Historical March 1996 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Three items concern me today.
The first has to do with this newspaper.
We often mention the need for additional hands to put out our paper and help distribute it.
We can always use writers, layout people, event planners, and most Important, people who will help to get our newspaper to businesses and residents.
If you can help—even for just a few hours a month—please let one of us on the Board know. We’re a great group to work with and we would be ever so grateful. Second, if I had to pick an outstanding need in the neighborhood it would be recreation, particularly for those aged 8-16.
I hope this will become a priority of the Hamilton Elementary Education Center.
To be a true center, youngsters in the neighborhood should be able to drop in any evening to work on homework and get some assistance, if needed, and to play basketball, soccer, softball, or other sports. Outside hoops at Hamilton would attract a large number of kids; so would available time in the gym at no cost.
I am sure there are some Ifs and buts along the way to achieving greater levels of activity but it could be the most important thing we do.
Finally, I’ve been thinking about recycling.
I first started recycling in 1983 in Michigan.
Then it was newspapers, bottles, and aluminum cans. Now, I am able to recyle more each week than I take down to the dumpster including all of the above plus magazines, catalogs, tin cans, plastic everything just about, and junk mail and old lecture notes. EarthCircle Recycling picks it all up once a week for $6/month.
The city will soon begin its own recycling effort in that part of our neighborhood east of the metrolink tracks East or west, I urge you to participate in the process.
It saves trees and energy and it takes so little effort.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1996.
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