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History of Sunrise Credit Union

In February, 2008 the membership of our five credit unions, Cypress River, Hartney, Tiger Hills, Turtle Mountain and Virden, voted overwhelmingly to amalgamate, which started a busy year, leading up to the October 1, 2008 official merger into this single entity—Sunrise Credit Union Ltd.

Directors have been working with Management on developing operating policies and establishing the credit union officers and board committees for Sunrise. At the Strategic Planning Session, the Directors established the Mission, Vision and Values for Sunrise Credit Union.

As mentioned the official merger date was October 1, 2008 and by the second weekend in December the 5 banking system data bases had been merged into one, which gave our members access to their accounts at any of the twelve branches of Sunrise Credit Union.

Thanks to our membership for their faith in approving the merger of our five credit unions into Sunrise Credit Union and for your patience and continued support. Also, we want to assure you that – As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, we shall remain committed to our communities, our members and our staff.

CEO Report

What a year of change, thanks to the efforts of all our management and staff working together we have successfully merged five credit unions into one. Since our merger we are seeing transactions happening that we would have never been able to do individually.

2008 and 2009 have been exciting years; we not only experienced a successful merger but impressive growth as well. To us it is a testament of the confidence our members have in supporting the move to a larger organization and strengthening our position in all of our communities.

We look forward to continuing to build on established relationships and are excited about the opportunities to forge new relationships with our colleagues, members and communities.

In closing, I would like to thank the board of directors for their leadership and
co-operation, and the management and staff for their dedication and hard work over the last year.

-CEO Harry Bowler