RECOM Blog

9/11 Day of Service

The Town of Gilbert is currently seeking volunteers to participate in the 9/11 Day of Service. With over 84 projects available, there are many ways to get involved.  You can review and sign up for volunteer opportunities here. 

In addition, prior to Thursdays 9/11 Memorial Service, the Town will be hosting hands-on service activities at Town Hall from 5p-6:30p. There is no registration required. You can learn more about the memorial service and all events at 9/11 Day of Service  

Day of Service to Seniors

As part of the weekend’s events, the Town will also be supporting seniors in our community by helping with light housework and yard work for those who are disabled or homebound. We’d love to have you join us in making a difference! Register Here 

The City of Mesa is looking for volunteers to take part in Love Your City National Day of Volunteer Service on Saturday, September 13, 2025. Several projects will be undertaken, including alley clean-up, curb painting, a garden building at Paz de Cristo, and fence restoration at House of Refuge. Activities will take place in the morning to keep participants out of extreme heat.

Individuals interested in volunteering may find more information online. Groups interested in volunteering together should contact Katie Pollak, Mesa’s Citywide Volunteer Coordinator, at volunteer@mesaaz.gov.

Google says your passwords are safe for now, but don’t wait to take action. Turn on passkeys for phishing-proof logins, run a Google Security Checkup, and never trust an unexpected call claiming to be from Google. Once your info is out there, it’s out there, but how you protect yourself next is what counts.

Watch out for this clever phishing scam that hooks you: Hackers are slipping the Japanese character “ん” (pronounced like a soft “n” and called a hiragana) into legitimate website URLs, replacing a normal slash “/.” To the naked eye, it looks normal, but click, and you’re headed straight to a malware buffet. This works because “ん” is part of Unicode, so browsers treat it as a valid web address character. Even pros can miss it at first glance. Bonus scam: fake “Intuit” emails where the “i” is swapped for a lowercase “L.” Your eyesight is the target, so always hover over links and check the real domain before you click.

Your Annual Account Checkup

Hello! This is your reminder to check that information within your secure myASRS account is up-to-date. We suggest logging into your account at least once a year to make sure that:

• All primary contact information is correct, including your mailing address, email address, and phone number.
• Any beneficiary(s) on your account are still correct.

Some additional important notes:

• If you’ve changed ASRS employers within the last year, ensure your current employer is listed in your account. If it is incorrect, ask your employer for their ASRS enrollment code, and go through the "first time registration steps" again with your ASRS account.
• We suggest making sure your login ID is sufficiently unique that other members may not accidentally try to log into your account due to members with same or similar names having similar login IDs. You can change your login ID within your secure myASRS account using the “Edit Profile” menu option. 
• Remember to always update your contact information with the ASRS and your employer separately. Changing it with one does not update the other!

Be sure to check your RECOM, City of Mesa health insurance, ASRS, PSPRs, Social Security, etc., at least once a year to ensure that all your information on file is still correct. Check your mailing address, email address, phone number, or beneficiary information.  It's important to keep it current to be sure you get important communications that can be sent from providers.

Remember to register your Deferred Compensation account online with your email address and phone number. Keep that information up-to-date. When activity occurs on a participant account, Empower proactively sends that participant security alerts via all points of contact they have for them. Participants are encouraged to contact Empower directly if they don’t recognize any such activity or have questions about alerts.  Empower Client Services  800-701-8255.

Premise Health, the Wellness Center management company, is recruiting to hire a new Dermatologist PA to provide part-time dermatology screening services at the Center. In the meantime, if you are in need of these services you can access through your Cigna medical plan network providers, including through MDLive virtual services.

 Diabetes monitor recall: Over 2 million Dexcom glucose devices are being recalled because they might not sound alarms when blood sugar is too high or low. That could be life-threatening. Affected models include the G6 Receiver, G7 Receiver, Dexcom One+ and Dexcom One. Check your SKU. If yours is listed, call 1-844-478-1600 for a free replacement.