PUTTING THE "COMMUNITY" INTO COMMUNITY BANKING

Local bank invests in new ideas for revising Ohio towns.

          Croghan Colonial Bank of Fremont, Ohio, sponsored a trip for seven downtown merchants in March, 2010, to attend Jon Schallert's Destination Business BootCamp in Colorado, where they learned his energizing insights into growing their businesses.
          Since they returned from the 2-1/2 day experience, downtown Fremont is in the midst of an entrepremeurial transformation, with business owners spreading their wealth of understanding to neighbors in meetings they call "mini-Schallerts." 
          Folks in Fremont and far beyond are tasting success ...  click here to read the rest of this story.