IBC shows support for ESGR

Caption: In a combined effort, members and employees from different organizations, including IBC, H-E-B, Texas National Guard Recruit and Command members and Texas Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), joined to load boxes of care packages to be sent to local and area service members who are deployed overseas.


IBC CEO Dennis Nixon signed Texas ESGR (Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve) statements of support during the annual collection of care packages for the Laredo area deployed service members last week at the parking lot of the main IBC bank on San Bernardo and Scott.

In a combined effort, volunteer employees from IBC, H-E-B, Texas National Guard Recruiting Command, and Texas ESGR Area 13 volunteers gathered to load up a U-haul truck of boxes with care packages that had been collected for deployed service military personnel serving overseas.

Both IBC banks and H-E-B stores have been combining efforts and collecting care packages for two years now to be sent to our deployed soldiers from the Laredo and surrounding areas.

This year the Texas ESGR Area 13 Chairperson, retired Master Sgt. Adolfo "Popo" Gonzalez also was able to get the IBC CEO, Mr. Dennis Nixon to sign ESGR Statements of Support for the four charter banks, the Laredo, Commerce Bank, Brownsville, and the Zapata IBC. Nixon urged other IBC banks from around the state to also join in and support the ESGR by signing SOS in their respective areas.

Laredo ESGR Area 13 chairman, Gonzalez, mentioned thatNixon was following the legacy established by the late Antonio R. Tony Sanchez Sr. who was a veteran, family man, entrepreneur and friend of youth and military.

"The late Mr. Sanchez was very instrumental in establishing the Texas National Guard Armory on Bob Bullock Loop in the early 1990s and in bringing in another National Guard company to Laredo," explained the 39-year National Guard veteran. A plaque in front of the Armory states that "the legacy of Mr. Tony Sanchez Sr. lives and benefits every citizen soldier who trains in this Armory."