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Vol. 79 No. 17
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Glendale Landfill opens north cell BY JOE McHUGH
Glendale Star Staff Writer
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he Glendale Landfill has been a mainstay of the community for over half a century, providing clean and efficient ways to manage a growing city’s trash. With that amount of waste, the city is finding more ways to stay on the cutting edge of waste management, and one of those ways was recently implemented when the city announced that the landfill will open the north cell of its solid waste facility. The newly opened cell will providing up to 50 years of waste management for the city. “This is truly a momentous occasion for the city of Glendale,” Glendale Field Op-
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erations Director Michelle Woytenko said. “Here in Glendale, it’s our mission to improve the lives of the people we serve every day, and the landfill does not just (that), but they take it a huge step further. They not only improve lives, but they protect the environment and preserve this huge asset we have as we plan for the future.” The Glendale Landfill serves on average 600 customers per day, creating roughly 20,000 tons of trash per year. The north cell will build out onto 120 acres of land that stretches to Northern Avenue. The first of nine total phases, the landfill has its sights set not just for 2023, but much further down the line.
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r. Tiffany Hernandez was recently named Glendale Community College’s next school president. Hernandez, who will assume her new position in July, has served in higher education for 13 years, was previously an attorney, and has served in the U.S. Air Force. “I’ve been working in higher education at San Antonio College since 2009,” said Hernandez, who
is replacing the interim President Dr. Ernie Lara. “I was very fortunate to have been hired by San Antonio College for a full-time faculty position in our criminal justice program. Then, when the dean of student success position came open I was fortunate enough to be hired into that role for about four years until I became the vice president for student success. “I have also practiced law as a
“(For a trash truck) to do 20,000 tons of trash, that truck would have to make 47,000 trips to landfill in a year,” Woytenko said. “We serve 160,000 different, unique customers that come through. We think that, for the next 40 to 50 years, this is an asset because if it was that truck alone would make 7 billion trips here. “We’re able to do that serving not just the citizens today in the future. So, we are actually standing in the future.” The first phase of the north cell displayed a massive hole in the ground, over 100 feet deep and more than four football fields long, SEE LANDFILL PAGE 5
Plane lands near Loop 101
A small plane hard landed on the sidewalk near Loop 101 and Glen Harbor Boulevard in Glendale on April 18. The cause of the hard landing is unknown, but there no one was injured in the crash. The incident is still under investigation. (Glendale Fire Department/Submitted)
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