Around the Marketplace

Employee anniversaries at Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, Green Bay, include Clayton Abts, 25 years; Lori Warchol, 15 years; and Jody Greenwell, Jayne VonderLinden and Ronie Crowe, 10 years.

Alice Pedretti of Pedretti Power Yoga LLC, De Pere, has received the 200-hour Midwest Power Yoga Teacher Certification. She now has the Nationally Certified Yoga Teacher and the Yoga Alliance Nationally Registered credentials that qualify Pedretti to teach all levels of yoga with individual instruction and in classes of any size.

Secura Insurance, Appleton, promoted Lori Ver Voort from Premiums Receivable Specialist to Senior Premiums Receivable Specialist, Katrina Pakala from Marketing Associate to Marketing Communications Specialist, Amber Wiedenhaupt from Finance Intern to Accounts Payable Analyst, Dawn Mauthe from Internal Market Manager to Senior Internal Market Manager, Kelly Hanson from Temporary Housekeeper to Part-Time Housekeeper, Katrina Heflin from Associate Underwriter to Commercial Lines Underwriter, Jay Ottow from Claims Representative to Senior Claims Representative, Marc McVay from Claims Representative to Senior Claims Representative, Lynn Gates from Claims Associate to Claims Representative, Sara Hildebrand from Claims Associate to Claims Representative, Mike Steinberg from Temporary Associate to Analyst Programmer, Vesna Jovanovic from Temporary Housekeeper to Part-Time Housekeeper, Lori Meyerhofer from Personal Lines Underwriter to Senior Personal Lines Underwriter, Jean Van Den Brandt from Director–Marketing to Vice President–Marketing, and Shane Roh from Regional Director–Sales to Regional Vice President–Sales.

Ridgeway Country Club, Neenah, hired Steve Blake as Golf Course Superintendent. Blake formerly was the Assistant Golf Course Superintendent at North Shore Golf Course in Menasha.

The Green Bay branch of the American Association of University Women honored Jeanne Agneessens, program manager of Leadership Green Bay with the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, as one of the “Dreamers and Doers” Award nominees at its event March 13. Agneessens was among six area women nominated for the 4th Annual Dreamers and Doers Award that recognizes contemporary women in Brown County who have demonstrated achievement, sustained leadership and shared their unique talents to make our community a better place in which to live. She was nominated for her long-time conservation leadership role with the Izaak Walton League, co-chairing the success All-America City bid in 1999 and for her work on diversity issues in the community.

PMI Entertainment Group, the management company of the Brown County Veterans Memorial Complex and Meyer Theatre in Green Bay, has won a Gold Governor’s Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Award. Thus far, PMI is the only small Wisconsin company to be awarded gold status which signifies a commitment to building a work environment that enables employees to develop and maintain lifelong healthy behaviors.

Launch Photography Film & Video, Green Bay, had its work featured in the January edition of Architectural Digest — Latin America. The company’s photographs are included in “Inviernos in Los Cabos,” a six-page feature story highlighting exclusive home interiors designed by Sandra Espinet. Launch co-owners Kriz Maz and Drew Neerdaels traveled to Los Cabos in October 2008 and February 2009 to photograph several properties for Interiors by Sandra Espinet. Their work is featured on the firm’s Web site, www.sandraespinet.com.

Kobussen Buses, Kaukauna, has earned the National School Transportation Association’s Green School Bus Fleet Certification — Gold Level. This certification recognizes Kobussen Buses for their commitment to improving the environment through cleaner school bus fleets and company-wide practices to reduce engine exhaust emissions and conserve fuel.

Pedretti Power Yoga, LLC, opens for business today at 504 Redbird Circle, De Pere. Owner Alice Pedretti has taught yoga and fitness classes in the De Pere, Green Bay and Appleton markets for more than six years. She resides in De Pere. Pedretti Power Yoga, open seven days a week, offers all levels of yoga instruction. An open house is scheduled April 2–4. Free classes will be offered each day. No pre-registration is required. Information about the regular schedule of classes and the special open house events is available at www.pedrettipoweryoga.com.

Cellcom is opening a new store at 1614 Center St. Suite 2, Kewaunee, within the BP gas station site, today. Kewaunee Cellcom store hours will be Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

