Business notes News-Chronicle Bank Mutual has named John Walch as commercial banker at its Green Bay downtown office. Walch has more than 22 years in banking experience, and most recently held the position of Vice President, Commercial Lending at another financial institution. Pravin and Mrudula Patel, both natives of India, have been selected as the Green Bay-area Home Instead Senior CAREGivers of the Year. Home Instead Senior Care is a non-medical home care company with offices in Green Bay, Appleton and Oshkosh. CAREGivers help seniors who want to remain in their own homes as long as possible by providing companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, grocery shopping, incidental transportation to and from appointments, and more. Mark Burwell, executive director of the Urban Hope Entrepreneur Center, was recently appointed to the Governor's Small Business Technology Transfer Committee. Larry Webster and Francisco Rosales have received their real estate licenses. Both will be a part of the business brokers team at Creative Business Brokers of Green Bay. Vincent Catteruccia of Fitnessology Inc. recently attended his second delegate program in Prague, Czech Republic. This 10-day certificate course hosted many of the world's leaders in soft tissue pain and spine injury. ShopKo Stores Inc. has named Bert Magnuson divisional vice president for soft home and sporting goods for the company's ShopKo division. Magnuson had been a vice president-divisional merchandise manager for BJ's Wholesale Club, Natick, Mass., after beginning his career at the Jordan March Co. in Boston. ShopKo has also named Brian Pauls vice president of internal audit. He had been audit director at Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago. And the company has named Raymond Petersen vice president of operations and technology. He had been vice president of technology infrastructure at Chicago Title Corp. in Chicago and Schneider National in Green Bay. Joseph L. Steiner of Green Bay has joined Catholic Knights, the second-largest Catholic fraternal membership organization in insurance in the United States, as a financial services representative. He is a native of De Pere and specializes in retirement and estate planning. Tufco Technologies Inc. has hired Ken Kline to lead the company's flexographic printing department. He has more than 30 years of experience in web processes and prepress operations. He is also trained in the Six Sigma quality process which Tufco plans to implement. Reporters Chelly Boutott and Dave Duchan of WFRV-TV Channel 5 have been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement within a regularly scheduled News Program-Feature Series. The two worked on a series on makeovers. Also mentioned in the nomination were photographers Dave Hooker, Bryon Schemka and Don Roznowski. Jones Sign Co. has named several new staff members. They include Mike Mead, vice president of finance and administration, who has held chief financial officer positions in retail and manufacturing; Brian Mounts, project management department, former president of Ad-Craft Sign in Evansville, Ind.; and Mark Swim, project management department, who has experience with design and project management in the elevator equipment field in Memphis, Tenn., and San Francisco. Green Bay Packaging has received the Quality Award in the Wisconsin Honor Roll Recognition Awards presented by Deloitte and Touche in September. Green Bay Packaging was cited for corporate commitment to efficiency and business improvement. Guyanne Taylor has been named vice president and general manager of WGBA-TV Channel 26. Taylor was formerly vice president and general manager of KMIR-TV in Palm Desert, Calif. Both stations are owned by Journal Broadcast Group of Milwaukee. In addition, Journal has named John Shelby, formerly at WSYM-TV, Lansing, Mich., as news director and Willie Garrett, formerly at KTNV-TV, Las Vegas, as marketing director. Richard Parins, loan originator for Five Star Mortgage of Green Bay, was appointed to the newly-created Loan Originator Review Council. The council will set education and testing requirements for credentialed loan originators.