M3 Insurance: Sara Kekula Promoted to Director of Senior Living & Social Services

Sara Kekula has recently been named co-director of senior living & social services practice at M3. As director, her primary role is to serve as a subject matter expert, strategist, and thought leader and report on trends and issues impacting the senior living & social services industry. She will continue to place insurance products and counsel clients on risk management strategies and insurance planning. Kekula will supplement the strong leadership of Chris Kenyon, managing director of senior living & social services.

Kekula has provided tremendous value to her clients and our firm since joining M3 in 2012. Through her tenure at M3, she has held roles as a support specialist, account manager, senior account manager, account executive, and senior account executive. In 2020, Kekula was named a partner. Her success is tied to her leadership ability, innovation, professionalism, and work ethic.

Kekula has an active role in the community outside of the walls of M3. She is committee member of the Independent Insurance Agent of Wisconsin (IIAW) Emerging Leaders, board member of the Community Living Connections, and an active community member in New Glarus, WI, where she resides with her husband and daughter.

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About M3

M3 is a top insurance broker and risk management firm in America. We’re leaders in the products we represent and the industries we serve. M3’s people are an extension of your team, providing world-class resources to help you manage risk, purchase insurance, and provide employee benefits. And our focus on community builds better places to live and work.

Spherion Staffing and Recruiting in Madison and DeForest Presented President’s, Bronze Circle, On-Premise Office of the Year, and Top Sales Growth Awards

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Alex Hopkins
All Points Public Relations
(847) 897-7469
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Spherion Staffing and Recruiting in Madison and DeForest Presented President’s, Bronze Circle, On-Premise Office of the Year, and Top Sales Growth Awards
Local Staffing and Recruiting Company Recognized with Prestigious National Honors

MADISON, Wisc. – Spherion Staffing and Recruiting (Spherion) in Madison and DeForest announced today that it was recently presented with the President’s, Bronze Circle, On-Premise Office of the Year and Top Sales Growth Awards during the company’s annual national meeting.

Despite continuing to face pandemic-related workforce challenges, Diana Schafer and Margaret Leitinger, Spherion franchise owners in Madison and DeForest, were recognized for their monumental growth in 2021.

“Margaret and I couldn’t be more grateful for the recognition from the Spherion team,” said Schafer. “Our goal is to support both job seekers and businesses in Madison, DeForest and surrounding communities. We work incredibly hard alongside our teams to ensure we provide optimal service to both clients and candidates. We couldn’t have done this without our incredible staff who work hard with us every day to ensure that we find great fits for job-seekers and employers alike, and live up to the Spherion name and mission. We’re appreciative to have been presented these awards and hope to continue that growth in the year to come.”

The 2022 Spherion National Meeting was held at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas March 24-26 and was themed How Sweet It Is! At Spherion’s first in-person meeting since the pandemic, franchisees had the chance to reconnect with each other and with members of the corporate team face-to-face while gaining insights on the status of the brand as well as the staffing industry. Throughout the three-day meeting, franchisees attended general sessions, keynote speeches, and also participated in breakout sessions. The meeting concluded with an awards reception where Schafer, Leitinger and several other franchisees were recognized and celebrated for their accomplishments.

“Our 2022 national meeting provided a fantastic opportunity to once again gather as a community and reflect on our growth while learning and preparing for the year to come,” said Rebecca Rogers Tijerino, president of Spherion. “We certainly had a lot to celebrate, including dedicated franchisees like Diana and Margaret who continue to make Spherion the incredible organization it is today. Congratulations once again to the entire team in Madison and DeForest!”

Spherion brandishes the power of local through a network of independent and empowered franchisees like Schafer, Leitinger. Each Spherion franchisee enriches their community by connecting and facilitating employment opportunities every day. When businesses and job seekers are successful together, their investments in each other flow back into the neighborhoods where they live and work.

To learn more about Spherion Staffing Madison and DeForest, visit www.spherion.com/Madison-WI.

