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GOING BATTY
Odiferous garbage rate hikes coming Sel Richard Staff writer
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Savannah Hannaman stands near her bat boxes at Bass Lake Regional Park. She had help/guidance from the EDHCSD, the El Dorado Hills Promise Foundation, Spot-On-Signs, Mike Francis Construction, the Bass Lake Regional Park Working Group, NorCal Bats and retired wood working teacher Ed Perry.
Scout project helps flying friends Sel Richard Staff writer
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ot a squeamish young lady, Oak Ridge High School junior Savannah Hannaman is an unabashed bat lover. “I personally think they’re cute,” she said with a grin. “They’re little fluffy, fuzzy things. I love when you go outside in the summertime and they’re all swooping around you.” Hannaman’s interest in bats sparked during a bat box making class she attended at the American River Conservancy while in seventh grade. “I did it with my friend and my dad and I had a blast,” she recounted. “It was kind of cool, actually building boxes and learning about the bats.” Already in the process of completing her Girl Scout
Silver Award at that point, Hannaman was intrigued enough by the experience that she began to consider bat boxes as a possible Gold Award project. She has since built three bat boxes and designed an informative sign about bats, all of which were recently installed at Bass Lake Regional Park. Having started the project during her freshman year, Hannaman admitted that there were times she felt overwhelmed, especially with building and funding the sign. “Our original bid on it was $1,000 and then all the supply chain issues started happening and the bid would change every three days,” she said, revealing that the final cost topped out at more than $2,500. In addition, attaining multiple approvals from El Dorado Hills Community Services District and NorCal Bats ■
El Dorado Hills residents can look forward to some smellier trash in the coming summer heat as El Dorado Disposal Service ramps up its organic waste program. To comply with new SB 1383 regulations, the waste management company recently received approval from the EDH Community Services District for an extraordinary circumstance rate adjustment along with an annual inflationary adjustment. Effective Jan. 1, 2022, SB 1383 was passed to reduce organic waste disposal 75% by 2025. The state mandated regulation requires residents to move organic waste, such as food scraps and food soiled paper, from their normal garbage to the green waste bin. CalRecycle is slated to begin compliance fining in 2024. El Dorado Disposal Services requested the “Having a bag rate increase to counter financial impacts you can seal will from the implementago a long way in tion of SB 1383. To determine the proposed concealing the rate increase, EDDS smell.” conducted two separate pilot programs to gather — El Dorado Disposal Site customer feedback and ascertain additional costs. Manager Ross Reaksecker “The material has to be taken to a different facility that’s permitted and approved by the state to handle the food waste and food soiled papers,” said El Dorado Disposal Site Manager Ross Reaksecker, explaining that transportation costs will rise, as the new facility is housed in Yolo County rather than south Sacramento. “Per tonnage cost to process the material is also higher than just clean green waste,” he added. Two options were provided in subsequent surveys conducted by both the CSD and EDDS: weekly pick-ups at $13.92 per two-month billing cycle or continue bi-weekly pick-ups at $5.80 per twomonth billing cycle. Weekly service would reduce the burden of smell and attracting of animals. The district survey returned 700 responses with 65% requesting bi-weekly service and the EDDS survey returned 2,450 responses, 62% of which requested bi-weekly service. Though several board members were skeptical about the aromas that food waste will produce during climbing temperatures, they approved the
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EDH Rotary Club earns ShelterBox HERO honor Claire Purtich EDH Rotary
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he Rotary Club of El Dorado Hills was recently honored as a ShelterBox HERO for its ongoing commitment to provide shelter and other aid to people displaced by conflict and disaster at the annual conference of Rotary Clubs for the greater Sacramento region. The club has helped ShelterBox support displaced families in Ukraine,Yemen, Syria, Haiti and other disaster sites. The award is an especially meaningful achievement since less than 10% of the 7,500 Rotary Clubs in the United States achieve ShelterBox HERO status. Right now, more that 113 million people around the world have been made homeless by disaster and conflict. ShelterBox, a global disaster relief
charity, is working to change this by providing emergency shelter and tools for families robbed of their homes by conflict and disaster. For more information about the organization visit shelterboxusa.org. Throughout the year EDH Rotary members contribute funding and raise awareness for ShelterBox USA at events like the annual Bowling for Boxes fundraiser for ShelterBox. Each year a local bowling alley provides the venue and bowlers take their lanes to have fun and raise money for a great cause. EDH Rotary is proud to have been recognized as Best Charitable Organization by Village Life readers in the El Dorado Hills community for its achievements in 2020 and 2021. Interested in joining El Dorado Hills Rotary? Email edhrotary@gmail.com. For more information visit edhrotary. org or call (916) 298-7207.
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Among the many ways the Rotary Club of El Dorado Hills has supported ShelterBox was the Bowling for Boxes fundraiser during which Julie Vasquez, Sherie Tobin, Jeannie Benoist, Kevin Loewen, Ray Rael and Kevin Loewen, Jr., left to right, gave their all to knock down the pins.
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