Senior Loan Processor and Closer Lori Staniszewski has her fortune told by a fortune-teller from Milwaukee Public Theater.

Corporate held a state-fair-themed fundraiser for Milwaukee’s United Performing Arts Fund on April 8 and raised almost $8,000 for the nonprofit.

Our original goal was to raise $6,500 for UPAF. We ended up bringing in $7,794.25.

Feno (at right) from Milwaukee Public Theatre helps Checking Services Rep Renee Garcia hone her plate-spinning abilities, while Commercial Loan Processing Analyst Craig Cortez looks on.

The fundraiser included activities like a marketplace where employees could shop for homemade and donated food and gift items; a cream puff eating contest; a potato bar, where diners could prepare baked potatoes with all manner of toppings; and farm animal races — of a sort.

RSMP Rep Janet Russell, Bob Phillips, and Product Analysts Kinnon Schreiber, and DJ Bluma compete in the “farm animal” races.

“The people selected to race each got a bandanna with a cow, a sheep, or a pig on it,” says Mailroom Messenger Colleen Moore, who supervised the fundraiser. The racers rolled dice to determine how many spaces to move across a grid marked on the floor with masking tape. Direct Leasing Manager Bob Phillips won the first heat, and Commercial Loan Specialist Missy Hayburn won the second.

Senior Consumer Credit Analyst Keith Goetter, Dealer Relations and Training Manager John Goman, and Product Analyst Brandon McCullough race to gobble up as many cream puffs as they can.

You can still contribute to the fundraiser at https://eg.upaf.org/eg/nsb2016.

North Shore Bank will also participate in the annual UPAF Ride for the Arts on June 5. If you’d like to ride with the team, sign up now at upafride.org.