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September 10, 2019

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WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM 22 UCW SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2019 Hope Mills News & Views Meetings For details about all meetings and activities, including location where not listed, call Town Clerk Jane Starling at 910-426-4113. Most meetings take place at Town Hall or the Hope Mills Parks and Recreation Center. • Historic Preservation Commission, Wednesday, Sept. 11, Parks and Recreation Center. • Lake Advisory Committee, Tuesday, Sept. 17, Parks and Recreation Center. • Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, Monday, Sept. 23, Luther Board Room, Town Hall. • Board of Commissioners, Monday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m., Luther Meeting Room, Town Hall. • Appearance Commission, Tuesday, Sept. 24, Parks and Recreation Center. • Veterans Affairs Committee, ursday, Sept. 26, Parks and Recreation Center. • Heritage Park Master Plan, General Public Kickoff, ursday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m., Parks and Recreation Center. Events • Hope Meals Food Truck Rodeo, ursday, Sept. 5, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., Municipal Complex. • Fall Shred Event and Litter Sweep, Saturday, Sept. 21, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., Town Hall Build- ing and Parks and Recreation Building. • Miss Hope Mills Cotton Pageant, age 3-9 years, Friday, Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m., Jack Britt High School. • Miss Hope Mills Cotton Pageant, ages 10-22 years, Saturday, Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m., Jack Britt High School. • Good 2 Grow Farmers Market, Saturday, Sept. 14, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., between Town Hall and Parks and Recreation Building. Activities • Hope Mills Area Kiwanis Club at Sammio's, second Tuesdays at noon and fourth Tues- days at 6 p.m. For details, call 910-237-1240. • Hope Mills Parks and Recreation Senior programs at Parks and Recreation Center. Senior programs are for those ages 55 and up who are residents of Cumberland County. Various activities, especially Zumba classes, are scheduled Monday through Sunday throughout the day. For details on times and days, check the schedule at townofhopemi - lls.com. You can call the recreation center at 910-426-4109 or e-mail Kasey Ivey at kivey@ townofhopemills.com. Promote yourself: Email hopemills@upandcomingweekly.com. CALENDAR NEWS Second shred/litter event scheduled this month by EARL VAUGHAN JR. EARL VAUGHAN JR., Senior Staff Writer. COMMENTS? EarlUCWS- ports@gmail.com. 910-364-6638. Get your unwanted documents together and dress for cleanup duty. The town of Hope Mills is holding its biannual shred- ding and litter sweep events. Stormwater supervisor Beth Brown said Sept. 21 has been designated as the day the town will offer free shredding of sensitive documents while invit- ing townspeople to volunteer to help spruce up neighboring streets by picking up litter. There will not be a hazardous household waste cleanup. That was held in the spring, and Brown said it's too costly to do more than once a year. "That event is typically between $20,000-30,000,'' she said. Not many people requested a repeat on the hazardous waste cleanup, Brown said, but they did on the shredding event. "We feel it's easier to do in coordination with another event like the litter sweep,'' she said. The goal of the shredding event is to pro- vide the community with a chance to dispose of any kind of paper waste and get rid of it in a manner that is environmentally friendly and appropriate. Just about anything related to paper prod- ucts is acceptable except large binder clips, Brown said. Paper clips and staples can be left in documents and will be shredded. The public can also bring computer disks, both CD and DVD types, along with the old-style floppy disks. "We did collect some of those during the spring,'' she said of the floppy disks. One thing everyone bringing documents for shredding needs to know is the shredding will not take place on site when the materials are dropped off. Everything will be collected and placed in locked containers that will be locked in town hall over the weekend. The Monday following the shred event, the company doing the shredding will pick up all the material and transport it to Raleigh to be shredded. Brown said some people were upset last year when they were unable to watch their documents being shredded. "The service is as secure to use as if it was shredded on our site,'' she said. While the shred event will be going on at town hall in the customer parking lot, the litter sweep will begin at the Parks and Recreation Department. Brown said maps will be available and vol- unteers can pick an area of town where they would like to clean up. They can choose a designated area or clean up anywhere within the town limits. The town will provide gloves, trash bags and tools to pick up the trash with along with safety vests. The vests and tools need to be returned when done. Children are welcome to take part in the litter sweep, but any child under the age of 18 must be supervised by a parent or guardian as a safety precaution. Brown said this litter sweep is impor- tant because it will be the final one before Ole Mill Days on Saturday, Oct. 5, with major activities scheduled at town hall and municipal park. Anyone with questions about the shred event should call 910-424-4555. For questions about the litter sweep, call 910-426-4109.

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