Page 14 - The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursday, September 7, 1989 Fun in the sun (Top) Children can have a great time playing games like Capture the Flag on the grass fields of Burns Park. (Right) Paul Van Dyke teaches his grandson Ben how to fish in the Huron River while the rest of the family was spending time in other parts of Gallup Park during the Memorial weekend. (Bottom) Boating is another popular activity in Gallup Park as people can cruise the Huron in either canoes or gasoline powered boats. AMIT HAN/Daiy A bulldozer works on clearing space at the landfill. City officials hope to soon implement new methods of disposal to cut waste. City seeks way to take out the trashv By Kristine Lalonde Daily Staff Writer It's not a topic most people even want to think about - garbage. But, garbage and the lack of space in the landfill has been constantly on the minds of Ann Arbor council mem- bers recently. For months they've had to grap- ple with the diminishing space at the landfill. Now the landfill is closed to all private haulers and the council must wait for the Department of Natural Resources' approval before adding more land to the dump. The DNR, however, is being more cautious with landfill expan- sion approvals. Many dumps statewide, including Ann Arbor's, contaminate the ground water supply. The Depart- ment has thus strengthened re- quirements for landfill liners. If Ann Arbor's expansion is approved, the DNR will probably require a double liner to avoid leakage. Ann Arbor also must implement a ground water testing system to detect contamina- tion. Synthia Noble, DNR district se- nior environmental engineer with the solid waste division, said the Depart- ment is cracking down. "Ann Arbor is being taken to the mats by the DNR," she said. To help alleviate the waste man- agement problem, City Council members have tried to implement programs to reduce waste. City officials hope to start a npW system that would reduce the voluzpi of waste disposal by 90 percent in the next 11 years. Officials stress that their immediate focus is on ie, cycling, composting, and waste ie- duction. Most Ann Arbor residents are * ready accustomed to recycling; the city has the highest recycling partic.- ipation late in the state. "There's a general overwhelming support fqi comprehensive recycling," said cou. cil member Liz Brater (D-Third Ward). 25 percent of all single family households participate in recycling on a monthly basis. Nearly half of the households participate at least once a year. Members of the cities solid waste task force hope increased recy- cling will reduce waste by 25 percent by the year 2000. In addition to increased recy- cling, task force members want " composting program. Composti g See Waste, Page IS NU Continued form Page 4 take more classes. People go insane on Wednesday nights. And Ann Arbor isn't exactly balmy during the winter. I could go about bars. Evanston isn't allowed to have any. (They also don't have bowling alleys and you must bag your own food at Burger King.) It is the home of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and you've got to be careful to behave morally. But then there's Howard Street in Chicago - a ten minute ride where you can drink until 2:00 and they wouldn't card a pre-teen. The P.M. Club isn't Rick's, but no other bar that I know plays Frank Sinatra for three hours at a time. Northwestern has its share of character. There is one bar on campus. By day the "gathering place" is a lowly cafeteria, but by night it-sheds its fried chicken and lets its inhibitions fly. So what if last call is 12:15. You can drink and still catch the end of Letterman. But I will say that while Ann Arbor is a college town, Evanston is simply a city with a college in it. Michigan's influence in Ann Arbor stretches from the inner depths of Parcheesizes, to the twists and turns of Riverview Drive, to the check out lines at the K-Mart by Briarwood. You would be hard pressed to find purple and white past Dyche Stadium here. Evanston may have Mustard's Last Stand, Buffalo Joe's, Jim's Char Broil and Sherman's, but I miss The Brown Jug, Red Hot Lovers, and Zingerman's. There's no David's Books (why doesn't anyone ever steal those novels on the side- walk), Moe's or Oaza. And I could go on, and on... I miss the place, alright. I miss the basement of the UGLI. I miss those one credit sociology seminars. I miss Bob DiGiovanni yelling at me to "go to the goal with my stick raised!". All right, I'm coming back to Ann Arbor. But first, I'm going to the beach. 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