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North Park Lincoln donates $5,100 to St. George Episcopal School following Driven to Give event

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StGeorgelogoNorth Park Lincoln and St. George Episcopal School partnered up on Saturday, November 9 for a Driven to Give test drive event. Held in conjunction with the St. George PTO Dragonfest celebration, members of the St. George and Castle Hills community took short test-drives in a Lincoln vehicles to raise money.

STGeorge_3For every test drive taken, Lincoln donated $20 to St. George’s Annual Fund. North Park Lincoln provided the vehicles. This amount will prove very beneficial to our St. George community, and this event was a fun and unique way to raise some necessary funds.

At the school’s annual Christmas Program, Chad Binder of North Park Lincoln and Billy Vaughn of North Park Lexus and a school parent, presented Head of School Rob Devlin with a check for $5,100 to support the Annual Fund.

To date, Lincoln dealerships and local communities across the United States have helped raise more than $1.5 million for educational or charitable organizations thanks to their hard work and partnership with the Driven to Give program.

Firstmark Credit Union Supports San Antonio’s “Go Public” Campaign

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firstmark_FCU_logoFirstmark Credit Union, a leading San Antonio financial institution, announced that is has made a financial contribution in support of the “Go Public” Campaign. The public relations campaign is dedicated to promote positive awareness around Bexar County’s independent public districts.

“We have a proud history of serving the needs of the education community in Bexar County over the last 80 years,” said Leon Ewing, Chief Executive Officer and President. “This campaign will help highlight the many positive accomplishments our teachers, support personnel, administration, and most importantly, students strive for on a daily basis” Ewing added.

Led by Bexar County’s 15 Independent School Districts and co-chaired by Josue Robles, CEO of USAA, Kim Bowers, CEO of CST Brands, and Chris Nielsen, President of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, “Go Public” is inspiring people across the region to take a step back and celebrate the positive and sustained impact public schools make on all residents.

“Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. is proud to join community partners like FirstMark in this important community initiative, said Chris Nielsen, President of Toyota Manufacturing Texas. “Together, we support San Antonio’s educators, parents and most importantly, students. Public schools are vital to the continued success of our workforce industry.”

Ewing will also serve as a fundraising Co-Chair for Go Public.

“Firstmark was founded by small group of teachers and administrators from the San Antonio Independent School District,” said Ewing. “We proudly have taken the “Love Your Bexar County Public Schools” pledge,” Ewing added.

About Firstmark Credit Union
Firstmark Credit Union provides financial services to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in Bexar County, as well as education-related employees in Bexar County and the 11 surrounding counties; and their relatives. Established in 1932, the Credit Union has 13 locations serving over 93,000 members and manages $820 million in assets. For more information, go to www.firstmarkcu.org

Security Service Federal Credit Union CEO to step down

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Security Services Federal Credit UnionThe Security Service Federal Credit Union (SSFCU) Board of Directors has announced David E. Reynolds will step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer, effective March 24, 2014. He will be succeeded as CEO by Security Service’s current President, Jim Laffoon.

Reynolds began his credit union career in August 1974 as a Field Examiner and Auditor for the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). After nine years with NCUA in positions of increased responsibility, he joined Pentagon Federal Credit Union in 1983 and established the credit union’s first office in San Antonio. Reynolds joined Security Service in March 1986 as Senior Vice President and in August of 1986 he was promoted to Executive Vice President. On May 14, 1997, SSFCU’s Board of Directors selected him for the position of President and Chief Executive Officer.

ReynoldsUnder Reynolds’ leadership as Chief Executive, the credit union has grown from $330 million with nine branches to an enterprise serving more than 900,000 members with $7.5 billion in assets and 70 branches in Texas, Colorado and Utah. Security Service is now the largest credit union in Texas and San Antonio and the eighth largest in the United States.

During his tenure, the credit union has been the number one credit union indirect auto lender in the nation for over a decade, was an industry leader in adopting online delivery channels for improved member convenience and completed numerous mergers with and acquisitions of troubled credit unions allowing SSFCU to expand service to members and to serve new markets in South Texas, El Paso, Colorado and Utah.

