First Financial Bank Volunteers Mark 11th Annual Day of Service

Richard Vaughan, San Angelo market leader and West Texas banking chairman and CEO, welcomed the group. He noted it was the bank’s 11th year of the tradition. 

“It’s a wonderful tradition,” Vaughan said. “Putting ‘community’ in community bank. … You won’t find a healthy community bank that’s not inside a healthy community. We go to school here, we go to church with these guys, we shop with these folks. This is our community. It makes sense to help them.”

He described the day as both service and team building, saying employees often end up laughing and creating shared memories. 

“The point is to go help. It’s just a bonus,” that participants feel good about the day, he said. 

Projects included painting at the YMCA, sorting and organizing a relief warehouse for Concho Valley Turning Point, assisting with donations at the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Center’s Sara’s House, cleaning and organizing a storage facility for West Texas Counseling and Guidance, helping with Meals for the Elderly, and doing arts and crafts with residents at Baptist Memorial Retirement Center and Sagecrest. 

Statewide, more than 1,100 First Financial employees participated in the Day of Service. It was the bank’s second year joining the Texas Bankers Association’s Texas Banks Community Day of Service, according to a press release from the bank. 

Last year’s local effort, the bank’s 10th annual Day of Service, involved multiple San Angelo banks and focused on repairs to flood-damaged homes in partnership with Galilee Community Development Corporation and United Way of the Concho Valley.

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