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Union State Bank has hired Michelle Harm for the consumer loan officer position at our Hazen location.

Union State Bank’s Ginny Cheatley and Kelly Martin have completed two years of schooling and graduated from the Dakota School of Banking.

Union State Bank has been fielding many phone calls regarding a little blue postcard telling the receiver to call “this number.”

Carla Borlaug has been named Union State Bank’s Executive Vice President of Commercial Lending and Lending Department Manager.

Richter resigns as Senior Vice President of Lending for entrepreneurial opportunity

Someone’s mental health and wellbeing is not seen on the surface. It is something buried deep inside them, edging its way to be seen or discovered. This isn’t an illness that can be identified on a person right away, however, like a broken arm, this type of pain deserves all the same treatment and care as would any physical injury.

In March, I wrote “Be Brave and Be Bothered,” on a pair of drumsticks I received. I have had those drumsticks laying on my desk ever since, and I look at them often throughout the day. If you come to our 2022 NDBA/SDBA Annual Convention next month in Bismarck, you’ll learn what the drumsticks are about. And I hope in so doing, you are as deeply impacted as I was – and continue to be.

I would be remiss if I didn’t start by saying that as I write this, I sit all by myself in my Hazen office, not being able to open the bank due to the Snowmageddon out there that has paralyzed our communities, save for the occasional snowmobile I see zipping past. A friend of mine called it an “Impressive Weather Event.” I call it the stuff of folklore.