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NORTH Shore resi-
dents and painting con-

gee tractors can drop off

an icftover household
paint for safe disposal
at a free collection and
Aexchange event Sunday.
The event is being held by
he B.C... Paint = Care
Association (PCA), with
involvement from 55 paint
companies that participate in a
government-approved paint

stewardship program.

Consumers and contrac-
tors may drop off latex and
oil-based paints, shellacs and
stains on Aug. 25 between 9
am. and 3 pam. at the
Lonsdale Recreation Centre,
2300 Lonsdale Ave.. North
Vancouver, in the northwest
corner of the parking lot.
There is a limit of 10° paint
cans per vehicle.

Any reusable paint collect-
ed will be set aside and offered
free to the public on a first

come, first served basis.

The PCA has established
IS permanent paint collection
depots in the Lower Mainland
and plans te open a paint col-
lection facility on the North
Shore this vear. Until a suit-
able site is established,
monthly one-day collection
and exchange events will be
held on the North Shore.

The paint-care program
docs not handle anti-fouling,
industrial or automotive paint
or aerosol cans. Nor does it

Friday, August 23, 1996 ~ North Shore News ~ 75

accept other household haz-
ardous wastes such as sol-
vents, paint thinner, pesti-
cides, poisons and pharma-
ceuticals.

For more information, call
the PCA information line at
878-8700.

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Sparky does Dundarave

LITTLE ‘pardners’ Tanya and Stefan Halata get up close and personal to Sparky
the Pony during the Dundarave Hoedawn last Friday in West Vancouver. Me

Wormy wonderland

THE Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre is offering
visitors the chance to get up close and personal
| with a handful of Red Wrigglers.

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* On Sunday, Aug. 25, at 1 p.m. Maureen Rae-Chute of the
North Shore Recycling Society will give an introduction to
the mighty appetite of the compost worm. Bring the kids:
this will be a Lavids-on presentation.

“Learn how these voracious eaters (the worms not the kids)

an help you cut down on kitchen and yard waste disposal.

*. Did you know, for example, that nwo pounds of worms,
roughiy'2,000, are needed to compost a daily average of one
pound of food waste? Or that worm bins must be kept out of
the hot sun and heavy rain bur are perfectly fine to keep on
the kitchen counter or in the basement?

Rae-Chute will share these and other facts. The squeamish
an pick up information about worm-free backyard compost-
ing from Peggy Keen of Nerth Shore Recycling.

‘The event is free. To register and for more information,

“call the ecology’ centre.at 981-3103.
: — /. —= Layne Christensen

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So before you head back to school,
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