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Trick or treat in Town Center Kids can have a chance to show off their Halloween costumes and trick or treat in the daylight, from 3:30-5 p.m. on Oct. 31, at businesses in the Mercer Island Town Center displaying a bright orange poster in their window. Bring a donation for the Mercer Island Food Bank; items can be left at designated businesses. For more information, contact the Chamber of Commerce at 232-3404.
Cyclists also encounter tacks, broken glass in Portland, Vancouver, Colorado, Ohio, Virginia By Linda Ball lball@mi-reporter.com
A haunted club house awaits Did you know that the East Seattle School (the old Boys and Girls Club at 2825 West Mercer Way) is haunted? Better check it out between 7 and 10 p.m. on Oct. 29 and 30. For brave souls sixthgrade and older. Pay $10 at the door to be scared. Younger children can enjoy a ghoul-free carnival between 5 and 8 p.m. for free.
Midnight Madness at North end QFC Come welcome autumn on Saturday, Oct. 29, at the North Mercer QFC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be games for the kids, drawings for adults for gift baskets, free hot dogs, a pumpkin-pie eating contest and more. Kids can guess the number of candy corn in the jar. There will be facepainting, a cakewalk, the Molly Moon ice cream truck and sampling and demos throughout the store. Bring a donation for the Island food bank.
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Students on the freshman float toss candy to admirers during Mercer Island High School’s ‘Romecoming’ parade Oct. 21 in the Town Center. See more pictures on pages 3 and 12, as well as online at www.mi-reporter.com.
Tully’s first ever drive-thru kiosk coming to Town Center By Reporter Staff
Tully’s Coffee is planning to open a drive-thru store at the former R&R Espresso stand in the Rite Aid parking lot across the street from Mercerdale Park at the corner of S.E. 32nd Street and
78th Avenue S.E. It will be the first drivethru-only store for the coffee company. According to Island resident Scott M. Pearson, the president and CEO of Tully’s, the kiosk will be
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open for business by midNovember. “We jumped on it two days after it closed,” he said. “I drove by it and I thought, ‘let’s do this.’” “Tully’s has not done
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Bicyclists beware, or be aware there might be tacks on the I-90 bike trail, big enough to cause flat tires or worse. Commander Dave Jokinen with the Mercer Island Police Department said the department was informed of the situation around Oct. 17. Jokinen said the parks department has cleaned up the trail, and patrol units are on alert to report any suspicious activity. According to the Tom Fulcoloro of the Seattle Bike Blog, the tacks were found on the eastern high-rise of the I-90 bridge where it enters Mercer Island. “People suspect it has happened before,” said. Fulcoloro. “When multiple people are having flats, six or seven, clearly something is going on.” Another blogger, Gary Powell, whose blog is “Bike to Work,” said he bought a magnet stick Oct. 15 to clean up some of the tacks. He picked up a lot of “junk,” but it wasn’t until he reached the east side of the bridge that he ran into some people who had found about 20 tacks, which he then added to his magnet stick. Powell said he did not get a flat, but his friend Tim has hit tacks for the last month. Then, on Oct. 14, about a dozen people ended up with flat tires. “There were people all over with flats,” Powell said. He said the next day he
walked the entire trail across I-90 doing a slow sweep with the magnet. Powell said he lives in Bellevue and commutes to South Lake Union each day by bike. Jason Kintner, parks superintendent for the city, said he has had between six and a dozen emails about the tacks. He notified both the police and the Washington State Department of Transportation. “The Seattle Bike Blog really helped us in this incident,” he said. “The Cascade Bicycle Club has also put out the word to its members.” Fulcoloro notes that simply having a flat tire on a bike is not always a minor event.
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The MIHS boys tennis team won KingCo, as did the girls cross country team. See Sports on page 16 for details.
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