“Under David Reynolds’ leadership, Security Service has expanded the credit union’s reach to serve more members and to provide enhanced products and services to meet their financial needs,” said Jim O’Farrell, SSFCU Chairman of the Board. “He has been committed to ensuring the continued safety and soundness of Security Service while also giving back to the members and the communities where we work and live.”

In addition to his work at SSFCU, Reynolds has served as a member of the Finance Committee and Board of Directors for the Credit Union Direct Lending organization; the National Association of Federal Credit Unions’ Share Insurance, Liquidity and Development Fund Oversight Committee; Board of Trustees of the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County; the Boards of San Antonio’s CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital Foundation and the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; and the Advisory Council for the College of Business at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Methodist Hospital celebrates 50th anniversary

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Methodist50thLOGOMethodist Hospital celebrated its 50th anniversary with ceremonies honoring its employees, physicians and volunteers while community leaders recognized the pioneering role the hospital has played in the development of the South Texas Medical Center.

Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1955 as an independent hospital. The hospital began with 175 beds and 272 employees and has grown to 882 beds and more than 3,500 employees.

In 1995, it became the flagship facility of the Methodist Healthcare System. Today Methodist Healthcare is the largest provider of health care in South and Central Texas with 26 facilities including nine hospitals serving 90,000 inpatients and 390,000 outpatients annually.

During the ceremony, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff recalled the origins of the hospital in 1954 when business strategists led by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the Bexar County Medical Society learned the city was lacking in hospital beds and would not be able to handle a mass casualty situation or epidemic.  The Southwest Conference of the Methodist Church was approached to administer the hospital with ties to the church and an agreement was reached in 1955.

Within five years, land was donated and enough money was secured through donations and government grants to build a hospital using civil defense guidelines.  The hospital received national attention as the world’s first nuclear disaster-proof hospital with two floors underground to be used as a fallout shelter.

“It was important to these visionaries to find land for not just a single hospital, but for an entire medical complex,” said Judge Wolff.  “Our community will forever be indebted to the vision and bravery demonstrated by these individuals who stepped out in faith to build a thriving and successful medical complex.”  Today the biomedical field is the city’s leading employer and economic driver.  One of every five San Antonio employees works in the bioscience and health care industry.

“I’m in awe of the legacy of those leaders who came before me, those who had a vision for a Methodist hospital surrounded by enough land for development of a thriving medical center,” said Jaime Wesolowski, president and CEO of Methodist Healthcare System.

“We saw the visionary spirit again 20 years ago when leaders of the hospital decided that in the rapidly changing health care landscape, a single hospital might not fare very well,” continued Wesolowski.  “As a result, when Methodist Hospital became part of the Methodist Healthcare system, a family of hospitals was born, co-owned by HCA and a newly founded non-profit, Methodist Healthcare Ministries.  The Ministries shares our mission of Serving Humanity to Honor God. Receiving half the profits of MHS, Methodist Healthcare Ministries has become the largest non-profit source for community health care in San Antonio and South Texas directed to low income, under served clients ineligible for any medical assistance program.”  The Ministries contributed $72 million to providing 800,000 client encounters in 2012.

During the ceremonies, the longest tenured employees were introduced along with pioneering physicians and long-time members of the Blue Bird volunteer auxiliary.  These employees were Ian Shawcross, 46 years of service; Nancy Burrell, R.N., 43 years, Norbert Cantu, 43 years, Janie Ochoa, 42 years, and Oralia Martinez, 42 years. Also recognized were James Pridgen, M.D., who performed the first surgery at the hospital.  Charter members of the Blue Bird auxiliary receiving recognition were Karen Paterson, Connie Benson, Maxine Haas and Barbara Ringen. All have been serving since 1963 and remain active today.

Hospital officials also opened a time capsule buried in 1988, the hospital’s 25th anniversary.  After the ceremony, the hospital honored physicians, staff and volunteers at a luncheon that featured memorabilia from the time capsule, hospital archives, and a cake designed as a replica of the original hospital building.

Archived footage of the ceremony can be viewed on http://www.livestream.com/nowcastsa and on the Methodist Healthcare YouTube channel: SAHealth210.

H-E-B gives back to San Antonio during the holiday season

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29th Annual H-E-B Tree Lighting Celebration
On Friday, November 29th the community will once again gather together and celebrate the official start to the holiday season during the 29th Annual H-E-B Tree Lighting Celebration in Alamo Plaza.

