🌱 Patch AM: How Mercer Island teens turned art into $2,000 in wildfire relief

Good day Mercer Island! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How Mercer Island teens turned art into $2,000 in wildfire relief
• Mercer Island's legendary teen bike trek riders reunite after 55 years

Today's riddle: What did the bartender say to the jumper cables when they walked in? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Afternoon rain, with a high of 69 and low of 53 degrees.
• Thursday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 69, low: 52.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy, showers around, with a high of 71 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Creative Art Student Society helps people in need (mi-reporter.com) — Mercer Island teens in the Creative Art Student Society just raised $2,000 through an Arts at the Market booth to help families affected by the Spokane wildfires. Led by Mercer Island High School students, the group also supports local seniors with arts activities and even funds projects aiding elderly residents in Korea, showing how Island youth are turning creativity into real-world help.
   

• MI's Cyclemates II group holds 55-year reunion (mi-reporter.com) — Former Mercer Island students who biked cross-country to Washington, DC in 1971 recently reunited to reminisce about their 3,600-mile Cyclemates II journey and White House visit with President Richard Nixon. The gathering in Snohomish brought back vivid memories of mountain passes, long days on the road, and the thrill of rolling up to the Washington Monument together.
   

📸 Around Mercer Island

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mercer Island

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Thursday September 3
• 中文家庭故事会 / Mandarin Story Time
  Mercer Island Library 4400 88th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
  10:30 am
• LR PTA Back to School Picnic
  Mercer Island School District LR Field
  5:00 pm
Tuesday September 8
• Building Club
  Mercer Island Library 4400 88th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
  4:00 pm
• NW Curriculum Night
  Mercer Island School District NW Lunch Commons
  5:00 pm
Wednesday September 9
• New Staff Breakfast with MISD Superintendent
  Mercer Island School District Northwood
  7:30 am
• Let's Dance!
  Mercer Island Library 4400 88th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
  3:30 pm
• WM Curriculum & Community Night
  Mercer Island School District WM MPR
  5:00 pm
Thursday September 10
• 中文家庭故事会 / Mandarin Story Time
  Mercer Island Library 4400 88th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
  10:30 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday September 2
• Confidence in Conversation: Beginner and Intermediate English Learn
  Lake Hills Library 15590 Lake Hills Boulevard, Bellevue, WA 98007
  4:00 pm
Thursday September 3
• Bilingual Kaleidoscope Play & Learn / 仁⼈双语幼⼉乐园
  Newport Way Library 14250 SE Newport Way, Bellevue, WA 98006
  10:30 am
Friday September 4
• Story Time at the Garden for Preschoolers
  Bellevue Botanical Garden Sharp Cabin, 12001 Main St., Bellevue, WA, 98005, United States
  10:00 am
Saturday September 5
• Journaling the Garden
  Bellevue Botanical Garden Sharp Cabin, 12001 Main St., Bellevue, WA, 98005, United States
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Does this dog belong to anyone?
  He has been coming to our house around 5 a.m in past few nights. Sleeping on the couch by front door and scampering off and disappearing when we open… (Nextdoor Mid Mercer Island)

• Kimco Facility Services, LLC posted a job opening for Warehouse Janitorial Associate in Bellevue. Apply here.
• Protingent, Inc. posted a job opening for Facility Access & Day Porter Assistant in Bellevue. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Mercer Island here.

🗞 Nearby News

Bellevue

• Bellevue celebrates Welcoming Week (bellevuewa.gov)
• Luella F. Holwerda - Hot Springs Village Voice (hsvvoice.com)
• Aven Foundation (insidephilanthropy.com)

Seattle

• What to know about childcare options, school meals if Seattle teachers strike (bellinghamherald.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Don't you 2 start anything (Thank you Mary L. for sending it in!)
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