NebraskaLand National Bank Teaches Students About the Safety of Credit on National Get Smart About Credit Day- October 18th
Thursday, October 18, 2007


Life can be stressful for young adults learning to live independently. Finding a job, choosing a place to live, and paying for all of today's necessities- cell phones, cable TV, ipods, and lattes- make it difficult for young people to live within their means. How do we help the next generation feel empowered and optimistic about their future? Education is a great start.

Employees of NebraskaLand National Bank taught students at North Platte Community College and North Platte High School on the do’s and don’ts of credit to mark National Get Smart About Credit Day, a financial literacy program sponsored by the American Bankers Association Education Foundation. National Get Smart About Credit Day, October 18th! The presentation is one of many made by bankers across the country as part of a nationwide effort to help young people take charge of their finances. “ The choices young adults make with their first credit card will impact their lives years later when they apply for a car loan of even a mortgage,” said Dana Hurst, Vice President of Marketing. Assistant Vice President, Teller & Cash Management Manager Sandy Ross, spoke at North Platte High School on October 18th. She discussed how to choose a credit card that fits your needs. Other topics include, don’t spend more than you can afford.
 
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NebraskaLand National Bank and Bob Spady Motors host 3rd Annual Carnival for Cancer!
Thursday, August 16, 2007


This years event was bigger then ever. Lots of fun activities were set up in the NebraskaLand National Bank main parking lot on Thursday, August 16th from 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Kids could enjoy jumping booths, airbrush tattoos, cotton candy, fishing games and bean bag toss. Tickets sold four for $1 and all monies raised went to the American Cancer Society. The event brought in $1500 making NebraskaLand National Banks relay for life team the top team with a total of $6,000 raised. 
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NebraskaLand National Sponsors 2nd Annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
Friday April 13th 2007


NebraskaLand National Bank, KX104 and the NP Volunteer Fire Department teamed up for their second annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes. This event was on Friday, April 13th at 11:30 a.m. at NebraskaLand National Bank Downtown. This is a Men’s March to Stop Sexual Assault. Men walk a mile downtown in Women's Footwear! They can form a team of friends or co-workers, challenge another organization to form a team, or nominate a guy. The catch. If they signed themselves up they pick their choice of Women’s footwear to walk in. If someone else nominated them, that person picks their footwear. One in three women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. Having the men walk represents many women who have escaped an abusive situation with nothing but their clothes on their back. Many of the women have families to take care of as well as themselves in an abusive situation. Around $12,000 was raised at this years event. There was close to 60 walkers. This doubled from last year. The money raised will go to help pay off the Rape and Domestic Abuse Shelter.

• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men will be sexually
   abused before they are 18 years old. 
•1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be victims of an
  attempted or completed rape. 
• Sexual Assault is the most rapidly growing violent
  crime and is the least reported crime.
  Only 16% of sexual assaults are reported. 
• 1.3 women are forcible raped each minute. That calculates
  to 78 every hour and 1,872 every day. 

Out of the 650,000 adult women in the state of Nebraska, 84,000 have been raped at least once in their lifetime.

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NebraskaLand National Bank Women's Business Forum, March 15th, 2007
March 15, 2007


On Thursday, March 15th NebraskaLand National Bank hosted its 5th Annual Women’s Business forum at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express. It was an evening of laughter and entertainment with fellow businesswomen. Our keynote speaker was Sandy Queen and enlightened the audience! Her famous program, “ Lighten Up! This is the only life you have” helped take a look at your life, attitude and feelings and apply real humor skills to real life. NebraskaLand National Bank started this event five year ago. Each year around 200 women attend. There are many women in our community who are leaders and work hard to balance life, work, health and family. This is an evening for them to sit back and relax and leave enlightened.