The free community celebration will begin at 3 p.m. with face painters, balloon artists, cookie decorating stations and live musical entertainment by the following groups: United States Air Force Band of the West Trombone Quartet, San Antonio Fire Department’s Back Draft Band and Mariachi Los Galleros de San Antonio.

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As a part of the this year’s military appreciation theme, H-E-B has invited the following organizations to attend the ceremony and each decorate a life-size toy block that will sit at the base of the H-E-B Christmas Tree: Operation Home Front, Operation Finally Home, The Fisher House Foundation, Grace After Fire and the Military Child Education Coalition – who will also be on hand to read stories to children and conduct a holiday ornament craft project.

The program will begin at 6 p.m. and will include the Presentation of the Colors by the Bexar Country Sherriff Department Honor Guard, a rendition of the National Anthem by a member of the United States Air Force as well as remarks by Mayor Julián Castro and H-E-B representatives.

The 55-foot White Fir Christmas Tree from the Shasta Mountain is H-E-B’s gift to the city of San Antonio. The tree will be adorned with more than 10,000 red, white and blue lights as well as ornaments reflecting a Military Appreciation theme, with various military branches represented.

H-E-B contributes to Annual San Antonio Food Bank Food4SA Drive for 11th year in a row
For the 11th year in a row, H-E-B is responding to the San Antonio Food Bank’s Food4SA food drive challenge to help raise one million pounds of food in one month for San Antonio families in need this holiday season.

These contributions are a part of the H-E-B Food Bank Assistance Program that works year-round to raise awareness and battle hunger in Texas and Mexico. The program was founded in 1982 and is nationally recognized for the financial donations and regular monthly deliveries of food it makes to food banks in Texas and Mexico.

Last year, the company launched the H-E-B Perishable Rescue Program to provide Food Banks with more high protein foods and fresh produce. In 2012, H-E-B donated more than 25.8 million pounds of food to Texas and Mexico food banks, which represents 32.5 million meals.

From truckloads of cereal to Thanksgiving turkeys, H-E-B is pulling out all the stops this year to ensure once again that the San Antonio Food Bank meets its goal to collect one million pounds of food for Alamo City residents in just one month’s time.

As a major partner in the month-long campaign, H-E-B is also providing the Food4SA paper bags delivered by the San Antonio Express News that can be filled with nonperishable food donations and dropped off at any H-E-B location’s Food4SA collection bins throughout the month of November.

Holiday Turkey Round-Up
On November 23from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., H-E-B customers will have a chance to give back to the community by participating in the San Antonio Food Bank Holiday Turkey Round Up.

To participate, customers are asked to purchase frozen turkeys and drop them off at the H-E-B plus! located at Evans Rd. & US Hwy 281. All proceeds from the event will go towards the Food4SA campaign.

If customers cannot make a donation in the form of a turkey, they are encouraged to donate online through an interactive virtual food drive at www.safoodbank.org/food4sa.

The San Antonio Food Bank can turn $1 into 10 pounds of food, making monetary donations an extremely effective way to help fight hunger in the community.

HEB_GreatTurkeyChallengeGreat Turkey Challenge
The San Antonio Food Bank’s Great Turkey Challenge, presented by H-E-B,  is a chip-timed 5k Run/Walk held on Thanksgiving morning to help fight hunger in the San Antonio community.

The race will be held at the H-E-B Arsenal located at 646 S. Main on Thursday, Nov. 28 at 8:30 a.m. with registration starting at 7 a.m.

Every $10 generated by the race helps provide a turkey dinner to a family in need this holiday season. The race is open to all ages and will also include a pet-friendly segment. All proceeds from the event will go towards the San Antonio Food Bank Food4SA campaign.

Fees for the race are $30 to walk/run until October 31, $35 until November 26 and $40 for day-of registration. Children less than 12-years-old are always FREE. Online registration will end on November 26 at Midnight. To register for the event, visit http://safoodbank.org/thegreatturkeychallenge.org/.

School park playground transforms Sky Harbour neighborhood

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SA Sports logo colorThe first of three completed SPARK parks was unveiled with the help of 700 students at Sky Harbour Elementary School (Southwest ISD). SPARK is a school park program that turns public elementary and middle school property into neighborhood parks to be enjoyed by the community outside of school hours. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by the Leader in Me student council, and included a special song performance by the drama club and a balloon release.

