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From: Mike Counter, St. Norbert College, http://www.snc.edu, 920-403-3089, mike.counter@snc.edu DE PERE, WIS.: The new Ariens Family Welcome Center at St. Norbert College will be dedicated on Friday, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m. on campus. The ceremony, to which the public is invited, will be held on the patio area of the Welcome Center, or inside, in the event of rain....

From: Mike Counter, St. Norbert College, http://www.snc.edu, 920-403-3089, mike.counter@snc.edu DE PERE, WIS.: The new Ariens Family Welcome Center at St. Norbert College will be dedicated on Friday, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m. on campus. The ceremony, to which the public is invited, will be held on the patio area of the Welcome Center, or inside, in the event of rain....

Contact: Julie Redders, Marketing Manager julie.redders@m3ins.com 608-288-2812 Madison, Wisc. – M3 Insurance Solutions for Business (M3) recently released its 2011 Trend Report focusing on current trends in health care and employee benefits. Now in its sixth year, many businesses have come to rely on the valuable data within this report as a way to benchmark their employee benefit plan designs, costs, drug...

CONTACT: Kim Frank, 608-890-0140, kafrank2@wisc.edu MADISON - This week, the class of 2014 at the University of Wisconsin Law School will put aside their textbooks for a day of community service. On Wednesday, Aug. 31, more than 200 students will partner with Project Linus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "providing security through blankets" for ill or traumatized children and teens. Working...

For more information, contact: Don Greuel, WisDOT Project Services Section (608) 267-7774, Donald.Greuel@dot.wi.gov Randy Romanski, WisDOT Bureau of Transportation Safety (608) 267-9075, Randy.Romanski@dot.wi.gov ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ crackdown on drunken driving continues During the Labor Day weekend, workers will take a break from construction on most highway projects around the state, but motorists may still encounter lane restrictions in work zones that require...

Contact: Allan Degner 414.383.3131 adegner@pdr-usa.net Milwaukee, WI – August 30, 2011 - Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of Southeast Wisconsin has deployed its resources of staff and highly-specialized equipment to the East Coast in order to provide emergency mitigation services and structural aid to communities damaged by Hurricane Irene. According to Dan Druml, owner and president of Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of Southeast...

Contact: Steve Lyons, WEA Trust Telephone: (608) 661-6729 E-mail: slyons@weatrust.com Madison­— The WEA Trust was chosen by the Wisconsin Group Insurance Board (GIB) on August 23, 2011, to be in the State Group Health Insurance Program (state health plan) for public employees in 49 counties. The Trust was selected by the GIB as...

Hours, Days of Operation to Change MADISON, Wis. (August 29, 2011) — Madison Children’s Museum will be closed Monday, September 5 (Labor Day), through Friday, September 9, for its biannual Maintenance Week. The closed period will allow museum staff to deep-clean the facility, and make improvements and repairs to exhibits. When the museum reopens at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 10, it...

Contact: Brian Rust, UW-Madison Division of Information Technology, (608) 263-9484, rust@doit.wisc.edu MADISON - Students at UW-Madison have embraced social networks - not much of a surprise on a campus that is often a trendsetter with new technologies. But in growing numbers, faculty and staff on the Madison campus are following along, using their mobile Internet devices to join the...

Contact: Andy Larsen, Boelter + Lincoln PR 414/271-0101 x119 (o); 414/840-0891 (m) E-mail: alarsen@boelterlincoln.com MILWAUKEE, Wis. (August 29, 2011) – The Milwaukee Water Council will host its fifth annual Water Summit conference September 19-20 at Milwaukee’s Discovery World/Pier Wisconsin complex. Milwaukee’s Water Summit is one of the leading national platforms for the discussion of water technology and sustainable water solutions. The annual event...

Contact: Kate Morgan 414-416-6509/kmorgan@1kfriends.org The media is invited to the formal announcement of an award of $100,000 grant from the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) supporting a pilot project to develop a watershed-based stormwater permit for communities in the Menomonee River watershed. The approach may signal a new era of watershed-wide cooperation to improve water quality in the river. When:...

Contact: Ashley Huibregtse, 608-224-5002, ashley.huibregtse@wisconsin.gov MADISON – As the United States East Coast recovers from Hurricane Irene, the Wisconsin Bureau of Consumer Protection cautions people who intend to donate to the recovery effort to watch out for donation scams. Unfortunately, scam artists take advantage of these tragedies and prey upon people’s desire to help the victims. “Don’t let disaster strike twice,”...

Contact: Alex Hummel Associate Director, News and Public Information Integrated Marketing and Communications, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (920) 424-1398 hummela@uwosh.edu The UW Oshkosh College of Letters and Science and UW Oshkosh Foundation are helping lead a new initiative to build a biodigester at Rosendale Dairy in Pickett as a collaborative learning, research lab, public education center and energy-production facility. It is projected to significantly push...

Pewaukee, Wis. - Consumers and small businesses have a new resource to find a credit union – financial institutions that exist to improve the financial position of the 2.2 million Wisconsinites that use them to borrow and save. By visiting http://www.asmarterchoice.org, users can: * Compare credit unions’ rates and fees with other financial institutions * Learn how credit unions have helped...