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The City's Green Cart Program has started up again for 2018, spring clean-ups in the community are taking place and our spring events are being promoted. It finally must be spring! We are hosting a clean up event on Tuesday, May 15th from 4pm-8pm. Please come to Princess Park to register and recieve your garbage bags and gloves, after picking up litter join us for the participant BBQ. On Saturday May 26th we have partnered with Global Market to host Eco Day in May! Free compost, tree seedlings, a bouncy castle, learn how to make bee houses and learn more from our local environmental stewardship organizations. Don't forget Fair Trade Fridays for the month of May. We look forward to seeing you this spring!

Brandon becomes 1st Bee City in Manitoba

On May 14th the City of Brandon received official designation from Bee City Canada as the first Bee City in Manitoba! A Bee City promotes pollinator diversity and the benefit of using native plants in habitat restoration. The comittee will be looking at completing a city-wide pollinator friendly habitat assessment to identify where habitat needs to be improved. The committee held their first educational event at Eco Day in May teaching the public how to make bee houses. The City of Brandon has proclaimed Pollinator week June 17-23rd. For more info on how to become a bee city, school or workplace visit www.beecitycanada.org