Lambeau's been a big boost for Green Bay By Tom Murphy News-Chronicle It's not really so, Virginia. It just seems that we can't let a month pass without mentioning E.D. Hartzencupid and the inbred angst with Lambeau Field. Hartzencupid's interminable opposition to stadium renovation and expansion continues to mystify us and plenty of other folks. They skip over, very fast, the impact the improvements are having on the Greater Green Bay community and Northeastern Wisconsin. Here's the latest - and it just happens to be tied to Tuesday's presidential primary: Just before the Iowa competition, the travels of Democratic candidates were a hot topic. They were bounding from New England to the South to the Midwest and back and forth. Coci Connelly, a political reporter for the Washington Post and a regular guest on a Fox News talk-and-talk show, was describing a jaunt by Gov. Howard Dean. "He went from Iowa to Green Bay to Carolina ........" Connelly said. Note how lil' ol' Green Bay is the only city mentioned. And Connelly didn't feel it necessary to further identify our fair haven by attaching a state's name to the city. Even on a national telecast. Such recognition by a member of the "elite" East Coast press corps can only be attributed to the national acclaim Green Bay continues to receive as home of the Packers. We love Associated Bank and Schreiber Cheese and Schneider National. All three fantastically successful corporations were born and nurtured here. We'd all be a lot poorer without them. But it's unlikely Connelly would ever locate those three as Green Bay companies. (She might some day when the continent's biggest carload trucker decides to identify Green Bay on the rear cargo doors of its thousands and thousands of orange trailers.) No, E.D. Hartzencupid, Connelly didn't need to identify Green Bay further because the Packers have. This doesn't make anything right or wrong. It's just fact. CAN CAN No, not Offenbach's version; this non-musical composition on refuse and recycling containers is one that comes compliments of Allouez. At an information session on the new garbage/recycling system that starts March 1, the village put on an informative dog-and- pony show. It outlined the wheres, whys and wherefores of the coming of the three-can, 95- and 65-gallon system. It might have been better for all had the session been held before the decision to change refuse operations. No one, but no one, likes surprises like a 95-gallon composite container in the driveway. Without casting opinion or aspersions on the change, what follows is an edited David Letterman-style Top Ten list of best uses for the new containers. Space and other considerations forced revision of the original list forwarded by an alert Allouez reader, resident, taxpayer and refuse disposer. - Reuse your real Christmas tree: If your discarded tree is buried in a snowbank because flakes fell before pickup time, dig it out and store it in a new garbage bin. Add ornaments, wreaths and presents not yet returned and Christmas 2004 chores are almost completed. - Mulch, save taxes: Instead of using street department employees to pick up yard waste, use your new receptacles to mulch grass clippings, garden waste and leaves. Estimated cost savings; 1-1 Allouez employees. - Estate planning: Place containers on their sides, one on top of the other, to create your personal backyard mausoleum. - Earn a second income: Cut a generous opening in each new container, turn them upside down and fill with feed to raise calves for Provimi Veal. - Resolve potable water problems: Go it alone. Instead of a costly underground pipeline to Lake Michigan shared with quibbling municipalities, build a simple conveyor belt (or renovate railroad tracks). Run the receptacles on the belt or track, fill them with water for return trip and have more water than Noah had to contend with. - Fight lifter/support Allouez Beautification Committee: Come spring, toss all mailbox stuffings, door knob hangers and other political materials from village trustees into the containers. Then, wheels first, tie the biggest receptacle to your car's bumper and purge the community of political signs. - And the number I best use for your new Allouez refuse receptacle: In the next village election, use your container, complete with wheels and push bar, to transport all elderly residents, condominium and multi-family dwellers and small families to the polls to tell our trustees that their decision is not number one. Curbside: The Mariner Supper Club, 2222 Riverside Drive, Mouez, will take on a new name, Chefetta's, and operator on March 1. A legal notice in the News-Chronicle last week listed Lori Van Dousen as applicant for the liquor license. Apparently she takes over on a lease from David Cowles. He bought the business (supper club and motel) from the McFadzen family a couple of years ago. The supper club once was The Golden Inn and has a history back to Prohibition ... ShopKo's jumping through municipal zoning and planning hoops in Ledgeview to built its first stand-alone pharmacy at the intersection of County G (Dickinson Road) and GV. The Ashwaubenon-based discount retailer announced several months ago that it was going to take a shot at the stand-alone prescription outlets.