Issue Winter 2020 Charter Township of Orion Michigan Lake Orion Lights up the winter nights Wha’s Insi Important updates for Orion Township's garbage and recycling program Keep active this winter with Orion Township Library and Orion Parks & Recreation activities Your quarterly Shopping and date night options from the Township, Chamber and DDA STEM program ignites elementary guid student imaginations to life in Orion Photo byPhoto MyPic Photography Orion Area Orion Area CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WELCOME TO Useful Locations Useful Numbers Take advantage of the ORION TOWNSHIP HALL & EMERGENCIES winter beauty OAKLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS SUBSTATION Orion has to offer Joslyn Road NONEMERGENCY DISPATCH he majority of the leaves have already per person living in Orion Township ORION CENTER ORION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE POLICE/FIRE/EMS fallen from their branches and winter that is counted in the Census Not only & ONTV weather has slowly begun to sneak up that but agencies and businesses rely on O on us It seems like it’s just dark outside census statistics to plan for a variety of LIVING RION Joslyn Road LAKE ORION POLICE all the time now and it would be so easy residential needs including new roads VILLAGE OF LAKE ORION & POLICE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT VILLAGE to pull the blankets back up over your schools emergency services and where head and go back to sleep But there is to open new businesses This is the fi rst USEFUL INFORMATION USEFUL East Church Street so much beauty to see throughout the year that you will be able to respond ORION TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ORION TOWNSHIP Township even on those uninviting online so when you receive your invita INCLUDING FIRE DEPARTMENT days From the parks trails and sledding tion make sure you respond and count Joslyn Road hills to getting out for events including everyone living at your home the Orion Lighted Christmas Parade LAKE ORION DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY I hope to see you this winter at one of Snow Dash K Friends of the Orion WATER OR SEWER the amazing events or out on the trails! Library Winter Used Book Sale band North Broadway EMERGENCIES AFTERHOURS In case you needed a little extra incen concerts at the schools and so much tive to get outside this winter here are LAKE ORION COMMUNITY SCHOOLS more! some things to keep in mind—you won’t North Lapeer Street ORION AREA CHAMBER In this issue you’ll read about the have to deal with heat and humidity and OF COMMERCE Photo by Jim Newell Recycling Rewards Program and the it’s a great way to get in some sunlight transition to single hauler Valentine’s there isn’t much this time of year so take Day date ideas youth sports leagues advantage of it! Useful Web Tools ORION TOWNSHIP the Census and so much more! PUBLIC LIBRARY SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN PARKFINDER Speaking of the Census I want you to Chri Barnet Orion Living is a quarterly magazine produced know how important this is Not only Orion Township Supervisor for the residents and businesses of Lake Orion mapssemcogorg/ParkFinder Michigan by the Charter Township of Orion is it required in the US Constitution LAKE ORION COMMUNITY the Census helps determine how much SEARCH OAKLAND COUNTY ORION TWP Artists of SCHOOLS EDITORIAL BOARD funding our community receives and SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN TRAIL EXPLORER Chris Barnett Orion Township all ages! how we plan for the future Our com Check out page for a semcogorg/trailexplorer Jenny Bhatti Orion Township munity receives approximately community wide drawing contest! DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT Becky Bolin Orion Township Public Library AUTHORITY DDA Karen Knox Orion Township Public Library Molly LaLone Lake Orion DDA Mark Snyder Lake Orion Community Schools Kim Urbanowski What's Inside VILLAGE OF LAKE ORION Orion Area Chamber of Commerce CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF ORION . 4 Jennifer Vezina Orion Township Parks & Recreation ROAD COMMISSION FOR Aaron Whatley LAKE ORION DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY . 16 OAKLAND COUNTY Orion Township Parks & Recreation PARKS & RECREATION . 20 ADVERTISING INFORMATION Contact Jenny Bhatti at Orion Township CALENDAR OF EVENTS LAKE ORION POST OFFICE for rates sizes and deadlines . 30 x or jbhatti@oriontownshiporg ORION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . 34 Graphic Design by Canoe Circle Graphics ONTV ORION TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY Front Cover Despite the rainy conditions the lights shone © Charter Township of Orion All rights . 42 brightly at the Orion Lighted Christmas Parade reserved No part of this publication shall be duplicated without express written consent regarded as the largest of its kind in Michigan This years LAKE ORION COMMUNITY SCHOOLS . 