Waukesha County Executive Daniel P. Vrakas is pleased to announce the 2012 County Executive Award winners recognized for the excellence they demonstrate as a successful organization in the community:

Kolb+Co.
Business of the Year

The Women’s Center
Large Non-Profit of the Year

Your Choice to Live, Inc.
Small Non-Profit of the Year

UW – Extension Drug Free Communities Coalition
Government Agency of the Year

An independent panel of judges that includes business executives, community leaders and past award winners, select award recipients each year.  

“We received many outstanding nominees for the County Executive Awards this year,” said County Executive Dan Vrakas.  “The number of exceptional business, government and nonprofit agencies available to residents in Waukesha County make all of us very proud.”

The winners will be honored at the seventeenth annual County Executive Awards Luncheon at the Country Springs, Waukesha, on Tuesday, October 16. Registration will start at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch at 12 p.m.

Craig Culver, owner and CEO of Culver Franchising System, Inc., will be the keynote speaker.  As the franchising arm of Culver’s, they have expanded from a small, family-owned restaurant in Sauk County, Wisconsin, to the largest frozen custard chain in the United States with 428 locations in 19 states. At the event, Culver’s keynote address will focus on creative innovations and community involvement.

Reservations for the luncheon are available at $45 per person, and corporate tables of 10 are available for $450.  For further information or to make reservations, contact Shirlene Hazelberg at 548-7902.