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Catered lunch from Yasoo Yani Restaurant for the team today! Affordable and sooooo good! Support our local restaurants!

Congratulations to the local kid Gabriel Flores Jr. who continues to inspire us with his grit and hustle! Way to dominate!

As a small business, it's important to have a banker who's familiar with your business and invested in your success. As the $350 million earmarked for small businesses in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program just ran out today, the importance of this relationship has never been more apparent to us. We want to thank Justin Redman and F&M Bank for their timely information, guidance, and responsiveness throughout this process, ensuring our ability to successfully secure access to these critical funds for our business. If you're looking for a great, local community bank, and a highly engaged and responsive banker, we can't recommend these two highly enough.

If you are working from home and using a VPN to connect in to your corporate network, it's critical to understand that this has the effect of exposing your business network and data to any threats such as malware - and specifically, ransomware - that may be lurking on your home computers, waiting to get connected to your server. We are seeing possible indications of attempted malware infections originating from home networks and using VPNs as a bridge to gain access to corpo...rate network resources such as servers and data. Because VPNs BYPASS YOUR FIREWALL, it is critical that your home computers have the same security measures in place that your business computers have - including: 1. Current version of the Windows operating system 2. All current security patches 3. Active and current anti-virus and/or anti-malware software 4. Preferably not a shared computer used by other members of the family, such as kids. Please contact us if you need assistance in securing your home computers and/or if you would like to identify an alternative to VPNs, such as Remote Access Software. Remember, we are giving away 500 FREE licenses to local businesses. Call us at (209) 244-7120 or send an email to [email protected].

Worried about a shelter in place order at any moment? We've got your back. In order to be better prepared, join us tomorrow morning at 9 AM for our free informational webinar regarding work from home strategies you may be able to implement immediately. ... Please use the link below to sign up before it's full.

Verve believes strongly in the country’s current response to the COVID-19 threat by encouraging social distancing in order to minimize the impact the virus may have on us all. However, as a small business ourselves, we recognize the significant impact this will have on the small business community, and especially the small businesses in our own community. It’s critical that we all do our part to support each other during this time. We’re all in this together. As part of our c...ontribution, Verve will be accelerating our payments to all of our local vendors and partners to keep the cash flowing and ensuring that our local businesses survive this difficult time. We’re encouraging our community now, more than ever, to Buy Local. Patronize our local businesses, especially the restaurants and retail establishments that will get hit the hardest. Buy gift cards, order takeout meals more than normal let’s keep our local economy moving by not acceding to the panic. We’re in this together.