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NebraskaLand National Bank and Bob Spady Motors Team Up for 2nd Annual Carnival for Cancer!
August 24, 2006


NebraskaLand National Bank and Bob Spady Motors teamed up to support the American Cancer Society. A Carnival for Cancer was held, giving families an opportunity to enjoy an affordable and safe evening out. Such attractions were a jumping booth, blown up maze and a water shower. The water shower was perfect for the hot 90 degree weather day. Families could also come and enjoy a cooked meal by NebraskaLand National Bank for only a few dollars.

Tickets were sold four for $1. This gave children the opportunity to have their face painted, participate in a snack walk and fish for prizes. The total amount raised was $2300.00. This money was sent to the American Cancer Society to help them in their fundraising efforts for Relay for Life.
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1st Annual SHRED DAY
Friday, May 19th


On May 19th from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m .NebraskaLand National Bank and Dynamite Destruction held the first annual Shred Day. Members of the community were encouraged to bring at most one trash bag full of items to shred. The items could include bank statements, scam mailings or anything with personal information. If you brought items to shred you received lunch on NebraskaLand National Bank. Over 4400 pounds of paper were shredded in two hours. Shred Day was an example of the community working together to stop identity theft.

NebraskaLand National Bank takes Identity Theft seriously. Which is why, they have implemented the Identity Theft 911 program for their customers. To find out more, check out www.nebraskalandbank.com. Identity Theft effects everyone regardless of age. Most of the identity theft victims are between the ages of 18-29. Only five percent of the victims are over 70 years of age. Identity Theft is the number one financial fraud. To take steps to stop identity theft shred any items that contain personal information such as a social security number. To find out more check out www.nebraskalandbank.com.
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NEBRASKALAND NATIONAL BANK RAISES MONEY FOR BANK CUSTOMER
Friday, May 12th


NebraskaLand National Bank and KELN raised money for Mindy Nichols. Mindy and her family are customers of NebraskaLand National Bank. Mindy has been fighting an aggressive type of cancer for the past two years. With medical bills and the day to day bills money has run low for the family. Steen, Mindys husband has had to cut down on work in order to take care of Mindy.
NebraskaLand National Bank is a community minded bank. This was a situation that we needed and wanted to help out with in any way we could.

NebraskaLand National Bank and KELN held a free- will donation lunch at the main bank downtown. NebraskaLand National Bank donated all of the lunch and KELN donated the live remote. Over $2000 was raised from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in free-will donations. Another $1000 was donated from NebraskaLand National Bank. All of the monies raised will help Mindy and her family. Donations can still be made at NebraskaLand National Bank.
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47th Annual VFW/Auxiliary Easter Egg Hunt
Saturday, April 15th, 2 p.m.


NebraskaLand National Bank sponsored the 47th Annual Easter Egg Hunt that the VFW and the Auxiliary organizes each year. On Thursday, April 13th NebraskaLand National Bank employees and over 40 children met at the VFW Post. Over 10,000 eggs were dyed and decorated. This is the only Easter Egg Hunt in North Platte with that many eggs. On Saturday, April 15th NebraskaLand National Bank employees, the VFW and the Auxiliary spent over an hour laying out all 10,000 eggs. They eggs were divided into different age groups at Cody Park. There was also an area for children with disabilities.

The Easter Egg Hunt started at 2 p.m. and took close to 1 1/2 minutes for 500 children to collect all 10,000 eggs! Many one prizes such as, bikes, toys and games. The event brought many children from the North Platte and the surrounding communities.
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Walk A Mile in Her Shoes
Tuesday, February 14, 2006  11 a.m. - 1 p.m.


