Old Apple Tree Festival | Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation

Old Apple Tree Festival | Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation

Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation

This is a wonderful link to your Parks and Recreation for SW Washington, Vancouver, Clark County...get out and take advantage of the many things to do in our great area...

Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation

Recycling in Vancouver, Wa this weekend...

Let the fall cleaning begin! Residents of Clark County and its cities can clean out block foam and recycle it for free from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 2, in the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center parking lot, 3510 SE 164^th Ave.   

Residents can also drop off computers and many other electronic devices for free recycling at Saturday's free collection event. No televisions, computer monitors or microwave ovens can be accepted, however. 

E-waste will be collected by Empower Up, a nonprofit organization that recycles electronics and offers free computer training. Empower Up prefers your working electronic equipment that is no more than five years old. However, nonfunctioning and obsolete equipment will also be accepted. More information about what electronic devices are accepted and other details are available atwww.empowerupnow.org. 

For a list of free e-waste disposal sites that will accept old TVs, please visit RecyclingA-Z.com on the Internet.  

Recycling block foam packaging, or Styrofoam®, from electronics and other purchases also reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and saves space in your garbage cart.  

Total Reclaim, a Portland recycling business, grinds and melts Styrofoam® into ingots, reducing the foam's volume by roughly 98 percent. The ingots are shipped to other processors and turned into pellets. The pellets, which have the same quality as new plastic, are used to manufacture picture frames, office products and other items. 

Block foam can be any color, but it must be clean and bagged or boxed. No plastic-wrapped yellow urethane foam or spongy polypropylene foam, no hot tub covers, no packing peanuts, and no foam with cardboard, tape or metal attached will be accepted. Only Washington-licensed cars may participate. All participants must remain on site until staff has examined and accepted the material. Unacceptable foam will be returned. 

Also, businesses can bring in small loads of foam ─ no bigger than what will fit into a passenger or cargo van ─ at no charge. Larger business loads should be taken to Total Reclaim’s site at 5805 N.E. Columbia Blvd., Portland, during the company’s regular weekday business hours.  

For more information, contact the City of Vancouver Solid Waste Services at (360) 619-4120 or Clark County Environmental Services at (360) 397-2121 ext. 4352.

VA Loans vs other loans in distress

VA Loans seem to be performing better than others in this Economy...

VA mortgages have performed relatively better than the other types of mortgages. Since 2007 when particularly subprime, but also prime mortgages, experienced spike in delinquencies, the share of delinquent VA mortgages increased only slightly, from 5.61 percent to 7.9 percent in the second quarter 2010. Over the past decade, VA mortgages delinquencies averaged about 7.3 percent. Conversely, FHA mortgages experienced on average 12 percent delinquency rate, while conventional prime averaged 3 percent. However, the spike in delinquencies among those mortgages far outpaces the spike VA mortgages have seen.

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-10 Reasons to Buy a Home

If you are thinking about a new home for you and your family, this truly may be the time to act on this desire. Home prices are at a new low and the interest rates are great...

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-10 Reasons to Buy a Home

2nd Farmers Market Location Opening

Vancouver Farmers Market is opening  a 2nd Location on the East Side of Vancouver...
http://vancouverfarmersmarket.com/

New Trail Map

Vancouver Parks and Recreation and Kaiser have joined together to put together a Trails Map for the County...Map of Trails for Vancouver/SW Washington

Festival at the Water Resource Center

This is worth stopping by over the weekend  Sept. 11th

Intricately carved birds, fish and wildlife will be on display at the 23rd annual Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show and Competition, Saturday, Sept. 11 and Sunday, Sept. 12, at the Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.

Home Buyers Tax Credit still available to Military

The Homebuyers Tax Credit is still available to the Military Families until April, 2011...if you are in the Military and are looking to purchase a home this tax credit is still available to you and your family...the Interest Rates are fantastic, the lowest in decades, and the price of homes are down...what a great time to buy you and/or your family a new home!!  Just go to this link and then call your Lender and Realtor!!

http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/service_mem.php