About Spherion

With more than 75 years of staffing and recruiting experience, Spherion stands out as a leader in the industry, leveraging the power of local to support its vast network of independent franchisees. True to its tagline, Let’s Get to Work, Spherion provides workforce solutions to more than 4,000 businesses nationwide across its more than 200 offices. With recent awards including recognition on Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 list and being named a top recruiting firm by Forbes, Spherion has a proven ability to cater to the ever-changing demands of America’s workforce. Backed by the global leader in human resources, Spherion is prepared to provide workforce solutions through its General Staffing franchise model and newly launched Professional IT model to even more job seekers and organizations.

To learn more about Spherion’s services, visit https://www.spherion.com.

For information about the Spherion franchising opportunity, visit https://www.spherion.com/franchise/.

WPS Health Solutions: Safely dispose of unneeded medications

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DeAnne Boegli
Vice President of Communications
608-512-5754
deanne.boegli@wpsic.com

Safely dispose of unneeded medications
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is April 30

MADISON, Wis.—April 27, 2022—Prescription drugs can be dangerous when they are used improperly. National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is your chance to ensure that doesn’t happen with your prescriptions.

An estimated 2.1 million people in the United States suffer from an opioid use disorder. Opioids are one of the most widely abused prescription drugs. The National Institutes of Health outlines how addictive opioids are in chilling detail:

• People who have opioid prescriptions who misuse them: 21–29%
• People who take opioids for chronic pain who develop an opioid use disorder: 8–12%
• People who misuse opioids that move on to heroin: 4–6%

“The opioid epidemic has touched every community and neighborhood in our country,” Dr. Jonah Fox, Medical Director at WPS Health Solutions, commented. “Everyone can assist in preventing opioid addiction by participating in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and removing unneeded medication from their homes.”

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, you can take unused prescription drugs to collection sites across the country. Visit dea.gov/takebackday to locate a collection site near you.

Take Back Days happen twice a year and allow you to dispose of prescription drugs safely and anonymously. It’s a great way to ensure they don’t get misused, lost, or stolen. During the most recent take back day, the Drug Enforcement Administration collected 372 tons of prescription medications.

Accepted items at most locations include:

• Prescription and over-the-counter medications
• Ointments
• Patches
• Non-aerosol sprays
• Inhalers
• Creams
• Vials
• Pet medications

Some items are not accepted, including:

• Needles and other sharps
• Asthma inhalers
• Mercury thermometers
• Medications containing iodine
• Illegal drugs
• Aerosol cans

Check with your local collection sites if you have questions. Visit the Food and Drug Administration website to find out more about how to safely dispose of drugs.

About WPS Health Solutions^®

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS Health Solutions), founded in 1946, is a nationally regarded benefits administrator for a variety of U.S. government programs and a leading not-for-profit health insurer in Wisconsin. WPS Health Solutions serves active-duty and retired military personnel, seniors, individuals, and families in Wisconsin, across the U.S., and around the world. WPS Health Solutions, headquartered in Madison, Wis., has more than 2,700 employees. Within the enterprise, there are three divisions: WPS Government Health Administrators, WPS Military and Veterans Health, and WPS Health Insurance/WPS Health Plan/EPIC Specialty Benefits. For more information, please visit wpshealthsolutions.com.

©2022 Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Capitol Bank Celebrates Grand Opening in East Madison

Natalie Gregerson
AVP / Marketing
Capitol Bank
710 N. High Point Road
Madison, Wisconsin 53717

Capitol Bank Celebrates Grand Opening in East Madison

Madison, WI (April 22, 2022): Capitol Bank celebrated the grand opening of their new location in East Madison with two ribbon cutting ceremonies on April 21^st.

The Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting and reception at 10:00am with attendees including Aaron Oppenheimer, City of Sun Prairie Administrator and Christina Williams, Sun Prairie Chamber Director, along with several chamber ambassadors.

