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Recycling committee looks to pursue grant
Published Saturday, September 13, 2008
NATCHEZ — When the Adams County Board of Supervisors meet on Monday they’re scheduled to hear a motion that will play an important role in the future of the newly formed recycling committee.
Darryl Grennell, supervisor and member of the recycling committee, said the committee will seek the board’s approval in pursuing a grant that would provide start-up funding for a joint county-city recycling program.
The current plan calls for the city and the county to simultaneously apply for solid waste assistance grants from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
The supervisors must give their approval before the recycling committee can pursue the grant.
Grennell said he has no reason to believe the supervisors will not approve the committee’s request.
“There isn’t anything that should impede their approval,” he said.
The grant does not require the city or county to match funds Grennell said.
And while Grennell said he’s confident the committee’s request will be granted, other questions with the program still remain.
Natchez grants coordinator Brett Brinegar will be writing the grant application for the city and said she still has not been given the specifics on what must be requested in the grant.
Brinegar said she needs to know what the county and city will be using the grant money for before the grant can be written.
“I need to know what the money is going to be spent on,” she said.
And Brinegar said she must have the information soon because the grant application is due on October 1 and estimated she and the county’s grant-writer would need at least one week to review the applications before they could be submitted.
But exactly who Brinegar will be reviewing the grant with is still unknown.
The county’s grants are normally written by the Southwest Mississippi Planning and Development District.
However, Mike Lazarus, also a supervisor and member of the recycling committee, said he has been in talks with county administrator, Cathy Walker, and Adams County Road Crew secretary, Sylvia Bunch, about completing the county’s grant.
Lazarus said the pair is already familiar with the solid waste assistance grant and would not charge the county a fee, unlike Southwest Mississippi Planning and Development District.
“I would prefer if they would fill out the grant,” he said of the two women.
But the recycling committee has also been making progress in organizing their members Lazarus said.
Lazarus said the committee has been broken into sub-committees to take charge of specific tasks.
And on Friday Lazarus said committee member Dickey King was out scouting possible locations to be used as staging areas for the program.
“We are making progress,” Lazarus said.
On Tuesday evening the recycling sub-committees will meet at the Country Inn and Suites for their next meeting.
Comments
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 12:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Isn't Dickey King from somewhere out of town? One of those recent arrivals with new plans for Natchez? Haven't others come here in the past in the same way and brought dissension among us? Am I wrong about this?
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 13, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Those cotdang new arrivals--where do they get the silly idea that anyone in Natchez would have the slightest interest in any contributions they might make towards improving the quality of life in their new community! The nerve! Probably a bunch of one world sustainable developmentalists intent on toppling democracy via a well coordinated fifth column recycling movement. Thanks for sounding the alarm, Enki!
Posted by ntz143 (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 8:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
what the heck is wrong with new ideas? Natchez is not an exclusive club that "outsiders" aren't invited to...it is a GROWING, viable community that should embrace new arrivals (and their tax dollars) with open arms. EnKiKur, you sound like one of those "old Natchez" folks who try to keep Natchez back in the civil war. Natchez is no longer "where the old south still lives", its becoming "where the new south now lives". Let's try being a little more open-minded.....it may do wonders for our community!
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 9:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Pretty funny guys...ntz143...you got caught in the middle of an inside joke.
Idefinelymight...you've learned to recognize Enk's sarcasm and answer with your own...good job.
Enk...I hear you...somtimes the carpetbaggers do come in with big ideas and no knowledge of the area, but they pretty quickly fizzle and move on to disrupt someone elses world for a while. The ones who manage to stay and become a part of the Natchez fabric by learning the lay of the land before attempting to introduce big ideas and reforms are the ones that should be embraced. It usually teaches them though to work with small, incremental changes that are more palatable to the locals.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 10:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Just doing my part for the common good Sam.
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 13, 2008 at 10:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Don't be skeert, Sam. Enk and I have this one covered!
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 11:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Glad to see you guys OK and active after the two storms.
Idefinitelymight...You know me, I'm not skeert of much and I know the turf will be adequately covered by to such gifted bloggers as yourselves. I'll just sit back watch the fun and occasionally lob an opinion grenade into the fray.
Enk...were you off this weekend or have you been dodging Ike?
