The
12th annual Holt Hometown Festival is August 27 and 28. Free family
fun starts the day with a parade, continues with activities for all
ages and concludes with a fireworks show. Visit the
Holt
Hometown Festival web site for all the details.
Have
old cell phones, MP3 players and computer equipment that you don't
know how to dispose of? Here's a way to recycle them and help give
Holt's famous Gill a facelift. It's easy!
Once your box arrives, mail your electronics in the postage paid
box.
Proceeds from the value of the electronics will be used to build
'Gill-again,' the newly refurbished version of our favorite
finned buddy, and to support the Delhi Charter Township
Recycling Center.
Gill wins tri-county award
Holt's favorite fish on four wheels was a winner in the recent
Tri-County Waste Reduction Awards Program.
The mission of
WRAP is to publicly acknowledgeresidents,
businesses, governments, educational institutions and non-profit
organizations in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties that have
exemplary waste reduction and recycling practices and encourage
others in the community to increase their efforts to reduce, reuse
and recycle.
Gill was developed by the Delhi Charter Township
Public Services Department to promote recycling awareness. In
collaboration with the
Holt Community
Arts Council, this temporary sculpture — a colorful,
three-dimensional blue gill —
came to life at the
2008 Water Quality Awareness Week Open House held
at the Delhi Township Recycling Center.
Open House
visitors
helped attach
approximately 2,500 empty laundry detergent bottles to a pre-built
frame that was 25-feet long and 15-feet high.
Now, Gill is two
years old! Still as popular as ever with a growing
facebook fan page, he's starting to show his age. You can
help build Gill-again! Drop off your empty laundry jugs at the Delhi
Charter Township Recycling Center so Gill can get some new scales.
Just put your jug in the box for the corresponding color.
The
Holt Community Arts Council's popular
Music in the Garden concert series is back for its third year. The
free, family friendly concerts will take place in July and August
at
Veterans Memorial Gardens
Amphitheatre in Holt.Not only
has Music in the Garden been a tremendous success – it’s already
become a beloved and much-anticipated summer tradition in Holt.
Mark your
calendars now. All concerts are from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunny Wilkinson
and Ron Newman are local jazz legends. Vocalist Sunny Wilkinson
performs regularly at jazz festivals and clubs across the country.
She has sung with the Count Basie Band, Rob McConnell, and the Boss
Brass.
For more than 25
years, the Sea Cruisers have been performing music from the 1950s,
1960s, and 1970s. Their unique take on rock 'n' roll makes them a
local favorite.
Focusing on jump
blues and the little big band sound of the 1940's and beyond, the
Kings play the music of legends like T-Bone Walker, Roy Brown, and
B.B. King along with original compositions and modern classics.
August 18
- Blue Coyote
Band (Originally scheduled on July 22 rained out - rescheduled for
Wed. Aug. 18)
These
talented Lansing musicians will entertain you with Top 40 country
and new original songs. They have opened for Tim McGraw, Travis
Tritt, Leanne Rimes, among others.
The property assessment procedure and your assessment notice can
seem overwhelming. The Delhi Township Assessing Department is
happy to answer your questions. Please visit the new Assessing FAQ's page to find
answers to your questions. The page offers Q&A's, resources,
links and information so you can learn more about the assessment and
appeal process.
To be quickly
notified of area emergencies and other important information that
may not be pertinent for the township web site, facebook or twitter,
Delhi Township residents may now subscribe to the Delhi Township
Nixle site. The Nixle site provides the user with the ability to
sign up for instant notification in cases where information needs to
be disseminated to the public quickly.
Nixle is a
Community Information Service providing one source for access to
credible real-time community information. Nixle provides communities
throughout the country with news and information that is both
proximate and personally relevant. Nixle makes this information
instantly available over web, mobile, and smart phone devices.
As an example,
Delhi Township Public Works may have a road closed, and a message
may then be sent out to subscribers updating the community on the
road closure.
There is no cost
for this service. Any interested Delhi Township resident may
subscribe by going to
www.nixle.com.
