The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Page: 24 of 31
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City changes
, recycle services provider
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The city has switched to new
trash and recycling services
provider in a move that will take
effect June 4.
With the arrival of Allied
Waste Services, the new collec-
tor, the city will implement
changes and enhancements to
both the residential solid waste
and recycling programs in The
Colony. These changes and
enhancements involve residen-
tial collection routing, addition
of new services, adjustments to
the trash and recycling collec-
tion policy, and an increase in
the size of the recycling contain-
er. Each of these changes and
enhancements are explained in
detail in this article.
On June 4, the City of The
Colony will begin with the fol-
lowing changes and enhance-
ments to the residential solid
waste and recycling programs:
residential trash and recycling
will now be picked up once per
week, Tuesday through Friday.
Users refer to the enclosed map
to determine your new collection
day for both waste and recycling.
Also, a map of the collection
route will be included in the
information packet attached to
one of the new carts and will also
be available as a handout at City
Hall in the lobby. You can also
refer to The Colony’s web site at
http://www.thecolonytx.gov for
more information.
There are also several adjust-
ments to the residential solid
waste and recycling collection
policy which will be implement-
ed in June. These adjustments
are being made to enhance the
program’s collection efficiencies,
helping keep overall program
costs as low as possible and to
keep the overall appearance of
our city at its best. All household
solid waste and recycling must
be placed in the green trash or
blue recycle cart for collection.
Since all trash and recycling col-
lection will now be done by a
multi-task collection vehicle
with an automatic arm; all house-
hold trash and recycling must be
inside its respective container
for collection. Any trash or recy-
cling placed outside the contain-
er will not be collected. This
change is being implemented to
help improve the appearance of
the city and to encourage resi-
dents to minimize the amount of
waste that needs to be landfilled.
Both the trash and the recycling
containers will need to be placed
at least three feet from the near-
est object for collection. Please
refer to the city Web site and
cable channel for additional
information on where you
should place the containers for
collection. More detailed infor-
mation on the trash and recy-
cling programs can be found in
the respective program
brochures in the information
packet that will be attached to
one of your new collection carts.
If you consistently generate
more than 95 gallons of solid
waste per week, additional green
carts are available for an extra
monthly charge. The city’s
expanded recycling program
contains one additional element
that our residents have not had
in the past. For each ton of clean
recycling materials that is
processed by Allied Waste
Services, a rebate of 40 percent
of the sale price of No. 8
newsprint will be given to The
Colony every month. A portion
of this rebate will then be credit-
ed to residential accounts. So the
more clean recycling materials
that residents put in their blue
carts for collection, the greater
the rebate the City will receive.
This is a way for residents to
help offset the cost of the recy-
cling program in The Colony, in
addition to saving natural
resources and reducing our
dependence on landfilling.
Under the new green waste
program, Mondays are reserved
for green waste and bulky item
collection. Mondays will allow
residents to put out up to five
cubic yards of organic material
on each set out. The pickup
schedule for Green Waste will be
every Monday for the months of
March through November and
the first and third Mondays for
the months of December through
February. Tree limbs and brush
will still need to be bundled in 4’
lengths and tied with cord or
twine sufficient to pick up the
bundles and weigh no more than
40 pounds per bundle.
Grass clippings and leaves
will need to be put in 30 gallon
paper yard bags (available for
purchase at several local retail-
ers) or a container for collection.
No plastic bags will be accepted
on Mondays for the Green Waste
program. Items for the Green
Waste program will be placed for
pickup in the same area as your
normal trash pickup.
Bulky items will also be
picked up on Mondays.
Residents will be able to place
two bulky items out for pickup
on either the first and third
Mondays of each month or the
second or fourth Mondays of
each month depending on the
area of the city you live in. On
the enclosed routing map for
trash and recycling, If the collec-
tion day is on Tuesday or
Wednesday then bulky items will
be picked up on the first and
third Mondays of each month. If
your collection day is Thursday
or Friday then your bulky items
will be picked up on the second
and fourth Mondays of each
month.
Bulky items are defined as
follows stoves, refrigerators,
water heaters, washing
machines, dishwashers, furni-
ture and similar large items. Any
item that has or had Freon in it
must be checked and certified to
be freon free by a certified tech-
nician. A tag certifying that the
Freon has been removed must be
placed on the item prior to pick-
up by the vendor. Items that do
not qualify as a bulky item are;
construction materials, remodel-
ing materials, dirt, brick, rock, or
any like items.
