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Contact: Wendy Norem Marketing Director Shorewest, Realtors® (262) 827-4111, ext. 232 Brookfield, Wisconsin. Looking for a new career? Real estate sales are rising, and Shorewest, Realtors® is growing and looking to hire new sales associates. A career in real estate offers the opportunity to work with people, the flexibility to set your own hours...

CONTACT: Carling Febry, cafebry@wisc.edu, 608-890-1332 MADISON - "Big Red Lollipop" by Rukhsana Khan has been selected as the 2011 winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book, to be presented March 5, by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Khan's first-person narrative tells the story...

Media Contact: Sanderson & Associates, Ltd. Courtney Thomas Phone: 312-829-4350 E-mail: Courtney@sandersonpr.com Daytime-Only Café to Open 5 Locations in Milwaukee Area (Brookfield, WI)---First Watch, the Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch chain based in Bradenton, Fla., has signed an area development agreement to bring five restaurants to the Milwaukee area. VMB Sunrise Hospitality, Inc., operated by father...

Contact: Joshua Wescott, Office of the County Executive (608) 267-8823 or cell (608) 669-5606; Lynn Green, Director of Dane County Human Services (608) 242-6200 Amy Mendel-Clemens to Oversee County’s Economic Assistance, Work Services Efforts Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced today that Amy Mendel-Clemens will lead the division of Dane County Human Services responsible for helping people get back to...

For more information, please contact: Melissa Duffy, 608-334-0624 melissa.duffy@me.com Cooperative Helps Public Plans, Private Employers and Labor Organizations Tackle Pharmacy Costs WisconsinRx/National CooperativeRx has won a competitive bid for the opportunity to help colleges, universities and other members of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) with their pharmacy benefit costs. MHEC serves education and government entities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,...

Contact: Bill Bessette (608) 246-6127 The number of feral cats in the U.S. is estimated at 50 million. To help reduce the population, Madison Area Technical College veterinary technician students and instructors are once again teaming up with the Dane County Friends of Ferals (DCFoF), veterinary students from the University of Wisconsin, and local veterinary volunteers to spay and neuter...

Media Contact: Sada Kempf, Senior PR Associate (920) 232-2230 Sada.Kempf@cliftoncpa.com MILWAUKEE, Wis. (February 10, 2011) – Clifton Gunderson, ranked as one of the nation’s largest certified public accounting and consulting firms, today announced Bryan Laabs has earned his Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional (CCIFP) designation from the Institute of Certified Construction Industry Financial Professionals, Inc. (ICCIFP). "Bryan is now one of 18 construction financial...

VERONA, Wis., Feb. 10, 2010 - St. Anthony's Medical Center, the third-largest medical center in the St. Louis metropolitan area, announced today that it has gone live with REACH3's healthcare customer relationship management (CRM) technology, CRM Custom, to boost targeted patient outreach efforts. To complement the CRM technology, REACH3 - healthcare CRM's market leader - is continuously combining St....

Contact: Joshua Morby (414) 791-9120 Racine, Wis. – Governor Scott Walker announced on Thursday that DeltaHawk Engines, Inc. would receive two low interest loans totaling $720,000. The funds will be used for the expansion of the company’s manufacturing facilities in Racine. The company, which manufactures a family of 2 – 12 cylinder engines for the general aviation industry and currently employs...

Contact: Wendy Norem Marketing Director Shorewest, Realtors(r) (262) 827-4111, ext. 232 Brookfield, Wisconsin. Shorewest, Realtors(r) recognized the following sales associates who were named to the 2010 President’s Club. The award is presented to associates with at least $6,900,000 in closed volume or 45 closed units. The President’s Club Award is an individual award. For...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that on January 26, 2011, Gregory J. Garro, 56, of Green Lake, Wisconsin, was convicted of three counts of securities fraud following a three day jury trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before the Honorable Richard J....

Contact: Wendy Norem Marketing Director Shorewest, Realtors(r) (262) 827-4111, ext. 232 Brookfield, Wisconsin. Shorewest, Realtors® congratulates its top Sales Associates for 2010. * Jim Schleif of the Northshore Office was named First Place Sales Associate in the Company for Volume. * Mary Gilbank-Peterson of the Janesville/Rock County Office was named First Place Sales Associate in the...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 Projects expected to create 236 jobs MADISON—Governor Scott Walker today announced that BRP US Inc. and DeltaHawk Engines, Inc. have received a total of $1,720,000 in loans from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to assist job-creating projects in Racine County. “Manufacturing is a cornerstone of the Wisconsin economy, and will be a key...