Saturday, May 13, 2017 Come celebrate the Seventeenth Annual Bethabara Highland Games on May 13, 2017. Scottish Heavy Athletics begin on the Athletic Field at 9:00 a.m. Historic Bethabara Park opens to the public 10:00 a.m.
Admission is FREE Reminiscent of the Scotch Fairs that were held in the Carolinas in May in the late 1790s, the Bethabara Highland Games offers a relaxing day for family gatherings with congenial kinfolk, musical entertainment, and the camaraderie of competition.The 17th annual Bethabara Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival will begin with the Ceilidh (kay-lee) on Friday, May 14, at the Muddy Creek Cafe', 5455 Bethania Road, from 7 - 11 p.m. Bring your instrument and join in. Admission to this event is $10.00 (or $5.00 if you bring an instrument).
The new spontaneous concept has been a lot of fun and we look forward to seeing what will happen next. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. On Saturday, May 13, 2017, Historic Bethabara Park opens to the public at 10 a.m. With some heavy throwing athletic events already underway on the Athletic field. Admission to the event as well as access to the Visitor Center and historic buildings is FREE.
Traditional Scottish athletic competitions are once again a highlight of this year's Games with tartan-clad athletes throwing the 56 & 28 lb weights for height and distance. Champion Athletes come to test their strength by tossing the 100+ pound, 19+ foot caber end over end. Other events include the Clachneart (Stone of strength), hammer throw, and the sheaf toss for height.
In 2014, an Amateur World Record was set the the Sheaf Toss, 20 lb. Bag, 35' by Travis Gardner. Past Bethabara competitors include former World Champion Larry Brock.
With our roots in Celtic music, we are proud to announce the 6th Bethabara Scottish Fiddle Competition. David Gardner is a nationally recognized Scottish fiddle performer, teacher and judge. He is an Instructor at the Strathgheny School of Scottish Fiddling at Westminster College. The competition, sanctioned by Scottish F.I.R.E., will offer competitors the privilege of competing in the National Scottish Fiddle Competition. We will continue our focus on traditional music as The Fiddle and Bow Society hosts entertainment on the Main Stage and pipe bands will perform throughout the day. Participation is a hallmark of Scottish Games.
Your kinsmen may try their hand at the Battle-axe competition. There are activities for the kids that include Colonial games and the children's Scottish athletic competition. Kilts will again be available for the children at NO charge. There are Border collie demonstrations and several seminars about Scottish history, and demonstrations of Highland and Irish Dance. You could learn a new Scottish Country dance!
You may plan your own picnic or partake of the food offered by vendors adjacent our shady picnic area. You may shop for tartan, short bread, and other unique gifts offered in the Celtic Vendors Row. Exhibitors will offer demonstrations and sales of traditional crafts and Celtic items. The Winston - Salem Wolfhounds Gaelic Athletic Association is proud to be represented at the Seventeenth Annual Bethabara Highland Games on May 13, 2017 at Historic Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem. Being a local Gaelic (Irish) Football club, which helps promote traditional Irish sports and culture in the Winston Salem community, we felt that this was a perfect venue to support our brethren Scottish athletes and spread the word about Winston-Salem’s growing Gaelic Football team, the Wolfhounds. Join us for a day of traditional Scottish heavy athletics, family gatherings, musical entertainment and the camaraderie of competition. Visit the Wolfhound booth and learn much more about the traditional Irish sports of Gaelic football and Hurling.
Parking is easy! And Request an electronic PDF version of the 2017 Program or pick one up on location at the Front Gate or Visitor Center.
Attendance at the Bethabara Highland Games is very family oriented with lots of activities for the kids. We invite you to join us for the fun and the games. Be kind to your pets.no pets please. An updated Map of the Field showing events scheduled will be available to download in May. Events Schedule. Scottish Clan and Family Societies. Highland Games / Scottish Athletic.
Scottish Fiddle Competition. Main Stage Music Schedule. Dance Schedule.
Children's Activities. Vendor Information This event is sponsored in part.
