Making someday happen

Shannon LeClair
Times Contributor

 

A dream came true for one young Strathmore RBC branch member on Nov. 13. Melissa Trombley, 23, has wanted to own her own home since she was a little girl, and thanks to RBC and their Someday contest she is now $20,000 closer to that goal.
“What the bank did was they went out to our 10 million customers across the country and they said, tell us about your someday, what is it that’s important to you, what is it that’s out there that someday you want to achieve,” said Jeff Boyd, regional president for RBC.
Over the summer customers were asked to send in their videos with their someday stories. There were 15,000 videos submitted, and from those 32 of them were picked and given $1,000. Also from those, Trombley’s video was picked at random as the $20,000 prizewinner.
She found out about the contest while she online taking care of some her banking and decided to enter. She mentioned that her inspiration is her son, Silas who is nine months old, and that she wanted to buy a home for him to grow up in.
“I had bought a jolly jumper for my son Silas and I had wanted to try him in it for the first time, so I put him in it and I took a video of him and he loved it, he was having a great time in it,” said Trombley, describing her winning video.
“It’s for him, its’ all for him, so he can grow up in a home he can call his own.”
She plans to use the money as a down payment for a house in Carseland.
“I grew up there as a small child, I went to the Carseland Elementary School, I enjoyed going there. I plan on him going to Carseland Elementary and I want him to just have a great life like I did,” said Trombley.
Also on hand for the festivities on Nov. 13 were RBC Olympians Carla MacLeod, a two time gold medalist, and Brady Leman, a two time FIS World Cup gold medalist. The pair, and other Olympic athletes in the program, get to tour around and attend different community events, and be part of the face of RBC.
“It’s just a cool opportunity for us to get to be a part of the community events and we’re part of a different kind of RBC sponsorship but still part of their community involvement. It’s kind of cool when they can link us into different stuff like this where they have a big impact in their communities,” said Leman.
“I think maybe one of the neatest things about this program that I always talk about is when you’re an athlete, you’re an athlete and all of a sudden when you retire in your late 20s, or early 30s you have to go into the business world and you have nothing business on your resume, you’ve been an athlete,” said MacLeod.
“So what this program is for me, is it really allowed me to sort of bridge that gap and allowed me to figure out what do I like in business, what do I want to work at and it gave me kind of a safety net. To be able to forge the coaching career that I’ve been able to do, it wouldn’t have happened without RBC, so that’s what I think is really neat.”