BATH

The Board of the Friends of Seguin Island Light Station voted recently to present its Volunteers of the Year Award to First Federal Savings and Loan and its employees.

It was clear from the initial discussion, the board said, that there were numerous examples of how First Federal and its employees have shown their support for Seguin.

First and foremost are the employees themselves, the board said.

David Platterer is a past president and D.D. Morong is a current board member, treasurerand committee chairman for the Events Committee and the Development Committee.

Other employees contribute, as well, and the difference they make for the Friends cause is not only in what they do, but how they do it, the Friends board said.

“They are cheerful, accommodating, personable, pleasant and always asking what else they can do to help. They have assisted in various ways as they have copied, folded and stuffed the organization’s first appeal mailing, which helped Friends send it out as scheduled,” the board said.

The mailing generated more than $25,000 in muchneeded donations and couldn’t have gone out without First Federal’s support, the board says.

First Federal also was the first corporate sponsor for Summerfest, Friends’ third, in 2012. It is the group’s largest yearly fundraiser.

“First Federal set the bar so we could approach other potential sponsors,” the board said in a press release. “First Federal stepped up.”

First Federal allowed Friends to display its memorabilia in the bank’s Bath lobby on Front Street, to encourage sales over the holidays and other key times.

The Board of the Friends of Seguin Island Light Station meets monthly in the First Federal board room.

“To summarize,” the board said, “we appreciate all that First Federal Savings and Loan and their employees do to support our efforts, and we are pleased to honor them as our 2012 Volunteers of the Year.”

Friends of Seguin Island Light Station is a local working board, governed by a volunteer board and assisted by committees composed of volunteers. The Seguin Island Station off Georgetown is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.