With the Halloween season wrapping up, you may be tempted to pitch your pumpkins in the garbage. Wait! Pump(kin) the brakes on jamming the jack-o’-lanterns in the trash! You have options! Tonight’s the night to show off your carving creativity. The annual Thunder Bay Pumpkin Parade is happening at Hillcrest Park. From 6:30 until 8:30, you can display your jack-o’-lantern and check out all of the others. There will even be volunteers there with candles to really light things up.
As I write this, it’s Friday, November 1st. There’s more options to get rid of your pumpkin beyond the event tonight. Somebody call Charlie Brown, because it’s The Great Pumpkin Compost Collection! Avoid over-filling our landfills by dropping off your pumpkins and other organic decorations at a few stations that are set-up at the following locations, until around November 10th:
Westfort Playfield – Neebing Avenue
Intercity Shopping Centre overflow parking lot – Fort William Road (near former Lakehead Labour Centre)
County Fair Plaza
EcoSuperior and the City of Thunder Bay coordinate the effort which has been going on since 1995. Over the years nearly 400 tonnes of pumpkins have headed to the composting facility instead of the landfill. They’re then blended with leaf, yard, and wood waste into compost which is then available to all of us in the spring for FREE!
