115 years ago, a group of local farmers came together to establish a bank in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. Before this, the nearest banks were in Allentown, Kutztown, and Slatington, which meant locals would need to set aside several hours of their day just to get their banking done. New Tripoli Bank opened its doors on March 1st, 1910. Originally under the name of New Tripoli National Bank, offering deposit and loan products to locals clamoring for a more convenient bank. Once our doors opened, they never closed.

New Tripoli Bank weathered the Great Depression, two world wars, several recessions, and years of industry consolidation that had shuttered or swallowed up countless other community banks. We have grown from a single office in New Tripoli to three branches located across Lehi County. Claussville, our second office, is located in Orefield and Buckeye, our third office, is located between Emmaus and Macungie. Over the past 115 years, we've adapted our banking tools to meet customer expectations for quality banking service. Whether it's online and mobile account opening, electronic banking tools, or fraud detection services, New Tripoli Bank is always upgrading our offerings to provide effective modern banking solutions.

However, no matter how advanced our technology is, we never forget the importance of community in everything we do. New Tripoli Bank has been a cornerstone of the Lehigh Valley economy for over a century and we take great pride in our role in the community. We've helped local businesses grow and provided needed funding to schools, historical societies, fire departments, emergency services, and other local organizations. Our employees are all drawn from the Lehigh Valley. They sit on the boards of local nonprofits and chambers of commerce or volunteer at local churches, food pantries, and other nonprofit organizations.

It's this community focus that is the secret to our success. We offer the same conveniences as national banks while treating our customers as individuals rather than just another account on the ledger. When you step through our doors, you are greeted with a smile and recognition. We know that many of our customers choose to bank with New Tripoli Bank because your parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents were customers. But we also know that you choose to stay with New Tripoli Bank for all the reasons we've mentioned. We intend to be the bank of choice for future generations and to keep that spirit of community banking alive for another 115 years.

My name is Bill Gordon and this is Tall Tails Training and Boarding. And I'm Robin Achey and we've been business partners for 30 years. Tall Tails Training and Boarding offers a residence program for your dog. It's two weeks of training with your dog so your dog learns obedience skills, cooperation, and patience. We teach communication words. We teach real life applications, manners, how the dog wants to interact with the environment. And then there's training for the owners to teach them what the dog already knows. Teaching the owners how to use the commands so that they can create the relationship that they want with their dogs. We also offer behavioral problem solving, aggression, rehab, and all kinds of puppy training and counseling. Bill and I didn't actually start out in this business. 30 years ago I was a graphic designer, Bill was a chemical engineer. At the time, we were married, and we were raising a dog together getting training from a local trainer. We were having experiences that were appalling; bad boarding situations, a trainer that was way too dominant and harsh. We found our dog crumbling instead of thriving. And that's when I got the spark to be like I knew that I had to create something that could help other people find fulfillment in relationship with their pets. Bill at the time was a chemical engineer and he found the same zeal as we worked together with this dog. Bill and I were married at the time. We divorced and as we divorced we raised our business as though it was a child we were co-parenting. We built this business and we had to reestablish new relationships based on what our common goal was. But we used that foundation as the way to solve behavioral problems in dogs with behavioral problems. So our own personal situation became very integral in how we created programs for people. Tall Tails Training and Boarding has hosted several events for rescues and veterinarians where they offer education for the public, fundraising for rescues, blood donations, and other opportunities for people to come in and get education in various aspects of pet ownership. Bill and I really like to emphasize bringing people together learning about animal causes and really creating solutions to what's going on out there. As Bill and I keep growing the business our plans include more workshops for people more one-on-one work with people learning about their pets I've started a program called Imagine Acres where I'm connecting people with animals and nature. We're also big on sustainability and there's a lot of area on this farm for putting up things like solar arrays and possibly wind. So those are going to be places that we look forward into the future. We've been with New Tripoli Bank for 15 years. They provided us with our commercial loan lines of credit business and checking accounts. We've closed our commercial loan twice with New Tripoli Bank. We've refinanced after the initial closing and our loan officer Dave Sherwin just made it easy and put us at ease every single time. I remember being in Arizona making a purchase and my card got flagged because I had neglected to tell New Tripoli I was traveling. So of course it came up as something suspicious and unusual. But the fact that they found it was an amazing peace of mind for me knowing that someone had my back. We are about as small business as small business gets and in order to make this succeed someone needs to really see you. New Tripoli Bank was one of the first groups who saw us. It's the personal service, it's the getting to know who you really are, it's understanding what the professional needs in your business and really seeing who you are and what you're trying to do. If you believe in your business they'll believe in you.