Terry Bliss
Terry Bliss
collection effort
Our collection of recyclables is down about 20 percent, and this will be another effort to find out why.
garbage guess next random
And I guess next will be the garbage cowboy. We'll be doing this on random days, at random times with random haulers.
large last latter lose moving offset people population small stay steady younger
During the latter part of the last century, in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a small but steady population increase. The younger population for a large part doesn't stay in the area. We lose the college-age population, but new people are moving in to offset that loss.
area attracted costs housing looking people profit property ready reasonable retire rural sell urban
People who are ready to retire are looking to get out of the urban area, and they like the rural landscape. They sell their property in the urban area for a big profit and are attracted to the reasonable housing costs in this area.