WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. September 21, 2009: Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Daniel Jackson has announced that that Madeline Cano has been promoted from detective to Sergeant and is the first female hispanic sergeant in the history of the Department.
Additionally Luis Muniz was promoted to Detective 3rd grade. He is the current president of the Westchester Hispanic Law Enforcement Officers Assn. j
Matthew Kittelstad was promoted to detective, second grade.
WPCNR THE COLLECTION NEWS. Special Investigative Report from Scoop the Newsduck of
Scoop the Newsduck, the well-known, intelligent-for-a-duck commentator on the weeky news roundup show, White Plains Week has prepared this special report to help viewers cope with what gets picked up when in White Plains
WRONG-0 DUMP-O
Scoop has compiled photographic evidence that the new Garbage Calendars are not making it clear what gets picked up when. Here Scoop demonstrates “Commingles” being put out for collection on Wednesday last week, the “wrong day.” What’s behind this? Scoop wants to know. Could it be the unfortunate use of the rarely used word “Commingle?”
Scoop notes residents need to understand that recyclables have been separated as to when they are picked up by the sanitation convoys that fan out across the metropolis twice a week. Here for those unable to read the very fine print on the DPW Calendar, Scoop has prepared these visual aids.
The key to smooth pick-up is for you to know when your first garbage pick up day of the week is and when your second day of the week pickup IS.
Instead of setting one day for all Recyclables (stuff that can be reused) the city has gone to a two-step collection: picking paper recyclables on Wednesdays as in the past, but shifting container “Commingled” recyclables on residents’ second garbage pick up days each week (the second time you may put out regular nasty old garbage out for pickup).
Paper Recyclables are picked up as in the past, on Wednesday, and “Commingled Recyclables on your 2nd Garbage Pickup of the week.
How to tell the difference!
Paper Recyclables are newspapers, magazines, catalogs, telephone books, paper bags, home officepaper and cardboard shipping boxes are picked up, as previously on Wednesdays. (Be sure though to breakdown and flatten the cardboard boxes)
Commingled Recyclables – Scoop calls them “Commies” are picked up on your 2nd Garbage Pickup Day of the Week. Containers to be included are glass bottles, metal cans, plastic bottles(#1 & #2) and jars
Scoop reminds you that, leaf pickup and those leaves are beginning to come down has to be put into bags this year and pickup will begin October13.
However, the city is reviewing whether the leaf bagging policy and the backyard pickup policy will still be in effect.
Hopefully backyard pickup will also be exercised in the larger yards in White Plains in Haviland Manor Hillair Circle and Saxon Woods, where it has quietly been dropped. It has been years since I saw a sanitation person in my backyard looking for my garbage receptables. This just quietly stopped. Hopefully if backyard pickup is reinstated it will apply with equal opportunity pickup in all neighborhoods
WPCNR THE COLLECTION NEWS. September 21, 2009: The Mayor’s Office informed WPCNR today that the city has received between 50 and 100 telephone calls in the last three weeks, demanding the city return to its policy of the past: picking up fall leaves at the curb and reinstate the so-called “backyard pickup,” where sanitation workers enter the homeowners’ property and transport the garbage containers to their trucks.
Melissa Lopez, of the Mayor’s Office announced today that Joseph Nicoletti, Commissioner of Public Works, architect of the new leaf-bag and no backyard pickup policy, is devising an alternative plan and the cost of returning to the former practice of sending crews to sweep up the leaves and retrieving garbage receptacles from backyards. Lopez said the other changes of separate day pickup for recyclable paper and recyclable containers was not being reviewed and would remain in effect.
Lopez said if leaf-bagging is eliminated and backyard pickup is reinstated, some other service or services would have to be eliminated. Lopez said the Mayor said, “this is a policy decision,” implying this was in the purview of the CommonCouncil.
“The Nicoletti Alternatives” will be presented Thursday at a Common Council Work Session, a meeting where the current state of the
The city budgeted that it would collect $47.3 Million in sales taxes in 2009-10, and are on a pace to collect only $41.5 Million with ten months to go. A record holiday season is needed for the city to get back on track.
WPCNR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR Flying Photographer. September 20, 2009: Today’s photo is of the famous Reader’s Digest headquarters in Chappaqua, New York. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the company may move from the site. The company is in bankruptcy, a far cry from the once proud company founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Acheson Wallace. Its spire at the left, with its pegasus horses was a proud landmark overlooking the Saw Mill Parkway, once standing for corporate and public service excellence, bringing culture, music books and news at reasonable prices to masses. It was once a place where you could find Cezannes and Picassos hanging by copying machines. Those days are gone.
