10K views | The Suffolk Public Works Department will pick up trash as regularly scheduled over the Columbus Day Holiday. TFC Recycling will also conduct its normal recycling collection. For more information on refuse collection, please call Public Works at (757) 514-7630. | City of Suffolk, VA - Municipal Government | Facebook

The United States observes its Columbus Day holiday on Monday as well as Indigenous Peoples Day. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1971 to celebrate the 1492 landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. Recognition of the violence, disease and other suffering inflicted by European nations on the people already living in the Western Hemisphere has in recent years prompted a reevaluation of the holiday, including calls for its abolishment and new commemorations of indigenous popula