We had a great annual park clean up – Lots of recycled metal, yard debris, and two garbage trucks full. It was a very busy day and we had some beautiful weather. Mark your calendars for next year. It will most likely be the first Saturday in October again. Please stay tuned for exact dates and times. The KPNA would like to thank:

- Additional Self Storage for donating the use of your truck and a hard working employee. We were able to help out multiple households who would otherwise not have been able to take advantage of this great opportunity.

- The City of Vancouver thank you for swinging by and checking on things and for donating the snacks and drinks

- Innovative Packaging for the use again of your parking lot. We were able to do so much for our neighborhood.

Here are our totals for the 2016 fall clean up:  

‐ 7.88 tons of bulky waste collected ‐ 25 yards or ~3.12 tons of yard debris collected ‐ The metals drop box was a 40‐yard box, weights don’t get reported, but you can 

estimate the volume of material brought it, ½ full would be 20‐yards, etc.   

Kevanna Park successfully met the Resource Conservation Challenge criteria for this year earning us a $100 check for our neighborhood!   Current Facts about Vancouver Recycling:   

‐ Each day in Clark County, we produce an average of 775 tons of garbage! ‐ Our garbage is collected and prepared for transport to the landfill in large shipping containers. 25 containers per day, 

each weighing 31 tons are destined for the landfill! Most of these shipping containers full of garbage get put on a barge and take a 24 hour journey up the Columbia River until our garbage reaches its final destination at the Finley Buttes landfill. 

‐ Yard debris collected in Clark County goes to a composting facility in Scappoose, Oregon and H&H Wood Recyclers in Clark County, where material is turned into a rich, soil‐amendment ‐ compost. 

‐ Our recycling gets collected, sorted and processed at the West Van Materials Recovery Facility, located down by the Port of Vancouver. 

‐ Our mixed recycling is sorted by people and machines, so please, NEVER put hazards in your cart. Keep glass, plastic bags and tangly stuff out. Refer to your handy Recycling Guide (insert link to PDF) for what goes in your big blue recycling cart. 

‐ Help Vancouver Recycle Right and when in doubt ask Waste Connections! Call 360‐892‐5370 or email your recycling question torecycehelp@wasteconnections.com.   

Kevanna Park News November 2016

Keep up the good work, and we can always do better. This month’s tip for recycling: Film Plastics In an effort to recycle as much as possible, many people mistakenly put their plastic bags in their recycling carts. Unfortunately, plastic bags and other types of film plastics do more harm than good when disposed of in this way. Plastic bags, shrink wrap, bubble wrap and other types of “stretchy” film plastic easily tangle in the machinery that is meant to sort recyclables into separate categories. This slows efficiency of the facility, as the machines have to be shut down to allow workmen to climb in and cut out the bags with box cutters. This material accounts for at least a 25% reduction in efficiency. So what should I do with them? First and foremost, try to eliminate plastic film from your life as much as possible by taking your own reusable bags to the grocery store, reusing bubble wrap, and trying to reduce the amount of plastic film you buy in general. Reuse and Recycling: Plastic bags can be reused in your home (e.g. as waste basket liners or doggy poo scooper bags.) Any bags you don’t reuse can be properly recycled by placing them in the receptacles found near the front of most grocery stores. This ensures they will be recycled with other materials of the same kind and not have a chance to choke recycling sorting machinery. For more information, go to wcnorthwest.com

Sweet and Savory Potluck.   Please bring your favorite snacky item to share, or a hot beverage to bring in the winter season. Tuesday November 8th, 7pm‐8pm  @ Northwest Baptist Convention Center, 3200 NE 109th Ave 

  Thank you to the NW Baptist Convention Center for the use of their facility all year long it has been such a kind act that is appreciated by the community members.    Future Meetings and Activities: ‐Next meeting is the second Tuesday in January, then in March and May  

  

   

   

  

           ‐ July Block Party at 109th ave and 46th street          ‐Aug National Night Out in our park          

See something say something: Speeding cars, unknown vehicles, suspicious persons, people sleeping in their vehicles near the park, homeless camps west of the park,  

 USE:  New “My Vancouver” App    or   311 non‐emergency   

Fall Leaf Boxes are coming to the neighborhood   Vancouver’s Public Works Operations will be placing a leaf box in your neighborhood the weekend of Nov. 19 & 20 for the convenience of residents there. This is a trial program to help people in leafy neighborhoods who may not have access to a pickup to haul leaves to the free community drop‐off sites. Please note:   

The box is for LEAVES ONLY. If you use plastic bags for transporting, please empty the leaves into the box. 

No garbage or other yard debris is allowed. 

DO NOT rake leaves into the street where they clog drains.   Leaf boxes are expected to be placed late afternoon on Friday and picked up early morning on Monday of the weekend noted above. Look for leaf boxes near this location:   

West end of 47th St. by the south park entrance   

Kevanna Park Neighborhood Association Agenda items for our next meeting

Potluck Play games Listen to music Meet new neighbors Have fun

You can now get the newsletter online! However if you must get a hard copy of the newsletter you can pick one up at our littlest library or contact Lori Toops to get one at bltoops@outlook.com http://www.cityofvancouver.us/cmo/page/kevanna-park-newsletters

Come to your next neighborhood meeting Northwest Baptist Convention Center, 3200 NE 109th Ave

Kevanna Park is online Our neighborhood website: https://kevannapark.nextdoor.com/login/ Post for sale, free, lost and found, news and crime alerts, and subscribe to updates from nearby neighborhoods. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KevannaPark

Neighborhood Contacts Chair Lori Toops – bltoops@outlook.com

503-936-5781

Co-Chair Brooke Hale – bmhenderson3@comcast.net 360-773-5750

Secretary/Treasurer Rhoda Singsit - csingsit@gmail.com

Newsletter Brian Yoho – byoho76@hotmail.com

City Liaison Dan Olson - dan.olson@cityofvancouver.us 360-487-7203

NPOs (Neighborhood police officers)

Erik Jennings, District 3 NPO 360-487-7535, erik.jennings@cityofvancouver.us Lt. Troy Price - 487-7463

Library Michelle Rau - mirau.public@gmail.com Library is at 10611 NE 46th Street, NW corner

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DID YOU KNOW….? There is a Kevanna Park

Neighborhood Association? That our meetings are open to

everyone? There are no dues? That you can influence the happenings

here in Kevanna Park?

There are over 1200 households in our neighborhood?

That our newsletters are provided by the city?

That we are a non-profit organization? That your donations to KPNA are tax-

deductible? We don't spend our neighborhood

money without your approval?

That 7 volunteers deliver our newsletters?

Additional Self Storage West is our biggest commercial supporter?

That they donate $40.00 to KPNA for each new unit rented for those who live in our neighborhood?

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