FYI
Published 10:18 pm Monday, December 29, 2008
Recycle your Christmas tree
It’s nearing the time when the ornaments and lights need to go back into the storage boxes.
Unless, of course, you are like some folks who leave their Christmas trees up until Valentine’s Day.
There are those who put their Christmas trees outside and redecorate with seed bells, suet and other food for the birds.
Other people take their trees to the dump, or strip them for the compost pile and burn the dried trunks in the fireplace next winter.
Ground-up Christmas trees make great mulch.
Boy Scout troops throughout Snohomish and Island counties will help you dispose of your Christmas tree.
For example, as a community service and fundraiser, Boy Scout Troop 46 plans to collect and recycle Christmas trees Saturday on Camano Island.
Those who want to participate can drop off trees between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Camano Plaza parking lot, 370 N. East Camano Drive, Camano Island.
In south Snohomish County, Troop 312 will take trees from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the QFC store parking lot at 196th Street SW and 76th Avenue W. and at the PCC market parking lot at Edmonds Way and 100th Avenue W. in Edmonds.
Troop 300 will collect trees from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Top Food, 21900 Highway 99, and at Westgate Elementary School, 9601 220th St. SW, both in Edmonds.
Troop 367 plans to make a swing through several Edmonds neighborhoods. For more information, call 425-218-8913.
In Lynnwood, Troop 304 plans to take trees from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday a block north of 196th Street on 56th Avenue W., just west of Wilcox Park.
For more information, call Mount Baker Council of the Boy Scouts of America at 425-335-0380.
Correction
The Stillaguamish Tribe’s headquarters are in Arlington, and the Snohomish Tribe has offices in Edmonds. The tribes’ office locations were reversed on the legend on an illustration accompanying a story on Page A1 Monday, about the Tulalip Tribes’ opposition to federal recognition for previously unrecognized tribes.
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