Build a Better Block Macomb unveils park recycled cap benches & picnic table
Linda Lee Blaine, BBB Macomb
USA Today Netwrk.
MACOMB Macomb’s public spaces will be receiving six new benches and a youth-sized picnic table thanks to a community wide initiative spearheaded by Build a Better Block Macomb.
The benches are created by Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana (https://www.greentreeplastics.com/) from plastic caps and lids that are otherwise not recyclable. The response to the call for recycled caps was tremendous with many local organizations, businesses, and individuals collecting caps. Due to this initiative, over 2,000 pounds of plastic have been diverted from the landfill. Two benches were donated to the community in 2020 and are located at the Macomb Public Library and the WIU Horn Field Campus.
6 A near record snowfall, icy roadways and freezing temperatures did not deter Navy culinary specialists from helping care for admitted patients at Naval Hospital Bremerton.
When a recent winter storm curtailed services at many naval bases across the Kitsap Peninsula, Culinary Specialists Third Class Henry Roman and Anthony Roth trekked in on a stormy Saturday morning to ensure all Labor and Delivery patients were provided nutritional needs during their stay.
“Bottom line; they don’t come in, those patients don’t eat. They came in and took care of business. Neither of them were on duty that weekend, but they both could get here. They rogered up, took the responsibility and ran with it,” said Chief Culinary Specialist Donald Simpkins, Nutrition Management leading chief petty officer.