The South Pasadena Kiwanis Club rolls a shredding truck up to South Pasadena Middle School Saturday morning for what has become a familiar civic ritual: a community document-shredding day, free to participants, with proceeds from suggested donations directed to the club’s programs serving local children.
Shredding events of this kind are typically run on a drive-up basis, with residents bringing boxes of papers — old tax records, bank statements, junk mail with personal information — for on-site secured destruction by a bonded company. Past Kiwanis events in South Pasadena have followed the same model.
Founded in 1915 as a service organization, Kiwanis International today operates more than 7,500 clubs in dozens of countries, with a stated mission of improving the world by serving children one community at a time. The South Pasadena chapter is part of that network and runs a calendar of fundraising and community-service events including pancake breakfasts and youth scholarship programs.
South Pasadena Middle School — recently named a 2026 California Distinguished School, the highest such honor for public schools in California — sits on Fair Oaks Avenue, near the city’s main thoroughfare and a short drive from most South Pasadena neighborhoods.
Kiwanis Community Shredding Day will run on Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. South Pasadena Middle School, 1500 Fair Oaks Avenue, South Pasadena. For more information, contact the South Pasadena Kiwanis Club via the South Pasadenan listing. Admission is free; donations welcome.
