Savannah Tech to Give Kids a Smile
Savannah Technical College will host Give Kids a Smile, a free event for children ages 3 to 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Eckburg Auditorium, 5717 White Bluff Road. Children will receive dental care at the event.
The event is coordinated through a partnership with the Georgia Dental Association, Southeastern Dental District, the Savannah Dental Society and Savannah Technical College’s dental hygiene and dental assisting departments.
Savannah Tech’s 83-credit-hour associate of science in dental hygiene program accepts approximately 26 students annually, and students provide clinical patient care as a component of their curriculum requirements.
For more information about program admission, health sciences academic advisor Ebony Walker at ewalker@savannahtech.edu or 912-443-5721); Dr. Suzanne Edenfield at sedenfield@savannahtech.edu for dental hygiene; or Stephanie Derfus at sderfus@savannahtech.edu for Dental Assisting.
Kroger, shoppers raise money to fight heart disease
Kroger’s Georgia stores — including 11 in the greater Savannah area — and the American Heart Association will team up to raise money to fight heart disease in February.
The initiative, which runs from Feb. 1–Feb. 14, invites Kroger customers to buy a paper red heart for $1 at checkout to help raise $200,000 to benefit the American Heart Association and its mission of building healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest, largest voluntary organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
United Community Bank ranked 14th on Forbes list
Blairsville — Forbes magazine recently ranked United Community Banks (NASDAQ: UCBI) number 14 on its 2015 list of America’s Best and Worst Banks in an article that rated 100 of the largest publicly traded banks and thrifts nationwide.
“This ranking reflects our focus on the fundamentals of growing a strong bank,” said president and CEO Lynn Harton. “We are particularly proud of achieving this recognition of our financial performance during the same time that we have been recognized as the Southeast Region Winner of the JD Power Award for customer satisfaction.”
Forbes ranks the banks on nine measures of financial health, including return on average equity, net interest margin, non-performing loans as a percentage of loans, non-performing assets as percentage of assets, reserves as a percentage of non-performing loans, two capital ratios (Tier 1 and risk-based), leverage ratio and one-year sales growth.
Data for the ranking was provided by SNL Financial based on regulatory filings through Sept. 30.
