Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Barbecue Dinner Celebrating New Heritage Bank Branch

The ribbon cutting ceremony will celebrate the new Heritage Bank branch at Salishan as well as the Salishan College Savings Account program for children. Please convene at the Salishan Family Investment Centeron South 44th Street off Portland Avenue, across the parking lot behind the Tanbara Medical Clinic. Community leaders and speakers: • Marty Campbell, Manager, Salishan Association – Master of Ceremonies • Andrea Levere, President, Prosperity Now • Jeff Deuel, Chief Operating Officer and President, Heritage Bank • Mayor Victoria Woodards, City of Tacoma • Catherine Ushka, City Councilmember City of Tacoma • Carla Santorno, Superintendent, Tacoma Public Schools • a family participant in the Salishan Children’s Savings Account • Amanda DeShazo, Executive Director, Tacoma-Pierce County Affordable Housing Consortium Five reasons why Heritage Bank’s new branch at Salishan is important: • The Heritage Bank branch at New Salishan will allow parents and children of the Children’s Savings Account program to easily make deposits into their accounts. • It will mean that when Salishan school children walk to Lister Elementary School or First Creek Middle School they will pass by their bank and think of their money on deposit! • Heritage will show parents and children how a bank can be a friendly and useful place. • In that way Heritage will help all East Side residents into the mainstream financial services system and away from payday lenders and cash checking businesses. • Heritage’s bank branch at New Salishan is the first new bank in Tacoma’s East Side in a long time.