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With Interest
Team effort-Tiffany Baer Paine, third from left, with fellow staff wellness and sustainability committee members (l-r): Amanda Willis, Carl Johnson, Shannon Eickstadt,
Virginia Essig, Laura Nord and Leslie Heinonen.
interests. The result: happier, more
relaxed employees who are also more
likely to volunteer.
" Community banks volunteer all the
time, and what happens at times [is]
you get into a slump and it's the same
people volunteering all the time. But
by starting this wellness committee,
everybody's engaging in something, "
Paine says. Recent activities have
included Adopt-a-Highway cleanups
and raising funds for United Way.
The planet's turn
With healthier employees, Security
Bank next turned toward the health
of the environment by forming a
six-member sustainability committee.
Greener practices had long been
part of the bank's cultural DNA,
including recycling, paperless board
meetings, posted signs reminding
people to turn off lights, and mobile
banking, capture and deposit. To
further reduce the community bank's
carbon footprint, committee members
arranged an internal energy
audit to discover where and when
they were using electricity. When
the audit results pinpointed solar
power and LED conversion as two
opportunities for better stewardship
of natural resources, Paine moved
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forward without hesitation.
" We happen to be very blessed
with a forward-thinking community
that really has embraced the sustainability
lifestyle, " she says. " Our
electrical cooperative just had a ribbon
cutting on a huge solar garden,
and not just because they're required
to, but because they felt being good
global stewards is the right thing
to do. And that's ultimately what it
came down to for us: Sustainability is
the right thing to do. "
In the past 18 months, Security
Bank has added its own solar array
and has completely converted to
LED lighting. Both resource and
cost savings abound. Since they
were installed, the solar panels
have reduced CO2 emissions by the
equivalent of planting 772 trees. The
community bank's LED lighting has
dropped its monthly electricity bill
an average of 20 percent.
Benefits have also extended to
business relationships. Security Bank

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