Business notes News-Chronicle Five new associates have joined the Karma Group advertising agency in Green Bay. They are Brad Knapp, digital media director; Sarah Busby, media planner/buyer; Dorothy Giovannini, account executive; Sheila Chitran-Bloechl, copywriter and Julia Rose, regional classified advertising specialist. Mike Surbaugh has been named Scout Executive/CEO for the Bay-Lakes Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He had been CEO for the council in Sioux Falls, S.D., and replaces G. Richard Williamson, who has become assistant regional director of operations for the central region. Doug Hanus Masonry of De Pere received an honorable mention in the Wisconsin Concrete Masonry Association Hardscape Awards. It was cited for its work on a retaining wall for a De Pere house on a steeply sloping hill, turning it into a multi-level lookout. Mary E. Schils has recently received her senior professional in human resources designation. Schils has been with Schenck Business Solutions since June 1998. Denil Wall Subaru was honored recently by Subaru of America for receiving its Stellar Performers Certification, meeting standards set by the national company. Baylake Bank has been approved as an eligible guaranteed rural housing lender by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The GRH program assists low- to moderate-income homebuyers in rural areas and communities under 20,000 population that are not part of a larger urban area. Four representatives from Wells Fargo Bank Green Bay will represent the area at Wells Fargo's annual national sales and service conference in Florida in April. The invites go to top team members on sales goals and service. Attending will be business banker Brian Spaeth, private banker Jo Beno, personal banker Connie Tilot and store manager Al Mayer. Kent R. Stauffacher, CPA, of the Wisconsin Client Service Center of Clifton Gunderson LLP, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, recently earned his Certified Public Accountant designation. The WICSC consists of 15 locations, including offices in Green Bay, Oshkosh and Sheboygan. Margaret Hoff of Green Bay has been named a director from Region 3 for the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women. The region ranges from Sheboygan to Green Bay. Amy Kox, a project architect with Somerville Inc., has received national registration from the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED certified design professional. The Mary Ann Cofrin Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, designed by Somerville, received a platinum LEED rating. Janet R. Raddatz was recently promoted to vice president-quality systems at Sargento Foods Inc. in Plymouth. She previously held positions at Reimer Meat Products, Green Bay Food Company and Schreiber Foods. Godfrey & Kahn S.C. has added Sherry D. Coley as an associate member of its corporate practice group in its Green Bay office. She is a graduate of Marquette University Law School and Duke University Brown County took third place from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board in its Award Recognition Program for 2003. The county was honored in the paid dairy ambassador category. WFRV-TV Channel 5 has added two people to its sales staff. Jim Sawlsville has more than 18 years of experience in advertising sales and will work out of the Green Bay office. Patrick Cantwell will work out of a new office in Little Chute. The Jackie Nitschke Center, a substance abuse treatment center in Green Bay, has been selected as one of three in the nation to present its quality improvement project to the directors of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center for Substance Abuse of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to the assistant director of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The center also has been selected as one of 10 treatment programs to attend a conference in Washington in July with members of Congress. Larry Homberger II, store manager at the Wells Fargo Bank at 908 S. Fisk St., has gained Series 7 registration and can provide investment services through Wells Fargo Investments.