Raleigh, N.C….Planning has begun for North State Bank's Summer Salute 2005, a fundraiser for Hospice of Wake County, announced Sandra A. Temple, senior vice president and chief operations officer for North State Bank and the Bank's lead organizer for Summer Salute. In 2005, the event will be held on Saturday evening, May 21 at North Ridge Country Club, the same site where the event was held in 2004.

"I am pleased that North State Bank can once again sponsor this great event," said Larry D. Barbour, president and CEO for North State. "Last year, the event was embraced by the community and was tremendously successful, raising $100,000 for Hospice. That everyone who helped plan it, those who sponsored it and supported it, and those attended had so much fun in the process was a bonus. Many of the same people who made last year's event a success are on this year's planning committee. We appreciate their involvement and know it will be a great success again with their help."

The Summer Salute 2005 planning committee includes:

North State Bank Summer Salute 2005 Committee Co-Chairs

The Honorable Jeanette Hyde
Former U. S. Ambassador and
Member, Board of Directors,
North State Bancorp

Steve Salisbury
Senior Vice President
City Executive
North State Bank

North State Bank Summer Salute 2005 Committee Members

Marsha Ball
Kit Boney
Susan Caddell
Michele Castillo
Alec Donaldson
William Dunlap, MD
Rick Dupree
Donna Emory
Paige Fly
Jeanette Hagwood
Amy Jordan
K Keener

Beth Millwood
Kathy Oschwal
Gail Perry
Judy Stephenson
Sandra Temple
Robin Temple
Randall Tidwell
Virginia Watson
Andrew Wheeler
Trish Whittington
Tecca Wright

Visit North State Bank's website for event updates and sponsorship opportunities: www.northstatebank.com.

North State Bank is a community bank headquartered in Raleigh with three full-service offices in Wake County: on Falls of Neuse in North Raleigh, on Blue Ridge in West Raleigh, and on 70W in Garner as well as a loan production office at Wakefield Corporate Center. North State's new headquarters and banking office at North Hills on Six Forks Road will open in early 2005.

Hospice of Wake County has provided compassionate end of life care to the people of Wake County for 25 years. The largest and most experienced private, non-profit 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. The Hospice philosophy is that every individual deserves the quality of life that he or she wants near life's end.

www.northstatebank.com and www.hospiceofwake.org

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