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ICBA Community Bankers of the Year

Independent Banker

Four judges evaluated the community bankers nominated based on four criteria—character; leadership; community involvement/volunteerism; and overall bank condition and health. Jonah Bank of Wyoming, Casper, Wyo. The Judges. Bill Loving. ICBA Immediate Past Chairman; President and CEO of. Pendleton Community Bank in Franklin, W.Va. .

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. In Arkansas, Jim S. Jim Gowen Sr.

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