Fighting identity theft, one shredded document at a time
Employees from Heartland Bank in Princeton helped area residents unload boxes of documents in the side parking lot at Princeton Public Library in a well-attended Shred Day event Saturday. The papers were then fed into a mobile shredding unit housed in a truck operated by Confidential On-Site Paper Shredding. The idea behind the event is to help people protect themselves from identity theft by shredding personal documents. The bank’s next area Shred Day will be from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Peru Heartland Bank at 925 Shooting Park Road.
Heartland Bank staffers (foreground, from left) Jessica Peterson, Jason Sullivan, Kelsey Kuchar and Tim Remy bring dropped-off documents to big gray garbage totes whose contents were then fed into the mobile shredding unit at the bank's Shred Day.
Jason Sullivan (middle, background) and Kelsey Kuchar (right) help a customer unload documents to be shredded at Saturday's Heartland Bank Shred Day in Princeton.
Ron Imsland of Heartland Bank in Princeton handles tubs that contained documents to be shredded at Shred Day, sponsored by the bank.
Cars pull up to be unloaded at Shred Day in the side parking lot at Princeton Public Library.
A video monitor carries an image of documents being shredded inside the mobile shredding truck.
Large totes filled with dropped-off documents are positioned to be fed into the mobile shredding unit.
Confidential On-Site Paper Shredding provided the mobile shredding unit at Saturday's Shred Day.
Kathy Hermeyer unloads documents from a trunk during Saturday's Shred Day in Princeton.