Free Hazardous Waste Disposal on Jan. 9
Paramount residents can dispose of household hazardous waste at the next free Countywide Household Hazardous Waste Roundup to be held at the Paramount Swap Meet, 7900 All America City Way, on Saturday, January 9, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Items you can drop off at the event include:
• unused pharmaceuticals, antifreeze, car batteries, used motor oil, paint, pesticides;
• universal waste such as household batteries and fluorescent light bulbs;
• and electronic waste (e-waste) such as TVs and monitors, computers, VCRs, stereos, and cell phones.
Residents can bring up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds of household hazardous waste per vehicle to the Roundup.
The Roundups offer a convenient way to discard common household products that are hazardous to people and the
Census to Arrive in Mailboxes in March
Better healthcare. Better schools. Better roads. All that is within your reach when you fill out the U.S. Census form and mail it back when it comes in March. Ten simple questions. Ten minutes that will help decide how more than $400 billion in Federal funds gets dispersed to your community every year. All census information collected is confidential, protected by law and used for statistical purposes only.
The U.S. Census Bureau does not ask about the legal status of respondents in any of its surveys and census programs. By law, the Census Bureau cannot share respondents’ answers with the FBI, the CIA, Welfare, Immigration, or any other government agency. No court of law, not even the President of the United States, can find out respondents’ answers.
Census workers can be identified by the official Census Bureau badge they carry. They will never ask for bank or Social Security information.
For more information, visit the 2010 Census Web site at www.census.gov/2010.
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environment if not properly disposed of.
Improperly throwing away household hazardous waste is a serious threat to public health. By taking part in these free and convenient Roundups, we can all do our part to avoid the serious pollution problems that result when these items end up in landfills or storm drains.
More than 80 percent of the household hazardous waste and 100 percent of the electronic waste collected by the program is recycled.
For more information on this location, other upcoming Roundups, and used oil drop-off locations, contact the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works at 1 (888) CLEAN LA or www.888CleanLA.com or the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County at 1 (800) 238-0172 or www.lacsd.org.
El Censo Llegará Con Su
Correo En Marzo
Mejores servicios de salud. Mejores escuelas. Mejores calles y carreteras. Todo lo que está a su alcance cuando completa las formas del Censo de los Estados Unidos y las regresa por correo cuando le lleguen en marzo. Diez preguntas sencillas. Diez minutos que ayudarán a decidir cómo se distribuirán más de $400 billones de fondos federales a su comunidad cada año.
Toda la información del censo - incluyendo las direccioneses confidencial, protegida por la ley y utilizada solamente con fines estadísticos.
La Oficina de Censos de los E.U. no pide información sobre el estado legal de las personas en ninguno de los cuestionarios ni programas del censo.
Por ley, la Oficina de Censos no puede compartir información de los cuestionarios con las oficinas de FBI, CIA, Welfare, Inmigración, ni con ninguna otra agencia de gobierno. Ningún tribunal de justicia, ni siquiera el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, puede ver las respuestas proveídas en los cuestionarios del censo.
Los trabajadores del censo pueden ser identificados por su credencial oficial de la Oficina de Censos. Ellos nunca pedirán información bancaria ó del Seguro Social.
Para más información, visite la página de internet del Censo 2010 en www.census.gov/2010.