Baltimore County Offices Closed on July 4th
Baltimore County government offices, and the District and Circuit Courts will be closed Wednesday, July 4 in recognition of the Fourth of July holiday. Health department clinics, libraries, senior centers and trash and recycling drop-off centers will be closed. CountyRide vans will not operate.
Baltimore County residents whose trash or yard materials would normally have been collected on Wednesday, July 4, should set it out Wednesday night for collection on Thursday, July 5. Residents whose single stream recyclables would normally have been collected on Wednesday, July 4, are asked to hold those items until the next scheduled recycling collection day, Wednesday, July 11.
Baltimore County offices and trash and recycling drop-off facilities, including Eastern Sanitary Landfill in White Marsh, will be closed Wednesday, July 4. All three drop-off facilities will be open with regular operating hours Tuesday, July 3, and Thursday, July 5.
For more information, residents should call the Bureau of Solid Waste Management's customer service line at 410-887-2000.
Library Closings
In observance of Independence Day, all branches and administrative offices will be closed Wednesday, July 4. Library on the Go and Read Rover, the mobile libraries, will not be in service. All branches and offices will reopen Thursday, July 5 and the mobile libraries will resume service.
SBA Disaster Loans Deadline
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that July 9 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Baltimore County as a result of the excessive rain, flooding and flash flooding associated with Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee that occurred Aug. 26- Sept. 12, 2011. For more information or to apply, go to https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/, call 800-659-2955 or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
Child Care Yard Sale
The auxiliary for the Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church is hosting a yard sale to benefit a nonprofit child welfare agency. Items included in the sale are household, Christmas, clothes and daycare furniture including cots, coat racks, high chairs, changing tables, cribs, children's chairs and strollers. The yard sale is Saturday, June 30, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. at 3223 N. Rolling Road in Windsor Mill. A rain date is scheduled for Saturday, July 14. For more information, contact Communications Director Jennifer Michael at 410-922-2100, ext. 5610 or email jmichael@board
ofchildcare.org.
Charity Open Mic
Late Night Open Mic nights are set for 9 p.m. - midnight, at Sacred Harvest Center, 362 Main St., in Reisterstown, every Wednesday through Aug 1. All proceeds will go 50/50 to The Community Crisis Center and The Association for Animal Rights, both Reisterstown nonprofits.
Light refreshments will be available for sale. Parking is on the street or behind the building. For more information contact Emma Matthews at 443-845-7142, or thegreatunknowing@gmail.com.
Farmers Market
The Baltimore County Farmers Market will be open every Wednesday, June 6-Oct. 31, from 2:30-5:30 p.m., at the Maryland State Fairgrounds at 2200 York Road. in Lutherville-Timonium. Some of the local products that will be available are fruit, vegetables, chicken, beef, eggs, honey, milk and ice cream. For more information, call 410-207-2165 or go to http://www.baltimorecountyfarmers market.com.
Randallstown Farmers Market
The Randallstown Farmers Market, sponsored by the Liberty Road Business Association in partnership with Northwest Hospital, Randallstown library, United Healthcare and Baltimore County, is set to open Wednesday, beginning June 13, from 1-5 p.m., through Sept. 12, on the Randallstown library parking lot, 8406 Liberty Road.
The business association is taking vendor applications for the market. For more information, contact 410-655-7766 or lrba@lrba.biz.
RUMC Food Pantry
Reisterstown United Methodist Church is offering free food every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m., and every Saturday morning from 9 a.m.-noon, at 308 Main St., next to the church. Donations accepted at any time. For more information, call Irene Caitlin at 410-833-5440.
Bike plan adopted
The Baltimore County Planning Board unanimously approved the Western Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plan on April 19. The plan has been transmitted to the Baltimore County Council for adoption as an amendment to the county master plan. The Planning Board made two changes based on comments received. The amendments revised the location of a recommended bicycle route in the Villa Nova community and a shared use path in the Woodlawn area. The approved plan is available at http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/westbikeped.
Co. Exec. launches recycl
ing effort
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced a new residential recycling campaign designed to encourage residents to recycle more and to provide information about how much each area of the county is setting out for collection. The public outreach campaign invites people to visit the county's bcrecycles.com web page, where recycling rate information is available broken down by geographic areas within the county.
The Bureau of Solid Waste Management has divided Baltimore County into 44 areas. For the first time recycling rate information for 2011 and each of the first four months of 2012 is available for each area, which enables residents to see for themselves how they and their neighbors around the county are doing in terms of recycling.
In addition to viewing their area's recycling rate information at bcrecycles.com, residents can also find collection schedules, program guides, and other information. For more information, call 410-887-2000.
