Announcement

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The park board will be holding a meeting on Monday, September 16 at 7 PM at the Gilby Church. Anyone interested in helping out with fundraising and/or park board ideas is welcome to attend! New ideas are always welcome! Hope to see you there! 

Countrywide recycling dates for the City of Gilby 2019:

Jan 28, Feb 25, Mar 25, Apr 22, May 28, Jun 24, Jul 22, Aug 26, Sept 23, Oct 28, Nov 25 and Dec 23.

Acceptable recyclable:

Plastics: #1-#7 ( numbers located inside recycle symbol) Food, beverage bottles, jugs, tubs  (NO PLASTIC BAGS)

Metal: Steel and Aluminium cans (empty only)

Glass: bottles and Jars (no broken glass)

Cartons: Juice and soup boxes, milk cartons

Paper: Newspapers, flyers, mail, magazines, paper

Cardboard: Pizza, cereal,tissue, laundry, egg, paper

PLEASE DON'T SORT, BAG OR TIE

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Not accepted:

Plastics: bags, cellophane, plastic cutlery, ice cream tubs, yogurt containers, food trays, toys, laundry baskets, plastics without the recycling triangle

Food foam and beverage containers: Disposable coffee cups, hot and cold beverage cups, foam cups, foam food containers, foam egg cartons, foam meat trays, foam packaging materials (peanuts)

Aluminum foil products: Aluminum foil, foil pie plates, foil food containers, wax paper

Glass: Drinking glasses, ceramics, broken glass, mirrors, window glass, light bulbs

Garbage and food waste: ANY materials contaminated by food waste-un -rinsed soup cartons, very greasy pizza boxes, food soiled containers, meat bones, animal wastes

Miscellaneous: cookware, steel  pots and pans, scrap metal, hangers, batteries, electronics, automotive parts, plumbing parts, paint cans, propane tanks, aerosol cans, clothing and shoes, syringes or needles

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Please note that the Grand Forks County Highway Department requests that landowners do not push snow into the right of way, which includes roadways, in-slopes, ditch bottoms, back-slopes and around mailboxes of any public roadway.

Just a reminder about our snow removal/street ordinance:

3.0215 It will be unlawful to park vehicles on city streets from October 1 to May 1 each year to allow removal of snow within the city limits. Vehicles parked on the streets may be impounded at the owner's expense.