Warm welcome?

Warm welcome?

Letter to editor of McMinnville N-R/News-Register, May 27, 2022

Do McMinnville, Newberg and Lafayette appreciate visitors? Yes.

Are “welcome signs” a good way to welcome visitors? Yes.

From the internet, I read: “The welcome signs surrounding a city can be important markers signifying much more than its population or city seal. Oftentimes, these signs are used to communicate the beliefs and ideals a community holds and shares.”

Look at the photos I took of McMinnville, Newberg and Lafayette “welcome signs” on May 21. Should McMinnville’s sign on Highway 99W be more welcoming?

Tim Marsh
McMinnville

 

Plastics Recycling Project, McMinnville, Sat. June 4, 2022

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND 

THE PLASTICS RECYCLING PROJECT 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR 

Saturday, June 4, 2022 10 am–2 pm

Yamhill County Fairgrounds
2070 NE Lafayette Avenue, McMinnville 

Cost is $4 per grocery bag Cash or checks only, please Just show up with these plastic items. 

All items must be sorted, clean, dry, and grouped together as follows: 

>> UN-NUMBERED ITEMS - Bag together - all straws, utensils, and bread bag clips - Bag together - all screw-on and flip-top plastic caps 

NUMBERED ITEMS Does it have a number on the bottom? Bag together by its number. #1s - CLEAR plastic clamshells, to-go containers, cups (no color) #2s, #4s, #5s, #6s - Examples: cold/hot drink cups and lids, prescription pill bottles and lids, take-out containers, plant pots under 4 in., tubs under 6 oz., etc. 

NO STYROFOAM, COMPOSTABLE ITEMS OR RECOLOGY CURBSIDE RECYCLING ITEMS __________________________________________

We are joining Zero Waste’s Recycled Arts and the Sustainable Living Festival and Compostapalooza - at the Fairgrounds. We think we’ll fit right in. Join us there! 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO JOIN OUR ENTHUSIASTIC TEAM QUESTIONS? 

(503) 207-5482 

Sponsors: 

>Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of McMinnville’s Social and Environmental Justice Committee
>Zero Waste McMinnville
>Botten’s Equipment Rental

Also see:

https://files.constantcontact.com/0f542b88401/95740c2a-f74e-4e45-9c38-d2d46a92523f.pdf