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SPRING DUMPSTER DAY - SATURDAY, JUNE 12th, 2010
FOR GAMBIER VILLAGE & COLLEGE TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS ONLY, Dumpsters will be placed at the Village Maintenance Building on the South end of Meadow Lane from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
All items should be separated as follows:
1. Appliances, steel, and other metal items.
2. Trash - items that do not fit the above description.
Recycling items can not be collected at Dumpster Day. If you have recycling please take it to the Knox County Recycling Center on Columbus Road, in Mt. Vernon.
No Hazardous Waste items will be collected at this time. Also, please note that brush and small limbs can be brought to Dumpster Day this year. The Fire Department will burn them as a practice fire this year.
Dumpster day is funded by and open to residents of Gambier Village and College Township only. Please bring some form of identification that shows location of residence. This could be a utility bill, Village newsletter, or some other form that shows your street address.
SHREDDING DAY
BRING YOUR PAPERS TO DUMPSTER DAY
The Village of Gambier will be offering a Shredding Day to all residents of Gambier. We will have vans and trucks at Dumpster Day to load up your papers and we will haul them in to The Knox County New Hope Industries. Inc. where they will be shredded. The Village of Gambier asks that you tie, bag or box up your papers. The paper will be weighed on site at the Gambier Maintenance Barn at 141 Meadow Lane. The charge for having the papers shredded is $.17 per pound. The Village of Gambier will pay for the first 25 pounds per family. If you any questions regarding Shredding please contact the Village Office at 427-2671.
APPLIANCE ROUND UP AND HOME COMPUTER COLLECTION
Sponsored by:
* The DKMM Solid Waste District in cooperation with:
* Knox County Commissioners
* Knox County Recycling & Litter Prevention
They will be collecting appliances in Knox County on Saturday, May 1st, from 8:00 a.m. to Noon. at:
Knox County Recycling Center Office
301 Columbus Road
Mt. Vernon, OH 43450
$5.00 Donation per vehicle suggested to help defray shipping cost (any combination of items accepted for the donation). Please note only residents from Delaware, Knox, Marion, and Morrow Counties may participate.
Senior and disabled citizens living in Knox County can register for free in-home pickup of unwanted appliances. Please contact Linda Montgomery in the Knox County Commissioners Office at 393-6703 to register.
All household appliances, with the exclusion on TV's will be accepted at these events. In-home pick up of appliances will be limited to the first 100 qualified homes. Businesses are not eligible for either event.
The home computer collection will include: Computers, Monitors, Keyboards, Printers, Software, Scanners, CD Rom Drivers, Modems, Fax Machines, Servers, Hard Drives, Cables and Computer Mice.
There is no home pick-up available for the round up. You must bring your appliances to the collection site.
Cell phones will also be collected this year. Only the phone will be accepted. Please dispose of any cords, covers, etc. else where. All phones collected will be re-programmed for 911 use then donated to the Domestic Abuse Shelter.
If you are unable to attend the round up, please note that appliances can be taken to the Knox County Recycling Center every day, Monday-Friday. However, the fee for CFC appliances is always $10.00. If you have any questions about the round up, please call 393-4193.
Document Shredding: Again this year on Saturday, May 1st from 8:00 a.m. to Noon you can bring up to 5 boxes of documents to be shredded. For more information you can go to www.co.knox.oh.us/offices/recycling or call Knox County Commissioners office at 393-6703.
Other events sponsored by the Recycling Office that may be of interest to you are:
Also, as a reminder, Hazardous Waste Day will be held in Delaware County and in Morrow County this Fall. The dates have not been determined. The items that are acceptable and unacceptable have not changed from past Household Hazardous Waste Collections.
ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION
Jerry Kelly, the Chairperson of the Gambier Tree Commission, has organized an Arbor Day tree planting ceremony on Friday, April 30, 2010 at the Wiggin Street School. Jerry will be visiting with the 4th and 5th graders at 1:00 p.m. to talk about next year's project for mapping all the trees on the Wiggin Street Campus with the GPS. Then we will be planting a tree with the entire Wiggin Street School in attendance.
