IN THE TWO YEARS THAT THE JENNINGS HAVE BEEN HERE THEY STILL HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE TRASH PICKUP QUESTION ANSWERED. AS THEY UNDERSTAND, YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR YARD TRASH IN A GARBAGE CAN TO HAVE IT PICKED UP. WHILE OUT WALKING POWERS, I HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME SEEM TO HAVE A CERTAIN TYPE OF PLASTIC BAG THAT THEY HAVE PILED OUT BY THE ROAD FOR PICKUP. WILL THE CITY PICKUP IF YOU DO THIS? IF THEY WILL, WHERE DO YOU GET THOSE BAGS? I HAVE ALSO SEEN A COUPLE OF HOUSES THAT HAVE STICKS PILED BY THE ROAD. I AM SOOOOO CONFUSED! BACK IN GOOD OLD LA- WE THREW IT IN THE BACK OF THE YARD TRUCK AND TOOK IT TO THE LOCAL REFUSE DUMP. LIFE IS SO SIMPLE IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN! HELP A SOUTHERN GAL OUT ------SPLAIN THE RULES, LUCY!!!!
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Regular garbage can go in a plastic bag and be put by the curb on garbage pick up days...no need to put them into a trash can.....recyclables like paper, newspapers, plastic, cans, etc can ALL go together in a garbage can OR you can put it all in a special blue bag...this lets the garbage man know which is which. You do not have to separate the recycled ones....can put them all together and it is sorted at the main dump. Leaves, weeds, grass clippings, etc have to go in a garbage can and cannot weigh more than 50#...Or you can put them in a box...just so it is something that can be picked up and dumped into the truck that picks up the weeds, grass, branches, etc. For a month in the springtime (happening right now), the city has a 'spring cleanup'...and you can put just about ANYTHING out on your curb and it will be picked up...even large items like mattresses, etc. What is really fun to watch is that during these spring pick up days, people with trucks and vans will drive around and pick up all of the trash before the garbage man picks it up...Like dumpster diving, I guess! Well..what is one man's trash may be another's treasures, right! Hope this helps....
Hello Lucy,
Welcome to Erie, PA....
birthplace of Henry Jennings. :)
Erie and Millcreek are separate governments and waste is treated different in both.
Since you are LECOM folks, you are likely in Millcreek. If you have access to a truck, you can kill two birds with one stone. Pack up all grass clippings and tree sticks that have fallen during winter, and haul them to the recycle/compost center on Millfair Road.
Route 20 is also West 26th Street. Our streets are numbered from Lake Erie to your north. Each street is about 1/10 mile so figure 10 blocks to the mile.
26th street is about 2 1/2 miles from the lake.
26th street is divided east and west while in Erie, but remains Route 20 simultaneously from Buffalo to Cleveland.
Take 26th street and go toward the airport, past it, past Wal Mart and Wegmans. After Wegman's, the first street light is Millfair Road (this divides Millcreek from Fairview, the next government to the west.
Go right on Millfair (North). The compost center is before the railroad tracks, less than 1/2 mile on Millfair and on your right (east side of Millfair).
Dump your greens and load up free compost and mulch from years past that has been processed; first come first served.
K-Mart is at 26th and Peninsula Drive...the road to Presque Isle. Go out 26th street toward the airport for 2 stop lights (1st is Hoss's Restaurant; second is the Township Building/Police). It is on the corner at the second light (Caughey and 26th).
Go in the lobby and there are calendars with all the rules and dates involved. Calendars are free.
Ask anyone in the lobby, or the receptionist, and you will be pointed to the wall rack holding this information.
Spring cleanup is easy.
Invest in a mulch mower and your lawn is recycled to the earth right on the lawn. No picking up needed.
We get so many leaves falling in the Autumn, that they need bagged and removed or the rains carry them to sewer lines and clock up like a bad artery.
Regrettably, leaves are composted with those bags (they are not separated at the site). Tiny blue bag particles will still be in your compost for about 500 years or so. Oil and chemicals takes a while to decompose, so I do not understand the philosophy of that route.
You can bundle and tie the tree limbs and sticks. Try to keep the length of sticks similar and tie with a string. This is less a rule than a courtesy and form of respect to our waste collecters, who operate at night. It is a cinch for them to lift a well tied, uniform sized, bundle, than to lift a pile of sticks in the dark.
Post again if you need more info or directions.
You are visiting at a time when our community gets better and better for the next 7 months or so, then snowtime anew.
You need to look at the camera occasionally, so Henry will know what your eyes look like. You are always looking down, in anticipation of a new diaper load. These do NOT go to the recycle center with grass and limbs!
My mom died last year leaving 10 of 12 kids living, and 99 grandchildren and great grands (now risen to 101 kids). In all that group of kids, I have never seen a baby with a head of hair as grand as Henry owns.
Then again, my mom never wore a bikini in the snow while out-to-here, with a baby in the momma oven.
I have a theory this event by Camille, led Henry to form a layer of thick fur for warmth while Ginger Rodgers Camille danced in the snow ala bikini.
(We locals generally confine bikini to July, August, and pregnancy is optional at that time with a bikini).
This is testimony to Henry has a brilliant brain IQ.
His head frosted on the belly side, and instead of doing a free wheel turn 180 in the oven, he lay there and grew that delightful carpet on top. It is an awesome sight.
Having returned to Erie from a stint in Florida (Gulf side below Sarasota where it is warm and tropical always), I am relearning tundra life too.
Pictures from Camille and Brooke show that these young families have found gusto in life in Erie, PA.
They have also found love in all who meet them, or simply read of them. Do not be alarmed if they choose to stay here in another couple of years, as a way of life to raise young Henry, in one of the best family oriented areas on the planet.
Jobs will not be a problem.
When Henry popped out looking like Samson, barber shop enrollment increased locally in anticipation of trimming his hair more often than you will trim the lawn.
Enjoy our sunny days and our sunny people, Lucy.
Lora too!
Blessings and joy to you and your new boy.
Danny Lucas
Looks like you already got your answers.. I was just going to say you CAN put it in the bins. (we do because we have them) but all of our neighbors just put their bags on the side of the road. And they use the wegmans blue plastic bags for their recycling. White trash bags for the trash. Easy enough. This was shocking to me when I moved here because in Texas if it isnt in the bin (with the lid closed) they wont pick it up! Seriously - lid has to be closed too! crazy
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