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Vol. IX No. 7 • MARCH 2010 • www.hollywoodgazette.com
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City rewards residents for recycling More than 253 tons of recycling collected in first week of program
7 Hollywood couple helps raise funds for childhood cancer research through St. Baldrick’s head-shaving event March 13.
30,000 marshmallows will fall from sky on March 27
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A helicopter will drop 30,000 marshmallows from the sky at the Hollywood Spring Marshmallow Drop planned for March 27. Youngsters will hunt for Easter eggs while kids ages 6 to 12 will collect marshmallows to be traded for prizes.
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st. baldrick’s event raises money for cancer Mar. 13
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Muzart Studio will offer an adult canvas party March 19 for residents to create personal artwork.
After signing up, residents can redeem these points at local and national retailers and restaurants, including Publix, Winn-Dixie and Target, and more than 40 local businesses The City have registered as reward of Hollywood partners. launched its In addition to benefiting RecycleBank residents and local businesses, rewards program the new recycling program also Brett Daly Feb. 1 and benefits the City. Associate collected 253 Turek said it costs the City Editor tons of recyclable around $98 to incinerate one material in its first ton of garbage. Any recyclable week, an 85 percent increase material kept out of the waste from the amount collected the stream not only reduces the cost same week in 2009, said Public of garbage disposal, but also Works Director Greg Turek. earns the City money – since The program, which the City receives $58 per ton of encourages residents to recycle recycled material, he said. by rewarding households with “The savings and revenue is points for their efforts, attracted our big advantage,” Turek said. 9,864 people to register with New 95-gallon recycling RecycleBank as of Feb. 17, carts – distributed to more and these registered households than 30,000 households in earned more than 560,000 points January – have a personalized in the first week of the program. identification tag. Recycling trucks read this tag, record the weight the household recycled and convey the number to RecycleBank. RecycleBank will then convert the amount to points and credit the resident’s account. And instead of the previous once-a-week More than 30,000 households received new 95-gallon pick-up schedule, recycling containers for the new RecycleBank program. trucks will collect recycling every other week on residents’ regular trash pick-up days. After the first run last month, the program encountered several problems, which Turek described as normal for the
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Miss Hollywood USA Brittany Freeman (left) and Miss Hollywood Teen USA Jasmine Avery were crowned Sat. Feb. 27
Sports stars raise nearly $4 mil. for Make-A-Wish Foundation Legendary Hall of Fame Coach Don Shula was the featured guest at Feb. 25 auction and fundraiser held at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood.
Brenda Yester, board chair of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Southern Florida with head coach of the NBA’s Miami Heat Erik Spoelstra. staff Photos by jack siriani
Jack Siriani, Hollywood Gazette’s Director of Sales and Marketing with Bryant McKinnie offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings. (Note: Jack is 6’ 1”)
Photo by LaMarche Photography
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