Reminder: Confidential paper shredding program Oct. 30

[October 21, 2010]  Are you worried about your personal information getting into the wrong hands? If so, bring your financial records, old tax returns and other sensitive household records to be shredded and destroyed in a secure and confidential manner. Hard drives will also be accepted for shredding.

A free disposal program will be available on Oct. 30 at the city parking lot on Kickapoo Street, across from Latham Park.

The State Bank of Lincoln and the Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency are co-sponsoring a confidential on-site paper shredding and hard drive destruction program through Midwest Fiber Recycling.

The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon. Participants are asked to enter by turning onto Delavan Street and then into the alley between Kickapoo and Chicago streets, behind the city garage.

Proper disposal of sensitive information may prevent individuals in your household from becoming the victim of identity theft.

Participants will be limited to five bags or boxes of materials to be shredded. Participants are asked to ensure that no plastic, glass, trash or non-paper items are brought to the collection. Participants are required to remove the hard drive from the computer prior to bringing them in for destruction.

Participants will be able to watch the shredding and destruction of paperwork and hard drives via a camera located in the bed of the shredding truck. Participants should maintain possession of their materials until they are brought to the truck for shredding. Sponsors of the paper shredding and hard drive destruction are not responsible for any materials left unattended prior to or during the shredding event.

Participants will be responsible for the disposal of bags and boxes brought to the collection.

For more information on the paper shredding and hard drive destruction, contact Mitzi Rohlfs, Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency coordinator, at 732-9636 or visit www.co.logan.il.us and select "Joint Solid Waste Agency."

[Text from file received from the Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency]