Police AssociAtion of novA scotiA 39 Bullying Awareness 40th Annua l Cr ime Preven t i on Gu i de 2010 PANS PAnS in the news.... Road toll prep - Trenton Middle School students Jacob Pentz, left, and Chad Lumsden, right, meet with New Glasgow Police Const. Becky Heighton to go over plans for a road toll on Main Street, Trenton, tomorrow. It will be held from 4-7 p.m. and funds raised will go toward Home and School Association-sponsored events for the students, like end of year trips. As originally published in The News, by Jennifer Vardy Little. No other way to cut it - shredder day was a hit By any measure the first-ever community shred program was a hit. The program began at 10:30 a.m., Thursday and by shortly after 11 a.m., there had been 45 bags and boxes dropped off to be shredded and disposed of. Const. Ken MacDonald said that by the 1pm deadline 107 bags and boxes of papers were put through the shredder. “It was an overwhelming success,” Const. MacDonald said. “We seem to have had people from all over Pictou County. We met our objectives to prevent identity theft and promote identity theft awareness...we’re looking at doing it again next year.” One county resident who took advantage of the service was Eleanor Robertson. “I wanted to get rid of stuff I’ve been saving in the attic for 12 years.” She said the material she was disposing of was mostly personal financial materials like tax returns and VISA bills. “This is a wonderful idea. I’m going back to check for more,” she said. Const. MacDonald said that was the main goal, to help people dispose of personal information in a safe, secure manner. “In talking with people in the community, it is mostly receipts with personal information,” he said. Devin Jollimore, of Shred-it, the company that provided the mobile cross-cut shredder, said the material is trucked to their plant at Ragged Lake. “We press it and wrap it and it gets recycled.” The truck was certainly in demand: Jollimore said they had 16 more stops that day. The project was a joint initiative of the New Glasgow Police Service, Pictou County Municipalities Crime Prevention Association, Crime Stoppers and the New Glasgow Library. As originally published in The News, by Ray Burns, November 19, 2010.
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