Various locations
Vancouver residents have three options for recycling their live, cut Christmas trees.
Those choices include taking trees to a chipping event.
Every year on the first weekend of January, city staff and volunteers from the Lions Club will chip your tree in exchange for a charitable donation of cash or a non-perishable food item, all of which will be distributed to local charities.
After the trees are chipped, what’s left behind is taken to the Vancouver Landfill to be composted.
Tree chipping takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jan. 4 and 5 at:
- Kerrisdale Community Ice Rink parking lot, 5670 East Blvd.
- Kitsilano Beach parking lot on Arbutus at Cornwall.
- Sunset Beach upper parking lot on Beach Avenue at Broughton.
- Rona Home and Garden, 2727 East 12th Ave.
Residents may also drop trees off for free at the landfill in Delta or the transfer station at 377 West Kent Ave. North until Jan. 31.
The final option is to place your tree alongside your food scraps or yard waste to be collected by the city on regular collection days. All trees must be clean of decorations and tinsel. Do not put your tree in a bag and make sure to set it one metre away from your garbage and green bins.
West End
The Labyrinth at St. Paul’s Anglican Church will be open Christmas morning from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and admission is free.
The public is invited to walk the labyrinth, which was originally built in 1889, but rebuilt in 1905. Elspeth McVeigh will sing Early Music ballads for the event.
A permanent labyrinth, the first of its kind in Canada, is painted on the floor of the church hall.
The church holds regular prayer meetings during which worshippers walk the 42-foot replica of France’s Chartres Cathedral labyrinth, a 4,000-year-old spiritual tool for prayer and reflection.
The church is located at 1130 Jervis St. The labyrinth is also open New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Visit stpaulsanglican.bc.ca for more information.
Downtown
So, Santa brought you an eReader for Christmas and the world of literacy is in your hands or will be once you attend one of these workshops at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St.
At the hands-on, Ebook Basics for Sony: Wired for Learning Series, new users will learn how to find, check out, and download ebooks from the “VPL to Go” collection.
During the session participants will be shown how to use a computer to transfer titles to an ebook reader and how to download directly to their device.
Participants will explore the VPL to Go site, learn how to manage a digital account and find out where to go for help. Basic computer and Internet skills are required.
Take your compatible Sony device to one of the following sessions, Jan. 8 at 10:15 a.m., Jan. 21, 29, Feb 4, Feb. 12 and Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. Admission is free, but space is limited. Registration begins Dec. 19 at vpl.ca.
