Recycling program looking
for volunteer workers

I CAN see by the look on your face that you feel you’ve

missed the boat.

As the praises and accolades
rained down upon your com-
munity-spirited friends during the
recent’ National Volunteer Week,
you began to feel just a little left
out,

You realized that perhaps your
worth should be tallied not by
what you gather, but by what you
sow. After all, as you sow, so
shall you reap. And sow on. I
mean so on.

But it’s true. While volunteering
plays a vital role in a healthy
community, it also enriches the
individual offering his or her ser-
vices.

Volunteering offers you the op-
portunity to step out of your
usual humdrum existence and
stretch your wings a little. Other
activities, such as Running with
the Bulls and bungey jumping,
have the same results, but require
greater outlays of cash for an ex-
perience that is much shorter-liv-
ed.

So now that I’ve got you con-
vinced that you need the world
and the world needs you, where
should you expend some of that
altruistic enthusiasm?

Well, coincidentally, the North
Shore Recycling Program is
holding a Volunteer Information
Meeting next Tuesday, May 14,
and that may just provide you the
opportunity you're looking for to
lend a helping hand in your com-
munity.

“Bue Im already recycling,’’
you moan. ‘‘I flatten cans and
rinse bottles and only put my Blue
Box out when it’s full. Like, really
full, just like you ask. Must I do
more?"

No, you mustn’t do more. No
one’s forcing you, so take that
pout off your face.

However, I would be neglecting
my responsibilities to my fellow
human beings if I didn’t tell you
that I think you’d be missing out
on a Very Fun Time if you reject
this time-limited offer.

Just think. You, as a specially
trained North Shore Recycling
Program volunteer (NSRP, to
those in the know) will have
direct, personal access to the
movers and shakers on the local
environment scene, such as
Recycling Coordinator Al Lynch,

Mortuer’s Day

BRUNCH
10:30am to 3:00pm

AT
the

Peggy
Trendell-Whittaker

ECOINFO

Assistant Coordinator Bryn
Johns, and a host of fun people
on the Going Green on the North
Shore committee,

So, instead of sitting at home
wondering why you can’t put all
your plastics in the Blue Box, or
when you'll be able to recycle
mixed paper, you will be a
member of the Inner Sanctum that
is privy to this knowledge.

Specially Trained Volunteers
will be issued official North Shore
News/Going Green EcoHero but-
tons, and will be able to identify
each other in public by way of a
discreet handshake, the details of
which are too sensitive to release
in this column.

You may have the chance to
exercise your bottled up artistic
talent by helping to set up recycl-
ing displays in malls and at com-
munity events.

You can help answer the
various recycling-related questions
that are lobbed our way during
such activities, or at times you
may have the chance to answer
the phones in the NSRP office on
East Second.

There will occasionally be the
need for general office support,
and volunteers are definitely being
sought to help deliver composters
purchased by focal residents as
part of the composting pilot pro-
ject.

You may even get the opportu-
nity, as I did fast year, to direct
traffic at a Household Hazardous

Waste drop-off. This is a plum
assignment, mainly because you
are issued an Official-Jooking vest
and get to wear a hard hat.

But I’ve saved the best for the
last. Very select Specially Trained
Volunteers will be eligible to wear
my very own hand-constructed
Blue Box costume in community
day parades.

While I don’t mean to boast, |
might as well just come right out
and say that | won the top prize
in the North Shore News’ Hal-
loween Costume contest in that
very same outfit.

The only problem ! foresee is
the minor safety issue that stems
from the fact that there are no
armholes in the above-mentioned
Blue Box, meaning that if you are
knocked over in a crowd you are
basically defenseless and indeed
may never be seen or heard of
again.

However, [’m sure we can work
something out.

Now that I’ve whet your ap-
petite for life on the leading edge
of the local green scene, I bet you
can’t wait to hear more details on
Tuesday night.

The goal of the meeting is to
amass a pool of people who can
be drawn upon when projects
arise. General information about
the status of the NSRP and up-
coming plans will be given, so it’s
a gocd chance to have some of
your questions answered. _~

The meeting wili be at 7:30 in
the NSRP office, 148 E. Second
St., North Van. Please cali 984-
9730 in advance if you plan to at-
tend.

Phone Book Update

Hopefully, everyone’s hung on
to their Yellow Pages, because
yellow, pink and white pages cau
now be dropped off for recycling
in the parking lots of the follow-
ing locations:
© North Vancouver:

- Westview Centre Safeway

- Lynn Valley Safeway

- 13th and Lonsdale Safeway

- Riverside Recycling Depot, 132
Riverside Dr.

© West Vancouver:

~ Caulfeild Village Centre Safeway
- Woodward’s World of Food,
Park Royal North

Yellow Page and White Page
telephone directories can be drop-
ped off anytime up until July 31.
For information cali 984-9730.

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