The Mercer Island Senior Commission entertained ideas from post-55-year-olds on May 30 about what is needed in this community for them.
Pioneer Park Forest Restoration: 10 a.m.-12 p.m., June 7. Join EarthCorps, MI Parks and Rec. Tools, gloves, training provided. Sign up: www.earthcorps.org.
On April 23, three young women from Mercer Island High School — Michele Zemplenyi, Ladan Mozaffarian and Tamara Babenko — were honored by the American Association of University Women for their academic success in math, science or technology. The students were distinguished before the organization, a national group that promotes education and equity for all women and girls.
The Mercer Island Republican Women are proud to honor Sean Perryman with the 11th annual Lincoln Award. Perryman will receive a $1,000 college scholarship and “Words Lincoln Lived By,” a book about Lincoln. His name will be posted on the Lincoln Award Plaque at Mercer Island High School, and he will be recognized at the high school’s Awards Breakfast on June 6. Perryman’s winning essay, titled “The Separation of Church and State,” addresses religious liberty as intended by the founders as opposed to the more recent reinterpretation of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Church.
Mercer Island Women’s Club is pleased to announce that the club raised over $13,000 this year for local charities. While the Mercer Island Women’s Club is primarily a social club, it also raises money to be donated to local charities voted upon by its 350 members. During the course of the year, the club holds several fundraisers including a Holiday Bazaar and auction, raffles, luncheons and wreath sales. After tallying this year’s votes, Civic Projects chairs Carolyn Holm and Helen Hitchcock announced the following grants:
A former employee of a Town Center business is suspected of opening several credit accounts under the company’s name, getting cash advances with the credit cards and using company funds to make the payments on the cards between Feb. 1 and May 1. The suspect, an Islander, has fled to Thailand.
Road closures near the high school began last week as Puget Sound Energy is relocating power poles in preparation for the city’s S.E. 40th Street Corridor Improvements Project starting in summer 2008.
A man suspected of robbing a bank in Seattle was shot by Seattle police detectives on Mercer Island Monday, according to Commander Leslie Burns of the Mercer Island Police Department.
