Lifestyle Banking: a three-legged stool.Bringing together people, places, and performance. Each of these depends on the others like the legs of a stool. If any one leg is out of balance, the others are adversely affected. Lifestyle Banking is the phrase we use to remind ourselves of this interdependence. We support and cultivate the strong economic development of our communities. We work with the business leaders, small shop owners, proprietors and entrepreneurs, ranchers and farmers who are all working hard to turn profits into legacy businesses that improve the lifestyles of their families and communities. We strive to nurture and develop the social networks in our communities by supporting education, the arts, affordable home ownership, responsible land development, and the values that draw and hold people to the places we call home. We believe in the sensible use and development of our environment. Our communities are in several of the highest producing agricultural areas in the country, in thriving and growing metropolitan areas, and in beautiful and pristine wilderness areas. Each of these communities has their own unique challenges related to sustained economic growth, population density, and the shortage of natural resources and capital.But, as the local bank, we also need to perform. We understand that businesses must remain profitable and competitive to survive. We understand that we can be a catalyst for economic growth and a source of desperately needed capital and financial expertise. We understand the requirement that we need to be a key participant in building the economic future for our communities - we cannot stand by and be a spectator, we must be a leader. But, we also understand that in order for our communities to thrive for the next hundred years, we must build upon a framework of long term sustainability - not short-term gains.