 Welcome to this Week in Longmont for October 30, 2020. Fall leaf collection. The City of Longmont offers residents free, one-time, curbside collection of bag leaves from November 2 to November 13. Leaves must be in paper or plastic bags and place curbside by 7 a.m. on the Monday of your scheduled leaf collection week. To find your collection schedule and rules for leaf collection, visit bit.ly forward slash longmont-leaf or call 303-651-841-6 with questions. Play Day of the Dead Mexican Bingo! After a lengthy hiatus, the library's popular bilingual family program, Loteria Mexicana, returns virtually via WebEx just in time for Day of the Dead celebrations. Families are invited to play a few rounds of traditional Mexican bingo from 4 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. Using special Day of the Dead game boards provided by the library, this bilingual program is free, but registration is required. For details and to register, visit bit.ly forward slash libkids. Celebrate Day of the Dead virtually. We can't gather for the usual festival, but you can celebrate Day of the Dead from home with the performers you love. Performers include Las Dalia Singing Mexican Trio, Grupo Folklorico Mexico, Lindo Dance, Mariachi, and Bilingual Poetry by community leader Laura Soto. And there's much, much more. Tune in from 2.30 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 on the Longmont Museum's Facebook page, longmontpublicmedia.org, and on local Comcast Channel 8 forward slash 880. Businesses turn on your lighting bonus. If you're saving energy on your lights, don't forget to save money too. Time is almost up for longmont businesses to claim a 25% rebate bonus from Efficiency Works for new LED lighting fixtures. To earn the bonus, the work must be pre-approved and completed, and you must submit the documentation for payment by November 15. Find out more at efficiencyworks.org forward slash business forward slash rebates. Ice Pavilion opens November 20. The Longmont Pavilion in Roosevelt Park, located at 725 8th Avenue, will open on Friday, November 20, while they're permitting. Public ice skating, drop-in hockey, skating lessons, and private facility rentals are available by reservation only. You can make online reservations for open skate and learn to skate lessons beginning Friday, November 6. Youth Hockey League registration for ages 5 through 18 is ongoing. For more information and to make your reservation, visit. Get your pens ready? Longmont colorio.gov forward slash ice-pavilion or call 303-651-8404. Following leaves, sweeping streets. As the leaves fall, city staff and contractors hit the streets and forced to sweep them up. The street sweeping routes and operations are designed to not interfere with trash collection and to assure that bank lanes are swept as well. It is also standard practice to sweep snow routes following snowfall. You can find maps that show the estimated schedule of citywide fall sweeping at longmont colorio.gov forward slash street dash sweeping or call 303-651-8416 for more information. Dickens Farm Nature Area Granted Parks and Trails Award Longmont Dickens Farm Nature Area has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Parks and Trails Award for a large community, given out by the Colorado Chapter of the American Public Works Association. This newest nature area in Longmont's park system opened to the public in the spring, but the spread of COVID-19 canceled grand opening plans. The lack of ceremony proved not to matter though, as visitors flocked to Dickens Farm to enjoy fresh air, water access, and time with family and friends. This has been this week in Longmont for October 30th, 2020. Thank you for watching.