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Solving the mystery of bats

By Liz Needham Special to the Islands’ Weekly

Halloween is just around the corner, and images of pumpkins, witches, bats and

Thanksgiving Meal Baskets The Lopez Island Family Resource Center is pleased to assist the Lopez Community in making sure all have a bountiful Thanksgiving. Please call 468-4117 by November 18th if you and your family would like a meal basket provided.

If you would like to donate to help buy the “fixins,� please call the LIFRC or mail a check to Box 732, Lopez, WA 98261

spider webs are appearing.

On the islands we are fortunate that we don’t have to be content with cardboard and plastic bats – we have real live bats.

These winged creatures are some of the least studied animals, and much of their lives remain a mystery.

Very little is known about the abundance of bats in the San Juan Islands, and researchers don’t really know if bat populations are healthy. For this reason, KwiĂĄht, a nonprofit scientific organization run by islanders and based on Lopez, has launched a “Lopez Island Baseline Bat Status Assessment.â€? The Status Assessment will map out where Lopez bats live and estimate population numbers to use as a baseline for future

research.

KwiĂĄht is also available for technical consultations to help avoid any unnecessary human-bat conflicts such as bats getting into human living spaces. For instance, the organization has helped Moran State Park design and construct a demonstration “bat towerâ€? for relocating a large maternity colony of rare Long-eared Myotis from the park manager’s office.

Russel Barsh, KwiĂĄht’s director, describes a bat tower as “like a small toolshed on stilts, closed except for narrow slits for bats to use, with rafters and a shingle roof that bats find attractive for roosting.â€?

Why like bats? “If you are a gardener, farmer or don’t like being bitten by mosquitos, you should encourage lots of local bats

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A “bat tower� that Kwiaht deigned for Moran state park.

The ‘tower’ was constructed in 2010. to live nearby,� said Shona Aitkin, education coordinator at Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehab. Center.

Our neighborhood bats are amazing little animals. Says

Port Commission #2 “His academic, practical experience and long time community involvement will make him a valuable asset as a Port Commissioner.� –Bob Porter, former Lopez Port Commissioner

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Barsh, “The only mammals that can fly under their own power, bats play crucial roles in ecosystems worldwide, including being pollinators.

In the Pacific Northwest, all of our bats are insectivores, and eat many pests such as mosquitoes, termites, and moths. One small bat that weighs less than an ounce can eat hundreds of flying insects in an hour.�

Threats to bats The main threats to bats in the islands are associated with humans: clearing woodlands, cutting down old trees with cavity nests, tearing down or burning decaying old buildings, re-roofing or re-siding buildings where bats are living in the attic or walls, said Barsh. Cats and rats also kill bats near the homes they share with us.

Growing regional interest in wind power raises concerns for bats in the islands. Largescale wind energy production uses very large rotors that can attain tip speeds of over 200 miles per hour - strangely attractive to bats, and too fast for bats to avoid. Migrating bats such as Hoary and Silver-haired bats are most at risk, but researchers do not see evidence of large-scale migrations in the islands.

Smaller rotors designed to supply electricity to one, or a few households, do not seem to pose the same risks as commercial scale turbines, and they can easily be shut down during the few hours of dusk and dawn when bats are most actively flying and foraging.

Bat Facts At least five species of tiny mouse-eared bats in the genus Myotis, such as SEE BATS, PAGE 5

Community Calendar TUES, NOV 1

MEETING: SJC Council Citizen’s

SAT, NOV 5

OUTDOORS: Land Bank Guided

Access, 10-11 a.m., library.

Walk, 1 - 3:30 p.m.,Tharald

WEDS, NOV 2 READING: Storytime, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., library, Helen Anderson Children’s Room.

THURS, NOV 3

Homestead Tour, Shaw Island.

Historian Boyd Pratt for a walk back in time on this unique property listed in the National Register of Historic Places. For info, call 378-4402 or email judyc@rockisland.com.

MEETING: Garden Club Meeting, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m., library.

FRI, NOV 4

CLASSES: Computer Training

Drop-in, 10 - 11 a.m., library.

ART: Dream Collage Workshop, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., email carolweissmft@gmail.com for more info.

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The San Juan Preservation Trust, the non-profit land conservation group in the San Juan Islands, traditionally steers clear of political campaigns. With our private, market-based approach to protecting special places, the Preservation Trust’s constituency attracts people from every political persuasion. We understand that much of our appeal and our membership support are strengthened by standing apart from our County’s often-contentious political processes.

