Say yes to a Farmers Market in GermanParistown
Please call the number below and give your support! This is on the corner of Kentucky and Swan Sts.
Changes For Garbage And Recycling/Yard Waste Collection Days
Mailer Details Changes For
Garbage And Recycling/Yard Waste Collection Days
Streamlined routes will provide more cost-effective service
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (November 29, 2011) – Citizens who live within the Urban Services District (old city limits) should watch for a mailer that provides information about changes to their scheduled garbage collection and recycling/yard waste collection days.
More than 77,550 households and small businesses in the Urban Services will be affected, with a change to one or both of their collection days.
The changes take effect January 9, 2012. Residents will need to place their trash, recycling and yard waste at their normal collection site on the specific days of the week listed on the mailer.
“It is imperative that citizens pay close attention to these mailers. Some people who have set their trash out on the same day for years will see their collection days have changed,” Metro Public Works Director Ted Pullen said. “We encourage folks to hang them on their refrigerators or somewhere visible as a reminder.”
Some customers will keep the same collection days. However, everyone in the Urban Services District will receive a mailer confirming which day of the week is designated for garbage, recycling and yard waste pick-up. The route changes will not affect collection in the central business district.
Although Solid Waste makes service revisions and improvements every year, collection routes had not been thoroughly analyzed and evaluated since 1994. The new route system will allows crews to operate in a more streamlined and timely manner making Solid Waste’s services, which are funded by taxpayer dollars, more efficient.
In the coming months, additional equipment and more employees will be integrated into the Solid Waste Management Services fleet, measures that were included in Mayor Greg Fischer’s 2011-2012 budget as a more efficient alternative to overtime spending.
Citizens with questions about changes to their garbage or recycling/yard waste collection days should call MetroCall 311 or visit www.louisvilleky.gov/solidwaste
Construction on Ellison Ave
In case you haven’t noticed yet, work has begun on the new Rain Garden at the bottom of Ellison Ave. You can check out pictures on our photo gallery. Work will continue for the next weeks.
Feel free to stop by and check it out for yourself. We are really excited about this project between GPNA, MSD and Louisville Metro.
Stan’s Retirement Reception
Please join the Board of
Highlands Community Ministries
Thanking
Stan Esterle
For his decades of service
On the occasion of his
Retirement
November 15, 2011
7:30 pm
Frazier Hall
Bellarmine University
GameNight2011: Neighborhood Announcement from GermanParistown
On Friday, November 4th at 6:30pm, the GermanParistown Neighborhood Association will be open to the neighborhood (and friends/family) for having an evening of KumBaYah, (Otherwise known as “Game Night”). Do we know each other as neighbors all that well? (Not near enough.) Now that there are computers that can beat the best at Jeopardy, we’d better hone our skills at games, puzzles, cards and magic tricks. There will be a pot of stew, a pot of tea, and a pot of apple cider on the boil. Bring something to nibble if you feel like sharing with those who come. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded to the best of the best. If it’s been a while since you’ve played a game, COME! If you have a favorite game, BRING IT! The Association has a nice stash of games/puzzles already, so just bring yourself if you want to keep it simple. Is this an idea whose time has come? Let’s prove it to ourselves that the answer is YES! If you have any follow up questions, call Nate at 502 299 9520.
Address: 1094 E. Kentucky St. (next to St. Therese Church).
If you haven’t been for a visit recently, you’ve been missing things: Check it out.
Invite friends.
Live music is always a possibility. If you have a set of drums, BRING!
We will be starting a collage, so bring your old National Geographics and Vanity Fair, eh?
This is an equal opportunity event; anyone can win—and anyone can show up.
This will be a monthly event, so put this on your calendar. Nov. 4, Dec. 2, Jan 6, Feb 6, March 2, etc.
Uncle GermantownUSA Wants You! …Community awareness and solidarity starts by doing things together…
Mayor Fischer Encourages Citizens to Sign Up for New Citywide Emergency Alert System
Mayor Fischer Encourages Citizens to Sign Up for New Citywide Emergency Alert System
Sign up by visiting www.louisvilleky.gov, or call MetroCall 311
Louisville has a new system — Code Red — to keep citizens updated during emergencies.
The system uses a variety of methods — text alerts, emails and phone calls — to warn citizens about potentially life-threatening events, including severe weather.
The new service is free – but you must sign up to receive the alerts.
To sign up for Code Red alerts, visit www.louisvilleky.gov and fill out the form. Citizens may choose which types of alerts and which delivery methods they wish to receive.
Citizens who do not have access to computers or the Internet may visit public libraries to sign up for Code Red.
Citizens who cannot visit the library can call MetroCall 311 and have a city employee enter their information into the system. MetroCall will be helping citizens sign up for Code Red every weekday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Announcing the 5th Annual Germantown Shotgun Festival
Please click on the link below to see the new flyer for the upcoming Germantown Shotgun Festival. The Shotgun Fest will be October 15, 2011 at the St. Theresa Church parking lot. 1011 E. Kentucky St. Festivities start at Noon and music at 4pm.
