Stash Your Trash set Saturday at Fair Park
The annual spring Stash Your Trash event for Rock-dale residents is set for 8 a.m. to 12-noon Saturday at Fair Park.
Residents will be able to dispose of many items free in roll-off containers.
City Manager Chris Whittaker said items may also be placed at curbside on regular trash disposal days throughout the year or by scheduling a special pickup with Progressive, the city’s garbage contractor.
Those taking advantage of Stash Your Trash should enter Fair Park through the main gate at Mill Street and exit Gate 5 at Roberts Street. Look for signs.
Free chipping will also be offered for limbs four inches and smaller. Limbs must be loaded from a truck or trailer.
“Please separate metal from regular trash for easier disposal,” he said.
Stash Your Trash cannot accept motor oil, batteries and any items which contain refrigerant, hazardous chemicals or paint in liquid form.
The event is restricted to residents of Rockdale and residence will be verified at the site. City residents may bring a driver’s license and water bill.
Those needing help getting trash to Fair Park on Saturday should call the city at 512-446-2511.
Tire collection ahead April 27 in Cameron
A tire collection is planned from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Precinct 2 Barn, 3106 North Travis in Cameron.
The collection event will accept tires with rims, tubes and tire pieces and all tractor tires.
It will not accept any industrial sized tires over the size of 17.5-25, according to Precinct 2 Commissioner Donald Shuffield.
Anyone with questions may contact Commissioner Shuffield at 254-697-7054 (office) or 254-697-1019 (mobile).
The tire collection event is sponsored by RC&D.
City worker dies while recovering from fall
A longtime City of Rock-dale employee died Monday morning while on leave from a fall sustained while he was on the job.
City Manager Chris Whittaker said Brian Galbreath, 48, died at his home “while having a seizure.”
He said Galbreath had been or workman’s compensation for more than six weeks after sustaining injuries from a fall while on duty.
On Feb. 20, Galbreath was moving items from the top floor of the police stati0n—the 124-year-old former City Hall—when he fell down steps leading to a sidewalk.
He was a Public Works/ Parks employee and had been employed by the City of Rockdale since 1994.
Earth Day adding new projects to work list
Several new projects have been added to the list for Earth Day, April 22, in Rockdale, according to Dave Melton, coordinator.
Among those are a self-funded project by First Presbyterian Church to plant trees and shrubs on the church grounds.
He said Rockdale’s LDS Church is providing a church-funded, with labor included, project of landscaping at the city library.
Melton said the Earth Day coloring contest for pre-K through second grade has over 80 entries.
On April 20 the El Camino Real chapter of Texas Master Naturalists will offer educational presentations, and free take-home items at the Rockdale Community Room, 2103 North Main, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Also that day, Girl Scout Troop 9603 and 9605 will clean up the Old City Cemetery.
Between April 22 and 27, aluminum cans may be recycled at special rates at Rockdale Iron & Metals on US 79.
Judge eyeing uses for Cameron hospital
CAMERON—Milam County Judge Steve Young would like to move several county office into the building formerly occupied by Little River-Cameron Hospital.
Young told county commissioners Monday he has been in negotiations with the county’s three banks to try and work out a trade of some of the county’s downtown Cameron offices for the hospital which was closed last December.
Young said the proposal is still in the talking stage and that county offices inside the courthouse would not move.
Also, commissioners applauded as Sheriff Chris White announced a number of awards. See page 3A.
RHS Prom Saturday at Patterson Center
The 2019 Rockdale High School Prom will be held from 8 p.m. to 12-midnight Saturday in the Patterson Center.
Principal Tiffany Whitsel said all juniors and seniors must present the personalized tickets they received in their prom invitation packets.
She said the doors close at 9:30 p.m. and students who leave will not be allowed to re-enter.
“This is a drug and alcohol-free event,” Whitsel said.
City gets grant for water line project
The City of Rockdale has received a $174,549 grant from the Post Oak Savannah Water Conservation District.
Monday the city council okayed essentially using the grant, plus $60,000 of city funds for water line projects downtown in the downtown area prior to the extensive highway renovation and sidewalk improvement project scheduled to start later this year, according to City Manager Chris Whittaker.
Southwest Milam WSC was awarded $115,000.
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