Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table Text Block]

The net periodic benefit cost for the Corporation’s Pension Plan, as determined by consulting actuaries, consisted of the following components for the three and nine months ended September 30:

	Three months ended September 30						Nine months ended September 30
	2012			2011			2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Service cost (1)	$	39		$	15		$	117		$	45
Interest cost	806			853			2,418			2,559
Expected return on plan assets	(808		)	(837		)	(2,424		)	(2,511		)
Net amortization and deferral	420			72			1,260			216
Net periodic benefit cost	$	457		$	103		$	1,371		$	309

(1) The Pension Plan service cost recorded for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, was related to administrative costs associated with the plan and was not due to the accrual of additional participant benefits.

The net periodic benefit cost for the Corporation’s Postretirement Plan, as determined by consulting actuaries, consisted of the following components for the three and nine months ended September 30:

	Three months ended September 30						Nine months ended September 30
	2012			2011			2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Service cost	$	53		$	50		$	159		$	151
Interest cost	87			107			261			321
Expected return on plan assets	(1		)	(1		)	(3		)	(3		)
Net accretion and deferral	(91		)	(91		)	(273		)	(273		)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	48		$	65		$	144		$	196