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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApril 1997 THE FAIRFAX FACTS APRIL, 199 ' r , : :.3.: r a::�:.;.�:....;...... ✓ :J P45i:5::?�at2:`.�i:�[S:[r:$:i.5::•ii5i:a::ii:r: : r' .... o- mg, ':: ;..-�:[:favi?:ai�i2ii:i:4i3ii?;': ✓J CIT Y T GARAGE SALES: The city-wide garage sales will be Saturday, May 17, 8 THE CITY-WIDE CLEAN-UP A - 4 PM. Maps available. If you'd DAY will be Saturday, May 31st, 8:00 like your sale listed on the city reap, am - 4:00 pin. Items should be brought to please call Sue Tomieson (846-2597) the lagoon area, where the City anytime through May 15th. A $1400 maintenance crew and Steelsmith donation per address to help defray Sanitation will be stationed to take your advertising and map expenses would be items. Please be prepared to help unload appreciated.. Thankyou. your items. SIREN TESTS: The City tests die. If there are any elderly who need sirens the first Wednesday of each month help, please contact City Hall at 846-2204 at 9:00 an. during the week before clean-up day. Items must be ready to be picked up YARD WASTE: Yard waste before Saturday.. pick-up will run the first and third The following items will NOT be Tuesdays of each month. Please have accepted: TIRES, BRUSH, GARBAGE, your ndst be the curb by 7:00 am. BATTERIES, OR ANYT -LING WITH in 4 ft. lengths, or put CREOSOTE. ALL PAINT MUST BE incontainers. Please do not use DRIED. (Please see related notice later cardboard boxes, as�'they may get wet.. in the newsletter concerning tire METER READINGS: Residents disposal•) are responsible for reading their own Please do not misuse the clean-up water meters. A monthly reading is by bringing other people's appliances or important for an accurate bill. An furniture. This is a service for Fairfax estimated reading will result in an residents only adjusted bill later, when the meter is read. If you have any questions, please CITY ELECTIONS: Do you feel contact City Hall. you could make a positive contribution to 2 the affairs of the City? If you are 18 or please call Hai-old or Cheryl Scott- 846- older, a resident of the City, a United 8159 States Citizen, and have no felony convictions, you might consider putting FIRE DEPT.: your name on the ballot for Mayor of EMERGENCY Councilinerriber for the City elections to be held November 4, 1997. MANAGEMENT A candidate's guide and Now that spring is here, so is the nomination papers can be obtained fi-om threat of tornadoes, When a tornado is the Fairfax- City Hall or the County coming, you only have a short amount of AUditor. Ten signatures are required on time to make life-or-death decisions. the nomination paper, and the papers filed Advance p1anming and quick response are in the office of the City Clerk no earlier the keys to survival. than Monday, August 25, nor later than Thursday, September 18, 1997 by 4:00 How to be prepared: p1n. L ' Conduct a family tornado drill. The Fairfax City Council meets at Practice and show your family the safest 7:00 PM, the second, Tuesday of every place. Discuss with your fimnily members month in City Hall. the difference between a "tornado watch" and a "tornado warning". FAIRFAX JAYCEES 2. Have disaster supplies on hand - . Through the Liim County Waste flashlight and extra batteries, a portable Tire Collection Program, the Jaycees will radio with extra. batteries, first aid kit, be collecting clew) tires on May 9 & 10, essential medicines. and May 30 & 31 from 6:00 pin to noon 3. Keep a plastic, watertight container the next day. During these times, bring close at hand to store your valuables and tires to Fairfax Cityl-lall, and place thein important documents. Don't forget to in the designated area in the back by the protect your treasured family pictures and garages. This project is to help clean up heirlooms. Take the container to your our town and surrounding area ditches. safe shelter with YOLL The Jaycees will receive 50 cents per tire. After seeing on TV how tornadoes We Would like to thank you in have already devastated parts of' advance for helping us help you clean up Arkansas, we should realize this could our town. If you have any questions, also happen to us. The Fairfax American would like to help transport the tires, or if Legion building is our primary emergency these times are not convenient for you, shelter-. This building is now equipped so Haat it can be powered by a portable generator. If this building damaged,is ed St, fforpresclmoolers on up, held June 16 Patrick's Church basement will serve as a through August 8. backup. After a disaster has been A big thanks to everyone who declared, the American Red Cross will completed and returned the Library respond. Survey. The results are available at.the Once. again, please preplan for Library, tornado season. Protect yourself, your fammlily, and your valuables. LINN CO. COMPREIIENSIVE PLAN Bill Barry, Emergency Mngt. Coordinator HELP WANTED. LIGHTNING VISI+ NARIES PROTECTION Minim-num qualifications: Residents of Starwest,, Inc. customers in Fairfax will Linux County. have double grounding of their cable TV Benefits: No pay, but significant long service. Our cable plant has always been temmn benefits provided for present amid future generations. grounded at each. pedestal. Since 19.92, it g has been the policy of Starwest to install a . Sponsor: Linn Co. Board of Supervisors second ground fault connection at the side fob description: Individuals will be of each building of a new service responsible for development of a vision installation. This increases the protection for how land shouId be developed in the of Starwest's cable plant from a damaging County. This vision will be the basis for lightning strike. To finish this program of development of a new Liman County double grounding, Starwest service comprehensive ' Land Use Plan.. personnel will be checking every Starwest Participants must be self motivated and be customer's service in Fairfax to make willing to attend at least three meetings sure this has been done. This will be over the next,five months. completed by the end of April. How to apply: For more information or a LIBRARY registration form, contact Linn Co. Department of Planning and Development Plan to take part in the THRILLS at 398-3419 .and enter extension 146.. AND CHILLS Happening this summmer at The first meeting.. of the Southwest the Fairfax Public Library! This is the Planning Area (.including Clinton, Fairfax, theme of the Suimmner Reading Program and College Townships), will be May 22, 4 1997, 7:30 to 9:30 pm at the Fairfax Public Library Community Room. DINNER - DANCE The 23rd Annual New York Strip Dimier will be held Saturday, April 26, at the Fairfax American Legion. Dance to the One Night Stand Band. This ftuid- raising event is held by the Fairfax Baseball Association. Cost is $10 per person. Dinner will be served fi-oin 6:00 prn - 8:00 pm. ---------------- Submit notices/events for newsletter to City Hall or Fairfax Library by the 25th of the month. Bulk Rate City of Fairfax Postage Pald P.O. Box 9-47 Fairfax, IA Fairfax, IA 52228 Permit No. 6 1: N Aji .