{"id":1062,"date":"2013-09-11T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2013-09-11T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:04:20","slug":"first-yakima-fall-clean-day-set-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/first-yakima-fall-clean-day-set-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"First Yakima Fall Clean Up Day Set For Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first fall community clean up on Saturday, September 14<sup>th<\/sup> will target District 1, which primarily includes Yakima neighborhoods West of 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue.\u00a0 A free drop off site will be open from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm at 75<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and Mead Avenue.\u00a0 Anyone bringing trash to the drop off site is urged to separate household refuse from yard debris.\u00a0 Recycling bins will also be available to handle scrap metal, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and milk jugs.\u00a0 The drop off site will not accept hazardous materials such as paint and chemicals, but can take old tires for disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwill Industries will also have trucks at the drop off site to accept old electronic equipment for recycling and donations of reusable items.<\/p>\n<p>Like the spring clean ups, the fall events will rotate between each of Yakima\u2019s four City Council Districts.\u00a0 Additional community clean up days this fall include Saturday, September 28<sup>th<\/sup> in District 2 (primarily south of Tieton Drive between 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street), Saturday, October 12<sup>th<\/sup> in District 3 (primarily the northeast and southeast sections of the city), and Saturday, November 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in District 4 (primarily between 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street).<\/p>\n<p>Results from both the 2012 and 2013 Yakima Citizen Surveys clearly revealed an expectation that the City of Yakima should be more proactively involved in improving the overall appearance of the community.\u00a0 As part of its multi-pronged approach to meeting that expectation, the City conducted four clean up events this spring that proved to be very popular with residents. During those events the City collected 52 tons of garbage and yard debris, 620 pounds of paper, 120 pounds of plastic, 600 pounds of cardboard, and more than 1500 old tires.<\/p>\n<p>Any individuals or groups interested in becoming involved in Yakima community clean ups should contact Refuse Code Compliance Officer James Scott at 576-6745.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:\u00a0 Refuse Code Compliance Officer James Scott \u2013 576-6745<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Communications &amp; Public Affairs Director Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Clean-Up-Days-.pdf-News-Release.pdf\">Community Clean Up Days .pdf News Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first fall community clean up on Saturday, September 14th will target District 1, which primarily includes Yakima neighborhoods West of 40th Avenue.\u00a0 A free drop off site will be open from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm at 75th Avenue and Mead Avenue.\u00a0 Anyone bringing trash to the drop off site is urged to separate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}