Photos by Millard Berry
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Late afternoon sunlight illuminates Ryaln Whaley with mom Jen, and dad Nate as they look over process of recycling the incoming material from a catwalk at the Great Lakes Recycling facility March 30. Members of the Dearborn Sustainability Coalition visited the facility in Huron Township for a first-hand view of the process that handles recycled materials from Dearborn’s big green curbside bins. The very labor-intensive process at the state of the art facility is called a single stream recycling because residents don’t need to separate the recyclables themselves. Incoming materials are delivered to the tipping floor, with a capacity of 8,000 tons, and then fed through a series of conveyors tended by fast moving workers. At the end the separated products are compressed into large bales and then sold to companies who use them to make new products.
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A half-dozen workers sort incoming material on the fast moving conveyor belt at the beginning of the line. Plastic bags are fed to the overhead suction tubes and cardboard, newspapers, plastic and metal are quickly tossed into separate bins in the labor-intensive process.
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One-and-a-half-year-old Sarah Mubared, with mom Sarah, is amazed by a butterfly at the Arab American National Museum’s Spring into Spring event April 2. The event included crafts, food and a butterfly tent for youngsters.
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Dearborn based experimental/folk/metal band performs at Blondie’s in Detroit Feb. 20. Their CD album “Lore” should be released soon and more performances may follow. They are Michael West -guitar, Stephen Rahrig - bass, Ryan McKay – percussion, George Ford – vocals and guitar, Marlene Berry – flutes and Holly Mitchell – keyboards. Three of the musicians hail from Dearborn. Their music can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/ValdyrOfficial and they can be found on Facebook.
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Divine Child pitcher Jimmy Hughes delivers during his victory over Brother Rice last Thursday.
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A young and inexperienced team at Divine Child is still getting used to the varsity grind under the direction of new Falcons coach Tedi Belisle.
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Photos by Millard Berry
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