Greetings, Event Volunteer Team Members and Interested Parties,
Perhaps I'm forgetting something, but - to the best of my recollection - in the more than a decade that I have been involved in this semi-annual event, last Saturday was the FIRST TIME that we had to do it in a consistent soaking rain.
Many Thanks to my "baker's dozen" of Volunteers: Pat Arnold, Stephen Boyd, Tony Daniels, Tom Jackson, Jim Kasprazak, Carol Kurtz, Marilyn Racine, Karin Ritter, Bill Rosenfeld, Wendy Snodgrass, Maarten Simon-Thomas, Sue Tisdale and Maggie Tunstall.
And I'm pleased and PROUD to say that EVERY ONE of you showed up, and performed your exemplary community service, with nary a word of complaint! And your dedication to the cause was both appreciated and very often acknowledged by the dozens of community residents who showed up to participate in the process.
I'm writing to both report the results of your efforts, and also to THANK YOU for your help, which was given to your fellow residents under challenging conditions, and with courtesy and a smile !
We had 138 vehicles participate in the event last Saturday. They dropped off 18.2 pounds of unneeded pharmaceuticals - which the Chatham County Sheriff's folks will properly dispose of to keep the medicines from ending up in our regional water sources. And they also brought 3,241 pounds ( 1.6 tons ) of paper to be shredded. Recycled paper is proven to save trees and other resources:
17 mature trees
Water: ~7,000 gallons
Energy: ~4,000 to 4,100 kilowatt-hours (kWh)
Oil: ~380 gallons (or about 2 barrels)
Landfill Space: ~3 cubic yards
As many of you know, that shredded paper has historically been sent to a Georgia Pacific toilet tissue manufacturing facility in Georgia. So - in a manner of speaking - some of it may just come back to pass through your hands again 
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The cardboard boxes, that many folks brought their paper-to-be-shredded in, were broken down and delivered to a Chatham County Collection Center for cardboard recycling. About 100 paper bags, which folks similarly used to bring their shredding papers, were collected and folded to bring to the CORA Food Pantry.
THANK YOU ALL, AGAIN, for largely ignoring the weather, and working together so harmoniously, to get the job done !
Gratefully,
Jason Welsch,
Moderator, Fearrington Village Green Scene
