Around the Bank

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• Over the last couple months, we’ve held a few reading-related events. Here’s the skinny on our very successful book drive and the Corporate Community Outreach Committee’s visit to Next Door’s new offices in Milwaukee.

Announcements

WBA photo contest. Attention, amateur photographers: The Wisconsin Bankers Association wants your work for its 2016 “Scenes of Wisconsin” calendar. Photos should “represent the history and beauty of this great state.” Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015. Rules and guidelines are at: wisbank.com/2016contest

Promotions

North Shore Bank and Illinois State Bank are known for their practice of promoting from within. The following people were promoted in August. You can congratulate them in the comments.

Tammy Alberts, Assistant Branch Manager–Operations, East
Brian Bozek, District Manager
Natalie Canadeo, Savings and Customer Operations Manager
Bertha Huerta, Senior Debit Risk Specialist
Tawanda Kelly, Universal Banker, Martin Luther King
Kelsey Radaj, Teller Supervisor, New Berlin
Rachel Scalish, Universal Banker, Howard
Heather Terpstra, Assistant Branch Manager–Sales, Shorewood
Kenda Vedvik, Universal Banker, Pulaski

Celebrations

Burlington Teller Tiffany Keel returned to work this week after the birth of son Kenneth at the end of August. He weighed 4 pounds, 10 ounces, and was 18 inches long. Tiffany reports that she, daddy Greg, and big sister Savanah all enjoy snuggling with him. “He did his first trick-or-treat in his cow costume during Burlington’s Spooky City event. He is my little angel,” she says.

North Shore Shape Up

• Aurora EAP Focus of the Month: Simplify your holidays. Taking the time to focus on what is most important to you and your family during the holidays will go a long way in helping you simplify and enjoy a peace-filled season. Log on to http://www.aurora.org/eap and click on the November 2014 Focus of the Month for 10 tips to help you do that.

To see the information, select “Employee” in the box on the left side of the Aurora page and enter the user name northshorebank. Then click on “Current issue” under “Focus of the Month.” You can also call your Aurora Employee Assistance Program at 800-236-3231 to speak directly with an EAP professional.

• Walktober wellness challenge. Congratulations to Maribeth Osmundsen, loan funding rep team leader and first-place winner of a $50 Sports Authority gift card. Second place goes to Jon Habighorst, personal banker at Brookfield Square, who won a $25 gift card. Maribeth and Jon were just two of many who took part in the Walktober wellness challenge — participants had to complete an average of 30 minutes of walking or other exercise per day during the month of October — and were the winners of the random drawing.