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Solid Waste Management Public Input
June 19, 2009
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The city of Rapid City is looking for input on how it should deal with trash, recyclables and other solid waste for the next five to 20 years. Some ideas on the table are mandatory recycling and generating energy from waste, said Jerry Wright, superintendent of solid waste operations.
The current management plan, which was created in the early 1990s, included bringing the landfill into state and federal compliance, composting yard waste and building a city recycling center, Wright said. Public meetings will be held in the future.
Residents can also e-mail ideas to Wright by going to the city's web site at www.rcgov.org/pubworks/solidwaste/solid_waste_homepage.htm.
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Come to DIA's Annual Meeting June 20
June 11, 2009
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Join us for get-acquainted activities, goal setting and a great key note speaker. Download an invitation for details.
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Brookings DIA group hosts health forum
June 8, 2009
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Congratulations, Brookings friends, on hosting this important forum:
Single Payer Health Care: Why this is the Best Choice" Wed. June 10 at Brookings Public Library. 7 to 7:50 p.m.: Health Care Reform Video featuring: “Bill Moyers Journal” Program
8 to 9 p.m.: discussion with staffers from Sen. Tim Johnson, Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth
Sandlin, and Sen. John Thune’s offices.
Comment from Brookings DIA mentor and RCDIA member Chili Lautenschlager:
Brookings group had a successful forum dealing with health care issues. It's great to have a group East River getting active on these important issues. Congratulations!
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Congratulations, Suzan!
June 3, 2009
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Congratulations to Suzan Nolan, victor in the Area 1 Rapid City School Board race!!
Suzan, we appreciate your hard work, your tireless campaigning and your progressive and innovative ideas, which the voters clearly responded to. We know you will help focus the efforts of Rapid City’s school board for the next three years on the most important issues in our schools.
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Immigration & Refugee Specialist to speak at SDSMT June 11 6:30-8pm
June 1, 2009
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Hear Elissa B. Mittman, the Immigration & Refugee Expert on the Iraqi Refugee Crisis, direct from presenting at American Immigration Lawyers Association convention. For more information, phone 605-644-8062. Please download and share this poster with friends in community and faith-based organizations.
The International Rescue Cpmmittee enters many crisis zones to assist the vulnerable populations as well as rescue and rebuild. The IRC also addresses special issues such as detained refugees and violence against women and children. Today, one of the IRC's major initiatives is international and domestic assistance to and advocacy on behalf of thousands of Iraqi refugees in the Middle East.
TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC) SPRINGS FROM A SUGGESTION BY ALBERT EINSTEIN IN 1933 TO FORM AN AMERICAN BRANCH OF THE EUROPEAN-BASED INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
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