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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 Island Rowing.

Adds junior Bennett Hay: “But then we’d just go inside (the boathouse) and work out. We’re out here no matter what.”

No surprise then that a contingent some 60 strong turned out for the club’s latest ParksCorps volunteer stewardship event at Waterfront Park – under soggy winter skies, and on Super Bowl Sunday at that. Not to row, but to steward the park.

Site of the new Stan Pocock Rowing Center, Waterfront Park is home ground for the rowers. The club has adopted the park environs in turn, and the […]

City staff, BI Rowing team up for Waterfront Park restoration

Thanks to staffers from Bainbridge Island City Hall for giving their time at a Waterfront Park environmental restoration event last week.

COBI staffers volunteered under their Wellness program alongside volunteers from Bainbridge Island Rowing. The group planted new Western red cedars, sword ferns and native strawberry along the sidewalk at the park’s east end.

It was the second in a series of Waterfront Park restoration events co-sponsored by the City and the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

The ongoing project targets an area of the park blighted by invasive ivy and holly. An April event saw City staffers and other volunteers clear trees of vines, uproot invasive groundcover, and grub out several truckloads of holly and blackberry.

The native replanting fulfills new requirements for restoration in shoreline zones. New plants were funded by the City.

The restoration area is bounded to the […]