The Clark County 4-H Corporation will be sponsoring their 6^th annual consignment auction at the Clark County 4-H fairgrounds on Saturday, March 8 starting at 9 a.m.
    They will be selling farm and industrial equipment. To consign an item or for more information please contact Diane Graf at 248-0712, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Deadline for listing items in the sale advertisement is Wednesday, February 20.
    Please consider participating in this auction as this is Clark County 4-H’s largest fundraiser.

     Charlestown Little League baseball and softball sign ups will be held this Saturday, January 26. For your convenience you may visit www.charlestownll.com handout section to pre-print your sign up forms. Please bring birth certificates to the sign ups.
    The board members want to thank several generous contributors who helped in making this past Saturday’s Community Pitch-in Workday a success: Mike Perry, Tim McCoy, Scott Barton, David Mitchell, Estes Enterprises, Orshelin’s and Papa John’s.
    Please plan to attend future work days planned for January 19 and 26 at 10 a.m.

     An omnibus spending bill enacted by Congress and signed by the President on December 26 placed a national moratorium on consolidating Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices until September 30. The issue will be on hold until that date, or sooner if it is addressed by Congress in the current formulation of the new farm bill.
    The Clark County FSA Office was scheduled to be consolidated with the Scott County FSA Office after March 15. Some Clark County land owners had contacted the Clark County FSA Office to request that their farm records be transferred to an alternative neighboring county office rather than Scott County. These farm record transfers would not have occurred until March 15, therefore they are on hold as well. The requests will be maintained at the FSA Office until the matter is addressed in future legislation.
    Clark County farm operators or owners with questions may contact the Clark County FSA Office at 256-2330, ext. 2.

    The new City Council of Charlestown decided in their meeting Monday night, to end the Curbside Recycling Program within the city limits. This will take affect immediately and residents will not receive any further collections. The City of Jeffersonville, Town of Sellersburg, Town of Clarksville, and the Town of Borden have chosen to continue their participation in the program until the end of 2012.
   The curbside program has been very successful in diverting over 40,000 tons of recyclables from the Clark-Floyd Landfill since 1994. The program collects old newspapers, phonebooks, magazines, flattened paperboard, flattened cardboard, steel food cans, aluminum beverage cans, glass bottles and jars, milk, water and soda bottles, and other #1 and #2 plastic bottles. The program began when voluntary recycling failed to divert more than one percent of the recyclables from the landfill.
   Clark County residents have a lot to be proud of. Since the program began the participation rate has been consistently above the national rates. The participation rate is at 80-85 percent. The collection rates of the annual fee have stayed between 80-85 percent paid. The District has seen positive feedback from residents in favor of the program.
   Charlestown City Council stated that they will look into alternative recycling programs for t heir residents in the future. Residents may inquire at the City Hall, 256-3422, or by contacting your City Council representative about a future program. Until implementation all residents may continue to use the two drop off sites provided by the District. The first is located at the Clark County Solid Waste Office in Charlestown, and the other is at the INDOT Substation on Highway 31 in Clarksville.
   For more information visit www.recycleclarkcounty.org or call the District at 256-7942.