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together.”
Bettorf, who said that she
feels she possesses innate talents
as a coordinator and organizer,
conceives of her role as being
to promote awareness and use
of local recreation facilities and
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crowd, and getting a chance to see our local athletes and
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parks and to promote physical
activities across all age groups,
both indoors and out.
Adults, Bettorf believes, are
the most difficult group to get
physically active, whether it’s
because of their work sched-
ules or because they’re already
preoccupied with their own
children’s activities.
“I think the community
offers a lot of facilities and a lot
of stuff for people to do,” she
reasoned. “The problem is a lot
of people aren’t using the facili—
ties because they don’t know
when it’s open or they don’t
know if they’re allowed to use
it. So I want to just be the main
contact person whom people
can come to if they have ques—
tions on any facility, any park
use. If I don’t know the answer,
Fitness enthusiast Jessica Bettorf, spent more than 12 years
with First State Bank, began last Friday in the newly created
position of Community Rec Director. (Todd Bennington/NLJ)
then I know the person I can get
ahold of to get the answer for
them. That’s my goal.”
To that end she’ll be working
not only with the Newcastle
school district, but with the city
and chamber of commerce as
well, Bettorf indicated.
“I really just want to stress
that I want to encourage com-
munity participation,” said
Bettorf, “so if they have any
questions, if they have sug-
gestions, if they have ideas, if
they see something that could
be used better, than I just want
them to give me a call ...”
Bettorf can be reached at her
office in the Kozisek Aquatic
Center at 746-6924.
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to them.
Two representatives, Craig McOmie and Dale
Anderson, from the Department of Environment
Quality’s Solid and Hazardous Waste Division,
recently requested a meeting with representatives
of Newcastle and Upton to discuss the situation
both entities were facing with their landfills prior
to meeting with the newly formed countywide
landfill board, but Newcastle City Engineer Bob
Hartley said the meeting that was scheduled for
the county board was cancelled.
“They mainly came up to meet with us
(Newcastle and Upton) before meeting with the
county sanitation board...they (DEQ) wanted
to know where we were with plans on moving
forward,” Hartley told the News Letter Journal
after meeting with the DEQ representatives. He
noted that city officials were eager to meet with
the agency because there is a limited amount of
time that Newcastle has before a decision needs
to be made on the direction that will be taken
to ensure Newcastle residents will be able to
dispose of solid waste.
Hartley explained that DEQ is becoming
persistent in their insistence that time is of the
essence, and decisions need to made about the
future of landfills in Weston County. sou-the
agency knows the direction that is being taken.
According to Hartley, the City of Newcastle.
is currently waiting to see what options are' going
to be pursued by the countywide landfill board
before the city makes a decision about its own
plan moving forward. He indicated, however, that
if the newly created countywide landfill board
does not start making decisions “fairly quickly,”
the city will be required to move forward on their
own in order to protect the residents of Newcastle
and to provide the answers DEQ is looking for.
“I think, in no more than 30 days, the City
Council will begin the discussion on where we
want to go, and in about three months we will
make a decision on where the city wants to go,”
declared Hartley. “Hopefully they (the county—
wide landfill board) will be moving forward— or
the city will be.”
He was quick to say that the time limit is not
meant to be a threat to county officials in any
way, but pointed out that city officials feel a need
to act because the City of Newcastle holds the
permit to the landfill and DEQ is “tightening the
noose” when it comes to decisions that need to
be made.
“(The Newcastle City Council) has an obliga—
tion to the City of Newcastle, and we have to '
do what we have to do to make sure the city has
garbage service,” proclaimed Hartley, noting that
this is something that Mayor Greg James stressed
to the DEQ during the meeting.
‘ Hartley believes that Newcastle could get an
extension on the permit for the current landfill,
but in order to even approach the DEQ with such
a request a game plan and end game have to be
in place. He suggested that the City of Newcastle
will “run with the ball,” and do whatever is
necessary to protect its residents.
“We’ve been saying for years that we don’t
have the time,” Hartley stated, noting that the
newly formed county landfill board could take
however long they wanted to make decisions on
the options available to them, but that the City of
Newcastle does not have time on their side.
“We will continue to provide for county
residents as long as we can, but our obligation
is to the city and its residents,” acknowledged
Hartley, who noted that for at least 50 years the
city has provided a landfill that could be used by
county residents.
He said over that period there‘swere times
when the landfill did not pay for itself, and city
officials had to take away from other projects to
continue to fund the landfill, but he believes time
is not on the city’s side any longer and decisions
need to be made.
According to Hartley, the issue has been
staring the City of Newcastle and Weston County
in the face for some time, and the city has to have
a decision and plan laid out within the next few
months to have everything in place before the
current permit runs out in roughly one and a half
years.
“We have a pile of statistics I have been
compiling for the last eight years,” Hartley
proclaimed, suggesting that the Newcastle City
Council is in a position to make a decision
quickly because the data has already been col-
lected and is readily available.
“The council will just have to say where to go,
and I will do it,” concluded Hartley.
City Beats
0 After questions on “corkage’fjfees and statutes were raised to one of
the Newcastle City
Council members, City Attomey Jim Peek prepared a memo that he provided for
members of the
council. It was discussed that while it is unusual in the area, the
practice of charging such fees is
at the discretion of the business owners.
-- Chief of Police Jim Owens reported to the Newcastle City Council that
the second of two
new potice cmisersthe city had? based was now on site and that the car is
anticipated to be
in service within a week.
‘ Owens also requested the council to go ahead and begin the process of
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9:00 am.
Volunteers assemble at
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9:30 am. — 12:00 p.m.
Installation of weatherization
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getting rid of two surplus CroWn’Victorias that were no longer used by
the Newcastle Police
Department. The council‘agreed to allow Owens to move forward in the
process in order to get
them out of the parking lot; It was not determined in which manner Owens
would sell the vehicles.
Upton, Osage and Newcastle
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1:30 — 4:30 p.m.
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