Car Dealership Experiences Flood Of Customers
Reported By Regina Raccuglia
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- After thousands of clunkers were cashed in across Tennessee, there's now beginning to be a different kind of backup.
From the standard lemon to a ride nicer than many on the road, Town and Country Ford was wiped out of close to 70 Cash for Clunkers trade-ins.
"It was nuts, and the flood of customers we had," said Angela Stewart of Town and Country Ford. "We finally had to stop dealer trading because we had nothing."
Stewart is still working through the paperwork for all the Cash for Clunkers deals. She said the demand for the used car lot went through the roof.
"Our general manager went to Florida to an auction to get us cars," she said.
As Town and Country's lots fill back up, Express Auto Salvage in LaVergne can't empty its lots fast enough. About 600 clunkers are piled up there, waiting to meet their doom.
"There's some vehicles that are nice and some that ain't so nice," said Larry Weeks of Towing Clunkers.
Several junk yards Channel 4 spoke with across middle Tennessee can't say enough about how Cash for Clunkers filled their pockets.
"(It) picked up the car industry a little bit. You know, it's gave us work, too," said Weeks.
But some said that of those who most needed this deal, most didn't make the cut.
"It didn't help people that don't have the credit or really need a vehicle. It didn't help the people that were in the need," said Stewart. "I guess it's to make things greener."
But Stewart and others said the guidelines the federal government placed on the program may not mean a greener middle Tennessee.
"The way Cash for Clunkers was set up, you could get 3,005 incentive for going one mile per gallon better on a vehicle, you know, on trucks," said Stewart.
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Thursday 17 September 2009
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Firefighters use junked cars to help save lives
Scrap yard donates junked cars so firefighters can tear them apart.
Fire chief says "no donation, no training."
Reporter: Mary Rinzel with Photographer Duane Wolter
Email Address: mary.rinzel@weau.com
It's no cash for clunkers, but there are junkers… and they're saving fire departments cash.
An area scrap yard is chipping in junked vehicles so firefighters can tear them apart. It's practice that could save lives.
"It's one of the more stressful things we do," Township Fire Chief Jack Running.
When someone is trapped in a car, firefighters have little time to get to them.
"The patient has what we term the golden hour. They’ve got 60 minutes from the time of the impact and crash until the time they receive surgical intervention at the hospital,” Running says.
Which is why Chief Running, who is also a training instructor at Chippewa Valley Technical College, says extrication training is so vital.
"You can talk and show video. You can explain; but until you actually handle the tools—that’s the best way to learn," Running says.
And in extrication training the most important tool might just be the car. The one used Wednesday night came from Alter Scrap Processing in Eau Claire. The scrap company donated 15 to 20 beaters this year.
"I just think it's the safety aspect. These firefighters want and need to be trained," says Alter Facility Manager Rodney Deaton.
Alter can still salvage the scrap regardless of if the car is torn apart or not. But, workers donate their time to drop them off and scrape them up after the firefighters are finished with them. Deaton says it's the least they can do.
"If I’m in a car and I have an accident, then I really want someone who's trained to help me get out of that car and save my life," Deaton says.
The firefighters want to get the most bang for their buck so they spend up to an hour tearing the car apart. Each is worth around $200. They practice breaking every window, tearing off every door and they'll eventually rip away the entire roof. So when those real calls come, the rescuers will already have a couple cars under their belts.
After all “practice makes perfect,” Running says.
Wednesday wrapped up an eight week class through CVTC. Ten cars were torn apart in the process. The goal at a crash scene is to have the extrication complete in 10 to 15 minutes.
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Fire chief says "no donation, no training."
Reporter: Mary Rinzel with Photographer Duane Wolter
Email Address: mary.rinzel@weau.com
It's no cash for clunkers, but there are junkers… and they're saving fire departments cash.
An area scrap yard is chipping in junked vehicles so firefighters can tear them apart. It's practice that could save lives.
"It's one of the more stressful things we do," Township Fire Chief Jack Running.
When someone is trapped in a car, firefighters have little time to get to them.
"The patient has what we term the golden hour. They’ve got 60 minutes from the time of the impact and crash until the time they receive surgical intervention at the hospital,” Running says.
Which is why Chief Running, who is also a training instructor at Chippewa Valley Technical College, says extrication training is so vital.
"You can talk and show video. You can explain; but until you actually handle the tools—that’s the best way to learn," Running says.
