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Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MEDIA ADVISORY Governor Jim Doyle will make a major economic development announcement tomorrow, Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 10:45 a.m. at Allen Edmonds Shoe Corporation in Port Washington. WHERE: Allen Edmonds Shoe Corporation ...

For information contact: Peg Schmitt (608) 266-7744, peg.schmitt@dot.wi.gov Wisconsin’s Transportation Projects Commission (TPC) today recommended that four major highway project candidates be “enumerated” or added to the list for construction in the next state budget. The projects include: a 45-mile section of I-39/90 in southern Wisconsin; a five-mile...

Contact: Peter Thomas (414) 615-4866 pathomas@metlife.com Green Bay, WI OCTOBER 19 – Great Lakes Agency is pleased to announce that Allan Wondrash has joined the firm as a Financial Service Representative. Wondrash attended Manitowoc County Teachers College, Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College and has studied through the American Institute of Banking. Al has worked in the...

Contact: Christine Henzig (800) 242-0833, Ext. 6019 chenzig@theleague.coop http://www.theleague.coop $2 million saved by youth is second fact to celebrate during International Credit Union Week, Oct. 17-23 Pewaukee, Wis. – Students from elementary grades through high school aren’t waiting for graduation before they begin learning money management – they’re tackling it now by operating 109 credit union branches inside Wisconsin schools. Youth-run...

MILWAUKEE —The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s annual Open House on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29-30, in the UWM Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., showcases the academic majors available in UWM’s 10 schools and colleges that admit undergraduate students, and the career choices associated with them. Open House hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. No advance registration...

CONTACT: Chang-Beom Eom, (608) 263-6305, eom@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - In cold weather, many children can't resist breathing onto a window and writing in the condensation. Now imagine the window as an electronic device platform, the condensation as a special conductive gas, and the letters as lines of nanowires. A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Science and Engineering Professor Chang-Beom Eom...

Contact: Shelly Sprinkman 608.220.1453 shelly.sprinkman@gmail.com MADISON, Wis. (October 19, 2010) -- What do cocktail rings and lakefront homes have in common? Plenty if you ask Shelly Sprinkman, a long time Madison real estate agent and her client Tom Krupp, co-owner of Coy-Krupp Conducted Sales in Chicago, IL. Sprinkman and Krupp are combining their talents...

Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced Wisconsin will receive $637,114 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund a Consumer Assistance Program. The grant will fund state efforts to protect consumers through the Patient’s Bill of Rights set forth in national health care reform and provide...

CONTACT: Tia Nelson, Executive Secretary (608) 266-8369 MADISON – The Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (BCPL) today approved the sale of 234.48 acres of land located in the town of Flambeau in Price County to the Wisconsin DNR. The Trust Lands being sold are isolated, non-productive parcels adjacent to the Flambeau River State Forest. The sale of...

Media Contact: Thomas Jensen, communications coordinator, 563.587.4072 or tjensen@htlf.com Powerful, convenient finance tool is free to Online Banking customers MADISON, Wis., Oct. 19, 2010 - Wisconsin Community Bank is pleased to offer FinanceWorks,™ a powerful personal financial management tool, free of charge to all Wisconsin Community Bank customers through Online Banking at http://www.thewcb.com. Click for demo: http://www.diproductsite.com/demo/fw/eu-demo/home.html With a single login,...

MADISON, Wis. – Oct. 19, 2010 – Nikki Jackson is Wisconsin Community Bank’s newest Personal Banker at its Madison office, 8240 Mineral Point Road. Jackson will primarily open business and personal accounts and process second mortgage loans. Jackson has three years experience in the banking industry. Before coming to Wisconsin Community Bank, she was a teller at Commercial Bank...

Media Contact: Geoffrey Vine, President Phone: (608) 222-5100 gvine@stevensconstruction.com MADISON, WIS. (October 20, 2010) — Dennis Lynch has joined Stevens Construction as Senior Vice President for Business Development. Dennis’s primary responsibility will be to develop relationships and new business for the company. “I’m excited to be part of such a reputable firm that is growing in these challenging times. I look forward to...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news Junior high and high school students from around central and northern Wisconsin will be introduced to a variety of careers and paths of study as they gather at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday, November 5. The ninth through twelfth-grade students will take part in STEM Career Day, offered for the second...

Contact: Dan Walker, ddwalker2@wisc.edu MADISON - Twenty students from the full-time University of Wisconsin-Madison MBA program will travel to Omaha on Thursday, Oct. 21, to share a meal and an experience of a lifetime with Warren Buffett, chair and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world's most successful investors. According to Dan Walker, a student in the...

CONTACT: Lori Strelow, 608-263-6914, lstrelow@vetmed.wisc.edu MADISON - Can Web-based resources have a positive impact on a cow's life? Nigel Cook and Ken Nordlund, veterinarians in the Food Animal Production Medicine (FAPM) group of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, are banking on it. The pair was recently awarded funding through the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea...