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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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Some drivers through Bryant this morning may have been the lucky recipients of full service and free gas at the Big Red gas station.  Bryan Spriggs of Pulaski Bank cleans the windshield for Cindy Adams of Bryant. Employees of the bank were at the Big Red station in Bryant giving $10 of gas to patrons of the station as part of the bank’s Random Acts of Kindness campaign. (Photo special to the Courier by Phillip Felton)
Beginning at 7 a.m. today at the intersection of Arkansas 5 and Springhill Road, representatives of Pulaski Bank started pumping gas for people — and paying for it.
It’s all part of the bank’s Random Act of Kindness Day. The group is moving to a different location in Central Arkansas every hour until 5 p.m. today, said Linda Felton, retail market manager.
“We do random acts of kindness all the time and help people who look like they could use help,” Felton said. “We buy people lunch, carry groceries for them and always look for ways we can help. In response to the high price of gas, we decided to do this blitz and touch as many people at random as we can.”
Felton said the response has been great. “People are really surprised,” she said.
Pulaski Bank encourages the Central Arkansas region to embrace Random Acts of Kindness and pass it on, Felton said.
“Pulaski Bank hopes that the Random Act of Kindness is contagious and that members of the community will use the opportunity to pay it forward and perform their own act of kindness in the community,” she said.
Pulaski Bank and Trust Company is a subsidiary of Iberiabank Corp., with $5.1 billion in assets.
Pulaski Bank operates 40 bank offices with 11 branches in the Central Arkansas region, 18 branches in Northeast Arkansas, two branches in the Memphis area and eight recently acquired branches in Northwest Arkansas.
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