THE CITY WILMINGTON BALLET ACADEMY
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ayor Purzycki visited the Wilmington Ballet Academy studios last month to congratulate Lamar “LJ” Marshall (front row, 2nd from right) – the self-taught dancer whose online dance videos earned him a one-year scholarship, a role in last year’s production of “The Nutcracker,” and national media attention in addition to being named one Delaware’s Most Influentual People of 2022 by Delaware Online. The Mayor also praised WBA’s Dance Executive and Artistic Director Benjamin Sterling Cannon (back row, far right) who in 2020 became the first African American leader of the organization in its 64-year history, for his efforts to make the ballet company more inclusive.
WILMINGTON COLLECTING CITY-ISSUED TRASH BINS ONLY
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njury concerns for sanitation employees prompted a change in City trash collection policy in April. Now the City is only collecting trash placed in a Cityissued, industrial-strength trash container (pictured right). The City will NOT collect privately purchased trash bins with lift bars (sometimes called Toters or Toter Carts). The non-regulation carts aren’t as sturdy and can be dangerous, having caused more than a dozen injuries to Sanitation Dept. workers so far. Public Works Dir. Kelly Williams urges any resident who still needs a Cityissued trash cart to call 311 or visit www.WilmingtonDE.gov/311 to get a free cart delivered ASAP. The City has carts as large as 95-gallons. The Public Works Dept. distributed the gray-colored “SMART” trash bins to 21,000 residential properties throughout the City in early 2020 as part of Mayor Purzycki’ s Beautiful City Campaign. The new bins have helped produce a cleaner City by reminding residents to follow the law and place trash in the bins — not on City streets. Free City-issued trash container
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