<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1Hikbx_0vlp9xNH00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1Hikbx_0vlp9xNH00" width="581" height="600" ><figcaption>Lower Merion Township flyer for October’s Anything with a Plug event.</figcaption></figure>LOWER MERION — The date for Lower Merion’s upcoming Anything with a Plug recycling event has caused some controversy in the township.This fall’s Anything with a Plug event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. The date coincides with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Friday, Oct. 11, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, Oct. 12.Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.During the most recent Lower Merion Board of Commissioners meeting, Commissioner Josh Grimes spoke up about the date conflict.“I want to note just briefly how unfortunate I think it is that the Anything with a Plug event was scheduled on Yom Kapur,” Grimes said. “I know [Board] President [Todd] Sinai that you said that it was the only date that was available, and I know staff told us that. I suspect the date was available because it is Yom Kapur, and that’s why the company had the date available because other communities didn’t want to do an event on that date. Scheduling an event, a township program, on the most important date on the Jewish calendar, I think, is insensitive and unfortunate and further is not a look a good look for our township government.”Lower Merion hosts an Anything with a Plug event each fall at the township’s public works complex, 1300 North Woodbine Ave. in Penn Valley. The event allows residents to recycle obsolete electronics such as televisions, computers and monitors responsibly for a fee. The township also works with Retrievr, a service that enables residents to schedule a pickup.“What’s done is done,” Grimes said. “I guess I would just hope that our staff can plan further in advance in the future and take steps to make sure that all of our residents can participate equally in our township programs regardless of their religion or any other aspects of their background.”Township Manager Ernie McNeely said the public works director has expressed his displeasure with the dates from the township’s recycling firm.“But I also want to note that the fees for the Retrievr program are exactly the same as you will pay at the recycling event at the Koegel complex,” McNeely said.For anyone who is interested in the Anything with a Plug event, it is only for Lower Merion and Narberth Borough residents and more information on electronic recycling in Loewr Merion can be found at www.lowermerion.org/departments/public-works-department/refuse-and-recycling/electronics-recycling-program.</div></body>

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Date for Lower Merion’s upcoming recycling event is causing controversy in the township

LOWER MERION — The date for Lower Merion’s upcoming Anything with a Plug recycling event has caused some controversy in the township. This fall’s Anything with a Plug event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. The date coincides with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Friday, Oct. 11, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, Oct. 12.