Friday, October 6, 2017 5Brooklin Town Crier Normal Collection Day Area # Revised Collection Day Green Bin Recycling Garbage Yard Waste Mon. Oct. 9 (Thanksgiving) 1 Tues. Oct. 10 Tues. Oct. 10 No Collection No Collection Mon. Oct. 9 (Thanksgiving) 2 Tues. Oct. 10 Tues. Oct. 10 Tues. Oct. 10 Tues. Oct. 10 Tues. Oct. 10 3 Wed. Oct. 11 Wed. Oct. 11 No Collection No Collection Tues. Oct. 10 4 Wed. Oct. 11 Wed. Oct. 11 Wed. Oct. 11 Wed. Oct. 11 Wed. Oct. 11 5 Thurs. Oct. 12 Thurs. Oct. 12 No Collection No Collection Wed. Oct. 11 6 Thurs. Oct. 12 Thurs. Oct. 12 Thurs. Oct. 12 Thurs. Oct. 12 Thurs. Oct. 12 7 Fri. Oct. 13 Fri. Oct. 13 No Collection No Collection Thurs. Oct. 12 8 Fri. Oct. 13 Fri. Oct. 13 Fri. Oct. 13 Fri. Oct. 13 Fri. Oct. 13 9 Sat. Oct. 14 Sat. Oct. 14 No Collection No Collection Fri. Oct. 13 10 Sat. Oct. 14 Sat. Oct. 14 Sat. Oct. 14 Sat. Oct. 14 Holiday Waste Collection Schedule From October 9 to 13, waste collection will be bumped one day forward. Please ensure your waste is set out by 7:00 a.m. Questions? Call the Whitby Operations Centre at 905.668.3437, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Get the Waste Buddy App at whitby.ca/waste The ladies of the Court at Brooklin proudly pose with some of the 27 blankets they've sewn together for Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre in Oshawa. The blankets are given to patients undergoing chemotherapy. Every few months these and other women sew the colourful quilt-like coverings. Carolyn Hoar, the centre's Volunteer and Pediatric Cancer Family Support Coordinator, says the current turnaround is the fastest they've yet seen. Usually she collects them every six months. The last batch was donated not even five months ago. In order to maintain the generous donation of time and blankets, the Court's Sylvia Pugelj requests the Brooklin community step in to donate wool. Donations can be brought straight to the Court's front office. How do they start? One Court at Brooklin lady showed she's already begun a square for the next set of blankets. She starts knitting as soon as she wakes up in the morning and completes 2 - 3 rows to limber up her fingers. A square takes about a day and a half of work. The Longest Yarns Ontario farmer and Brooklin High School science teacher Nicole Swain was presented with the 2017 AgScape Teacher Recognition Award, in partnership with Canada's Outdoor Farm Show. Swain was recognized for teaching students about the importance of agriculture. AgScape presents an annual award to an Ontario teacher to acknowledge an individual's outstanding efforts to make agriculture literacy come alive in the classroom. Swain, who teaches biology and environmental studies, is also a beef and cash crop farmer with her husband, Scott. "Sharing our family farm experiences with my students puts a face to the people who grow their food," says Swain. "I love the days that my lessons are about soil health, crop protection and precision agriculture. And it's truly an honour to receive this award." Outside her classroom, she developed the Durham Farm Connections High School Program to lead high school students through interactive, science-based agricultural topics. She encourages other science teachers to teach about agricultural sciences, and co-manages the Agriculture Specialist High Skills Major program to help students explore career opportunities and coordinate co-op placements within the agriculture industry. Last week, BHS hosted the Farm Connections day when students attended the program for one class period (75 minutes), and rotated through agriculture-themed stations covering topics such as: soil and aquatic health, green energy, marketing and labelling for food products, and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Each station was also designed to encourage students to consider careers in the agri-business field, by making them aware of the career paths available in this multi-faceted industry. Brooklin Teacher Receives 2017 AgScape Award The Regional Municipality of Durham, Works Department would like to remind residents that bathroom wipes, which are marketed as an alternative to toilet paper and advertised as flushable, should be disposed of in the garbage, rather than being flushed down the toilet. Baby wipes, mopping wipes and sanitizing cleaning wipes should also be disposed of in the garbage only. The Region's sanitary sewer system is not designed to dispose of anything beyond human waste, toilet paper and wastewater. Wipes do not break down the way toilet paper does and can clump together, causing costly blockages and backups in the Region's sewer system--which could result in flooding in your home or business. To learn more about the problem of wipes in the sewer system, visit durham.ca/ThinkBeforeYouFlush. For more information about proper waste disposal, visit durham.ca/KnowBeforeYouThrow. To view Durham's Sewer Use Bylaw No. 55-2013, which outlines specific practices for the use of sanitary and storm sewers, please visit durham.ca/SewerUseBylaw. No wipes in the pipes!