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EMC Events – Rev. Heather Kinkaid, above, lights the candles of Burn Your Bra organizing committee members, who then took the flame to each table to light candles. The candlelight ceremony pays tribute to Bev Griffiths and the event is held each year in her honour. Below, Mississippi Mills Fire Department members Adam Kane, left, and Will Burns made the rounds selling pink fire department caps. The event also featured a large silent auction and performance by Ambush.
EMC Events – The annual Burn Your Bra for Bev fundraiser took over the Pakenham Community Centre May 10. This year, proceeds raised will benefit Do It For Daron and the Alzheimer Society of Lanark County. It was a sea of purple as ladies were encouraged to dress in the colour to honour the Alzheimer Society. Above, left: back row, from left: Jennifer Rivington, Leah Dean, Jean Sullivan, Nancy Murphy and Linda Conley. Front row, from left: Liz Vernier, Joan Gillan, Gail Hill and Doris Rankin with the eye-catching table they decorated. Left, guests light candles during the candlelight ceremony in memory of Bev Griffiths.
Changes in waste and recycling to take effect June 1 in Carleton Place EMC News – On June 1, the Town of Carleton Place will no longer be providing residents and businesses with an annual allotment of garbage stickers but instead will allow one unstickered bag of garbage each week. Additional bags must have a sticker attached. Existing stickers will be honoured until 2020 and can still be purchased at the same locations as in the past. Large household items can still be placed at the curb but must have four stickers now instead of two. Appliances must also have four stickers for collection but will not be picked up unless they have been properly decommissioned and tagged by a certified technician indicating that the refrigerant gas has been properly removed. “The change to one un-stickered bag per week is more convenient to Carleton Place residents, many of
whom will never need to buy garbage stickers again,” says Wayne Fraser, public works development coordinator. “It also significantly reduces the municipal cost of administering the garbage sticker system. In addition to one un-stickered bag a week, an extra two un-stickered bags will be allowed during the week between Christmas and New Years.” Recycling collection is seeing some significant change as well. Recycling is now mandatory in Carleton Place in an effort to reduce municipal waste being sent to landfills thereby increasing the municipal waste diversion rate. This results in the town receiving more annual funding from Waste Diversion Ontario and its Continuous Improvement Fund. It also reduces the dependency on landfill sites which can impact the environment negatively and which are extremely difficult and expensive to establish. One way that this will now be easier is that residents and businesses
will be able to place plastics #1-7 in the blue bin for collection. “As mayor of the Town of Carleton Place, I am pleased and proud of our efforts to work towards making ours a greener community. Not only is the new recycling program a response to requests from our residents to include more items in the blue boxes, but it will also reduce the amount of municipal waste sent to landfill sites,” says mayor Wendy LeBlanc. “Working with four other Lanark County municipalities, Carleton Place took the lead in moving to the new program and in spearheading multi-municipality joint tendering for both recycling and garbage collection contracts. From an environmental point of view, this is a welcome change, and from an economic standpoint, the new joint contracts result in considerable savings to each of the municipalities. I urge all citizens to participate fully in making Carleton Place an environmentally-aware and environTHE EMC - A/CP16 - Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Pictured: Brian King, Wayne Fraser and Mayor Wendy LeBlanc. mentally-active community.” In addition to the changes to recycling and solid waste collection, the town will also be changing contractors for these services. As of June 1, Matrec
will be collecting both recycling and solid waste. Residents will notice two trucks collecting in tandem, one for recyclables, one for solid waste. Under the current contract recycling is being sorted at the curb. Under the new contract, materials will be sorted at Matrec’s recycling facility. Therefore, it is essential that waste be at the curb no later than 7 a.m on the day of collection. “Matrec as a Transforce Company is looking forward to be your collector and processor of recyclables materials,” says Brian King, president of Lafleche Environmental Inc. “We are excited and proud to be able to a team partner with the great Town of Carleton Place in their continuing support and commitment to waste diversion.” For more information on waste collection in Carleton Place see the town’s website at www.carletonplace. ca.