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May 9, 2021
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SWALCO received a USDA grant for a pilot community compost project. Activities include conducting a compost-to-farmland demonstration study, engaging community gardeners through education and outreach, and reducing and diverting food waste from landfills. Food is the single largest material in our US landfills, and 40 percent of all food produced for consumption goes uneaten. We are hopeful that efforts like these will help combat the great challenges facing our environment and us, today. Lake County is leading the way in developing opportunities to effectively divert food waste from our landfills by directing it to local compost processors, who in turn are converting into beneficial soil nutrients, said Executive Director of SWALCO, Walter Willis. SWALCO is proud to have been selected by the USDA to showcase the work we are doing because of the grant we were awarded in September of last year.
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URBANA â A Champaign man who admitted having stolen guns in his home almost two years ago has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Walter Willis, 27, who listed an address in the 1700 block of West John Street, will turn himself in to begin his sentence Jan. 8.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge Randy Rosenbaum to aggravated possession of stolen firearms, admitting that on Jan. 31, 2019, there were two stolen guns in a bedroom closet of his John Street home.
Champaign County Street Crimes Task Force members found the guns in a search done that day. Other charges of unlawful use of weapon for a gun found in a car and possession with intent to deliver cannabis for more than 2,000 grams of cannabis found in a bedroom on that same day were dismissed in return for his guilty plea.