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2018 Recycling & Solid Waste Awards announced COUNTY RECYCLING HUB BRINGS HOME NEW MEXICO RECYCLING AWARD
By Sarah Pierpont New Mexico Recycling Coalition Executive Director
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he New Mex ico Recycling Coalition is pleased to announce the 2018 New Mexico Recycling Awards winners. Since 2002, NMRC has recognized individuals, businesses and communities that work to reduce waste and support recycling and composting in New Mexico. The recycling awards were presented on Sept. 25 at the New Mexico Recycling and Solid Waste Conference: Local Actions for Global Markets that took place at the Albuquerque Marriott Uptown. The conference brought together over 200 individuals working in recycling and solid waste and representing rural and urban municipalities,
counties, federal entities, universities, tribes, solid waste associations and businesses. Topics included best practices in both recycling and solid waste management, such as the reducing contamination at the curb and drop-off centers, development of domestic recycling markets, the evolving composition of recyclables and waste, safety, recycling as strategic planning, landfill gas management and more. Highlights of Recycling Facility of the Year Winner: Nor t h We st New Mex ico Regional Solid Waste Authority. T h i s recycl i ng hub i n McKinley County, New Mexico is an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded hub and spoke system that began in early 2012 and the program kicked off with record high recycling that year. The recycling center (hub) and landfill at Thoreau is
NWNMRSWA’s new recycling facility located at Red Rocks Landfill in Thoreau was funded through a 2017 New Mexico Environment Department Recycling and Illegal Dumping grant. Photo Credit: Courtesy operated by the Northwest New Mexico Regional Solid Waste Authority, which services Cibola and McKinley Counties and is fed by over 20 spoke locations, all of which are staffed to control contamination issues. N W N M R S WA c o l l e c t s source separated material, but has comingled plastic #1
and #2 plastics, for ease of operations. Recently, the Solid Waste Authority has added additional collection sites to its program, providing containers to local schools and received a 2016 RAID grant to purchase collection containers for the University of New Mexico’s Gallup campus.
NWNMRSWA is managed by Billy Moore and Gary Ford. Under their leadership, they have been able to expand their services, secured state funding to build a new building to house their baler, and partner with their neighboring
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The Community Pantry invites you to attend its 1st Annual Hope for the Holidays Winter Gala!
Billy Moore accepts the award on behalf of NWNMRSWA at the 2018 NM Recycling Awards in Albuquerque. Photo Credit: Courtesy
When: Nov. 17, 6:30 pm Where: Gallup Elks Lodge, 1112 Susan Ave., Gallup, NM Cost: 2 tickets for $50 or 1 ticket for $30 Join us for an evening filled with fun, food, silent auction, 50/50 raffle, dancing and more! We're a non-profit organization that feeds thousands of hungry people in our community and we need your support to continue our mission!
Table Sales Available! $500 = Table for 8, Table Tent, & program mention. $750 = Table for 8, Table Tent, program mention, 1 garden box, 1 bottle of wine, & meat box to donate to family of choice.
$1,000 = Table for 8, Table Tent, program mention, 1 garden box, 2 bottles of wine, table gift, & ....meat box to donate to family of choice.
Tickets can be purchased at The Community Pantry, or by any Board Member.
1130 E. Hasler Valley Road, Gallup, N.M. (505) 726-8068 • www.thecommunitypantry.org
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Weekly Police Activity Reports Staff Reports
BOY BEATEN 9/29, Gallup GPD Officer Joe Roanhorse investigated a reported assault on a 16-year-old Gallup boy on Sept. 29. The boy returned home about 5 pm and said he was walking home from a friend’s house in the Indian Hills section of town when three adults who appeared to be intoxicated attacked him
RECYCLING | FROM PAGE 10 McKinley Paper to develop new relationships/markets for not only their cardboard and mixed paper, but also their plastics. They have increased the amount of money received for their material over the past year by developing this relationship and continuing to produce high quality bales of recyclables. This is all despite the current market challenges brought on by China’s recent ban on imported scrap material earlier this year. The commitment from Billy Moore, Gary Ford and the solid waste authority to provide recycling services to their residents is a key component of their success.
and hit him several times near Olivia Park. The juvenile had dried blood on his face, his checks were swollen and there was a laceration on his left cheek. He told Roanhorse he had not been drinking. He was taken to the hospital and when Roanhorse later visited him there, he was reportedly told by doctors that the youth was found to have been drinking. His parents told Roanhorse they thought he had been beaten up by his friends. No arrests were made.
