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The community cleanup day has yet to be scheduled for this year, but preparations are being made including new criteria for accepting items with freon.

The council was asked at Monday night’s meeting if the landfill could accept these old appliances that retained the hazardous chemical within and simply hire out the removal.

Mayor Dick Claar advocated such a move:

“If it’s something that will keep refrigerators and freezers out of the borrow ditch, we can charge $50 and when we get 15 of them out there, we’ll just have somebody come and clean them out and put them on the junk pile....