You’ve probably already recycled the Christmas tree. But there might be other items left over from the holidays that you might not have thought about disposing of, such as electronic devices you no longer want because you got an upgraded replacement as a gift. Electronic waste — all those outdated and broken gadgets such as cordless phones, cellphones, GPS devices, DVD players, TVs, VCRs, computers, fax machines, printers and scanners — makes up one of the fastest-growing segments of the municipal waste stream, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Sales of new electronic devices approach 500 million a year in the United States. The growth of this e-waste has spurred federal, state and municipal governments to develop and enact laws and programs to keep the items out of landfills. Of most concern, many of these products contain toxic substances such as lead, cadmium and mercury.
The need for safe handling of e-waste also has driven the growth of services and businesses that collect and manage the process for reuse or disposal of the unwanted equipment. Usable gear is transferred to refurbishers who recondition the equipment and sell to consumers or donate to educational programs. Unusable devices are disassembled, batteries and hazardous substances are removed and disposed of properly, and usable plastics and metals are sorted into like materials and sent to recyclers for reuse in new products. E-waste recycling events Sims Recycling Solutions, new to Dallas, will host recycling events Saturday and March 10, at which the following electronic items will be accepted: computers, laptops, keyboards, mice, printers, cellphones, radios, stereos, phones, DVD players, CD players and other personal music players, and clocks. The first 100 participants to drop off items will receive a voucher for two tickets to a Dallas Stars hockey game, courtesy of Sims Recycling, and also will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win autographed Stars merchandise and memorabilia. Saturday’s event is at American Airlines Center’s AT&T Plaza on the corner of Olive and North Houston streets, 8 a.m. For more information see Sims’ website: us.sims recycling.com/stars.
Ongoing electronic recycling resources Best Buy (BestBuy.com. Click “Recycling” at the bottom of the home page under “Product Support.”) Regardless of where you bought it, Best Buy will accept just about anything electronic, including TVs. There might be a fee for recycling some items. Goodwill Industries (reconnectpartnership.com/index.php) Dallas-area Goodwill participates in Reconnect, a free computer-recycling program. Drop off used equipment at participating Goodwill donation centers. You’ll get a receipt for tax purposes.
Sims Recycling Solutions (us.simsrecycling.com/contacts-and-locations /dallas) Sims also accepts electronics for recycling at its Dallas location, 2134 French Settlement Road, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Staples (staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/ecoeasy /recycling.html). Many products are free to recycle, including desktops, laptops, cellphones, digital cameras and GPS devices. Other products such as monitors, printers, shredders and uninterrupted power supply (battery backup) devices usually require a $10 recycling fee. Salvation Army (satruck.org/donate-goods) Donate your equipment by dropping it off or by scheduling a pickup.
Either way, you get a receipt for tax purposes. Texas Takeback program (texasrecyclescomputers.org). State law requires manufacturers that sell new computer equipment in Texas to offer consumers a free and convenient recycling program. The website offers a list of manufacturers with links to information about their programs. Municipal services Dallas (dallascityhall.com/sanitation/electronicwaste.html). Recycle computers and TVs at any of the city’s four drop-off locations. An ID showing Dallas residence is required.
See the website for locations and hours. Dallas residents also can visit the Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center, 11234 Plano Road, Dallas, to dispose of chemicals and other hazardous items, in addition to electronics. See dallascounty.org/department/plandev/hhwintro.php for the center’s schedule. Allen (cityofallen.org). The city will hold four one-day computer and electronic collections this year. Residents must present a current water bill and driver’s license to show proof of Allen residency.
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Allen City Hall, 305 Century Parkway, 8 a.m. Great American Cleanup, 8 a.m. (date and location pending). August (date pending). Allen City Hall, 8 a.m. November (date pending).
Allen City Hall (Allen Recycles Day), 8 a.m. Coppell (coppelltx.gov/trash/computer-and-electronics-disposal). Residents are eligible for At Your Door service.
To schedule a pickup for used electronics or household chemicals, call 1-800-449-7587 or send an email to [email protected]. Flower Mound (flower-mound.com/utilities/trashrecycling.php#recycling). Residents are eligible for At Your Door service. To schedule a pickup for used electronics or household chemicals, call 1-800-449-7587 or send an email to [email protected]. Garland (garlandtx.gov). In addition to participating in the Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center, Garland also will accept electronics at an Earth Day drop-off event on April 21, 8:30 a.m.