The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting and reception at 3:30pm with over 100 people in attendance. Remarks were given by Capitol Bank President and CEO Ken Thompson, Capitol Bank East Market President David Robbins, State Senator Melissa Agard, WBA President and CEO Rose Oswald Poels, and Capitol Bank Treasury Management Officer and Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Kari Harpold.

Capitol Bank specializes in commercial lending, treasury management, mortgage lending, personal banking and private banking. Capitol Bankers proudly serve the community as evidenced by active roles on over 40 local boards and committees. The  new location at 5427 Eastpark Boulevard will allow for anyone in Dane County to be within 15 minutes of a Capitol Bank location. Capitol Bank West, the Bank’s main location, will remain at 710 N. High Point Road and is the original location the Bank was founded at in 1995. Capitol Bank Verona, which opened in 2006, is located at 108 E. Verona Avenue.

To learn more about Capitol Bank East and our team, visit: www.CapitolBank.com/east2022.

About Capitol Bank: Capitol Bank, locally owned and operated since 1995, is committed to serving the communities in which we live, work and do business. Our philosophy of community support is demonstrated at the corporate level, as well as in the time and energy our employees devote to our community each year. Capitol Bank is Member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

Your Underground Adventure Awaits: Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums’ 2022 Tour Season opens on May 1

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Media Contact:
Erik Flesch, Museum Director
The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums
Phone: (608) 348-3401
Email: museumdirector@platteville.org  

Your Underground Adventure Awaits: Museum’s 2022 Tour Season opens on May 1

PLATTEVILLE, Wis., April 22, 2022 — The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are pleased to announce the opening of our 2022 Tour Season on May 1. To thank the citizens of Platteville for their continued support, The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums is excited to offer two community free days: season opening day, May 1; and season closing day, October 31. Museum admission, including a guided mine tour and train ride (weather permitting) is free to Platteville residents (proof of residency require). Reserve your spot today! Visit www.mining.jamison.museum/programs to register.

We have many programs and initiatives in store this year that celebrate human ingenuity, inquiry, enterprise, and development — what might be called the pioneering spirit. Perhaps the most important of these is a new exhibit highlighting the museum’s Native American tool collection —13,000 Years of Driftless Ingenuity. The exhibit tells a story of time and place, and how the cycles of each year informed different activities of survival and culture-building, based on Native American knowledge of the Driftless Area and the invention of new technologies using its rock, plant, and animal resources. The exhibit builds on a year of work behind the scenes with financial support from Wisconsin Humanities. Working with Driftless Pathways archaeologists, Museum staff members Rachel Vang and Sherri Hall analyzed, labeled, digitally cataloged, and organized more than 1,100 Native American stone tools both chronologically and typologically. Most of these were collected by Rollo Jamison, who deeply appreciated their historical significance but actually underestimated their age. He imagined they were 5,600 years old, but they actually span 13,000 years of human history. We hope you will come check out this and other new exhibits.

This year’s tour season brings the full complement of tours, including guided tours of the underground Bevans Mine, train rides, self-guided tours of interior museum exhibits, school fieldtrips, group tours, and private tours. The Museums are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 1 through October 31. We also offer a variety of virtual experiences for youth and adults.

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are located on Main Street in Platteville, Wisconsin, in the heart of the historic Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc mining region. Founded in 1964, the museum is a nearly three-acre campus with scenic greenspace, the underground 1845 Bevans Mine, and a 1930s-era narrow-gauge mine train pulled by a 1931 Whitcomb locomotive. The mission of the Museums is to continue in the pursuit of excellence in the areas of regional and mining history. To achieve that purpose, the Museums are commissioned to be custodians of the past; to interpret the rich lead and zinc mining heritage of the region, as well as to preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts that define Southwest Wisconsin. Follow The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums on Facebook @MiningJamisonMuseum and visit our website at www.mining.jamison.museum for more information on current and upcoming programs or call (608) 348-3301 or email Museums@platteville.org.

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