These past weeks we have been working hard to clear snow from the depot road and parking lot and I especially would like to thank Scott Hardy for going over and beyond of what is expected to make sure that our users have access to the recycling depot. I would like to thank Phil Bailey for shoveling snow and salting the pedestrian accesses areas continually throughout the past two weekends. Thank you as well to Shawn Jamieson who at a moment’s notice has continuously made himself available for work when staff had called in sick.
Last year we shipped 34 forty yards bins of household garbage, 32 forty yards bins of recycling, 20 forty yards bins of carboard from commercial users, 14 forty yards bins of construction and demolition waste, 12 forty yards bins of scrap metal, seven forty yards bins of wood waste, three forty yards bins of branches and two twenty yards bins of drywall off island.
To date our solar panel array has produced 22.1 Mega watts total of clean energy, and 8.8 Mega watts was produced since last February’s reading.
We have started 2019 with a renewed focus on safety. Last month five staff members completed an Occupational 1st Aid level 1 training course. This course was taught by John Heinnig at the fire hall. We would like to thank John for teaching us the course and also thank Doug Chinnery for letting us use the fire hall for the training. We have installed flags on our parking bollards to help drivers see the bollards as they are backing up towards them. We have installed an Eyewash Station that provides 15 minutes of clean tempered water and thus meets the new ANSI standards. Moving forward, our staff will be re-trained in WHMIS, WVH and other required training.
We would like everyone to know that there is a call out for more volunteer hands. More volunteers are needed in the Free Store. If you are interested in this fun volunteer opportunity, or know someone who might be interested, our volunteers are looking for up to ten more people per week for one to four-hour shifts. For more information you can contact the recycling depot or just show up at the Free Store during open hours and start sorting.
We also want to spread the word that pre-sorting your Free Store items helps the volunteers. It takes time sorting thought broken hardware and broken toys, ripped and soiled clothing, molding books and clothing to find things that can be put out into the free store. So if all these items are kept out of the free store the workload of the volunteers would be well reduced. And I think they deserve that respect. Don’t you?
Did you know that our most viewed Facebook post in 2018 was the little 40th celebration video we did with 3259 people being reached and was followed by a picture of the new art work Tessa Mythos painted on our firefighting tank with 2670 views.
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