Overdue? Bring in the cans
Foods for Fines program, Rangeview Library District, now through Dec. 31.
Fine time to donate.
Got an overdue library book or other item? The Rangeview Library District (Brighton, Commerce City, Northglenn, Perl Mack and Thornton) will cross off $1 for every can or package of nonperishable food items donated. (Only fines; other library charges don’t count.) The food will go to needy families in Adams County. In 2007, library patrons donated 5,000 pounds of food. That’s a lot of fines.
Colorado tree time
Wanted: Photo entries for Colorado Native Christmas Tree Decoration Contest, Colorado Forest Products, P.O. Box 33, Lafayette 80026; digital images to retail loradoforestproducts . Deadline: Dec. 18
Tree-riffic!
Colorado Forest Products, marketing arm of Colorado State Forest Service, wants photos of decorated Colorado-grown trees. Details online at coloradoforest .
Pet precepts
Community Learning Series, $10 donation for Helping Hands Foundation, VCA Alameda East Veterinary Hospital, 9770 E. Alameda Ave., Denver; 303-366-2639; .
Don’t star on “Emergency Vet.”
This monthly lecture series is an inexpensive way to school yourself about your cat, dog and other pets. Those who attended the December “Holiday Hazards” presentation by Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald — familiar from Animal Planet’s “Emergency Vet” — learned that the rumored toxicity of poinsettias and mistletoe is greatly exaggerated. But even tiny amounts — fewer than 4 individual pieces — of grapes, raisins or macadamia nuts may be fatal to dogs, while common centerpieces and house plants (holly, lilies) can send leaf-nibbling kitties to the emergency room.
