As the Bainbridge Island Review celebrates 100 years, some folks at the Senior Center recalled their favorite memories of the newspaper.

“I remember when it came out every Wednesday, and it was good to get it because of how the Woodwards (Milly and Walt) reported and what they stood for back then,” Clay Eaton said of the couple who owned the paper during World War II and supported Japanese Americans like no other in the nation.

Eaton said that was a time when everyone loved the paper. “Everybody looked forward to it because the Woodwards did a tremendous job reporting on everything from car accidents, childbirths and high school sports,” Eaton said. “It was the Facebook of those times.”

Eaton, who grew up on BI from 1948 until 1972 and returned in 2000, said he was mentioned in the newspaper when he was a teenager, but not for something good.

“I was in one of the Review papers when I got in a car wreck,” Eaton said. “There was seven of us in the car. I was driving and ended up in the hospital for three months. The Review reported on that, and we only had a couple thousand people on the island at that time. A couple of close friends did car washes and bottle drives to help pay for hospitalization.”

Even though he was in the Review for an unfortunate reason, he said still loves the paper. “It’s great having a paper here that does that,” he said.

Meanwhile, Joyce Rubio also shared thoughts about the Review.

Rubio, a local for 20 years, said she reads nearly every edition of the paper, adding it stands out compared to its competitors with detailed information about news on BI. “I love the Bainbridge Review when I get it because the other papers don’t give you much information or more advertising than anything else,” she said.

Rubio also prefers the Review because, “It tells you more about what the kids are doing. I had two granddaughters who graduated from high school. Bainbridge Review gave you information on some of the students even when they are off at the university.”

But she does see room for improvement.

”If you put more stuff in the paper about the young people and their achievements because there is a lot of kids that are working really hard. These kids need to be built up, and if we have more in the newspaper about the kids, it would be great.

“I would like to have it come every day and lower the price a little bit,” she said. “It would be more interesting than the Seattle papers but there is a lot of seniors on fixed incomes. But it is the best paper on the island.”