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Hello,It is time again for our Semi-Annual FREE Shred-A-Thon!
When: 9 AM – 11 AM on April 11, 2015
Where Monte Vista Elementary School Parking Lot
Cost: FREE We are asking for a Food Donation for the Kyrene Resource Center (please limit 4 boxes of shred per person- if you have more please call me directly. We suggest one food item for each box or bag of paper to shred)
Don’t forget to register for 4 FREE tickets to a Diamond Back’s Game!!
The Free community Shred a Thon held October 27, 2014 at Monte Vista Elementary school, sponsored by Shirley Coomer and Greg Stainton with Keller Williams Realty was a huge success.
The shredding Truck service was donated by ASDD Document Destruction of Tempe. ASSD Documentation Destruction of Tempe is owned by the Tempe Center for Habilitation (TCH). Their truck shred 5,758 pounds of paper, which the truck operator said was unusually high for a two hour event. This equates to saving 72 trees, not to mention paper that does not go into a land fill. The shred from the event equates to $430 worth of donation for the Tempe Center for Habilitation.
The great news is we collected over 700 pounds of food for the Kyrene Resource Center and your donations made a difference for a great many families! For this event our food goal is 1000 pounds of food!
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