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Contact Information Wisconsin Youth Entrepreneurs Network Gayle Kugler –Director, UW-Extension, WEN, SBDC (608) 263-7812 Ben Hobbins –WYEN Founder, Wisconsin Entrepreneur (608) 513-3535 Madison, WI: to mark the 30th Anniversary founding of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) network and the 5th Anniversary founding the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Network (WEN) –the joint venture between Wisconsin Department of Commerce and UW-Extension Division of Entrepreneurship...

CONTACT: Katharyn May,(608) 263-9725, kamay@wisc.edu MADISON - A $500,000 gift from Barbara D. and M. Keith Weikel ('62 MS PHM, '66 PhD BUS) has provided further momentum to the campaign for a new University of Wisconsin-Madison Nursing Science Center. In related news, Kahler Slater, a Wisconsin-based architectural-engineering firm, has been selected to conduct programming validation and provide the architectural design...

Monday, May 3, 2010 5:00-7:00pm The Timbers Restaurant 615 South Broadway, Stanley This customer service will give you and your front-line employees the skills needed to enhance customer relationships and keep them coming back to your business. By delivering better service and increasing customer satisfaction you will secure an overall competitive advantage through customer service excellence. Designed to specifically address the daily...

CONTACT: Terry Jannsen, CPA, Jannsen & Company, S.C. (262) 513-9292 Pewaukee, Wis. – For most people, Social Security is a simple equation. They work. They pay in. They retire. They collect benefits. In truth, Social Security offers many opportunities for retired workers to supplement their income further. A well-planned strategy can increase the benefit levels that recipients get from the longstanding...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON – The Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit against Richard L. Stricker of Stoughton, d/b/a Rural Water Service, LLC, for violations of state laws regulating pump installing. According to the complaint, filed at the request of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR),...

Contact: Jason A. Smith, communications director Editor, Wisconsin People & Ideas The Voices of Rural Wisconsin project is a new partnership between Portal Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Working together, these two statewide nonprofit organizations hope to share the stories, thoughts, and histories of Wisconsin's rural population in their own words. Some of the collected...

MADISON - Lathrop Hall hits a milestone this year, and the UW-Madison School of Education is throwing a party worthy of the classic building perched on the south side of Observatory Hill. She celebrates her 100th year, but is as regal, balanced and stately as the day she opened in 1910. Sure, she's had work done, but mostly on...

Contact: Erika Olsen KL Engineering, Inc. 608-663-1218 608-663-1226 eolsen@klengineering.com http://www.klengineering.com Madison, WI – KL Engineering is pleased to announce that Matt Regnier and Ryan Sirek have joined the firm. Regnier joined as a Design Engineer and Sirek as an Engineering Technician. KL Engineering is a civil engineering firm based in Madison, with offices in Menomonie and Green Bay, WI. We are dedicated to...

GLENWOOD CITY – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that a Glenwood City man has been convicted in St. Croix County Circuit Court of multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor theft. John Rassbach, 53, appeared in court today and entered pleas before Judge Edward Vlack. Rassbach is convicted of five felony counts of theft, six counts of misdemeanor...

CONTACT: Jeff Adams Beloit College 608.363.2327 adamsj@beloit.edu Beloit, WI - Vision Beloit and the Beloit College Department of Economics host a City Center Seminar Series at Vision Beloit, 500 Public Avenue. The seminar is set for Friday April 23rd at noon and will feature Larry Morrissey, Mayor of Rockford IL. Larry Morrissey, an independent, was first elected as mayor of Rockford in 2005. He...

Part of CEA Report Showing Recovery Act Has Created or Saved about 2.5 Million Jobs Nationwide WASHINGTON, DC – The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) today released a new analysis that finds that the Recovery Act was responsible for 59,000 jobs in Wisconsin through the first quarter of 2010. The analysis follows a report released earlier in the week...