HAMILTON - The city's historic North End should be a cleaner and brighter place after Saturday.

        Volunteers will paint and decorate 25 55-gallon trash barrels 10 a.m.-noon at Nuxhall Park, formerly Ford's Park, on Joe Nuxhall Boulevard. The cans will be placed on Heaton Street as a means of litter control.

        Volunteers will be treated to refreshments, said Sue Stephenson, program manager for Butler County Recycling and Litter Prevention. All ages are welcome.

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Rain date for the barrel painting project is May 5. For information, call Sue Stephenson at 887-3972.    For information about the household hazardous waste collection or appliance recycling, call Denise Sharma at 887-3521 or 887-3653, or go online.

        A $15,000 “Take Pride, Ohio!” grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will help fund the pilot program.

        The grant also will go toward other community activities aimed at litter control, including the annual North End Spring Clean-Up 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May 19.

        Last year, more than 35 tons of trash, tires, scrap metal and other waste was collected at the North End Spring Clean-up.

        To promote spring clean-up in all areas of Butler County, an anti-litter billboard contest for children in grades 3-6 was sponsored this year by Butler County Recycling and Litter Prevention and the Hamilton Chamber Litter Prevention Coalition.

        The winner was Maggie Mischkulnig, a third-grader at Elda Elementary. Her design, chosen from more than 900 entries, was unveiled this week on seven billboards in Butler County.

        The Butler County Solid Waste District will hold its annual household hazardous waste collection 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 12 at Garfield Junior High School, 250 N. Fair Ave.

        The event for Butler County residents is free. Volunteers are needed to direct traffic and perform other tasks, but will not be handling waste or unloading vehicles. T-shirts, lunch and beverages will be provided for volunteers.

        Materials to be accepted (in containers no larger than 5 gallons) include paint and paint thinner, pesticides and herbicides, fertilizers, household and automobile batteries, automotive fluids and used oil filters, mercury and mercury thermometers, wood varnish, stain, lacquer, solvents, acids, pool chemicals, fluorescent bulbs, and other corrosive, toxic, reactive and flammable materials.

        The Solid Waste District also will hold its annual appliance recycling 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 19 at Garfield Junior High School. This event is for Butler County residents, not businesses. Each household is limited to five appliances.

        Appliances to be accepted include: refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, washing machines, dryers, trash compactors, stoves and microwave ovens.

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