Several area residents were award winners during the Armstrong Bank Sallisaw recent grand opening week, Bev Taylor, the bank's vice president of marketing - community relations, said.

Taylor said oversized postcards were mailed to all addresses with a Sallisaw zip code. Cards brought to the bank during grand opening week by area residents automatically entered them for daily and grand prize drawings conducted through the week.

Daily drawing winners were Jimmy Allen, $20 gift card to Long John Silver's; Lottie Brown, $20 gift card to Blockbuster Video; Joyce Canada, $20 gift certificate; Iva Jo Fager, $20 Chamber Check; Bobby Foreman, $20 gift card to Western Sizzlin'; David Fullbright, $20 gift card to Western Sizzlin'; Linda Fuller, $20 gift card to Wal-Mart; Butler Gist, $20 gift card to Wal-Mart; Shirley Gunter, $20 gift card to Caporales; David Lewis, $20 Chamber Check; Bill Martin, $20 gift card to Bonita's Bibles & Books; Don Mullican, $20 gas certificate to Sinclair's; Bobby J. Watts, $20 Chamber Check; and Lois Wells, $20 gift card to Cato's.

Winners of the grand prizes were Carla Lowrimore, who won a Sentry Ten-Gun Safe, and Mary England, who won a Hewlett-Packard digital camera and photo printer kit.