NebraskaLand National Bank, KX104 and the Volunteer Fire Department hosted the first North Platte Walk A Mile in Her Shoes. The event was held on Friday, April 14th from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Being a Men's March against sexual assault, men wore women's shoes and walked one mile downtown. Over 25 men participated in the walk. Everything was worn from slippers to high heeled sandals. Each participate raised at least $100. All of the monies raised went to the Rape and Domestic Abuse Program. Over $4500.00 was raised. The march began and ended at NebraskaLand National Bank downtown. It took the 25 men close to one half hour to walk the mile. When finished, the men were greeted with applause and hotdogs and hamburgers grilled out by NebraskaLand National Bank.
For more information or to get in contact with the Rape and Domestic Abuse office contact Lynne Lange at (308)532-0624.
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FRAUD ALERT
Monday, February 17, 2006


The statistics are rising and so is the awareness. Nebraska consumer complaints of fraud rose nearly 14 percent in 2005, according to figures released by the Federal Trade Commission. Complaints from victims of identity theft rose 14.2 percent over 2004 numbers.

What kind of fraud are we talking about? Credit card fraud was the most common form of reported identity theft, with 20 percent of complaints reported. Others were lotteries, sweepstakes and prizes made up 22 percent of fraud complaints in Nebraska in 2005. 

“ You receive a letter saying you have won the Canadian Lottery,” said Kim Schroll, Executive Vice President of Operations at NebraskaLand National Bank. “ They send you a check, tell you to cash it and send them $2,000 as a handling fee. The check is fake and you are out $2,000.” If something, seem to good to be true, it is, Schroll said. 

NebraskaLand National Bank and others are working to educate the community of ways to prevent Identity Theft. The age of most identity theft complaints is 18-29. Only 5 percent of fraud complaints come from people age 70 or older. 

For more information on Identity Theft and NebraskaLand National Bank Identity 911 program visit www.nebraskalandbank.com
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NebraskaLand National Bank Presents Third Community Minded Award
Monday, February 16, 2006


NebraskaLand National Bank presented Chuck Scripter with the NebraskaLand National Bank Community Minded award on Thursday, February 16th at the main bank location. The award is given in recognition of service to the community. 
Chuck has done many miraculous things for not only the community of North Platte but for his family. In 2004 Chucks wife, Kay’s, health began to decline and she needed a kidney transplant. Chuck was able to be the donor. Both recovered and are living healthy lives today.
After retirement Chuck has become active in numerous organizations and traveled around the world with these organizations. He has volunteered at least 7700 hours. He is an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity local and international projects, Lincoln County Chapter of the Red Cross and Disaster Action Team and Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful’s Neighbor Helping Neighbor program. He is a Teammates mentor and also provides ministry and mentoring at the Boys and Girls Home and at the Lincoln County Jail. Chuck is an instructor for AARP Defensive Driving. He is also a committee member of the Linc-Up, delivers meals for the Senior Center and provides guardianship for residents at the Pawnee Hotel.

As you can see there are numerous reasons why Chuck Scripter was chosen as the NebraskaLand National Bank Community Minded Award Winner. NebraskaLand National Bank has given this award to two others in the past year, Madison Middle School and Bob Spady. NebraskaLand National Bank is known for the community support they give through the bank and the employees.” We thought that creating a Community Minded Award would help thank all the people who serve as volunteers through the many organizations in North Platte. North Platte is where it is today because of these people,” said Assistant Vice President of Marketing Dana Hurst. 

If you would like to nominate someone for the Community Minded Award please contact Dana Hurst at the Main Bank 308-534-2880.
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NorthWind Wishes and NebraskaLand National Bank Team Up.
Wednesday, Jan 11th 2006


NORTHWIND WISHES...MAKING A DREAM COME TRUE

Perkins Restaurant and NebraskaLand National Bank sponsored a pancake breakfast at the National Guard Armory to kick off fundraising efforts.
NebraskaLand National Bank donated $500 and Perkins provided all of the pancakes. NorthWind Wishes is an organization that provides hunting trips for the terminally ill children. The event raised close to $1500! The organization is the vision of two North Platte men whose mission is to provide outdoor adventures for terminally Ill children. Donations can be made at any of the NebraskaLand National Bank locations. Also, check out www.northwindwishes.com to fill out an application for a terminally ill child that you feel deserves an adventure like this.

