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This year marks the 15th anniversary of the devastating flood that came through Carter County in 1998. Today Carter County Bank employees volunteered to get their hands dirty in order to bring new life to the Victims’ Memorial located next to The Community Park in beautiful Roan Mountain, Tennessee.

Saturday, April 27, was a record breaking year for Carter County Bank’s Annual Free Community Shred Day with a total of almost 20,000 pounds of paper professionally shredded and recycled. The Village branch, located at 800 Broad Street in Elizabethton, was busy with normal bank customers as well as local residents who brought trucks, boxes and garbage bags full of documents containing their personal information and watched it be shredded by Cintas, an on-site document shredding company. “We started this event several years ago and it continues to grow each year. This is the first year we brought two trucks to handle the shredding. We are happy that we invested in two trucks because we filled both of them before the day was over,” said Rebecca White, Marketing Director for Carter County Bank. “Offering a Free Shred Day gives our citizens a proactive way to guard against Identity Theft,” said White. “A large percentage of households don’t have their own personal paper shredder or even have access to one. We are happy to be able to provide this annual shred service to our customers and community” said Dale Fair, President of Carter County Bank. Shredding your sensitive documents is just one step in the process of protecting your identity. Here are just a few additional steps you should take to ward off thieves. — Check your credit report and bank statements regularly for suspicious activity. It’s better to catch a problem early. — Protect your Social Security number. Give out only when absolutely necessary. — Shred any papers that contain sensitive personal information including bank statements, medical records, tax records, insurance forms, credit card offers, etc. At home, use a shredder that is cross-cut or diamond-cut. In-home shredder prices range from $30 to $100. Higher end shredders will destroy CDs [...]

Our Annual Free Shred Day will be Saturday, April 27th from 9am to 1pm at our Broad Street location. Bring your old bills, check stubs, health information, tax documents, financial statements, floppy disks, CDs, legal papers, invoices, or any other confidential information that has accumulated over the years. Participants do not need to remove staples, paper clips, folders, or rubber bands from documents. Hope to see you there! This free service is provided to consumers only please.

Congratulations to the employees that worked diligently on CCB’s “Griswold Christmas Vacation” themed float in the 2012 Elizabethton Christmas Parade. For more pictures, please visit our Facebook page.

Carter County Bank has donated $3,000 to the Second Harvest Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry in Carter County. Second Harvest Community Relations Director Kathy Smith said the donation would help cover the operations of the mobile food pantry, which delivers food to locations in Stoney Creek, Watauga, Valley Forge, Hampton and Roan Mountain, along with drop-off locations at Lynnwood and Lynnridge apartments and First United Methodist Church. At each site, food boxes are distributed to 40 to 60 people. The funds raised for the donation were collected from the Community Pride T-shirt sales through the bank. A total of 750 shirts were printed for the communities of Hampton, Happy Valley, Poga, Roan Mountain, Stoney Creek and Elizabethton with slogans referring specially to that area of Carter County. Carter County Bank public relations officer Rebecca White said the bank was pleased with the results of the sales. The bank sold 612 of the 750 T-shirts for a total donation of $2,727 after expenses. Carter County Bank rounded the amount up for a total of $3000 to sponsor the Second Harvest Food Bank Mobile Pantry in Carter County. “We are glad that we are able to help the agency,” White said. “We would not have been able to make this donation without the help of PEP Screen, who printed the T-shirts at such a reduced cost.” “Part of our strategic vision is that no one goes hungry because of lack of access to food,” Smith said. “The mobile food pantry delivers to locations that would otherwise not have access to food banks. This donation will help with purchasing the food for the boxes and paying for fuel to make the deliveries.” The bank will run another Community Pride campaign next summer. The communities of Keenburg and Siam have already been picked to be [...]

A $5,000 donation by Carter County Bank combined with a $10,000 anonymous match means $15,000 for the Northeast State Community College Foundation to provide Educate and Grow scholarships for 2012 Carter County graduates.  The program is an economic development effort designed to develop and maintain a qualified work force. Every 2012 high school graduate in Carter County is eligible to apply for a four-semester scholarship at Northeast State.  “Carter County Bank understands the value of a quality education to people as individuals and the positive impact it has on our community as a whole. We are extremely proud to be a part of this effort and have had a long history of supporting programs like the Educate and Grow at Northeast State,” said Dale Fair, President of Carter County Bank.  Awards are made as reimbursements based on tuition need. Scholarship amounts depend on the number of students in the program and the availability of program funds.  “We are pleased that Carter County Bank has stepped forward to fund this important scholarship,” said Heather Cook, executive director of the Northeast State Foundation. “Local support is very meaningful for students because it helps them realize their goals and dreams are valued by the community.”  For more information, about the Educate and Grow Scholarship, visit, www.educateandgrow.comor call the Office of Scholarship Programs at 354-2507.

