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Get into springtime, make Williams sparkle at Clean-up Day this Saturday
Drop off electronic waste, tires at Williams Rodeo Barn; free large appliance removal available

Todd Helgeson/Submitted Photo <br /><br /><!-- 1upcrlf2 -->The Williams Rotary Club and community members take a break after cleaning Williams Cemetery during 2010 spring’s cleanup day. Pictured are Rotarians Roxen Cureton, Bill Miller, Patricia Helgeson, Ken Lollich, Todd Yung, Anna Dick, Kevin Young, Gary McCarthy and Brian Prager; Multicultural Alliance Mexican Independence Day Royalty 2010 Queen Andrea Ayala and 2011 contestant Elena Gutierrez; Williams Girl Scout Troop No. 2616 members Jocelyn Ortega, Caitlyn Fritsinger, Madison Jensen, Cayla Fritsinger and Cassity Kearly and troop leaders Peggy Jensen and Michelle Bliss; and community volunteers Jim Jensen and Todd Helgeson.

Todd Helgeson/Submitted Photo <br /><br /><!-- 1upcrlf2 -->The Williams Rotary Club and community members take a break after cleaning Williams Cemetery during 2010 spring’s cleanup day. Pictured are Rotarians Roxen Cureton, Bill Miller, Patricia Helgeson, Ken Lollich, Todd Yung, Anna Dick, Kevin Young, Gary McCarthy and Brian Prager; Multicultural Alliance Mexican Independence Day Royalty 2010 Queen Andrea Ayala and 2011 contestant Elena Gutierrez; Williams Girl Scout Troop No. 2616 members Jocelyn Ortega, Caitlyn Fritsinger, Madison Jensen, Cayla Fritsinger and Cassity Kearly and troop leaders Peggy Jensen and Michelle Bliss; and community volunteers Jim Jensen and Todd Helgeson.

WILLIAMS - Get into spring and help make Williams sparkle! The annual spring Cleanup Williams Day will be held 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday. Volunteers are invited to meet at the Williams-Forest Service Visitor parking lot for coffee and pastries. APS will provide soda and water along the cleanup route. Please bring a hat and gloves, but trash bags will be provided. Find Easter eggs containing coupons for cash prizes all around town.

The Williams Police Department will be on hand to collect and dispose of old and unneeded medical prescriptions so they can be disposed safely. The Lions Club will collect old batteries. Cans of paint will be collected at the Williams Rodeo Grounds. Paint must be identifiable.

A free barbecue will be served at noon at the Visitor Center. Enjoy hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and sodas. Cleanup day is sponsored by American Legion Cordova Post No. 13, Arizona Public Service, city of Williams, city of Williams Recreation Department, Holiday Inn of Williams, Jim Winbourn Landscaping and Property Maintenance, Pizza Factory, Pepsi, Red Garter Bed and Bakery, Superior Propane, Williams Lions Club and the Williams Police Department.

Free large appliance

removal available

The city of Williams and Williams Clean and Beautiful is hosting free large appliance removal through Saturday. Call the city of Williams at 635-4451 to establish a work order.

Appliances must be placed in front of residences as close to the curb as possible, but not in the street. Residents can also haul appliances to the transfer station during the pickup period, simply give your name and address at the transfer station.

Clean and Beautiful is available to assist those that are disabled or need financial assistance.

For more information on Cleanup Williams Day, call the Williams-Grand Canyon Chamber of Commerce at 635-0273, ext. 203 or www.williamschamber.org.

Drop off electronic

waste, tires

Grand Canyon Railway and Williams Clean and Beautiful have teamed up to provide a community electronics pickup 9 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Williams Rodeo Barn.

Westech Recyclers will be here with a tractor trailer free of charge to pickup electronic waste from the community.

They will pick up "IT" and communications electronics, consumer electronics, electronic components, miscellaneous electronic items and ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Televisions and computer monitors will be accepted.

Old tires will be accepted free of charge 9 a.m.-noon Saturday April 28 at the transfer station. No large truck or off road tires will be accepted. Tires must be off the rims. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality officials announced today that a free electronics waste recycling and paper document shredding event will be held Saturday morning, April 28 from 8 a.m. until noon at the City of Williams Rodeo Grounds.

ADEQ and its partners - City of Williams, Grand Canyon Railway, Xanterra, National Park Service, City of Flagstaff, Williams Clean and Beautiful, MakoShred, I-40 Fleet Services, Coconino County and Westech Recyclers of Phoenix - anticipate collecting tons of unwanted TVs, computers, monitors, batteries, chargers, cell phones, VCRs, CD and DVD players, printers, fax machines, cables and cords during the event.

The recyclable material will be collected at the rodeo grounds, located at Airport Road and Rodeo Road in the northeast part of Williams. ADEQ also co-sponsored two other free e-waste collection events in Williams in 2009 and 2010 in which nearly 20,000 pounds of recyclables were collected.

"We are excited about returning to Williams again after the excellent events during the first two years of our free electronics waste recycling program in that area," ADEQ Director Henry Darwin said. "This is a great opportunity for people to dispose of all the unwanted electronics they have collected over the years while at the same time ensuring that this potentially toxic stream of waste is disposed of responsibly and does not take up valuable landfill space."

"As part of our Environmental Management System, Xanterra is committed to a zero landfill policy and a verifiable paper trail of the downstream when it comes to the proper management of electronic waste. We will also be collecting waste tires without their rims at this event free of charge," said Morgan O'Connor, director of sustainability for Xanterra.

Companies and individuals donating e-waste will receive a certificate of disposal for their records from Westech Recyclers if they want the document. Westech Recyclers will erase all hard drives with state of the art software and the company recycles all materials in accordance with state and federal regulations.


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