Reading to kids was just one part of the year-long, statewideeffort that helped North Carolina's State Employees' Credit Unionearn top honors at the recent National Youth Involvement Boardconference, unseating longtime national leader Michigan in the“number of students reached” category. In the past year, SECUbranch and operations staff took the financial education message tonearly 64,000 students in 994 classrooms. Here, the setting isMagnolia Elementary School in Lumberton, where Bonnie Canady,senior vice president of the Lumberton-Fayetteville Road branch,does the honors. She's joined by the mascot for the 238-branchSECU's FAT CAT youth savings program.

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