MIDDLE PATH DAY
On Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 Kenyon College and Gambier will welcome spring by hosting a Middle Path Day Celebration. Anyone interested in participating will need to check in at the Middle Path Headquarters, across from the Village Inn, located along the path in downtown Gambier from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You can look at the projects for the day and decide which one you want to participate in. Refreshments will be available and their will be prizes for those who put in the greatest numbers of hours.
EARTH DAY FESTIVAL AND EARTH DAY CHALLENGE MARATHON
On Sunday, April 25th, 2010 there will be an Earth Day Festival and the Earth Day Challenge Marathon. The festivities will run from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. Anyone interested in the events on April 25th should contact David Heithaus at heitausdgkenyon.edu.
CALL 811 BEFORE YOU DIG
The Ohio Utilities Protection Services (OUPS) and Gambier are encouraging residents to call 811 before you dig. April is Safe Digging Month. Always call before you dig. Call the Village Office at 427-2671 or visit www.oups.org for more information.
DOWNED ELECTRIC POWER LINES
Gambier would like to remind residents to not go in areas where trees have come down because it is very dangerous, especially in the dark. In resent weeks the Village had several trees come down and take down electric power lines with them. When a tree takes the electric power lines down the lines are live until the power company can come and turn them off. The Village of Gambier will do it's best to mark the areas as soon as possible but, please do not go into the area around the fallen tree. Gambier's Maintenance Crew will remove the trees from the roadways just as soon as AEP gives to OK for a safe work zone.
YARD CLEAN-UP WASTE
Yard waste can not be disposed of with the regular Wednesday Village Refuse Collection. However, you can take the yard waste from lawn clean up to the Knox County Disposal Site (Old Knox County Landfill area). The site is on Thayer Road, South of Mt. Vernon, off Route 3 & 36.
The landfill is accepting brush, grass, tree limbs (up to 10" diameter), and most compostable yard waste items every Saturday, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. Also, any time there is a severe storm, the landfill is open every day during the week following the storm.
If you have any questions about this waste site, please call the Knox County Commissioners Office at 393-6703.
STICK IT TO THE VILLAGE DAY
Again this year the Village of Gambier is having it's stick it to the Village Days on Monday, April 26th and Monday, May 3rd. This means the Gambier Maintenance Dept. will go around and pick up any pile of sticks the residents have piled out by the road. These pile can only be the sticks and limbs that have fallen from your trees over the winter and are laying on the ground. Please do not trim the trees in your yard and pile them out by the street, if you trim your trees please take the brush down to the Spring Dumpster Day on Saturday, June 12th, 2010. The pile at the road needs to be manageable for the crew to pick up. If you can bind the sticks with a string for easy pick that would be great. This pick up is designed to help with yard clean up and help those who can not bring their brush to Dumpster Day. No yard waste, (such as grass, weeds, leaves, dirt, etc..) will be picked up. This is for sticks only.
COMMUNITY GARDENS IN GAMBIER
The Village of Gambier is considering creation of a community garden area in which residents would be able to rent small plots for the growing season for a nominal sum. The community gardens would be located in a flat, sunlit area of village-owned property. Because of the problems of predation by deer and other animals, the garden area would be surrounded by a tall fence. Water would be available on site. Plots would range in size from 10' x 10' to 20' x 20', with rents of $10 to $20 per season. If you would be interested in renting a plot in such a community garden, please contact Village Administrator Suzanne Hopkins.
LITTLE LEAGUE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER
As a reminder, spring will be bringing a
new season of Baseball to the Community Center Parks. The Little League Opening Day will take place on Saturday, April 24th at 9:00 am, in Danville. The first games will be played on Monday, April 26th, beginning at 6:00 p.m., at the Village of Gambier ball fields. Please drive slowly and carefully when in the Community Center area as we will have a large number of children playing in the Park, not only during ball season but all summer long.
The Little League President this year is Rob Heagren. Anyone with questions about the Little League Association can reach him at 390-0409. Coaches are reminded that they need to fill out reservation forms for ball field time. Forms can be obtained in the Village office from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday. All events that use the Park area must reserve the Park or Ball field spaces through the Village of Gambier office. Mr. Heagren and the Village will compile the playing schedule. Any event scheduled through the Village office will take precedence over events not scheduled by the proper procedure.
