It happens every year. The run-up to Christmas makes such demands on people’s time and energy that workaday routines are suspended from mid-November to New Year’s Day. The car’s oil doesn’t get changed, the colonoscopy is postponed, the cobwebs go unchallenged and the furniture donations to the Refugee Resettlement Committee (RRC) cease. Starting off the new year with empty warehouses leaves RRC volunteers scrambling to set up apartments for January arrivals from Sudan and Iraq. Please, as your routine reasserts itself this week, make it a priority to recycle your sofa, chairs, tables and lamps. Call Joe Dubray at (904) 527-9773 to schedule a pick-up.