City of Yelm welcome sign
Photo courtesy of Yelm-based photographer Guustaaf Damave

The 2007 Yelm Sping Cleanup is this Saturday, May 5 from 8am until 11am or until all containers are filled.
Residents without transportation; Senior citizens & the disabled may arrange pickup service by calling City Hall by May 4th for arrangements. All City of Yelm Residential Garbage customers invited to participate.

Location: Yelm City Park
Permit is required and were mailed to all City addressees.
If you did not get one, please contact City Hall at 458-3244.

If you miss this up day, Thurston County has a similar program twice yearly called, “Community Recycle Days.”
This is a self-haul option. The Spring 2007 events will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on:

Saturday, May 12, at South Sound Speedway
Saturday, May 19, at Thurston County Fairgrounds
Visit the Thurston County Wasteline
for more detailed information, or call WasteLine at (360) 786-5494.

LeMay Garbage and Recycling

Further,

The Olympian reports,
“The Thurston County Commission will have a public hearing at 6 p.m. May 7 to accept public comment on the limited areas of more intensive rural development, or LAMIRD, project and long-term agricultural lands designation criteria project.

The public hearing will be at the Thurston County Fairgrounds Expo Center, 3054 Carpenter Road S.E. An open house will precede the hearing at 5:15. Written comments may be submitted in lieu of testimony to Thurston County Development Services, Attn. Katie Knight, until the close of the public hearing. The LAMIRD and agricultural lands designation criteria proposals are at www.co.thurston.wa.us/permitting/GMA/index.htm and the Thurston County Permit Assistance Center.”