And in extrication training the most important tool might just be the car. The one used Wednesday night came from Alter Scrap Processing in Eau Claire. The scrap company donated 15 to 20 beaters this year.
"I just think it's the safety aspect. These firefighters want and need to be trained," says Alter Facility Manager Rodney Deaton.
Alter can still salvage the scrap regardless of if the car is torn apart or not. But, workers donate their time to drop them off and scrape them up after the firefighters are finished with them. Deaton says it's the least they can do.
"If I’m in a car and I have an accident, then I really want someone who's trained to help me get out of that car and save my life," Deaton says.
The firefighters want to get the most bang for their buck so they spend up to an hour tearing the car apart. Each is worth around $200. They practice breaking every window, tearing off every door and they'll eventually rip away the entire roof. So when those real calls come, the rescuers will already have a couple cars under their belts.
After all “practice makes perfect,” Running says.
Wednesday wrapped up an eight week class through CVTC. Ten cars were torn apart in the process. The goal at a crash scene is to have the extrication complete in 10 to 15 minutes.
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North Haven business shreds clunkers into scrap metal
One of the main goals of the federal clunkers program is to get gas guzzlers off the road forever, so the program requires them to be permanently disabled, a task handled by auto dealers. But that's just the beginning of the end and, really, the rebirth of the Ford Explorers, Jeep Cherokees and Dodge Caravans that consumers have been trading in for new Ford Focuses, Honda Civics and Toyota Corollas.
Steel is a recyclable commodity, and most of those old cars will eventually return as something else another automobile, perhaps, or a beam in a Shanghai skyscraper or a washing machine in a home in West Hartford. First the clunkers must again become raw steel.
The recycling process typically begins with a wrecker, who buys the disabled car from the auto dealer that made the cash-for-clunker deal. The wrecker typically salvages reusable parts and crushes the frame, then sells it to a scrap yard like the one Sims operates off I-91, near Exit 9.
Mr John Sartori GM of Sims Metal Management's North Haven scrap recycling facility said that "The shredder is a very destructive animal."
"They used to call them 'fragmentizers,'" said Sartori, who has worked at the North Haven scrap yard since 1976. "Now they call them shredders."
Sims operates a 9,000 horsepower shredder in Jersey City that is nearly twice as powerful as the North Haven shredder. It measures productivity by total tonnage processed, not by type of item, and it could not say how many cars that North Haven processes in a day or year. Also, Sims usually can't distinguish between cars junked through the Cash for Clunkers program and cars junked for other reasons.
Worldwide, Sims handled more than 16 million tonnes of material in its 2008 fiscal year, including washing machines, cast iron radiators, bicycles, and refrigerators, as well as automobiles and non metals. Sartori estimated that automobiles yield more than 40% of the material recycled at the North Haven plant.
Although the Cash for Clunkers program appears to be successful by several measures, more than 330,000 cars have been traded in so far, most of them haven't made it as far as the scrap yards yet. Many dealers are waiting for reimbursement from the federal government before disposing of the clunkers.
From the Sims shredder yard, much of the scrap these days goes to Gateway Terminal, a cargo handler on the New Haven waterfront. There the metal is loaded into ships bound for China, Turkey, Greece, Egypt and other places overseas. Sims' North Haven yard even has its own rail tracks and rail cars.
(Sourced from Hartford Courant)
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Steel is a recyclable commodity, and most of those old cars will eventually return as something else another automobile, perhaps, or a beam in a Shanghai skyscraper or a washing machine in a home in West Hartford. First the clunkers must again become raw steel.
The recycling process typically begins with a wrecker, who buys the disabled car from the auto dealer that made the cash-for-clunker deal. The wrecker typically salvages reusable parts and crushes the frame, then sells it to a scrap yard like the one Sims operates off I-91, near Exit 9.
Mr John Sartori GM of Sims Metal Management's North Haven scrap recycling facility said that "The shredder is a very destructive animal."
"They used to call them 'fragmentizers,'" said Sartori, who has worked at the North Haven scrap yard since 1976. "Now they call them shredders."
Sims operates a 9,000 horsepower shredder in Jersey City that is nearly twice as powerful as the North Haven shredder. It measures productivity by total tonnage processed, not by type of item, and it could not say how many cars that North Haven processes in a day or year. Also, Sims usually can't distinguish between cars junked through the Cash for Clunkers program and cars junked for other reasons.
