By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post If your yard has been piling up with sticks and leaves, it's time to burn them up as open burning began this month in St. Joseph. Fire Inspector Steve Hendrickson says that open burning will allow St. Joseph residents to burn any waste that has been on your property for the past months. "You can't like if you have a commercial garden, lawn service care, or something like that, you can't go out and bring stuff to your property and burn it's only stuff that's generated on that property," Hendrickson tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "It needs to be in roughly the size of a 55-gallon drum, it can be made out of chicken wire anything you want to make it out of, just roughly that size." Open burning will be allowed in St. Joseph from 8am until 6pm, as long as weather conditions are right. Hendrickson says that with the recent rains we have had, conditions should be good to burn, but there are some weather conditions tha