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Meramec choir at Jones Dome
The STLCC-Meramec Concert Choir will be performing at the Edward Jones Dome when the St. Louis Rams play the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 2.
The choir will sing “God Bless America” when the Rams play at home. Faculty, staff and anyone interested can purchase discounted tickets from the Campus Life Office (SC221) during normal business hours.
Tickets cost $40 and include a $10 food or beverage voucher and a donation to the Meramec Choir Scholarship.
The game starts at 5:05 p.m.
STLCC awarded for community impact
St. Louis Community College was presented with the 2011 Greater St. Louis Top 50 Award at the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association annual awards dinner on Nov. 14.
Selection was based on the organization’s contributions to the St. Louis region and its impact on the future of St. Louis business.
“We are honored to be recognized as one of the St. Louis region’s premier providers of higher education and workforce training,” said STLCC Chancellor Myrtle E.B. Dorsey.
The awards program is presented by the St. Louis RCGA in partnership with RubinBrown, an accounting and consulting firm.
Meramec comes out on top in district electronic recycling events
Through September and October, STLCC and Midwest Recycling Centers (MRC) teamed up to host electronics recycling events across the district.
Of the 228,767 pounds of e-waste recycled, the STLCC-Meramec campus lead the district with 92,350 pounds collected from more than 800 vehicles, according to Moody.
“This whole quest to collaborate with the community on these recycling events began with one elderly man trying to dispose of three televisions and not having the $45 to do so,” Sustainability Coordinator Peggy Moody wrote in her blog at http://fvsustain.wordpress.com. “I could only wonder what would happen to those units.”
MRC collected “anything with a cord” free of charge, as the college diverted 228,767 total pounds of e-waste from landfills, Moody said.
The cost to recycle televisions would typically cost $15 or more, depending on size and computer monitors would cost $10, according to Moody. But MRC, with supporting letters from Moody and Carla Chance, former vice chancellor for business and finance, received a grant from the St. Louis-Jefferson County Solid Waste Management District to offset the cost of the fees, allowing the communities to recycle up to two televisions per vehicle.
In the United States, over 4.5 billion pounds of electronics, or e-waste, makes it into the waste stream annually, including environmentally hazardous cathode ray tubes (common in computer monitors and televisions), according to the EPA – only 25 percent of that e-waste is collected for recycling.
