Where Does Your Recycling Go?

WHERE, OH WHERE, DOES YOUR RECYCLING GO?

So you’ve decided to recycle. You proudly rinse out your cans, flatten your Cheerios boxes, toss those paper towel tubes into your green "We Recycle"  bin and roll it out to the curb for pick up. The giant truck comes by, some nice person picks it up and tosses it into the back of the truck …. And then what? Where does it go? Why is it that all of the sudden I can put all my recyclables into one bin when I spent the last decade meticulously separating my paper from plastic, my metal from my cardboard. Hold on to your horses, we’re off to see where your recycling goes…

Key Ceremony articles, photos and video

Macomb Daily article with photos and video:
Shelby Township neighbors welcome disabled vet to ‘dream home’

Shelby-Utica Patch article with photos and video:
 Wounded Warrior and Family Move into Shelby Township ‘Dream Home’

Shelby TV's "Shelby This Week (1.18.2013)"   (13:00 through 14:40 minutes)

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Below are photos I took today of the Key Ceremony (see related post) and welcome given to Sergeant First Class (ret.) Anthony Patchell, his fiancee Amanda and their daughters Molly, Emily and Grace.

1:34 PM - the family, along with their possessions, arrive in front of their new home on Heyward St. while about thirty of their new neighbors wait to greet them.

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Foundation Donates Home on Heyward Street

At 1:00 PM on Jan. 17, 2013, as the result of an initiative by the Military Warriors Support Foundation and Chase Bank, Sergeant First Class (ret.) Anthony Patchell and his family will receive the keys to their new, mortgage-free home on Heyward Street in the Meadows at Central Park.

Tony, his fiancee Amanda and daughters Molly, Emily and Grace are moving here from their native Altoona, PA.

SFC Patchell was injured by an IED blast in Baghdad in the fall of 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom and subsequently received a permanent disability retirement from the U.S. Army.  Tony and Amanda volunteer as Staff members with Family of a Vet, a national 501(3)c nonprofit that works with families and veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brainstem Injuries (TBI). Tony is also an NRA certified Instructor and certified gunsmith.   

Please join us at the corner of Heyward and Blackwell at 1:00 PM to welcome Tony and his family to our neighborhood as they receive the keys to their new home.

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Military Warriors Support Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting combat wounded veterans during their transition to civilian life.  Their Homes4WoundedHeroes program awards mortgage-free homes to wounded heroes injured during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The homes are for families who have severe and/or unique circumstances due to their injuries received while serving our country. In addition to the home, the families will receive 3 years of family and financial mentoring.

Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Company, a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. Chase serves consumers and small businesses through 5,200 bank branches, 16,200 ATMs, mortgage offices, and online and mobile banking as well as through relationships with auto dealerships and schools and universities. Chase also has issued more than 90 million credit cards.

Asphalt paving project at the Manors at Central Park Condo Association

Most of the roadways at the Manors never received their top layer of asphalt paving because of the developer's bankruptcy in 2007.

The Manors co-owners voted earlier this year to approve a special assessment to pay for the paving of the final layer on our streets and access drives.

Our contractor has confirmed  that they will be doing the paving on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. The contractor will be laying down 910 tons of asphalt, which means that there will be a lot of heavy trucks coming in and out that day.

Our affected residents will not be able to enter or leave the Manors with their vehicles during the hours of 7:00 AM through 7:00 PM on the day of paving.  Therefore, they will have to park along North Central Park, West Broadway and other nearby streets during that time period. 

Please bear with us as we complete this important project.

Mike Grobbel
President - Board of Directors, Manors at Central Park Condo Association
http://manorsatcentralpark.blogspot.com

Packard Proving Grounds Open House

The Packard Proving Grounds is holding an Open House on Sunday, October 21, 2012. This is a rain or shine event and starts at 1:00 PM – wrapping up at 5:00 PM. Admission is FREE.

Packards and other collector cars will be on display. The Open House will include food service, activities for the kids, and a chance to tour the buildings. Also, the Johnny Trudell Band will be playing their big-band sounds.

Crosswalk Striping

The pedestrian crosswalk striping work will take place during the coming week of Oct. 1 (weather permitting).  Please be prepared to make temporary detours while the striping paint dries. These marked crosswalks will be located at both entrances to Central Park and at various points along the Central Park ring road. This work is the final phase of the asphalt seal-coating project that began in July.

Residents are reminded that, by law:
a) vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and bicyclists lawfully within an intersection or crosswalk
b) pedestrians may not walk in the roadway if there are sidewalks present. If there are no sidewalks, they must walk on the left side, facing traffic. 

Furthermore, the speed limit is 25 MPH on all roadways within the Central Park planned unit development . If you are driving faster than that, you may not be able to stop in time if you come to a crosswalk with a pedestrian already in it.  We have already had one child hit by a car this year while within a crosswalk and we do not need to have a repeat.