Despite this, the 20-member Board of the Preservation Trust, representing a cross-

Edith Schwendeman Come in for your FREE LUNCH! Galley Restaurant

SUN, NOV 6

OUTDOORS: Guitar Singing Group, 6 - 8:30 p.m., library. For more info, contact Steve Ruegge 468- 3404 THURS, NOV 10 LOPEZ GARDENERS: Colleen Howe-Gregory from Mitchell Bay Farm and Nursery on San Juan Island will be featured at our November 10th meeting. She is back by popular demand! Her topic this time is “Plant Propagation.�

The meeting will be held at Woodman Hall, 4102 Fisherman Bay Road on Thursday, November 10th.

Coffee and goodies at 9:30 a.m. The meeting starts at 10:00. Please come - everyone is welcome! Sponsored

by Lopez Island Garden Club.

MEETING: Lopez Village Condo

Letters Endorses Renewal of San Juan County Land Bank

Association, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., library.

section of islands and political perspectives, has unanimously agreed to endorse the renewal of the San Juan County Land Bank.

These two organizations are often confused. Both strategically protect landscapes that are particularly valuable to our communities, but the distinction is as simple as the difference between public and private. The San Juan County Land Bank is a unique public agency that is authorized by our citizens to collect a 1% excise tax (from buyers in real estate transactions) to protect open space in San Juan County. The San Juan Preservation Trust, on the other hand, is a private organization that relies completely on private donations of land, conservation easements and money to protect important land.

While both organizations have successfully completed a long list of remarkable projects on their own, a powerful synergy emerges when they

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reception for a festive group show, kick-off for Silent Auction and Lopez High School Scholarship Raffle, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera

come together in partnership. By blending public and private resources, we leverage our respective strengths to acquire special places that we couldn’t dream of saving on our own. Beloved – and expensive - places like Turtleback Mountain (Orcas), Watmough Bight (Lopez), Beaverton Marsh and the Sundstrom Farm (San Juan), Disney Mountain (Waldron), and the Henry Island Isthmus, to name just a few, have been permanently conserved by this partnership.

We all feel lucky to live in the San Juans. But our ability to bequeath the beauty, health and character of these islands to future generations would be profoundly diminished should we let the San Juan County Land Bank slip away from us. The board and staff of the San Juan Preservation Trust ask you to vote “YES� on November 8 to RENEW OUR LAND BANK! www.RenewOurLand Bank.org to learn more.

Lopez Islander Open week days, Mon.Thurs. for lunch and dinner 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m./ Fri. for lunch and dinner 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m./ Sat. for breakfast, lunch and dinner 8:30 a.m.10:00 p.m./ Sun. for breakfast, lunch and dinner 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

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Gallery.Winners of Raffle and Silent Auction items will be awarded at our Holiday Party on December 10. For more info, visit www.ChimeraGallery.com.

WEDS, NOV 16

MEETING: Lopez Island School Board Meeting, 6 p.m., Lopez Island School.

NOTICE: A notebook with words “Springfield College Board of Trustees,� and “Ed Search Process� was found on Lopez Island Monday, Oct. 17, with a calculator, pen, and relevant papers inside. To have it returned to the owner call 376-4979.

Letters to the editor must be no more than 350 words in length and must be signed by the writer. Include address and telephone number for verification purposes. Anonymous letters will not be published. Send your letters via e-mail to: cbagby@islandsweekly.net.

LOPEZ BUSINESS HOURS Galley Restaurant Open at 8 am Full menu until at least 8 pm every night Short-list menu after 8 p.m.

Fresh, Local, Fantastic www.galleylopez.com 468-2713

SAT, NOV, 12

ART: Chimera Gallery’s opening

TIM SEIFERT, Executive Director STEVE MCKEON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, The San Juan Preservation Trust

Prop 2 No Vote

The county of San Juan has proven it cannot manage solid waste or the waste of our money.

This week is Sounder Opinion Editorial called for a no vote Nov. 8 on the parcel fee. Correct. The Sounder’s reasoning is correct. Not only will A YES vote cost all residential users more per year, but it will hit businesses much harder. Those costs will be passed on to consumers in higher prices for goods and services. All homes are charged the same fee regardless of property usage. A single person on a small property is charged the same as a large family on a large property operating a construction or small manufacturing company out of the home. Small businesses that generate a small waste basket of trash per week are charged the same fee as businesses

Barbara Swahlen, DVM Compassionate Veterinary Care for your pets in your home.

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At the 13th annual Harvest Dinner, Sat., Oct. 22, Valerie Yukluk was picked as the winner of the GEM car raffle.

