Who's On Bainbridge

Exercise, used clothes, card games, field trips,  play performances, chickens -- all part of what Citizen of the Year Reed Price deals with daily in his role as Director of the Senior Center. Listen here to learn more!

Join guest hosts Mimi Hicklin and Evan Price as they interview their father: Bainbridge Island City Council’s 2018 Citizen of the Year, Reed Price. You’ll hear them talk about what it means to be a citizen, the future of the Bainbridge Island Senior Center, and -- last but far from least -- what's happening with our local celebrity fowl.

For more information about the Senior Center visit biseniorcenter.org, or email [email protected]

Credits: BCB audio tech: Justin Lynn; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker.

In this interview Denise Dumouchel, Executive Director of BARN, shares her love of BARN, of volunteers, and of poetry with BCB host Bob Ross.

Reflecting on her first year in her new role, Denise discusses her passionate commitment to the concept of volunteerism and shares her observations about how important it is to BARN and to the broader Bainbridge Island Community.

Listen through to the end to hear a delightfully Seussian poem called Gratitude that she wrote and recently shared with BARN members and visitors at an event honoring volunteers.

Credits: BCB host: Bob Ross; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker.

This week islander Andrea Hunt joins us on Who’s on Bainbridge to discuss her lifelong connection to swimming and the important part it plays in her every day life.

In this podcast Andy tells BCB host Bob Ross about the very active Bainbridge Island Masters Swimming program (called BAM), about its award-winning coach, April Cheadle, and why swimming  is so important to many islanders.  

Listen here to learn how a master swimmer trains, both in and out of the water, and about the lifetime benefits of swimming -- whether or not you choose to compete.

For more about BAM, visit www.bainbridgeaquaticmasters.com

Credits: BCB host: Bob Ross; audio editor: Chris Walker;  publisher: Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Actor Molly Malcolm Hayner grew up on Bainbridge Island, majored in theater at U.W., and has been acting in Barcelona, Spain for twenty years.

Molly, who speaks English, Spanish and Catalan, has worked on a variety of international film and television projects. This year saw her playing Billy Connolly’s wife, Michelle, in the Hollywood production Wild Oats, starring Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange. She also took on a leading role in Jose Pozo’s feature, Nick. Additional credits include the Emmy-nominated British TV Series, Any Human Heart, and the Atresmedia/BBC Worldwide Series, The Refugees. 

TV Movies include Stevie and Hidden Camera and she has been seen in features such as The Machinist, The Kovak Box, Red Lights and Roger Gual’s Tasting Menu.

In this podcast Molly tells BCB host Betsy Lydle Smith how creating voices around the family dinner table as a child helped lead to a successful career doing voiceovers for cartoons and commercials in addition to her screen work. She lets us know some little-known facts about acting on screen, and offers some tips for aspiring actors as well.

In addition, Molly reflects on her life as a mother of two in Barcelona, and shares what she and her children love about both that city and Bainbridge Island, where she brings them every summer to visit her parents, Catherine and Jim Hayner.

Look for Molly in her upcoming movie, Primacy, and find out more by visiting http://www.mollymalcolm.com and theamericanvoiceoverwoman.com.

Credits: BCB host: Betsy Lydle Smith; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Bainbridge Islander Lynn Brunelle has authored 45 books, won 4 Emmys, and has a Muppet created in her likeness especially for her. Listen here to learn how her passions for art, for science, and for kids inspired her incredible career.

Born in Maine, Lynn spent time with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, edited children's books for Scientific American and Workman Press, worked with the Muppets and New York's Museum of Natural History, and then came to Seattle to write Emmy-award-winning scripts for Bill Nye the Science Guy.

In this podcast Lynn talks with fellow Island Treasure John Ellis about her childhood in Maine, her passion for finding fun and artistic ways to share information with children, and her love for Bainbridge Island and its people.

To learn more about Lynn and other Island Treasures, visit IslandTreasureAwards.org.

Credits: BCB guest host: John Ellis; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Bainbridge Islander Steve Stolee, founder and president of Island Theatre, has been named one of our newest Island Treasures.  As an actor, photographer, designer, director and videographer, Steve has been documenting Bainbridge Island, its stories, and its inhabitants for years. Listen here to find out what inspires him and how Island Theatre got its start.

Born in North Dakota, Steve spent his twenties in Alaska before coming to Bainbridge Island in 1979. Initially working in construction, his first appearance on the BPA stage was in 1981. Over time he was in a number of shows there, eventually serving on the board and getting involved with a number of intriguing projects before starting Island Theatre with Louise Mills.

In this podcast Steve talks with BCB host Diane Walker about his first camera, his first high school musical, how he got into video, and what it was like to find out, after years of filming interviews with Island Treasures, that he had finally been declared to be one.

Credits: BCB host, audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Bainbridge Islander Sheryl Gordon McCloud is a Washington State Supreme Court Justice, starting her second six-year term after winning re-election in November.

Having served as a criminal defense lawyer and an accomplished appellate lawyer, McCloud is the recipient of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' highest award, the William O. Douglas Award, in recognition of her "extraordinary courage" in being willing to take on some of the toughest cases. 

Besides making important decisions about cases, she also has opinions about our judicial system and they way people treat it. Listen as she expresses her thoughts regarding election of judges versus appointment, and the one thing she'd change about our legal system given the opportunity.

Credits: BCB host: Sandy Schubach; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Listen here as former island resident Lavina Johnson describes what it was like growing up in Winslow in the 1940s and 50's.

In this 19-minute podcast excerpted from a one-hour and 30 minute interview with BIHM volunteer Tom Arnold, Lavina shares her experiences growing up on Bainbridge, descriptions of some of the businesses along Winslow Way in that era, and the damage to the old Lincoln School caused by the 1949 earthquake.  She also describes the role of strawberry cultivation in island life at that time.

Credits: BIHM host and editor: Tom Arnold; audio tech: Chris Walker; publisher, Diane Walker; social media Jen St. Louis.

Listen here as island resident Dick Shryock describes life growing up on Wing Point in the 1940s, the impact World War II had on his family and the area, and two of his summer jobs, first as the Wing Point Golf Club greens keeper and later working on the construction of the Agate Passage Bridge.

Dick moved permanently to Bainbridge Island as a young boy in 1941. His family initially rented and later purchased a log home on Wing Point where Dick grew up. That house is now on the City of Bainbridge Island’s Register of Historic Properties as one of the best-preserved log homes on the island. Dick continues to live in the Port Madison area.

Credits: BIHM host: Tom Arnold; audio tech and editor: Chris Walker; publisher, Diane Walker.

Who remembers when the first television came to Bainbridge Island? Listen here as lifelong Island resident Karen McCormic Beierle shares her memories of growing up on Bainbridge, including the 1949 earthquake that destroyed the Pleasant Beach School.

Born in the late 1930s, Karen grew up in the Point White/Lynwood area. She left the island briefly to attend college and begin a teaching career, then returned to raise a family here in the home she and her husband still occupy in Fletcher Bay.

In this 19-minute podcast excerpted from a one hour and 47 minute interview with BIHM volunteer Tom Arnold, Karen describes the Point White ferry, Lynwood and Fort Ward in the 1940s, and the Navy’s presence in the area. After we hear of her experiences in the 1949 earthquake, the podcast concludes with Karen sharing some of her perspectives on the return of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese-American residents following their internment during World War II.

Credits: BIHM host: Tom Arnold; audio tech: Chris Walker; publisher, Diane Walker.