Last of a series of trash classes orchestrated by Louise Mann at Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Free to all who want to learn more about recycling and the history of waste-managment in Northwest Arkansas

Sample video from first Trash Class two weeks ago. Scroll down to watch numerous other video clips from the same event.

Last Trash Class

 $16,000,000   Silver Bullet  History Lesson

Thursday, March 22, from 6:00-7:00 PM

Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce

123 West Mountain Street

Free and open to the public.

Free parking after 6:00 in the public parking lot

Louise G. Mann
Waste Reduction Resources, LLC
www.WasteReductionResources.com

Protect urban pollinators for local gardens by not mowing or spraying in spring

Nature can empower a person!!!! 6:30 p.m. March 15 at Fayetteville Public LIbrary

HOW NATURE CAN EMPOWER YOU

Presentation

by

Donald Wleklinski, MS, BSN, RN

University of Arkansas School of Nursing Faculty

6:30 PM March 15, 2012

Fayetteville Public Library

Walker Community Room,

401 West Mountain Street

Free and Open to the Public

                Exposure to nature is vital to our physical and emotional health, explains Donald Wleklinski, of the University of Arkansas School of Nursing faculty.  He tells how “nature engages your attention in a relaxed fashion with such things as leaves rustling, patterns of clouds, sunsets, a bird, and the shape of an old tree. Nature captures our attention in subtle, bottom-up ways and allows our top-down attention abilities a chance to regenerate.”  Natural environments “restore” our attention.  Wleklinski’s presentation is well backed up with thorough research and references.  He indicates that some of us may suffer from “nature-deficit” and shows how exposure to nature can provide preventative health care and empower everyone, children and adults, both physically and mentally.  The presentation will include a period for questions and answers.

For more information email dwleklin@uark.edu  or call/text 479-220-2772

Truthout shares the facts that rash limburger tries to hide

Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery. So let me get this straight.   Rick Santorum, who we are somehow supposed to believe is a serious candidate for the highest office in the land, thinks people should not go to college because education is somehow a code word for socialist indoctrination. Mitt Romney, another walking joke, was for birth control before he was against it before he was for it before he was against it before he was for it. Rush Limbaugh, the godhead of hate radio and the leader of the modern GOP, wants private citizens who use birth control to film themselves having sex for his personal edification. Meanwhile, the latest polls tell us that fully half of the Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi believe President Obama is a secret Muslim … oh, and they're not quite sold on the legality of mixed-race marriage, either.   And that's just for openers, here in the brave new world that is 21st-century America. Call it stupid, call it silly, dismiss it with a disgusted wave of your hand if you wish, but this stuff is being blasted out there in an endless barrage, and after awhile, it sticks.  Cretins like Rush Limbaugh not only spew anti-Muslim hatred on domestic airwaves - Limbaugh is a featured program on Armed Forces Radio, reaching the ears and minds of American soldiers fighting a grinding, ceaseless and pointless war in Afghanistan. There has never been a more important time for Truthout to continue the hard work of getting the facts straight, and getting those facts out there past the firewall of nonsense, hatred and flat insanity that passes for news and comment these days. In the midst of continuous, aggressive attacks on Truthout’s website, the outpouring of support from our community this week has been deeply strengthening. We are here because you all keep us here. We’re aiming to reach 1,000 donations by the end of the week, and we’re already almost halfway there - please support our work with a tax-deductible contribution tonight!  Click here to donate.

Sarah Marsh, a candidate to replace retiring Brenda Boudreaux as a Ward 1 Fayetteville AR alderman, attended Mayor Lioneld Jordan's Town Hall meeting Monday, March 12, 2012, at the Fayetteville Senior Activity Center

Please click on image to ENLARGE.

Bluets: Houstonia caerulea a native wildflower that colors open mowed land in late winter

Please click on individual image to ENLARGE. Sorry I didn't have time to turn around and try to follow the tiger swallowtail butterfly I saw fly across South College Avenue on Saturday, March 10, 2012, in order to photograph it. But it was a pleasant surprise so early in the year.

Shortakes to run starting March 11, 2012, on Fayetteville Public Television, channel 218 on Cox Cable, channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, and public-access internet site

Louise Mann invites all to Trash Classes coming March 15 and 22, 2012

TRA$H CLA$$
6:00-7:00pm, March 8, 15 & 22
Fayetteville, Chamber of Commerce
123 W. Mountain St.


FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC


March 8 - Clean Recycling for Cash and the Community    
Presenters: Bella Vista AARP
Come learn about a clean, citizen-run recycling program that costs the community $0, saved the community a $100,000 in tip fees, and gave back to the community $256,000 in grants, to over 50 local organizations.

March 15 -  Metrics that Matter -
when talking trash and recycling   
Presenter: Don Marr, Chief of Staff, City of Fayetteville
In this economy, you bet numbers matter. How can you determine the cost effectiveness of your recycling program? Learn about the expenses, the revenues, and the savings associated with reducing waste streams.



March 22 - Silver Bullets in Solid Waste 
Presenters: Fran Alexander, Ron Giles, & Louise Mann
Most recycling programs in Arkansas were started by volunteers. These citizens got firsthand understanding of markets, contamination, and worker safety. Unfortunately most programs did not create infrastructure for continued citizen involvement. Reviewing the lessons of our recycling past could save the community time, money and missteps in the future.


Trash Class sponsors
Treadwell Institute &
Waste Reduction Resources

Free Public Parking - across the street after 6:00pm

March 10, 2012 activities: Volunteers needed Saturday to plant trees in riparian areas of Illinois River tributaries

www.irwp.org/calendar-and-events/view/2012-riparian-projectRiparian project Saturday, March 10, 2012, information at this link.

RNCIC meeting at 10:30 a.m. See National Cemetery Neighbors and Friends.

Partners for Better Housing brochure. Talk to members of the nonprofit Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 2012, at Ozark Natural Foods Inc.

Louise Mann's Bella Vista recycling presentation at Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce building on March 8, 2012