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Mayor's Letter
Dear Neighbors: Hurricane Relief-Thanks for Your
I hope that you had an opportunity to attend this year's Art Beat in Generosity!
Downtown South Bend. Thanks to the efforts of Co-Chairs Kathy Reddy- Studebaker Museum Grand Opening
White and Kathleen Murphy, and the volunteer committees, as well as the City Offers Leaf Pickup for Less Than$1/
artists, organizations, and volunteers,Art Beat was a great celebration of the Month
Discounted Trash Collection Rates for
performing, visual, and culinary arts found right here in our own community. Senior Citizens!
One of our most unique events,Art Beat demonstrates that South Bend is the Reuse or Recycle Old Trash Containers
center for arts, entertainment, and culture in our region.
Our thanks to everyone who worked hard all year to make Art Beat such an . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
exciting event as well as to Art Beat underwriters and sponsors: Barnes &
Thornburg; The City of South Bend; The Community Foundation of St. Joseph
County's ArtsEverywhere; DTSB, Inc.;WVPE 88.1; SUNNY 101.5;Burkhart
Advertising;The South Bend Tribune;and ABC57/WB25.
If you attended Art Beat or if you work, live, or play Downtown you have
had an opportunity to see all of the new investment underway. This has been a STUDEBAKER
banner year for new business and new improvements in the area. I encourage
you to visit the"Rock"-Knute Rockne Plaza at the Hall of Fame Plaza on NATIONAL MUSEUM
Gridiron Row,the expanded South Bend Chocolate Cafe,the Nicholas J. Salon,
Sit&Knit for needlework and coffee, and Club Fever. We also have several Grand Opening
new restaurants including O'Sullivan's Crossing,the Cellar Door at the newly
renovated Holiday Inn City Center Building,and the Chicory Cafe. Currently October 30,2005
under construction is NoMa, an Asian Fusion Restaurant along Michigan St., the • Join the Studebaker National Museum for
new headquarters for the So. Bend Community School Corp., and in October . the Grand Opening of its new location,
we will be unveiling the new marquee at the Morris Performing Arts Center. On adjacent to the Center for History, on the
the East Bank, Inspire Me! now has two locations on Colfax St. • corner of Chapin and Thomas Streets, on
Office space is filling up and the demand for parking is rising as well. In October 30,2005. The Museum docu-
fact, we project the need for 300 additional spaces as the School Corporation • ments the art and industry of one of the
and other new tenants move into Downtown. We are also working hard to . most distinguished automobile manufac-
prepare for future development as well. We have invested nearly $160,000 in tuners of the 20th century. View 114
improvements to the LaSalle Hotel to facilitate active reuse of this historic . years of automotive history,including the
building. Market research is nearly complete for disposition of the former actual Studebaker carriage that carried
Osco's. We recently acquired and demolished the Rink Riverside building. This • President Lincoln to Ford's Theatre the
area is prime real estate and a key site for future growth in Downtown, in fact, night he was assassinated and the only
several interested parties have already contacted the City about the site. remaining 1927 Presidential limousine.
South Bend is the center for business and investment as well as arts,
culture, and entertainment. Come down and see what is happening!
• For more information,please call the
. Museum at 235-9714,or visit them at
Mayor Steve www.studebakermuseum.org.
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SOUTH BEND SUPPORTS
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Hurricane Katrina Relief NECFSHAAYUDAPARATRADUCIRESTE
Thankyou for the generosity of everyone who contributed to the DOCUMENTO, O SI TIENE ALGUNA
Hurricane Relief Effort on Sept. 2! PREGUNTA,PORFAVORLLAMEAL SR.
FEDERICO THON (ASISTENTE DEL
With your help, we raised $8,815 for the Red Cross, and collected over ALCALDE)ALTELEFONO(574)235-5858
13,000 bottles of water for the Food Bank of Northern Indiana! X1000.