Worldwide, Sims handled more than 16 million tonnes of material in its 2008 fiscal year, including washing machines, cast iron radiators, bicycles, and refrigerators, as well as automobiles and non metals. Sartori estimated that automobiles yield more than 40% of the material recycled at the North Haven plant.
Although the Cash for Clunkers program appears to be successful by several measures, more than 330,000 cars have been traded in so far, most of them haven't made it as far as the scrap yards yet. Many dealers are waiting for reimbursement from the federal government before disposing of the clunkers.
From the Sims shredder yard, much of the scrap these days goes to Gateway Terminal, a cargo handler on the New Haven waterfront. There the metal is loaded into ships bound for China, Turkey, Greece, Egypt and other places overseas. Sims' North Haven yard even has its own rail tracks and rail cars.
(Sourced from Hartford Courant)
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National Guard Pulls Junk Cars From Carson River
The Nevada National Guard has used a helicopter training exercise to airlift 20 junk cars from the Carson River in Carson City.
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew flew over several miles of the river below the Deer Run Road bridge to remove the illegally dumped cars Friday.
The cars, which could not be removed from shore, were later hauled to the dump.
Carson City officials praised the Guard, saying they had tried for years to find a way to get rid of the cars.
They say the Guard removed dangerous objects and restored the river's natural beauty while charging the city nothing.
Division of State Lands officials say private helicopter companies would have charged $8,000 to $10,000 an hour to remove the cars.
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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew flew over several miles of the river below the Deer Run Road bridge to remove the illegally dumped cars Friday.
The cars, which could not be removed from shore, were later hauled to the dump.
Carson City officials praised the Guard, saying they had tried for years to find a way to get rid of the cars.
They say the Guard removed dangerous objects and restored the river's natural beauty while charging the city nothing.
Division of State Lands officials say private helicopter companies would have charged $8,000 to $10,000 an hour to remove the cars.
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Vandals damage junk cars and two new vehicles
RANSOMVILLE—Between 15 and 20 junk cars, as well as two new vehicles, were vandalized sometime over the past week at the Youngstown- Lockport Road location of Ki-Po Motors, sheriff’s deputies said.
The junk cars, parked in a rear lot while awaiting demolition, had the fuel filler necks cut off and the gasoline removed. The same damage was done to the two new vehicles, according to deputies.
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The junk cars, parked in a rear lot while awaiting demolition, had the fuel filler necks cut off and the gasoline removed. The same damage was done to the two new vehicles, according to deputies.
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Monday 14 September 2009
Is That Tub a Planter or an Eyesore?
By LISA PREVOST
Published: September 11, 2009
MONTVILLE
YARDS filled with junk and rusting cars, broken-down fences, piles of debris — these are some of the neighborhood scourges that Rosetta Jones hoped to eradicate here with a new ordinance prohibiting blight.
A first-term town councilor who has lived in this rural community for only three years, Ms. Jones figured that giving residents some recourse for the eyesore next door was a “no brainer.”
“It’s a historic problem here,” she said. “It’s been a persistent problem for some time.”
Her notion of a problem, however, looked more like a matter of personal choice to the longtime residents who turned out at a Town Council meeting earlier this summer to oppose a blight ordinance. Among them was Gary O’Bern, 68, a retired resident of Montville who calls such ordinances “terribly un-American.”
Standing in his dirt driveway on a recent afternoon, an American flag fluttering above his head, Mr. O’Bern reiterated his view that it’s nobody’s business if a taxpayer wants to, say, put a bathtub in the front yard. Newcomers like Ms. Jones are “unreasonable to think they can move in and expect things to change to their standards,” he added. “We’re all individuals.”
At a time that rising foreclosures and a tough economy are taking a noticeable toll on neighborhoods around the state, Montville is among a growing number of communities debating the adoption of new or tougher blight ordinances. Roughly 60 Connecticut municipalities, most of them larger, less rural communities, already have blight ordinances on the books, according to Robert S. Poliner, state ombudsman for property rights.
State law authorizes municipalities to make and enforce regulations preventing housing blight, and to set fines for violations of up to $100 a day. The issue has proven so contentious in some places, however, that elected officials have backed off, citing concerns about property rights and constrained budgets.
In Montville, the Town Council voted down the blight ordinance in July. A primary objection was a provision that would allow residents to file blight complaints anonymously.
According to Ms. Jones, who headed the subcommittee that drafted the ordinance, without the shield of anonymity, residents might be afraid to report a neighbor. “You never know what trigger it will take to push somebody over the edge,” she said.
