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Sky Bank Celebrates Opening of New Boardman Office
BOARDMAN, Ohio -- Sky Bank celebrated the opening of its newest office this morning as Amy Stacy, the office manager, carefully cut a double roll of $1 bills in lieu of a ribbon.The $100 in dollar bills will be given to D.A.R.E. programs in Youngstown and Boardman, Stacy said. D.A.R.E. is the acronym for Drug Awareness and Resistance Education.Also on hand to hold the ribbon of currency were Frank Hierro, Mahoning Valley regional president of Sky Bank; Jim Horvath, Sky senior vice president and district sales manager; Sky facilities manager Rick Bunyoff; Sky regional directors Park McHenry, retired Sky executive, Chandler Kohli M.D., a neurosurgeon, and William Bresnahan, president and chief executive officer of Hynes Industries; Anthony and Cherie Hayek, architects with MS Consultants Inc. who designed the office; Paul Johnson, president of Adolph Johnson & Sons Co., general contractor who built the office; and Thomas Humphries, president and CEO of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber.The new office, 3960 South Ave., with 4,000 square feet, is about a third larger than the former office less than a quarter mile north on South Avenue at Midlothian Boulevard.Besides offering more customer parking (35 spaces), the new office has more drive-through lanes and a larger lobby, Hierro noted. "It offers clients full-service banking, investment services, commercial banking and complete lending services," he said. "For additional convenience, a full-service automated-teller machine and locked depository box are available 24 hours a day."We are extremely excited about our new financial center," Hierro continued. "We consider Youngstown and extremely important market for Sky and look forward to continuing the tradition of community-based banking in the Youngstown market."Sky Financial Group, with $12.1 billion in assets, is based in Bowling Green and has more than 260 financial centers and more than 280 ATMs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Indiana. Visit Sky at www.skyfi.com. Frank Hierro holds a ribbon of $1 bills as Amy Stacy snips it."