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SPARK is an initiative of San Antonio Sports in partnership with the City of San Antonio and participating school districts. The UTSA College of Architecture also participates in the planning process. A licensee of SPARK Houston, San Antonio Sports has spearheaded the SPARK effort with schools throughout Bexar County. Five SPARK parks will be completed by the end of the year in four City Council districts, with eight completed by the end of the school year and five more by the end of summer vacation. There will be at least one SPARK in each City Council district.

SPARK brings together the resources of government, school districts, the private sector, colleges and universities, neighborhood groups, PTA’s and concerned citizens to make San Antonio a healthier place. “This is an ideal shared use agreement,” says Russ Bookbinder, President  & CEO, San Antonio Sports. “It’s a cost-effective way to promote physical activity and provide our community parks and playgrounds, which we know to be a key in combating obesity.”

The schools, their students, families and surrounding community have design input as well as funding and maintenance obligations. A SPARK park is envisioned as a place of fun and creativity, reflecting a neighborhood’s characteristics in its design and art and giving residents a convenient, safe place to play and exercise.

Partners at Sky Harbour SPARK include:  City of San Antonio Council District 4, City of San Antonio Council District 8, The Brown Foundation, Inc., Port San Antonio, Toyota (TODOS – Toyota Organization for the Development of Latinos), Bury+Partners Inc., City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation, H-E-B, Marmon Mok Architecture, Sky Harbour Elementary, Southwest ISD, and The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture.

SASports_dignitaries_playgroundLeft to right:  Florinda Bernal, SWISD board member, Marina Avila, principal of Sky Harbour Elementary, Susan Blackwood, former executive director of San Antonio Sports, City Councilman Ray Saldana, George Block, chairman, San Antonio Sports Board of Directors.

About San Antonio Sports
San Antonio Sports is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform our community through the power of sport. San Antonio Sports bids on and hosts premier sporting events such as NCAA® championships, which have generated a local economic impact of more than $446 million. San Antonio Sports kids programs, including the i play! afterschool program, the Community Olympic Development Program, the Corner Store Go!Kids Challenge™ and ING Kids Rock marathon training program, annually touch the lives of more than 185,000 children.  Additionally, San Antonio Sports serves as a catalyst for the development of quality recreational and athletic facilities in our community.  To learn more, visit SanAntonioSports.org.

The San Antonio Board of the BKD Foundation presents its Annual Community Pride Award to SAMMinistries

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BKD logo colorAt the October 22, 2013, team meeting, Jon McDowell, Managing Partner of BKD, LLP, CPAs and Advisors introduced Makayla Matheson, Manager, and San Antonio BKD Foundation member who presented Navarra Williams, President & CEO, SAMMinistries with the San Antonio Board for the BKD Foundation’s annual Community PRIDE award.

BKD check 2013Matheson had this to say, “Each year we ask our employees to nominate a charity they believe should be the recipient of our $10,000 award and to provide the committee with an example of how the charity helps and how they exhibit our PRIDE values. Our PRIDE values encompass Passion, Respect, Integrity, Discipline and Excellence.” After the nominees were identified, each charity’s representative visited with BKD personnel so that they could learn firsthand about each organization’s mission. Afterwards, the employees voted and SAMMinistries was selected based on the nomination which identified SAMMinistries passion that each person it serves has the power to transform their lives and live independently. They show respect for others by treating each person with dignity and giving them equal opportunity to succeed. SAMMinistries maintains integrity by striving to be true to its values in both word and deed. They are disciplined in their approach to fundraising and in their approach with clients whose lives they are helping to re-build. SAMMinistries believes that a ministry to people in need demands their very best. In striving for excellence, SAMMinistries honors the trust that donors place in them and they give their best to clients every day.

BKD Award 2013Williams accepted a custom-made glass art work (Glen Andrews Studio:  Caliente Hot Glass) award and a check for $10,000. Williams stated that, “We are honored to be chosen by BKD, and grateful for their contribution to SAMMinistries. As a Ministry, we strive to work with integrity as we help San Antonio families overcome homelessness. I am proud to lead a team that is recognized by fellow community members for this work.”

