Thanksgiving Holiday Trash and Recycling Schedules and Closures Thanksgiving Holiday Trash and Recycling Schedules and Closures

All City Of Casa Grande offices and services, with the exception of Emergency Services, will be closed Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 in observance of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Both Libraries will close at 5 PM on Wednesday and remain closed Thursday and Friday.

Trash collection days will be affected as follows;
Thursday’s residential trash will be picked up on Wednesday.
Friday’s trash will be on picked up Friday.
Thursday’s recycling will be picked up Friday, along with Friday’s recycling.
Thursday’s commercial trash (e.g., restaurants, stores, construction sites) will be picked up on Friday along with Friday’s routes.
The landfill is closed on Thursday but open on Friday.
Please contact the Public Works Department at (520) 421-8625 with any questions on
the holiday schedule.
 

The Pony Express Makes Annual Casa Grande Visit The Pony Express Makes Annual Casa Grande Visit

In these modern times when a message is as quick as the reply of a text message on a phone the Pony Express is a tribute to communication. Although the Pony Express was only in business for eighteen months, it was an exceptional leap in communications.
 

Prior to the seven days the Pony Express took to deliver mail, it could take a month or longer to get a message from the East to the West. The Pony Express was organized to carry mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California in just two and a half months.
Men would ride on horseback carrying the mail in a Mochilla that overlaid the saddle. The Mochilla had four locked pouches. A rider would average eleven miles per hour for ten to fifteen miles when they would change horses and carry on. Each rider would average between 100 and 150 miles per day. That is ten to fifteen hours in the saddle.
 

Today we celebrate not only the breakthrough in communications, but the courageous work the many riders and station master endured. It is this kind of commitment that has made our country great and in particular the West and the City of Casa Grande”.
 

Our annual Pony Express Postmark is traded around the world. We hope you enjoy this years Postmark on a letter delivered to you by the USPS.

The Pony Express Mail Run rode into to Casa Grande and was greeted by “Cowboy” Councilman Dick Powell. The Gilbert Rodeo Royalty rode in the Pony Express Trail Ride on their annual visit to Casa Grande, described how everything that stated back in 1861 and only endured for 18 months and also did a mail handoff at the Gilbert Post Office. This tradition is carried out by the Gilbert Days Rodeo Royalty year after year.
 


Design a Sign Contest Winners Design a Sign Contest Winners

Mayor Jackson recognized the winners of the recycling Design-a-Sign contest at City Hall this week. The contest was conducted by the City’s Public Works Recycling Division during the month of September to assist in promoting the Casa Grande Recycles program. The contest was open to 4th and 5th graders in the Casa Grande school district. Primary goals of the contest were to create signs to display on the City’s sanitation trucks to promote recycling and to provide students with additional opportunities to learn about recycling and be involved with the City’s recycling program. Participants were asked to create artwork along with  text to communicate either the:

 
Environmental benefits of recycling (such as saving energy, saving land space, reducing air and water pollution, or preserving wildlife habitat)
OR
To inform on the types of materials that can be recycled (as paper products, cardboard, plastics, aluminum and tin cans)
 
The winning artwork was selected based on the following criteria:
  • Conformance with the identified themes
  • Creativity, originality, artistic quality
  • Visual clarity and readability of artwork and message
A total of 138 students participated, although all students participating in the contest were considered winners, 6 contestants were selected for special recognition and the reproduction of their artwork, by Mayor Bob Jackson. 
 The winners received a Casa Grande Recycles “T” shirt with their submitted artwork featured and a certificates that read, ”For contributing awarding winning artwork to the City’s recycling program and demonstrating the commitment to promote recycling and protect the environment.”
  • Alexus Dominguez
  • Arcelia Gonzzales 
  • Evelyn Gonzales
  • Jasmine Leyva
  • Lindsey DeJolie
  • Mariah Cortez
 "Staff was very encouraged by the response received on the contest. This was a great opportunity to both motivate students to recycle and get the message out to others. We hope the contest was as enjoyable for the students as it was for the judges reviewing the drawings submitted,” commented Norm Gumenik, Sanitation Superintendent.