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Rain can’t stop rowers in Waterfront Park stewardship
Rain means nothing to rowers. They are, they’re glad to remind you, out on the water five days a week, come what may from the skies above.
“The only time practice would be canceled is if there’s whitecaps or really extreme weather,” says Hayley Ransom, a junior in her third year with Bainbridge […]
Help expand Founders Courts pickleball center
Join the Bainbridge Island pickleball community in supporting Founders Courts phase 2, bringing more courts and amenities to the Battle Point Park center.
The project will renovate and upgrade Battle Point’s existing tennis courts to create six new pickleball courts, with enhancements to the surrounding area that will unify the Founders Courts pickleball facility.
The tennis courts […]
Give to Moritani Preserve, in the heart of our community
To say it’s been an exciting 12 months at Moritani would be an understatement. Thanks to your help, the Preserve In the Heart of Winslow has received so much extraordinary care and – it’s Valentine’s Day, so yes, we’ll say it – love!
Your support through the Parks & Trails Foundation funded intensive, weeklong work sessions […]
Forest thinning underway at Strawberry Hill
Even a skinny tree makes quite a WHUMP when it hits the ground.
As we are there to hear it, an age-old philosophical question remains unsettled. In any case there are the echoes, reverberating through the misty morning and across the island to herald that forest thinning at Strawberry Hill Park has, […]
Thanks for an inspiring MLK event Blakely Harbor
Tremendous thanks to all who made MLK Day of Service at Blakely Harbor Park a grand success!
Much mulch was spread, many nasty weeds tugged out of the frozen ground as together we made it a wholesome and spirited Day On, not a Day Off for volunteer service and park stewardship.
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Sign up for Winter Work Parties
There’s a full slate of winter work parties in Bainbridge Island parks and trails ahead. Sign up today!
Conservation Work Party
Where: Blakley Harbor Park, NE Country Club Road
When: Saturday, Feb. 10 and March 9 (2nd Saturdays), 10:00a-12:00p
What: Join the Park District, IslandWood, and the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation every second Saturday this winter in the […]
Hyla, Madrona students do great work for parks
Here’s a great note to close out the year: great kids doing great work in great parks.
Students from Hyla School turned out in numbers in November and December, for stewardship projects at Moritani Preserve and Halls Hill Lookout & Labyrinth.
At Moritani, kids from both Hyla School and Winslow’s Madrona School – together about 70 strong, […]
$15K in Community Grants, more than $1M given this year
The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation has awarded Community Grants totaling$15,000 to six park and recreation clubs and programs.
The Community Grants cap a big year for the Foundation, which has given $1.020 million in total support to the Bainbridge Island Metro Park District in 2023 for park and […]
Spinning toward fun at Fort Ward playground
It’s never too cold for a trip to the playground, especially when the playground comes with a spinner. You can see it in the rosy faces of Caitlin Lombardi’s children Maple, age 7, Alma (5) and Pearl (2), whirling like dervishes at the new Fort Ward playground.
“The spinner has been wildly […]