Matt Jennings, Quest Federal Credit Union CEO, recently updated credit union owners of progress made in 2016.
Excerpts from his message follow:
2016 was a very busy year with the construction and grand opening of our fifth branch in Upper Sandusky. We updated Quest’s mobile and web banking services, agricultural and consumer loans grew by 8.50% and our membership surpassed 13,000.
Quest finished the year with a bottom line Return On Assets of 0.76%, delinquency at 0.99% and assets of $104 million.
We are projecting 8.50% loan growth, 9.00% deposit growth and overall balance sheet growth that will take our assets to $112 million for year-end 2017.
Elizabeth Tremains, ONU student, designed this poster for The Urban Forest Project. The senior graphic design major from Rushsylvania, is one of two students from Ohio Northern to be nominated for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio’s Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. It is the nation’s first intercollegiate online arts competition. Click here to view more of her work.
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - Note, Bluffton Icon receives its weather reports from a weather observer in Pandora. Due to that distance from Ada, we seldom post Pandora weather stats on Ada Icon. However, with three record temps already broken, this weather story should be of interest to Ada viewers.
February 2017 is headed toward the weather record books.
There’s eight days remaining in the month, and according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, three new record high temperatures are already set.
Participants for the 25th annual Hardin Leadership class, a program designed for the development of informed and effective community leaders, are being recruited now until March 10.
Nine monthly sessions will focus on the knowledge/skills required by today's community leader, such as team building, public speaking, conflict management, social media, and marketing.
This year’s program will be offered in morning sessions from March through November.
"Discrimination and implicit bias: An exploration of unconscious bias and remedies provided by the law” will be the topic of a forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the law college. The program is free and open to the public.
This presentation will detail the current body of law in the state of Ohio regarding sexual harassment, gender stereotyping, gender identity and retaliation. It will cover legal remedies and tools that are available for groups and individuals who are and have been systematically subjected to discrimination. The program will feature two speakers.
