DENVER - The World Automobile Auctioneers Championship had a credit union touch again this year. Dennis Eisenbrey, VP-asset recovery for Westerra Credit Union and its CUSO, Westerra Service, joined 13 other industry experts in judging 84 contestants from throughout the United States in their auctioneering skills. This year the event took place in Denver at Manheim's Colorado Auto Auction. It was the third year that Eisenbrey was selected to judge the competition. Eisenbrey noted that the role of an automobile auctioneer is critical in obtaining the highest value possible for cars sent to the auto auction by CUs.

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SALT LAKE CITY - One man pled guilty and another awaits trial in last winter's armed robberies at two local credit unions and one bank.

TNB Card Services, Dallas, named Kurt Schroeder vice president, account executive.

Throughout 2007, the Credit Union Journal is profiling the credit unions of each U.S. state and D.C. Rather than appear in alphabetical order, the states are being featured in the order they became states.

Your mother may have raised you to send thank you notes, and for that you should send her a thank you (those online e-thank yous not only don't count, they're almost anti-thank yous). But even the most responsible and productive thank-you note-writers among you likely never send a card to NCUA, and not just because Hallmark has yet to create its Federal Regulatory Agency collection. Still, you should.

HERSHEY, Penn. - For one credit union, creating a page on the very popular myspace website was not designed as a venue for gaining new members, but instead as an educational tool.

HERSHEY, Penn. - For one credit union, creating a page on the very popular myspace website was not designed as a venue for gaining new members, but instead as an educational tool.

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The San Jose Business Journal profiled an offer by Technology CU to work with the Vanished Children Alliance, an organization that helps parents find missing children. Technology CU is now including pictures of missing children on its login page at www.techcu.com.

LAS VEGAS - CUNA will bring its America's Credit Union Conference here this week in large part because this city is sure to draw a crowd.

HOLLYWOOD - Credit unions share at least one thing in common with the animated hit "Shrek the Third": some of their members apparently resemble the green ogre who stars in the film.

WASHINGTON - Credit union profitability has remained almost flat since the height of the S&L crisis, 16 years ago, while the profitability for banks has surged since then, a new study released by the Government Accountability Office, the think tank for Congress, revealed last week.

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department conducted its 27th meeting of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG) during which it reviewed a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs). CUNA, which is a member of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, was represented during the meeting by Associate General Counsel Lilly Thomas.

It didn't take me hundreds of management meetings to learn that I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than have another conversation about who isn't cleaning up after themselves in the lunchroom. It is one thing that I know my CEO and I have in common. However, aside from our loathing of the lack of office etiquette and our love of the credit union, we speak very different languages. It has taken years to discover how differently we work and view the world.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Legislation designed to hold retailers responsible for protecting consumer information has made its public debut.

GPFCU Absorbs Insolvent CU

ONTARIO, Calif. - CO-OP Financial Services launched two new products to ease travelers' worries when they're using the CO-OP-branded debit cards on the road.

GROTON, Conn. - While some credit unions bemoan the growing check-cashing industry, one credit union has taken an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach, generating new income and new members in the process.