Posts Tagged ‘Charles “Chubby” Reid’


I Want to be a Carpenter

I didn’t want to attend college after high school so my father helped me get a job with a customer of the bank who built houses for a living.  Years later, my father admitted to telling the contractor to “make it tough on the boy” and with pleasure he did.  I worked very hard and by the end of the summer I was considered one of the best employees and was asked to stay on permanently.  I informed Chief that college wasn’t in the cards for me. He abruptly told me why I would enroll that day and LOVE it. read more...

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Post by Chris Reid at December 6th, 2010

Revolutionary Riders

You may ask what makes Independence Bank Revolutionary... One thing that makes us Revolutionary is the way we go to battle. Once our cause has been established, we go at it with brute force and in a way that no one else would. In late September, we decided that our cause was to fight cancer and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life would be our beneficiary. We wanted to come up with a way to raise money and awareness for this cause that would also be beneficial to our employees. That is when the bike ride came into play. Our entireread more...

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Post by Chris Reid at November 17th, 2010