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Bangor

Bank appointments

Bangor Savings Bank has announced that Steven D. Harrison of Eddington, vice president, has joined the bank’s subsidiary, Bangor Securities Inc., as senior financial consultant.

Harrison has worked in various positions at Northwestern Mutual, Fleet Bank and Bank of America. He is a graduate of Tucson College of Business with a degree in accounting. He also attended Husson College, Tallahassee Common College and the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

Harrison is a member of the Ronald McDonald House board of directors, a member of Bangor Baptist Church, and was chairman of the National Folk Festival committee at Fleet Bank.

. Christian L. Pushor of Trenton has joined the bank as branch manager at Broadway. He recently served four years as relationship manager in Southwest Harbor, six years as relationship manager in Bangor and customer service manager in Guilford. He also was a head teller for four years in Dexter.

Pushor is vice president of the Southwest Harbor Medical Needs Fund. He is a graduate of Piscataquis Community High School and is working on a degree at Eastern Maine Community College.

. Michael Hardy of Brewer has joined Bangor Securities Inc. as a financial consultant in Ellsworth.

Hardy has completed several financial courses in business management and leadership training, and has obtained the Series 7, Series 63 and life-health insurance license. He also has completed extensive training in portfolio analysis, investment allocation, wealth transfer strategies, retirement planning and retirement plans for small businesses.

A graduate of Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, Hardy served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a tour in Kosovo. He is club secretary of the Bangor Breakfast Kiwanis International Club.

Pet dog training

Don Hanson, co-owner and director of behavior counseling and training at Green Acres Kennel Shop, has been elected to a second three-year term on the Association of Pet Dog Trainers board of directors. He also has been elected to serve as vice president of APDT in 2005.

The Association of Pet Dog Trainers is the largest organization of dog-training professionals in the world. Founded in 1993, the 5,000-member APDT has as its mission to enhance the human-dog relationship by educating trainers, other animal professionals and the public by advocating dog-friendly training.

Hampden

Postal achievement

Carla L. Osier graduated recently from the Associate Supervisor Program at the United States Postal Service. Osier had been with the Postal Service for eight years before completing the four-month training program, graduating with 10 other management trainees.

A Sullivan resident, Osier has held a variety of assignments during her postal career. She served as a rural carrier associate in Gouldsboro, as a city letter carrier in Bar Harbor, as a customer service clerk in Ellsworth, as postmaster in Corea, and as an acting supervisor at the Eastern Maine Processing and Distribution Center in Hampden.

Recently at the Postal Service, she has been working in the Eastern Maine Process and Distribution Center in a number of functional areas while learning about a variety of postal operations.

Osier was born and raised in Sullivan, and graduated from Sumner Memorial High School.

As a graduate of the Associate Supervisor Program, Osier will now be in charge of mail processing units within the Postal Service. She will be stationed at the Eastern Maine Processing and Distribution Center in Hampden where she will supervise postal employees in a number of different mail processing areas on the 3-11 p.m. shift.

Orono

BANSCO-UCU merger

ORONO – BANSCO Credit Union announced that it will merge with University Credit Union. On Dec. 13 members of both credit unions voted to approve the merger pending financial approval from the Maine Bureau of Financial Institutions. The merger is scheduled for Feb. 1 and at that time BANSCO will transfer all of its assets and liabilities to University Credit Union.

The boards of directors of the participating credit unions have concluded that the proposed merger is desirable not only financially, but also because both credit unions share a common bond serving an educational field of membership. BANSCO serves the members and employees of the boards of education in Penobscot County and University Credit Union serves University of Maine System employees, students, alumni and immediate family members.

Sue Cross, president and CEO of BANSCO, will join University Credit Union as vice president and branch manager of UCU’s Bangor office on Union Street. BANSCO’s other five employees will be relocated within UCU.