Boone County Shopper May 23, 2024

Collection Highlights

• Residents that currently utilize MDC carts (the sister company of Rock River Disposal) will keep their current carts.

• Residents who do not have MDC carts will receive a 95 gallon cart for refuse and a 65 gallon cart for recycling. Deliveries will begin the last two weeks of May.

• Rock River will collect unlimited refuse and recycling properly placed for curbside collection with the designated carts for refuse and recycling.

• Yard waste collection will be offered April 1st through December 15th annually.

• A senior discount is available where the head of the household is 65 years of age or older.

• Additional refuse and recycling carts are available for an additional annual fee.

Curbside Collection Program: $25.35/monthly (billed quarterly)

• Residents that currently utilize MDC carts (the sister company of Rock River Disposal) will keep their current carts.

• Residents who do not have MDC carts will receive a 95 gallon cart for refuse and a 65 gallon cart for recycling. Deliveries will begin the last two weeks of May.

• All municipal waste found outside the 95 gallon cart for trash and 65 gallon cart for recycling will be collected when properly prepared (plastic container or bag not to exceed 32 gallons or 50 pounds in weight).

• Residents will be required to have their containers at the curb by 6:45 a.m. on their designated collection day.

• Additional refuse and recycling carts will be available for an annual fee of $60.00/each.

Senior Discount:

A flat discount of $3.00/month off the monthly rate is available for residences with a head of household age 65 or older. Please contact Rock River Disposal at 815-9652489 for details and to apply.

Bulk & Oversized Item Disposal:

One bulk item (under 50 pounds) will be collected on your regularly scheduled collection day at no charge. Bulk items exceeding 50 pounds will require an additional fee. Call Rock River Disposal at 815-965-2489 to schedule a collection.

Bulk items include: Boxes, barrels, crates, furniture, and similar items that do not fit into a proper container and can be collected/lifted by one driver without assistance. Exceptions include items which are banned from direct disposal into a landfill (appliances, tires, car batteries, TV’s, electronic waste).

Oversized and overweight items will be collected but will require an additional fee. Oversized/overweight items are any single large or extra heavy item that will require the resident to schedule a special pick up. An example of an oversized item is a piano, hot tub or any item that requires two or more people to lift. A per item fee of will apply for each oversized item. Call Rock River Disposal at 815-965-2489 to schedule a pick in advance.

White Goods/Appliances:

White Goods will be collected on a weekly basis with residents calling to schedule a special collection for an additional fee of $50.00/per item. Regardless of size and weight, all appliances/white goods must be called in for a scheduled pick up and payment must be received in advance. Call Rock River Disposal at 815-965-2489 to schedule a collection. Items should not be placed at the curb until the evening before the scheduled collection.

Holidays Observed

If the holiday falls on a weekday, on or before your scheduled collection, service will be delayed by one day for the remainder of the holiday week. If the holiday falls on Sunday, it will be observed on Monday and service will be delayed one day the entire week.

Yard Waste Collection Program: April 1st – December 15th Annually

Yard waste collection will take place each week on the same day as refuse and recycling collection.

Landscape Waste Collection:

Up to five (5) properly prepared yard waste bags, bundles, or resident owned 32 gallon rigid containers (not exceeding 50 pounds in weight) will be collected curbside each week at no charge. During the months of October, November, and December up to twenty (20) properly prepared yard waste containers will be collected.

Grass clippings, leaves, twigs, garden debris, weeds, fruits, seeds, stalks, vines, bark and wood chips may be placed at the curb on the regularly scheduled pick up day in biodegradable paper bags or 32 gallon metal or plastic cans clearly identified for landscape waste only. Bags must be rolled and crimped closed and be easily lifted to waist height and not exceed 50lbs.

Brush and branches up to 6 inches must be bundled with twine (wire or plastic is not acceptable) 4’ or less in length and 2’ or less in diameter at the base and easily lifted to waist height. Yard waste does not include wood timbers, plastic edging, plant pots or trays, fertilizer or landscape material bags, landscape fabric, root sections, sand, gravel, sod, firewood or animal waste.

Christmas Tree Collection:

Rock River will provide free collection and disposal of Christmas trees each year at no additional cost to residents during the first two weeks of January each year

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Jerry Parsons’ Coon Creek Casters

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Belvidere Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 1569

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Northern Illinois Vintage Tractor and Engine Association

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Memorial

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Currently seeking applicants for a full-time clerk to join the Treasurer’s Office. This position will be responsible for assisting taxpayers in-person and via phone, collecting property taxes, processing data entry, bookkeeping, and other clerical tasks and duties as assigned by the Treasurer.

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DEATH NOTICE

FAY ALAN ELLWANGER, 79, of Garden Prairie, IL, passed away on May 12, 2024 at OSF St. Anthony’s. Visitation at Anderson Funeral and Cremation Services, 218 W Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere on May 31, 5-8 PM; Funeral Services at noon Saturday, June 1, 2024, at the funeral home.

Full obituary to be published here next week.

Lawrence “Larry” Carl Spaete Sr. Lawrence “Larry” Carl Spaete Sr., 84, of Belvidere, IL, passed away Saturday, May 11, 2024, surrounded by his family. He was born October 6, 1939, in Washburn Township, WI, the son of Carl & Florence (Strebing) Spaete. He served our country in the United States Army. Larry married the love of his life, Caroline “Carol” Buchholz on May 28, 1960, in Neillsville, WI.

He retired from Chrysler after working there for more than 30 years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, woodworking, & gardening. Most of all he enjoyed camping, traveling, & just spending

with his family.

He is loved & will be missed by his beloved wife, Carol; sons, Lawrence (Elaine) Spaete Jr., James Spaete; daughters, Cheri Sprietler, Debbie (Scott) Jarvis; grandchildren, Jessica (Charles) Smothers, Katelyn Helmold, Hanna Jarvis, Benjamin Helmold, Bailey Jarvis, & Emily Spaete; great-grandchildren, Carly Smothers, Andrew Smothers, & Joshua Smothers; sister, Ruth (Donald) Meihak.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Robert Spaete Sr.; sister, Dorothy Langreck.

There will be a visitation, Saturday, May 25, 2024, from 10 AM to 11 AM at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Belvidere, IL. A service will begin at 11 AM with the inurnment immediately following at the Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, IL. Memorials can be made to Immanuel Lutheran Church. Condolences can be shared with the family at www.belviderefh.com.