Founded in 1983, SAMMinistries is an interfaith ministry dedicated to providing shelter and care to the homeless of San Antonio. Today, SAMMinistries is the largest service provider of direct care and shelter in San Antonio and the surrounding area.

About BKD Foundation
The BKD Foundation, which is the firm’s charitable arm, has raised and distributed more than $6.2 million to qualifying 501 (c)(3) organizations since February 2000. For many not-for-profit organizations, both financial and volunteer assistance is critical.

The San Antonio charitable arm of the BKD Foundation is funded and administered by the partners and employees of the San Antonio office of BKD, LLP, CPAs & Advisors. The San Antonio BKD Foundation desires to enrich the San Antonio communities it serves with financial support and the gift of time from BKD volunteers. Its purpose is to aid, support, maintain and assist by gift, donation or otherwise, established charitable, scientific, educational and philanthropic institutions which are qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRC of 1986.

Valero demonstrates generosity to community through United Way, Valero Texas Open/Benefit for Children Charity Award Breakfast

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Valero logoIn recent weeks, Valero Energy Corporation has hosted two major events that have showcased the generosity of the company and its employees, as well as Valero’s commitment to the communities where it does business.

The first event, on Thursday, Aug. 29, was the culmination of Valero’s annual United Way campaign. Every year, Valero employees make pledges to support the United Way through donations or ongoing payroll deductions. Valero frequently achieves 100 percent employee participation in its campaigns, as well as some of the highest per-capita giving levels among San Antonio employers. In this year’s campaign, Valero employees surpassed their goal of $2.5 million in just the first 2 minutes and 49 seconds of the campaign. For surpassing their goal so quickly, Valero employees earned the right to wear jeans to work on Fridays.

In the meantime, they also earned the right to have fun at the Givers Celebration and Talent Show Finale, which was set for the 29th. Celebrity judges watched over the proceedings as teams of Valero employees went head-to-head in the Valero’s Got Talent competition, and a silent auction at the event raised an additional $47,480 to donate to the United Way.

The second event was the Valero Texas Open/Benefit for Children Charity Award Breakfast on Thursday, Sept.5. Officials from 98 children’s charities in the San Antonio area received funds totaling $2.7 million as part of the distribution of money raised during the 2013 Valero Texas Open and Benefit for Children Golf Classic during a breakfast celebration at Valero’s headquarters.

The golf tournament raises money each year for children’s charities in the areas where Valero has major operations, and then makes distributions in each of those areas to children’s charities that Valero employees nominate. The $2.7 million share that San Antonio charities received was part of the overall $10 million that the tournament raised. Distributions to charities continue at other locations where Valero has refineries and ethanol plants.

Since Valero took over the title sponsorship of the Texas Open in 2002, more than $81.5 million has been distributed to children’s charities, including $32 million in the San Antonio area alone. With the support of our Birdies for Charity program, our Valero Texas Open is currently the most charitable tournament on the PGA Tour.

This effort has always been extremely volunteer-driven. The Valero Texas Open and Benefit for Children Golf Classic is Valero’s biggest volunteer effort of the year – requiring nearly 1,000 volunteers over five days, who contributed over 9,000 volunteer hours during the tournament.

The best part about both of these events is that they aren’t one-time happenings. Valero is already planning next year’s Valero Texas Open and its United Way campaign.

H-E-B lives “Helping Here” motto

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HEB helping here logoSeptember has certainly seen H-E-B living up to its motto of “Helping Here” in the San Antonio community. Between the generosity of H-E-B customers and Partners, San Antonio has been injected with the H-E-B spirit of giving in the month of September through multiple state-wide company initiatives. At the beginning of the month, donations totaling over $540,000 were made to over 20 food banks across the state to “Help End Hunger”. H-E-B’s “Help End Hunger” campaign is unique because it is completely driven by the generosity of H-E-B and Central Market customers. The campaign encouraged customers to tear off a $1, $3, or $5 coupon to add to their final grocery bill at the check stand to benefit local food banks. In San Antonio alone, $67,000 was donated to the San Antonio food bank, all thanks to H-E-B customers that cared at the end of their trip to the grocery store.

