Collecting

Community Calendar (Southwest Daily News)

16 May 2008

Now until May 26 Casket flag collection The Sulphur City Hall, VFW 8107 (1235 Napoleon St) and the American Legion Post 179 (1403 W Napoleon) are collecting casket flags in order to create an Avenue of Flags at Roselawn Cemetary, Henning Drive. Anyone who wishes to donate can do so at any to the locations above or contact the VFW, 527-7104, or American Legion, 527-9513.

BSP to collect excise tax from small-scale miners (Mindanao Times)

16 May 2008

MANILA — Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will begin collecting late this month excise tax on small-scale miners’ gold sales to such institution.

It Is All For Show (Strategy Page)

16 May 2008

May 16, 2008: Three years ago, the Afghan government began a program of collecting weapons, mainly getting them out of the hands of illegal militias. In that time, DIAG (Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups), has collected nearly 40,000 weapons, and over a million rounds of ammunition.