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Makeover with a twist for a junk space in White Bear Lake
Statewide award goes to city for effort to clean up key civic space, save money and recycle waste. - StarTribune, Sunday, June 25, 2017
The quaint quotient in downtown White Bear Lake took a big jump. And the volume of waste went down by more than 75,000 pounds. One result: A statewide award that could end up encouraging other cities to go and do likewise.
The setting is the Washington Square section of downtown White Bear Lake, a swath of businesses that includes Grandma’s Bakery and Olive’s Fresh Pizza bar, wrapped around a city-owned parking lot. The rows of dingy dumpsters that used to line the zone between the backs of the stores and the parking spots were a visual “mess” as well as signifying lots of garbage that didn’t need to go to waste, in the words of City Manager Ellen Richter.
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