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H-E-B presents $67,000 to the San Antonio Food Bank through the Help End Hunger campaign

Next up to the plate in the San Antonio community were the H-E-B Partners that showed their appreciation for the courageous firefighters in their neighborhood during H-E-B’s ninth annual “Helping Heroes” initiative. In remembrance of the rescue teams that risked their lives during the attacks on the World Trade Center, over 832 H-E-B Partners visited their local fire stations on September 11th to pay tribute to the local Heroes that risk their life every day for their community. A total of 59 stores in the region participated, sending Partners over to their neighborhood station to pamper their local Heroes for the day. H-E-B Partners visiting the fire stations made home-cooked breakfasts and lunches for the fire rescue teams, and cleaned their stations from top to bottom. Anyone passing by fire stations on September 11th could see Partners scrubbing fire trucks, mowing station lawns, sweeping, mopping, and grilling tasty lunches for the local firefighters. Through the H-E-B “Helping Heroes” initiative, Partners were able to show their appreciation for the daily acts of bravery performed by their local fire stations.

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A group of H-E-B Partners adopt a local fire station for the day during Helping Heroes on September 11th

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H-E-B Partners lend a hand to help clean fire trucks during Helping Heroes

The end of this month highlights a special partnership of H-E-B and the community in helping to improve San Antonio children’s literacy. From September 18th to October 1st, H-E-B is hosting its “Read 3” event which includes a school book drive challenge, special reading events in all the stores, and free books given away when certain items are purchased at H-E-B.  Since the program’s inception in 2011, over 1.6 million books have been donated back to Texas communities through literacy non-profits, schools, public libraries, and Feast of Sharing dinners. In October, the H-E-B Family Literacy Workshops will begin their fall session of classes that expose children to early literacy skills and expose parents to information on how to support their children’s academic development. These Family Literacy Workshops are a product of a unique partnership of local school districts, H-E-B Partner volunteers, and local universities; the classes are free to all parent and child participants.  The school districts provide classroom space and lead teachers, as well as recruit families with young children who are not yet in formal schooling. The local universities provide students from the department of education who deliver the lessons to participants and are supervised by the district’s lead teacher. H-E-B provides the curriculum, the necessary school materials, Partners to help at each site, incentives for families that participate, and a graduation ceremony at the end of the sessions. The Read 3 program and Family Literacy Workshops are H-E-B’s way of empowering young children in the community with the gift of literacy and a passion for reading.

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Craig Boyan, President and C-E-O of H-E-B, reads to a group of children at a local H-E-B for the Read 3 event in September

#SamsClub begins hiring for new San Antonio club

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Sams ClubSam’s Club is looking to hire approximately 175 associates to work at its new club in San Antonio, set to open this winter at 2530 Marshall Road. To facilitate the process, Sam’s Club will open a Welcome Center at 21803 Encino Commons Blvd., Suite 103. Sam’s Club will mark the opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, Aug.19, at 9:30 a.m.

The Welcome Center will be open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for applicants to apply for jobs. In addition, residents and businesses can obtain memberships at the center, giving them the opportunity to begin shopping at the new club this winter.

Club manager Chris Vasquez will be hiring both full- and part-time associates to work in all areas of the club. He hopes applicants will include veterans, who Sam’s Club has made a special commitment to when it comes to jobs. Through the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment, the company will offer a job to any qualified veteran who has been honorably discharged within the past 12 months. Interested veterans can find out more at http://walmartcareerswithamission.com/.

“My favorite part of working at Sam’s Club is having the opportunity to help my associates excel and assisting our members,” said Vasquez, who began his Sam’s Club career 24 years ago as a part-time cashier. He has worked at clubs in Utah, Florida and the Northeast, as well as other clubs in the Lone Star State, including Austin and Waco.

Sam’s Club is committed to becoming a partner in the communities where it locates, and that begins with providing good jobs with career opportunities for local residents.

“We congratulate Sam’s Club on the opening of the new location along the growing 281 corridor. We applaud the Sam’s Club on the creation of 175 new jobs, their efforts to assist our military service men and women who are transitioning to the workforce and all that they do to keep Bexar County strong,” Duane Wilson, North SA Chamber CEO.

 

For more information, contact: Mark Scott Sam’s Club