lights illuminate the box at night. The book collection changes constantly.
“It gets a lot of action,” Dahlquist said.
Dahlquist plans to add a “children’s library” soon. The tot-sized library will be housed in an old New York Times newspaper box, donated by friends in the Mandus Olson neighborhood.
Dahlquist said she’s happy to see more Little Free Libraries sprouting up. (You can see a world map of Little Free Libraries below).
“It’s been a lot of fun,” Dahlquist said. “Even the arson hasn’t diminished the enjoyment we’ve gotten from it.”
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(Photos by Tad Sooter)
Street of the Week: Rodal Court
Location: A tiny residential street running west off Sunrise Drive, north of Valley Road
History: Lucas Rodal delievered groceries with a wheelbarrow. It was just one of the many services the native Norwegian did for his adopted home. In the decades to come, his large family would continue the tradition of community involvement. Rodels have been active with, among other organizations, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, which sits on land formerly owned by the family.
This occasional Islander series explores the history of island street names, as compiled by Elinor Ringland and fellow Bainbridge Island Historical Society volunteers. If you have an island road story to share, email Ringland at elinorjoe@msn.com.
A rash of mail theft was reported around the island in the last two weeks. Several residents returned home from trips to find suspiciously small amounts of mail in their mailboxes and expected deliveries missing. In one case a locking mailbox had been pried open.
Also this week, an $800 dinghy departed an Agate Passage home, and a driver reported hitting a mysterious pedestrian on Winslow Way.
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Here’s the Friday preview: Bainbridge edition for Feb. 15. Feel free to give your event a plug in the comment section below. Above, about 25 islanders took joined a One Billion Rising demonstration in Winslow Thursday, part of global protest for gender equality and against violence toward women. (Tad Sooter photo)
Weather: The
National Weather service is predicting a damp holiday weekend.
Expect showers and highs in the high 40s.
Sports: Let the state meets begin. Qualifying gymnasts travel to the Tacoma Dome this evening for their state tournament while the state swimming prelims begin at the King County Aquatic Center.
Six Bainbridge wrestlers, including two district champions, qualified for the Mat Classic, which also opens Friday in Tacoma. State tournament action continues Saturday.
The Bainbridge boys and girls basketball teams were swept from the district tournament last weekend.
See a full Spartans schedule here and follow the Sun’s Prepzone on Facebook for updates.
First there was the yurt fire. Then there was a run in with the city’s code compliance office.
But after a rough first year, the Barclay brothers are carrying on with their dream of opening a goat creamery on Bainbridge Island. The brothers launched a capital campaign this week on Kickstarter.com, aiming to raise $32,000 to cover startup costs for their new dairy.
According to the campaign description, Coyote Farm Creamery will produce Grade A raw goat milk and serve as a teaching farm for families and school groups. Money raised from the campaign will help the Barclays buy milking supplies, purchase commercial refrigerators and upgrade outbuildings on the farm to meet city code. If they can raise an additional $17,000, the Barclays will purchase a small pasteurizer to produce yogurt and cheese.
It doesn’t hurt that this is kidding season and the Barclays have plenty of adorable baby goat photos (see above) to aid their cause. The first 50 donors of $100 or more get to name a newborn goat. The campaign ends March 14.
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Streets of the Week: Brien Drive, Shannon Drive, Bjune Drive
Location: Winslow waterfront.
History: Developer Ed Stafford worked in the area just south of the bustling Winslow Way business district.
Nearby Eagle Harbor and the island yacht club kept the area busy while Waterfront Park ensured the developement’s natural beauty.
As Stafford’s work in the area drew to a close, he had to decide what to name the development’s streets. He looked to his three children for inspiration when christening the three parallel roads.
Brien got his own street. So did Shannon. But what about Betty June? It was from a light-hearted blending of Betty June’s names that Bjune Drive was born.
This occasional Islander series explores the history of island street names, as compiled by Elinor Ringland and fellow Bainbridge Island Historical Society volunteers. If you have an island road story to share, email Ringland at elinorjoe@msn.com.
Here’s the Friday preview: Bainbridge edition for Feb. 8. Feel free to give your event a plug in the comment section below. Above, The Waypoint gateway park is nearing completion. A grand opening is now scheduled for March 1.
Weather: The
National Weather Service expects dry weather to continue
through the weekend, with morning fog giving way to partly sunny
days.
Sports: It’s districts tournament weekend for the Spartans. Boys and girls basketball teams clinched tournament slots this week with wins over Chief Sealth.
Boys swimmers and divers travel to Mercer Island for their district tournament meet on Friday and Saturday, after finishing second in the league championships last weekend. League champion Bainbridge gymnasts head to Sammamish on Saturday.
Bainbridge wrestling also claimed a league title last week and will compete in the district tournament Saturday.
See a full Spartans schedule here and follow the Sun’s Prepzone on Facebook for updates.
