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Contact: Crystal Ghassemi, APR 1-877-944-DGPR (3477) Crystal.ghassemi@dg.com Grants provide funding for adult, family and summer literacy programs Goodlettsville, Tenn. – May 20, 2013— Today, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded approximately $12,000 to Madison organizations to support literacy. Award recipients include: Regional Inter-Faith Association STAR Center, Inc. “At Dollar General, we are passionate about our mission of Serving Others throughout...

Contact: Sue Pierman, Media Relations Manager 414-299-7864 sue.pierman@assurant.com Insurance company also selected for 2013 National Top Workplaces Milwaukee, May 20, 2013 — Assurant Health, a national provider of major medical, fixed-benefit and supplemental health insurance products, announces that it has been named to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Top Workplaces list for the second consecutive year. Assurant Health also won...

Contact: Joanne Belanger, 608-243-5000x 2833, joanne.belanger@summitcreditunion.com Cheryl Tessier, APR, 608-695-6510, ctessier@finessepr.net MADISON, Wis. – “The cooperative structure of a credit union not only ensures the...

CONTACT Jennifer Neighbors (262) 649-3824; jennifer@neighborspr.com MILWAUKEE – Kahler Slater, an award-winning architecture and experience design firm, has named Jennifer Eschner and Jude Wessels associate principals. In receiving their promotions, Wessels and Eschner are being recognized for having taken on greater leadership roles in the organization, including working with team leaders in such areas as managing team operations,...

CONTACT Kevin Michalowski Taking Libertees info@takinglibertees.com www.takinglibertees.com Iola, Wis. -- Feeling it is time for gun owners to stand out rather than blend in a group of entrepreneurs in this central Wisconsin town has launched Taking Libertees, a pro-gun t-shirt company giving gun owners the opportunity to show the world just where they stand. “The mainstream media has been working rather successfully for years to...

CONTACT: John Harrod, jharrod@fpm.wisc.edu, 608-265-2298 MADISON - As part of the ongoing Charter Street Heating Plant Rebuild Project, a "steam blow" will be conducted at the plant beginning May 20. The purpose of the procedure is to clean steam piping that runs from new boilers to the plant's steam turbine generator, which requires incoming steam to be free of any loose...

MEDIA CONTACTS: Jeff Dardis jdardis@laughlin.com 414-270-7203 Kim Wick kwick@laughlin.com 414-270-7184 MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Full-service branding agency, Laughlin Constable, announced today that their Milwaukee office has been selected as one of the 2013 Top Workplaces by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This is the third consecutive year that Laughlin Constable’s Milwaukee office has received the award. This prestigious award, administered by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational...

Contact: Gregg Bosak Community Outreach Liaison Rock County Job Center 1900 Center Avenue Janesville, WI 53545 Phone (608) 314-3300, Ext. 306 Fax (608) 741-3528 E-mail: g.bosak@swwdb.org A new program designed to match workers’ talents with open jobs has kicked off. Titled Work Today, the program focuses on employer-needed job skills matched to job seeker skills and competencies. “Central to our approach is our private sector employer...

The Department of Workforce Development released a flurry of job numbers Thursday, touting figures that showed Gov. Scott Walker about a quarter of the way to his goal of 250,000 jobs while downplaying monthly estimates that showed a loss of more than 24,000 jobs last month. DWD first released its preliminary job figures for the fourth quarter of 2012, which...