Green Ossining Committee

Stink bugs are here and Jerry Giordano, Senior Horticulture Consultant/Extension Community Educator Cornell Cooperative Extension/Westchester is on the case.

Jerry’s info for Westchester residents:

Easy and inexpensive trap to make: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKc5acECuQk&feature=related

Jerry on CBS News: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/25/stink-bugs-to-cause-havoc-to-hudson-valley-fruit-crops/

The facts: http://entomology.cornell.edu/cals/entomology/extension/idl/upload/Brown-Marmorated-Stink-Bug-LINKS.pdf

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Causes $37 Million In Losses To Mid-Atlantic Apple Growers:  http://www.growingproduce.com/news/afg/index.php?storyid=5372

Worried about identity theft?  Have old personal papers lying about the house?

The Westchester County Mobile Shredder is coming to the Joseph G. Caputo Community Center, 95 Broadway on Saturday, October 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Its purpose:  to help you shred and destroy personal documents in an effort to combat the fastest growing crime in the nation – identity theft.

Saturday, October 15^th from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., you can bring unwanted documents to the parking lot at 177 Hillside Avenue in Greenburgh, next to the Town Offices, to be shredded on the spot with the county’s Mobile Shredder.

Papers from businesses, institutions or commercial enterprises will not be accepted. County staff will inspect all paper to be shredded and will reject any paper identified as commercial or institutional.

You can bring up to 4 file-size (10”x12”x15”) boxes of confidential personal papers per household.  Please remove all large binder clips and covers.

For more information about shredding, visit www.westchestergov.com/mobileshredder or call 813-5425.  Additional recycling information is also available at www.westchestergov.com/recycling.