am maplewood city manager chuck all it's our mission through this program to keep you our citizens informed about what's happening in the city we have a full program today we hope you enjoy all the exciting news we have to share our show pins with a look at the maplewood community center the community centers been a great asset to our community for nearly twenty years now today the maplewood community centers more active than vital than ever before during the next few months we'll be sharing different facets of the community center with you today we start with sasha meyer our banquet in events coordinator as she tells us about the theater and the meeting facilit people are performing arts theatre is the perfect venue for a wide variety of events whether it's a dance recital workshop seminar business meeting wedding or theatrical performance this multipurpose the syllabi can accommodate almost any function the performing arts theatre is available for hourly daily and multi day rentals in addition the five thousand square foot banquet space located across the hall can be utilized for a dinner space or breakout rooms for a conference the theatre consists of two hundred seventy six seats with a pro seanie m stage optional orchestra pit and sound and light system one hundred eighty of those seats also have flip up desks great for sulfa to everything in between in addition to all that the maple wood performing arts center has to offer we also have a community partnership with ashland productions a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing high quality family friendly theater productions and arts education opportunities the partnership allows for a variety of the ethical performances starring community members of all ages whether you are looking for a meeting space theater performance or just a night out the maplewood performing arts center has something for everyone for more information visit the maplewood community centers website at w w w down maplewood community center dot com next we rode along with bob ronnie bob is a crew chief in our public works department not sure you know about maple it has one hundred eighty five miles of city county and state streets within our borders the city staff is responsible for plowing about one hundred thirty five of those miles we are very appreciative of the work that the public works st crew has done during this season of record snow fall running put the maple  if there's a parked car hopefully wrong so you want but sometimes those areas havoc with the presidents down here been pretty good making sure there's no cars overnight once in a while you see one or two each each of us have we call our main road which we do priority those are first in the morning are when we start and then once you're mains are done your work in the residential and  depending on how much snow and the way it was lawn today and we'll go back and re scrape all of our man before we can and for the day to make sure all of the roads and everything are wide open help pick up all the angles to see in the wing better a christmas card or can a pop or something and then another one from the shovel at you when they the snowblowers you can see the drifting almost a five foot drift the ride and the ride in the trucks is so much better if you did a twelve hour day and i'm you know you're in there for twelve while the ivy you still get beat up a nice tool but it's not snow we generally would get the whole city done a normal like a three and snowfall or get down in seventy eight hours seven hours seventy eight somewhere in there like that's not what the heavier  have a couple extra hours today is the time we get all the mains rescript and everything cleaned up and tomorrow morning will start earlier again come back and clean up again in february regions hospital joe let's children's hospital and the maple wood fire department co sponsored a car seat clinic teaching the public to learn the important details of having and using a safe car seat for their children according to the child passenger safety education program over ninety percent of car seats checked by technicians have at least error in the installation or use lose joining me and watching footage on this important issue installing your child in the car in a car seat is actually more difficult than one might think in fact three out of four car seats are installed incorrectly unknown to the parent or the caregiver there's a lot that goes into learning how to install that car seat and learning how to install that child in the car seat and that's what we're here for a worrier resource to help teach you how to do that did you send them the registration card ok and with your current address so that's important because what will happen is if there's a recall on a seat you'll get notified directly at your home or the address that was sent in with that card hi i'm shanon dog at i'm the injury prevention cord nater at regional hospital part of what we do is outreach to the community to ensure that our children are safe one of our programs is the car seat program which we have had for about six years now and it continues to grow year after year we like to partner with our community fire stations public service agencies to offer this free clinic to parents and caregivers now have you had a chance to play with this student ok since it's an infant seat that they're assuming you're going to be buying her a new book which is which you are so we want to keep them at the lowest  yeah and i actually i actually say let's not pinch any extra fabric up there on the shoulders and you can fit a finger under that retainer clip this chest clip here so we know that we're not pressing down too hard on the chest now with your little newborn to listen for that audible click so you know you got both of them in there with your new there you go perfect they're going to be all folded up like in a ball right now all let's just say this is a wash cloth or a towel roll you can  and stick it there to fill in the space and what's hopeful about this is that it helps keep their wrongs back into the sea so they don't slide forward and start to slow so when you go to the hospital go with your extra receiving blankets so you have options to do that because i suspect you'll have a little extra space now this goes up to a fairly high weight and so as they grow older you can move those straps out as you need that kind of the rule of thumb is as is in a child the three are facing we want these harness straps to be at the level of the shoulder or coming out from below the level of the shoulder so if the was coming out from up here that's too high a rate and the reason for that is that they have room to slide up if there's a crash as this goes towards the front of the and so we don't want to do that we want to hold them down in that when children come into our clinic with their caregiver we can help teach that caregiver how to properly install their car seat properly installed their