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Community Free Recycling & Shredding Event May 19th   Hosted in our Parking Lot: 2737 77TH AVE SE MERCER ISLAND   Bring your recyclable items (working or not) to the event. All recycling services are free! We’re also sponsoring a Confidential Data Disposal truck for free, secure shredding of sensitive documents. Saturday, May 19th 9 am – 2 pm What we can recycle: […]
Community Islander Middle School Staff Appreciation Luncheons When my younger daughter, Julia, wrapped up 5th grade at Lakeridge Elementary last year to join her sister Grace at Islander Middle School, I thought that my time as a parent volunteer was drawing to a close. Over the summer I learned that my perceptions were incorrect. With children at two different schools, I had […]
Community Ready, Set, Recycle – For FREE! I’ve been going through a major overhaul of my office.  It’s been taking me a while, and it has resulted in quite a few items I need to find new homes for, or just plain recycle.  It can be a hassle to find a convenient place to take many of these things, but I have […]
Community Make “Spring Cleaning” A Holiday Tradition Spring cleaning – a centuries’ long tradition welcoming warmer weather and longer spans of daylight – has morphed into slang for a major cleaning or organizing project applicable at any time of year. So whether you are tackling a deep clean in the living room, or organizing the heck out of your child’s Lego collection, […]
Community Free Recycle Event Saturday June 6th, 2015 One of my favorite books of late is Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art Of Decluttering and Organizing. It's given me a whole new perspective on my home, what I choose to keep and why (does it "spark joy" – if not, it needs to go!). If you have read […]
Community Mercer Island Beach Club Swim Team – Time To Sign Up! One of the programs offered by Mercer Island Beach Club (MIBC), which is so special for my own family, is Swim Team.  It’s a long-standing tradition that spans over 6 decades and is still going strong.  Swim Team features program options for all swimming abilities, from 6 and 7 year olds joining Little Waves all […]
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