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Garbage pickup and Christmas tree recycling schedule for the Christmas holidays

December 23 2014 03:54 AM

PENTICTON – The city would like to note some changes to curb side garbage and recycling pickup due to the Christmas holidays for the schedule taking place until Jan. 4, 2015.

December 25, 2014 garbage and recycling will be picked up on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014.

January 1, 2015 garbage pickup will instead be collected on Saturday, January 3, 2015.

If you're through with your tree after the Christmas presents have been unwrapped and the Christmas meal is over, you'll be glad to know the Christmas tree recycling program starts on Boxing Day. Trees can be dropped off at firehall number two, located at 285 Dawson Avenue to be chipped and recycled from Dec. 26, 2014 to January 31, 2015.

For more information regarding these schedules, please contact the public works department 250-490-2500.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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By Steve Arstad
Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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