Confidential paper shredding event Oct. 8

[September 27, 2011]  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 in a secure and confidential manner. Hard drives will also be accepted for shredding. The State Bank of Lincoln and the Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency are co-sponsoring a free program for confidential on-site paper shredding and hard drive destruction. Proper disposal of this sensitive information may prevent individuals in your household from becoming victims of identity theft.

The paper shredding and hard drive destruction will be on Oct. 8 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Logan County Fairgrounds. Participants are asked to use the Main Gate entrance. The last glass recycling collection of the year will be at the same time and location.

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. Hard drives to be destroyed must be removed from participants' computers before the event. Participants will also be responsible for the disposal of bags and boxes brought to the collection.

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.

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

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