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Week in Review: Budget, Bags and Easter

Check out what happened this week in Takoma Park.

Another week has passed. And although I spent part of it away, the news didn't stop. So here is your week in review in case you missed it.

, Takoma Park has some extra money due to the state replenishing some of the highway user revenue, the city has found itself with an extra $110,000, according to Mayor Bruce Williams. And that could mean the city would use it for a sustainability coordinator, he said.

In August of 2009 the state cut 35 percent of police aide to the city and 95 percent of highway user revenue. This cost the city $560,000 last year. The police aide money has not been restored, but the state has rolled back highway user revenue cuts to 75 percent, which accounts for the extra $110,000 that the city had no accounted for, Williams said. Highway user revenue is money the state gives to municipalities for out-of-city drivers using city roads.

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"Hopefully we can do more environmental initiatives," Williams said.

members of the Takoma Park Task Force on Environmental Action (TFEA) and others are funding a free screening of a documentary focused on the impact plastic bags have on the environment and people’s health. The film “Bag It” is scheduled to be shown April 28 at 7 p.m. at the Takoma Park Community Center Auditorium. A short discussion will follow the screening.

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“I have seen the movie, and that was one of the reasons I was willing to put up my own money to secure the licensing rights,” said Joe Edgell, TFEA co-chair. The City Council established the TFEA to review the current status of the city’s plans and operations related to climate change and the environment and to prepare a roadmap for achieving the vision elaborated in the city’s “Strategic Plan.” The TFEA issued its final report on April 30, 2010. “There are a lot of environmental issues to tackle and the issue of plastic waste is one of many things the TFEA report focused on,” Edgell said.

about 2,800 plastic eggs will be hidden at Lee Jordan Field, next to Takoma Park Middle School—located at 7611 Piney Branch Road —for Takoma Park’s annual Easter Egg hunt scheduled for Monday, April 25, 11 a.m., said Carey Antoszewski, a Recreation Department staffer who oversees special events.

The egg hunt is free for children age six months to seven plus years, said Antoszewski, who added that 2010’s egg hunt drew about 300 children and about the same number of youngsters are expected to participate in 2011’s egg hunt.

Because egg hunt participants range form from toddlers to tots, the egg hunters are divided into four age categories, Antoszewski said. Those age groups are two and under; three and four; five and six; and seven and older.


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