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 13, 2008 at 12:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sam--Enki knows that I esteem him highly, even if I do think he's more paranoid than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. We've communicated about reading some of the classics of political philosophy and discussing them--given that he and I hold pretty divergent points of view, it should be fun. You want in? A Liberal, a Conservative, and an Antifederalist with nihilistic tendencies--can't beat that for volatility.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 1:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No, I have been on the boat Sam, in New Orleans. It has been and still is pretty windy down here, there were sustained gusts of 45-50 mph and some shorter ones up to 70. And there was about a 2 1/2 foot rise in the river at Chalmette.
ntz143 you are right, Natchez is not an exclusive club outsiders aren't invited into. Sometimes they are invited in, especially if they are interested in something that will bring in some more grant money.
As far as recycling improving the quality of life I don't hang out much at landfills so I am not affected by what goes on there. I would be willing to bet that at least half the residents of Natchez don't even know where the landfill is. Anyway it seems to me that Adams County has an abundance of holes that need something thrown into them to fill them up. I don't see us running out of landfill space any time soon.
I just read a story about a banker in England who has a beachfront cottage that cost a million dollars. Over the past year the winds have been unusually fierce, due either to cattle herd flatulence or polar bear impotence and forgetfulness; at any rate his little town has been inundated with sand. His garden accumulated seven tons of it so he started carting it back across the street in a wheelbarrow. His local town council, whose trucks have been dumping the sand cleaned up from the streets and public places back on the beach, have threatened him with arrest, seizure of his wheelbarrow, and up to a 50,000 lb. fine if they catch him contaminating the beach again. He has been forced to hire a contractor to haul the sand to the landfill since his sand will somehow contaminate the beach while the city's sand will not.
The moral of that story is you can't trust people with any power at all. People who go into politics want power, the same as these carpetbagging do gooders who want to tell us what color to paint a house, what history is, and what we should do with our trash. They are a clear and present danger and are bound to be swept up into the drive to consolidate city and county which will lead in time to county wide zoning leaving the sane and rational no place to escape to except some other county.
Do yourself a favor. Buy Dickey King some Al Gore coloring books and a subscription to Green Teacher Magazine and give him something else to occupy his time with. This is not about recycling, it is about conditioning people to accept ever greater control over the smallest details of their lives. Somebody might mention to Mr. Dickey that about 40% of the residents in Adams County live below the poverty line. They don't wear JC Penney Dockers and while they do vote Democrat they don't get the more absurd, esoteric, and socialist causes of the party. Good luck getting them to spend money on gas to drive trash to a recycling bin.
Posted by Bobaloo (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 2:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i think you need a landfill in your backyard EnK. Then it would impact you and your "i don't care about anything that does not effect me" position.
It's hard to take you serious, but the scary part is, you probably are.
What happened in your life that makes you so cynical and uncaring for anything that does not fit your ideals and thoughts?
Kinda sad....... glad you are not in charge of anything that does have an impact on other's lives.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 2:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I don't have to have a landfill in my backyard Bobaloo because there are plenty of other places. The most successful recycling programs are only doing about 25% of target and that is what is driving so many of them to move from voluntary to mandatory.
The landfill used to be right up on that hill overlooking the new casino hotel. There was a big hole up there, now it is usable land.
I doubt you have a landfill in your backyard either Bobaloo. That is just a liberal scare tactic (what isn't, liberals are scared of everything except what they should be scared of). I also doubt very highly that any existing landfill is affecting you in any way, except in some imaginary manner promoted by people who listen to Greenday, conspicuously consume while condemning others for doing it, and think believing in something is the same as doing it.
I find many of the attitudes supporting recycling as offensive as I could possibly find a landfill, at any rate. I'm just not impressed with the arguments.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 2:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Exactly how do you feel landfills are affecting you Bobaloo?
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 3:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Polar bear floating in open sea.
Floeless,
Seal steakless,
No herbal tea.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 3:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Little penguins in hawaiian shirts,
Slathered in SPF 45,
Ice packless,
Bare gray antartic rocks!
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 4:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Idefinitelymight...Sure, I'll join the party...Enk said "Plato's Republic" is first on the list?
I got to thinking that a committee made up of three such as we might be the most effective way to get anything done in government...Enk mentioned that it might also be the most bloody...he may be right, "Death from a thousand cuts"...LOL.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 4:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There once was a polar bear from Thule
Who knew only the Artic rule
When awakened one day
In an unusual way
Said someone replaced my ice with a pool!
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 13, 2008 at 4:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Gaia weeps! That is a pool of Her tears Sam.
