Shred-a-thon cleans house with donations

MARYSVILLE — The city's annual Shred-A-Thon again marked the culminating of its spring "Clean Sweep," even as the community prepared for Earth Day the following weekend.

MARYSVILLE — The city’s annual Shred-A-Thon again marked the culminating of its spring “Clean Sweep,” even as the community prepared for Earth Day the following weekend.

American Data Group’s two trucks parked at their usual spots outside of Marysville City Hall, drawing 302 customers, who presented them with 12,800 pounds of paper to be shredded, and 460 cubit feet of styrofoam to be recycled.

Bronlea Mishler, community information officer for the city, thanked the students of the Marysville Naval Junior ROTC and the employees of HomeStreet Bank for volunteering to load the boxes and bags from visitors’ vehicles into the loading bins for the trucks.

“We had a great turnout, and were pleased to help participants get rid of personal documents that can make them targets of identity thieves,” Mishler said. “Our PC recycling and styrofoam collection were also brisk, adding to our goal of helping community members get their spring cleaning off on the right foot.”

The day also yielded donations of 40 tower computers and 11 monitors, 20 printers and scanners, 10 routers and modems, 10 VCR and DVD players, two iPads and one cell phone for the Marysville Arts & Technology High School’s computer repair lab, as well as $452 and 384 pounds of nonperishable food for the Marysville Community Food Bank.