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Thanksgiving week: trash days and ways to give

Illustration: a trash cart and a recycling cart beside a calendar page showing Nov 26, with a pie.
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If your trash day is Thursday, set it out Wednesday, November 25. If it’s Friday, set it out Monday, November 30.

That’s our reading of the City’s rule: a Thursday pickup moves to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a Friday pickup to the Monday after. There’s no collection on Thanksgiving or the Friday after, and the drop-off sites are closed both days (City holiday schedule, opens in a new tab). Your own dates are at cityofmadison.com/CollectionSchedule, opens in a new tab.

Give. Goodman Community Center takes groceries and frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving baskets through November 23 (drop-off hours).

Get out. Thanksgiving morning has the Madison Turkey Trot, the Olin Park lights are on every night, and there’s a free bird walk about turkeys on Saturday the 28th.

Happy Thanksgiving, neighbors.