Sign ups open for Commercial Rubbermaid Trash Cans Painting Competition

Openings are still available for the St. Helens Arts and Cultural Commission’s (ACC) fifth annual Trash Can Painting Competition being held on July 4 starting at 9:30 a.m. in Columbia View Park.

Two top prizes of $200 will be awarded at 5 p.m. the day of the event: one for the can with the most artistic merit and the other for the best park theme.

Ready-to-paint Fiberglass Trash Cans, paint and painting supplies will be provided by the ACC on the day of the event. Participants are also welcome to bring their own paints and supplies.

After receiving a layer of protective anti-graffiti coating, the painted trash cans will beautify City parks with one-of-a-kind art created by community members.

The pre-registration deadline has been extended to July 2. Participants may also register the day of the event if spots are still available. Applications are available at St. Helens City Hall or on the City’s website at www.ci.st-helens.or.us/boards-commissions/arts-and-cultural-commission/.

Teams that would like to participate but are unable to attend the July 4 event are encouraged to register. These teams will paint a trash can on their own time but are ineligible for prizes.

Business sponsorship packages are also available. The ACC is seeking $100 sponsorships in return for a business having its name and logo featured on a painted trash can. Funds raised from the competition benefit ACC projects, including art workshops for children, public murals and bike racks, and the Gallery Corridor Banner Project.

The Commercial Rubbermaid Trash Cans painting competition is a cooperative beautification project between the ACC and St. Helens Public Works Department as part of the Summer Arts in the Parks Program.

San Jose gets savvy, runs free smart city tests

San Jose is joining the Internet of Things revolution as it enlists startup company anyCOMM to help connect integral parts of the city to the Internet to help improve the metropolis.

The project will entail the deployment of WiFi on 148 sensors on streetlights in the center of the city, with 18 more around the perimeter of the Mineta San Jose Airport, if the United States Federal Aviation Administration approves it.

The sensors will connect to the photocell receptacle of the streetlights and will collect data on traffic, movement on the streets, detect ground shifts and send earthquake warnings, serve as WiFi hotspots, turn off streetlights when sidewalks and roads are empty, and can even record audio and video.

Surprisingly anyCOMM was chosen for this project despite there being larger service providers offering smart city products, but one notable perk is that San Jose will be able to test anyCOMM products for free. That makes the San Jose project a prime opportunity for anyCOMM, too.

“This pilot is about testing a precommercial technology,” San Jose spokesperson David Vossbrink stated. “The city’s demonstration policy creates the opportunity to companies with precommercial technology to demonstrate their technologies on a nonexclusive, limited-scope basis.”

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Young Man gets his head stuck in a trash can

Charity golf tournaments usually involve a lot of booze. But it's all fun and games until somebody sticks their head in a Outdoor trash cans.

(Heads up, there's a moment of choice language amid all the laughing/general mockery of this poor guy.)

This video is first of all, hilarious. When you've got a guy in your group that has the potential to get his head stuck in a trash can, you should have video running constantly.

Second of all, it's so confusing. How exactly did he get his clubs stuck under the trash can while simultaneously getting his head stuck in there? Were any of his clubs damaged during this ordeal? Why is he wearing those kaleidoscope pants? And why did someone in his group have Vaseline in their golf bag?

We hate to leave you with all of these important questions left unanswered. But we can give you the simple advice that no matter how tough it gets out there on the course, do your best to keep your head where it belongs: Not inside Commercial Trash Cans.

Does trash can oppose unbagged garbage?

Q. I am endeavoring to stop using plastic bags and want to use a reusable trash bag, and collect trash in the bag, deposit the trash in green commercial trash cans, wash the bag and reinstall it into the trash can. Do the trash collection people have a problem with loose household trash? My husband is concerned that the loose trash will spill onto the street and consequently is against me using the reusable bag. As a part of my ongoing endeavor to stop using plastic bags, I would like to discontinue stacking newspaper and other recyclable paper into a plastic bag and then depositing in brown recycling can. Do the recycling people have a problem receiving loose paper? If so, how would they prefer to receive paper? Again, my husband is concerned about loose paper floating all over the street.

A. There is no penalty for putting loose trash in a trash can, according to Tony Hunt, Greensboro’s service representative. But doing so tends to make trash cans smellier and dirtier than if the trash were in a bag. It’s up to the customer to keep the trash can clean. If the customer complains about a smelly or dirty trash can, the city rarely replaces it, Hunt said. Only physically damaged trash cans get replaced.

Hunt said Greensboro customers do not bag most recyclables.

Most plastic bags can’t be recycled so workers have to take the recyclables out of the bags and sort them by hand. Shredded paper does need to be bagged, preferably in a paper bag.

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