It’s a conversation Tom Strickler will always remember. “I was at the fair when Bill Mentzer came up and asked me, ‘Well, what are you going to do when you graduate?’” Strickler was a senior…

Changes are afoot at Iola’s Community National Bank & Trust, with a trio of long-time bankers earning new duties. Most prominently, Tom Strickler is replacing Jim Gilpin as bank president, although Gilpin will stay on…