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- Thursday Nights on the Square: Thursday Nights on the Square - 38315 9th St. East, Palmdale, CA - July 6 through September 7 from 5:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
- The Antelope Valley Fair: August 25th through September 4th, Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Avenue H and the Antelope Valley Freeway
- Starlight Concert Series: Select Saturday nights through September 16th at Palmdale Amphitheater at Marie Kerr Park, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale
- Palmdale Fall Festival: Saturday, October 14th, 9:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, October 15th, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Marie Kerr Park, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale
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Bill Minnis, Waste Management of Antelope Valley’s new District Manager, certainly never expected to end up in the trash business. After graduating from the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship, Bill played shortstop in the Los Angeles (former California) Angels minor league baseball organization. After a torn rotator cuff knocked him out of a professional baseball career, Bill worked with United Parcel Service, before later accepting a position as District Manager of Waste Management’s Phoenix, Arizona location. Born in Glendale, California, but raised in Arizona, Bill worked for Waste Management of Phoenix for four and a half years before making the transition to Waste Management’s Antelope Valley location this past March 2006. The move to the AV location allows Bill more exposure to landfills, and the opportunity to work more closely with the local cities and the community.
Bill’s job as District Manager requires him to oversee the day-to-day operations, reach out to the community, work with city contracts, and to address overall safety and environmental concerns. He stresses that it is important to keep the community educated about recycling programs through programs such as Total Trash Out, a student can-collecting contest. It is also important to Bill that residents are aware of all of the environmental protection practices that Waste Management provides in the Antelope Valley. Our state-of-the-art landfills are controlled to ensure that the health and safety of everyone living and working around the landfill are protected.
Waste Management is an environmentally friendly corporate citizen and this district already has great programs in place, such as using liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks, burning off methane gas from the landfill and a permanent recycling facility for household waste known as the AV Environmental Collection Center.
His greatest challenge of working with WM of Antelope Valley is to increase the recycling rates throughout the community. We are at a time when recycling has become a way of life and we need to keep promoting our efforts so that the life span of a landfill can last for many years to come.
When he’s not working, Bill enjoys spending time with his family, including his seven-year-old son Cody, who’s quite the baseball player himself. Bill also enjoys fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities. He has been involved with non-profit organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, the Special Olympics and the United Way for many years. Most recently, he has become a member of the Antelope Valley’s Illegal Dumping Task Force.
As if this isn’t enough to keep Bill busy, he’s also just finishing up working towards getting his MBA with the University of Phoenix! If you see Bill around town, be sure to give him a wave, or maybe throw a baseball his way.
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