Speakers

Wilmette Community Relations Police Officer, Carly Watson, will give a talk on safety and security topics, including cyber security, home security, personal safety, and more.  Officer Watson also formed the first "co-responder" team in Wilmette, where she and a social worker have teamed up to respond to calls that require a more speciaized police response.

Mary Beth Schaye is a zero waste consultant and worked for Collective Resource Compost Cooperative, food scrap hauling cooperative based in Evanston, Illinois for 14 years. She continues this work after their recent merger with The Urban Canopy. Their Compost Club is one branch of this unique, Chicago-based business, which has 7 branches, all related to keeping food production and food waste management local and sustainable. 

Mary Beth will give an overview about how diverting food scraps from landfills helps to mitigate climate change and explains how the container-swap commercial composting service her company provides helps both residential and commercial customers to be a part of the solution. Other related services of facilitating zero waste events and recycling of hard-to-recycle items are also covered.

Anthony Auston has been working in libraries for over 30 years. For the past 20years, Anthony has been a public library administrator including 8 years as Director of Wilmette Public Library. Originally from Minneapolis, he relocated to north Evanston in 2001 to complete his Masters in Library and Information Science at Dominican University.

Director Auston provides an overview of Wilmette Library’s recent achievements, long range strategic vision, and how today’s libraries are becoming more responsive and vital to communities than ever.