Quarterly Board Meetings July, October, January and April (generally speaking).

 

2021 - 2022 Annual Assessments $34.00 per year, per unit.

 

      Linda Salazar - Chair - term expires October 2025

     Jimmie Anda - Secretary - term expires October 2024

      Michael Ramos - Treasurer - term expires October 2023

 

 

 

Innisfree Disclosure Statement             

Innisfree Declaration             

 

 

Safety Committee is seeking Safety Captain's for the following streets:

Shining Mist

Tintinnabulary

If you are interested in volunteering one of these critical emergency response position, please contact our Community Manager.

 

The Social Committee is in dire need of volunteers to help with the returnable cans and bottles. Volunteers will collect the cans and bottles from both Innisfree and Singing Tree recycle areas, check the cans and bottles to be sure they are the correct recycle materials, and return them to the Bottle Drop in Newport.  The Social Committee depends on this money to fund their events throughout the year.  If you are able to help with this, please contact Dawn Harden at sunshinecoastdawn@gmail.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more detailed information on the local coastal weather go to:

 

 

 

 

 

Talk’n Trash

Skoupidiology - “the study of and knowledge of garbage” (aka - Garbology)

My fellow skoupidiologists, the word of the day is ….
al·lit·er·a·tion

/əˌlidəˈrāSH(ə)n/     Noun   The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words. 

 

 

 

 

Example:  “sheep should shower  in a shed”

I appreciated hearing so many responses from our community about our Earthday Birthday.  It is great to get some support and ideas from you on how we can all do small things that add up to something big.  You people are the best.
 

Honestly it is impossible to go “cold turkey” and totally disavow our use of the pathetic  plethora of pieces of plastic on our planet.  (I am tossing in some alliteration to help you practice your new word.) 

Here are a few things that came in that I can share. Thanks for your contributions.

Now I can announce something that is unusual:  Potential Great News!  No more Dougie Downer being a nattering nabob of negativity.  (More alliteration. Catch that?)

Recently I read an article in the Oregonian’s  “Earthweek:  Diary for a Changing World”.  Apparently there is this amazing enzyme discovery.  For the non Chemist in our community, this is an enzyme is a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction,  aka:  PLASTIC EATER!!!!

It’s alive!

 

The University of Texas, Austin has found this enzyme that in sufficient quantities, could be used to clean up plastic-strewn landfills and waste plants, or, more simply, sites that have been polluted by plastics.  Researchers at UT, Austin announced recently that they had used artificial intelligence to successfully engineer a type of enzyme, called a hydrolase that can break down PET plastic (polyethylene terephthalate) into its component molecules. These materials can then be reformed into new products.  “The possibilities are endless across industries,” said Hal Alper, one of the lead researchers and a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin.

Today over 400 million tons of plastic are being disposed of every year. Less than 10% of the world’s plastic trash is recycled.  Not only do we need to reduce that volume, we need new solutions for the plastic waste crisis.  Both are essential.