First Community Credit Union in Jamestown, ND held their first Shred Event on a brisk fall day.�� The credit union partnered with the Better Business Bureau and a document destruction company for this great event to help fight identity theft.�
They invited all residents to shred unneeded documents of any personal, medical, or business nature, at�the branch parking lot via a mobile shredding unit. The community also had the opportunity to recycle old cellphones through the "Cellphones for soldiers program" where AT & T reprograms and ship them overseas to military at no cost.
In the 5 hour long shred event,�they had 55 people attend, 1240 lbs of paper shredded and 43 cell phones collected.� For the first event,�the credit union�considered it a great success and look forward to growing it in years to come!
