How to erase personal information from your wireless phone

Posted by Messinger Cares on Apr 16, 2012 in Cell Phone Recycling | 0 comments

Before donating or recycling wireless devices, be sure to erase all personal data.

Here are four simple tips to safely remove your information, made available by the U.S. wireless industry:

1. Preserve the contacts, photos, texts or other data you want to keep.
2. Terminate your device’s wireless service by contacting your provider.
3. Use device-specific instructionsto clear the device’s memory of stored information.
4. Remove the SIM card (found in some GSM or 4G devices). If you’re unsure if your device has one, contact your provider for more information.

Now that your personal information has been safely removed from your device, who you donate to is your decision. There are a variety of options from carrier- and manufacturer-sponsored initiatives to third party organizations, such as drop-off or mail back programs, websites and charity drives. If you’re not sure where to recycle your wireless devices, such as cellphones or smartphones, all major carriers and many others will accept any device or accessory at their stores, regardless of which carrier provided your service.

Local Student Named Arizona National Geographic Bee Semifinalist

Posted by Messinger Cares on Mar 18, 2012 in Community News | 0 comments

Chadwick Woods

Chadwick Woods, a 7th grade student at St. Theresa Catholic School in Phoenix, and the son of Lillian and Keith Woods, has been notified by the National Geographic Society that he is one of the semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2012 Arizona National Geographic Bee, sponsored by Google and Plum Creek. Bees were held in schools with fourth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state to determine each school’s Bee winner. School-level winners then took a qualifying test, which they submitted to the National Geographic Society. In each of the 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, and the U.S. territories, the National Geographic Society invited the students with the top 100 scores to compete at the state level.

The 2012 Arizona National Geographic Bee will be held Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, on Friday, March 30, 2012.

The state winner will receive $100, the “Complete National Geographic on DVD”, and a trip to Washington, D.C., where he/she will represent Arizona in the national finals at National Geographic Society headquarters, May 22 – 24, 2012. The first-place national winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship and lifetime membership in the Society. The national winner will also travel (along with one parent or guardian), all expenses paid, to the Galápagos Islands. The winner will experience geography firsthand through up-close encounters with the wildlife and landscape of Galápagos. Travel for the trip is provided by Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic. For additional information on the National Geographic Bee please visit www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee.

National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild will air the final round of the 2012 National Geographic Bee, moderated by Alex Trebek, on Thursday, May 24 (to be followed on public television stations). Please check local television listings for date and time in your area.

How would you fare as a Bee contestant? At the school-level Bee this year, students had to answer such questions as:

• The Bitterroot Range is located on the border between Montana and which other state?
  Idaho
  
• Which city on the Great Lakes has the largest population?
  Chicago
  
• The Stuttgart region, an important automobile manufacturing center, is located near the Black Forest in which country?
  Germany
  
• What word is used to describe the side of a mountain that faces the prevailing winds?
  windward

Astronauts at Meteor Crater

Posted by Messinger Cares on Jan 7, 2012 in Arizona Centennial, Fountain Hills Mortuary, Payson Mortuary, Scottsdale Mortuary, Video | 0 comments

Messinger Mortuaries, Crematories, and Cemetaries is please to sponsor this video series, “A Moment in Time” by PBS KAET-TV Channel 8, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Messinger Mortuaries Presents Arizona Centennial Radio Show

Posted by Messinger Cares on Jan 5, 2012 in Arizona Centennial | 0 comments

Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D., historian of the American West

Tune in to 960-AM KKNT 3pm, Sunday, January 8th, 2012 for the new Arizona “Centennial Stories” radio show hosted by Keith Woods, and presented by Messinger Mortuaries.

We will be talking about the great John Ford classic films that were made in Monument Valley, Arizona, with Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D.

Rosebrook is a son of the American West. He grew up in Los Angeles, California, but spent most of the summers of his youth at Orme’s Quarter Circle V-Bar Ranch Camp in northern Arizona. Those years on the wide open vistas of Orme’s 20,000 acre spread formed Stuart Rosebrook’s writing style, and interest in western history.

Today, Rosebrook is an acclaimed editor, writer, and historian relating to media and the American West. He has been a featured writer for Arizona Highways magazine, True West magazine, and was a commentator for the John Wayne 100th Birthday DVD Edition of “True Grit.”

Listeners note: you may also listen to the show online Sunday, Jan. 8th from 3pm to 4pm. Click here.

Hundreds Gather at KFYI-AM Smackdown at Toby Keith’s

Posted by Messinger Cares on Nov 12, 2011 in Cell Phone Recycling | 0 comments

Cell phones were collected for U.S. troops at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill in Mesa Riverview. Cell Phones will go toward the Messinger Mortuaries collection drive for the Cell Phones for Soldiers effort going on through the Veterans Day weekend.

That’s where hundreds of freedom loving Arizonans and the Valley’s top talk hosts gathered for KFYI’s Smackdown 2012.  Including KFYI personalities Barry, Michele, Mike Broomhead and Jim Sharpe for a no-holds-barred town hall meeting.

For more information go online at www.messingercares.com.

KPXQ-AM 1360 Collecting Cell Phones for Soldiers Saturday, Nov 12, at Lifestyle Festival

Posted by Messinger Cares on Nov 12, 2011 in Cell Phone Recycling | 0 comments

When you donate your used cell phones to Cell Phones for Soldiers your phones are either reconditioned and reused — or they’re disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. Best of all, the proceeds provide free phone cards for U.S. military families. This is a part of Messinger Mortuaries community-wide effort to collect phones through Veterans Day.

Join KPXQ AM 1360 and Messinger Mortuaries as we collect your phones Saturday, November 12th at their Lifestyle Festival at Fireside at Norterra from 9am – 1pm. They will  have a cell phone recycling drop box for your cell phone. Our collection box will be at 28185 N Melvern Trail, Phoenix, AZ 85085-5301 (click here for a map)

Messinger Mortuaries Cell Phone Collection Drive at Lone Butte Casino

Posted by Messinger Cares on Nov 10, 2011 in Radio Events | 0 comments

KOY-AM is hosting another Cell Phone Collection Drive with Messinger Mortuaries at the Lone Butte Casino today!