Build a Better Block Macomb unveils park recycled cap benches & picnic table
Linda Lee Blaine, BBB Macomb
USA Today Netwrk.
MACOMB Macomb’s public spaces will be receiving six new benches and a youth-sized picnic table thanks to a community wide initiative spearheaded by Build a Better Block Macomb.
The benches are created by Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana (https://www.greentreeplastics.com/) from plastic caps and lids that are otherwise not recyclable. The response to the call for recycled caps was tremendous with many local organizations, businesses, and individuals collecting caps. Due to this initiative, over 2,000 pounds of plastic have been diverted from the landfill. Two benches were donated to the community in 2020 and are located at the Macomb Public Library and the WIU Horn Field Campus.
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Volunteer with the Community Cupboard Food Pantry: The Community Cupboard Food Pantry in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford seeks strong volunteers who can lift heavy items and stock storage shelves to work about three hours on the second Thursday of each month. Volunteers will work to provide a van full of food from the Greater Boston Food Bank. The load includes boxes filled with cans, 50 bags of fresh vegetables and other heavy items. For information: 781-391-2604.
Holy books in fact, all books containing God s name command a special respect among Jews. That reverence even includes a final resting place after they ve outlived their usefulness.
So on Wednesday afternoon, members of the Naples Jewish Congregation joined Rabbi Howard Herman on the grounds of the Unitarian-Universalist Church, where the congregation meets, for a unique burial. Following a prescribed ceremony, some 14 cases of outdated High Holy Days service books were committed back to the earth. It actually comes from a passage in the Talmud that stipulates sacred books should be preserved in a place where they can t be destroyed, Herman explained.
Collection competition
The food storage room in the warehouse across the parking lot from the Conway Elementary School. Courtesy of Rachel Sharples
Published: 4/13/2021 5:12:56 PM
A little friendly rivalry is taking place for a great cause this week. Local elementary schools are competing to see who can collect the most food to help stock the End 68 Hours of Hunger pantry.
Winners get local bragging rights, though the real winners are the more than 170 K-6 students whom the organization supports each week.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun, we’re all pumped,” said Mandy McDonald, in her 17th year as family support liaison at Conway Elementary School.
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