(File Photo of Representative Aaron Bernstine)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) According to a release from Representative Aaron Bernstine’s office, Bernstinewill host a free community shredding event at the Ellport Borough Building in Ellwood City. This will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 12th. 8th Legislative District residents can shred documents with personal information that is sensitive like medical records, Social Security numbers and account information. Bound books, newspapers and phonebooks will not be accepted. The acceptable items wil be shredded by a professional shredding company on-site and will be recycled afterwards. Acceptable items suitable for shredding include bank and credit card statements, documents for insurance, tax returns that are old, as well as other papers that have information that is financial or personal. You can call Bernstine’s offices at 724-847-5291 or 724-752-2120 for more information.