"To find your collection color, call the 3-1-1 Call Center at 645-3111 (TTY 645-6507) 

There are no collections on holidays observed by the City of Columbus. Your collection day changes after each observed holiday.

If you have questions regarding your collection day, please call your collection color hotline, 645-[COLOR]. Example: 645-NAVY (6289).

NOTE:  Your collection day is not affected by Good Friday or Veteran's Day holidays."

Happy Presidents Day...  I  wondered if President's Day is still a celebration of Washington and Lincoln since their birthday's were in February when I was a kid. Their birthdays are probably still in February.  We never got 'President's Day' or  Washington or Lincoln's birthday off school in Wisconsin but my cousins in Illinois got Lincoln's birthday off since they were 'Land of Lincoln."... 

I thought of a REALTOR® "I know" in Springfield Illinois (birthplace of Lincoln...ooops Illinois is the birthplace of Lincoln, Springfield is the capital of Illinois but Lincoln was born in New Salem, IL?) and wondered if Barb was celebrating President's Day or Lincoln's birth..   It turns out Barb's gearing up for St. Patrick's Day already.

Yesterday I read online that President's Day now celebrates all presidents.  Here's to Jefferson,  Millard Filmore, Grover Cleveland, Rutherford B Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt , FDR, Richard Nixon, JFK, Clinton,  Bush one and Bush two as well as Lincoln who freed the slaves and Washington who chopped down the cherry tree as a child and said "I must not tell a lie."

About President's Day What Snopes has to say:

Claim:   The federal holiday observed in the United States on the third Monday of February is officially designated as "Presidents' Day."

Status:   False

Visit Snopes for the rest of the story. They may also have the cherry tree - G. Washington saga.

Schools are closed in Columbus and Central Ohio today. I got an email from a teacher who wants to look at a house I emailed her. No mail, no garbage pick up in Columbus.. Local, state and federal levels of the government are all closed here I believe.   

A REALTOR® in my office once told me the three streets in Columbus just south of Worthington, Chase Street,  Lincoln Avenue  and Stanton Avenue were named after President Lincoln and his cabinet members, Chase and Stanton. She told me a story about the three gentlemen  visiting and staying at homes on those three streets.   

I probably repeated the story to a buyer or two when I had listings on Chase and Stanton... I was going to write I never sold or listed anything on Lincoln Avenue... but that would be a lie. I had an open house on Chase Street and met Jonathan... who I sold a house on Lincoln Avenue.

Last year I read a history of Columbus. I believe the story of Lincoln, Stanton and Chase staying there and that's why the streets South of Worthington are called Lincoln, Stanton and Chase was just an urban legend.

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