The Coldwell Banker The Real Estate Group February Chairman’s Circle includes Todd Reilly, Kelly Stern, Betty Garski and Mike Burns in Stevens Point; Colleen Longworth, Cheryl and Charles Pawlosky, Chris Schultz, Paul Redemann, Lisa Kerrigan, Dale Troiber, Mark Gardner and Jim Englund in Oshkosh; Betty Ebert, Steve Maurer, Andrea Pickard, Bob Nelson, Joe Wisnicky, Jolene Funk, Kathy Geiger, Kate Budzisz and Nicole Staudinger in Manitowoc; A.J. McCaskey, Linda Bellings, Bob Gierach and Karen Tschurwald in Wautoma; Tom Malchetske, Pat Bartol, Janice Ewald and Scott Bauer in Berlin; Jerry Alderton, CRS, GRI, Michelle Stimpson, GRI, Jason Mills, SFR, Bill Doyle, Jenny Schwartz, CRS, Adam Adler, ABR, CRS, e-Pro, GRI, Rick Skogg, ABR, CRB, CRS, GRI, e-Pro, Jeff Narges, CRS, GRI, Cynthia Patterson. ABR, CRS, Richard Meyers, ABR, CRS, GRI, Gary Kaster, ABR, CRS, GRI, Dick Loenard, GRI, Jill Dickson, ABR, CRS, GRI, Michael and Mary Kay Held, CRS, GRI, Molly Daanen, Russ Schisel, Tina Bunker, ABR, CRS, GRI, Doreen Phillips, CRS, GRI, Royal Shackelford, CRS, GRI, Cindy Dehn, Jean Stein, GRI, Julie Anne Anderson, Mark Hilgenberg, ABR, CRS, GRI, Mary Wittig, ABR and Michelle Tavera in Green Bay; The Focus Team, Bonnie L. Flegle, Gail Popp and Barb Merry, Kevin Loosen, Frosty Marketing Team, Karl Volkman, Helena Jacyno, Louise Dreier, Dawn Kent and Sue Angell, Keith Krepline, Rooney Team, Bonnie Brandenburg, Richard DeKleyn, Mike Geerts, Peter Weyenberg, Julie Jedwabny, Linda Sanderfoot, Monica McKinley Larabee, Willie Beckman, Michael Christianson, Shaaron Huss S.C., Cindy Farrell Hoffman, Karen Baldwin, Penny Miller, Shane Dorn, Alice and Andy Andersen, Carol Heinz, Emily Lennon, Jim Olds, John Coughlin, Lori Knoke, Mark Krause, Mark Kubeny, Mary Spaay, Scott and Bill Roh, Trace and Michelle Plass, Amy Vandenberg, Butch Schmidt, Carmen W. Van Abel, Gayle McCabe, Heidi Struensee, John W. and John D. Riesterer, Julie Aslin, Ken Uhlenbrauck, Lisa Lankey, Lori Bishop, Mary Malloy, Michelle Grade, Sue Bohlen and Valerie Esler in the Fox Cities; and Dale Ferg and Norm Trisler in Waupaca and Manawa.

Case IH, Service Motor Co., and Fox Valley Technical College forged a new 10-year, $1.5 million partnership to provide the college’s agriculture-related programs with the latest agricultural equipment and precision farming technologies. The new collaboration will give graduates of the college’s 60 plus-year history of agriculture training advanced skills to hit the job market ahead of the technology curve. The partnership is the first of its kind for a technical college in Wisconsin.

The Benedictine Women of Madison’s Holy Wisdom Monastery has been named a 2009 Top Project by Wisconsin Builder magazine. The 34,000-square-foot monastery, designed and built by Hoffman LLC of Appleton, will be honored at the Top Projects awards dinner in Waukesha April 21. Holy Wisdom Monastery has been submitted to the US Green Building Council and is pursuing a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification and the highest LEED rating in the country.

Jewelers Mutual Insurance Co., Neenah, contributed $5,000 through the Jewelers Mutual Charitable Giving fund to the American Red Cross–Outagamie Chapter to support their International Response Fund for Haiti Relief. In addition, Jewelers Mutual sponsored an employee and agent match program for donations made to the same organization. Through this match program, Jewelers Mutual collected a total of $5,430 in employee and agent donations. After the week-long program, Jewelers Mutual was able to present a check for $14,385 to the American Red Cross–Outagamie Chapter.

Secura Insurance, Appleton, has promoted three members of its leadership team to vice president positions. Shane Roh, Secura’s Regional Director–Sales, has been promoted to Regional Vice President–Sales. Roh’s accomplishments include the continued growth and success of the company’s Wisconsin market, which is the company’s single largest business unit. Jean Van Den Brandt was promoted from Director of Marketing to Vice President–Marketing and brings to her role more than 22 years of marketing and branding experience, including re-branding Secura. Glen Dye, Regional Director–Sales, has been promoted to Regional Vice President–Sales. Dye’s accomplishments include leading Secura’s presence in Arizona and Colorado.

First Business Capital Corp. promoted Ryan Jahns from collateral analyst to field examiner and Bridget Persch to Senior Collateral Analyst.

Dennis Glocke of Coldwell Banker The Real Estate Group in Waupaca has received the Waupaca/Shawano Board Scholarship for Designation Week. As a result of this scholarship, Glocke now has his GRI designation.

Employee anniversaries at Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin include Sharon Koeller, Green Bay, Goodwill Industries, and Ann Thomson, Green Bay, Goodwill Industries, 10 years.

Holy Family Memorial has hired board certified internal medicine physician Robert Cornwell, M.D., for Woodland Clinic. He will also see patients on a limited basis at the Two Rivers Health Center. Dr. Cornwell received his medical degree from Indiana University Medical School, and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics. Dr. Cornwell has an interest in the prevention of heart disease, and the treatment of adult diabetes. He is also interested in treating patients with hypertension and leg swelling, and in evaluating infections.