29 Hoosier Banker July 2016 West End Bank, Richmond, selects a nonprofit organization each month as a focus for charitable efforts. For May, the bank selected Birth to Five, donating $475 to the organization. West End Bank, Richmond, donated $1,000 in May to the Indiana Sheriff’s Association to be used for the Youth Ranch, located in Brazil, Indiana. The not-for-profit organization will be a 62-acre educational and training retreat area that offers free field trips and camps for Indiana teens. 1st Source Bank, South Bend, awarded a grant of $22,864 in May to provide an outdoor learning center at Westville Little School. The 1st Source Bank Outdoor Learning Center will further enhance the growth and development of young students and will include a xylophone, rain barrel, large drums, log fort, balance beams, stepping stumps and other engaging activities. Alliance Bank, Francesville, in conjunction with the bank’s 2015-16 junior board of directors, has donated $500 to the Winamac Community Pool Project and $250 each to the Monon Theatre Restoration Project and White County Boys & Girls Club. Junior and Senior High School students serve on the bank junior board of directors and earn merit dollars for hours spent volunteering and working in community service. The students earned $1,000 and decided as a board to donate to the three organizations. Farmers State Bank, LaGrange, donated a piece of stained glass in April to the town of Topeka. The bank obtained three pieces of stained glass after purchasing the former Rumps 5 & 10 Store, which dates back to the 1890s. The bank is displaying two pieces removed from the store building in its Topeka banking center. Springs Valley Bank & Trust Company, French Lick, participated in the Orange County banking community panel build challenge on May 21 in Paoli. The bank joined with other local financial institutions to build the exterior wall panels for Orange County Habitat for Humanity’s Apostles Build home, to be completed in the fall. Bank associates also made personal donations totaling $1,013 to the Orange County Habitat for Humanity. The C.E.O. (Creating Entrepreneur Opportunities) program in Daviess County hosted a May 10 trade show, featuring studentcreated business plans and products/services. The C.E.O program teaches entrepreneurship and business skills to high school juniors and seniors in non-classroom settings. Banks and other businesses work with student participants as investors and board members. IBA-member banks that act as investors of the Daviess County C.E.O. program are: First Federal Savings Bank of Washington; German American, Jasper; and Old National Bank, Evansville. t banking on coMMuniTy Gale Ramsey (center),West End Bank, Richmond, presents a donation check to Keith Owens and Vickie GrimmePowell of Birth to Five. Pictured (left to right),Timothy R. Frame, president/CEO of West End Bank, Richmond, and Shelley Miller and Robin Henry of the bank, present a donation check to Wayne County Sheriff Jeff Cappa. Pictured are (left to right): Dr. Curtiss Streitelmeier, MSD of New Durham Township Superintendent of Schools; Erin Foust,Westville Little School lead teacher; Jeanne Ann Cannon, Dunebrook executive director; Deb Pratt, Purdue North Central professor; Jamie Sales,Westville Little School teacher; and Matt Vessely, 1st Source Bank regional president. Alliance Bank’s 2015-16 junior board of directors present a total of $1,000 to three community organizations. Pictured are junior board members with representatives of the Winamac Community Pool Project, Monon Theatre Restoration Project and the White County Boys & Girls Club. Pictured with a piece of historic stained glass are (left to right): Joe Urbanski and Kerry Sprunger of Farmers State Bank, LaGrange;Yvonne Eash and Tanner Troyer, town of Topeka; Mark Thompson, Farmers State Bank; Ray Folk, town of Topeka; Danielle Hill, Farmers State Bank; Ron Eash, town of Topeka; Joe Pierce, president and CEO of Farmers State Bank; and Charley Fisher, Farmers State Bank. Springs Valley Bank & Trust Company employees are pictured in front of a home they helped build for Habitat for Humanity. A Daviess County student was one of several participants of the Daviess County C.E.O. program to display business plans and products/services at an area trade show in May.
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