Yama tops parks agenda next week

Published 11:33 am Saturday, September 13, 2014

Bainbridge Island parks commissioners will meet next week to talk about giving their endorsement to the proposal to put the site of Yama, the village where Japanese immigrants who worked at the Port Blakely Mill lived from the 1880s to the 1920s, on the National Park Service Historic Register.

Parks officials will also have a preliminary discussion on the 2015 budget.

The board of the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 at Strawberry Hill Center, 7666 NE High School Road.