Kaafi Tuinukuafe grew up in Tonga, where he frequently spent hours with his mother in the kitchen while she prepared a variety of native delicacies and told him stories about their family history. Although he didn’t realize it at the …
Tag: Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN)
For glass artist Debra Arend, it’s all about balance—in life as well as art
Debra Arend made her way to Bainbridge Island in 2009 from St. Louis, Missouri where she ran (and still remotely runs) her business, Natural Results. She was only living on the island part-time, but when she met and fell in …
Community Grants Cycle Awards Record $561,492 in Local Grants
Bainbridge Community Foundation’s 2022 Community Grants Cycle (CGC) awarded a record-setting amount of $561,492 in grants to local nonprofits, which greatly exceeds the previous high mark of $507,313 awarded in 2020. Not only was BCF proud to award these grants, …
Reaching for the Stars: The Ritchie Observatory at Battle Point Park – Built for and by Bainbridge Islanders
In 1992, three not-so-amateurish astronomers, Edwin E. Ritchie, John H. Rudolph and Mac Gardiner founded the Battle Point Astronomical Association (BPAA), named for the location in which the group met at Battle Point Park. Although we definitely have our share …
The Bainbridge Island Native Food Forest – Open and Free to All – Join Friends of the Farms and their partners for the May Day 2022 work party!
The Bainbridge Island Native Food Forest is located on 13-acres of land at the end of Charles Place NE (off of NE Lovgreen Road). Once part of the Suyematsu family farmstead, where strawberries were grown, it was eventually sold and …
The Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce Renovation – A Community Project
If you’ve wandered past the Chamber of Commerce office on Winslow Way or popped in to do business at the Licensing Desk in the last several months, you’ve probably noticed a few changes. Furniture moving around, walls coming down, new …