Even though these are all private roads within the Central Park planned unit development, the Board of Directors has the ability to ask the Shelby Township Police Department to enforce our speed limits and traffic control devices.  Given the almost blatant disregard some of our residents display for the 25 MPH speed limit and our STOP signs, expect to see a lot of flashing blue and red lights around here in the very near future - just don't let them be seen flashing in your rear view mirror!

Sept. 12, 2012 CPMA BoD Minutes

Central Park Master Association
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Sept. 10, 2012

APPROVED

1. Meeting was called to order at 7:15 PM; Quorum established; present: Mike Grobbel, Mike Malone, Brian Pesola; excused: Ted McCoy; Ryan Dorner, Kramer-Triad was also in attendance.

2. The Board approved the Minutes of the
1. Sept. 12, 2011 Board Meeting
2. Oct. 24, 2011  Board meeting
   

3. Old Business

1. Streetlight maintenance update - Ryan Dorner indicated that maintenance workers had completed work on the inoperative streetlights and that they were all operative again.  One entire circuit of streetlights was found to be inoperative because someone had sprayed insecticide into the circuit breaker enclosure to kill wasps and the wet insecticide had short-circuited and “fried” the circuit breaker, which had to be replaced. Four other streetlights were found to have had the bulbs removed from them. The Board has reason to believe that these streetlights are being deliberately sabotaged by one or more Central Park residents and this issue will be mentioned in the forthcoming newsletter.  Ryan Dorner will provide the Board with an estimated cost for repairing a typical streetlight outage so we can include it in the newsletter.
2. newsletter communications to homeowners – Brian P. has begun drafting a newsletter and will send it out to the other Board members within the next few days; the Board discussed additional items to be included in the draft newsletter and also decided that the first newsletter will be mailed to all residents with a notice in it that future newsletters will be posted on the Central Park blog at http://centralparkassociations.blogspot.com to save an estimated $400 per mailing
3. Owens Tree Service quote - Mike G. updated the Board regarding the tree trimming work to be performed by Owens per the recent quote we received;  Ryan Dorner will contact Jim F. at Owens to get an estimated completion date
4. MCI quote for fountains in the detention ponds

                                                               i.      fountain(s) purchase costs – have received unit costs from MCI

                                                             ii.      electrical installation costs – Ryan Dorner will contact Chuck Swan at MCI to see if they have completed the estimate for providing electrical service to ponds number 2 (central), 3 (south) and 6 (north)

                                                            iii.      costs to winterize and re-install in the spring - Ryan Dorner will contact Chuck Swan at MCI to obtain an approximate annual cost for this recurring service

                                                            iv.      cost estimates are needed in time for the next Board Meeting so that they can be factored into the 2013 Budget discussion

5. Asphalt seal coating and crosswalk striping – Board members report favorable feedback from residents, despite the weather delays;  pedestrian crosswalk striping is tentatively scheduled for this coming Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 (weather permitting);  Brandon A. at Midwest Paving is still investigating the appearance issue noted on the Day 6 seal coat work.
6. Spring Clean-up event held on April 28^th feedback discussion; 55 bags of trash were collected by 14 volunteers; in 2013  the Board will need to promote this event better and contact Rizzo to have a 30 yard roll-off  container dropped off in advance.

4. New Business

1. Groundwater contamination update - Mike G. provided an update to the Board; preliminary results of all irrigation well water testing within Central Park indicates no traces of VOCs such as TCE and TCA
2. 2013 Annual Budget process timing; Brian P. will have a first draft of the proposed 2013 Budget available for discussion at the next Board Meeting
3. Installation of new traffic signage

                                                               i.      add two more "STOP" signs at the intersection of NCP and ECP to make it a 3-way stop intersection – the Board approved the installation of two more “STOP” signs at this intersection;  Ryan Dorner to initiate the work order.

                                                             ii.      Add "Pedestrian Crossing Ahead" signs either side of crosswalk near WCP and St. Nicholas – the Board decided against installing warning signs based on the fact that if we did it here, by extension we would have to do it at all other crosswalks; the Board feels that the recent sidewalk alignment improvements and upcoming pedestrian crosswalk striping will have brought all pedestrian crosswalks to the same level of safety and visibility

4. Snow and Lawn contracts – the Board voted to award the following contracts to True North:

                                                               i.      A three-year Snow Removal contract for an annual amount not to exceed $14,500; expires April 2015

                                                             ii.      A three-year Lawn Maintenance contract for an annual amount not to exceed $19,365; expires November 2015

5. The next Board Meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Mike Grobbel’s condominium.
6. The Meeting adjourned at 9:15 PM

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Approved Minutes of all previous CPMA Board of Director meetings can be found on this web page.