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Design and building firm NewGround has promoted President/Chief Operating Officer Kevin Blair to CEO.

The Service Employees International Union planned a Town Hall-style meeting at press time featuring Representative Joe Baca (D-Calif.), local community leaders, and consumers who feel lending and fee policies of Bank of America and other big banks are deceitful and damaging to the U.S. economy.

Brian Harron, chief financial officer of the $46 million Carolina Mountains Credit Union, knows he has two bright, young daughters but he did not expect his fourth-grader would start doing spreadsheet analyses of the CU's branch operation.

Auto Expert was recently recognized for its service record with the California Governor's Award for Excellence and the Gold Level California Award for Performance Excellence.

A surplus of liquidity in the credit union industry has helped to raise investments in the Trust for Credit Unions money market portfolio to $1.047 billion as of Feb. 15, 2008, up $687 million from the previous year, according to Callahan Financial Services, a subsidiary of Callahan & Associates.

Basking in the glow of savory success, Dawn White's "shrimp salad delight" was recently named the 2007 Lawry's Tasty Traditions 'Reel Creative Meals' winner.