City Hall 3940 Grandview Avenue St. Matthews, KY 40207 Phone (502) 895-9444 Living October 2010 Police Department reports a host of personnel changes O cer Donald Maha" ee has been hired as a part-time patrolman for the St. Matthews Police Department. Maha" ee started his police career as a patrol o cer with the Je" erson County Police Chief Norman Mayer, center, introduced Police Department. He later was assigned Lt. Steve Williams, left, and Donald Maha! ee, a new part-time patrolman, to the city council. to the tra c enforcement and river patrol duties. He was part of the county police Church in Louisville from 1979 until his dive/rescue unit for 17 years. In 1989 retirement earlier this year. he became a detective in the county Sgt. Steve Williams, who has been with the department’s narcotics unit. When the St. Matthews Police Department since 1989, county and Louisville departments merged has been promoted to lieutenant. Williams, later in 1989 he worked in the Metro a Trinity High School graduate with a police narcotics unit. He retired in March 2003, administration degree from the of then worked in security and loss prevention Louisville, has been a sergeant since 2001. for Six Flags, the amusement park operator. O cer Douglas Curtis is the school resource Part-time o cers Larry Powell and John o cer (SRO) at Waggener High School, from Hackel have been promoted to full-time. which he graduated in 1974. # e police department has a new He joined the St. Matthews chaplain: the Rev. John Slider. department after a 20-year Slider was chaplain of the Louisville career with the Je" erson Police Department from County Police Department 1986 to 1996 and a ending in retirement in reserve deputy in the 2002, He became the SRO at Je" erson County Sheri" ’s Waggener in August 2008. Department from 1997 Curtis reported recently to 2000. He is a retired that he has made 63 arrests at the school since Marine Corps lieutenant then, for crimes including assault, terroristic colonel and has degrees threatening; robbery, disorderly conduct and from Southern Baptist Seminary, Hanover abuse of teachers. , and the In addition to his law-enforcement duties, University of Louisville. He worked as a Curtis does classroom presentations on crime substitute teacher in the Je" erson County and the law and advises students, teachers and Public Schools from 2002 to 2007. sta" on law enforcement, substance abuse, He was pastor of United Methodist delinquency and related topics. Halloween festival set for Oct. 30 St. Matthews INSIDE: Library activities for kids, teens, adults Look for property-tax bills in the mail 2

All treats, no tricks City’s Halloween costume party on tap

St. Matthews’ Halloween Festival in Brown Park is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. One youngster’s costume, above, # e free event typically attracts more than 1,500 children, moms, dads and provided a bit of local color — grandparents; most of the children, and a good number of adults, are decked brown — right down to the UPS box for a trick-or-treat bag. out in Halloween costumes. # e festival features , games, hayrides, a petting zoo, face-painting and trick-or-treating through the (not-very-scary) (Photos from past festivals.) “haunted forest.” St. Matthews businesses and community groups set up booths along the park paths, giving treats and surprises to the youngsters.

Library activities scheduled for kids, teens, adults Light Up St. Matthews # e Eline Branch of the Louisville Halloween storytime: Wear costume. flips switch on Dec. 4 Free Public Library has scheduled the Monday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Not-too-scary Mark this date on your calen- following book discussions: stories, songs and crafts. All ages. dar: Dec. 4, the $ rst Saturday in At 11 a.m. on Oct. 21, A Pearl in the Teen program: Anime @ St. Mat- December. # at’s when Light Up Storm, by Tori Murden McClure; at 11 thews, Oct. 26, 4 p.m. St. Matthews in Brown Park will on Nov. 18, Wish You Well, by David Audiobook Cafe: Middle school jump-start the holiday season. # e Baldacci; and on Dec. 16 (time not and high school students, Tuesday, Oct. annual event will feature photos set), Have a Little Faith:A True Story, by 19, 4 p.m. (Call 574-1771 to sign up.) with Santa and Mrs. Claus, a mail- Mitch Albom. Snacks, talk about audiobooks for teens. box for letters to Santa, carriage Story times: toddlers, Wednesdays # e LFPL Job Shop at the Main rides, strolling carolers, hot apple at 10:15 a.m.; preschool, Wednesdays Library downtown o" ers free job and cider and much more. At 6 p.m., at 11; babies not walking, # ursdays at career resources, computer classes and a switch will be % ipped to turn on 10:15; walkers, # ursdays at 11; fami- internet access. For details, visit www. thousands of lights in the park. lies, 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9. lfpl.org/jobshop. 3 St. Matthews Government access Avenue project City Hall: 895-9444 is complete Police: 893-9000 " e resurfacing of St. Emergency: 911 Matthews Avenue com- pletes a major project Web: www.stmatthews.org that started in 2007 (Minutes of City Council and cost approximately meetings available online) $130,000. " e # xes were necessary because of Call St. Matthews anticipated tra% c signal 24/7 Automated phasing at Chenoweth/ Information System: Breckinridge and 638-4STM (638-4786) Shelbyville roads. " e News/Services/ right lane approaching Administration/Police Shelbyville Road was ex- tended to accommodate more southbound tra% c. " e project also included Crime Tip Line: drainage improvements 498-CLUE and a new sidewalk on (498-2583) the west side. (Caller’s name,

