Most of us have seen seasonal LED strings in the past couple of years, either on store shelves or hanging from neighbour's houses and trees. They're the brighter, better holiday lights that not only look more colorful and vivid, but also use about 95% less electricity than your old incandescent-style light strings. You can save a substantial amount of energy - and money - by switching up to SLEDs.

To help you make that switch, on Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18, One Change and the Ontario Power Authority [1] are holding seasonal LED exchange events in selected communities across Ontario. If you're looking for ways to reduce your energy consumption this holiday season, the SLED exchange is perhaps the easiest change you can make!

One Change representatives will be at select Canadian Tire [2] and Home Hardware [3] this weekend to collect old and wasteful incandescent light strings. Drop your old holiday lights off with our team and we'll give you a buy-one-get-one-free voucher, reedemable that day in the store where you've done the exchange. You'll get to choose the replacement LED lights you prefer, in a variety of lengths and styles, all guaranteed to be much more efficient than your old strings.

Join us this Saturday or Sunday, depending on location, from 10AM to 2PM. See below for a complete list of locations and their corresponding dates.

Saturday November 17

We'll be at Canadian Tire stores this Saturday in the following locations:

• Bracebridge, Highway 118 West
• Brockville, 2360 Parkdale Avenue
• Collingwood, 89 Balsam Street
• Dryden, 409 Government Street
• Fort Frances, 1000 Kings Highway
• Gananoque, 705 King Street East
• Kapuskasing, 25 Brunetville Road
• Kincardine, 811 Durham Street
• Ingersoll, 98 Mutual Street
• Leamington, 262 Erie Street
• Midland, Highway 93 South
• Owen Sound, 1605 16th Street East
• Pembroke, 1104 Pembroke Street East
• Port Colborne, 287 West Side Road
• Nipigon, corner of First and Fifth Streets
• St. Thomas, 1063 Talbot Street
• Welland, 777 Niagara Street

We'll also be at Home Hardware stores this Saturday in the following locations:

• Cobourg, 764 Division Street
• Kirkland Lake, 15 Kirkland Street East

Sunday November 18

We'll be at Canadian Tire stores this Sunday in the following locations:

• Tillsonburg, 248 Broadway Street

We'll also be at Home Hardware stores this Sunday in the following locations:

• Acton, 362 Queen Street East
• Essex, 47 Wilson Avenue
• Kenora, 1105 Highway 17 East
• Marathon, 4 Peninsula Road
• New Hamburg, 59 Peel Street
• Port Perry, 175 Queen Street
• Smiths Falls, 58 Abbott Street
• Stratford, R.R. 4, Highway 7 and 8 East

As with every promotional offer, there's a couple of small-print items to note before you drop by. We offer them to you here, in regular-size-print:

• Only 500 buy-one-get-one-free vouchers will be available at each location this weekend. Please come to see us at 10AM, old light strings in hand, to make sure you'll get a voucher.
• Buy-one-get-one-free vouchers are valid on the day of the exchange only.
• We are happy to take as many of your old light strings for recycling as you'd like to drop off, but the exchange voucher offer must be limited to one per customer.

If you have any questions regarding the SLED exchange, please contact us online [4], by phone at 1-866-585-6359, or at the store where your local event is being held.

Let's green the season - see you this weekend!