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Discounted Trash Collection Rates ® Reuse or Recycle
for Senior Citizens! Old Trash Containers
As part of South Bend's new Automated
The South Bend Bureau of Solid Waste is committed to providing all Trash Container Program, the Bureau of
residents with safe,reliable, and efficient trash collection services at Solid Waste has picked up residents' old
economical prices. Solid Waste offers senior citizens a reduced rate of$5.50 per trash containers for recycling or reuse.
month, which includes weekly trash pickup and yard waste collection for indi-
vidual households. The normal rate for individual households in South Bend is RECYCLE:
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$8.00 a month, which is among the lowest rate for trash collection in the state, for • Metal containers are being recycled
cities of our size. for scrap.
If you have any questions regarding your trash and yard waste collection, or • All clean plastic containers Grade#1
your bill,please call the Bureau of Solid Waste at 277-8823. or#2 composite are being recycled.
• Please note that in order to be recycled
or reused,plastic containers must
City Leaf Pickup Less Than $1/Month! cleaned of any trash or debris.
The City is pleased to announce that it will again offer its loose leaf REUSE
pickup program, Operation ReLeaf,beginning on Monday, October The City of South Bend, in partnership
24, 2005 and continuing until Thanksgiving. This is the seventeenth with Solid Waste Management District
year the City is offering this service to its residents, at a rate of 33 of St. Joseph County, will make
a cents per month! Mayor Steve encourages everyone to help build a available to local residents all clean
Clean City by bagging or raking your leaves to the curb this fall. non-recyclable plastic containers, for:
In order to continue providing this service, the rate is proposed _ Household recycling - If your
to increase to 99 cents per month,beginning in 2006. This is one of the lowest recycling bin is overflowing, or you
rates in the region, among communities who still offer this servicel have not yet taken advantage of
The City provides curbside loose-leaf pickup every year,both in the fall and recycling services, use your old
spring,to help keep South Bend clean and beautiful. Last year,the City collected a trash containers to help protect our
total of 82,000 cubic yards of leaves. After the loose leaves are collected, they are environment. For more information
taken to Organic Resources and recycled into high quality mulch and compost, on SWMD's recycling program,
and more importantly, diverting them from our landfill! Free mulch and compost please call them at 235-9971, or visit
are available by calling Organic Resources at 287-6841. www.swmd.ore.
Curbside Loose Leaf Pickup -For best results,please: - Bagged&bundled yard waste -
• Keep leaves on the curb line and do not rake leaves into the street where they Old containers may be used to hold
may interfere with traffic or clog stormwater drains. bagged leaves and yard waste for
• Do not contaminate leaf piles with sticks,trash, and other debris that will collection at curbside on your
damage the Leaf Vacs. Leaf crews will not pick up these piles regular trash collection day.
• Vehicles should never park on top of leaves raked onto the street. A vehicle left
running while parked over leaves could create enough heat to ignite a fire. If your old containers have not yet
• Burning of leaves is totally prohibited in the City of South Bend and is in viola- been picked up, call the Bureau of Solid
tion of City ordinance. Waste to arrange for pickup and proper
• Help make South Bend a Safe City by not allowing children to play in leaf piles disposal. Place old containers at
at the curb. curbside, with a"Please Take"note
To learn when leaf collection crews will be in your area,beginning October attached. All containers that are full of
24, please watch for the Operation ReLeaf schedule in the South Bend Tribune and trash or have not been cleaned will be
on local TV and radio broadcasts, or visit the City Website at www.ci.south- taken to the landfill.
bend.in.us/PublicWorks/Wastewater/sw/index.html. If you have any questions, or
for more information, please call the Bureau of Streets at 235-9244. Residents wishing to keep their old
Bagged leaves and bundled yard waste may be placed at the curb by 6:00 containers must store them inside their
a.m. on your normal trash collection day and the Bureau of Solid Waste will take yard, and not leave them at the alley line
them to Organic resources to be recycled. Bagged leaves should not be placed in or curbside,unless filled with recycling
the alley. As you do yard work this fall,please remember guidelines require on their recycling pickup day.
that tree limbs and brush be bundled together no wider than 6 If you have not yet received your new
inches and less than 4 feet long. Limbs or bundles larger than 6 automated trash container, or have
inches in diameter will not fit through the City's chipping any questions regarding disposal of your
machines and will not be picked up. For more information on old trash containers,please call the
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bagged and bundled yard waste pickup, please call 277-8823. Bureau of Solid Waste at 277-8823.
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