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City's spring clean-up starts Monday

From Staff Reports

MICHIGAN CITY - Mayor Chuck Oberlie announced the Refuse Department will conduct its Annual Spring Clean-Up starting Monday, March 23.

Oberlie urges citizens to use this opportunity to spruce up their homes and neighborhoods in anticipation of warmer weather. The Refuse Department requests that all residents separate the debris that is to be discarded into the following three categories kept separate from each other:

1. Brush, limbs, shrubs, yard waste and unpainted concrete (no black top).

2. Rugs, lumber, furniture and building materials of all sorts.

3. All tires rimmed or derimmed can be placed out for pick-up with white goods such as stoves, refrigerator, air conditions, water tanks, dehumidifiers etc.

Residents may use curb side or alleys to put out their debris, wherever is most convenient. The clean-up process is divided into three areas and the pick up for each area will be the same days as normal refuse pick-up day.

The dates for each area pick-up will be as follows:

• Area 1: March 23-March 27, repeated April 13-April 17. Area 1 is marked by County Line Road on the west, Franklin Street on the east, Kieffer Road on the south and Second Street on the north.

• Area 2: March 30-April 3, repeated April 20-April 24. Area 2 is marked by Franklin Street on the west, Michigan Boulevard and Roeske Avenue on the east and Second Street on the north.

• Area 3: April 6-April 10, repeated April 27-May 1. Area 3 is marked by Lake Shore Drive and U.S. 12 and Shoreland Drive on the north, Michigan Boulevard on the west and Meer Road on the east.

Compost information:

Compost pick-ups will begin Monday, May 4, and will continue until Friday, Nov. 20. You may use your garbage cans, cardboard boxes and/or paper bags. No plastic bags may be used for compost pick-ups. All compost pick-ups must be placed out on the curb side for removal and will not be picked up or removed from alleys. The resident will be responsible for getting their compost to the street.

Listed below are the schedules for the regular trash pick-up and the corresponding pick-up day for the composting materials only. If your regular pick up is, your compost day is:

Monday/Thursday.

Tuesday/Friday.

Wednesday/Monday.

Thursday/Tuesday.

Friday/Wednesday.