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Spring cleaning spruces up Madison
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By CHUCK CLEMENT, Staff Reporter
| 05/08/2009 |
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Lynn Woldt (left) looks on as brothers Mark and Joseph Woldt prepare part of the front yard on Friday morning for cement to build a new house patio.
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Joseph and Lynn Woldt and Joseph's brother Mark were preparing to lay down concrete on Friday morning (today) for a new front patio to a house in the 400 block of S. Van Eps Ave. Joseph and Lynn are rebuilding the home that they purchased last fall -- a job that required removing old siding, replacing some of the old flooring and pulling out old concrete that don't serve a purpose any longer.
The work started about a month and a half ago, and on Friday the frame was in place to pour cement at the front door. In their front yard next to the curb sat a pile of scrap lumber and concrete.
Mark Woldt said the city cleanup would provide some assistance with the work needed to improve the house located in central Madison.
"It just kind of worked out that way. It's going to help out a bit," he said about how work crews are supposed to start on Monday picking up junk and debris placed in residents' front yards.
Joseph Woldt pointed to a truck parked in the back yard that was filled to the brim with scrap and debris from the remodeling work. The Woldts had assembled their third truckload of waste material that they would haul away themselves.
"You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff that we took out of this house," Joseph said.
Madison's citywide cleanup runs all next week with the city divided into four parts by Egan Ave. and N. 2nd/3rd streets. The southeast section of town receives attention on Monday, the southwest section on Tuesday, northwest on Wednesday, and northeast on Thursday.
City residents are asked to set their unwanted items curbside before the scheduled day of their pickup, but not more than 48 hours before crews start removing scrap from their neighborhood.
Workers will return on the following day to collect any items that they were not able to pick up in a quadrant on its scheduled day. However, once a section is done, workers will no longer collect from that part of the city.
They will not pick up appliances, batteries, paint, leaves, trees or branches, hazardous materials, household garbage or recyclable material. Workers will also not collect any electronic devices.
To assist with mosquito control, the crews will collect car and truck tires, but only eight tires at most from each household. The junk tires cannot have rims.
At times, the citywide cleanups in Madison and other South Dakota towns can resemble large swap meets with some residents finding useful items among other people's scrap piles.
Lynn Woldt said in previous years, she had found some items that she could use among the debris from other households.
She's looking for a decent couch this spring. In the past, she found a couple of bags of new clothes with the sales tags still on the articles. Lynn has also brought home a set of wrought-iron shelves and a discarded computer with a 10-gigabyte hard drive.
"The computer worked fine; it only needed an operating system," Lynn said. "I put in an operating system and gave it to my son."
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