ythe
opportunity for crime," George
Youn t unit' m t niormem r,
recently told t Michi n Citizen in
free-for- 11 di ion held at their
e ond-flo r he dqu rte t 116
d r Street.
"Eighty percent 0 11 crimes re
crimes of opportunity," Deon Ba
aid. "We make difference."
11 Y ago, all NLOs
we whi mal . Young became t
unit' first Bl k m mber. ow, all
NLOs a Bl ck. What ccoun for
th reversal? "Burnout," Young in-
. "Thi i a very d m ndingjob; it
lots of tress."
WESTERN I\�ICHIGAN
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K'zoo et
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recycling
plan
By DANNY COOKS
Corre.pondtmt
Nearly half of City . residents
fail to participa in Kafamazoo's
voluntary recycling program, but
ity government will make
everyone pay for it
The December 30 Kalamazoo
City Commi ion meeting, during
i first period for citizens to ad-
, d the Commissioners with
non-a nda items, w the scene
or hostile fire. A msbard and
wife team took turns hwiinghatsh
words at the Commssiooers for
instituting a curbside recycling
program when trey should have
known they didn't have the
authori ty to compel! citizens to pay
for it The program was both
"poor! Y thought out and very poor­
ly implemented," the husband
charged, with his wife adding that
"8,<XXl people are not paying �ir
fair hare."
"But we paid the $25 (yearly
recycling bill that all property
owners received) and row you've
talking about passing a rnilliage to
force everybody to pay, but what
a ut UIi who did pay? Why must '
we pay again?"
City Manager Holgersson at­
tempted to console til: iraecouple.
"We're rot totally happy with the
recycling program, either, "besaid,
noting that help from the state
didn't come to make it possible to
compell everybody to pay. Com­
missioner Laroe Ferraro told the
couple the Commission had boped
more people were "upstaIXling
citizens like you" and would will­
ingly pay. "Our collection efIons
have rot stopped; maybe we can
shame them into paying." he said.
LA TEa, IN AN interview
wi th the Michigan a tizen, Fenel'9
said he would not charactorize tOO
recycling program as "on the
rocks." Whil only 55 percent are
paying for it, 60 percent are par­
ticipating. he said.
"By 1995 both state and fedeml
goverrments will mandate recy­
cling, Ferrero added. "Tho e
polincars in nsing have left rs
holding tre bag. They got cold feet
last year as election reared," He
said that legislators were supposed
to pass a law giving mwlicipalitics
� autrority to collect morey for
recycling programs, but didn't
ow theKalaQ1azoo�-
ion will add .7 mills to the present
5 mills for monthly curbside trash
pickup in rder to pay for the recy­
cling program. Kalamazoo's
19,<XX> boisebolds will be forced
to pay an average of $55.00.
It would have been less expen-
ive had tl¥: total community ptid
i ts fair hare_urXlerthe present recy­
cling program collection proce­
dure, according to Ferrero.
"Despite a December 31st dead­
line for payment, tOO aty sb:>uld
collect aoother 20-25 percent," he
said.
-Phili
Morris
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One of the mo t trying a pect of being a
parent i encouraging your child to make the
right choice - not ju t to follow along. In
toda ' complex ociety, growing up involve
more pre ure and choice than ever before.
Studie how that young people do thing
becau e their friend do. Smoking i one
of tho e thing.
We don t want children and teenager
to moke.
That' why the tobacco indu try i offering
a booklet aimed at helping parent meet the
challenge of providing their children with the
tool to re i t peer influence. The booklet,
"Tobacco: Helping YouthSay No," i
designed to keep parent and chi ldren
communicating about important issues like
moking.
To continue it long tanding commitment
that moking i not for young people, the
tobacco indu try also ha strengthened its
marketing code and i upporting tate
legi lation to make it tougher for young
people to buy cigarette . We are also
working with retailer for strict compliance
with tate law prohibiting sale of cigarettes
to minor.
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of "Tobacco: Helping
Youth Say No," return
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