Village of Moreland Hills
Mayor Renda's Update

May 2009

Dear Resident,

I am pleased to inform you that during the month of May you will receive a Moreland Hills Emergency & Safety Guide.  Please read this pamphlet thoroughly and keep it in a convenient location so you can refer to it as needed. It will help you be prepared for almost any emergency situation, including medical emergencies and natural disasters. It offers advice for surviving utility outages and gives crime prevention tips. Furthermore, it provides you with emergency contact information and important phone numbers. Please look for this guide to be delivered to your home soon.

You will also receive the new Moreland Hills Recycling Calendar in May. It offers great recycling tips, provides the schedule for recycling, chipping, yard waste pick-up and hazardous waste pick-up. It also gives the dates and times for all Council Committee meetings, Parks Commission meetings and regular Council meetings. I hope you find it useful.

As you know, the current Council and Administration have emphasized recycling and “going green.” Thus we are planning another Greening the Hills day on May 16. We have had a lot of help from resident volunteers Jim Wattenmaker, Sandy Cobb, Judy Neuger and Blair Wood and from Councilwoman Robin Cooper. Please see the enclosed flyer for more details.

Confessions of a Lazy Recycler
I have made recycling as simple and inexpensive as possible. My equipment consists of a tall kitchen garbage can lined with a blue recycling bag, a bench in my garage on which sits 3 brown grocery bags and a cardboard bankers’ box which I hide in my broom closet. All cans, bottles and plastics go into the “recycling garbage can.” Newspapers, magazines and cereal boxes go into separate grocery bags. Every two weeks I gather the bags and get them to the curb. On occasion I gather old printer cartridges and household batteries, put them in a blue plastic grocery bag and take them to the curb as well.

All white papers go into the bankers’ box. Now that Moreland Hills offers shredding twice a year, I no longer separate confidential papers and credit card offers from other mail. Everything goes into the box, much of it unopened. When that box is full, I place it under the bench in the garage and start filling another one. On Greening the Hills day I load the boxes into my trunk and take them to Village Hall to be emptied into the shredding truck.

My point is recycling is neither expensive nor difficult and it’s good for the earth. Get creative about your recycling processes and share them with me. I will include them in the newsletter from time to time.

Thanks and enjoy the long-awaited sunshine.

Mayor Susan Renda

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