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FedEx Ground selects J.J. Keller as Qualified Vendor of Trainer Certification Services
J.J. KELLER
Neenah - FedEx Ground (FXG) has selected J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. as an approved vendor to certify trainers at FXG’s Independent Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver qualified CMV driver safety training.
“Through our industry-leading trainer certification program, we’re able to give ISP trainers high-impact, onsite instruction for teaching their drivers to operate safely, prevent accidents and avoid violations,” said Dustin Kufahl, Director of Driver Training at J. J. Keller. “We pride ourselves on creating safer trainers so the ISPs can have better drivers, resulting in better business.”
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Leadership in the New North
Hess elected to Goodwill Industries International's Executive Council
FOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Goodwill NCW President and CEO Chris Hess was named to Goodwill Industries International’s (GII) Executive Council of the Conference of Executives and will serve on Goodwill Industries International’s Board of Directors.
Hess was elected to the position Feb. 9 during GII’s Annual Meeting of the Conference of Executives (AMCOE) in Phoenix, where he had the honor of introducing keynote speaker, Ned Helms, who is the grandson of the Rev. Edgar J. Helms, the founder of Goodwill...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Bemis products to have a seat in Washington, D.C., campaign
WHBL
A local company, perhaps best known for its toilet seats, will play a key role in a cancer awareness campaign in Washington, DC next week.
Bemis Manufacturing has teamed up with the leading advocacy organization, “Fight Colorectal Cancer”, by donating 100 toilet seats that will be displayed on the National Mall as part of Fight CRC’s “United in Blue” installation. Each seat will display an awareness fact or statistic about the disease, which is the second-most fatal cancer in the US. The seats will surround more than 27,000 blue flags on the National Lawn, each of them symbolizing a projected case of colorectal cancer in someone under age 50 by the year 2030.d growth, and I thank Sun Country Airlines for their investment in our region."...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
De Pere growth highlighted in state of the city address
PRESS TIMES
DE PERE – Resilient – The ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
Mayor James Boyd said it fits the City of De Pere, so it’s no surprise city leaders chose resilience as the theme of this year’s State of De Pere held at St. Norbert College Feb. 23.
Boyd said in the midst of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, De Pere didn’t stop moving ahead...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Waupun lands $5 million grant for senior center
WISCNEWS
Last week Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced the city of Waupun will receive a nearly $5 million Neighborhood Investment Fund grant to help with the construction of a new senior center.
The proposed center will be constructed on city-owned land located at 520 McKinley St., the former location of the Waupun Christian Grade School. The land is owned by the city and demolition of the existing building is nearing completion...
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FVTC teaches English to Afghan refugees to help with new life in America
WBAY
GRAND CHUTE -- Since coming to America refugees from Afghanistan have had to do a lot of adjusting. To help the Fox Valley Technical College has invited them into the classroom to learn English.
“Were really just trying to help them survive, have that English, get a good job,” Gillian Giles-Skelton, one of the ELL professors said.
Mohammad Ashrof Azimy was a dentist in Afghanistan. He trained at the Kabul Medical University and has five years of experience working in a hospital setting. Then in August 2021, he fled his home country during the large-scale airlift that took place in the final weeks of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan....
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State-of-the-art UWGB Teaching Press moves into the Brown County STEM Innovation Center
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-GREEN BAY
GREEN BAY — The UW-Green Bay Teaching Press, the University’s unique teaching printing press, recently moved its full operation into the Brown County STEM Innovation Center. The move increases the program’s visibility and creates a unique collaboration between the arts and technology—a first-of-its-kind partnership in the community. The Teaching Press joins the University’s Richard J. Resch School of Engineering, The Einstein Project, Brown County Extension and Brown County’s Land and Water Conservation departments at the STEM Innovation Center.
Professor Rebecca Meacham, director and founder of the UW-Green Bay Teaching Press and chair of the Writing and Applied Arts B.F.A. program, can hardly contain her excitement....
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