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Urgent Need For Blood Donors

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

National and local blood supplies are monitored closely to ensure that blood can be provided where and when it is needed. There is a critical need for blood donors now, particularly type O negative.

The American Red Cross will be holding a Blood Drive from 9a.m. until 3:00p.m. on Friday, September 3. It will be held at the First Savings Administration Building, 219 S. Ninth Street, Perkasie, PA. For your convenience appointments can be made by signing up online at https://www.membersforlife.org/pennj/schedule/login.php?sponsorcode=13424 or by contacting Kim Weichel at 215-453-2317 or kweichel@firstsavingsonline.com. Please take time out of your day to donate blood and give the gift of life. Someone is counting on you right now! What a great way to start your Labor Day Weekend!!

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Yes! You Can Control Your Spending

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

We’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our suite of personal online banking products to include FinanceWorks™, a FREE online financial management solution. This new and exciting feature is made available through Digital Insight, an Intuit company, and provides tools to better understand your financial picture, establish budget goals, and gain more control over spending, which in turn helps you to save more money!
With FinanceWorks™, you can:

Manage your finances in one place.
View your complete financial picture across 16,000+ financial institutions and creditors. Checking, savings, loans and credit cards…you can see them all with just one login.

See where you’re spending your money.
FinanceWorks™ automatically categorizes your transactions from your accounts
so you can control spending more easily, stay on budget and save more.

Ensure bills are paid on time.
Track your bills in one place no matter how you pay them.

Know how much you really have to spend.
View your projected balance based on upcoming transactions and paycheck deposits.

Get organized and simplify tax time.
Tax Watch report automatically tracks many tax deductible expenses such as child care and charitable contributions.

Conduct Simple Small Business Accounting.
Track business income and expenses within your personal accounts. You can generate a simple income/expense report and simplify tax time.

To learn more and take a virtual tour of FinanceWorks, visit our website, www.FirstSavingsOnline.com. Remember, FinanceWorks is FREE with our personal online banking!!

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Hot Diggity Dog!!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Mark your calendar!

For the fifteenth consecutive year, customers of First Savings are invited to have a hot dog and soda on Friday, June 18 in celebration of the bank’s anniversary. “This is just a small token of appreciation to our customers,” said Fred Schea, president and chief executive officer of the bank. “We’re very fortunate to have such a large base of loyal customers in the communities that we serve, and this is an opportunity to thank them for the trust and confidence that they have shown us.”

The free hotdogs and beverages will be available at all nine bank branch locations of First Savings and will be prepared and served by bank officers and staff members from 3:00p.m. to 6:00p.m. “Our annual Hot Dog Day is just one way our staff comes together with management to interact and thank all of our customers.” Founded on June 22, 1922, this year marks the financial institution’s 88th anniversary.

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Money For MS

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Fred Schea, President and CEO of First Savings representing the Foundation and Walking Team Captain Diana Schaffer, right, present a check to Melissa Hersch, Development Coordinator for the National MS Society’s Greater Delaware Valley Chapter.

The First Savings' "Walking Warriors" braved the elements!

Employees of First Savings Bank recently participated in the annual “Walk MS” event in Sellersville. More than 22 participants represented First Savings as “The Walking Warriors” in the 5.6 mile jaunt along the Lenape Park walking path in Perkasie and Sellersville, raising $2,706 in pledges and donations to help create a world free of multiple sclerosis. As part of the First Savings employee matching funds program, First Savings Community Foundation also contributed $1000 to the cause, bringing the total amount donated to $3706!

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Canal Clean-up

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Canal Cleaners at work!

In conjunction with the 40^th Anniversary of Earth Day, Friends of the

Delaware Canal coordinated their annual “Adopt the Canal” project to clean-up the historic canal on April 17. Joining in the project were volunteers from the First Savings’ Riegelsville Branch Office including employees, some family members, friends and even a customer that got ‘down and dirty’ to help clean-up the canal. The volunteers from First Savings worked from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon and collected about 10 bags of garbage, tires, and a variety of ‘interesting’ odds and ends. Their clean-up route was more than a mile long from the canal bridge near the Riegelsville Inn to Lock 21 at the intersection of Route 611 & Route 212.

The Delaware and Lehigh Canal runs 60 miles from Bristol in Bucks County, to Easton in Northampton County. Construction on the Delaware Canal began in 1827, and was completed in 1831. However, the Canal was not put into operation until 1834. Most of the work was done by local farmers and Irish immigrants. At that time, there were no power tools or heavy earth-moving equipment, so the Delaware Canal was dug by hand!

You can become a member of the Friends of the Delaware Canal by following this link, or you can download a membership form and mail it, completed and accompanied by your dues payment, to FODC, 145 S. Main Street, New Hope, PA 18938. More information is available at www.fodc.org.

Join us in thanking all the volunteers for their much appreciated labor at the canal!

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