NEWS FROM MAYOR KIRK EMMERT
Summer Projects
In coming months the Village crew, Council, and Administration, in addition to attending to regular maintenance work, will be focused on the following projects:
Water main - Several times, in recent years, the plastic water main on the east side of Meadow Ln. has ruptured, draining the water tower and interrupting the Village water supply. In June or July 1600 feet of this water main will be replaced with a stronger, ductile iron pipe. Most of this work will be accomplished by boring the new line rather than having to place it in a dug trench.
Water meters - Pit meters or new interior meters will be installed at the 13 residences in the Village which still have old internal meters. A number of large meters will also be replaced at Kenyon.
Waste water - A further section of our waste water lines will be cleaned and photographed and a collapsed line from the old bank and a damaged manhole will be repaired. A large pump will be replaced at the waste water plant.
Storm water - Drawing on funds accumulated by our storm water utility, we will replace a section of our storm water lines, probably on Brooklyn St. from Gaskin to Acland.
Sidewalks - In recent years the Village has constructed new sidewalks from Kokosing Dr. to the Gambier Homes, along Rt. 308, and from the Community Center to the KAC along Meadow Ln. The Council is working on a comprehensive sidewalk plan for the Village. We will implement a portion of that plan by constructing additional sidewalk this summer.
Parks - The Village hopes to begin implementing our recent Park Plan by initiating reconstruction of the Community Center Park. The initial part of this project entails moving the ball fields and the parking lot. We have applied for a grant to help finance this work.
Home Help and Housing for Retirees in Gambier and College Township
Several community members have met informally to discuss ways to improve the lives of retirees and of the elderly in Gambier and the Township. We have begun to explore the needs of two different groups of retirees: 1) those who want to remain in their homes but increasingly need assistance to accomplish this and 2) those who would like to move from their homes to smaller, more manageable quarters but want to continue to live in Gambier or in the Township. This latter group might, of course, also desire increased assistance.
What kinds of assistance? Perhaps, help with finances, house cleaning, yard maintenance, interior house repairs, meals, minor medical matters, transportation to events or for shopping, etc. This help might be provided in part by volunteers and in part by professionals approved by a committee or director of the association. The details of how all this would be financed and administered, and what services might be provided, require much more discussion.
At their initial discussion, the group concluded that its efforts should focus first on providing services to those who want to remain in their homes. Providing new housing for those who want smaller quarters, was viewed as is an important but longer range project. Very tentatively, it was suggested that such housing might provide both well designed condos and rental apartments, attractively organized in a planned unit development in the Village or the Township.
If you would like to express your support for either or both of these projects, make suggestions, join in further discussions or just seek further information please call or email Peg Heasley (427-4772) (bpheas@ecr.net) or Ruth Woehr (427-4535) (Woehr@kenyon.edu).
Kirk Emmert, Mayor
A NEW DEPUTY IN GAMBIER
By now am such some of you have seen that Gambier has a new Deputy, Aaron Phillip, from the Knox County Sheriff's Office was assigned to Gambier in the middle of February. Aaron has been with the Knox County Sheriff's Office for 7 years. Before coming to Gambier Aaron was a patrolman for the Village of Centerburg for about 2 years and then reassigned to the Knox County Jail for the last 3 1/2 years. Aaron is a member of the Crisis Intervention Team with the KCSO and also won the MADD Award for 2007. This Summer Aaron will attend training for the Bike Patrol once he passes that training, Gambier will have both of our Deputies patrolling on the bike When Aaron is not working in Gambier he enjoys hunting, fishing and raising alpacas with Julie and their two kids. The Village is very glad to have Aaron assigned to Gambier and we encourage residents to stop and talk with Aaron when they see him.
GAMBIER LIBRARY
The Gambier Library hours are:
Sunday- Closed
Monday - 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Tuesday - 11 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Wednesday - 11 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Thursday - 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Friday - 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Saturday - 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.