Property-tax bills mailed; pay early, save money Take online safety quiz, St. Matthews property tax bills were visiting its Web site: Je" ersonpva.ky.gov. help firefighters win mailed on Oct. 1. If you are 65 years old this year, # e Lyndon and St. Matthews $ re If you are responsible for the tax and contact the PVA and St. Matthews protection districts, which both serve St. haven’t received your bill by Oct. 10, City Hall to apply for the Homestead Matthews residents, are taking part in a please call city hall. Exemption. Liberty Mutual Insurance program and If your mailing address has changed, # e exemption amount for 2010 could win a $10,000 grant. # e key to you are required by law to notify the is $33,700; it applies to the home you winning is citizen participation. Je" erson County Property Valuation lived in as of Jan. 1, 2010. To help, take part in an online survey Administrator and $ ll out an address- St. Matthews residents who pay the at http//www.be$ resmart.com before change form. You can get the form by tax by Oct. 31 qualify for a 40 percent Oct. 31. It consists of 10 questions about calling the PVA o ce at 574-6380 and discount o" the total tax due. $ re safety, takes two minutes, and is a great learning tool. Click in the lower right corner where it says, “Have you taken the safety pledge quiz?” then follow Easy being green the prompts to , Louisville and If you rake leaves out to the street, St. Lyndon or St. Matthews ‘Tis the season of falling leaves. Matthews crews will vacuum them up If decaying leaves are raked into for you, starting around Nov. 1. storm drains, ditches or creeks, they can # e city plants trees in easements City’s a sucker for leaves lead to % ooding. # ey also can deplete every January. To have a tree planted St. Matthews’ leaf-collection pro- the oxygen in ground water, harming in the easement in front of your gram starts around the $ rst of No- aquatic creatures. home, call City Hall at 895-9444. An vember. Signs will be put up to advise Some eco-friendly ways of disposing arborist/city consultant decides which when crews will be in your area. Rake of leaves: Run over them with a lawn species will be planted. leaves to the street in front of your mower, creating mulch and fertilizing If you plant trees on your own property, so city workers can vacuum your lawn; or add them to a compost property, avoid planting near them up. Each area is scheduled to pile to help prepare a nutrient-rich food underground or overhead utilities be covered just once. Leaves in yard- for your garden. Don’t use gas-powered and take care not to create a present waste-only containers are also picked leaf blowers, which contribute to air or future tra c obstruction. For best up at regular trash-collection times; and noise pollution. Consider using a results, plant shade trees on the south free “Yard Waste” stickers for your hand- or electric-powered lawn mower. and west sides of your property. containers are available at City Hall. St. Matthews Living STD PRST U.S. Postage City Hall PAID 3940 Grandview Avenue Louisville, KY Permit #976 St. Matthews, KY 40207

Disposing of Make sure the Heart attack is fatal accumulated junk is a lids on your garbage to veteran police officer challenge, especially for cans are in place and people moving to a new tightly shut. # is John Stivers at age 43 home or taking on the keeps out foraging, challenge of clearing out mess-making dogs, O cer John Stivers, an 18- a junk-$ lled garage or raccoons and opos- year veteran of the St. Matthews, basement. Good sums. Shelbyville and Indian Hills police But keep in mind departments, su" ered a massive heart that St. Matthews’ Neigh- attack on Sept. 15 and later died. He garbage hauler, Rumpke Remember: # e was 43. Waste Removal, is boring leash law applies to all In addition to patrolman, Stivers only required to pick dogs, cats and other was a $ rearms instructor and a up one large item per pets, even the best- member of the department’s Special behaved. In St. Mat-

week, at the time of Response Team, a group specially your regular garbage thews, leashes may trained to pickup, at no additional not be more than 10 respond in cases feet long. And the law of mass violence. charge. If you have additional such says you must pick up and dispose # e team is items -- appliances, pieces of furniture, of all of your animal’s solid waste. comparable to a boxes of junk -- please contact Rumpke at (502) 568-3800. # ey will arrange SWAT unit. for a special junk pickup and advise Don’t set out cans or bags of Stivers is of any additional charges. Meanwhile, garbage any earlier than the night survived by his don’t amass junk and debris in front of before your scheduled pickup. wife, Stacy, and your house and leave it for weeks. Call St. Matthews provides rear-door daughter, Sable. Rumpke and have it taken away. pickup of garbage only.