child in the car seat and children leave safer than when they came in and just make sure that the fabric or all lines up with the hole in the back of the shop because some see this one kind of is in the middle so just make sure you're going into the right hole in the show this is extra webbie in again with the crotch strap here you can move it out as soon as they see their rumps starts to sit on top of it you'll come out to the next one any questions with th this carrier will go up to thirty five pounds and if their head gets to within an inch of the top of the show they've outgrown so they'll either outgrow it by weight or by height or you'll just be tired of carrying around a thirty five pound nest and you'll be ready to go into the next seat ok yeah and you know this is good too you know if you if you decide to use that more like a convertible you can stop pulling in the carrier and home and just leave it in your car and then move your and we find that the parents of the caregivers that come to our clinics are very grateful and really appreciate the help that they received and they've all kind of left with some new knowledge and  enjoy doing that we just really feel like our goal is to make kids safer and so every clinic that we hold we've got technicians that volunteer their time to come to these clinics and work with those parents and caregivers and it's really all about the kids to take the steps and then at the back learn i do because i don't want to come up and hit him in the chin as i'm tightening down so i typically kind of fine tune it after i get that across and we want to even on our heads ok so then at this point if you feel like you need to tighten a little bit more you can just pull one fine to an end and we don't want to grab any extra webbing this is a very soft doll so it's going to be impossible to get it tight ok we like to collaborate with services such as maple wood fire we've also worked with cottage grove fire in stillwater fire st paul fire on just to name a few we're at white bear lake but we're also at reg hospital every month so we hold two clinics a month one at the hospital and then one in your community so i will show you that we can get that base and we are tight and so we're going to ok so then that means we want this to be locked in place before a crash actually happens it's incredibly important to keep our children safe in the vehicle to keep all passengers safe in the vehicle and just leave they handle up yeah if you wan and just make sure you hear about click there you go to get more information on these free clinics you can call our phone number at six five one three five seven two seven nine eight you can also send an e mail cars in foal at health partners dot com we check that daily and we are happy to answer any questions you may have and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming clinics well it was very nice meeting you i really appreciate it yeah thanks for coming in a good resource to get more information on these free clinics you can call six five one three five seven two seven nine eight you can also send an e mail to cars info at health partners dot com as we like to collaborate with services such as maple wood fire the city of maplewood is renowned for its stain ability efforts and is a leader in the nation and storm water management one of our biggest efforts is our rainwater gardens throughout the community we produced several videos over the years on these efforts this spring will be offering barrels to residents at a reduced cost join me as we watch a few clips of a rain barrel installation so my name is julie i'm with gardening helps in the city of maplewood has called upon me to install this rain barrel very simple procedure but there's key things that need to be addressed so you don't create issues with your basement so you don't want to went basement so first thing you do is you measure the height of your barrel that's about thirty five inches overall including the height of the height of the blocks so we're going to say about plus six inches and we always wanted a little higher because we want the water to never have to flow level so literally we're going to bring this piece right here up here so to come out and hit the barrel first we measure the diameter of the bottom i think we're about twenty two inches this base because we've got a lot to roxanne there's actually a tree trunk here small shrub trunk that we're not going to dig out it's you don't want to permeate this year on any more than necessary because again you're asking for water to seep down and head towards the basement so twenty two it's going to be right and i'm i'm actually going to send it right over that stone so i'm just kind of visualizing the circle that i've would think the barrel should be out a way you back here and you get immediate cobwebs and spiders and if you have thoroughfare circulation is the key in many cases for a lot of things generally speaking you want an odd number of blocks or even  you're going to get if it's not perfectly level you get a tip ok in a pinch when you when you're working with this kind of situation where there's rocks and it's just taking all day to get every you know all five of these just perfect you can sham i've got some impermeable tar back so these are going to go anywhere it's just a foam insulation thing i think that using for door jambs but i've got a roll of it for whatever so i'm just going to peel and stick underneath on one of these bricks and that should make this absolutely solid so you don't end up with band aid fingers but any sharp things you twist in in a quick learner around with the a needle nose or heavy pliers you should be able to do this and not feel that's just a matter of reassembling one set screw in there so she holds we have the faucet threaded even tightens up right where you want it to and then you have to kind of go inside and do the locking up and they can just be finger tighten their plastic fittings so finger tightening is plenty this is the overflow hose but i strongly suggest this be a lot longer so this will get it out away from this but you want it out away from your landscaping projects you want it out so it falls into your grass not for the rain it's to grass not it's collected back close to the foundation back to the bas then this beautiful cover i love do like the covers they have screws to bolt on down so if you've got kids in the neighborhood or raccoons or whatever it's probably a good thing to do it's a very nice filtered to leaves will hit here you will get sediment and it's easy enough just to whisk it off this is plenty but again i go wash or would probably shoot right off but you could literally put the elbow on cut it here so then she just goes  for more information on how you can obtain a rain barrel visit our city website that the address shown on the screen for all of us at the city thanks for watching and see you 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