Haines Friends of Recycling is holding a scrap metal drive 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12 at its Small Tracts Road center.
Drive coordinator Frank Holmes said the group had stopped accepting scrap metals when prices for it plummeted early in the recession, but prices have since improved.
Accepting dump metal indiscriminately left the group with junk it couldn’t get rid of.
“What we’re really aiming at is the…