Since both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Fridays this year, only Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park customers of Newbury Disposal who normally have their trash and recycling or green waste collected Friday will have them collected one day later than usual both weeks.

Service will remain the same for customers who have their trash and recyclables or green waste collected Monday through Thursday.

The regular collection schedule will resume the week of Jan. 3 through 9.

As a special holiday feature, residents may put out twice the amount of trash at no extra charge during the two weeks following Christmas. Place all trash in bags. Extra recyclables will be collected, but flatten all boxes.

Newbury Disposal is helping customers recycle their Christmas trees. Customers need to remove the ornaments, hooks, lights, tinsel, bows, nails and tree stand. Cut the tree into sections no more than 4 feet long and place in the yard waste barrel on the scheduled pickup day.

Flocked trees cannot be recycled. For more information, call (805) 647-1414.

At 6-foot-2, Krishna Kokatay is Sequoia Boys & Girls Club’s “gentle giant.” He’s also a towering tech whiz, with the magic touch when it comes to a club computer or Nintendo Wii that needs mending. When he joined the Club as a Sequoia Middle School sixth-grader last year, he was still in the process of finding his academic and social footing, but his determination was apparent to club director Lisa Barron, who put a desk next to hers to help him stay on task with his homework.

She also maintained constant communication with his math and science teacher throughout the school year. Krishna’s perseverance and spirit of service paid off in both excellent grades and a thriving social life at the Club.

For more information about BGC/CLV’s supervised enrichment programs and activities, call (818) 706-0905.