Month: November 2022

The public is invited to preorder Christmas Dinner meals from Winneshiek Medical Center. Meals will be available for curb side pick up in parking lot E, door E-1 on WMC’s Decorah campus. Orders for pick up are available every 15 minutes on Sunday, December 25, 2022 between 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Please select the “clock” icon in your cart to change the time of your pickup. “There is limited availability for each time slot, so be sure to book early,” shares Chad Wurtzel, nutrition services supervisor at Winneshiek Medical Center. “If you’re preferred time does not appear when booking your order this simply means that time is full.”

The dinner will include honey glazed baked ham, garlic mashed potatoes, whole green beans, corn casserole, coleslaw, dinner roll, cranberry sauce, and apple pie. Each meal will be individually plated, and costs $12. “This is the first time we’ve had to make a change to our menu,” shares Wurtzel. “Ham is being served rather than turkey this year due to the turkey shortage, and supplier issues.”

Order deadline is December 19, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. and payment is due when placing your preorder. Payments will not be accepted upon pick up.

DON’T recycle wrapping paper or tissue paper!

1. Wrapping paper has very little actual paper content and the coatings make it impossible to recycle.

2. Even wrapping paper that says it is recyclable should not be recycled because recycling managers cannot easily distinguish between recyclable and non-recyclable papers. If a load of paper contains too much wrapping paper, the entire load will be rejected and sent to the landfill.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We are especially thankful for the recycling center staff and the Winneshiek County Sanitary Landfill team and everyone that works in waste management.

As we head into the holiday season, we’ll be sharing weekly posts about the Do’s and Don’ts of seasonal recycling. As you can imagine, there is a lot of waste produced during this time of the year, so please follow these tips to ensure that what you put in the recycling bins can be recycled.