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THE LOAN RANGERS RIDE AGAIN AND GET NATIONAL MAGAZINE FEATURE
On Father’s Day weekend, over 50 Kennebec Savings Bank employees and customers will assist the American Lung Association of Maine in Bethel by registering riders and participating in the 25th Annual Trek Across Maine. Now in its sixth year, the team known fondly as “The Loan Rangers of Kennebec Savings Bank,” expects to raise over $40,000 as part of their participation in this event, which will begin in the mountains at Sunday River in Bethel and conclude 183 miles and three days later in Belfast on the coast.
This year, The Loan Rangers will be featured in a national trade magazine, Independent Banker, for the Bank’s model commitment to the American Lung Association of Maine, and the Trek Across Maine. President & CEO, Mark Johnston, was excited about the opportunity. “Community support is at the heart of what makes Kennebec Savings Bank so special,” he said. “We live, work and play right here in the Kennebec Valley, so we do what we can as a business, and as people, to make a difference. If our story helps other companies to follow suit, we all win,” he added.
Many local members of the Central Maine community comprise this year’s team (team roster attached), and Team Captain, Laura Hudson, the Bank’s Vice President & Marketing Officer, encourages one and all to go to the Lung Association’s website to find someone they know on the Loan Rangers’ team to pledge. “This is an important year for the American Lung Association of Maine,” she said. “The Trek is in its 25th year and the Loan Rangers are committed to raising more awareness and more financial support than ever around issues affecting lung health in Maine.” Hudson feels that this is a quick and easy way to get the community rallying around an issue that affects everyone. “We all want to help, but many of us are feeling the economic pinch,” she said. “A $10 or $20 donation is an easy and relatively painless way to be involved,” she said. “And the Lung Association’s website (www.lungme.org) makes it easy!”
Besides riding the Trek , KSB has provided volunteers for this event for the past twelve years, and like 2008, this is shaping up to be a record year for the Bank being so heavily represented riding and volunteering at this event, with its customers on the team, as well as several employees.
Kennebec Savings Bank is a $672 million state-chartered mutual savings bank with 81 employees and branches located in Augusta, Waterville, and Winthrop, and 24-Hour Electronic Banking Center, KSB Anytime, in Manchester and Augusta. Kennebec Savings Bank is proud to be Kennebec County’s community bank since 1870, and the place where the feeling is mutual.
Click here to see the 2009 Team Roster!!
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