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You are the Hit Counter island member to visit this site! (ok, some of us visit more than once!) Welcome!

Check out the American Legion Post 335's web page - including information on their troop support drive!

It never fails, we get a change (or 2 or 3) in member info after the directories are printed. The online directory (requires username and password) is updated with the info we have as of right this moment! We usually get changes and or corrections published in the online directory within a week of receiving it. Don't forget, e-mail costs us nada, if you want to add your parents, kids, grandkids, great-aunts, best friends, or any other interested entities to our e-mail list, drop us a note.

Bill Stokman (# 113) has several 11x17” color prints of the plat map he and his kids  put together over the winter. They added a title and a blue depth/bathymetric map. They have about 50 copies left. First come, first serve. Stop by cottage 113 on the island (with five orange buoys out front) on the east point. Introduce yourself to Bill, and/or his wife, Carolyn. His kids can get you a copy. Just a fun project, no charge. (click image to enlarge)

 

Kay Hoogland (# 133) is hosting the second annual Diamond Lake Open Water Swim on Sept. 18. She's posted a couple items on our classifieds page about the event.

 5/4/10 - our e-mail address has changed. Please update your address books and spam blockers to accept mail from diamondislandcassmi@gmail.com.

facebook users: there is both a Diamond Lake Michigan and a Diamond Island Michigan group on facebook - neither are affiliated with their respective associations, but both are fun!

4/22/10 - Garbage pickups are scheduled for Tuesdays - May 4, May 25, then every Tuesday in June, July & August and the first Tuesday in September, after Labor day, on Sept. 7. We'll publish any fall pickups when the info is available.

2/7/10 - The Spring mailing was delivered in to the semi-capable hands of the post office yesterday afternoon. The barge is scheduled to open - weather permitting - on Friday, April 16 at noon.

Recycling on the island:

There are four recycling containers located behind Jack Orr's cottage #17, (straight north of the barge landing on your right, before the left turn in the road). The containers are all labeled, one for glass, another metal (kitchen metals: food and beverage cans, jar lids), and two for plastics.

Recycling Guidelines:

Diamond Island Recycling Guidelines: Please be considerate of your neighbors, only recycle during times when you won't be disrupting someone's sleep! Please help keep our recycling area clean and neat.  If the containers are full please hold onto your recyclables until next week or take them home with you. 

Paper: Newspaper, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, envelopes, including window envelopes, telephone books, paper back books, hardcover books with the hard cover removed, inserts and circulars, office and computer paper, cardboard boxes, shoe and gift boxes, cereal and cake boxes, and similar food packaging, beverage carrying cases, wrapping paper, paper towel roll and toilet tissue roll, brown and white paper bags, pizza boxes. Staples, paper clips and tape do not need to be removed. Cardboard boxes need to be flattened and broken down.

Glass: Glass jars and glass bottles are acceptable. Not acceptable for recycling are kitchen items such as drinking glasses, Pyrex bowls and baking dishes, light bulbs, mirrors, and window glass as these items melt at different temperatures and may contain contaminants. Rinsing is not necessary for vegetable and soup cans, soda and beer cans, pickle jars. It helps to clean cans and jars containing foods that cling such as tomato sauce, pet foods, mayonnaise or cream cheese.

Plastic: Any plastic item, which is marked with a recycling symbol 1 through 7, can be recycled. Caps may be left on the bottles.The following CAN NOT be recycled. Plastic grocery bags and newspaper sleeves, plastic film or wrap, chemical bottles, motor oil and antifreeze containers, flower pots, egg cartons, meat trays and other polystyrene trays, Styrofoam, plastic kitchenware and bubble wrap.

Aluminum and Metal: Aluminum foil, foil pie pans or foil cooking pans, soda and beer cans, soup and vegetable cans, pet food cans, and empty aerosol containers can be recycled. Not acceptable are pots and pans, cooking utensils, cutlery, license plates, car parts and lawn furniture.


The folks running and in charge of running the barge are asking that we remind members:

  • The barge operators are instructed NOT to return to the landing after leaving the landing. It doesn't matter if the barge is 10 feet or 10 inches from shore! DO NOT honk your horn to get the operators attention. Please be considerate of your neighbors on the island and the mainland.
  • Please remember to turn off your lights when boarding the barge. Your vehicle's lights blind the operators.
  • If you are the first car in line on the island side, you may need to pull up past the "Stop here for ferry" sign in order for the operator to see you. The sign was placed there to allow vehicles to exit the barge and have room around the sewer pumping station behind the shed. If you pull up far enough you will not be in the way of exiting vehicles. This only applies to the first (or only) car in line.

Don't forget! we have a Classified page on this website -- available to members who would like to post items for sale, services available and announcements. Content is posted at the discretion of the board, pictures may be included in jpeg format. Send any requested posting to diamondislandcassmi@gmail.com.


 

 

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