There are less than two weeks left until Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Palliative Care’s “Shred-it” event on Saturday, Aug. 17.

The popular annual fundraiser is a chance to have your confidential papers properly destroyed — and an opportunity to financially support the palliative care service’s work in the community.

Volunteers will be in the back parking lot at Simpson’s Pharmacy at 1882 Niagara Stone Rd. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

They will grab the papers from your vehicle and carry them to Shred-it trucks for destruction and disposal.

The fee is $8 for the equivalent of a banker’s box or $20 for three boxes (or the amount of paper equivalent to one standard size box, if papers are brought in another type of container).

Please note the organizers will not actually be selling banker’s boxes.

The fundraiser is sponsored by Meridian Credit Union and Hummel Properties, so all proceeds will go to NOTL Community Palliative Care.

Here are the details of how the disposal process will work:

Organizers will have traffic cones and people stationed all around the clearly marked parking lot to take the money and direct to people looking to shred documents to the trucks. 

There will be no need to leave your vehicle: volunteers will take the boxes out of the vehicle for you, reducing chances of injury.

Volunteers will be working in shifts at the site from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., or when the Shred-it trucks are full.

Note that they will not be shredding papers earlier. The large trucks require a clear pathway to the parking lot the day of, so organizers discourage early-bird arrivals.

For more information, visit notlpc.com/event/2024-shred-it-fundraising-campaign.