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The Wilmington Sanitation Department will now be closed on the following national holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Please set your refuse out to the curb by midnight on each holiday to be collected the day after the holiday. For example, place your toters out by midnight on the 4th of July and we will collect it on the 5th. It may be later in the day before your refuse is collected because they will be collecting double routes. This information was mailed out previously with your utility bill as well. The city thanks you for your patience. Locals earn Wittenberg honors Wittenberg University congratulates the following local students who made the spring 2018 dean’s list: Allie Garnai of Wilmington, Sydney Landrum of New Vienna, and James McConnaughey of Lynchburg. .neFileBlock { margin-bottom: 20px; } .neFileBlock p { margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; } .neFileBlock .neFile { border-bottom: 1px dotted #aaa; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; } .neFileBlock .neCaption { font-size: 85%; } Load comments ... (lmington announces trash pickup info for all holidays)
OAKLAND — Hundreds of Oaklanders honored Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by cleaning up the shoreline dedicated to him.The 10th annual Day of Service event attracted well over 400 people, East Bay Regional Park District Recreation Supervisor Jeremy Saito said. The volunteers picked up trash, removed invasive plants and helped East Bay Regional Park District staff do restoration work at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Grove and Damon Marsh.Volunteers said they picked up countless bags of trash, much of which was cigar wrappers, cigarette butts and beverage bottles.“It’s a huge benefit to the park to get all this habitat restoration work done and shoreline cleared,” Saito said. “Our rangers don’t have the time or manpower to get out here and get this type of work done.”Stacy Baas, who attended the cleanup with her daughter and their friends in the PerSisters of Oakland, said the event was a learning experience for them.“It’s ready eye-opening to see the impacts of things we buy and the things we throw away,” Baas said. “When I tell m...
Circle – 533 E. Apache St., and 3519 N. Hartford Ave.The redevelopment plan covered the area roughly between I-244 and 36th Street North, from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Peoria Avenue, reaching slightly into Downtown to include Storey Wrecker. The City of Tulsa met with a neighborhood advisory committee and other community members, working together to identify vacant, underutilized sites with environmental barriers to redevelopment and converting these sites to economic engines.The City-of-Tulsa-owned Evans-Fintube site, located in the Historic Greenwood District, has been chosen as the preferred site for USA BMX’s national arena and headquarters. Tulsa taxpayers voted for a sales tax increase in 2016 that included $15 million for design and construction of the facility for the private entity.Environmental cleanup is in progress at the Evans-Fintube site, and is scheduled on a timetable that will allow USA BMX to open for business in 2019. Olympic trials are planned at the site in 2020.Cleanup of asbestos and lead-based paint at the Evans-Fintube site was completed early in 2017. After some additional testing of the soil and groundwater, a request for proposals will be issued early in 2018 for cleanup of contaminants found through the testing.Environmental cleanup is complete at the former Morton Hospital site, and the Tulsa Development Authority has approved plans for a $25 million mixed-use development. Michael E. Smith, a Tulsa native and current resident of Houston, plans to build Morton’s Reserve, preserving the former hospital building for commercial/office and museum use, and adding two new buildings – one for office and commercial use and one for a three-story apartment building.Tulsa County purchased the Storey Wrecker site and plan... (Tulsa Beacon)
Carquinez Strait and Martinez Shoreline in Martinez, Point Pinole and Point Isabel in Richmond, Crown Beach in Alameda, Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline in Oakland, Hayward Shoreline in Hayward and Lake Del Valle, south of Livermore.The Park District will provide snacks, water and trash bags. It’s a great family activity; volunteers ages 15 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required. For information and registration, call 510-544-2515.Martinez: Also at Carquinez Strait, naturalist Kevin Dixon will lead a “Family Night” stroll from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, starting at the Nejedly Staging Area, which is on Carquinez Scenic Drive just past Alhambra Pioneer Cemetery in Martinez.It’s a chance to meet your neighbors and enjoy an easy walk, suitable for strollers, wheelchairs and people of all ages, with beautiful views of the strait. For information, call 510-544-2750.Berkeley, Crockett: Along with turning leaves and cooler weather, another harbinger of fall in the natural world is spider activity. Naturalist Trent Pearce will explore the phenomenon with a series of spider safaris, all from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in various regional parks.The group will search for orb weavers, wolf spiders, mygalomorphs (another kind of spider) and the ever-popular tarantulas. There’s a safari Sept. 16 at Tilden Nature Area near Berkeley, starting at the Environm... (East Bay Times)
Benz Stadium is being built to help reduce that flooding with a giant underground vault that will collect stormwater, and cistern under Martin Luther King Drive that will allow the stadium to reuse the water.“It’s like a giant swimming pool,” Jenkins said. “It’s maybe 70 feet wide by a couple hundred feet wide by 20 feet tall. And that’s where the rain water’s going to get held.”Mercedes-Benz Stadium is being built with a giant underground vault that will collect stormwater. (Al Such/WABE)Some of the rain that falls around the stadium and on its roof will eventually end up here in this cistern, instead of flooding nearby neighborhoods.“We’re going to capture it, hold it and reuse it on site for the cooling towers and also for irrigating our landscaping,” Jenkins said.A Series Of ParksAnother way to handle stormwater is with parks. They’re not paved over, so water can soak into the ground. Plus, they can have things like ponds and special, water-absorbing “rain gardens.”Several years ago the local nonprofit Park Pride proposed a series of parks and greenspaces for the Westside, to address flooding. A couple of them have been built and more are on the way, with help from the nonprofit Conservation Fund.“You have the lawn here, rain gardens here,” said Tony Torrence, the founder of the Community Improvement Association and co-chair of the Proctor Creek Stewardship Council, explaining his vision for one of those parks, in the neighborhood of English Avenue.“The mission is to make sure that our community is whole,” he said. “Sustainable, healthy, affordable.”Torrence said he sees the future park not just as an opportunity to ease flooding, but also to teach people about the environment – by, perhaps, showing them how to build rain gardens at home – and to create jobs.“The environmental conscience is what we’re trying to tap into,” he said.Boone Park West, the park Torrence is involved with, will be connected to another future park, Cook Park, by Boone Boulevard, which is being rebuilt now to incorporate bike lanes and rain gardens.Mayor Kasim Reed and other city officials and notables attended the official groundbreaking for Cook Park in May.Cook Park is part of a series of parks the city of Atlanta has planned to help ease flooding along Proctor Creek. (CONCEPTUAL RENDERING BY HDR, INC. COURTESY OF THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND)“The Rodney Cook Sr. Park is destined to become a signature landmark in the life of our city,” Reed said.Cook Park is being built in the low-lying area in Vine City where a flood forced people out of their homes 15 years ago. The land has been sitting mostly idle since the houses were torn down. Now, it’s becoming a park that will collect stormwater from all over Vine City. It will have statues of Civil Rights leaders. And it’ll be a big beautiful new spot in an area that’s been short on greenspace. So it addresses flooding, but it brings a lot else to the neighborhood, as well.“Ultimately, I think it is going to be a centerpiece for the revitalization of this community,” said George Dusenbury, Georgia director for the Trust For Public Land, which designed Cook Park. “You’ll attract more residents, you’ll attract more businesses. You’ll see some investment and economic developmen...
