Raleigh, N.C. . . North State Bank is pleased to announce their 2006 sponsors of Summer Salute for Hospice of Wake County. The top sponsors are: North State Bank, Professional Property Management, Barton Development, Caddell Communications, Wake Nephrology, Sonscape Communications and Red Star Oil Co., Inc., announced Larry D. Barbour, president and CEO of North State Bank.
"We are very pleased to announce this year's sponsors," said Barbour. "We thank them for their generous support of this wonderful organization and hope that with their help we will be able to write a large check to Hospice of Wake County. It is great to see how local corporations and nonprofit organizations can come together to benefit our community."
Summer Salute, presented and hosted by North State Bank, will be held at North Ridge Country Club on Saturday, June 3, at 8:00 p.m. The event is a great way to kick off your summer with a party and dance to the Embers while helping support a wonderful organization. In the event's first two years, $215,000 has been raised for Hospice of Wake County. The success of the event would not be possible without the support of sponsors, and for that North State Bank and Hospice of Wake County extend heartfelt gratitude to their sponsors.
North State Bank is a community bank committed to serving Wake County. Currently, the Bank has five offices: full-service offices on Falls of Neuse Road in North Raleigh, on Blue Ridge Road in West Raleigh, on Highway 70 West in Garner, as well as a full-service office and headquarters at North Hills on Six Forks Road in Raleigh. Near Wake Forest, the Bank has a loan production office in the Wakefield Corporate Center, which will open as a full-service office later this year.
Hospice of Wake County has provided compassionate end of life care to the people of Wake County for 26 years. The largest and most experienced private, nonprofit hospice agency in the area, Hospice strives to promote and improve the community's quality of living and dying through advanced care planning, comfort care, hospice care, and bereavement services. Hospice's philosophy is that every individual deserves the quality of life that he or she wants near life's end.
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