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Across America, around 30 million live Christmas trees are bought each year by families who want to have a fresh tree through the holidays.
Not only is Christmas tree farming a lucrative business nationwide, the trees grown on the farms help filter the air and provide habitats for wildlife. Once the trees are mature, harvested, and used as the centerpiece of holiday decorating in homes, they can then be recycled, again as a benefit to the environment.
Christmas trees and other yard trimmings are not allowed in landfills, so they are chipped and mulched to be used for garden landscaping, among other uses. Some communities even sink the trees into ponds or lakes to provide fish habitat. The trees have a long and useful life far beyond the few weeks they reside decorated in someone’s home.
Some like to enjoy their trees through the New Year, while others are anxious to pack up Christmas decorations as soon as possible. To accommodate everyone, Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Beautiful is sponsoring its annual Bring One for the Chipper event, with three locations in the city and two satellite centers accepting the trees for recycling now through the first week in January.
Those who wait until Saturday, Jan. 5 and bring their trees to one of the three Valdosta sites will receive a free tree seedling from KLVB, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day.
Please don’t trash your trees on the side of a road or leave them to decompose in your yard. Bring your trees to one of the recyling centers instead and let’s keep our community clean and environmentally friendly.
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Thoughts on graduation
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THUMBS UP: To Dr. John Gaston, retiring dean of Valdosta State University’s College of the Arts. For the past 10-plus years, Gaston has worked to build a more interconnected program with various artistic and communications departments working together. Given that you are likely to see one College of the Arts department collaborating with another during events is proof of Gaston’s success.
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On the go this weekend
Take a breath.
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Sharing the roads with motorcycles
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Thank your local law enforcement today
Today, May 15, was designated Peace Officers Memorial Day back in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy was in office.
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Visit musical roots this weekend
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Happy Mother’s Day!
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THUMBS UP: To mail workers, volunteers and food bank staff for gathering food for the annual Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive today. A plastic bag designated for canned goods and other non-perishable food items should have arrived in your mailbox earlier this week. If you haven’t already, take a few moments to fill the bag with food and hang from your mailbox. If you didn’t receive the special Stamp Out Hunger bag, any plastic bag filled with food will do. This food drive helps feed thousands of South Georgians annually. Valdosta-Lowndes County often donates more food than nearly all other cities and counties in Georgia.
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Celebrating nurses
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Helping the hungry: Mail it in!
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