No one confessed to having a birthday, so no song was sung.

The secret handshaker was Becky Chapman who picked Jan Ermel as best handshaker.

Homer Erickson announced that Bonnie Godby was the winner of last week's contest. This weeks contest was given by Dinah Tudor.

Raffle winners were Michael Bucy, Jan Ermal and Alec Rosario.

PROGRAM: Frankfort Street Superintendent, George Belmore (Recycle Man)
Recycle Man, George Belmore, has been a Lafayette citizen since 1984, starting in radio in Frankfort. He attended Wabash College as a freshman in 1997 as a theater major. One of his passions is restoring homes, which is what moved him to Frankfort. In 2012, he was hired as a street superintendent. It was here he learned re-cycling. His first task was to move from twice a week to once a week trash pick-up, and to get more people into recycling by spreading the word to the schools. This was an opportunity for Recycle Man! That persona thus became a champion for recycling, his new passion and perceived long term profession. In 2013 Frankfort recycled over 500 tons of material. For 2014, he is focusing on cardboard in particular because of its abundance. His goal is 700 tons of total materials, to be achieved by getting new people involved. Cardboard is now worth about $85 per ton. Glass and plastic are lucky to be breakeven propositions. While making some money, but the biggest savings is in foregoing landfill costs. In Frankfort, recyclables do not have to be sorted; and are picked up once a week. A vendor then does the sorting – big time. Recycling must be easy if new people are to become hooked, and Frankfort does not yet have the infrastructure to support a sorting operation. Frankfort makes about $15 per ton while not sorting, but they could make up to $60 if they did the sorting; but sorting costs time and money. (Note: West Lafayette still expects it to be sorted at the River Road facility.) Not enough is being done, but Recycle Man will make a difference – for homes and businesses!