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Back to earth: Scouts recycle hundreds of trees in annual fundraiser. A4
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013 | Vol. 113, No. 2 | WWW.BAINBRIDGEREVIEW.COM | 75¢
City OKs $20 car fee
In for a pound Community comes together for Mochi Tsuki Every year, on the Sunday closest to the New Year, Bainbridge sees what is now the largest Mochi Tsuki celebration in the United States. Roughly 1,100 people showed up at IslandWood for the 24th anniversary Mochi Tsuki on Jan. 6, hosted by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community to herald in the New Year by making the traditional Japanese treat. Islanders could take turns pounding the mass of steamed rice in a mortar called an “usu.” After undergoing stages of separation, the mochi then can be filled with a sweet bean paste called “ahn” and is hand rolled into small cakes, ready to be enjoyed.
New car tab taxes will likely start in six months BY RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review
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Shoichi Sugiyama eggs on islanders as they take a swing at pounding the hot, sweet rice, which will soon become mochi.
Driving on Bainbridge Island will get a little more expensive for residents. The Bainbridge Island Transportation Benefit District passed a $20 car tab fee on island cars Wednesday in an effort to inject more money into the island’s ailing and underfunded roads. The fee will be collected at the Department of Licensing when locallyowned vehicles are registered. It will take six months to implement the new fee making June the soonest anyone will have to start paying it. The fee proposal has been limping along the past four months ever since the city SEE FEE, A13
Battered big bird will soon fly free BY HENRI GENDREAU Bainbridge Island Review
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After being steamed, the rice is then pounded in a stone mortar called an “usu” before it is hand rolled into cakes.
Soaring above the Sound on a crisp autumn day last October, a bald eagle – one of nature’s most majestic creatures – had little inkling that he would soon be deprived of his freedom of flight, and that, for him, the months ahead would see a prolonged and painful rehabilitation, recovery SEE FLY, A13
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