Deadline extended! Share your flower garden here
Do you have a beautiful, vivid, and colorful garden of flowers? We’d love to see it and share it with the rest of the bank! We received submissions since last week, but are hoping for a few more.

Send photos of your flower garden (not your vegetable garden — sorry, backyard farmers) to Shorelines at shorelines@northshorebank.com or via text to 608-318-3348. Include your name, title, and department or branch. Deadline is Monday, August 20.

We’ll run the photos in next week’s Shorelines. Now go put the “petal” to the metal and take some pics! •••

Jody Moore’s son places in film scoring contest
Film buffs, take note: Sooner or later, you may hear Zach Moore’s work in theaters.

Zach — the son of lending sales specialist Jody Moore — was named second runner-up in the Emerging category in this year’s Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest. The global contest is named for the famous American composer and conductor, who died in 2012. Zach is about to begin his second year teaching choir at Waukesha High School. In the Hamlisch contest — the first contest for music for film he’s entered — his composition was up against more than 700 other pieces from 70 different countries. Read more about his remarkable achievement and musical background!

NSB employees enjoy day of fun at State Fair

Our employee outing to the Wisconsin State Fair on August 5 was a great success! About 600 people — employees and their family members and other guests — came out for the fair and a buffet picnic lunch provided by Saz’s Catering, including some delicious roasted corn, which Regency personal banker Ashley Singstock’s daughter Sophia, 5, is enjoying above. “I can’t take her anywhere with corn without expecting her to get some,” Ashley says. Read on for some of the nice comments about the outing!

SOAR Together Tributes: July 2018
Last month’s winners of our Seymour Salutes awards are Roger Arnesen, Wanda Pillizzi, and Arlen Tsao, along with Rising Stars Samantha Irwin and Reem Musaitif. Read more about their achievements here!

Northland employees have a ball at Princess Night

Appleton Northland universal banker Patt Kox and teller Kathleen Veu handed out tiaras to youngsters attending the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers’ Princess Night game on August 10. They took a moment to model the goods themselves, too. Enchanting! •••

Service Anniversaries for August 2018
The following employees celebrate a milestone anniversary with North Shore Bank this month.

25 years
Scott Stulo, MCIF Database Administrator

20 years
Wendy Gyles, AVP, Electronic Banking Supervisor — read Wendy’s profile here!

10 years
Laura Habighorst, Senior Residential Loan Specialist
Mark Ohlert, SVP, Chief Credit Officer

5 years
Sara Carter, Customer Assistance Specialist
Ermalinda Schroeder, Universal Banker, Regency

Leave a comment to congratulate them!

New Hires for August 16
It’s always exciting to add new members to our team. Here are some of the fresh faces at North Shore Bank.

Wauwatosa teller Kirsta Dispennette moved to Wisconsin from New Mexico. Before joining the bank, she worked for State Farm Insurance for six years. Kirsta is a mom of three and a military wife whose husband served in the army and is now in the National Guard. ” I have lived all over the country, but this is my first time in the northern Midwest,” she says. “I am terrified about what winter will be like here. Bring on the sunshine!” •••

North Shore Shape Up: Can omega-3s help your mood?
Researchers have been studying the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on mental health for quite some time. As the Harvard Health Blog notes, this is because “depression appears less common in nations where people eat large amounts of fish,” which contains significant amounts of omega-3s.

After dozens of clinical trials and meta-analyses looking at the results of those studies, there are some promising — though not definitive — results. Per the blog:

• The most effective omega-3 preparations used in studies seem to have at least 60 percent eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) relative to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
• DHA seems to be less effective for depression than EPA, but may help protect against suicidal thoughts.
• Depressed overweight people with elevated inflammation in particular may benefit from EPA treatment.
• People with bipolar depression should be careful using omega-3s, as they (like many antidepressant medications) can induce mania.
• There is not enough evidence to recommend using omega-3s to treat conditions such as “schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and attention deficit disorder.”

The bottom line, though, is that there are no clear answers yet about how to treat mental health issues with omega-3s: “Omega-3 fatty acids are promising natural treatments for mood disorders, but we need more research about how they work, how effective they really are, and their long-term safety before we can make conclusive recommendations for people managing mental health conditions or who wish to improve mood.” •••

Upcoming Events
The 13th Annual Pewaukee Antique & Classic Boat Show takes place Sunday, August 19. Bring the kids for toy wooden boat painting sponsored by North Shore Bank! More upcoming events here.

Internal Job Postings •••

• Teller, Franklin, full time, 40 hours/week. Pay grade: N02. Referral bonus: $300. Internal closing date: TODAY.
• Teller, Sturgeon Bay, part time, 30 hours/week. Pay grade: N02. Referral bonus: $300. Internal closing date: August 20.
• Customer Assistance Rep, Corporate, full time or part time, 40 or 20 hours/week. Pay grade: N12. Referral bonus: $400. Internal closing date: Ongoing.
• Video Teller, Brookfield/Appleton, full or part time, 40 or 20 hours/week. Pay grade: N03. Referral bonus: $400. Internal closing date: Ongoing.

For complete information regarding internal job postings, application procedures, and our referral program, click on the Job Postings tile found on the home page in Ask Seymour.