Donate those old newspapers

What do you do with your old newspapers? Discard them with the trash? Put them in the blue recycle bin and out at the curb each week?

Did you know that some organizations are able to raise as much as $1,000 in a month from old, donated newspapers placed in their recycle bins?

Look around your area and spot the bins. Then consider saving your newspapers (a paper grocery is just the right size) and drop them off when you pass by. Then pat yourself on the back.

Family Service & Community Mental Health Center encourages recycling and hopes to make at least a small dent in the budget cuts that are affecting operations. Located at 4100 Veterans Parkway in McHenry, there is a bin in its parking lot.

Not every paper or box can be recycled. Newspaper is good; some magazines are good.

Cereal boxes are not; chipboard is not; hardcover books are not.

Many collection points will have signs that inform you what to leave (and what not). Please take the time to read them.