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Free shred day returns when Austin ARMA again hosts a FREE SHRED DAY for household documents.
Saturday, November 6, 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM, At Balcones Shred, 9301 Johnny Morris Rd.
This event is for private households to securely destroy their confidential information. Basic requirements are:
• Documents must be dry paper only and packed in cardboard boxes no larger than 24in x 24 in x 36in. Boxes must have fitted lids securely closed using box flaps (not taped). No more than 10 boxes per vehicle.
• Both CDC and local mandates will be strictly followed for this event, by volunteers and attendees. Masks and social distancing will be required. We ask that you stay inside your vehicle at all times, limiting contact with others for your safety as well as the safety of our volunteers. Unlike previous years, you will not be able to witness the shredding of your documents at this event. The Fall Shred Day is subject to cancellation at any moment due to COVID concerns, so please check our website regularly for updates, including the day of the event.
• All shredded material and cardboard boxes are recycled.
• Event is free. However, Monetary donations will be kindly accepted, with proceeds going to the Austin ARMA Chapter and Operation Turkey.
• Both CDC and local mandates will be strictly followed for this event, by volunteers and attendees. Masks and social distancing will be required. ARMA asks that you stay inside your vehicle at all times, limiting contact with others for your safety as well as the safety of our volunteers. Unlike previous years, you will not be able to witness the shredding of your documents at this event. The Fall Shred Day is subject to cancellation at any moment due to COVID concerns, so please check the ARMA website regularly for updates, including the day of the event,Additional information and details may be found on the ARMA website:
https://www.austinarma.com/Shred-Day/
That website also has a guide to retention of household documents.
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I inadvertently used an out-of-date bio for Pam Ferguson’s article on page 12, “Tips on volunteering, donating.” Here’s the up-to-date one:
Pamela Ellen Ferguson, a longtime resident of Kerrybrook Lane, writes a column of observations about North Shoal Creek and the larger world for each issue. A dual-national British and American (Texan father, Cornish mother) Pam is the author of 11 books published internationally, the most recent being CROSSING LINES, an Austin and Border based mystery set at Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos. Pam welcomes comments via email at Pamelacudot@gmail.com. Her web-site is www.pamelaferguson.net.
Also on page 12, column 2, under “Further ideas,” the date for the Austin tan Cerca de la Frontera‘s annual “Women and Fair Trade” fair is November 20 (not Nov. 21) at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Avenue at 49th Street. Volunteers are needed to help set up and take down. The fair is a great place to find handicrafts from women’s collectives in Texas, Central and South America. Call 512-474-2399 or visit website www.ATCF.org
Sharon Justice, Editor, North Shoal Creek Neighborhood News
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North Shoal Creek’s semi-annual residential bulk collection week begins Monday, September 27. Bulk items include:
•Doors
•Carpet
•Furniture
•Appliances (remove doors)
•Passenger car tires (remove rims; limit eight tires per household)
•Lawn mowers (remove gas/oil)
•Railroad ties (cut in half)
•Pallets
•Rolled fencing
•Nail-free lumberBulk item collection crews cannot collect:
•Brush
•Household trash
•Cardboard boxes
•Hazardous materials
•Mirrors
•Automotive chassis and bodies,
•Motorcycles
•Trailers,
•Boats
•Tires that are still mounted on rims
•Sheet glass and other construction and remodeling debrisCollection guidelines
•Place bulk items at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week
•Separate items into three piles as described below
•To prevent damage to your property, keep items 5 feet away from your trash cart, mailbox, fences or walls, water meter, telephone connection box and parked cars. Do not place any items under low hanging tree limbs or power lines
•Austin Resource Recovery only collects bulk items from its residential trash and recycling customers
•Items will not be collected if they are in an alley, in front of a vacant lot or in front of a business
•Do not put items in bags, boxes or other containers. Bulk collection is for items too large to fit in containers. Bags will be treated as extra trash and are subject to extra trash fees.Separate items into three piles
1.Metal items – Includes appliances (remove doors). These are taken to our Resource Recovery Center for recycling
2.Passenger car tires – Rims must be removed. Limit of eight tires per household. We cannot collect truck or tractor tires. Tires will go to a tire recycling facility
3.Non-metal items – Includes carpeting and nail-free lumber. These items go to a landfill. Austin Resource Recovery is working on plans to salvage reusable items from bulk collection to help meet the City of Austin’s Zero Waste goalBecause these piles are collected by different trucks, they may be collected at different times throughout the week.
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FROM THE NORTH SHOAL CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
“We had planned to resume NSCNA’s in-person membership meetings by holding our regular Fall meeting on Tues., Sept. 7 at 6:30pm in the Pillow Elementary School Library. However, the Covid Delta variant has forced us to cancel that Sept. 7 meeting.
Now, we hope to resume in-person membership meetings on Tues., Nov. 2, same time and place. We plan to send out meeting reminders a week to 10 days before the Nov. meeting.
Let’s all hope it’ll be safe to hold an in-person meeting by then! And we hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
The NSCNA Board of Directors
