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<br />Files Day
<br />2008
<br />Wednesday April
<br />16th
<br />College Football Hall of Fame
<br />Downtown South Bend
<br />7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
<br />Bring all secure documents for recycling to the
<br />College Football Hall of Fame parking lot. This
<br />year, Confidential Shredding will be offered
<br />On -Site!
<br />Hours: 7:00am- 4:00pm. You may bring up to
<br />50 lbs. (approx. 1 -2 file boxes) for Free Shred-
<br />ding! Additional secure documents can be shred-
<br />ded for 15¢ per lb. For more information, call
<br />Solid Waste Management District at 574 -235-
<br />9971.
<br />Sponsored by City of South Bend, Waste
<br />Management Inc.,
<br />Solid Waste Management District, and
<br />Mountain High Shredding
<br />In the market for'
<br />a new home?
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<br />The City of South Bend
<br />can help!!!
<br />The following programs may be used to-
<br />gether or separately to purchase a home
<br />within the South Bend City limits (eligibility
<br />based on income guidelines):
<br />Community Homebuyers Program
<br />Grants up to $19,000 are available to
<br />assist with the purchase of your home.
<br />Interest rates are competitive, no PMI
<br />(private mortgage insurance) required,
<br />Lower mortgage payments due to assis-
<br />tance with use of the grant.
<br />Reward
<br />♦ Grants of up to $1,000 are available to
<br />assist you. This grant pays toward down
<br />payment and closing costs for your mort-
<br />gage.
<br />For more information please call the Division
<br />of Community Development at 235 -9475.
<br />South Bend's
<br />FREE DOWNSPOUT
<br />DISCONNECTION
<br />• If the downspouts on your home disappear
<br />into the ground, there is a good chance that
<br />they are connected to the City sewer system,
<br />causing sewers to receive both waste and rain water. A single residence can
<br />deposit as much as 27,000 gallons of rain water to the system each year! Dur-
<br />ing heavy rainfall and melting snow, this combined sewer overflow can cause
<br />flooding, sewer backup into basements, and odors that escape into the air
<br />through downspouts rather than remaining underground.
<br />To help reduce these occurrences, City residents are urged to call the Divi-
<br />sion of Engineering to sign up for a free downspout disconnection. The City
<br />will send a two- person crew to disconnect the downspout, cap the entry pipe to
<br />the sewer, and redirect the downspout to release rain water into the yard, where
<br />it is naturally absorbed into the ground. A downspout disconnection can cost
<br />as much as $200, but this service is offered at no charge to South Bend resi-
<br />dents. Since 2004, we have disconnected 530 homes from the sewer system,
<br />reducing our overflow volume by over 10.5 million gallons!
<br />Working together we can help eliminate sewer backups and overflows. If
<br />you have a downspout connected to the sewer system, please call 235 -9251 or
<br />visit our website at hqp: / /www.southbendin.gov - help make South Bend a
<br />"Clean City."
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<br />Make a difference in our community by supporting this
<br />environmental protection, awareness and outreach event:
<br />Earth & Arbor Day Festival 2008
<br />Sat April 19, 9 am - 3 pm
<br />Potawatomi Park, South Bend
<br />9 am Blessing of the animals, parade & benefit walk -a- thong.
<br />Visit with Mother Earth
<br />10 am St. Joseph Riverbank cleanup;
<br />11 am Speakers on recycling, gardening, composting, solar _
<br />energy, and more.
<br />1 pm Annual Earth & Arbor Day tree planting
<br />All Day Exhibits on plant & herb growing, gardening, solar food cooking and toy
<br />display, perennial sale, ecology, recycling center, kitten /puppy adoption, free
<br />cloth tote bags, trees, plants and more!
<br />The district will again be giving away up to 5 tree spruce saplings per family on a first come, first
<br />serve basis.
<br />Sponsored by: The Earth Day Resource Center, the City of South Bend, South Bend Parks
<br />& Recreation Dept., Botanical Society of South Bend, Indiana Urban Forest Project, South
<br />Bend Tree Advisory Board, the Garden Club of South Bend, and the Solid Waste
<br />Management District
<br />For more information please call the Earth Day Event Clearinghouse at (574)277 -7456
<br />or visit www.swmd.org.
<br />hisit Our Website at www SoutliBendIN.gov!
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