City birthday party celebrates Milwaukee neighborhoods
The Milwaukee Press club will host a 165th birthday celebration for the City of Milwaukee at Potawotomi Bingo and Casino on Tuesday, Jan. 25 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The party will celebrate Milwaukee neighborhoods with neighborhood inspired food and beverages, live local music and giveaways in a ‘block party’ atmosphere.
"If there’s anything that has been and continues to be crucial to the development and growth of the City of Milwaukee, it’s our unique and diverse neighborhoods,” said Kathy Mykleby, president of The Milwaukee Press Club and WISN-TV Channel 12 anchor. “Where better to celebrate our City and our neighborhoods than with your neighbors at an event that truly does bring a cross-section of people from the business, government, civic, arts, education, nonprofit communities in our City.”
As part of the celebration, The Milwaukee Press Club with assistance from Milwaukee Historian John Gurda and Milwauke Journal Sentinel neighborhoods reporter Tom Tolan, will also unveil the ultimate Milwaukee neighborhood trivia contest on Monday, Jan. 10. Contestants will be challenged in their knowledge of historical, fun and quirky trivia regarding Milwaukee’s many neighborhoods. The winner will be announced at the party.
Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased at www.milwaukeepressclub.org.
Hispanic Chamber honors businesses
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced its new board of directors and will present its awards program at it annual gala on Saturday.
The following have been duly elected to serve three-year terms on the board: David Aragon of SITE Personnel; Tony Arteaga of Arteaga Construction Inc.; Jose Dominquez of Wenzler Architects; Brian Ganos of Sonag Company; Roberto Monteagudo of Orchard Dental Care; Jose Perez of LRG Development; and Perfecto Rivera of Harris Bank.
The chamber’s executive board includes Aragon, chairman; Perez , vice chair; Frank Becerra of BITS & Associates, treasurer; Peter Kwong of Adelante Media Group, secretary.
The theme of this year’s annual gala is “Hispanic Enterprise – The Promise of America.”
The Hispanic-owned Businesses of the Year are Acevedo PC Services LLC (Enrique Acevedo, owner) and HUSCO International Inc (Agustin “Gus” Ramirez, Chairman and CEO).
The Corporation of the Year award will go to Walgreen Company.
The Bravo! award recipient is Robert A. Wild SJ, president of Marquette University.
The CW18/My 24 2010 Mi Comunidad Award will go to Virginia Zerpa-Uriona of the Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition.
Highway signs to proclaim Wisconsin is ‘Open for Business’
Gov. Scott Walker is placing “Open for Business” road signs on the main arterial highways leading from Illinois into Wisconsin.
Walker met this morning with the leadership team of Rock County 5.0, a group aimed at regional job creation, to kick off the “Open for Business” campaign.
In total, 23 signs will placed along different entry points into Wisconsin.
“These signs proudly proclaim Wisconsin is open for business,” Walker said. “Along with the symbolic nature of these signs, there are going to be substantive changes to the way our state government treats job creators. The pro-growth initiatives I support stand in stark contrast to those policies being discussed in our bordering states. These signs are aimed directly at job creators to make them aware that they are welcome here. As our neighbor states make it more difficult for private employers to create jobs, they can ‘Escape to Wisconsin.'”
Walker said the previous administration spent $3,000 installing signs that contained a welcome message from Gov. Jim Doyle. The new “Open for Business” signs will cost taxpayers a total of $1,495 and will be printed by Brown Deer-based Traffic and Parking Control Co.
Gov. Scott Walker is placing “Open for Business” road signs on the main arterial highways leading from Illinois into Wisconsin.
Walker met this morning with the leadership team of Rock County 5.0, a group aimed at regional job creation, to kick off the “Open for Business” campaign.
In total, 23 signs will placed along different entry points into Wisconsin.
“These signs proudly proclaim Wisconsin is open for business,” Walker said. “Along with the symbolic nature of these signs, there are going to be substantive changes to the way our state government treats job creators. The pro-growth initiatives I support stand in stark contrast to those policies being discussed in our bordering states. These signs are aimed directly at job creators to make them aware that they are welcome here. As our neighbor states make it more difficult for private employers to create jobs, they can ‘Escape to Wisconsin.'”
Walker said the previous administration spent $3,000 installing signs that contained a welcome message from Gov. Jim Doyle. The new “Open for Business” signs will cost taxpayers a total of $1,495 and will be printed by Brown Deer-based Traffic and Parking Control Co.
