Past newsletters

January 2010:

  • Community service projects begin with wheelchair ramp.
  • 18 windows made for Yeomalt Cabin from local wood.
  • Education Committee plans classes.
  • Update on finding a site for a community woodshop.

May 2010:

  • Our website goes live.
  • Brainstorming session planned about fundraising ideas.
  • Members asked to fill out survey about classes they’d like to take.
  • ‘Craft in America’ program planned.

October 2010

  • Progress on our building plans.
  • Formal memberships established, with list of benefits.
  • Our Land Slide is a big hit at the Harvest Fair.
  • Not your typical bus shelter

    Bus shelter framing The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timberframed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled and finished the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development. Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood, and timberframers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery. See how the structure took shape.