Fremont Mayor Joey Spellerberg, right, joins RVR Bank and Trinity Lutheran officials at Thursday’s ribbon cutting.
RVR Bank will kick-off a bank-in-school partnership with Trinity Lutheran School at a Chamber coffee and ribbon cutting at the school, 1546 N. Luther Road, on Thursday (Oct. 12). The coffee begins at 9 a.m. with the ribbon cutting and remarks set for 9:15.
This bank-in-school joins three other bank-in-school programs spearheaded by RVR Bank – Linden Elementary School, Archbishop Bergan Elementary School and Arlington Elementary School. RVR’s first bank in school started its 15th year this week. Trinity will be the 49th operational in school savings program in Nebraska. Kelly Lammers, the Director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance will be in attendance at the ribbon cutting as well as representation from the Nebraska Council on Economic Education.
Starting Thursday, Trinity students in kindergarten through eighth grade can make deposits into their own savings account at school. Then, the bank will be open every Thursday morning from 7:45-8:30 a.m. to accept student deposits.
Each student will have their own ledger with a record of their deposits. Additionally, students will receive incentives provided by RVR when they make deposits into their savings accounts – based on consistent savings and amount of savings. RVR will match the first $5 that a student deposits on the first day of branch opening as a thank you for making a charter donation to the savings program. The branch will be staffed by Trinity sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders as well as staff from RVR Bank.
“The leadership at Trinity observed what we are doing with other area schools and felt that this program would be an impactful addition to their current curriculum and programming so asked us to partner on creating this in school bank,” Nick Vrba, RVR executive vice president, said. “Relationships and education are cornerstones of our values, so this program creates an excellent opportunity for both of us. We want these students to not only learn about savings and how banks operate, but to become savers. We are also excited to introduce young people to the banking industry as a career.”
