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OPERATION RELEAF REMINDER Correction: Fall-O-Weep Fest 2011 9/23-25 is at John As we approach Fall in South Bend, it is time to plan for the Glen High School, in Walkerton . We apologize for the error. annual loose leaf pickup program - — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — throughout the city. Residents are FALL INTO FUN•1. encouraged to avoid using plastic bags for leaves and yard waste. Zoo Boo at Potawatomi Zoo, Please follow these guidelines: Friday, October 21stand Saturday, October 22nd, 6-9 p.m. ♦ Keep leaves on the curb line, not Little Zoo Boo,for 7 and under, in the street. Sunday, October 23rd,noon-4 p.m. ♦ Do not contaminate leaf piles with sticks, trash, and other O'Brien Skate Park Fall hours debris that will damage the leaf vacs. Open everyday 9am to dusk ♦ Vehicles should never park on top of leaves raked onto the Leeper Tennis Center Fall hours street. Monday—Friday: 3:30 p to 7:00 p ♦ Burning of leaves is prohibited in the City of South Bend. I Saturday/Sunday: 12:00 p to 7:00p ♦ Leaves must be raked to the curb by 6 a.m. the morning of For more information please call your regularly scheduled trash pickup day. SB Parks& Recreation Department at 299-4768 ext. 239 or visit ♦ If you miss your scheduled pickup, or have leaves left after the the website sbpark.org. loose leaf program is completed,you may can also bag leaves for the City's regular Yard Waste pickup program. All leaves are taken to Organic Resources and recycled into VIPS Volunteers and South Bend Street high quality mulch and compost, thereby diverting them from our Department Team Up To Assist Citizen landfill!! Free mulch and compost are available by calling 287- 6841. On Memorial Day. 2011, VIPS volunteers Joyce Pickup schedules will be available in the South Bend Tribune. If Pinkerton and Josh Fulkerson had.just finished their traffic you need more information please visit the website at control assignment for the Westside Memorial Day Parade. SouthBendIN.gov/releaf or call 235-9244. Upon leaving their intersection of Ford St and Daley St, they — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — came upon a disabled citizen in a powered 3 wheel cart. Mrs. B. Lunch & Learn Series I was putting herself, hand over hand, along the curbline. Hosted by South Bend's Dept. of Community & I southbound in the northbound lane of olive St. Both VIPs Economic Development volunteers Pinkerton and Fulkerson immediately responded by Place: Main Library downtown— 304 S. Main St. I using the overhead tights on their VIPS car to warn on- in the Humphrey's room on the lower level. coning traffic of her position and to see how they could assist. Time: Noon to 1:00 PM She told them the cart was having battery trouble so she was Current Dates: trying to get up the hill and eventually home. by using her 10/11 Classical Music Experience-Presentation by-South hands only. While continuing to block the traffic lane for her Bend Symphony Orchestra safety. the VIPS volunteers radioed into South Bend Police 10/18 The Museums at Washington &Chapin—Presentation Dispatch and were able to have a Street Department truck by- Studebaker National Museum sent to assist therm. With the arrival of truck"Street 211". 10/25 Splen did Shakespeare-Presentation by-Shakespeare driven by Thomas Panting, all three assisted in getting Mrs. B at Notre Dame into the VIPS car. Ms. Pinkerton stayed with her while Mr. 11/1 Art in the City—Presentation by South Bend Museum Panting and Mr. Fulkerson lifted the electric cart onto the rear of Art bed of the truck. Working together. they transported Mrs. B 11/8 Arts&Social Media—Presentation by- Arts and her cart to her home. Everywhere Again, because of her �� RSVP —ssolmos @southbendin.gov or call 574-235- I disability, the VI PS/Street 5879. Lunch will be available from various restaurants 211 "Good Samaritans" IS pushed her up her handicap ramp and into her home. Volunteers ink Police Service `CITY SEEDS INPUT ON DOWNTOWN HOUSING ` This is a great example of the The city f South Bend's Dept. of Community&Economic South Bend �� VIPS Unit Y P Y � dedication of our police/ Development is conducting a survey to better understand the downtown communuty volunteers and housing market. The brief survey will take less than 5 minutes to corn- cut}'ennplo}'ees. Two seasoned volunteers and one newly hired plete and will ask your opinion on several topics, including housing types,prices, and what makes a good urban neighborhood. Your input employee had the determination, after completing their parade duties to g } d their work assignments to assist a resident o be von will help public officials and private developers to understand how they I can most effectively act to improve the choices and quality of housing in and to,deliver a happy ending by bringing Mrs. B and her cart and around downtown South Bend. To take the survey,type the safely back home. following into your web browser: www.surveymonkey.com/s/dtsb (Lt. Richard Powers So. Bend Police VIPS Unit Coordinator) SI USTED NO ENTIENDE INGLES Y NECESITA AYUDA PARA TRADUCIR ESTE DOCUNIENTO, O SI TIENE ALGUNA PREGUNTA,POR FAVOR LLAXIE AL TELEFONO(574)235-5858 X 1000.