54 parade is December Photo by Leah Sands Winter Orion Living 3 waste season Such a large number are paying on average per year for OF ORION TOWNSHIP CHARTER of trucks on roads has a tremendous the level of service that will be included impact One residential garbage truck in the new single hauler collection Let’s talk trash is equivalent to passenger cars program Some homeowner associa We’re on a roll! One residential recycling truck is the tions may have a lower rate because of Your new recycling and garbage equivalent of ¢ cars Together that’s a negotiated single hauler contract for carts arrive in December! Change is coming. A new single-hauler the equivalent of passenger cars their association The Township has program comes to Orion in January per week for just garbage and recycling taken this same concept of economies of Your new curbside recycling and garbage carts will collection completed by fi ve hauling scale and is applying it to all Township have two wheels for easy maneuvering and a lid to companies Under a single hauler households As a result all Township keep your recyclables and garbage from becoming Ordinance was not brought back Garbage collection program a maximum of three trucks households will be paying the same litter Cart distribution begins December and before the Township Board until in Orion Township will drive on any given neighborhood rate for the same level of service Using should be completed before the Christmas holiday when it was amended to include recy road once per week—a decrease in truck the average annual rate of to today cling and composting Since the volume of by about %! This decrease Township households may save approxi garbage carts will be delivered between On December what would ordinance has been amended four more Worry waste no more will not only help the condition of our mately % in year one on their garbage December and weather permit become Orion Township Ordinance times Most of these revisions pertained roads but it will also result in safer and recycling and yard waste collection if Green for Life Environmental’s service ting Please do not use these branded was fi rst presented to the Board of to the process for licensing trucks quieter streets less pollution cleaner paying the standard rate of with as the single hauler for Orion Township carts until the new service starts Trustees and Orion Township residents including the fee structure The last air and fewer opportunities for spills out discounts Further using the fees begins January You should have January major revision was made on September Orion Township drafted and proposed and improved community appearance structure presented on the trash received your newsletter with details CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF ORION TOWNSHIP CHARTER establishing a township wide What do you do with your existing carts/ the ordinance as a result of provisions with cart uniformity and one day per week hauler license applications Township about the transition which you can designated waste hauler cans? Your current provider will pick up in Section of the Charter Township ser vice residents may still pay less for garbage also access along with our FAQ doc their carts within days of the tran Act MCL which provides protec The business of solid waste collection as recycling and yard waste collection in ument at oriontownshiporg Your sition so you will experience an overlap tions against annexation for a Charter well as the Orion Township population Rates year fi ve of the program than they Carts are Coming postcard will arrive Township with carts—THANK YOU in advance has changed over the years since In garbage recycling and yard pay today which is ! by December as a reminder that your new Orion Township recycling and for your patience during this transition To this day under Section ¡ seven Ordinance was fi rst adopted While waste collection does not come cheap period! If you purchased your carts you criteria are provided that a charter only one truck per route may have been for Orion Township residents Based may use them for yard wasteª just pick up township must meet to be exempt from needed for the collection of solid waste on rates provided in trash hauler living more sustainably a yard waste sticker at Township Hall or annexation to any contiguous city or in with the regulations around license applica Make a di erence Refer friends and family the Orion Center You may also request village In Orion Township met six recycling and composting haulers now tions Orion in Orion Township and one from GFL or use them for another of those seven criteria The one criterion require a minimum of three trucks to Township and get rewarded you’ll all be eligible for purpose around your home or yard If not met was e Provide solid waste dis service one home during yard waste residents Have you heard about waste diversion events exclusive savings on you no longer have use for them place posal