Erica and Paul with his coin haul.

There’s a lot going on at our new Germantown branch! To help with the nationwide coin shortage, last week area resident Paul rolled in two big buckets of coins, saved up over three years, totaling $1,956.61. He donated $56.61 of that to the Germantown Community Library. All of our branches will offer free coin counting through the end of August, and Germantown will match up to $1,000 in donations to the library.

Customers lining up for the Buddha’s BBQ truck at Germantown.

Last Thursday, as part of the branch’s ongoing grand opening celebration, Germantown also had the Buddha’s BBQ food truck on site to give away free barbecue sandwiches at lunchtime.

Erica, ready to spread kindness in the form of cookies.

And on Tuesday of this week, to mark National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and as part of our ongoing “Bank on Kindness” initiative, branch manager Erica Hughes performed random acts of kindness by surprising 20 businesses around Germantown and Hubertus with cookies from Truffles bakery.