More program changes: the
following holidays will now be
observed for solid waste and
recycling collection; New Years
Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of
July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas Day. During
these holiday weeks, all collec-
tions will be delayed one day the
rest of the week. All other holi-
days are collected as normal.
There will be two citywide
cleanups; one in the spring and
one in the fall, usually in April
and October. Also, the Landfill
Pass program will continue with
a greater number and longer
expiration for landfill passes.
Landfill passes are still good for
one time use only. The Christmas
Tree Mulch program will also be
continuing for residents. Finally,
the City will be establishing drop
off centers for large amounts of
recycling in two different loca-
tions within the city limits, and
possibly expanding to other loca-
tions in the future.
The last week of May, new 95-
gallon trash (green) and recy-
cling (blue) containers will be
delivered by Allied Waste. At the
same time, the previous vendors
(IES! and Waste Management)
will be removing their respective
containers immediately after
trash and recycling is collected.
Please place trash and recycling
containers at the appropriate
collection location in the alley or
on the curb area the last week of
May. The City greatly appreciates
your corporation and patience as
the new vendor (Allied Waste
Services) starts and as the new
program changes are implement-
ed. For questions, call 972-624-
3132 or e-mail recycling@the
colonytx.gov.
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Entertainment
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Waitress: A half-full plate
Waitress”
[PG-13]
★★★☆
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
There are plenty of things
that are on the menu of
"Waitress” — pies, Keri Russell,
enough homespun country
hokum to fill out a Blue Bell Ice
Cream radio spot.
Unfortunately, it’s a menu
from which I’m not buying.
Russell, best-known for the
television show “Felicity,” stars
as a small-town waitress at a
pie-serving diner. But she’s not
just a waitress at a pie-serving
diner. She’s a veritable pie
genius, cooking up a new batch
of Heaven each day and endow-
ing each one with a quirky
name.
She’s also very pregnant and
very unhappy about it. Her hus-
band (Jeremy Sisto) is that no-
good, worthless drunkard type
that populates American
movies. To escape him, she
hopes to win a pie-cookin’ con-
test and move the heck away.
Her frustration also leads to an
affair with the town’s new gyne-
cologist (Nathan Fillion). The
story is rounded out by a kitschy
group of fellow waitresses,
cooks, and meandering charac-
ters to give the diner and town
an offbeat “Northern Exposure”-
ish flavor.
I described “Waitress” to a
co-worker as “A Greater Tuna
Unwanted Pregnancy.”
Husbands are, as mentioned
above, no-good worthless
drunkards. Bosses (none other
than Andy Griffith — how coun-
try is that?) are prickly coots
with secret heart of gold, who
don’t leave the house without a
curmudgeonly bow tie. Every
outsized country character
spouts out enough nuggets of
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Lew Temple, Keri Russell and Cheryl Hines star in ‘Waitress.’
PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT
Keri Russell stars as a pie genius in ‘Waitress.’
wisdom to make city slickers
feel good about not steamrolling
the rest of the farmland.
Hard-on-their luck waitress-
es are difficult to cast in movies.
Stars find it hard to glam down
that much, and they can detract
from the purpose of the movie.
This is a wall that Russell runs
into. It’s not so much her weak,
made-up accent (although it is
partly her weak, made-up
accent) as that you can play an
easy game of “spot the star”
while gazing across the restau-
rant. While I don’t hold films to
standards of strict realism. I still
found Russell distractingly alien
to the sense of place.
Certainly there are reasons
to like “Waitress.” It delivers a
share of mildly amusing humor.
It feels different than the cut-
and-paste comedies to which
we’ve been broken in. It’s also a
final goodbye from its director,
Adrienne Shelly (who plays a
fellow waitress in the film), who
was murdered under strange cir-
cumstances in New York last
year. I suspect that last fact
accounts for the glowing recep-
tion to this rather slight film has
received. Certainly this is no
daily special.
Also premiering:
Shrek the Third — the third
entry in the story of an ogre, a
donkey, and a fairy tale land.
The Wendell Baker Story
— Owen Wilson’s directorial
debut.
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