We are proud and excited to give Joy Bradford the Quarterly Seeds of Excellence Award. Congratulations to Joy and thank you for your excellent work and dedication to our customers.

Ben Treadway overcame a rocky start Sunday with a three-hole birdie barrage late in the day, and it was good enough to capture the 18th annual Carter County Bank East Tennessee Amateur held at Elizabethton Golf Course, his home course, by one stroke over a hard-charging Nick York. Mike Poe won the overall senior title, overcoming a 10-shot deficit to capture his 64th victory in an amateur tournament. Read a full article from the Johnson City Press here. 

Friday, July 22nd the CCB family attended the 2012 Relay for Life event at Elizabethton High School to support and celebrate our co-workers’ triumphs over cancer: Juanita Jarrett and David LeVeau.  

No one left hungry after attending the 2012 Taste of Carter County on Tuesday, June 5. Five hundred people were served food from the finest restaurants in Carter County. Some foods that evening included BBQ, sirlion, italian, mussels, chinese, and fish, with a variety of desserts including brownies, lemon curd cupcakes, and peach bread pudding. Thank you the following businesses who made this event successful. Restaurants: Bojangles, Captain D’s, Captain’s Table, Chef Clare Richards of Bella Bistro, Chick-Fil-A, Coffee Company, Creekers BBQ, Fatz, Food City Deli, J’s Corner, Lone Star, Primos, and Walmart Bakery & Deli. Florists: Andrea’s Flowers and Felty-Roland Florist Door Prize Contributors: Bonnie Kate Cafe, Pals, and Roan Mountain Cabins Musicians: Jacob Tipton and Danny Williams Venue: Elizabethton High School and their staff Media Sponsors: Elizabethton Star, Lamar Outdoor, WBEJ and WJHL Non Profit Partners: Elizabethton/Carter County Community Foundation and Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce  

Carter County Bank employees gathered in Roan Mountain, TN on Wednesday, May 30 armed with mulch, plants, and gardening tools. The landscaping project at the “Welcome to Tennessee” sign created a beautiful site for visitors and residents of the area. Many thanks to Big Johns of Elizabethton, TN for donating some of the landscaping.

William B. Greene, Jr. and the Board of Directors enthusiastically announce the appointment of Dale Fair as President and Chief Executive Officer of Carter County Bank. Dale will assume the position on July 1, 2012. Jim Holmes, who has held the position for 21 years, was elected Chairman of the Board for Carter County Bank beginning July 1, 2012. “Carter County Bank, a locally owned and operated bank since 1939, has always held the belief that it is imperative for the President and CEO to be a well respected individual with expertise in the banking industry who makes their home in this community. Jim Holmes has fulfilled that role perfectly during his tenure as CEO. We are confident that there is no better person to continue that legacy than Dale Fair” said Greene, who will remain as Chairman of the bank’s holding company, Carter County Bancorp. A native of Elizabethton, Fair attended the University of Tennessee and played football there after graduating from Elizabethton High School in 1973. After completing college, Fair was a high school teacher and football coach in middle Tennessee for several years until moving back to Elizabethton in 1981 to accept a position at Citizens Bank. In 2002, he left the banking industry to serve the needs of the community as County Mayor of Carter County. Fair held the elected position for a term of four years. In 2006, Fair accepted the position of Director of First Tennessee Human Resource Agency, which provides assistance and social services for individuals in Carter, Greene, Johnson, Hawkins, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington Counties in Northeast Tennessee. Mr. Fair has been married to his wife, Cindy, for 34 years and together they have three children, daughter Julie and her husband Jason Harris, and sons Justin and Josh and wife Laura Beth. [...]

On March 16, 2012 CNBC’s Squawk Box featuring our very own – William B. Greene Jr. In the segment that aired this morning, he discusses how small banks face heavy regulatory burden. “Squawk Box” is a morning show touted as a must-see for professional traders and investors.Hosts include Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla.