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<br />mail boy <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />April, 2012 <br />Volume 6, Issue 4 Gem Lake News <br />Special Interest <br />Articles: <br /> <br />• We Recycle Well! <br /> <br />• Coyotes Move In <br /> <br />• City News Page 4 <br /> <br />• Historic Tavern <br />Served Great Food <br /> <br />• CITY CLEAN UP <br />DAY--MAY 5-9:00 <br />a.m. at Heritage <br />Hall <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Upcoming Recycling <br />Dates: <br />April 18 <br />May 2 <br />May 16 <br /> <br /> <br />Gretchen Artig-Swomley, Newsletter Editor <br />To sum it up, Gem Lake is a nice, low <br />density community with a turkey buffet that <br />never closes. Unfortunately, we represent <br />just the kind of environment that coyotes <br />love, and word has gotten around. Coyote <br />sighting were once rare--now they are <br />getting eerily common place. <br /> <br />The lack of natural predators and the <br />endless food supply have made coyotes an <br />increasing problem in the Twin Cities. Gem <br />Lake has at least several large flocks of <br />turkeys, enough deer "road kill" to give the <br />coyotes an interesting change in cuisine, <br />and no bears to cut them down to size. (At <br />least not yet...) <br /> <br />According to the Minnesota Department of <br />Natural Resources (DNR), the coyote is <br />Minnesota's most abundant large predator. <br />(continued on page 5) <br /> <br />Coyotes Spotted Regularly in Gem Lake <br />Recycling Participation in Gem Lake is Strong in 2011 <br />An impressive 82.62% of households in Gem <br />Lake participate regularly in our single-sort <br />recycling program through Waste Management <br />in 2011. <br />In total, Gem Lake residents recycled 35.2 tons <br />of materials last year. Of this tonnage, the <br />majority was newspaper (20.7 tons), followed <br />by cardboard and mixed paper (5 tons), mixed <br />glass (3.9 tons), aluminum and steel cans (1.4), <br />and plastic (1.2). The remainder was made up <br />of color sorted glass, scrap steel and residue <br />(things that were rejected in the final sorting <br />process). <br />The best participation in curb-side recycling in <br />our city happened in July, when 92.2% of <br />households put out their containers. The worst <br />month was March when only 76.24% of <br />households muscled their containers around <br />the snowdrifts. These figures are based on an <br />annual report from Waste Management Co. <br /> (continued on page 5) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />