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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Shred Your Documents for Free at Prince George's Community College

The county is holding a Community Shred event this Saturday, Dec. 8.

Have some personal documents you'd like to dispose of safely? Bring them to Prince George's Community College this Saturday, Dec. 8 for a Community Shred event. From 8 a.m. to 11 am., county residents can bring up to five archive boxes or trash bags of paper to the Largo campus to be shredded for free.  To participate, drivers must be in line by 11 a.m. at the intersection of Prince Place and Campus Way South. No walk-ins are allowed. Paper with staples or clips, empty binders, unwanted and expired credit cards, and computer disks will also be accepted. Business and commercial documents are not eligible. Shredded paper from the event will be recycled by Shred-It, while boxes will be recycled by the county. Some 59 tons of cardboard have …

Friday, June 17, 2011

NBC4 Forecasts Weather from Crescent Road Court

The D.C. metro area got their weather straight from Greenbelt's backyards on Friday.

Tonight it was weather a la Greenbelt as NBC Washington's chief meteoroligist, Doug Kammerer, forecast from three adjoining backyards in a Crescent Road court. Alice Mitchell came up with the idea while watching Kammerer on TV talking about his backyard BBQ forecasts. She broached the topic with her neighbors, Bill and Dianne Wilkerson and Elizabeth Balcer Kubiczek, and to her delight -- they said yes. The rain put the stopper on the first planned broadcast. But Kammerer stuck around the neighborhood to do the second one, thinking the storm would blow over, though more thunderstorms might hit later that night. He's the weatherman -- he should know, right? Still some BBQ goers were keeping their eyes on a cluster of serious looking dark …

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