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Shelly Birkelo
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Volunteers play a critical role with the Beloit Snappers
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Wednesday, May 30, 2012
BELOIT --
Jan Wagner, 54, Janesville, is among 120 volunteers who cook, pour beverages, prepare food, clean, take tickets and hand out programs and giveaways at Snappers games
Boy Scouts set to present King with Silver Buffalo
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Tuesday, May 29, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Longtime Boy Scout volunteer and advocate Steve King will join an elite group when he receives Scouting's highest national award Friday in Florida.
Need for donations echoes with nonprofit
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, May 26, 2012
JANESVILLE -- Clients of Everyone Cooperating to Help Others, commonly known as ECHO, might have noticed a few changes in recent weeks.
Fire destroys batting cage building
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, May 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
City fire officials are investigating a fire that destroyed the office and equipment building at the city’s batting cages, 937 S. Jackson St., early Friday morning.
Group honors restoration of Janesville house
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, May 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Nathan Bussan is about 90 percent done restoring a house on South Jackson Street in Janesville. Now he has been honored with the Janesville Historic Commission’s Residential Historic Preservation Award.
Volunteers spruce up YWCA
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Thursday, May 24, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Johnson Bank co-workers Sharon Schaefer, Andrew Kurschner and Brittany Folgate, dressed in matching T-shirts with the slogan "Here for Good," spread a fresh coat of slate blue paint over the dull off-white walls in an upstairs room of the YWCA of Rock County.
PranaWalk combines walking, yoga, stress management to keep healthy
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, May 19, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Sue Rummelhoff walks to stay fit, and she practices yoga. When she learned PranaWalk yoga would be offered at Rotary Botanical Gardens, she thought the combination would be fun.
Thursday night jam session is a creative outlet for musicians
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, May 19, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The Water Street Band opened its jam session at the Janesville Senior Center with several slow numbers—a waltz, a Southern gospel tune and a country song—then picked up the tempo with bluegrass and a polka.
Late artist's paintings get initial exhibit
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Wednesday, May 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The watercolor paintings displayed in the Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center look as if they were recently finished. They weren't. They're nearly a century old and have never been on exhibit before.
Riverside Park storage building being built
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Monday, May 7, 2012
Construction began April 30 on a new storage building at Riverside Park, 2200 Parkside Drive, Janesville.
