S T E A M B O AT
TODAY
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 272
RO U T T
C O U N T Y ’ S
DA I LY
N E W S PA P E R
OAK CREEK
Chickens OK’d Oak Creek Town Board lets family keep livestock until further notice Page 6
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Mountain lion spotted Winter Sports Club athletes see big cat while running on Emerald Mountain Page 11
SPORTS
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
ACZ Laboratories employee Gerry Denofsky drops off recycling from the company Thursday at Waste Management. Sunday is America Recycles Day.
A lesson in recycling Discussion focuses on what’s allowed in single-stream system Margaret Hair
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
Sailors play today Page 31
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Lots of things are recyclable. Not all of them can be recycled in Routt County. That was the predominant message at “Recycling 201,” a Talking Green event Wedne sday evening at Steamboat Smokehouse. Speakers from Waste Management, Twin Enviro Services, Yampa Valley
Horoscope . . . . . 38 Nation . . . . . . . . 19 Scoreboard . . . . 37 Sports . . . . . . . . 31 ViewPoints . . . . . 8 Weather . . . . . . . 47
Thursday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 3-12-15-20-24 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
Recycles and HomeLink Mag azine outlined recycling basics in an hourlong lecture to a standing-room-only crowd in the Smokehouse banquet room. “It’s actually not a question of what’s recyclable. It’s more of a question of what’s accept able through our local streams,” HomeLink Magazine publisher Josh Nass said, picking through months of old trash to show case what is acceptable in Waste Management’s single-stream
■ WEATHER
Cloudy; 1 to 2 inches of snow.
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recycling program. The talk was meant to give an expert ruling on recycling, said Angela Ashby, chair woman of the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, a group focused on sustainable and green practices that presents Talking Green events. Wednesday’s event came a few days before America Recycles Day on Sunday, a national effort by Keeping American Beautiful and the National Recycling
Coalition to educate people about recycling. Zuff Zuffelato and Steve Johnson, of Waste Manage ment, were in the audience, field ing questions from locals about what they can put out on their curbs and in Green Machin” collection bins. Zuffelato and Johnson explained the singlestream process during a tour of the Waste Management See Recycling, page 16
■ EXPLORE STEAMBOAT Your weekend guide to arts and entertainment in Steamboat Springs, including movie times and film reviews, begins on page 24.
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