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Make Every Child the Winner When It Comes to School Food BALTIMORE, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- "Lunch Lottery," a national educational campaign to build grassroots awareness and support for healthier school food, was launched today by Organic Valley Family of Farms at a taste test of three types of American school lunches. "In a nation where childhood obesity, diabetes and other...

Rimas Buinevicius, Chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry Discusses the Latest Methods for Communicating Effective Investor-Related Messages MADISON, Wis., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) , a leader in automated rich media communications technology, today announced that chairman and CEO Rimas Buinevicius will be the featured presenter at the upcoming Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Investor Relations...

MONROE, Wis., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Ravinder Minhas is proud to announce the acquisition of the Joseph Huber Brewery on Wednesday, October 4, 2006. The oldest brewery in the Midwest is also getting a new name; it will now be known as MINHAS CRAFT BREWERY. A new website - http://www.minhasbrewery.com/ - has also been launched. This acquisition makes Mr....

MILWAUKEE – Christopher Morris, director of human resources at St. Francis Hospital, will be awarded the annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize, and Bucyrus International Inc. and United Steel Workers Local 1343 will be presented the Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize at a ceremony on Monday, Oct. 9. The Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize is given to an outstanding student or recent...

MENASHA, Wis., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Banta Corporation (NYSE:BN) today identified the facilities that it previously announced would be closed or sold as part of its strategic initiatives designed to reduce costs, drive operating efficiencies and position the Company for continued growth. The first phase of the initiatives, which consolidated Banta's five print divisions into a two-division structure, was announced...

Media contact: Joan Collins, Joan Collins Publicity, Inc. at (608) 222-2899 October 2006 Construction has begun on the final phase of Hawthorn Point at Conservancy Place in DeForest where Park Towne Realty, LLC is marketing two additional condominium lots. Jim Ring, president of Park Towne Development, the Madison-based firm developing the mixed-use Conservancy Place, said one lot would allow up...

CONTACT: Michael Carter, (608) 263-2478, mrcarter@wisc.edu MADISON - A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor will oversee a new $10 million federal program that will support a wide range of projects aimed at understanding and curbing poverty in developing nations. The project, the Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program (AMA CRSP), represents a major effort by the U.S. Agency for...

By Matt Dolbey WisBusiness.com MADISON -- Chicago Branch Federal Reserve Bank Vice President Doug Tillett said Wednesday he wished financial education centers like the one he helped open Wednesday weren't needed. Tillett, speaking at the grand opening of the UW-Extension Financial Education Center in the south part of the capital city, said if people were more educated about money issues...