Jamie Harding

AARP Alabama and Fox 6 WBRC will host a FREE Shred-A-Thon on Wednesday, April 29 at the BJCC complex in Uptown Birmingham. Area residents can bring up to 3 bags OR 3 file boxes of personal documents for shredding on-site from 7 AM to 2 PM.

The Alabama Legislature has proposed budget cuts as high as 50% to home- and community-based services (HCBS) for the elderly and homebound. These services include: prescription assistance, meals on wheels, home health aides, personal care assistants, respite care, and other critical services.

You’ve w orked hard to save for retirement and you deserve a financial advisor who works just as hard to protect what you’ve earned. Right now, loopholes in the law allow bad-actors in the financial industry to provide retirement savings “advice” based on what’s best for their pocketbook, not yours. The result? They can recommend investments with higher fees, riskier features, and lower returns because they earn more money, even if those investments are not the best choice for you. Bad advice is wrong, and it is costing Americans up to $17 billion per year.

Friday nights are AARP Discount Night at Alabama Shakespeare Festival this season. There is something for everyone to enjoy in this year's productions.

This Saturday, April 18, AARP Alabama is co-sponsoring a FREE shred and electronics recycling event for Huntsville-area residents. It will take place at Redstone Federal Credit Union at 220 Wynn Drive NW in Huntsville. We'll be there from 8:30 AM to 12:00 noon, shredding your personal documents and destroying hard drives and other electronics on-site.

AARP’s CarFit is coming to HealthPlus Fitness Center in Auburn to offer area drivers a free opportunity to check how their cars “fit” them.

The shred event originally scheduled for Friday, April 10 in Montgomery has been POSTPONED to Friday, April 24, due to forecasted stormy weather.

Once again, AARP Alabama is teaming up with WBRC Fox 6 in Birmingham to bring you a series of Shred-A-Thons around North Central Alabama. Shredding your personal documents is an important way to protect yourself against identity theft. All documents will be shredded on-site, thanks to Secure Destruction Service. You can bring up to 3 trash bags or 3 file boxes of personal documents to be shredded.

AARP Alabama is co-sponsoring a FREE document shredding and recycling event on Friday, April 10. Montgomery-area citizens are welcome to bring up to 5 bags or boxes of documents for shredding from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM to the shredding truck in the south parking lot of Garrett Coliseum, 1555 Federal Drive in Montgomery.

The past year has been a very busy and successful one for AARP Alabama's volunteer leaders. Beginning with the inaugural class of AARP's Volunteer Leadership Institute that started in 2013, Alabama has been well-represented. The VLI was started by AARP as an investment in volunteer leaders across the country, providing them with training and skills that enable them to expand their leadership roles in AARP's national volunteer network. Each of these accomplished individuals was nominated by AARP Alabama's state office, and they graciously agreed to take time from their busy schedules to participate enthusiastically in the VLI training. We would like to recognize and thank these volunteer leaders here.