Mr. O’Bern is among those who oppose anonymous complaints, which he argues might lead to charges of blight as a form of harassment.
Town officials in Seymour, a community in the Naugatuck Valley, reeled in its blight ordinance after just two years on the books. One of the first provisions to go was the anonymous complaint system.
“We don’t want neighbors fighting with each other,” said Robert Koskelowski, the first selectman. “We had one situation where someone was cited for blight, and it turned out the person who complained lived three miles away.”
The revised ordinance will also be less financially onerous. Instead of an across-the-board fine of $100 a day for non-compliance, the town will set categories of fines ranging from $5 a day upward, Mr. Koskelowski said. And cosmetic problems like peeling paint will no longer constitute blight.
In Plainville, in central Connecticut, a property owners’ organization has requested that officials look into a blight ordinance, but the town manager, Robert Lee, has advised against it. While Plainville does have more blighted and abandoned properties of late, Mr. Lee said, 90 percent of the issues can be remedied through existing housing codes.
“The other 10 percent is where blight ordinances get involved, with, like, how high your grass can be,” he said. “My concern with regards to that is we really don’t have the staff to enforce it.”
That response is of little comfort to John Susco, an elderly resident of Plainville who says he lives across the street from a house owned by an absentee landlord. A proponent of a blight ordinance, Mr. Susco said that this particular neighbor’s yard is often “in shambles,” and brings down the value of surrounding properties.
Asked about the offending yard, Mr. Lee acknowledged that it has been periodically unkempt — a broken fence, brush piles, an unregistered car. The town does its part to “get the guy to clean up his yard,” Mr. Lee said, adding that it looks fine right now. Compared with houses with collapsing roofs, the place does not fall under the category of blight, he said.
“There’s a difference between blight and someone being sloppy,” Mr. Lee said. “It isn’t a black and white issue.”
Anti-blight activists in Middletown have been pushing for a tougher ordinance for years, to no avail. Under the existing ordinance, the city puts vacant or decaying properties on a blight list.
The ordinance lacks a “solid enforcement mechanism,” however, so properties sit on the list indefinitely, said Izzi Greenberg, the executive director of North End Action Team (NEAT), a revitalization group representing a part of town with a high percentage of absentee landlords. “Even the process of getting on the list is hazy,” Ms. Greenberg said.
Earlier this year, NEAT invited city officials to a workshop to discuss the blight list, and wound up with an agreement to scrap the whole thing. An ordinance proposed in its place adds a code enforcement committee to keep tabs on problem properties, and imposes fines for noncompliance. The ordinance is to come before the Common Council for action this month.
“The goal,” Ms. Greenberg said, “is to see that no building ever gets to an advanced blighted state.”
Meanwhile, in Montville, Ms. Jones has not given up. She says that a revised ordinance is in the works.
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Published: September 11, 2009
MONTVILLE
YARDS filled with junk and rusting cars, broken-down fences, piles of debris — these are some of the neighborhood scourges that Rosetta Jones hoped to eradicate here with a new ordinance prohibiting blight.
A first-term town councilor who has lived in this rural community for only three years, Ms. Jones figured that giving residents some recourse for the eyesore next door was a “no brainer.”
“It’s a historic problem here,” she said. “It’s been a persistent problem for some time.”
Her notion of a problem, however, looked more like a matter of personal choice to the longtime residents who turned out at a Town Council meeting earlier this summer to oppose a blight ordinance. Among them was Gary O’Bern, 68, a retired resident of Montville who calls such ordinances “terribly un-American.”
Standing in his dirt driveway on a recent afternoon, an American flag fluttering above his head, Mr. O’Bern reiterated his view that it’s nobody’s business if a taxpayer wants to, say, put a bathtub in the front yard. Newcomers like Ms. Jones are “unreasonable to think they can move in and expect things to change to their standards,” he added. “We’re all individuals.”
At a time that rising foreclosures and a tough economy are taking a noticeable toll on neighborhoods around the state, Montville is among a growing number of communities debating the adoption of new or tougher blight ordinances. Roughly 60 Connecticut municipalities, most of them larger, less rural communities, already have blight ordinances on the books, according to Robert S. Poliner, state ombudsman for property rights.
State law authorizes municipalities to make and enforce regulations preventing housing blight, and to set fines for violations of up to $100 a day. The issue has proven so contentious in some places, however, that elected officials have backed off, citing concerns about property rights and constrained budgets.
In Montville, the Town Council voted down the blight ordinance in July. A primary objection was a provision that would allow residents to file blight complaints anonymously.
