Trash Can Recycling

In case you hadn't noticed, everyone with trash pick up in Carbondale will receive nifty new trash cans. So, the question becomes, what to do with the old ones? One option is to keep it as a souvenir of trash days past but that is probably not practical. There are two options you could choose:

1.  Leave your old trash can at the curb. The city will pick it up and toss it in  a landfill. Gets it out of your house but rather wasteful

2. Drop it off behind Hickory Lodge for someone else who might need a trash can. They have a spot marked in the back corner for trash can recycling

From the email sent out by the city:

Carbondale residents who find themselves with unneeded trash cans following the new trash cart rollout have several options to choose from.

Residents can keep their old can and use it for other purposes; pass it on to someone who needs it; bring it to Southern Recycling (wheels and metal must be removed); or make a note on it asking City workers to take it to the landfill.

If you would like to give your trash can a new home, a site has been set up by Keep Carbondale Beautiful behind Hickory Lodge at 1115 W. Sycamore Street for “Trash Can Give Away.” Residents can leave cans in the back corner of the parking lot, next to the shed. Anyone in need of a free trash can is invited to come take one.

Dog Park

Putting a dog park in Carbondale on the Hickory Lodge/Carbondale Park District office grounds make quite a bit of sense, The offices are what gets use on the property, not the grounds, and the grounds are fairly spacious, giving plenty of room for dogs and their owners to run around. Turley and Attucks Parks get much more use by the human population of Carbondale, who might not care too much for having a lot of dogs running about. Meanwhile, the Hickory Lodge  is comparatively isolated and, as far as I can tell, gets very little use.

Park Board Meeting Site

Received an email from a reader of the blog clarifying why the Park Board has it's meetings at the Civic Center instead of Hickory Lodge.  Actually, it is to make the meetings more accessible to the public.  The Civic Center has broadcast capability and can transmit Park Board meetings over public access, much as City Council meetings are.  Plus, the conference rooms at Hickory Lodge are quite small, making them uncomfortable for the board and an audience.

Park District Meeting

No indication on the agenda regarding topics under consideration but I find it interesting that the meeting takes place at the Civic Center rather than at Park District headquarters, Hickory Lodge.  I'd bet the meeting isn't well attended, despite the fact that it is one of the many entities that gets a share of our property taxes.