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Imbler is a small rural community in Eastern Oregon.
Oftentimes, small schools don't have enough students or kids
to build a full soccer team.
So a lot of these athletes within this community
pursue track.
My relationship with Kaiger was established
through the bank and his father and the business relationship
that he has.
He's been with us for 40-plus years.
And those are things that we don't get every day.
He came to the bank asking what we
could do to help his organizations that were dear
to him.
And so us being able to step up, it makes me excited.
The old track was a rock-based track
that was put in by farmers more than 40 years ago.
And over time, that track program
has grown and grown and got to the point where the kids would
actually be transported to other districts
to work on track events.
A group of parents and administrators
got together and found a need for this.
And with the help of partners like US Bank,
were able to come up with the funding
to build a track in less than 24 months.
Half of my nieces and nephews graduated from Imbler.
Every single one of them did track.
So it's really exciting to see what
can come out of it with the kids being able to have access
to something like what they're going to be able to use now.
When we invest in the community, we look for opportunities
through the US Bank Foundation that are
going to enhance the community.
We focus on opportunities that are building
economic development, really providing resources
to communities that might not typically
have access to those resources.
And so this opportunity is going to be
something that's going to benefit the community for years
to come.