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Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2024 (Changes!!!)

Changes in Sorting Your Blue Bag !!!

NEW: 2 Blue/Clear Bag System effective 1-Jan-2024!

[Region of Queens Municipality:] Due to pending Provincial EPR legislation; effective January 1, 2024, Queens County residents WILL BE REQUIRED to separate recyclable paper materials from recyclable containers. Paper materials such as paper, boxboard and cardboard all go into the same blue or clear bag. Cardboard can also be tied into bundles no larger than 2ft x 3ft. Plastic, tin, aluminum, glass and all other containers go into a separate blue or clear bag. More information is included in the 2024 Waste Schedule and Sorting Guide (see below) or call 902-354-7170 for any assistance, or try the Waste Collection App.

In the Region of Queens, [household] waste collection is every second week as indicated on your 2024 Waste Collection Schedule. Green carts, blue bags and garbage (black) bags are picked up on the same day.

Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day …

Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2024 (Changes!!!) →

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DST ends in USA and Canada on 5-Nov-2023

Remember: Sunday, 05-Nov-2023

Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends in USA and Canada !!!

The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends.

DST-1In most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities when local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, 5-Nov-2023, 02:00h (2am) clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, 5-Nov- 2023, 01:00h (1am) local standard time instead!

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on 5-Nov-2023 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.

The next Daylight Saving Time starts on 11-Mar-2024.

Is it Daylight Saving Time or Daylight Savings Time?

FoxCreek Community News

Burning Restrictions lifted for Season 2023

Wildfire Risk Season 2023 ended.
Burning restrictions are lifted as of 16-Oct-2023 until and including 14-Mar-2024.

The 2023 fire-risk season has come to an end and you no longer need to check daily for permission to burn (domestic) brush or have a campfire.

Although the season ended today and you can burn without permission, Continue reading Burning Restrictions lifted for Season 2023 →

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FoxCreek Community Access Roads Graded

On 12-May-2023 both our access roads to the FoxCreek community
– Old Kettle Rd from Mill Village to the Fox Creek turnaround
– Medway Harbour Rd, from Hwy 331 to the turnaround
have been graded and “leveled”.

The roads at the moment do not look very smooth. They are not leveled as usual and rocks are sticking out or laying on the surface of the road. Continue reading FoxCreek Community Access Roads Graded →

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Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2023

In the Region of Queens, [household] waste collection is every second week as indicated on your 2023 Waste Collection Schedule. Green carts, blue bags and garbage (black) bags are picked up on the same day.

Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day … Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2023 →

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