Start the School Year on the right foot with a series of parenting seminars that will help you put some new tools in your parenting toolbox! During this week of seminars at various churches and schools, parenting expert, Mark Gregston, will focus his time on building deeper relationships, improving communication skills, and connecting with your teens.

Beginning on Sunday, August 23rd, the East Texas 2020 week of parenting seminars will start at Longview’s Mobberly Baptist Church. On Monday the 24th, the event will be held at the Spring Hill Intermediate School on Spring Hill Road from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. The seminars on Tuesday, August 25th will be held as a breakfast meeting at Alpine Church of Christ, located at 610 E. Loop 281. That night, the seminar will be held in the High School Cafeteria at the Gilmer High School. Wednesday’s event, on the 26th, will be held at New Beginnings Baptist Church located at 2137 George Richey Road in Longview. And rounding off a wonderful week of helping parents, the Thursday seminar will be held specifically for grandparents at First Baptist Church Longview as an afternoon seminar from 4:00 top 6:00 pm.

Mark Gregston is the founder and Executive Director of Heartlight, as residential counseling center located on Highway 80 between Longview and Hallsville. He has lived there for 30+ years, helping over 3,000 teens and families resolve the issues that have torn their families apart. He brings his expertise, wit, and wisdom, to this seminar week, instead of hosting their typical fund-raising concert series that’s been held in Longview the last 15 years. These seminars are free to all in hopes of helping the parents in East Texas start the 2020 school year off on the right foot.

[LONGVIEW, Tex.] —Texas Bank and Trust is pleased to announce the selection of nine seniors from Spring Hill High School to serve on its 2020-2021 Student Board of Directors.

The TB&T Student Board is a prestigious program recognizing outstanding high school seniors in the community.

Seniors Marshall Bodenheimer, Peyton Borens, Kenneth Bowles, Whitten Bowles, Kennedy Croom, Kenzie Gee, Rachel Petree, Samantha Schott, and Taylor White will join with 53 other seniors from Christian Heritage Classical, Trinity School of Texas, Longview, Pine Tree, and St. Mary’s High Schools to make up the 43rd senior class to participate in the TB&T program in Longview.

The 2020-2021 Student Board members will be introduced to the TB&T bank staff in a Virtual Welcome Reception, to be held at 7 pm, Monday, August 24, via Zoom. Parents and school administrators are invited to join in to view the broadcast.

The Student Board program will be designed to introduce students to banking and money management at a critical point in their lives, and provide them with the essential economic building blocks to earning, spending, saving, and investing money. The students will be challenged this year in an Olympic-inspired competition, entitled THE 411 FINANCIAL CHALLENGE. This innovative TBT program will take the students through a series of head-to-head, high-spirited games to test their knowledge of budgeting, savings, investing, and professional development. Students will also serve as advisors to the bank on youth financial literacy programming throughout the year.

Established in 1978, Student Board remains the bank’s first and most enduring financial literacy program.

Students were selected based on their grade point average, extra-curricular activities, and afterschool work activities. Students must submit an essay with their application as well as two letters of recommendation from either a faculty member or administrator to be considered for the program. Students accepted into the 2020 Student Board program were notified in late June.

Since its inception, the Student Board has introduced more than 3,000 high school seniors to banking and money management.

For information on how to participate in the 2021-2022 Student Board program, students in their junior year of high school may contact Tammy Gage, Texas Bank and Trust Community Relations Officer, at (903) 237-1827.

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