To noon, at Homer Johnson Stadium, 1029 E. Centerville Road. The drop-off service is free with the exception of computer monitors, which cost $5, and TVs, which cost $10 to $30, depending on size.
Lewisville (cityoflewisville.com). Lewisville residents can drop off electronics, except TVs, on the second Saturday of each month, 9 a.m. To noon at the city’s Residential Convenience Center, 330 W. A driver’s license is required for proof of residency. Richardson (cor.net/PublicServices.aspx?id=2420). Residents may drop off computers and TVs at Retire PC, 1201 Exchange Drive, Monday-Friday 9 a.m. Retire PC will offer an open drop-off day April 7, 9 a.m.
Fees will be waived for all equipment except monitors and hard-drive destruction service. Residents also may drop off electronics at the Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center, 11234 Plano Road, Dallas, to dispose of chemicals and other hazardous items. Southlake (ci.southlake.tx.us). Keep Southlake Beautiful collects and recycles cellphones and toner and ink cartridges, which can be dropped off at the Community Services Department or the library, both in Town Hall, 1400 Main St.
Plano (plano.gov/). For a fee, residents can drop off certain electronics on the first three Saturdays of each month at these locations: First Saturday: First United Methodist Church, 3160 E. Spring Creek Parkway, 9 a.m.
Second Saturday: St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 5801 Plano Parkway, 9 to 11 a.m. Third Saturday: Christ United Methodist Church, 3101 Coit Road, 9 to 11 a.m. Other Dallas County municipalities (dallascounty.org/department/plandev/hhwintro.php): Residents of these cities, as well as unincorporated Dallas County, are eligible to use the Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center to dispose of chemicals and other hazardous items, including electronic waste. The center, at 11234 Plano Road in Dallas, is open Tuesdays through Thursdays and on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.
2nd Avenue Yard is located on the marine terminal Adjacent to the it is served by and activities of via the which also connects to the, operated by the. Rail infrastructure improvements along 1st Avenue completed in 2012 connected the yard to SBMT. Other investments in infrastructure included a new break-bulk rail spur along the 39th Street shed, two new rail sidings for, and a new rail connection to the SIMS facility at the 29th Street Pier. SBMT is also connected along the (ROW) to. In 2012, the interchange with at Second Avenue was refurbished and a new ramp was installed at the 38th Street Yard at Fourth Avenue to allow receipt of new locomotives and other that are delivered on flat cars. Waste management.
Subsidiary Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) managed construction of a new 11-acre recycling center at SBMT from 2010 to 2013. SMR worked with geotechnical engineers to develop structural fill blends using “mole rock” from NYC tunneling projects mixed with recycled glass aggregate (RGA). More than 5,000 tons of RGA were blended with 20,000 tons of mole rock and used to elevate sections of the site by 4 feet, thereby protecting buildings and equipment against sea level rise and storm surges. Wind turbine In January 2015, SIMS inaugurated the city's only commercial-scale at the recycling center. Built by at the cost of about $750,000, the 160 ft (49 m) tall turbine has the capacity to produce 100 kilowatts, or 4% of the center's power needs. Auto processing Auto processing, the customization of imported automobiles, is done at the terminal at a scaled-down assembly plant where much of the work is done by hand using simple tools.
Quality control inspections are done, repairs are made, and accessories – such as floor mats, GPS systems, satellite radios, alloy wheels and roof racks – are installed. The facility at SBMT was operated by the Axis Group. Which filed bankruptcy in 2012. Plans by the (NYCEDC) to redevelop and expand the auto processing have been bogged down since 2014. See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to. References. Brooklyn Visual Heritage Project.
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Is recycling good for the environment? Well of course, but maybe not the way we do it. John Tierney that much of our current recycling, while well-intentioned, is wrongheaded, costly and in some cases may be doing more harm than good. Bucknell University economist Thomas Kinnaman similarly wants America to rethink recycling. He says some materials – like tin cans and aluminum – are very hard to make using virgin materials and it’s best to recycle them.