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 13, 2008 at 5:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
15,000 starving poets, and I get stuck with you two.
I've got to start living right.
Posted by sunkitty (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 6:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh brother, I think I am going to PUKE. With Enki and Sam M at the helm - we will surely go to hell in a handbasket!
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 9:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Indefinitelymight...Hey! As a poet I'm starving too...LOL.
sunkitty...I certainly hope that handbasket is hand-made in the traditional Native American pattern perhaps Hopi, Navajo or Cherokee and not one of the Walmart mass-produced type made in China by some guy named Hu.
Hu are you? Hu, Hu...Hu, Hu?
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 13, 2008 at 10:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Indefinitelymight...Hey! As a poet I'm starving too...LOL."
Deservedly so. ;-)
Plato it is...Enki, Sam, how do you think we should set this up?
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 10:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, as I don't already have a copy in my library...I guess I'll have to procure one...that's my first step.
Does it have pictures?...I always like the books with pictures. Do we have to do a book report?
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 10:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Another comment on the landfill thing...when I was younger people did use their own "holes" to throw the garbage in or more often just had a couple of old 55 gallon oil drums that we used to call burning barrels...the burning barrels were a great way to entice young pyromaniacs to take out the garbage...what about a rebirth of the burning barrel?...whatever is leftover at the bottom, i.e. glass and metal, should be easy to recycle.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 13, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Indefinitelymight...I just hit on an idea...we could just shanghai whichever commenatary we all agree upon (since we do that anyway...LOL) to do our book thing or we could coerce the ND into giving us a blog spot so we wouldn't disrupt the normal commentary...how's that for terrorism?
Posted by tedhinson (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 2:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You three are killin' me...lmao!
I guess I'll have to read the book also in order to understand ya'll.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 4:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ted...it's kinda like Rotary though you have to have a classification...we have a liberal, a conservative and a, well...we're not sure exactly how to classify EnK yet...If you want in I'm OK with it...let's see how the other guys respond.
Posted by EnKiKur (Marty Ellerbe) on September 14, 2008 at 5:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Fine with me. There is no delusion like total delusion and two heads are better than one.
I'll tell you Sam, one of my main objections to all this talk of recycling is that it is so 1970's. I've moved on to animal rights, that's the trendy thing these days. If the local leaders, as the Democrat calls them, want to be on top of a hot button issue they should join me and get behind animal suffrage. It doesn't cost nearly as much as all the hardware you need for recycling, all you really need is a t-shirt and an extra $5.00 to send to the Democrats.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 5:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm with you EnK...I really feel sorry for those poor abused and mistreated hamsters and gerbils.
Animal suffrage huh?...hmm...I propose they be allowed to vote once for each digit...that cuts out the snakes and my polydactyl CAT would get 22 votes...it would be a great idea except my CAT is, of course, a DemoCAT! It puts him in a whole different CATegory and would make animal suffrage a CATaclysm with CATastrophic results...I don't think CATo could have predicted such a CATerwaul as would arise...he is religious though, he's been to, you guessed it, CATechism at the CAThedral...like most DemoCATS though, he's not happy in the US...he's thinking about moving to CATalina, CATalonia or KATmandu...I told him to chill, but he wouldn't until I gave him some fries with CATsup...after which he took a CATnap and was completely CATatonic...LOL.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Whoa...he just told me he's made up his mind...he's going to CATahoula after he goes to St. Louis to see the CATenary arch. I guess you've figured out that he is very CATcentric.
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 7:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You guys are cracking me up! Is this class going to be open to us lowly women now that Palin has "cracked the glass ceiling"?
Posted by Idefinitelymight (Tom Scarborough) on September 14, 2008 at 7:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm going CATatonic reading Sam's posts!
Posted by presby (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 8:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
dipping in the pudding again
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 8:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Could you start with something simpler than Plato? Maybe "Atlas Shrugged" or "Animal Farm"? I've already read those and even have copies of them.
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 9:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe you should consult a book CATalog to find something suitable to study, and we could meet in the CATacombs under Natchez. Surely this study would CATapult us ahead of everyone else on the blog and provide a CATharsis for all our repressed feelings.
Posted by presby (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 9:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
he,s a pharmacist from Florida
Posted by mike8427 (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 9:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sam....this is really......hmm, I just thought more of you before leading these posts.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 10:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Everyone has to get a little silly sometimes Mike...I think it's the CATnip...ha!
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