HomeMy WebLinkAboutDecember 1995 FRIRFHH CITY NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 1, 1995
CITY- HALL NEWS FAIRFAX FIRE DEPARTMENT"
submitted by Betty Panek
The Fire Department-currently has a
NEW CITY HALL HOURS full roster of 25 members. All
member are CPR certified. The
Monday-Wednesday 7.30-4:00 department has 10 First
Thursday Closed Responders-D, 1 EMT-D, I EMT-1,
Friday 7:30-4:00 and 8 Firefighter L Also, 1.0
members are qualified to
Phone: 846-2204 defibrillate.
HOLIDAY HOURS As of November 20, 1995, Fairfax
Fire and Rescue has responded to
Wishing you all a happy holiday. 166 calls. Of the 19 volunteer Fire
City Hall will be closed December Departments in Linn Co., Fairfax is
22nd and December 26th. The City the 4th busiest department.
Clerk will be back. in the office on.
:December 27th.. This years officers are:
Fire Chief - Mike Sannkot
BURNING Asst. Fire Chief - Brian Stallman
Captain - Ken Darnell, Sr.
You may burn in the City of Fairfax, 1st Lieutenant - Medical Officer --
but only in a barrel. This includes Ken Bamell, „fir.
leaves. if you should cut down a 2nd Lieutenant - K. C. Waychoff
tree, you may apply for a burning
pernnit.. The Firel. Remember re Department will - the first Wednesday of
check what you, are burning. Please each month the sheens are tested at
do not burn garbage or plastics. 9.00 am.
Long Wail Storm approaching -
CPR CERTIFICATION take shelter.
Short Intermittent Wails -- Fire Call
CPR recertification and. CPR for
anyone who wants to learn will be
held sometime after the first of the
year. Classes will, be held at the
Fairfax Bank. Inquire at the Bank,
or call Ken. Barnell, Sr. at 846-2256.
DOGS snow onto the streets after they
have been plowed.. Put it along side
The City is still having a problem of your driveway.
with people letting their dogs run
loose. The City Ordinance requires If you have a gravel driveway and
all dogs be kept on a leash or in a the gravel has worked its way inti
kennel. The City of Fairfax still the street, look for it in your lawn
requires you to have a dog license. next spring. The snow plow will
They are due January 1st of each throw it into your lawn, unless you
year and may be purchased at. City clean it up. Also if you put gravel
Hall or the Bank. Male dogs are along your parking at the side of
$2.00, Females $5.00, and spayed the street, good chance it will get
females $2.00. rolled over onto your lawn.
SNOWMOBILE'S If you put Christmas decorations
along your street, remember to
PLEASE KEEP SNOWMOBILES keep them on your property lines,
OFF CITY STREETS ANIS not on the street curb. There is no
PRIVATE PROPERTY. Remember way to keep from piling snow
when you run along the puking against there when trying to clean
that tine City has water shut offs in the streets. Make sure when the
front of each residence_ If you hit season is over that all items are
one not only could you be injured, removed and picked up, not left
but you could cause the homeowner along the street for the City to clean
to lose their water while it is being up.
repaired. It is also costly to dig up
and repair, which in turn night When it snows please clear your
affect your future taxes to cover the sidewalks to make it safe for the
cost. citizens to walk on. It is each
homeowners responsibility to
TTS THE SEASON FOR SNOW remove the snow from their
sidewalks. if you do not, the City
Remember that all cars should be could hire someone to remove the
removed from the streets when it snow and put the cost on your
-snows. There are emergency snow property taxes.
routes, with signs posted. If your
vehicles are left on the street they
could be towed. Please help the
guys trying to plow your streets.
Please do not shovel or push. your
LIBRARY NEWS VOLUNTEERS DESERVE A BICC
submitted by Linda Balog THANKS
The Fairfax Library is very
LIBRARY HOURS fortunate to have eight very
dedicated and energetic volunteers
Monday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM helping us with many activities each
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM week. These activities include
Wednesday 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM checking in materials, shelving
Thursday 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM books and tapes, checking to see
Friday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM that books are on the correct
Saturday 9:00 AM: - Noon shelves and in the right order,
keeping finger prints off the glass
Phone: 846-2994 doors and helping with Stor"y Time.
The volunteers who are helping us
HOLDIAY HOURS right now are:
Library hours will be the same Shaun Crable ,jenny Everett:
during the holiday season.. We .look l;leather Hemann Lisa Havel
forward to seeing you during this ,dared. Mathews Erin. Meredith
joyous time. ,henna Petersen Ben Waychoff
From October J_st through November
17th, these 8 volunteers have.
NEW COPIER HAS ARRIVED AT provided the City of Fairfax with 28
THE FAIRFAX LIBRARY hours of community service. If you
are interested in volunteerLug at the
Thanks to everyone for their library and you are at least nine
patience during the time that tla.e years old, stop in and ask Linda. how
old dopier was riot performing tip to you can get started.
par. A new Konica has been
purchased. The copier will also .
enlarge and reduce your documents.
