Port Moody firefighters want your Christmas trees.
They’ll be turning them into wood chips and mulch at their annual tree chipping event Saturday and Sunday at the Inlet Centre fire hall.
The annual event raises money for the BC Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund, which runs an annual camp for young burn survivors, as well as support programs for adult burn survivors and education events like Burn Awareness Week.
PoMo firefighters will be turning Christmas trees that have been stripped of their decorations and tinsel into bark chips and mulch for use in the city’s gardens and walking trails. They’ll also use the event to demonstrate the fire dangers of a tree that has been left to dry out.
Coffee and hot chocolate will be available to help keep you warm, and the firefighters will even vacuum the loose needles from your vehicle.
The event goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days and a minimum $5 donation is suggested. If you can’t transport your tree, a pick-up service is also available by emailing burnfund2399@gmail.com.
Other tree chipping events in the Tri-Cities:
• PORT COQUITLAM
Jan. 5 and 6: Haul your tree to Port Coquitlam fire hall #1 (1725 Broadway St.), where firefighters will chip trees from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a minimum $5 donation, which will be donated to the BC Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund. If you want the volunteers to pick it up for you at home — for a $10 minimum donation — call 604-927-5405. The wood chips will be spread on city parks and trails. Styrofoam and old Christmas lights can also be brought to the event for recycling (with a donation to the Burn Fund) and plastic bags, batteries, light bulbs, wrapping paper and packaging can be dropped off with the city solid waste ambassadors, too.
• COQUITLAM
Jan. 5: The Kinsmen Club of Coquitlam is at Miller Park community school (800 Egmont Ave.) from 9 a.m . to 3 p.m. while the Scouts francophone de Maillardville are in the parking lot of Canadian Tire (1200 Seguin Dr.) at the same times.
• Jan. 6: Friends of Mundy Park Heritage Society is in the Mundy Park parking lot on Hillcrest Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Kinsmen Club heads to the northside of the city for a chip in Parking Lot A in Coquitlam Town Centre Park (1299 Pinetree Way).
