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No trash pickup during holidays

By the Gazette-Times | Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:00 am

Allied Waste of Corvallis will not collect trash, recycling or yard debris on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years Day.

If your regular service day falls on one of these holidays, please have your carts out the day following the holiday. All customers for the duration of the week will be collected one day later; Thursday customers will be collected on Friday and Friday customers will be collected on Saturday.

During this busy holiday season, Allied Waste says your neighborhood may be collected earlier than usual. Carts can be placed at the street the night before.

Here is the schedule for closures on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27:

AQUATIC CENTER: Osborn Aquatic Center closed Thursday and open Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

BANKS: Most banks will be closed.

BUSES: Corvallis Transit System buses and Dial-a-Bus will not run.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Federal offices of the Siuslaw National Forest and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be closed.

GARBAGE: Garbage collection will be a day later than normal. The Coffin Butte Landfill in Adair Village will be closed.

HUMANE SOCIETY: Heartland Humane Society will be closed.

LIBRARY: The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27, and Friday, Nov. 28.

LIQUOR: Corvallis liquor stores on Washington Avenue and on Circle Boulevard and the Philomath liquor store will be closed.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Corvallis, Philomath offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday, Nov. 28. Benton County offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27.

LOTTERY: The lottery and winner claims office in Salem will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27, and Friday, Nov. 28.

NEWSPAPER: The Gazette-Times offices will be closed. The newspaper will be delivered as usual.

POST OFFICE: U.S. post offices will be closed and no deliveries will be made until Friday, Nov. 28.

SCHOOLS: Corvallis and Philomath school district offices and schools will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27, and Friday, Nov. 28.

Oregon State University and Linn-Benton Community College offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27, and Friday, Nov. 28.

STATE GOVERNMENT: State offices, including the Department of Human Services and Driver and Motor Vehicle Services will be closed.