IN BRIEF
MARS — Mars National Bank hired Robert B. Kastan as controller and Lori L. Killmeyer as operations manager.
Kastan is a certified public accountant with more than 20 years of local community bank financial management and public accounting experience. He is responsible for leading both the accounting and treasury functions of the bank.
Kastan graduated from Duquesne University in 1982, and he is a graduate of South Allegheny High School. He lives in Allegheny County.
Killmeyer has more than 25 years of local banking and operations management experience. She is responsible for leading the bank's loan and deposit operations activities. She also is responsible for the introduction and implementation of new deposit products and treasury management services.Killmeyer earned both her undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Pittsburgh and lives in the South Hills.
Craig F. Grenci was hired by NexTier's Wealth Management as a senior wealth management adviser and vice president of wealth management.Grenci's office is in the Morgan Center in Butler, and he is responsible for relationship management and business development. He has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including wealth management services.Grenci graduated from Duquesne University with a bachelor's degree in business administration with a finance concentration.A registered investment adviser, he has these National Association of Securities Dealers designations: General Securities Representative (Series 7); General Securities Principal (Series 24); Municipal Principal (Series 53); and Uniform Securities Agent State Law examination (Series 63).He lives in Mars.
BUTLER TWP — Butler County Community College will host a career fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 25 in Founders Hall on the main campus.More than 50 local employers will be on hand. Attendees are encouraged to bring a copy of their resume. Business casual attire is suggested.A list of employers attending is available at www.bc3.edu/career. For information, contact Lois Trimbur, Career Services specialist, at 724-287-8711, Ext. 8310.First Commonwealth opens new branchFirst Commonwealth bank was to open its newest branch Saturday at 520 Butler Crossings in Butler Township.It is the bank's 115th office.Connected to the opening, the bank will donate $1,000 to the Butler Veterans Affairs Medical Center to buy comfort items for veterans at the hospital and to the Christmas gift fund for veterans to select items for loved ones who they cannot be with during the holidays.
Butler Memorial Hospital Auxiliary donated more than $75,000 to the hospital to expand its cancer care program.Bertha Salony, auxiliary president, gave a check for $75,548 to Ken DeFurio, Butler Health System's president and chief executive officer.The auxiliary raised the money during the past year through the Cherry Tree Gift Shoppe and The Hostess Shoppe, both in the hospital, plus other fundraisers.The money will pay for a plasma coagulator and breast node biopsy equipment for the new surgical tower.
PITTSBURGH — The Carnegie Museum of Natural History's "Dinosaurs in their World" exhibit was honored at The Construction Industry Evening of Excellence ceremony by the Master Builders Association of Western Pennsylvania with a Building Excellence Award.The natural history museum selected Boston museum architect, Verner Johnson, in association with Burt Hill, to provide design services for the new dinosaur exhibit.The 28,000-square-foot atrium space exhibit occupies an enclosed courtyard and is designed based on green principles. The exhibit will allow the museum to display its world-renowned collection of fossils in a day-lit space that better depicts the dinosaurs' natural environment.Burt Hill provided architecture, interior design and LEED certification assistance.The Construction Industry Evening of Excellence is to honor the firms and individuals that are transforming our region.<b>Personal file</b>• Daniel Bradley of Sarver was reappointed to the state board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers by Gov. Ed Rendell.
