38 MAY / JUNE 2018 from Nickel Plate Flats. Prairie Creek Park will provide space for the performing arts, interactive water features, vendor areas, playground equipment and a dog park, among other recreational elements. United Fidelity Bank, Evansville, awarded $2,500 in February to Delaware Elementary School in support of the school’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) rewards program. PBIS enables school staff members to award points to students when desired positive behaviors are observed and demonstrated, encouraging further positive Centier Bank, Merrillville, in Gary has partnered with local Girl Scouts troops to donate Girl Scout cookies and blankets to the residents of the NWI Veterans Village, a 44-unit multifamily housing unit in Gary. All units are low-income and set aside for veterans. Centier and the Veterans Village began their partnership with a bank book drive to create and fill the Village’s Little Free Library bookcases for Veterans Day in 2017. Centier Bank, Merrillville, donated $1,000 in February to the Urban League of Northwest Indiana, which serves approximately 8,000 students and families through its programs and events, in support of the League’s Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon. The luncheon, held in March, celebrated diversity and inclusion programs and highlighted initiatives implemented by area high school students. Centier Bank, Merrillville, and its associates raised $1,000 in support of The Salvation Army of Lake County through a “Dress Casual for Charity Day” last December. The Salvation Army of Lake County serves approximately 40,000 individuals each year throughout Lake County through feeding programs, food pantries, emergency assistance for utilities and rents, emergency disaster services, youth programs, social service/case work services and more. The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, donated $150,000 in March to Prairie Creek Park Project, to be located in downtown Frankfort, across Mayor Chris McBarnes (third from left) joins members of the board of directors of The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, at the Frankfort Community Public Library in presenting a bank donation to Prairie Creek Park Project. Shown from left are: Thomas Crawford; Jack Ransom; Mayor McBarnes; R. Kent Ryan Jr., chairman of the board; Stanley Smith; James Moore; Edwin Sahm; Karen Gregerson, bank president and CEO; and Stephen Rothenberger. DEPARTMENTS Continued on facing page.
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