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Arden Hills Service Directory 1245 West Highway 96 Arden Hills, MN 55112-5734 www.cityofardenhills.org 651-792-7800 Office Hours Monday through Friday 8:00 am-4:30 pm Sheriff and Fire 911 Water and Sewer Problems (During non-business hours) 651-767-0640 Mayor: David Grant 651-538-0747 dgrant@cityofardenhills.org Councilmembers: Brenda Holden 651-636-2987 bholden@cityofardenhills.org Fran Holmes 651-631-1866 fholmes@cityofardenhills.org Dave McClung 651-332-0352 davemcclung@cityofardenhills.org Steve Scott 651-604-0919 sscott@cityofardenhills.org City Administrator: Bill Joynes 651-792-7810 wjoynes@cityofardenhills.org Communications Coordinator Dawn Skelly 651-792-7817 dskelly @cityofardenhills.org Communications Committee Editor/writer/photographer: Susan Cathey Council Liaison: Steve Scott Staff Liaison: Julie Hanson Desktop Publisher: Mary Nosek Council meetings are held at City Hall on the second and fourth Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. Meetings are televised live on Cable Channel 16. Meetings of the Planning Commission are televised as well. Visit www.cityo- fardenhills.org for information about archived meeting playbacks. Arden Hills Notes is the official news- letter of the City of Arden Hills, an equal-opportunity employer. 2 And may all your holidays be green The holidays are here and it is time to work against the accumulation of waste and belongings that happen every year. Waste tends to increase during the holiday season. For example, about 8,000 tons of wrapping paper are used every year and the 2.65 billion holiday cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high. You can reduce waste for the holidays in every aspect, including the meals you prepare, the gifts you give, and the decorations you hang. Some ideas include using eco-friendly decorations, a real Christmas tree, or giving experiences like a museum membership or cooking lessons. You also can give gifts that will help others reduce waste in their everyday lives. Give the gifts that keep on reusing like: • Canvas shopping bags • Canning kits to help prevent food waste • Coffee canteens • Reusable produce bags Real Christmas trees can be recycled at the Ramsey County yard waste collection site located at 3530 Hudson Avenue. Visit RamseyRecycles.com for the Arden Hills collection site hours of operation. “The 2.65 billion holiday cards sold each year in the U. S. could fill a football field 10 stories high.” About those holiday lights... Do you have strings of holiday lights that no longer work? Perhaps you’re switching to energy efficient LED lights. Don’t forget to recycle those old strings. For several years, the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) operated a light recycling program statewide. Because so many other recycling options now exist, RAM has discontinued its own program but is continuing to work with Clean Energy Research Teams (CERT) and other partners to provide and relay collection location information. An updated map will be available on its website soon. (recycleminnesota.org) Arden Hills residents can drop off lights year-round at the Ramsey County Household Hazardous Waste Facility – 5 Empire Drive, St. Paul. The phone number is 651-633-3279. Your mailbox is intended for the mail--the kind with postage on it! The City has received complaints about flyers without paid postage being placed in mailboxes. By federal law, only postage-paid mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service is allowed in mailboxes. In addition, all merchants and businesses that wish to distribute mail that informs about products or services must be registered with the City as solicitors/peddlers. For more information, visit the City website at www.cityofardenhills.org and search the keyword solicitor.