But for others, like glass and plastic, if you take into account the cost of hauling the recycling to recycling centers (which can sometimes be further away than landfills), and how easy it is to make plastic and glass from virgin materials, it may not make sense to recycle them as much as we are now. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Kinnaman about his vision for how the U.S. Should be recycling. Interview Highlights: Thomas Kinnaman On findings that recycling is not as beneficial as once believed “It surprised me as well. So once we consider the full effects of recycling to both the economy and the environment, it does look like some of the benefits associated with recycling are not as strong as we once thought. You know, every time you make a decision as a household whether to recycle a bottle or to throw it out, you are entering a life cycle. So there’s a life cycle associated with the recycling process and there’s a separate life cycle that’s associated with the landfill or disposing process.
And so you have to list all of the environmental and economic consequences of entering each life cycle. So for recycling, it does take energy to collect that material, to process it, to transport it to recycling facilities, and then to finally put it back into production. And the benefit we’re seeing from that is that for some materials, the ability to use those recycled materials offset the need to use virgin or raw materials for the same production processes. So that turns out to be a great benefit for some materials, but for others it doesn’t.” What items are not as cost beneficial to recycle and which are beneficial? “OK, so the really beneficial things to recycle are aluminum cans or any forms of aluminum that you have around the house that you’re considering to dispose. The environmental costs to mine new alumina and bauxite to produce new aluminum from scratch are fairly substantial, so anything we can do to maximize our recycling of aluminum turns out to be a win-win. Bimetal tin cans – these are the soup cans, the vegetable cans that we buy some of our food with – those also have a very, very positive life cycle signature, and again, we want to refocus policy to recycle more of these things than we currently are.
Some of the other materials – and actually, by the way, paper as well has a very positive life cycle signature mainly, again, because it’s difficult and arduous to produce paper from scratch. Glass bottles, plastic bottles, other forms of plastic – a lot of us want to recycle those things. I think the environment and the economy would rather that we didn’t.” Why is it not as economical to recycle plastic and glass? “Well, first of all, it’s fairly comparatively easy to make plastic and glass from scratch. So it doesn’t have as much of an energy requirement, as much as an environmental impact. Secondly, I know plastic itself per bottle, they take up a lot of space. You can try to smash them up, but it’s relatively more expensive to take a ton of plastic somewhere to get it recycled.
So the transportation costs, both the economic and environmental costs associated with the transportation of plastic tend to be higher than for other materials on a per ton basis because they’re not very dense in terms of weight.” On landfills now being built in ways that make them more valuable. Glass bottles, plastic bottles, other forms of plastic – a lot of us want to recycle those things. I think the environment and the economy would rather that we didn’t. “A lot of this, these advances in landfills, have happened primarily in the United States and primarily in response to both federal and state legislation that require very strict standards on how you build a landfill and how you manage and operate that landfill. They still present a problem to neighborhoods. Nobody wants to live next to a landfill.
Economic data and models are very clear that being located within two miles of a landfill does reduce the value of your properties. So these things are not environmentally great, but you just compare in the margin using a landfill relative to putting plastic through a very energy-intensive process to recycle, then in terms of a carbon footprint, it comes very close and it may actually, in some cases, be beneficial to recycle that. Modern landfills require very thick linings of clay or impermeable plastics. When they are constructed, they have imbedded in them special grids to allow all methane and all leachate to be collected and treated. In the case of methane, it’s increasingly being used to produce electricity, which can offset the production cost of electricity by using coal or other fossil fuels. And again, a good life cycle model will account for all of these things, and the life cycle models are looking more favorably on landfilling and incineration then they were 25 years ago.” On changing the way people view recycling “Recycling and the culture that surrounded it, I think a lot of people and advocates of recycling thought of it as sort of a gateway behavior in that once you began recycling it would open up a whole flurry of other environmentally responsible activities that we could pursue.
We might start riding our bike or walking more than driving our car. And, you know, I think other experts could talk about this as well, but it just doesn’t seem to have worked that way. I think in some cases, you could almost characterize recycling as a way of atoning for all of our environmental sins, if you will, and as long as we’re recycling, then we feel better about ourselves and then we can go ahead and drive our big car, and go ahead and keep our lights on and keep our thermostat high, and it’s almost being viewed as a substitute for other forms of environmental responsible behavior.” Guest., chair of the Department of Economics at Bucknell University.
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