Speaker Percy Schmeiser presented a talk about the importance of a healthy community food system free of genetically modified organisms and Elijah, the son of Hannah Rose, chose the winning ticket. Pictured above is Kay Keeler, LCLT board member, handing the keys to Valerie Yukluk, who is holding her grandson. generating a large dumpster of trash per week. The plan does not equate how much trash you create with how much you pay. Personally, I would be better off if the tipping fees were tripled and I only had to pay for what I take to the dump rather than with this plan.

I went to many of the businesses in the Main and N. Beach Road area Saturday, November 22, 2011, and asked the owner or employee if they were aware of Proposition 2.

Most were not and of the few who were aware of it they did not understand how it would work concerning the cost to them. None of them knew that they would be paying the cost of the “User Charge� either directly or indirectly.

Also, none of the business owners knew that they would be paying both at home and at the business.

Because this “tax� has been labeled a “User Charge� they all thought that in some way it only applied to trash hauling or tipping fees. The fee is charged to the building and not the businesses or residents, even an empty building or empty rental will have to pay the ?User Charge?. None were aware that even an empty building pays the fee.

At the town hall meeting Oct. 20 council persons could not coherently defend most of the details in this plan.

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Many of the questions or objections posed by Orcas citizens to this plan brought responses by Patty Miller and Richard Fralick of “we feel�, “we do not know�, “it was assumed�, “we think�, “we are not sure.� Chances are this plan will never see the light of day. Should for some reason it pass, it will be immediately challenged in court. The county can call it what they like but it is still an unfair tax. The county has made a mess of waste management. This poorly written plan by the council makes its obvious they cannot manage this system and it needs to be moved to the private sector.

No matter what we do SEE LETTERS, PAGE 6

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Art in View Artist Profile:

Gerry Newcomb

By Stephen E. Adams

K

eeping up with kilncast glass artist, Gerry Newcomb, becomes almost slapstick, running after him, notebook and recorder in hand, trying to catch (and eventually impart to the reader) just a fraction of his enthusiasm.

Part of this requires digging through his self-deprecating comments, repeated so often they thread themselves into themes running through his commentary. “If people only knew how much fun I was having, they wouldn’t pay me,� is one oftrepeated phrase. The parttime Lopezian—currently he is leading the interviewer on a chase through his southend studio—also likes to point out after commenting on specifics of his work that he is “shallow, two dimensional, and narrow-minded, so what do I know?�

For anyone who’s experienced Newcomb’s work, however, the description “shallow, two dimensional, and narrowminded,� wouldn’t come to mind. His pieces are, however, a great deal of fun to look at. “For me, it’s a huge matter of perspective,� Newcomb offers, explaining how he considers his work from upclose, then a few feet back, then “how it’s going to strike you when you’re across the room.� “Part of what’s so much

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Two examples of Gerry Newcomb’s kiln-cast glass artwork.

fun is the fact that glass traditionally has to be viewed with light behind it to fully experience it. If you look at one of the fish at Chimera right now, the gold texture in the background presents a mirror image so you can light it any way you want.� “One of the things people are always asking me is ‘What is the right side?’ and when I say, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ it takes a while for that to sink in.�

Having had “an entire career in clay� before ever beginning glass, Newcomb explains how he had to create his own process in order to come up with a way that would allow him to combine the “textures of clay� with

the permanence of a cast glass piece. He even went so far as to come up with his own formula for the material used in constructing the mold which holds his piece.

Of the mold material he

“invented,� he says, almost disparagingly, “It’s not rocket science. It’s just easier to have the company pre-blend it and that way, when I’m teaching a workshop, I can just tell them exactly what to order for the students to use.�

When asked about the molds, which can only be used one time, Newcomb shrugs his shoulders, explaining that, were he to reuse the mold, important detail would be lost. “Your whole pattern is mitigated a little bit with each recasting. Besides, who wants to do the same thing over and over?�

Asked about the distinctiveness of his style, one which, even in very different types of work, is strikingly evident, he replies that â€œâ€Śsometimes I wonder if there is a stylistic continuity to my work. It’s only later, when I look back at it that I’ll think, ‘Yeah, maybe there is a common element leaking through.’â€?

Participating in the Lopez Studio Tour this year allowed Newcomb to collect two years’ worth of “seconds, faux pas, and ‘the artist doesn’t have any sensibility’ pieces,� which permitted him to see his work together at

one time. “I usually make it, ship it off, and never see it again, so there was a sense of something—maybe ‘unified’ is the right word—happening here.�

A native Pacific Northwesterner, Newcomb cites his chief influence as being the Asian art that is so pervasive in the Pacific Rim area. He specifically mentions the sculptor and artist, George Tsutakawa, whose work is featured so prominently in cities such as

Seattle, Tsutakawa’s home town, and the artist, Harold Balazs, with influencing the direction of his vision.

