ANNUAL MOTHER'S DAY YARD/ PLANT SALE

TRINIDAD COMMUNITY GARDEN

Help Support a Great Sustainable Community Development Project!!

Mothers Day Plant and Yard Sale!

FRIDAY May 6th and SATURDAY May 7th
10am-2pm

(Corner of N. Linden Ave. and White Rd)

Tour the garden!

Pick up your organic vegetable starts, perennials, and herbs!

A project of Earth Mountain Education Farm

Website: www.earthmountainfarm.org

Email: earthmountainfarm@yahoo.com

Now taking donations for the yard sale. Donations can be dropped off at the Trinidad Community Coop. Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 at the corner of Elm St. and Maple Ave.

APRIL RECYCLING EVENT

Today and Tomorrow, Friday April 22, 8a.m-6pm & Saturday April 23, 8a.m-noon
Waste Connections 2600 Freedom Road

Please note the following:

*Containers with food and liquid residues create a mess & stench! Please bring your containers clean and dry.
*No plastic bags; they are the worst contaminant in the bin.
*Remove all lids from containers. No plastic bottle caps in the bin. No lids from plastic tubs unless they have a recycle number on them. Metal jar lids are accepted!!!
*Only cardboard and paperboard boxes should be flattened

Items Accepted

PAPER

White or pastel office paper, file folders, egg cartons (no styrofoam), paperboard boxes such as cereal and crackers(flatten), paper bags, milk/juice cartons ( no foil pouches), paperback books, phonebooks, magazines and catalogs, brochures, blueprints, newspapers and inserts (no bags), junk mail and greeting cards, corrugated cardboard and cardboard boxes.

PLASTIC

#1-7 Plastic bottles and jars (no caps) and tubs. No microwave trays. No compostable cups!

GLASS

Bottles and jars of all colors.

ALUMINUM
Clean, balled aluminum foil (2" or larger) and pie pans.
Put your Aluminum Cans in the boxes around town to benefit Habitat for Humanity or take them to the Las Animas County Rehabilitation Center to benefit its operations.

Sponsored by the El Pomar and Trinidad Community Foundations.

Questions? Call ReGroup at 719.845.8218

See Regroup's Bookmark in the library for other recycling opportunities in Trinidad.

Earth Day 2011

Come Celebrate EARTH DAY with the Trinidad Community Co-op

at our PICNIC FOR THE PLANET
April 23, 2011

EARTH DAY is about helping to acknowledge and educate better ways to support and sustain our earthly lives together, harmoniously and much more!!!!!

Picnic for the Planet is a celebration of the planet we live on, the food it provides, and the people we share it with. In short the planet does a lot for us - we should take it out for lunch!

Schedule of Events

10:00 a.m.- Start your day with enjoyable stroll down the river walk

12:00 p.m. - Join us in Trinidad's Cimino Park for a healing circle and short meditation dedicated to the Earth and the victims of the earthquake and Tsunami is Japan! You can
make a difference!

12:30 p.m.- Come show your interest and help us launch our annual Bike Parade with a short
bike run for the whole family! (Everyone is encouraged to ride a bike to the park!)

1:00 p.m.- Healthy Lunch and Bake Sale at the CO-OP. All proceeds go towards Japan's relief
efforts.

2:00 p.m - Finally join us at the Co-op for a screening of "The 11'th Hour" with Leonardo
DeCaprio, for a film on climate chains solutions


For more information please contact the Co-op through email trinidadcommunitycoop@gmail.com or phone 719.846.7869

Members, your efforts are needed and appreciated! We need bake sale items and volunteers!!!!