Business notes News-Chronicle Jerry Alderton of Coldwell Banker The Real Estate Group Green Bay has received the Elete Pinnacle Award for 2003. His 10 million in sales last year put him in the top 4 percent of all the Coldwell Banker agents. Sandra Doubek of Coldwell Banker The Real Estate Group Green Bay has been a multi-million dollar producer every year she has been in the business. In 2003 she achieved the Senior Associate Award for Coldwell Banker. She has now formed a team to better serve the public. The Internal Revenue Service has selected Ron Boyea as the Compliance Area Director for the Small Business/Self-Employed Operating Division for the state of New York. Boyea is responsible for all IRS collection and examination activities related to small business and self-employed taxpayers in New York. Boyea, a native of De Pere, joined the IRS in 1979 as a revenue officer. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care announces that Dr. Rance Hafner, MD has been certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Hafner joins more than 1,500 fellow physicians in North America to have achieved such certification. Dr. Hafner is a family practice physician for Bellin Health and the medical director for Unity. Unity director of volunteer services Renee Stieg has received the Harriet Naylor award by the Bay Area Managers of Volunteer Services and Volunteer Action Council for her development, management and coordination of Unity's volunteer program. She has been with Unity since 1994. Cornerstone Business Services has hired Jaime Leick as a copywriter. She will be responsible for developing materials for the business opportunities Cornerstone brings to market. Formerly the communications director for United Way of Brown County, Leick also works as a freelance journalist in the local market. The WPS Resources Corp. Board of Directors approved the promotion of Daniel Verbanac to Chief Operating Officer of its WPS - Energy Services Inc. subsidiary. Verbanac, 40, began his career at Wisconsin Public Service Corp., a regulated utility subsidiary of WPS Resources, in 1984 as an Applications Programmer/Analyst. Dynamic Designs Unlimited in Pulaski received a Carlson Craft award recognizing exemplary dealer excellence for 2003. Each year, Carlson Craft, the nation's leading wholesale printing company, presents only a few select dealers with this prestigious award for outstanding performance and exceptional sales achievements. Jared Dauk of Pulaski has been named the 2004 recipient of the Wisconsin Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) Award of Excellence. The Wisconsin CCA Certification Board selected Dauk for this honor from among CCA nominees throughout the state. The Wisconsin CCA Award of Excellence is a new award to recognize individuals who provide outstanding service to the agricultural industry through their technical competence and high ethical standards. In addition to being a CCA, Dauk operates Seed Concepts and is a sales representative for Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. He also provides planter calibration services, crop scouting services and crop insurance. Clifton Gunderson LLP, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, has announced one new full-time employee and five interns to its team. Jamie L. Burkart recently joined the Wisconsin Client Service Center (WICSC) of Clifton Gunderson. The WICSC consists of 15 locations, including offices in Green Bay, Oshkosh and Sheboygan. Kurtis Kirk, Kristin Mroczenski, Jason Nachtwey, Bruce Welnetz and Andrew Yanke joined Clifton Gunderson's tax department as interns. Peter T. Vander Zanden, president of Vander Zanden Diamond Jewelers in Ashwaubenon, has been awarded the Jewelers of American Senior Management Professional designation, the second-highest management professional certification bestowed by the Jewelers of America. Keller Inc., a Kaukauna-based planner, architect and building firm, has been named prime contractor for two local projects: a 6,120-square-foot mini storage facility being built by K.A.K. Enterprises at 2189 Woodale Ave., and the 1,500-square-foot addition to the Campbell Wrapper Corp. building at 1415 Fortune Ave. in De Pere. Nsight Telservices has named several new employees. Robert G. Graf has been named technical support representative at Nsight while Sally A. VanderHeiden has been named wireless sales consultant and Karri Thomson and Jill Danen have been named collections analysts at Cellcom.