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Identity Theft 911
January 5th 2006


PROTECT YOURSELF, PROTECT YOUR IDENTITY

Nebraska currently ranks 39th in identity theft and 23rd in fraud complaints in 2004, according to date released by the Federal Trade Commission. This growing number has grown concern to NebraskaLand National Bank. NebraskaLand National Bank launched a new program to help customers in cases of fraud.
Customers at NebraskaLand National Bank are now being protected by Identity Theft 911, a free service for account holders. "There is very little that is protected anymore, " said Kim Schroll, executive Vice President of the bank.
"Even postal money orders, which have always been very safe are now being duplicated." For victims of identity theft, the service will provide a personal advocate who will assist the bank customers in contacting credit bureaus, credit card issuers, debt collectors, law enforcement and government agencies. A link on the NebraskaLand National Bank Web site www.nebraskalandbank.com will provide information on new threats.

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NebraskaLand National Bank Community Minded Award 
December 27, 2004


North Platte, Nebraska-

NebraskaLand National Bank presented the first ever NebraskaLand National Bank Community Minded Award. The award was presented to students at Madison Middle School on December 8th, 2004. The school raised $1009.39. The Madison Middle School Ambassadors led the fundraiser but the entire student body donated. The Student Body raised $700 and with the extra help from surrounding businesses the total amount raised was $1009.39. One class had $56 in just PENNIES! Congratulations to Madison Middle School. If you know of someone who has excelled in giving back to our community, please take the time to nominate them for this award. Together we can make North Platte an even better place to live and work.

All Nomination Forms are available at any of the NebraskaLand National Bank Locations.

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Governor Johanns and Brigadier General Bailey to Attend Beef for the Troops II at NebraskaLand National Bank
July 19, 2004


On Tuesday, August 3rd , Top Cut, Inc. and NebraskaLand National Bank will team up once again for Beef for the Troops II. This is the second luncheon these two businesses have organized together to raise money to send beef to the Nebraska soldiers serving overseas. Special guests are Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns and Brigadier General Bailey.

"We had such an overwhelming response from the first fundraiser that we really wanted to keep the ball rolling. This is just one way we can show our support for the soldiers serving overseas," commented, Kim Schroll, SVP of NebraskaLand National Bank.

The fundraiser will be from 11:00am- 1:00pm in the East parking lot of NebraskaLand National Bank downtown. Top Cut will be grilling prime rib sandwiches and proceeds from the lunch will go to the "Beef for the Troops" fund. The cost is $7.00 for a prime rib sandwich, chips and a drink. The Nebraska Beef Council, Coca-Cola, and True Value are co-sponsors of the event along with NebraskaLand National Bank.

There is an account set up at NebraskaLand National Bank called, Beef for the Troops Fund, and donations can be made at any of the NebraskaLand National Bank locations. On a monthly basis, money from the fund will be used to buy and send beef to Nebraska soldiers. So far 50 lbs. of beef jerky has been sent to Kosovo and over 160 packages went to Iraq.
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NebraskaLand National Bank Participates in National
Teach Children to Save Day
April 20, 2004


North Platte, Nebraska-

On Wednesday, April 21st and Thursday, April 22nd, employees from NebraskaLand National Bank will start kids at Lincoln Elementary School and Cody Elementary School on the path to a positive financial future by participating in National Teach Children to Save Day (NTCSD)! This is an annual, nationwide event to teach kids their financial ABC's. 

"While today's kids can receive e-mail through their cell phones or use the Internet to do their homework, many don't know the basics of saving and money management," said Wendy Staroska/Marketing Officer of NebraskaLand National Bank. "Studies show that people who learn to save early in life usually make smarter financial decisions later. National Teach Children to save Day starts kids off on the right path to saving for their future."

Sponsored by the American Bankers Association Education Foundation (ABAEF), National Teach Children to Save Day is a day in April when bankers make presentations in schools across the country to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. For more tips and ideas about saving and more information on NTCSD for parents and teachers, visit the American Bankers Association web site at www.aba.com .

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