Assurance Partners and Keller Leopold Insurance announce merger
Assurance Partners of Salina and Keller Leopold Insurance in Garden City announced the merger of the two organizations, effective Sept. 30.
While each organization has experienced much success and growth, together it will capitalize on each other’s strengths and provide current and future clients with even more comprehensive service and options, company officials said.
Assurance Partners has been a leader in Risk Management and Analytic Brokerage services, while Keller Leopold consistently leads the industry in farm, agriculture, and crop insurance. Together, the new company will offer a combined 130 years of experience and complement each other as a full-service, independent insurance agency.
HCU Investment and Insurance Services moving to North Main
Officials with Heartland Credit Union announced the expansion of its financial planning and investing services will result in its HCU Investment and Insurance Services moving to the 29th Avenue and Main Street credit union branch.
The branch will temporarily close on July 9 for a light remodel. It will reopen Aug. 2 when HCU Investment and Insurance Services will begin seeing members in their new offices.
Drive-thru services will remain available during the remodel.
Following the renovations, Heartland Credit Union members will still be able to visit with an HCU staff member through a Connections suite located inside the branch, just like other HCU branch services.
Super fun at Smallville celebration at Third Thursday
Jennifer Randall
There will be SUPER activities with art and live music and the Annual Smallville Costume Contest.
Smallville celebrations began back in 2012, when Christopher Wietrick, KC McNeely and Ben Eisiminger set up a Smallville information booth downtown at Gallery 7, during a May Third Thursday. The premise of this event was to tie in the overwhelming similarities of the story of Superman and Smallville to the Hutchinson, Kansas area. It didn’t take much to convince the community, as the evidence was plentiful.
Wietrick explains three connections between the two,
“In the TV series, the population of Smallville is 45,001. Hutchinson’s population is about 42,000.