Highlights of Fall 2013 Thank you
Jonah Pence, Farmers & Merchants Bank; Greg Godsey, Union First Market Bank; Dustin Branner, Farmers & Merchants Bank; Cindy Craun, United Bank; and Carl Craig, First Bank & Trust Company, attending the meeting in Staunton.
Senator Emmett Hanger, Bruce Whitehurst, and Delegate Ben Cline participate in the legislative meeting at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel.
to the 138 bankers who met with 67 legislators, including three congressmen, during the legislative meetings in Williamsburg, Wytheville, McLean, Staunton, Virginia Beach, Danville, Fredericksburg and Richmond.
Bankers gather for breakfast and interaction with elected officials.
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