When signing up,
you will first fill in pertinent information, then be directed to a
page wherein you can specify what information you wish to receive,
i.e., a Delhi Township resident may request information for Holt,
Delhi Township and Ingham County, or you may wish to request only
Holt information.
The Live RoofTM has now been
placed on the roof of the new Sam Corey Senior Center. This live
vegetation roof is just one of the reasons the newest building in
Delhi Township is considered LEED certified. LEED is a third-party
certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the
design, construction and operation of high performance green
buildings.
The roof will
provide the already operating Sam Corey Senior Center with a
better way to reduce heating and cooling costs, increase the
roofs life span, reduce stormwater run off, filter pollutants
and carbon dioxide out of the air and also filter pollutants and
heavy metals out of the rainwater.
For
a virtual tour of Holt’s beautiful new
senior center that was built with an environmental conscience,
visit the Sam Corey Senior Center page
at
http://delhitownship.com/parks-SeniorCenter.htm.
Sheep were purchased
this spring and have been grazing on two large plots of township
land at the Waste Water Treatment Plant. The sheep munch
contently under the watch of a llama that protects them from coyotes
and wild dogs.
The natural
approach to lawn care should save the township $10,000 or more
compared to the costs of mowing six months out of the year. The
township has found the sheep can munch in places where lawn mowers
can't mow. Once a year, a week was spent trimming steep, rocky
slopes on the land. The sheep have taken care of the slopes,
saving additional money and man-hours.
Not only that,
instead of consuming gas and polluting the air with fumes from power
equipment, the township will actually have something useful when the
sheep's work is done: wool. Their wool has been made into
socks and are available for sale. Sock sales are a fundraiser with
the proceeds going back to the sheep project.
Of course, there may
also be another by-product of the project: lambs. Any offspring will
be offered to local kids in the 4-H program.
The Delhi Charter Township
Wastewater Treatment Plant has been honored bythe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for innovative
efforts to protectour environment.
The Delhi plant received the
PISCES (Performance and Innovation in the
SRF Creating Environmental Success) award for developing the state's
firstintegrated biomass-to-energy
digester system, in which residuals or “leftovers”from the wastewater treatment process are “digested” (treated
and stabilized) sothey can be safely
returned to the environment as nutrient-rich biosolids. Theheat and energy component of this system will reduce the
demand for naturalgas and electricity,
yielding an annual energy savings of more than $75,000. Thenew digester should go online by this summer.
“We are honored to have our work
recognized by the EPA,” said Sandra Diorka,Director of Public Services for Delhi Charter Township. “The
digester systemrepresents another
important advance toward sustainability in Delhi Township.”Township Supervisor Stuart Goodrich added, “The digester
project is the lateststride taken by the
township in its ongoing commitment to recycling, reuse,environmental education, and a ‘green’ approach to wastewater
and solid waste management.”
The Delhi Township plant serves
more than 25,000 people in the township andtwo small portions of the city of Lansing. "It is an honor
for the U.S.Environmental Protection
Agency to recognize one of Michigan's wastewatertreatment facilities for their innovative, efficient,
effective protection of theenvironment,"
said Director Steven Chester, who presented the award.
Many residents who
pay their summer and winter tax bills at the Treasurer's
Office ask where all their tax money goes. While the Township's
Treasurer is responsible for collecting the tax bill, the Township
receives only twelve percent of the total bill. So where does
the rest go?
For a typical home
worth $150,000 within the Holt School District and paying a tax bill
of $3,000, Delhi Township keeps $355 with the remainder distributed
to the following taxing units:
Each one of these
units provides valuable services to the residents of our community.
If you need additional information on how each unit spends your tax
dollars, please do not hesitate to contact
that unit. For questions relating directly to Delhi Township,
please contact the Township Treasurer at 694-0333 or the Township
Manager at 694-2137.
Learn how
the wastewater process works and about the
"first in the state" technology that is the
center of the POTW upgrades. The video
was filmed at the annual POTW open house as
part of Water Quality Awareness Week last
May.
