Closures
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Family Day Holiday Closings
Garbage pick-up in Chatham-Kent will fall a day after your normal garbage day.
All local banks and credit unions will be closed on the holiday Monday.
The following municipal offices/facilities will be CLOSED on the Family Day Holiday Monday February 20, 2012:
Closed on the Family Day Holiday
- All Community Municipal Centres and Information Desks – Blenheim, Chatham including Service Ontario, Dresden including Service Ontario, Ridgetown, Tilbury, Wallaceburg, Bothwell, Merlin, Highgate, Thamesville and Wheatley
- Building, Enforcement and Licensing Services
- Chatham Cultural Centre Box Office and administrative offices
- Chatham-Kent Centre for Community Services – offices of Ontario Works, Social Housing, Children’s Services and Public Health (Essential after-hours Public Health services are available by calling 1-866-446-8207)
- Health Unit Clinical Services
- (Operational on Family Day are public health non-nursing services throughout Chatham-Kent including Public Health Inspection, nutritional services)
- Chatham-Kent Energy, Hydro & Utility Services
- Chatham-Kent Visitor Information Centre and RM Classic Car Exhibit are closed
- CK Transit services will not be operating
- Economic Development Services and Chatham-Kent Small Business Centre
- Garbage and recycling collection services will be delayed by one day for the entire week for all areas receiving curbside collection – refer to your 2011/2012 Residential Recycling and Waste Collection Calendar for details
- Harwich Transfer Station, Wallaceburg Transfer Station and Chatham Leaf & Yard Depot
- May Court and Wallaceburg Childcare Learning Centres
- Park Avenue Business Centre – offices of Recreation Programs; Municipal Properties; Parks, Cemeteries and Horticulture; Fleet administration and Public Works administration
- Provincial Offences Court
- Public Utilities Commission office
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OPERATIONAL SERVICES ON the Family Day Holiday
- All Public Works garages
- Arenas are open for regular bookings and a Family Day free public skating schedule is available at www.chatham-kent.ca
- Cemetery staff will be on call to handle cemetery business for funeral home operations
- Gable Rees Rotary Pool is offering free Family Day swimming from 10:30 AM to 12:00 NOON and 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, and Wallaceburg Sydenham Pool is offering free swimming from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
- Public Health non-nursing services throughout Chatham-Kent including Public Health Inspection, nutritional services
- Public libraries in Chatham-Kent are open regularly scheduled hours (Chatham, Highgate, Merlin, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg)
- Riverview Gardens Long Term Care Home – visiting hours will continue as normal but administrative offices will be closed
- Thames Art Gallery and Chatham-Kent Museum will open 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the holiday Monday
- Emergency Services – Police, Fire and Ambulance are operational 24 hours a day every day and are accessible by dialling “911” for emergency calls only
- For more information about municipal services, visit www.chatham-kent.ca or telephone 519-360-1998







