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KMHC & The Blue Box

Blue Box

About 4 years ago the City of Hamilton inspectors shut down the KMHC recycling room after being considered a fire hazard.  Since then the HSC Ingrid has been scratching her head and arse trying to figure out what to do with the blue boxes.  One idea was to place them across the hall from the office this went on for a while until they notice it doesn’t look good.  Then the staff decided to move the boxes across from I and my neighbor’s door.  That’s when I complained at a tenant meeting about the boxes being an eyesore in the hallway then HOW Lynda Jones came up with a lame excuse regarding city regulations which I didn’t believe.  Last year after filing a complaint to UNH’s head office combined with my neighbour’s verbal complaint the maintenance dept. listened and came up with an excellent solution.  The recycling boxes have been moved to an isolated area of the basement ironically right across from the old recycling room. 
Yesterday tenants received a letter from the office stating somebody placed bloodied meat trays in the blue boxes.  REALLY!  With all the camera surveillance in the building the office didn’t notice the culprit!  Oh another issue the stench in the hallway from the recycling blue boxes and tenants on my floor are complaining.  Funny I’ve never heard anybody complain, the only stench I’ve noticed is when the HCS and HOW’s come out of the employee washroom which is located a few feet from my door.  :P
Anyway the KMHC office staff have gone back to an old previous solution tenants are now instructed to drop off their recyclables at the storage entrance during office hours or risk being fined.  I have to laugh at the fine/penalty aspect because I rarely use the recycling blue boxes occasionally I’ll place a folded up cardboard box or empty 2 litre plastic pop bottles in the designated blue box.  Since the office staff have a uncontrollable urge to monkey around with recyclable waste by all means knock yourselves out!  I don’t care.  I have my own waste management disposal system.

On other news – A big thank you to Yvonne Maracle of Hamilton Aboriginal Health Centre for displaying her donated native pictures on our floor in a art gallery format.  These pictures show native people from all walks of life included are children, teens, adults and last but not least Native Elders.  Yvonne’s attention to detail is impressive. :)

Happy Halloween to all bloggers and readers.

Tk

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Good news said…
Send the blue boxes to the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre! They could likely fill those blue boxes with their newsletters that I have requested and never received.
I found your blog googleing the Centre and find it both entertaining and informative. I love your humour. I should learn to start blogging.
November 3, 2015 at 12:43:00 PM EST
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