Anchorage Daily News

Secure Your ID Day document shredding event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Wells Fargo, 301 W. Northern Lights Blvd. This Better Business Bureau event is designed to raise awareness about identity theft prevention.

Drive up and drop off up to three grocery bags or boxes of unwanted documents. No cardboard or three-ring binders will be accepted.

Items will be securely shredded on the spot by Shred Alaska. For details on how to prevent identity theft or to learn more about Secure Your ID Day, visit www.akorww.bbb.org/secure-your-id. Free.

Junior Towne earns five-star rating

Junior Towne has earned a five-star certification from BabyExperts.com. BabyExperts.com is an association of locally owned baby product specialty stores across the United States. The stores sell and provide expert advice on products for parents, infants and children. In order to become certified, Junior Towne had to be evaluated by an independent agency familiar with the juvenile industry.

Sadie Cove lodge seeing 'green'

The Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge in Kachemak Bay recently won a first-place award as the "Leading U.S. Green Resort" from the World Travel Awards, a London-based firm that divvies out annual tourism awards. It is the first lodging in Alaska to ever to receive an award from the organization, according to its owners. The lodge, owned by Keith and Randi Iverson, opened in 1981 and runs on hydroelectric and wind power. For more information about the lodge, go to www.sadiecove.com.

GeoNorth has a partner

GeoNorth LLC, an Anchorage custom information technology solutions provider, is now partnering with DLT Solutions Inc. of Herndon, Va., a value-added reseller of information technology solutions to government agencies and businesses.

"This partnership will further compliment our already extensive core of IT consulting service offerings on a national scale.

"It is our responsibility to our clients to provide them with superior solutions to their unique IT needs, to train and develop their staff throughout the relationship, and to make the overall experience with GeoNorth a positive and rewarding one. This partnership with DLT Solutions will help us do exactly that," said Brian Minster, GeoNorth president.

GeoNorth specializes in state-of-the-art IT solutions for "geographic information systems," or GIS, Web design and development, and database management applications. It also has an office in Portland, Ore.

Energy authority soliciting grants

The Alaska Energy Authority is soliciting grant applications for renewable-energy projects to be funded by the state. Last year the Legislature established the Renewable Energy Fund and authorized the energy authority to oversee awarding the grants and distributing funds. The energy authority said it is seeking to recommend to the Legislature for funding projects that clearly demonstrate a public benefit. Under the law, the projects must target communities of 10,000 people or fewer that do not have economically viable renewable energy resources. Eligible applicants include utilities, local government agencies, tribal councils and housing authorities, the AEA said.

The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. Nov. 10. For more information, go to www.akenergyauthority.org/RE_Fund-III.html, e-mail Butch White at re_fund@aidea.org, or call 771-3048.

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