| Help give our horses a bed
HORSES being stabled by a charity group in Nuneaton face a bleak winter unless someone can find a way around a recycling hurdle. Fifteen animals being kept at the North Warwickshire Equestrian Centre, at Galley Common, have relied on shredded newspaper for their winter bedding. But the group's shredding machine has broken down for the last time and is being scrapped. It threatens to leave the horses out in the cold when the winter weather bites. Charity workers have now sent out an urgent plea for someone to solve their problem by donating a second-hand shredder. .
Document shredding available in WDM Saturday
Residents can have confidential materials shredded from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the West Des Moines United Methodist Church parking lot, Eighth Street and Grand Avenue.
Shred-It, a on-site document destruction company, will work with the West Des Moines Lions Club on the fundraiser. Residents are asked to give a good-will offering, with all proceeds going to the Lions Club. There also will be information for residents about identity theft and how to destroy confidential materials.
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Compton Documents
LOS ANGELES -- What easier way to steal your identity than if your personal financial information is sitting in the trash for hundreds of people to grab? Contact Ana Garica or Joel Grover | Video Documents about you -- the government threw out. We uncovered another breach of security that might include your personal and financial information -- information tossed in the trash at a courthouse. .
Duthler's offers shredding service
A local grocery chain is offering at two of its area stores a steel shredding box for customers to dispose of personal papers. "We're all about service, and it does provide a service that I think will grow in demand," said David Duthler, president of Duthler's Family Foods. "We thought, 'Well, maybe we could have this, and it'd be another reason for people to come to our store instead of somewhere else.' " A ShredStation is operating in Duthler stores at 830 28th St. SW in Wyoming and 425 Fuller Ave. NE in Grand Rapids. For $5, customers can put up to two pounds of papers into the ShredStation, a self-diagnostic collection box that when nearing capacity notifies a licensed shredder to come and destroy the contents on site.
Compton Documents
LOS ANGELES -- What easier way to steal your identity than if your personal financial information is sitting in the trash for hundreds of people to grab? Contact Ana Garica or Joel Grover | Video Documents about you -- the government threw out. We uncovered another breach of security that might include your personal and financial information -- information tossed in the trash at a courthouse. .
Increased security is key for banks
Doing your banking online? Soon you may be asked for more than just a password. The computer may also quiz you about your mother's maiden name, what you call your dog, the first car you owned, your favorite author or your hometown. It's all part of the tougher security requirements that federal regulators have told banks they must put in place this year to fight a surging tide of identity theft. Such crimes cost financial companies and their customers about $57 billion last year, according to Javelin Strategy & Research, a banking consultant. Many big banks already have put more complicated access procedures into effect, while smaller banks, which usually use an outside company to run their online operations, are still working on it. Their challenge is to strike a balance between security and convenience, while holding down added costs.
Fallbrook clean up/recycling day a spectacular success
What a day September 16 was! The Fallbrook community-wide Clean Up/Recycling Day brought out hundreds of Fallbrook families and individuals who wanted to recycle their old computers, dispose of their old tires or shred long-saved personal papers.
The downtown portion of the event brought in 450 cars to the E-waste recycling area, sponsored by Bill Cox of Oceansides 1-800-GOT-JUNK? That area was so ably manned by the Senior Volunteers from the Sheriffs Department and other community organization volunteers that the whole process went like clockwork. Those cars, at times lined up two abreast all down Fig Street, dropped off 40,560 pounds of electrical equipment 18.5 tons! All those items ended up in large cardboard containers which were then moved by forklift into two huge semi-truck trailers, filling them to the brim!
Another 78 cars pulled up to the paper-shredding truck, provided by Shred-It of Vista and manned by Shred-Its Jaime Connell and Bob Leonard of the Fallbrook Chamber.
Help give our horses a bed
HORSES being stabled by a charity group in Nuneaton face a bleak winter unless someone can find a way around a recycling hurdle. Fifteen animals being kept at the North Warwickshire Equestrian Centre, at Galley Common, have relied on shredded newspaper for their winter bedding. But the group's shredding machine has broken down for the last time and is being scrapped. It threatens to leave the horses out in the cold when the winter weather bites. Charity workers have now sent out an urgent plea for someone to solve their problem by donating a second-hand shredder. .
Document shredding service helps prevent ID theft
Fred Smith tells the story of one area attorney whose collection of former client files became so voluminous that he was forced to lock them up in two railroad car-sized storage containers. Although the attorney's "dead files" dilemma was bigger than most, his problem was essentially identical to nearly every business owner or consumer who doesn't know what to do with old documents: Throwing away sensitive paperwork opens the door to identify theft, a growing problem throughout the United States. "Seven-hundred thousand people are affected by identity theft," said Smith, who along with partner Bill Nalls recently opened All Purpose Document Destruction in an industrial complex near Main Street and Highway 395 in Hesperia. "It's affecting almost all demographics you can think of.
Document shredding service helps prevent ID theft
Fred Smith tells the story of one area attorney whose collection of former client files became so voluminous that he was forced to lock them up in two railroad car-sized storage containers. Although the attorney's "dead files" dilemma was bigger than most, his problem was essentially identical to nearly every business owner or consumer who doesn't know what to do with old documents: Throwing away sensitive paperwork opens the door to identify theft, a growing problem throughout the United States. "Seven-hundred thousand people are affected by identity theft," said Smith, who along with partner Bill Nalls recently opened All Purpose Document Destruction in an industrial complex near Main Street and Highway 395 in Hesperia. "It's affecting almost all demographics you can think of.
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