A variety of Newcomb’s work can be viewed at his website (http://www.gerr ynewcomb.com/index. html) or at Chimera, where he is one of the featured artists in a show running through November 11. The site also has a fine description of the process by which a work is created.

Newcomb can be contacted through his website

Music Historian & Author Ritchie Unterberger @ the Library Monday, Nov. 7th, 5:30-7:30 “The Unreleased Beatles�

Rare film clips & recordings

Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 5:30-7:30 “TURN! TURN! TURN! The 1960s Folk Rock Revolution�

Rare film clips from the 60s & early 70s

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Guest Column: October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Children and domestic violence

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tional and violent homes acknowledge their fear of the world around them. They feel depressed, anxious and usually self-medicate to alleviate painful emotions. As adolescents these adults reported they felt shameful, guilty and would flee their home environment as much as possible.

They would isolate or join up with other dysfunctional and broken peers. Many children felt responsible and afraid of leaving their parent alone for fear of coming back to a suicide or more violence.

This is not an uncommon role for a child living in an abusive home. These children are burdened with picking up the pieces after the storm and being the shoulder for a parent to cry on.

As one adult describes his childhood, “The biggest issue for me as a child was not knowing why — not understanding why, why everyone around me was always yelling, screaming and hurting each other. I wanted to know how to make it better? ...�

Nevertheless, many of these men and women genuinely want to change their present lives. We at DVSAS want to help those who struggle daily. We also want to help parents break the cycle of abuse.

DVSAS’ Family Options can help do that. This Child Abuse Prevention program was developed in 2004 to help SEE GUEST COLUMN, PAGE 8

Worship Services in the Islands LOPEZ ISLAND CHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY CHURCH, Now meeting at 10:00 AM at the Lopez Elementary School in the multi-purpose room. Find us on the web: www.

CTKonline.com/lopez or email lopez@CTKonline.com GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, welcomes you to worship with us on Sundays at 10:30 am. Fisherman Bay Road at Sunset Lane.

468-3477. Everyone welcome!

LOPEZ ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH, 91 Lopez Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 am; Worship at 10:30 am. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

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QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com

1102 Commercial Ave. Anacortes 360-293-4575 For more info visit: www.sebos.com

ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 10:45 am on Saturday. Call 3782910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.

LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, Sundays, 11 am at historic Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also on Sundays at 9:15 am at St. David’s in Friday Harbor, and on 1st & 3rd Mondays at 10 am at Emmanuel Church in Eastsound.

Pastor John Lindsay, 378-6310. All are welcome!

BATS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

the Little Brown, make the islands their home. Mouseeared bats look similar from a distance and use the same frequencies to navigate and target their prey, but they vary somewhat in body proportions and behavior. Two of our mouse-eared species are actually quite rare. We also have several larger bats: Townsend’s Big-Eared, Silver-Haired, Hoary, and Big Brown.

Bat species divide the night, hunting at different times and focusing on different kinds of insects. Big Browns are fond of beetles, for example, while Townsend’s think moths are divine. Bats eavesdrop on insects’ own high frequency broadcasts to locate, identify, and track them.

Bats typically mate in the fall and give birth in early summer, but female bats can slow their pregnancy until there is adequate food to support nursing. When they are ready to give birth, female bats of some species congregate in “maternity colonies,� which can range from 25-50 to 500 or more bats.

Individuals of some species have been recorded to live to over 30 years of age!

In North America some bats, such as Hoary, Red bats, and some Silver-haired, often migrate to warmer climes in winter, said Greg Falxa, bat researcher with Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, WA. Other bats such as the myotis bats do not migrate, or may make short movements to a cave, mine, or higher or lower elevation to hibernate. Barsh adds that “most of the island bat colonies I have visited are occupied year-round by

cautions with bats that at least some of the apply to all wildlife. bats.â€? Many island Never approach or bats appear to abanhandle a wild animal; don summer colonies if you see a bat that in the winter, and to could be injured or reduce their activity sick, call Wolf Hollow during wet or freezWildlife Rehab. ing weather, but do Center at 360-378not appear to stay in 5000. For info on how sleepy “torporâ€? for to exclude bats from long periods of time or human spaces and to leave. Falxa said he safely clean up dropis observing the same pings contact KwiĂĄht behavior in the South or go to http://wdfw.

Sound, “particularly wa.gov/living/bats. with Silver-haired and Contributed photo html or “Living with California Myotis A Townsend bat in Crow Valley.

