PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Impact Earth staff empty household food scraps into a Dumpster at the company s headquarters on Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road. Impact Earth recently acquired Monroe County s other residential food scrap hauler, Community Composting. An earthy, musty smell hangs in the air of Impact Earth’s cavernous headquarters on Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, where crews are emptying buckets of vegetable peels, apple cores, coffee grounds, egg shells, and other food scraps into totes destined for small farms for composting into a top soil-like material. Roughly 20 tons of food scraps pass through the facility each week, according to the company, organic waste collected from residential customers and commercial clients, such as restaurants and institutional kitchens, that would otherwise sit in a landfill.
Bloomer sworn in to represent Greece’s 3rd Ward
Monroe County Post
The Greece Town Board recently held an oath office ceremony to welcome Michael Bloomer as the representative for residents of the 3rd Ward.
In attendance were town Supervisor Bill Reilich, Bloomer’s family and council members Mike Barry, Diana Christodaro and Bill Murphy.
Bloomer graduated from Greece Olympia High School and received an associate degree in fire protection from Monroe Community College. He recently retired after serving more than 30 years with the Ridge Road Fire District.
Bloomer served in many capacities during his time with RRFD, from dispatcher to interim fire chief and chief officer for 19 years. He was the accreditation manager and fire district liaison to the Unity Hospital Emergency Management Team, managed the 2015 capital improvement project and represented the fire service on the Greece Traffic Advisory Committee in 2010-18.
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As the pandemic has wreaked economic upheaval and displaced millions of American workers, policy makers and the public have shown growing interest in short-term training and nondegree credentials as solutions to help people get back to work. At the same time, the national dialogue over systemic racism has renewed concerns about the role these nondegree programs have played in diverting those who are Black, Indigenous and people of color from higher levels of learning and the job opportunities that come as a result. The legitimate concern has emerged that the focus on short-term training for those who have been left most vulnerable by the pandemic could unintentionally exacerbate racial tracking in education.
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