Week in Review: Aug. 21 Edition

Catch up on your Oakdale news right here:

• Area environmental commission members expressed interest in single-hauler trash collection systems at a joint meeting last week.
• Oakdale 11-year-old Maddie Althoff was granted a wish through the Make a Wish foundation.
• A man was charged with stealing $2,000 worth of cigarettes from Oakdale’s Kelly’s Tobacco and Grocery.
• A bench in Oakdale Nature Preserve will be dedicated to Alicia Galdick, the woman killed recently while crossing Highway 36 at Century Avenue.
• Washington County libraries are likely to be closed on Sundays and Mondays in 2012 to save money.
• Two groups of Oakdale city employees not previously under union protection voted to unionize.
• An Oakdale man who left China on foot as a teen shared the story of how he made it to the U.S. with the help of “angels” along the way.
• Activities like disc golf, Family Fun Flatables and Touch a Truck are planned in Oakdale Parks this fall.
• An Oakdale man was indicted in federal court for receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography.
• In sports: Former Tartan basketball star Joel Awich is going to California Polytechnic State University and Kwadzo Ahelegbe is playing in Germany.