Comments on: Norwalk Yard Waste Site Closing For Season

By: anonymous-john

anonymous-john — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:20:48 +0000

just built myself a nice big chimnea in the back yard. Nice for little warming fires in the evening and big enough to burn leaves too.

By: Sausage

Sausage — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:06:47 +0000

Im just going to blow them into my neighbors yard at my condo and he can pay the extra common fees

By: Secondhand Rose

Secondhand Rose — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:08:04 +0000

LOL, reminds me of those signs that Ann Fanning used to put out in front of her house in the winter offering “Free Snow”. hahaha

By: Maribeth Becker

Maribeth Becker — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:07:59 +0000

Interesting article about leaves, compost and the “quiet revolution” that is starting to take hold. I am happy to be part of this ’cause’ and look forward to some “black gold” this spring…

http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15232

By: Steward

Steward — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:27:09 +0000

Free? Put a sign out, “Compost Starter Kits $5.00″

By: The Crumb

The Crumb — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:49:26 +0000

Does anyone know when the city picks up the bags again? I have over 50 bags out front. Anyone want free leaves for composting?

By: Secondhand Rose

Secondhand Rose — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:24:37 +0000

In this particular economy – when people with Masters degrees and doctorates are forced to work at multiple part time jobs after being “downsized” out of their full time careers – it’s almost impossible for teens to get work these days. So the idea of hiring a couple of neighborhood kids to rake your yard is not as far-fetched as it seems. Not only that, but it’s a good way to start a kid on the road to owning his/her own landscaping company. I know at least 3 people who began their landscaping businesses before the age of 12.

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:38:02 +0000

The able-bodied teens cannot be bothered with yard work–they are in training for law school.

By: jillcooks

jillcooks — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:37:03 +0000

Oldtimer, ofcourse I was kidding….well just alittle. Have you ever hired a teenager? I have…..Fairfield County is not a hotbed of willing labor.

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:48:39 +0000

Jillcooks:
I really hope you are kidding. If you ever get the chance, visit the coal mine towns that are now maintained as museums and see the photographs of children as young as five year olds working, mining and sorting coal (Eckley Miner’s Village, PA, for example). See how isolated those towns were, where the company owned everything, including the “company store”. I’m sure you have heard the song “sixteen tons”, about that life where the singer laments about how tough a life it is, “you load sixteen tons and what do you get ?, another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don’t you call me, cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store” A lot of people died in the mines. Very few miners survived past middle age. They called it “black lung desease”
Those conditions created the labor movement. A lot of good came out of the labor movement, and, a lot of violence went with the birth of it. (read a little about the “Molly Maquires”) The mine companies had their own private police who operated as violent, lawless, gangs, and the miners responded with violent gangs of their own.
I agree with you on one point. I never was able to support my family working just one 40 hr job, but I never mined coal. When a union was voted in where I worked, conditions improved dramatically in a very short period.