Local artist gravely injured in bike crash

  • [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to donate to Kate’s medical expenses, click here to reach her GoFundMe.com page

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Mary Kate Donahue, known fondly as “Kate” in the Frazier Mountain Communities, is still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with multiple fractures and a head injury as we go to press this week. She is a well-known potter and art teacher at…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: Kate Donahue with her granddaughter Angelie at a 2014 crafts fair, showing the local artist’s pottery.

Left: On Friday, July 12, at 5:10 p.m., first responders prepared Donahue for transport t­o Kern Medical after she sustained serious injuries in a bike accident on Frazier Mountain Park Road.

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