This Saturday, October 25, will be an opportunity for area residents to not only volunteer to help with a general cleanup of city streets and enhancement of Sunset Acres Park, but to learn more about how they can be part of the growing recycling effort in town.
According to the event’s overall organizer, Ruth Ann Wedel, Roger Masenthein of Sunflower RC&D, will be on hand with sets of recycling bins for sale for $45 each. Each set has three bins—one each for plastics, paper and glass—that stack on top of one another, and can be kept in a garage or outdoors location.
“We’re working toward a goal of getting regular curbside pickup of recyclables by the City,” Wedel said. “Steve (Hewitt, City Administrator) has said we could work toward that and people getting their own bins is a way of showing there’s enough interest in this for the City to move in that direction.”
Masenthein will be available to answer questions and give information in regard to recycling during lunch for MADD volunteers, which is set for noon at the USD 422 cafeteria. Volunteers will also be able to watch a skit on recycling during lunch presented by the Upward Strivers 4-H Club.
Erica Goodman, a co-convener of the Can Do Action Team and fellow organizer of MADD, said volunteers interested in helping with the effort Saturday should meet at Sunset Acres Park by 9 a.m. and be sure to bring their own work gloves, and possibly a rake and shovel.
Goodman said that around 400 volunteers showed up at last year’s event when it was held over the Friday through Sunday, three-day period in late October, equaling around 7,000 man-hours being given to the effort. As for this Saturday, Goodman said she’d “like to see a couple hundred volunteers turn out.”
Both the City and County are donating trucks to help haul off debris, while Heft and Sons has agreed to take in the clean concrete slabs available for recycling.
“We won’t be hauling as much to the landfill this year,” Wedel said. “Some of the dirt piles we’ll be using to fill in vacated basements, and Heft’s will be recycling the concrete that a year ago we had to put in the landfill.”
Goodman said that while longer term goals such as reestablishing the basketball court at Sunset Park will have to wait for a later time, she’s hopeful new edging can be put around the playground equipment there. In addition, mulching and weeding is scheduled for the park.
“We won’t need as many people to work in the park as on the streets, so if someone wants to specifically help with the park work they should come early,” Goodman said.
While Jim and Joyce Keith have worked with both City and County officials to determine areas of town to be addressed in terms of debris cleanup, Wedel said anyone wanting help cleaning a lot should call her right away at 620 408 8565.
“We’ll do our best to get them on the list,” she said, “but they need to call as soon as possible.”
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This Saturday, October 25, will be an opportunity for area residents to not only volunteer to help with a general cleanup of city streets and enhancement of Sunset Acres Park, but to learn more about how they can be part of the growing recycling effort in town.
According to the event’s overall organizer, Ruth Ann Wedel, Roger Masenthein of Sunflower RC&D, will be on hand with sets of recycling bins for sale for $45 each. Each set has three bins—one each for plastics, paper and glass—that stack on top of one another, and can be kept in a garage or outdoors location.
“We’re working toward a goal of getting regular curbside pickup of recyclables by the City,” Wedel said. “Steve (Hewitt, City Administrator) has said we could work toward that and people getting their own bins is a way of showing there’s enough interest in this for the City to move in that direction.”
Masenthein will be available to answer questions and give information in regard to recycling during lunch for MADD volunteers, which is set for noon at the USD 422 cafeteria. Volunteers will also be able to watch a skit on recycling during lunch presented by the Upward Strivers 4-H Club.
Erica Goodman, a co-convener of the Can Do Action Team and fellow organizer of MADD, said volunteers interested in helping with the effort Saturday should meet at Sunset Acres Park by 9 a.m. and be sure to bring their own work gloves, and possibly a rake and shovel.
Goodman said that around 400 volunteers showed up at last year’s event when it was held over the Friday through Sunday, three-day period in late October, equaling around 7,000 man-hours being given to the effort. As for this Saturday, Goodman said she’d “like to see a couple hundred volunteers turn out.”
Both the City and County are donating trucks to help haul off debris, while Heft and Sons has agreed to take in the clean concrete slabs available for recycling.
“We won’t be hauling as much to the landfill this year,” Wedel said. “Some of the dirt piles we’ll be using to fill in vacated basements, and Heft’s will be recycling the concrete that a year ago we had to put in the landfill.”
Goodman said that while longer term goals such as reestablishing the basketball court at Sunset Park will have to wait for a later time, she’s hopeful new edging can be put around the playground equipment there. In addition, mulching and weeding is scheduled for the park.
“We won’t need as many people to work in the park as on the streets, so if someone wants to specifically help with the park work they should come early,” Goodman said.
While Jim and Joyce Keith have worked with both City and County officials to determine areas of town to be addressed in terms of debris cleanup, Wedel said anyone wanting help cleaning a lot should call her right away at 620 408 8565.
“We’ll do our best to get them on the list,” she said, “but they need to call as soon as possible.”
