The E-rase your E-waste committee would like to thank everyone who participated in our 2011 “E-rase your E-waste” e-cycling events. We’ve had another record breaking year, with our grand total reaching 59,630 lbs.! That’s nearly 30 TONS of e-waste that DIDN’T go into our local landfill this year!
Our thanks to those of you taking advantage of our “mini” summer month collections. They went over very well and we anticipate continuing them next year. Much of the success for those events we can trace to the superb coverage provided by our local media, both print and broadcast, that ensured the word got out about the different collection options available this year. Our thanks to them for their unwavering support of this community effort!
Our thanks also to our e-cycler – UNICOR – for once again allowing us to provide FREE e-cycling for our rural community.
In addition, the organizing committee wants to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Richland County Solid Waste, Sidney Health Center, Sidney Sugars, Anchor Drilling Fluids, Richland Opportunities, Inc., and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for providing the space, packaging materials and promotional support for this year’s event. We also want to thank two Williston businesses - National Varco Oilwell and NAPA Auto Parts - for providing additional pallets for our use.
And last, but definitely not least, we want to extend a big, BIG thank you to our many volunteers who helped pack all those pallets, including our seniors with the RSVP program who have been stalwart participants over the years and our newest helpers: the Sidney High School Key Club and Ms. Fehilly’s web class. Our volunteers for all the year’s events included:
Stan Lindblom (RSVP), Bill Forrester (RSVP), Mary Bieber (RSVP), Heather Luinstra, Chris Viets, and Sidney High School students, Katie Staffanson, Jesse Staffanson, Arianna Gaskin, Tess Ler, Taylor Fay, Cierra Parks, Brant Pewonka and Tyler Azure.
Our sincere thanks to you all! There’s no way we could have done it without you!
Again, thanks to everyone for making the 2011 “E-rase your E-waste” effort another HUGE success! We look forward to working with you again next year!
The 2011 E-rase your E-waste Committee:
Jackie Couture and Cindy Eleson, co-chairs
Butch Renders
Rita Jacobson
Brian Fay
Zack Yockim
Jill Miller
Beth Redlin
Russ Huotari
Kelly Logan
Julie Brodhead
“The Maverick”
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