The charge for using this service is
10 cents per copy.
NO TRESPASSING ON Remember: YOUR ME'T'ER NEVER
LAGOON PROPERTY 1Z;UNS 1�'AST, rf MAY RUN SLOW AND
S"`l'OP.
Please remember that the City
Lagoon property is off limits to This makes it even more vital that
everyone. If you are caught down you read your meter :each month. If
fined there you may be for we notice that you have used more
trespassing. Without a fence down than usual we will contact you to
there now we have to be on the have you check.
honor system. to stay out of the area.
This includes children playing in the UNREPAIRED LEAKS
area., snowmobiles and most of all SAN BE COSTI.,Y
NO DUMPING garbage in the area. Water Loss in Gallons
CITY MAINTENANCE L�'a'
iters, Loss per pay Loss per Mon(Bh
submitted by Lud. Svoboda Size
120 3,600
HIGH WATER BILLS? 360 10.800
• 693 20,790
If your water usage seems like it's + 1.200 36,000
above nomud, check all possibilities, 1.820 57,600
including personal usage. Think 3,096 92M0
back, did I do extra washing, wash 0 4.296 128.880
the car, water the lawn, or were the 6.640 199.200
bids home from school 6.984 209.520
8.424 252,720
If these possibilities are answered 49 9.888 296.540
"'NO", you more than Likely have a 49 11.324 339,720
malfunction in your plan& g. 12.720 381,600
Cl:a.eck for .leaks, if you have a water Awl& 14.952 448,580
softener c.ta.eck to ntake sure it is
cycling and shutting down properly s r
after regeneration. ro 10l 10 Dennis Drive
4 z Des Moines, lA 50322
3. 5151278-9725
Check stools and faucets. The
following chart shows how:much
water can be lost through your
meter. It only takes a "drip" to add
100's of gallons to your bill.
GRANT AWARDED TO COMPUTER PROGRAMS
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FAIRI;'AX LIBRARY' AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY
The Fairfax Library has been Educational games
awarded a grant from The Greater.. Busy Town-Age 3 to 7
Cedar Rapids Foundation. through. Treasure Cove-Age S to 9
the Selzer Fund to Benefit Fairfax. Super Munchers-Age 8 to Adult
This grant has allowed the library to Stow Away-Age 8 to Adult
purchase two Multimedia Systems The Way Things Work-Age 10 & Up
for public use. The grant has also Sim City-Age 1.0 & Up
made possible the purchase of a Am.azo.n. Trail-10 & Up
laser printer which will allow the Oregon Trail-10 & Up
public many more options for Civil War-10 & Up
retrieving documents as well as Knights and. Kings-10 & Up
enhancing the quality of documents
they produce. Along with the two Reference Programs
Macintosh Systems purchased last Encarta
spring the library is fully automated A.D.A.M.: The Inside Story,
and ready to serve your computer Guinness Book. of World Records
-needs. Don't forget that the library World. Atlas
also has access to the Internet Discover Biology
through all four computers.
SCOUTS SAY THANKS TO DON
The community of Fairfax is indeed YOUNG- AND THE FAIRFAX
fortunate to have available this STATE SAVINGS BANK
quality of computer lab. A special
thanks to The Greater Cedar Rapids Dear Don,
Foundation., the Grace Selzer family Thank you for giving us the tour. I
and Stan Scheiding for his help in really liked the coin sorter. If you
purchasing anal installing the now how it sorts coins I would
computers. really like it if you would right nne
back. I also liked the volte. blow do
you now the code to the volte. If
somebody blew the safe could you
buzz that red button to get the
police? But, I really liked was all
those candy bars and the tN. dose it.
have cable?
:Bryan
SCOUTS (CONT.) Dear Don,
I appreciate it that you took the
Dear Dori, time to show us the bank. l favorite
Thank you, Don. thing that we saw was the coin
For letter us got get tour of the counter. I think it's much better
Bank. P.S. Have you ever had a then those little Happy Joe's garter
hA ack? If not that's o.k. Zach holder. When I grow up I'm going
to try to buy one if I have enough
Dear Don, money. Thank you again for taking
Thank you for giving us a tour of us on the tour of the bank.
the bank. Thank you for giving us Your, friend, Ben
w, the pact of paper and pencil. the
vault was really cool. Thank. you for Dear Don,.
taking us to the money room. Thank you for the tour. It was
.Casey GREAT! fly favret part was the
vallt. How much money is in it? If
Dear Don, you add all the money together in
Thanks for the tour of the bank. Do the bank how much would it be7
you like working at the bank? Jeff Nathan
City of Fairfax Bulk Rate
P.O. Box 93 Postage Paid
Fairfax, iA 52228 Fairfax, 1A
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MRS. BETTY PANEK
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