Bainbridge Community Broadcasting (BCB) will celebrate its 100^th podcast, 7,500 internet downloads to listeners and its six-month birthday party with a public open house at its Winslow podcast radio studio from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Marge Williams Center.

The center is located at 221 Winslow Way West, 100 feet uphill and west of Eagle Harbor Congregational Church, west of Madison Avenue.

The open house includes studio visits, free refreshments and souvenirs.

Bainbridge Community Broadcasting also is making available a free BCB app for iPhone, iPad and for Android smartphones and tablets. The app allows people to automatically receive and listen to BCB’s all-Bainbridge Island radio shows. The new BCB podcast app was released this month and can be obtained for free from the Apple and Android app stores by searching for BCB Bainbridge.

“We’re an all-island intergenerational project serving the Bainbridge community,” said Barry Peters, Bainbridge Community Broadcasting’s volunteer manager, in a news release. “This (100th podcast) milestone is a credit to the dozens of adult and high school volunteers who have collaborated to bring internet radio to our community. The podcast radio episodes tell the stories of Bainbridge events, people, nonprofits, businesses, arts and artists, local issues, outdoor activities and local food.”

BCB is a project of the 8-year-old nonprofit Sustainable Bainbridge.

“It’s remarkable how much has been accomplished for the community by BCB volunteers in six months,” Sustainable Bainbridge board member Maradel Gale said.

Currently, BCB offers a choice of six internet radio shows:

—             What’s Up Bainbridge: Local events,

—             Who’s On Bainbridge: Local people,

—             Community Cafe Bainbridge: Local issues,

—             Bainbridge Outdoors: Outdoor activities,

—             Tastes of Bainbridge: Local food, gardening, dining,

—             Bainbridge on Campus: Teen perspective from the BHS Radio Club.

Examples drawn from BCB’s first 100 episodes include:

—             The sounds of seashore wildlife on the Fort Ward Park beach with the fall arctic seabird migration explained by birder-naturalist George Gerdts.

—             The unlikely and delightful story of Jake’s Pickup – where chef and owner Jacob Angel serves up healthy, organic, locally sourced foods, prepared from scratch – in the new Chevron gas station food store on High School Road (BCB’s 100th podcast).

—             Edge Improv founders Frank Buxton and John Ellis tell how the 20-year-old improve troupe started.

—             Conversations about local issues with Bainbridge city officials, such as City Manager Doug Schulze, Planning Director Kathy Cook, Finance Director Ellen Schroer and Police Chief Matthew Hamner.

—             85 What’s Up interviews, each of which described an upcoming local Bainbridge event, as told by the event organizer or performer.

The start-up of the BCB project has been funded through funds received by Sustainable Bainbridge’s One Call for All, a $7,000 Bainbridge Island Rotary Club grant for studio equipment, a $4,750 Bainbridge Community Foundation grant for start-up growth and several thousand dollars of individual cash and in-kind donations, Peters said.

In addition to Bainbridge Community Broadcasting seeking more volunteers for more podcast radio shows, Peters said the nonprofit has plans to do an oral history and story-share project with the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum and Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center; encourage the city to offer AM broadcast radio for local emergency information; add video to some of BCB’s audio internet episodes; and do continuous internet streaming of music and more diverse programming in 2015.

For more information, visit the BCB website at http://BestofBCB.org.

The following items were taken from Bainbridge Island Police Department incident reports by reporter Ethan Fowler. For more blotter, visit bainbridgeislander.com and click on Bainbridge blog link on the right side of the screen.

Crime log from Oct. 19 to Oct. 25: 4 domestic verbal, 3 residential burglaries, 3 thefts in the second degree, 2 traffic accidents, 1 theft in the third degree, 1 mental investigation, 1 false alarm unknown cause, 1 miscellaneous, 1 malicious mischief in the third degree.

Oct. 24

Assault in the fourth degree: A 62-year-old man who lives on Agatewood Road and a 68-year-old man who lives on Agate Pass Road were involved in road rage at 5:34 p.m. The incident started after the two men, who were each driving trucks, gave an obscene hand gesture to each other as the older man drove on the shoulder to exit State Route 305. As a result of the older man thinking the younger man blocked his path to exit the roadway, he parked his vehicle and confronted the younger driver. The older man took a swing at the younger man, but missed when his attempt was blocked. The older man then threatened the younger man by telling him, “Your day is coming, I will get you.” The younger man, who called police, said he didn’t want to take the matter to court, but only wanted police to contact the older man. When police called to the older man at 6:15 p.m., he denied taking a swing at the younger man. The report was forwarded to prosecutors for charges.

Residential burglary: A 45-year-old man living on the 10000 block of Manzanita Road reported at 8:30 a.m. that his home had been burglarized. The man’s home was in the middle of being remodeled when burglars broke into the man’s guesthouse, which was being used as a staging area for large items. The thieves entered through a guesthouse window and stole two 60-inch LCD televisions, two Blu-Ray players, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a computer server, two routers and a cable modem. Prints the suspects left were lifted from a window screen and other areas.

Oct. 23

Theft in the second degree: A man living in the 100 block of Madrona Lane reported that an anchor he had displayed in his yard was stolen between the evening of Oct. 22 and morning of Oct. 23. The anchor was approximately 4 feet tall, 3 feet wide and weighed 60 pounds. It was made of galvanized steel. Police research revealed a new similar anchor would cost $700.

Malicious mischief in the third degree: A 52-year-old man reported that someone had cut the gas hoses in his car while his vehicle was parked at his workplace on the 8000 block of Day Road East. About 10 days earlier, the man noticed gas dripping from underneath his car as he pumped gas. The man saw a large hole in his incoming gas hose and a section missing from the vent hose. The man found the missing sections near his work parking spot Oct. 23.

Oct. 21

Vehicle collision: A 36-year-old woman on vacation from Los Alamos, New Mexico, with two friends hit another vehicle as she drove a rental car at the intersection of State Route 305 and Madison Avenue at 3:06 p.m. The driver didn’t stop when she hit the back of a 45-year-old Indianola man’s truck. The woman believed she fell asleep while driving because she had closed her eyes prior to impact. An officer noted the woman appeared sleepy. The woman suffered back injuries and was taken to the hospital. She was cited for inattention.