Posted on August 9, 2023 by Heather Adams

Fleetwood Bank Celebrates Borough’s 150th Anniversary

by Fleetwood Bank

Fleetwood Bank Celebrates Borough’s 150th Anniversary

Local Community Bank Invites All Who Live or Work in Fleetwood to Make Their Mark in History

On Thursday, August 17 from 2:30 to 6:30 PM Fleetwood Bank will be hosting an Ice Cream Truck and Tiger Painting Event at their Executive Offices and Loan Center, located at Main & Franklin Streets across from the bank’s main branch in Fleetwood, PA. The painting of the tiger is part of an ongoing initiative through the Tiger Nation Committee. This committee was started as a way to honor the Borough of Fleetwood’s 150th Anniversary, which Fleetwood Bank is proud to be a major sponsor of. Local ice cream truck, Angels on Wheels, will be at the event from 4 to 6 PM offering free ice cream courtesy of Fleetwood Bank as a way to celebrate this milestone together as a community.

The tiger Fleetwood Bank has purchased is being painted by local artist and Fleetwood Area High School alumna, Kara Galeassi, who is currently attending Kutztown University for Art Education. She worked with Fleetwood Bank staff to create a design that pays homage to Fleetwood’s rich history. The painting will include easily recognizable landmarks of the town, such as the Fleetwood Area Public Library, which Fleetwood Bank has most recently donated $60,000 to assist in their renovation and move to the first floor of the Magisterial District Court. The Fleetwood Area High School mascot and Fleetwood’s famous Cadillac logo celebrating the borough’s 150-year anniversary will also be displayed on the tiger.

The base coat of the tiger will embody the brand of the local community bank. It features the rolling hills of Berks County and the Fleetwood area, which the blue arch at the top of Fleetwood Bank’s logo symbolizes. The three green lines on the bottom right of Fleetwood Bank’s logo, which was designed in 2006 when The First National Bank in Fleetwood changed its name to Fleetwood Bank after becoming a state-chartered bank, represents the many farmlands of the area. To further incorporate the community, anyone who lives or works in the Fleetwood area is invited to make their mark by putting a thumb print on the cornstalks painted on all four of the tiger’s legs. This is symbolic of the area’s agricultural roots and having the community’s thumbprints on the growing cornstalks represents the intertwined community growing together as they look towards the future.

Fleetwood Bank is one of the first businesses to purchase a tiger, and many more businesses, groups, and individuals will be following suit to beautify the greater community with artistically created life-size sculptures of the Fleetwood Area School District’s tiger mascot. “As the county’s only independent local community bank, we were happy to be one of the first businesses to support this incredible initiative to bring the community together and boost our community’s pride as Fleetwood celebrates this monumental milestone of 150 years. With other areas near us having done similar initiatives in Boyertown and West Reading, it is great to be putting Fleetwood on the map in this way,” said Timothy Snyder, President and CEO of Fleetwood Bank.

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