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TROY — Troy Chamber of Commerce awarded their annual Person and Business of the Year awards at their meeting at the Vets Club on Dec. 2.
Person of the year went to Veronica Seymour.
Veronica was born and raised in Dushore, Sullivan County the oldest of 2 daughters to Ronald and Debra Stanton. She graduated from Pennsylvania College of Technology with a degree in Legal Studies, with minors in Business Administration and Business Management. The first 17 years of her career, she worked at various law firms in Sullivan and Bradford Counties, spending the last 8 of those years as a Real Estate Paralegal at the law firm Griffin, Dawsey, DePaola & Jones in Towanda. In 2013, she began her career in banking working for First Citizens Community Bank as a Mortgage Originator for Bradford County, in 2015 she took a job in the Troy office as a Customer Service Counselor II, and in 2019 she was promoted to AVP – Branch Operations Officer for the Troy and Gillett branches.
Veronica resides in Troy borough with her husband Greg and their two sons Garrett and Levi, who both attend Troy Jr./Sr. High School.
Business of the year went to C&N Bank.
On behalf of the entire team at C&N, thank you for our nomination of the prestigious Troy Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year award. We are honored to be a part of this wonderful community we call home.
On the surface, C&N is your hometown, full-service financial institution, offering a full range of banking, lending and wealth management products and services. However, our purpose runs much deeper. The culture we’ve developed at C&N is a reflection of our vision, mission and values, which guide our approach to relationship banking. Our experts are trained to customize a personalized solution specific to each customer’s goals and dreams. With every interaction, whether a simple transaction, buying your first home or saving for retirement, we want to you to feel how C&N is different. We want you to feel like family.
In 2020, we found ourselves in a position to help customers in ways that seemed unimaginable just a year ago. Our community businesses were forced to close while we continued to provide essential services to our community. With our own lobbies closed for the safety of our customers and employees, our team made hundreds of “C&N Cares Calls” to ensure our customers were okay, to answer their questions, to help and, sometimes, to simply listen. Our lending team worked around the clock to provide over $27,000,000 in Payroll Protection Program loans to our local small businesses to help them cover operating expenses and pay their employees. When our friends and neighbors were laid off due to the shutdown, we provided loan payment deferrals and other solutions to help ease the pains they were feeling through the crisis. And now, we are helping customers purchase or refinance their homes during the hottest real estate market in decades, with record-high loan volumes and record-low mortgage interest rates.
C&N has always taken great pride in our local community. Our teammates are actively involved by serving on local boards or organizations, such as the Troy Lions Club, Troy American Legion Ladies Auxiliary, Troy Foundation, Chamber committees and others. We are also passionate about our “Giving Back, Giving Together” program, which is an employee-driven fundraising effort to create a positive and lasting impact on our local community. Over the past 5 years, our Troy team has volunteered and raised money for the Troy Food Bank, Troy Volunteer Fire Department, School Backpack Program, Allen F. Pierce Library and the Troy American Legion / Vet’s Club. In 2020, we chose to support the Snack N Sack Program, which provides nutritional food to our local school children in need. We are currently accepting food donations and holding fundraisers to help them buy the necessary food items during this heightened time of need.
Lastly, we are so proud to call the historic Van Dyne Civic Center our home since 1980. Built in 1894, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2020, it was featured as a beautiful backdrop to the Memorial Day Stationary Parade. The original 1914 Seth Thomas Clock is still intact in the clock tower and we still wind it by hand today. We enjoy hearing so many positive comments about how much the community loves to hear the clock chime, just as it did many years ago.
Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to the Chamber for considering C&N for this nomination. Regardless of the outcome, we will always feel like winners as members of the beautiful Troy Community.
The meeting at the Troy Vets Club was limited to 25 seats, due to COVID restrictions. Those who could not make it in person could watch a live stream of the event.