{"id":10208,"date":"2023-11-26T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:18:37","slug":"december-1-final-day-for-leaf-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/26\/december-1-final-day-for-leaf-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8 final day for leaf collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the City of Decatur&#8217;s annual leaf collection nears its end, planning for the upcoming winter weather is already moving ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, December 8, will be the final day for the leaves to be taken from curbside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo we&#8217;re asking people to get their leaves out on or before December 4 to give our crews enough time to get them all collected,\u201d Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert told Decatur City Council at its latest meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arnoldlumber425\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad.jpg?resize=640%2C76&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with questions should call the public works department, 724-3356.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s collection was slowed by one of the city&#8217;s two leaf suckers going down for several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease get your leaves out sooner rather than later,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cWe&#8217;re now getting our equipment changed over, getting ready for when Mother Nature decides to go to winter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com As the City of Decatur&#8217;s annual leaf collection nears its end, planning for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-10208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EBEA7A53AACA418989CAABA75DDAAE6A.jpg?fit=508%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}