Billy was transported to the hospital after complaining of injuries to his wrist, but these were found to have occurred long before the fight. Billy was then reportedly transported to the county jail and charged with two counts of aggravated battery.
9/28, Gallup A Naschitti woman was given a criminal summons for abandonment of a child after she left
her 10-year-old daughter alone at a Wendy’s, 985 U.S. 491, in Gallup. Employees at the restaurant said they saw the girl sitting at a table with no adult and after half an hour, they called police. They told police the girl had been with an older woman who left her there. When they talked to the girl, police said she refused to give them any information because she was afraid of getting her mother in trouble. But one employee said he knew the woman’s first name as Sunni, but not
THE 2018 RECYCLING AWARD WINNERS:
Achievement Award – Miguel Silva from Las Cruces, NM (posthumously)
your community accepts. Plastic bags can be recycled at retail locations.
Diversion Project of the Year – Los Alamos County Environmental Services Recycling Facility Employee of the Year (NonManagement) – Keysha Burton, South Central SW Authority Collaborative Partnership Program of the Year – Chamisal ReUse Center R e c ycl i n g /Compo s t i n g Facility of the Year – North West NM Regional Solid Waste Authority Composting Facility Employee of the Year (NonManagement) – Martin Lachuga Recycler of the Year – Duane Kinsley and employees of Sport Systems of Albuquerque E. Gifford Stack Lifetime
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YOUR PART By recycling, you play a critical role in supporting jobs, assisting in economic growth, conserving energy and natural resources, as well as ensuring a higher quality of life for future generations. It’s your job to “recycle right” – that means only putting items into your curbside or drop off recycling carts that
NEW MEXICO RECYCLING COALITION New Mexico Recycling Coalition is a non-profit, member-supported organization with the mission of inspiring New Mexicans to reduce, reuse and recycle. The organization serves as a recycling advocate working with a diverse group
her last. At that point, the girl told police her mother’s name was Sunni Henry and she had gotten into a fight with her stepfather at the restaurant. The stepfather allegedly left in his vehicle, and her mother told her she was going to see where her stepfather was and would be right back. Police then tried without success to contact Henry, 42, and eventually took the girl to her grandparents’ home. Police later learned Henry was in a trailer at the Western Skies Trailer Park, and when they went to talk to her, she was found asleep. Henry was given a court summons at that time. of stakeholders, communities, businesses, schools and grassroots activists to help build sustainable and efficient recycling programs. To learn more, visit www.recyclenewmexico. com. Visit the NM Recycling Directory to find out what and where to recycle in your community: www.recyclenewmexico.com. Find out what and where to recycle in McKinley and Cibola Counties at www.nwnmrswa.com.
Man arrested for aggravated battery of elder Staff Reports
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Prew itt ma n wa s arrested for aggravated battery at the Gallup Flea Market after he reportedly began to act strangely and then, for no apparent reason, walked up to an elderly woman and shoved her to the ground. T he McK i n ley Cou nt y Sheriff’s Office said Milton Cornfield, 59, was detained by a security guard until police arrived. Witnesses told deputies they observed Cornfield sitting NEWS
at a table at the flea market at about noon. They said he was intoxicated, talking to himself and cussing, according to a police report. A f t er a few m i nut e s , Cornfield reportedly got up and walked to the serving line, where he shoved an elderly woman on the shoulder, which caused her to collide with the metal chairs and fall facedown onto the ground. The victim received cuts and lacerations to her face. Cornfield was transported to the county jail and gave no statements to deputies. Gallup Sun • Friday October 19, 2018
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