Patricia A. "Chic" Garlock has joined First National Bank as Vice President of the Findlay market. Garlock will manage the existing office located at 1630 Tiffin Ave., as well as the new location currently under construction at 1114 Trenton Ave. The new branch will open in February of 2012. She is responsible for customer retention and developing new consumer and business relationships in the Findlay community.
Garlock has 23 years of banking experience in the Findlay community and says she is excited about getting back to true community banking.
Drive Time Driving Instruction has some neat holiday gift offers. These include $20 off the regular price of $300, on top of the everyday $10 discount for full payment on the first day of class.
Holiday pricing will be in effect for both Findlay and Bluffton classes in Dec. and Jan. (Dec. 4 and Jan. 8 in Bluffton; Dec. 18 and Jan. 22 in Findlay.)
Gift certificates are also available. Drive Time Driving Instruction is an Icon advertiser.
What year did you graduate from Bluffton High School?
I graduated in 1976
What are you doing these days and where do you live?
I am a Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. Given the magic of technology, however, I actually live in Seattle (where I have now been for 11 years) and telecommute to my Los Angeles office.
Bluffton University's music department has announced the soloists for its 116th performance of Handel's "Messiah," at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Founders Hall. Soloists are Dr. Crystal Sellers, soprano; Cynthia Lincoln MacDonald, alto; Christopher Scholl, tenor; and Dr. Sean Cooper, bass.
Crystal Sellers, soprano
Sellers is an assistant professor of music at Bluffton, where she teaches voice and vocal pedagogy and conducts the university and community gospel choir.
Bluffton Hospital Wins National Patient Satisfaction Award For Third Consecutive Year
Bluffton Hospital has been named one of only 37 inpatient hospitals in the United States to receive the 2011 Press Ganey Summit Award for patient satisfaction. This is the third consecutive year Bluffton Hospital has received this honor, according to William Watkins of the hospital.
The Press Ganey Summit Award is given to health care facilities across the nation that sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.
This year's Blaze has the "ultimate cool." And you may even take it home if the price is right.
New to this year's Blaze is a presentation by ice sculptor Chad Hartson of Ice Creations, from Napoleon. He is one of America's leading sculptors with national and international recognition.
Beginning at 4 p.m., as the crowd watches, Hartson will work with a block of ice 40 by 20 by 10 inches and over the next 45 minutes will create an ornate snowflake. The work will then be auctioned.
Hartson's work is described as a the "ultimate cool."
