Labor Day

In this announcement:

• Holiday news
• "The Art of Recycling" includes... refrigerator doors
• Electronics recycling - community collection events

Monday, September 1, 2008 - Labor Day - is a recycling and trash collection holiday. After the holiday, all County-provided recycling and trash collections will be one day later than normal.

If you have any questions or concerns about your County-provided collection, please contact our Customer Service staff online or call 240-777-6410.

Note: if you (or your community) have a private contract for your trash collection, or if you live in a municipality,these schedule announcements may not apply to your trash service -- check with your hauler or community manager.

Solid Waste Transfer Station Holiday Closings

Solid Waste Transfer Station hours and other details

• Monday, September 1, 2008: closed
• Tuesday, September 2, 2008: will reopen with normal hours

Beauty Spot Holiday Closings

Beauty Spot locations, hours and other details

• Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31, 2008: closed

"The Art of Recycling" includes... refrigerator doors.

"The Art of Recycling: The Coolest Show in Town" is the National Building Museum's newest exhibit. (Actually, you could take it as an example of the art of reuse, with the recycling step still to come.) Our Solid Waste Transfer Station provided the refrigerator doors which served as the "canvasses" for the art! The exhibit opens today, and runs through September 2, 2008.

Electronics recycling - community collection events

Our next community electronics recycling event is:

• September 21, 2008: Damascus Park-N-Ride, Noon to 4 p.m.

We also accept electronics daily at our Solid Waste Transfer Station. Electronics recycling details, with location maps: www.montgomerycountymd.gov/hazardouswaste

How-to-recycle information

"Talkin' Trash" - the Division of Solid Waste Services blog

The Village Blacksmith

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.

His hair is crisp, and black, and long,
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.

Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.

And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.

He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice,
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.

It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.

Toiling,---rejoicing,---sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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