Come out and celebrate and meet your neighbors.
Germantown Crime Report
SUCCESSES –
· Residential Burglaries in Old Louisville are down over 65% this month compared to a month ago!!
· North end theft from Autos is down significantly from past 4 weeks. This is the 2nd week in a row with no offenses from the 700-900 blocks of 1st to 6th streets.
· Beat 2 theft from autos is high, but we have identified 2 groups of suspects involved and will make arrests.
ATTENTION GERMANTOWN- Car battery theft is on the rise. Please keep an eye out for 2 White males and a White female driving a Maroon mini-van stealing these from cars.
We have made an arrest of White Male Gary Muncy in the Saturday night Murder of the person at Hickory & Burnett.
I am working on the crime maps now and should have them up shortly.
The Metropolitan Sewer District board Monday approved emergency repairs at one of its flood pump stations and the construction of a rain garden in an unusually shaped Germantown intersection.
The Metropolitan Sewer District board Monday approved emergency repairs at one of its flood pump stations and the construction of a rain garden in an unusually shaped Germantown intersection.
Contractors who were already working to upgrade the agency’s 34th Street Flood Pump Station to reduce sewage overflows will now take on additional work to replace newly discovered, failing guide rails for a gate that keeps water from backing up in the sewers when the Ohio River floods.
“If that gate were to fail, Portland would be flooded,” said MSD Executive Director Bud Schardein.
The work will cost $57,800 and is part of $85,000 in new spending the board approved for the upgrade, which is being handled by Pace Contracting of Louisville.
The gate is one of about 140 that are part of the city’s flood protection system of levees and walls along the river. Many are old, and each gets inspected at least once a year and tested several times a year, Schardein said.
“We are giving it as much priority as we can, and live within our budget,” he told the board, adding that MSD will need to find more money to upgrade parts of the system that are more than 50 years old.
The board also approved a $91,000 contract with E-Z Construction Inc. of Louisville to build a rain garden in a large, triangular paved area where Swan Street meets Dandridge and Ellison avenues.
The intersection has been described as a no-man’s land of asphalt that encourages motorists to drive unpredictably. It also collects and funnels water into sewers, contributing to overflows of untreated sewage into area waterways.
The plants and soil will be designed to soak up as much as 1.5 million gallons of storm water a year, MSD officials said.
Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10th District, also arranged for $10,000 in city funding for work that will re-direct traffic through the intersection and improve sidewalks.
“We’re very pleased,” said Tandee Ogburn, a board member of the German-Paristown Neighborhood Association who has been advocating the rain garden and traffic improvements for several years. She said it will beautify the neighborhood, slow traffic and make the area safer for pedestrians.
During the meeting, MSD board member Yvonne Wells-Hatfield questioned whether any neighborhood association would be capable of maintaining a rain garden.
Brian Bingham, MSD director of regulatory services, said the district would work closely with the association and inspect the garden once a year.
But even if the plants were to die, the soil in the 4,000-cubic-foot garden would be designed to soak up all the rain water that will flow into it, he said.
Ogburn said the association is committed to neighborhood beautification.
“We would never let it become a mud pit,” she said.
Reporter James Bruggers can be reached at (502) 582-4645.
Moving Planet
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To: Mayor Fischer and City Council Members, and aides, of Louisville KY
In solidarity with untiring efforts of individuals in the local community to make a stand, at their own expense, against the negative impacts of fossil fuel burning, the GermanParistown Neighborhood Association (GPNA) has passed a resolution of support for the initiatives known as “Moving Planet”, part of the efforts characterized at the website http://350.org The Moving Planet initiative involves residents gathering at key locations in their local neighborhood and walking or biking to City Hall on September 24.
The GPNA agrees that popular movements have merit and that neighborhood organizations have a role to play in coordinating and supporting the efforts of individuals that have goals and strategies for the common good. GPNA has agreed to use its grounds (1094 E. Kentucky St.; very beautiful grounds, I may add—thanks to local public funds) as a starting point for the day’s march/bike to the 4pm gathering of many like-minded neighborhood residents at the county seat of power and influence—where statements of support for initiatives that improve our environment and health will be posited for immediate consideration by policy makers (initiatives consistent with the Moving Planet core strategy). As part of an ongoing campaign of awareness and direct action, the GPNA stands ready to [Nate Pederson] support engage the Mayor and City Council on efforts that may not only benefit us all (and future generations), even though these efforts may require inconvenience, reality-checking, and patience.
With reciprocal love of fellow humans, and a zeal for interactive and appropriate governance,
Nate Pederson, on behalf of the GPNA
Sept 20, 2011
PS Councilmen King and Tandy, and their aides, are more than welcome to walk/bike with us as a sign of unanimity of cause/purpose.