12:00 AM	15th Annual Food Drive 15th Annual Food Drive Set for May 12 Nation’s Largest One-day Effort to ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ WASHINGTON, February 21—The National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) announced today that the nation’s largest food drive to combat hunger will be conducted this year on Saturday, May 12 in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. On that day, letter carriers will collect non-perishable donations as they deliver mail along their postal routes. The 15th annual NALC National Food Drive is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. Carriers collected 70.5 million pounds of food in the 2006 drive, the third consecutive year the effort has exceeded 70 million pounds. Download the 2007 Food Drive cartoon (JPG, 1.23 MB) The food will be collected in over 10,000 communities by nearly 1,500 local branches of the postal union, along with rural carriers and other volunteers. Donations will be delivered to food banks, pantries and shelters that serve the area where the donations are collected. Since its inception in 1993, the nationwide drive has collected and delivered over three-quarters of a billion pounds of food—765.5 million pounds—to help hungry families. NALC President William H. Young noted that the upcoming summer months “are a particularly critical time for millions of children whose school lunch programs are suspended until fall and their families must find alternate sources of nutrition.” Download the Coordinator's Manual (PDF, 2 MB) “Letter carriers see these families every day as they deliver the mail,” Young said. “This food drive is one way we can help alleviate their plight and we encourage our postal patrons to participate by leaving donations by their mailbox on May 12.” Residents will be asked to leave non-perishable donations—such as canned meat, fish and soup, and cereals, pasta and rice—in a bag near their mailbox on Saturday, May 12 before their letter carrier arrives. It will be taken to the local post office and then delivered to a local food bank, pantry or shelter. Co-sponsors of the drive are the U.S. Postal Service, Campbell Soup Company, Cox Target Media-Valpak, local United Ways, the AFL-CIO, and America’s Second Harvest food bank network. Click here for a list of Food Drive coordinators by branch (UPDATED APRIL 1).       Letter Carriers Collect 70.5 Million Pounds In Nation’s Largest Anti-Hunger Food Drive WASHINGTON, June 2006—Letter carriers collected 70.5 million pounds of food donations along their mail routes in the nation’s largest one-day effort to combat hunger, the NALC announced today Read all about the last year's Drive in the July 2006 Postal Record Final results showed 70,493,150 pounds of food were collected along postal routes in the postal union’s “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive conducted annually on the second Saturday in May in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. The food was delivered to local food banks, pantries and shelters to help needy families. Buffalo/Western New York NALC Branch 3, which collected 1,902,962 pounds of donations, was the top NALC local branch in the drive for the fourth consecutive year. NALC President William H. Young thanked the millions of American families who left food by their mailboxes and the thousands of letter carriers, rural carriers, and other postal employees and volunteers who collected, processed, and delivered the donations to local food banks and pantries. “Once again the American people have come through with an amazing display of generosity,” Young said. "Hunger is a critical day-to-day issue for far too many families in our nation – including working Americans, children and the elderly – and letter carriers are proud to deliver donations from our postal customers to restock their community food banks and pantries." The announcement was made in conjunction with today’s National Hunger Awareness Day activities aimed at encouraging citizen involvement in anti-hunger efforts. Young expressed appreciation to the U.S. Postal Service and Campbell Soup Company, who together supplied nearly 118 million postcards to promote the drive, as well as other major supporters: Valpak, the direct mail marketing firm; America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest network of food banks; United Way of America and its local United Ways; the AFL-CIO, and cartoonist Bil Keane, who yearly provides a special “Family Circus” drawing for the drive.
09:00 AM	Annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day The annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day is scheduled for Saturday, May 12 from 9-3 p.m. The Evanston location will be at the Uinta County Fairgrounds. Bridger Valley location will be the County Road and Bridge shop south of Mountain View. This program is a cooperative effort among Uinta County, the Weed and Pest District, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Uinta Recycling Inc. It has also been scheduled in conjunction with the Evanston City clean-up. Make sure to bring your HHHW to the collection points. If you put it out for the city to pick up it will be left behind. There will be inspections for hidden items. Not sure what to do with that old computer or TV, old cell phone and battery, old power tool batteries? Bring them to the household hazardous waste collection day and they will be recycled instead of taking up valuable space, and contaminating the landfill. They will be accepting all forms of household hazardous waste including motor oil, antifreeze, weed killers, pesticides, paint, household cleaners, solvents, fertilizers, batteries and other items which may pose a hazard to the environment. Again this year, we they be accepting E-waste including but not limited to microwaves, televisions along with computer monitors for recycling. Please do not bring in any explosives, medical waste or radioactive materials. For any questions on household products accepted please contact 307-783-0301. If you have any questions regarding pesticide disposal please contact Uinta County Weed and Pest at 307-789-9289. Business waste will be charged accordingly.
09:00 AM	City of Evanston Clean Up begins Click this link to view a .pdf file from the City of Evanston