Police-court name
Almost 60 names have been submitted for the new Bainbridge Island police-court facility, and five are considered to be the top choices.
They include: BI Municipal Building or Police and Court Building; Community Justice Center; Madison Avenue Justice Center; Safety and Justice Center; or the Ted Spearman Justice Center or Police and Court Center. Spearman was a longtime BI lawyer, civil rights activist and first African American on the Kitsap County Superior Court.
The City Council will make a decision June 13. It appointed an ad hoc committee to narrow the list.
SPED council
The Bainbridge Island School District is looking for people to serve on its Special Education Program Council.
The council seeks to identify strengths and areas for growth in SPED programming.
The council will meet monthly for a year. The first meeting is June 1 at 6 p.m. Apply by May 19 at www.bisd303.org/Page/9036.
Footloose musical
Bainbridge High School students will be performing the classic musical “Footloose” May 12 at 7 p.m. and May 13 at 3 and 7 p.m.
Performances will be at the BHS theater, 9330 NE High School Board.
Watch the performers cut loose and kick off their Sunday shoes in song and dance to the stage adaptation of the 1980s movie starring Kevin Bacon.
It’s the first musical put on by the school since 2019. Tickets are $10 at bisd303.hometownticketing.com/embed/all.
Lynwood concert
Texas singer-songwriter Samantha Moore will perform her Northwest Black Truck Tour at The Marketplace at Lynwood Center June 2 at 7 p.m.
The Americana artist’s premier single was “Dirty Little Secret” followed by “People Today.”
Vents Magazine calls it “a track that will get you hooked up through its vocals and melodic guitar riffs, a few instrumentary that calls back to the music of Jewel and Sheryl Crow where there’s almost something country about it.”
The singles are available on Spotify, iTunes and more. She performs throughout Texas and will release an entire album this spring.
Her band members have played with artists such as Kathy Perry, Joss Stone, Kesha, Macklemore and Melissa Etheridge.
Meet school board
Bainbridge Island school board members are meeting with the public in person and online.
The virtual meeting will be May 19 from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom.
The in-person meeting will be May 20 at the same time on the Winslow waterfront at the BI Senior/Community Center, 370 Brien Drive SE.
Orca event
Nora Nickum of Bainbridge Island, who leads Ocean Conservation policy work for the Seattle Aquarium, has written a book about the local resident orca pod called “Superpod, Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest.”
She will be given a presentation about orcas May 12 at the Sons of Norway on the Poulsbo waterfront at 6 p.m.
Nickum will be joined by Rosanne Parry, who wrote, “A Whale in the Wild.”
Business awards
The Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce 2023 Business Awards were handed out April 29.
Awards are given for this year to chamber members. There were 35 nominees and seven categories.
Steve Snyder of Town & Country Markets was the big winner. He won the community-spirited Business/Citizen of the Year and will be grand marshal at the Grand Old 4th Hometown Parade.
Lifetime achievement: Christine Mueller, retired executive director of Visit BI.
Business leader: Erika Thayer of The Ravine.
Businesses (large to small): Pleasant Beach Village, Bay Hay & Feed, Coquette Bake Shop.
New business: Sisters’ Cider House.
Nonprofit: Rotary Club of BI.
Historic cruise
A Cruise Around Bainbridge Island on the historic Virginia V will take place from 1-5 p.m. July 16 at the BI city dock.
Watch the 1898 steam engine operate and pull the steam whistle in the pilot house from the last of the Mosquito Fleet ships. The BI Historical Museum annual event features a program and narration, pointing out numerous docks and communities that grew along BI’s shore.
For more, go to www.bainbridgehistory.org.
