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Community Bank celebrates 100th anniversary with customer appreciation luncheon

Appreciation luncheon part of 100th birthday

Financial consultant Paul Mancuso, left, former Community Bank employee Connie Anderson and lender Mary Barnette look over pictures of the Community Bank at Monday’s luncheon. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)

PARKERSBURG — The day was warm and sunny and the customers of Community Bank were appreciative and hungry.

Community Bank began the second of its three-part initiative year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary Monday with a customer appreciation luncheon on the bank’s Juliana Street location.

“Community Bank’s mission has been and continues to be about serving the needs of working men and women,” said Randy Snider, longtime president and CEO. “We are deeply rooted in our communities; strongly supporting the growth and development of those communities where we work and live,” said Snider. “We want to give back to those customers and community for making us what we are.

“People have put their faith in us for generations,” Snider said. “Giving back is one of the ways we show our community how much it means to us. We’re invested in Wood County. We don’t want to say we are 100 years old. We’d prefer to say 100 years strong.”

The bank has assets of $240 million.

Community Bank Executive Vice President Randy Brooks, left, talks with Community Bank President and CEO Randy Snider during Monday’s luncheon. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)

The second initiative of Community Bank’s three planned for the 100th anniversary began Monday with its Community Cares program.

“All summer long employees will be volunteering as part of the second initiative,” said Mary Ann Laughery, marketing and retail banking officer. “Employees will be involved in community projects. One of those community projects will be a red band distribution.

“It’s quite simple,” she said. “We will be giving two bands to our customers, one to wear and one to pass on to someone else when they do a random act of kindness.”

The first of three major 100th anniversary initiatives, which was launched earlier in the year, was Stock the Shelves. The March 6-May-31 campaign was designed to assist Friendship Kitchen, Old Man Rivers and Good Samaritan Center food pantries, which serves more than 12,000 food insecure people in Wood County.

Together with the community, Community Bank collected more than 6,000 food items and received more than $5,600 in cash. The money was donated to those food pantries.

Mary Ann Laughery, marketing and retail banking officer, passes out red bands to bank customers Monday afternoon. The bands are part of the bank’s summer initiative for community involvement. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)

The third initiative will include an anti-bullying event at the end of September with the bank working with Wood County Schools.

“We are committed to providing quality products and services to our customers, which are competitively priced,”Snider said. “We work hard to provide an environment where our employees can achieve a sense of personal worth, accomplishment and recognition. And we are pleased we are accomplishing our mission to our customers and shareholders of being a sound, profitable independent community bank.”

Community Bank’s Juliana Street location. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)

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