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TWO FOR THE ROAD
Art from the heart
Hytopoulos, Scales won’t seek re-election BY RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
Four hundred Ordway students teamed with professional glass artists to create a memorial at the school for Suzy Peters, a beloved teacher who passed away in late 2011.
Ordway students create lasting memorial for departed teacher BY BRIAN KELLY Bainbridge Island Review
Small hands with the help of huge hearts have created a touching memorial at Ordway Elementary. In the hallway outside the main office, a glass-tiled, mosaic mural created by 400 students pays a lasting tribute to a beloved thirdgrade teacher at the school who died in mid-September 2011. “Two falls ago, we lost our dear teacher Suzy Peters. As a staff, we wanted to do something special to remember her,” said Julia Graves, a second-grade teacher at Ordway. The staff decided to team up
with the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council for an Arts in Education Consortium project. The undertaking quickly grew, and in a little but big way. “We wanted to include all of the children in the school, from kindergarten through fourth grade,” Graves recalled. The school tapped the expertise of Mesolini Glass Studio. Diane Bonciolini and Gregg Mesmer from the studio met with Ordway staff to explore the possibilities of the memorial artwork. Teachers wanted to get everyone involved — and that meant 400 students.
rated their tiles “We came up Public dedication with little faces, with the idea that second-graders children would The memorial mosaic made birds, and work in pairs for Suzy Peters will be third- and fourthand do art tiles,” dedicated at Ordway Graves recalled. Elementary at 3:30 p.m. graders did sunflowers. “We wanted someTuesday, March 5. “Suzy loved thing that would sunflowers,” incorporate all the Graves said. “Her room, for kids. It ended up getting to be many, many years, was out in the kind of big.” Things near and dear to Peters portable and she would plant sunflowers all around.” were chosen as the icons to be Ordway students would come pictured. back for class in the fall and find “Kindergarteners did the sun; the sunflowers waiting for them. they did small glass pieces that Mesolini Glass, of course, is no made suns on the background of a cloudy white tile,” Graves recalled. First-graders deco-
Three Bainbridge Island city council members are looking ahead to the next election season. But not all will battle to keep their seats on the dais. The Bainbridge Island City Council has one year under its belt with four new members following a gamechanging 2011 election. Three K. Hytopoulos council seats — currently held by Kirsten Hytopoulos, Debbi Lester and Bob Scales — will be up for a vote in November. At least two seats will be uncontested by incumbents. “I never intended to run for a third term,” Scales said. “I accomplished all the things I wanted to do in the first two years.” Bob Scales Scales was on the city council from 2004 to 2007. He came back for another term in 2010. “After my first term I didn’t intend to run again,” Scales said. “And then I got upset with the government because of what they were doing with
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