Wildlife In the Pacific bats.� The mild winNorthwest�, by ters of the Northwest Russell Link. For info allow bats to avoid the evolution, with amazing flyrisks of long hibernation and ing and navigational capabili- on bats and public health go to www.batsnorthwest.org/ migration. ties,� says Barsh. “Bats are not only beautiful Barsh said we should use bats_my_health.html.

If you have bat info or to watch soaring and diving, the same common-sense prestories, call or email Liz but they are little marvels of

Needham, KwiĂĄht Bat Survey Coordinator at elizabethneedham@hotmail.com or 360-

468-5051. You can read more about bats at www.batcon.org and www.batsnorthwest.org.

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Why The Exchange on Orcas supports Proposition 2 and why we think you should too.

It’s not because we think its the best solution to our county’s solid waste program. Its because its the best choice being offered.

First of all, let’s recognize that waste management is a public issue. Not just because improper waste disposal has public health, environmental and economic ramifications, but because we are all contributors and users of our waste infrastructure. It is an essential public service, a utility, appropriately guided by and for the public good.

In our country, state and county, that public good is set forth in laws and Solid Waste Management Plans that describe the goals of a waste program and how a community expects to achieve them. San Juan County’s plan describes our unique island geography and our unique waste disposal challenges. Its most emphatic goal is to reduce our waste, process and reuse as much as possible locally, and to export as little as necessary.

After 30 years of public education programs, we are all familiar with the 3R mantra of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. These are the tools that underlie the solution to waste. Larger landfills, polluting incinerators and more trucks to haul it away are businesses that depend upon--and profit from--our collective irresponsibility when it comes to waste. They may treat the symptoms, but do not cure wastefulness.

Since 1983 the Exchange has kept millions of dollars worth of reusable goods within our island economy that would have been exported as waste. It is one model of what an appropriately designed waste system can provide. There are few if any households on Orcas that have not benefited from the Exchange. We are fortunate to be allowed to operate at the county waste facility where we can intercept some of the waste stream, and recover some of its value. Much more could be diverted--yard waste, construction materials--if there was public commitment to such programs.

So what is the public’s position on waste?

Survey results, sentiments expressed at public meetings, petitions and citizens advisory committee recommendations indicate that we strongly support recycling, self hauling, “Take it or Leave it�, the Exchange and a desire for more local control over our waste programs. In short, we seem to support the goals of our Solid Waste Management Plan to reduce, reuse, recycle and export less.

But, and this is very important, Prop. 2 is being presented in a form that forces us to accept an ill-conceived parcel tax as the only way to achieve these goals.

And if we don’t like that method we have to completely abandon public control of our waste system and turn it all over to private operators whose profits are based on waste volume not waste reduction.

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We need some form of public funding if we intend to support our common goals. It could take many forms; separate island disposal districts; a countywide property tax; a combination of the two; or something else not on the ballot. What is on the ballot is a choice between a public system with community goals and benefits and a private system with private goals and benefits.

The Exchange is committed to the concept of waste reduction and its many benefits to our local economy. Its future can only be insured by continued public control of our transfer station on Orcas. Once privatized there is no going back. If a private entity controls the access and hours to the Exchange, be it the current hauler or some company that buys them out, we will no longer be part of our community’s commitment to its waste management goals. Indeed there will be no community waste management goals beyond exporting our waste to the vast land fills of eastern Oregon.

The choice before us is not the result of an informed public dialogue and understanding of the issue. On the contrary, it is the result of a largely ignored but predictable, long time, politically driven, public policy failure that confuses and divides rather than unites us in a common goal. Whatever the outcome, we can only improve solid waste policy or any public policy by electing and holding accountable representatives who seek and respond to our input as citizens.

However short of ideal this parcel fee may be, it is not immutable. As long as we maintain public control and are willing to participate in and demand responsive government, we can modify county policy to suit our needs. Privatization of this essential public service is pretty much an admission that we can no longer govern ourselves in accordance with our collective values.

What then are the prospects for our future as a community?

Please join the Exchange in support of Proposition 2 and a more cooperative and sustainable future.

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Lopez Volleyball tops Grace Lopez finished out their 2011 home schedule with a decisive victory over the Grace Academy Eagles.

Lopez took 3 of 4 games, with winning scores of 25-7, 25-21, and 25-9. In the second game, Lopez nearly overcame a 13 point deficit, running off 8 straight points before losing 25-19.

The match began by honoring the Lobos’ three graduating seniors Vilina Sanburn-Bill and captains Sarah Stanley and Marina Steinbrueck in their final home game.

Lopez remains undefeated in league play and is preparing for Tri-Districts at Crescent on Nov. 2.

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the cost will go up considerably for waste management.

That?s just a fact. A private company will have to manage the system in an efficient, cost effective way. If it does not, it can lose the contract

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