Portace CouNTY Teaming for learning aS Home Savings Bank, PARTA support community agency Home Savings Bank and Por- tage Area Regional Transportation Authority showed their support of Family & Community Services’ new financial education program Strategies for Attaining Fina cial Empowerment — by contrib- uting resources and materials to the program and encouraging its development “Being involved with the $.A.FE. program is an easy and obvious way to help out our com. munity,” said Scott Mikula, Assis- tant Vice President of Home Sav ings Bank. While working within the bank. he explained there are times when customers come in to see him, having no idea how to balance their checkbook or understand the difference between debit and credit cards. Mikula’s donation of 300 cal- up culawis to Soe e shows the bank’s en- thusiasm for finan- cial educa- tion. The calcula- tors will be given to the participants Scott Mikula, Assistant Vice President of Home Savings Bank, and Raven DeVoll, $.A.F.E. program coordinator, hold up a calculator to show their support of Family & Community Services’ new financial education program who attend the budget- ing class of the program. PARTA also showed its commit- ‘ment to the new program by providing free bus tokens to help potential par- ticipants travel to and from the classes, The $.A.F.E. program is in its pilot year at F&CS, building self-sufficiency by providing the knowledge, tools and resources — Strategies for Attaining Financial Empowerment. necessary for financial stability. Classes will be held in Ravenna from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. Jan. 12, 19 and 26 at F&CS, 705 Oak- wood St., and in Kent from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 16, 23 and 30 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 600 S Water St. All classes are free to the public. For details call Raven DeVoll at 330-297-7027 ext, 351.