RECYCLING: Justin Lund, recycling director in McKean County, passed along more recycling information after seeing us question how to dispose of NiCD batteries.
“I just finished the paperwork today to set up an electronics and household hazardous waste collection scheduled for Saturday, April 28, at the McKean County Fairgrounds. We will begin advertising for that event soon.
“For anyone who would like to dispose of batteries before then or any time year-round should contact either the Staples or Home Depot stores in Olean, N.Y. Both companies are part of a nationwide program, Call2Recycle that accepts batteries and cell phones for recycling.
“I still suggest people call ahead and check with the store just to make sure they accept that certain type of battery. In regards to the question posed a few weeks ago, both stores do accept NiCD batteries.”
He shared the phone numbers for both stores: Staples, 716-372-5441; and Home Depot, 716-372-3725.
APRONS: A local reader came across a fun clipping while going through some of her grandmother’s things.
The clipping was a story called “The History of ‘Aprons’”
The prose begins by declaring, “I don’t think our kids know what an apron is!”
It went on to describe the varied uses for apron, everything from “drying children’s tears” to “carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.”
The author states, “It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.”
The clipping does not list the source, but if any of our readers knows, we’d love to hear it.
BILL: Dawn Blaisdell of Lewis Run was also sorting through old papers recently. She came across an old hospital bill from 1925.
The cost for seven days of board and care came to $42, the cost of four special nurses and care in the ward was $6, the use of the operating room was $10 and lab work was $3.
That all came to a grand total of $61.
“Good old days,” Dawn writes.
It was definitely a different time.