According to Ms. Jones, who headed the subcommittee that drafted the ordinance, without the shield of anonymity, residents might be afraid to report a neighbor. “You never know what trigger it will take to push somebody over the edge,” she said.
Mr. O’Bern is among those who oppose anonymous complaints, which he argues might lead to charges of blight as a form of harassment.
Town officials in Seymour, a community in the Naugatuck Valley, reeled in its blight ordinance after just two years on the books. One of the first provisions to go was the anonymous complaint system.
“We don’t want neighbors fighting with each other,” said Robert Koskelowski, the first selectman. “We had one situation where someone was cited for blight, and it turned out the person who complained lived three miles away.”
The revised ordinance will also be less financially onerous. Instead of an across-the-board fine of $100 a day for non-compliance, the town will set categories of fines ranging from $5 a day upward, Mr. Koskelowski said. And cosmetic problems like peeling paint will no longer constitute blight.
In Plainville, in central Connecticut, a property owners’ organization has requested that officials look into a blight ordinance, but the town manager, Robert Lee, has advised against it. While Plainville does have more blighted and abandoned properties of late, Mr. Lee said, 90 percent of the issues can be remedied through existing housing codes.
“The other 10 percent is where blight ordinances get involved, with, like, how high your grass can be,” he said. “My concern with regards to that is we really don’t have the staff to enforce it.”
That response is of little comfort to John Susco, an elderly resident of Plainville who says he lives across the street from a house owned by an absentee landlord. A proponent of a blight ordinance, Mr. Susco said that this particular neighbor’s yard is often “in shambles,” and brings down the value of surrounding properties.
Asked about the offending yard, Mr. Lee acknowledged that it has been periodically unkempt — a broken fence, brush piles, an unregistered car. The town does its part to “get the guy to clean up his yard,” Mr. Lee said, adding that it looks fine right now. Compared with houses with collapsing roofs, the place does not fall under the category of blight, he said.
“There’s a difference between blight and someone being sloppy,” Mr. Lee said. “It isn’t a black and white issue.”
Anti-blight activists in Middletown have been pushing for a tougher ordinance for years, to no avail. Under the existing ordinance, the city puts vacant or decaying properties on a blight list.
The ordinance lacks a “solid enforcement mechanism,” however, so properties sit on the list indefinitely, said Izzi Greenberg, the executive director of North End Action Team (NEAT), a revitalization group representing a part of town with a high percentage of absentee landlords. “Even the process of getting on the list is hazy,” Ms. Greenberg said.
Earlier this year, NEAT invited city officials to a workshop to discuss the blight list, and wound up with an agreement to scrap the whole thing. An ordinance proposed in its place adds a code enforcement committee to keep tabs on problem properties, and imposes fines for noncompliance. The ordinance is to come before the Common Council for action this month.
“The goal,” Ms. Greenberg said, “is to see that no building ever gets to an advanced blighted state.”
Meanwhile, in Montville, Ms. Jones has not given up. She says that a revised ordinance is in the works.
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Kingston Twp. ordinance takes aim at junk cars
New rule replaces a previous one in effort to make it easier to cite violators.
By Rebecca Bria rbria@timesleader.com
Staff Writer
KINGSTON TWP. – The board of supervisors passed an ordinance on Wednesday evening that will make it easier to enforce the removal of junk vehicles in the township.
According to township Chief of Police James Balavage, the ordinance repeals a previous ordinance that was at times misinterpreted.
Balavage said that under the old ordinance, people who were cited for having junk vehicles read into the ordinance that they were able to ask the supervisors for permission to store the vehicles on their property.
“It was defeating the purposes of enforcement,” the chief said.
He said warnings will not be given in enforcing the ordinance. The fine for a first-time offense for the storing of a junk vehicle is $1,000.
Balavage said the large fine is meant to clean up the township. Residents who wish to report nuisance vehicles may do so by calling township police at 696-1175.
Approval was granted by the supervisors for a water improvement project by Aqua Pennsylvania in a section of Midway Manor.
Aqua Pennsylvania will install approximately 4,000 feet of water mains on Woodbine Road, parts of Greenpond Road and Shadetree Road. An undetermined amount of new fire hydrants will also be installed. Aqua Pennsylvania will also resurface the roads to township specifications when they are finished with the work.
The supervisors also approved having the township manager draft an ordinance that would prohibit smoking at Center Street Park in accordance with the Young Lungs at Play Program through Luzerne County’s Tobacco Free Coalition.