VILLAGE WEBSITE
Beginning with the 2005 fall newsletter, the village posted the newsletter to the website instead of doing a village wide mailing. Residents who do not have access to the internet or who would still like to receive the newsletter in the mail need to contact the village office. A mailing list is kept for future newsletter mailings. You may call the office at 427-2671 or email any of the email addresses listed below to be placed on the mailing list. It is not our intent to stop mailings to those who want their paper copy.
The newsletter will still be prepared in the spring and fall. You will find the newsletter in "events and notices" on the site. An area in this section has been titled for just the newsletter so it will be easily accessible. Special events, such as Dumpster Day, will also be posted as usual at the Post Office and Community Center. The notices will be posted when the newsletter is placed on the web. You will be able to refer to the website for more information.
The Website address is: www.villageofgambier.org
E-mail Account Addresses:
gambier@ecr.net - General e-mail can be sent here
mayor@villageofgambier.org - Mayor Kirk Emmert
villageadministrator@villageofgambier.org - Suzanne Hopkins
clerk-treasurer@villageofgambier.org - Mary Samuell
taxadministrator@villageofgambier.org - Kathi Schonauer
utilityclerk@villageofgambier.org - Edie Burson
All e-mail accounts are checked as often as possible and will be responded too. The addresses are also posted on the Village Bulletin Board in the Post Office and at the Community Center.
COUNCIL BUSINESS AND MEETINGS
The Council meets the first Monday of every month at 7:30 P.M. in the Community Center. The meetings are open to the public and input from the residents is welcome. Special Council meetings and Committee meetings are posted at the Community Center, on the Village Website, Post Office, Kenyon Bookstore, and the Village Market. Special Council Meetings are also faxed to the Mount Vernon News for posting. Copies of the Council Meeting Minutes are available during office hours and are also posted on our website. An audio tape can be reviewed during office hours. These items will be available no later than two weeks following the meeting.
If you have ideas, concerns, or questions please don't hesitate to communicate with one of your Council members. You may call any of the following elected officials: Mayor Kirk Emmert, Council President Tom Stamp, Council Audra Cubie, Council Noble Jones, Council Liz Forman, Council Betsy Heer and Council Susan Sukys.
PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION MEETINGS
All regular Planning and Zoning Commission meetings are held at the Community Center on the Third Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m., of every month.
All applications to be reviewed must be turned in to the Village of Gambier office by 4:00 p.m. the Thursday before the meeting. Applications can be picked up at the Village office or down loaded from our website. All permit fees must be paid before the meeting. The applicant or a representative for the applicant must attend the Zoning Meeting that reviews your application in case the Commission has questions pertaining to the application.
Any questions pertaining to Planning and Zoning should be directed to any of the members on the Commission. They include: Kachen Kimmell, Chairperson, Kirk Emmert, Tom Stamp, Harold Ballard, Michael Schlemmer and James Bartee. The Village Administrator, Suzanne Hopkins, acts as Zoning Inspector.
THE VILLAGE OF GAMBIER OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, MAY 31st, IN OBSERVANCE OF THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY AND
MONDAY, JULY 5th, FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY
GAMBIER'S JULY 4TH PARADE, PICNIC AND CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD
The July 4th Holiday will be here before we know it and with it comes our Annual Community Picnic and Parade on Sunday, July 4th at 12:30 p.m. Before the gala festivities begin, we always honor one of our own by naming them the Citizen of the Year.
If anyone knows a resident that they feel would make a good candidate for this year's parade, please call Mayor Kirk Emmert at 427-3008, or let one of your Council Members know who it is and why you think they should be considered. You could also mail your written ideas to Mayor Emmert in care of The Village of Gambier, P.O. Box 1984, Gambier, OH 43022 or e-mail your suggestions to the addresses provided in this newsletter.
The majority of the past honorees have come from other resident's suggestions. Who knows your neighbors and friends better than you?
All thoughts and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.
If you have any questions pertaining to any item in this Newsletter, please contact:
Suzanne Hopkins, Village Administrator
Gambier Village Office, Open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday
Gambier Community Center
115 Meadow Lane, P.O. Box 1984
Gambier, OH 43022
or call 740-427-2671
740-427-2073 Fax
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