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Holiday lights should be stored for use again next year. Broken or unwanted holiday lights cannot be placed in your recycling bin. The CNY Veterans Outreach Center is accepting donations of old holiday lights this holiday season. The lights will be recycled and proceeds will go towards services for veterans and their families.

Please don’t think I had a difficult childhood. We never lacked for plenty of food. The wood fires and a pile of bed quilts kept us warm. I had bibbed overalls for school, older bibbed overalls for work and a “set” of Sunday clothes for church. Mostly, I had love and security. I had no concept of child abuse, no meaning of the word “poverty” and no fear in a house that had no keys. I suppose one other reason I remember that Christmas is because my school picture for 1942-43 still sits in our lovely home. I never remember not saying my prayers, memorizing verses from my Olive wood New Testament and knowing that Jesus loved me, too.

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Even recyclable gift wrap will probably go to a landfill at the end of its life. Wrapping paper accounts for a tiny fraction of paper made from recycled material (while cardboard accounts for much more). Gift wrap is just not the ideal item to recycle: It’s thin and often full of ink, which makes it difficult to extract fibers from during recycling.

My husband and I have been proud parents of the fuzzy and four-legged children and proud aunt and uncle of a niece and nephew that officially belong to my only sister and her husband. For the past approximately 30 years, they had been the center and highlight of my family’s Christmas season, as with all families, and for the first time we were facing our first Christmas without either one of them. They both were and are living and working out of the country.

On Feb. 7, 1985, Enrique Camarena, a 37-year-old Drug Enforcement Administration agent, left his office to meet his wife for lunch. Five men appeared at the agent’s side and shoved him in a car. A month later, his body was found. He had been tortured to death.

Don’t just stuff all that holiday cheer into the blue bin. Here’s how recycling experts say is the best way to clean up after the holidays.

There’s good news if you did most of your shopping online this year — all those shipping boxes that are now piling up in your garage can be recycled in your blue bin. All you have to do is remove any tape and flatten them before tossing them in the recycling.

Cute Tape is another online retailer who sells hundreds of washi tape options. These Days of the Week Washi Tape ($4 per roll) are popular for scrapbooking projects or even making a DIY calendar for your home! And at under $5 each, you can easily pick up all three colors without breaking the bank.

For those who would like to properly dispose of their live Christmas tree, Jeff Mikula, Manistee Department of Public Works director, said there is a local program in the City of Manistee.

Don’t settle for a drab plastic spice rack. Instead, use washi tape to add a pop of pattern in a hue that suits your kitchen’s colour scheme.