Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell crumples up the city memo, places it on a tee and delivers it to Concord by cranking a massive home run. But during routine city manager drug testing, he tests positive for steroids and is suspended. Thankfully, we already have the city memo.
Spring cleaning
Make waste go away
The spring yard waste collection program will begin April 21 and run through May 31, Aspell writes. Concord residents who currently participate in the curbside trash collection program are eligible to participate in the program. Membership benefits include having less yard waste at the curb.
Materials to be collected must be placed curbside by 7 a.m. on the same day the regular trash is collected. Residents have two options for pick-up: Yard waste is placed curbside in paper yard waste bags, which are available at local stores (paper yard waste bags must be used if this option is chosen); or yard waste is placed curbside in a container weighing less than 50 pounds and clearly labeled “Yard Waste.” Barrels labeled “Hey Pick This Up” will not be accepted, and no plastic bags containing yard waste will be collected.
Acceptable materials include leaves, grass, weeds, hedge trimmings, mulch, fruit tree droppings (sounds gross) and garden plant waste.
Unacceptable materials include sand, dirt, rocks, dirty sand rocks, bricks, root balls, masonry items, anything plastic or metal (including wire), painted, stained or pressure-treated wood, plywood, driftwood, Steve Winwood, and kitty litter or animal waste. Brush, branches and limbs may be dropped off at the Gelinas Earth Materials Recycling Center located on Fort Eddy Road, for a nominal fee. Human limbs will not be accepted, though.
Littered with positivity
Kids lead clean-up
The General Services Department’s blue bag program is used to help organize litter cleanup throughout the city, Aspell writes. The program is working to devise a Dewey Decimal-type system for filing litter.
Last Friday, seven Bishop Brady High School students participated in the program to clean up litter downtown, along Storrs Street, Main Street, and State Street, for their Mission Day of community service. On April 26, the East Concord Garden Club is participating by sponsoring Lilac Earth Day Clean-up on Mountain Road from 8 a.m. to noon.
Anyone interested in organizing a group clean-up should contact the General Services Department at 228-2737, or visit the Insider office and get crackin.’ New Hampshire the Beautiful, Inc. provides the city with blue bags as part of its Litter-Free N.H. Program.
