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Show Thursday, March 20, 2008 Page 8 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Si, Wanted a Flat Screen TV? f;; ' -V . AC' ' -" V) .: 'J . , . V- - - -' , . ' . Wfc -;-.- JC-: A ' 3 r v 1 Mavbe a Apple IPod? Or a Chance to Travel? Discover the Power of Points When you Sign-up For IF5 (1 V M CBIrt1 Taking Reward Points to the Next Level from Central Bank And Now During March when you Open a Checking Account with . debit card we'll give you 3,000 points to get started r Once you get started those points will continue to add up quickly. Whenever you use your debit card for purchases you'll receive a point for every $2 spent when the transaction is signature based. And if you compliment that debit card with a Central Bank VISA card, upon approval, you'll get an additional 5,000 points along with one point for every dollar spent As you use your Central Bank debit and credit cards you'll be amazed at how quickly your points add up. 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'Black Gold' compost loses its sparkle Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD Those who advocate environmental envi-ronmental sustainability have given it a nickname: humanure. But in Utah Valley it has long been famous as "black gold" for the garden. For years, the north county sewer district has sold thousands thou-sands of tons of compost containing three parts green waste and one part human waste, which local officials euphemistically eu-phemistically call biowaste and environmentalists truncate to humanure. But the months-long process required to create compost essentially allowing the mixture to naturally heat and rot outdoors stinks. And this week, because of complaints from businesses and residents, the sewer district is going to start putting the humanure not in compost, but in the landfill, at a cost of $750,000 a year. Priced at $20 for about 300 pounds, the compost created at the sewer district is so popular that it sells out year after year. But gardeners and landscapers concerned that they may lose their favorite soil amendment can bestill their hearts: The district dis-trict will continue to make and sell compost from green waste, just omitting the humanure. Supplies of compost containing humanure are expected to last through the summer. Not only does composting save $750,000 in landfill fees, selling the 30,000-pIus cubic yards produced each year for gardeners brings in more than $430,000, district manager Garland Gar-land Mayne said. The district processes 410,000 gallons of sewage a day from north valley cities and since 1992 has composted com-posted and sold 100 percent of the biosolids produced locally. The district has recently spent $1.3 million to purchase and house two machines to press water out of the biowaste and form it into cakes to be transported to the landfill, Mayne said, and those machines ma-chines go online this week. The sewer district board has yet to decide whether residents will see a fee increase because of the new expenses. While some sustainability enthusiasts advocate using humanure hu-manure as a method of responsible respon-sible organic gardening, in Utah Valley it has long been popular not just because it is great for the garden but because it keeps down sewer fees. "It has saved residents millions mil-lions of dollars over the years," Mayne said of composting the waste instead of sending it to the landfill. Assistant manager John Adams said neither residents nor district officials are happy about taking the humanure to the landfill and everyone wants to work to get back to composting. compost-ing. Over the next three years, the district will look for property prop-erty somewhere out of smell's way to start composting again. To keep up with demand for compost while having less to make it out of, Mayne said local lo-cal residents are encouraged to continue to drop off their grass and tree trimmings at the sewer district, a free disposal service that puts mountains of organic matter to use rather than filling the landfill. Compost can be purchased for $20 per cubic yard at the sewer district, 6400 N. 5050 West in Utah County, west of Pleasant Grove Exit 275 on 1-15. Compost is not bagged and purchasers pur-chasers must have a truck. For information, call 756-5231. Utah Valley Community Job Fair lira 2 2 10:OOam - 4:00pm McKay Events Center ecu ) lit i II I wiiiimm. U is. -7 Building connections one job at a time. www.uyjobfair.com 4:, w. LDS EMPLOYMENT RESOURCE SERVICES I provo Orem 2)aihtM5Hcvnlh . $ Chamber v Commerce VWIIIJilflHWIU X ' CHAMBER Phone: (801)863-8253 E-mail: communiryjobfairuvsc.edu i designed by: "nmmun !.II,4,JJU,UJU 1... 4MOWIIIWIWW tiiiili" II nun "ifti luff '" |