First Choice America is proud to fund a scholarship for $500 in memorial of Stanley S. Czahoroski. Jr., who was the former Chief Financial Officer at First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union. To apply you must be a high school senior from Martins Ferry High School, which was the alma mater of Stanley S. Czahoroski. Complete guidelines accompany the application. Deadline is February 1, 2021. To download the application, please click on the following link: Stanley S. Czahoroski. Jr. Memorial Scholarship Application
First Choice America Credit Union Sponsors United Way Tournament
First Choice America Introduces Card Valet
First Choice America is proud to be offering the Card Valet App to all Credit Union debit and credit card holders. This APP gives you complete control of your card, with also helping prevent fraud on your account. This is another added benefit the Credit Union offers to help you stay safe and informed. With this app you will be able to:
• Lock and unlock your card at anytime
• View account balances
• Set up real time alerts when transactions have been made
• Set up regional and international access
• Set up purchasing limits
• Choose where you want your card to be used
• Choose what kind of transactions you want on your card
• Set up multiple Credit Union Cards
Download the app today at your Apple App store or Google Play store. Search for Card Valet and then follow the instructions once the app has been downloaded.
Coloring Contest Winners
A congratulations goes out to our Spring Time Fun Coloring Contest Winners. Each of the 9 winners won a $25 First Choice America VISA Gift Card. The winners were: Gianna DiPietrantonio, Karsynn McKinney, Lauren Nagy, Ella Paras, Brantley Pernell, Paden Pernell, Anna Rettinger, Madison Riter, and Violetta Turianyn.
First Choice America recently held the Spring Time Fun Coloring Contest as a way to help area children get through the boredom during the cornonavirus lockdown.
We would like to congratulate the winners and thank everyone who participated.
To All the Graduates
As 2020 goes down in the history books, you are right there with it! This is an important year in your life. Your accomplishments have not been forgotten. Take pride in the many years of hard work that have led up to this accomplishment. We praise you and salute you on your graduation and we look forward to being there for you during the next chapter in your life. Congratulations Class of 2020!!
First Choice America Shows Progress
WEIRTON—First Choice America Credit Union continued to make significant progress in 2019, our 80th year, amid tough competition and a lackluster economy. The Credit Union moved steadily forward with the excellent performance of a dedicated employee team and the tremendous support and loyalty of its 38,000 members who remain the bedrock of our business.
Scott E. Winwood, President and CEO, said “Our employee team worked diligently to maintain a safe, sound and secure financial institution for its members.” He listed these significant achievements in 2019:
- Grew assets to a record $468 million.
- Expanded deposits to a record $396 million.
- Maintained a strong capital position.
“Our Credit Union’s capital strength, asset quality and management ability help maintain our enviable position as one of the very elite among America’s 5,500 credit unions,” Winwood stated.
These impressive achievements reflect the sincere commitment to success of the Officials, Management, and Staff of First Choice America. Our employee team is professional and highly skilled, dedicated to excellence in serving you, and very proud of the significant strides made during the past year.
In our quest to offer the best available technology, First Choice America is excited to announce major improvements to our current offerings of tech products and services. First, our website has been completely renovated. With this extensive makeover, our site offers a fresh, new look along with easy to read pages and navigation. We encourage you to take the opportunity to check it out for yourself at www.firstchoiceamericacu.org. Second, we created a new mobile banking APP which will enhance our existing mobile banking experience with a new appearance and several innovative features such as: touch unlock, facial recognition, and much more while maintaining the mobile experience that our members trust. Via the new mobile banking APP, our members can still take us anywhere they want to go and have access to their accounts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the future, we intend to continue maximizing our investments in technology to better serve our members and strengthen our position in a very competitive marketplace. While keeping pace with the latest technology, we continue to offer members better rates on loans and deposits, more personalized service, and importantly, fewer fees than other financial institutions. We are proud to say that no new fees were enacted during the past year.
Your membership in First Choice America is an important and meaningful financial advantage and it adds up to “better value” for your money.
The formidable combination of a dedicated professional staff, excellent technology, and a complete array of affordable financial products and services positions us to continue making a real difference in the financial lives of the people we serve.
Our Credit Union strives to embrace the merits of good citizenship by generously supporting a wide range of charitable organizations in the communities that we serve. Throughout our long history, our Credit Union has earned countless awards and commendations for our intensive year round community involvement practices which we are very proud and sincerely grateful. We strive to embrace the merits of good citizenship – and expand our value to society.
Concluding, he noted “First Choice America is proud of our rich heritage of serving our members and the communities in which they live for more than 80 years. We have established strong bonds with our members by providing the most cost effective alternative for all their financial needs. We value and cherish these bonds, and are grateful to our members for their loyalty. We will never cease in our efforts to earn both your business and your trust. We remain a safe haven, a reliable resource, and a leader that you can count on for all your financial needs, both today and in the future.”
During the meeting, Edward L. Kennedy and John R. Thayer were reelected to the Board of Directors. Kenneth R. Watts, President of the West Virginia Credit Union League, spoke briefly.
Founded in 1939 in Weirton, First Choice America maintains eight offices in the Ohio Valley.
