GCSB Heritage Club Newsletter - May 2022

In this newsletter you'll learn about:

Members Only: Survey results and save the date!
Product news: Refinancing your mortgage
Team Member Spotlight: Meet Kaitlyn
Connecting Communities: Celebrate May Day
Connect Club Travel Update
Fraud Alert: Publishers Clearing House Scam

Next Social Event

GCSB Heritage Club will host its next social event on Wednesday, June 15 at 10:00 AM in the Barnett Room at Guthrie County State Bank in Guthrie Center. Join us for refreshments, door prizes, and a chance to win $250 in cash in the money bag - must be present to win! We will talk about upcoming travel, events and other news. Watch your email and Facebook for more details!

Members Only: Survey Says!

Thanks to everyone who took our GCSB Heritage Club survey from our February newsletter. We received valuable feedback on our 2021 Appreciation Dinner and the overall GCSB Heritage Club program. A few highlights from the survey include:

• The Lake Panorama National Conference Center staff again received high marks for the food, service, and atmosphere, You also enjoyed Jesse & The Medicine Men and the history presentation by Barry Monaghan.

• We asked about other types of entertainment that you enjoy. This is a group that likes to have fun and laugh as the top answers included a comedian, dueling pianos, a speaker, and a magician.

• The feedback on our travel collaboration with the Connect Club of Commercial Savings Bank in Carroll was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone is excited to be able to travel again!

• We are considering ideas to make day trips an option. When we asked about locations you would like to visit, the variety of answers landed in every corner of the state of Iowa! But the top five responses included: the Amana Colonies, the National Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, the Grotto of Redemption in West Bend, the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, and the Decorah/Dunbar Springs area.

We appreciate your feedback and will utilize it as we continue to plan events and programming for the GCSB Heritage Club!

Have you considered refinancing?

Loan rates for mortgages are still low despite the rise in prices for other items like groceries and gas. If you have a mortgage on your home or other property, it might be worth your time to talk to a relationship manager at Guthrie County State Bank. We can take a look at your current loan to see if it would be beneficial to refinance it. Or you might consider establishing a home equity line of credit to pay for purchases like furniture, recreational equipment, or a dream vacation instead of utilizing your credit card or your savings. There are lots of reasons why a line of credit can make sense as a financial tool. Give us a call, send us an email, or stop by our locations to learn more.

Save the Date!

2022 GCSB Heritage Club Members-Only Appreciation Dinner

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Lake Panorama National Resort and Conference Center

Watch for more details!

GCSB Team Member Spotlight

Welcome to Kaitlyn Ballard, full-time personal banker in the Panora location! We are excited to have Kaitlyn on our team. She brings five years of retail and banking customer service experience to her new role at GCSB. Kaitlyn graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in business administration. She and her husband recently moved to Panora. Stop by and say hello to Kaitlyn!

Connecting Communities

Click here to learn more about our Celebrate May Day promotion!

Celebrate May Day!

Spring is in the air, and so is our community spirit! Guthrie County State Bank will again encourage acts of kindness through our Celebrate May Day promotion. Beginning May 1 through May 27, we invite GCSB customers to help a member of our community for the chance to win one of 10 – $500 checks from GCSB to be donated to a local small business or nonprofit. That’s a total of $5,000 for local nonprofits and small businesses!

HOW TO ENTER GCSB'S CELEBRATE MAY DAY PROMOTION

It’s easy to enter. Between May 1 – 27, snap a picture of yourself, your family, or your friends performing a good deed for someone else. Submit the photo on Guthrie County State Bank’s Facebook page or on your public Instagram profile with the hashtag #GCSBMayDay and let us know the small business or nonprofit to which you would give the $500 if you were to win. You can also email your photo and description to gcsb@gcsbank.com

We hope you’ll join in to help us give away $5,000 to our community. Contact any GCSB team member for more details and watch our website , Facebook, and Instagram for updates.

Connect Club Update

Have you checked out the opportunities for travel with Connect Club and our partners at Commercial Savings Bank in Carroll? Rhonda, Connect Club Travel Coordinator, will be at our June 15 Quarterly Social Meeting to tell us more about these trips. We are also scheduling a travel show meeting for August. Watch our newsletters and Facebook for more information on the details!

Find out how Connect Club's escorted tours take care of every detail while you relax and focus on making memories with friends old and new! Trips available in 2022 include:

Fall Foliage in New England - September 30 - October 11 ~ final payment is due for this trip on May 25
Osthoff Christmas - December 3 - 7

Email heritageclub@gcsbank.com or call Rhonda, Connect Club Travel Coordinator, at 712-792-4346

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FRAUD TIPS

Recently, we’ve been hearing about a scam that convinces people they have won the Publishers Clearing House (PCH) Sweepstakes. There are a variety of ways that the scammers try to convince you but whatever the reason, don’t fall for it. According to PCH, there are three key things to remember:

1. PCH will never call you or notify you in advance to tell you that you’ve won.

2. PCH doesn’t send friend requests or messages via Facebook.

3. They will never ask you to pay anything to claim your PCH prize.

Visit this website and watch this video to learn more. If you ever have questions about scams or you think someone is trying to scam you, contact Guthrie County State Bank or the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Department.

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