Supervisors David Brodhead, James Reino and Paul Sabol voted in favor of the ordinance, while Jeffrey Box and John Solinsky voted against it.
A plaque was presented to Frances Gavigan and Donny Gavigan in memory of their husband and father, Ambrose Gavigan, by the supervisors. Ambrose Gavigan served on the township board of supervisors for 13 years from January 1976 to February 1989. He also served on the Kingston Township Home Rule Charter Study Commission during the early 1970s.
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By Rebecca Bria rbria@timesleader.com
Staff Writer
KINGSTON TWP. – The board of supervisors passed an ordinance on Wednesday evening that will make it easier to enforce the removal of junk vehicles in the township.
According to township Chief of Police James Balavage, the ordinance repeals a previous ordinance that was at times misinterpreted.
Balavage said that under the old ordinance, people who were cited for having junk vehicles read into the ordinance that they were able to ask the supervisors for permission to store the vehicles on their property.
“It was defeating the purposes of enforcement,” the chief said.
He said warnings will not be given in enforcing the ordinance. The fine for a first-time offense for the storing of a junk vehicle is $1,000.
Balavage said the large fine is meant to clean up the township. Residents who wish to report nuisance vehicles may do so by calling township police at 696-1175.
Approval was granted by the supervisors for a water improvement project by Aqua Pennsylvania in a section of Midway Manor.
Aqua Pennsylvania will install approximately 4,000 feet of water mains on Woodbine Road, parts of Greenpond Road and Shadetree Road. An undetermined amount of new fire hydrants will also be installed. Aqua Pennsylvania will also resurface the roads to township specifications when they are finished with the work.
The supervisors also approved having the township manager draft an ordinance that would prohibit smoking at Center Street Park in accordance with the Young Lungs at Play Program through Luzerne County’s Tobacco Free Coalition.
Supervisors David Brodhead, James Reino and Paul Sabol voted in favor of the ordinance, while Jeffrey Box and John Solinsky voted against it.
A plaque was presented to Frances Gavigan and Donny Gavigan in memory of their husband and father, Ambrose Gavigan, by the supervisors. Ambrose Gavigan served on the township board of supervisors for 13 years from January 1976 to February 1989. He also served on the Kingston Township Home Rule Charter Study Commission during the early 1970s.
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Resolution to allow removal of junk cars from properties
By Scott Rawdon
Trustees passed a resolution to allow the township to remove junk cars from properties under certain conditions. Union Township Police Chief and Zoning Inspector Paula Green said a junk car qualifies as three model years or older, apparently inoperable, or extensively damaged. Green said the rule realistically only applies to junk vehicles parked outdoors.
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Trustees passed a resolution to allow the township to remove junk cars from properties under certain conditions. Union Township Police Chief and Zoning Inspector Paula Green said a junk car qualifies as three model years or older, apparently inoperable, or extensively damaged. Green said the rule realistically only applies to junk vehicles parked outdoors.
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Amnesty for junk-car owners in Sacramento County, West Sac
Sacramento Business Journal - by Mark Anderson Staff writer
Owners of junk cars — or vehicles with overdue fines — in unincorporated areas of Sacramento County and in the city of West Sacramento are being offered junk car amnesty, in cooperation with Pick-n-Pull Auto Dismantlers.
The amnesty runs Wednesday through Saturday.
It doesn’t matter whether the car runs or not, but the vehicle has to be under 18 feet long.
There no charge for car or truck owners, and it will remove potential or existing code violations from their property.
People in unincorporated Sacramento County can call 866-520-9749. Residents in West Sacramento can call the same number to get their car towed, or they can get a $50 gift certificate from Pick-n-Pull for dropping the car off at the West Sacramento Pick-n-Pull location.
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Owners of junk cars — or vehicles with overdue fines — in unincorporated areas of Sacramento County and in the city of West Sacramento are being offered junk car amnesty, in cooperation with Pick-n-Pull Auto Dismantlers.
The amnesty runs Wednesday through Saturday.
It doesn’t matter whether the car runs or not, but the vehicle has to be under 18 feet long.
There no charge for car or truck owners, and it will remove potential or existing code violations from their property.
People in unincorporated Sacramento County can call 866-520-9749. Residents in West Sacramento can call the same number to get their car towed, or they can get a $50 gift certificate from Pick-n-Pull for dropping the car off at the West Sacramento Pick-n-Pull location.
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