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Received a tip via email that the 2008 Philabundance Food Drive will once again be taking place from December 1 until December 5 in our back yard.

WMMR morning show hosts Preston Elliot and Steve Morrison will camp out again at the Metroplex Shopping Center in Plymouth Meeting, PA on Chemical and Gravers Roads. They will broadcast their show each morning while from the Metroplex Shopping Center.

Congrats to the Conshohocken Steelers for winning there fourth straight Colonial Football Alliance title.  I can’t say I have ever witnessed a Steelers game, but I guess it might be fun to check out one day.

I looked all over the CFA web site trying to find out more info on the league, but I was not successful.  Is this a men’s league or what?  Anyone have the scoop?

Here is a news article on the win.

The weekly news post has turned to bi-monthly lately, not much going on in the Conshohocken space.  Maybe post election will drum up some business but as for now, I’ll crank out all the news items that have been sitting in my inbox:

• Coyote Crossing has decided to cut food costs and therefore item costs.  Wow.  You think people got tired of spending $20 on tacos?  It has been years since I have been to CC, for exactly that reason.  Maybe this will warrent a return visit.
• Appears Conshy can expect another local business to set up shop.  Saxbys has bought Bucks County Coffee and will be leaving the current headquarters in Center City for a new one in Conshohocken.  Maybe we can expect a coffee shop on Fayette?  One can only hope…
• Last but not least, local company Quaker Chemical posted a tidy profit of 4.4 million dollars, an increase of over 40 percent from a year ago.  Nice to see at least one local company doing well in this tough economy.

I had some business to take care of in Center City and decided to walk to the R6 stop in Conshohocken.  This was a Tuesday morning, so many of my neighbors had trash out on the curb for pickup.

I am quite a nosy neighbor and during my walk would sneak a peak into many of the trash cans.  I hold the opinion that you can learn a lot by the trash a person generates.  I’m sure, right after the postman, the trash men know the most about the residents of Conshohocken.

As I glanced into the cans, I realized the large number of recyclable goods that were being thrown away.  So, I thought I would use this post to remind everyone what is recyclable and what is not.  The biggest offenders were the light cardboard boxes. Things like cereal boxes and pasta boxes were being thrown away with the generic trash and not recycled.  Here is a list of things that can be recycled, at least according to Conshohocken Public Works:

Commingled in your recycle container:

• All colored glass bottles and jars
• Lids and bottle caps
• Metal cans (including aerosol cans)
• #1 PET and #2 HDPE plastics

Please crush containers to save space

Paper in brown bags or tied bundles on top of your recycle container:

• Newspapers
• Inserts
• Junk mail
• Envelopes
• Any white or colored paper
• Manila folders
• Telephone books
• Magazines
• Light cardboard (such as cereal boxes)

Please no corrugated cardboard

So, pitch in and recycle all the materials we can.

My wife voted at 7 AM this morning and was #35, I voted at 7:30 AM and was #150.  Seems there will be record turnout at all polling places so make sure you get out there, stand in line and do your civic duty.

The line at my polling place was pretty long, but it moved quickly and I was out the door in about 30 minutes.

And, because I found this video particularly funny, a preview of the 2012 Palin vs. McCain Presidential Debate: