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Holiday Tree Recycling:
Sonoma County PICK-UP Service:
Put your tree in your yard waste container and place at the curb on your regular yard waste collection day. The tree MUST be CUT TO FIT inside the container (4 foot or less in sections, please). Trees sticking out of the container can interfere with the lifting arm on the truck.
Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Windsor and unincorporated Sonoma County have WHOLE TREE COLLECTION. Place your unflocked tree beside your yard waste container on your regular collection day the dates of:
Cloverdale: January 4 – 6, 2017
Cotati: January 9 – 13, 2017
Healdsburg: December 26, 2016 – January 6, 2017 Petaluma: December 26, 2016 – December 30, 2016 Rohnert Park: January 9 – 20, 2017
Santa Rosa: January 4 - 13, 2017
Windsor: December 26, 2016 – December 30, 2016
Unincorporated Areas:
Please visit unicycler.com for updated information.
1. Cut the tree to fit in your yard waste container or have your whole tree
picked up at the curb (select areas)
2. Call (707) 565-3333 for an appointment to have a non-profit in your area
pickup your tree. Call before Friday, January 8, 2016 to arrange for pickup. The suggested donation for this service is $7 for trees less than 6 feet and $10 for larger trees.
3. Special whole tree collection for Rohnert Park multifamily complexes. Managers of multifamily complexes in Rohnert Park can arrange to have their tenant’s trees picked up by special arrangement. Contact Latisha Richardson at Rohnert Park Disposal at (707) 586-2283 or email latisha@unicycler.com.
4. Free drop-off locations throughout the county. Residents may take up to two trees to any of the following drop-off locations at no charge.
Unincorporated Areas Holiday Tree Pickup Schedule- View the maps located here: unicycler.com/residential/holiday/holiday_tree_ collection to find out what day pickup is scheduled for your community. This includes the communities of Glen Ellen, Kenwood, Jenner, Bodega, Bodega Bay. Other communities on the North Coast phone 707-585-0291 to find out which days holiday tree collection is made in your community.
Holiday Tree DROP-OFF Locations:
Cloverdale: Cloverdale Citrus Fair, Washington Street entrance: Daily 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Cotati: Cotati Fire Station, 1 East Cotati Avenue: Daily 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Healdsburg: Healdsburg Corporation Yard, 550 Westside Road: Daily 8-5, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Petaluma: Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Drive: Daily 8-5, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Rohnert Park: Rohnert Park Community Center:, 5401 Snyder Dr: Daily 9-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Santa Rosa: Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road: (enter at the Jockey Club) Daily 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 6, 2017
Sebastopol: Sebastopol Corporation Yard, 714 Johnson Street: Daily 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Windsor: Windsor Corporation Yard, 8400 Windsor Road: Daily 8-5, December 26, 2016 to February 1, 2017
Annapolis Transfer Station, 33549 Annapolis Road: W-Sa 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Guerneville Transfer Station, 13450 Pocket Road/Highway 116: M-Tu 8-4, Th-Sa 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Healdsburg Transfer Station, 166 Alexander Valley Road: M-Sa 8-4, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Central Disposal Site, 500 Mecham Road: M-Sa 7-3, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Sonoma Transfer Station, 4376 Stage Gulch Road: M-Sa 7-3, December 26, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Night Sky January 2017
By Tre Gibbs, LAAS
Happy New Year!
The night sky promises to be full of cosmic distractions as we put the holidays behind us and begin our long, impatient wait for Spring. So here’s some good news; the days are slowly getting longer. They have been since the Winter Solstice last month on December 21st.
Although not noticeable at the beginning of the month, it should become apparent at month’s end.
Another interesting happening is that the planet Venus – the third brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and Moon – will be inching eastward closer to Mars until January 12th, then Venus will slowly begin to head in the opposite direction, westward, away from Mars until she disappears into the glare of
the sun by the end of March. Speaking of Venus, here are a couple “fun facts” about Earth’s sister planet. First, some basic info about Earth. As you probably know, Earth takes about 24 hours to make one rotation on it’s axis, which is our day. It also takes roughly 365 of those days to complete one full orbit around our nearest star, The Sun – which is our year. Now, Venus rotates slowly on
it’s axis – VERY slowly. So slowly, that it actually completes one orbit around the sun BEFORE it completes one rotation on its axis, which means, Venus’
day is longer than its year. Mind blown. Oh, Venus also rotates in the opposite direction that Earth rotates, so on Venus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
On the last day of the month, January 31st, look to the west southwest just after sunset for a very thin crescent moon. As the sky begins to darken, you will see what’s called a conjunction, which is when two or more objects appear together in the sky. The moon, the planet Mars (above the moon and to the right) and the brilliantly shining planet Venus.
Earlier in the month, on the 12th, we will be treated to January’s full moon, The Full Wolf Moon. The folklore behind this particular name is that tribal and colonial people would often hear wolves howl at the mid-winter’s full moon in hunger outside their villages...yikes!
Jupiter is beginning to make it’s way into our evening skies as well. Early in January, Jupiter rises low in the east around 1:30am, but late in the month, it rises almost two hours earlier, around 11:30pm. This will continue until Jupiter appears in our early evening, eastern skies by late March, just about the same time Venus is saying her westward farewell, heading into our eastern, pre-dawn skies once again.
Have a great start to 2017 and keep looking up!
Don’t forget, the LAAS meets at the Garvey Ranch Observatory every Wednesday night, rain or shine, from 7pm to 10pm. All members are eager to answer your questions, and let you have a peek through our 8” telescope. Feel free to contact us via any of the methods below. We would love to see you there!
Address: 781 S Orange Ave, Monterey Park, CA 91755. Web: laas.org/
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