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BY JOE POTENTEjpotente@kenoshanews.com

Kenosha-area lawmakers had mixed views of Gov. Scott Walker’s Tuesday night State of the State address, particularly when it came to the way the governor addressed his yet-unreached goal to create 250,000 jobs during his fi rst term in offi ce.

For Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, it was reas-suring to hear Walker has not backed off from it.

“I think a lot of politi-cians would have tried to hedge their bets a little, but I like that he was bold,” August said.

But that’s not the way Sen. Robert Wirch, D-Somers, saw it.

“I thought he made a lot of excuses,” Wirch said. “And then in the next para-

graph, he said, ‘We don’t make excuses in Wisconsin’ — right after he made a lot of excuses.”

Sen. John Lehman, D-Racine, had a similar as-sessment.

“Everybody expected him to try to tone it down and be a cheerleader, and he obviously did that,” Lehman said. “But he’s very defensive about that jobs number. He’s blam-ing everything under the

Area legislators split about addressMADISON (AP) — Gov. Scott

Walker said during his State of the State speech he’s doubling down on efforts to meet his 2010 campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs over four years.

Walker also touted a promised income tax cut for the middle class during the speech Tuesday night to a joint meeting of the Legislature.

For more, see page A10.

Jobs, taxes keyState of the State

Firefi ghters respond to report of burning semi

KENOSHA NEWS STAFFNo one was injured in a semi-

truck fi re Tuesday.The Kenosha Fire Department

responded to the 12300 block of 75th Street around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to a truck fully engulfed in fl ames.

No one was in the truck, and there were no injuries, according to Battalion Chief Ken Schroeder.

Kenosha fi refi ghters were able

to extinguish the fi re in about fi ve minutes, Schroeder said.

The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, Kenosha Police Department and Wisconsin State Patrol also responded to the scene. In addition, Bristol Fire Department responded to assist but was not needed.

Some people reported hearing explosions, but what they heard

were the tires, Schroeder said. The fuel tanks were not affected.

The westbound lanes of High-way 50 were temporarily closed and traffi c was rerouted as a precaution but were reopened ap-proximately 15 minutes later.

The truck was a total loss, and the cause of the fi re is undeter-mined at this time, Schroeder said.

Hot stuff: Flames engulf semi

BY BILL GUIDAbguida@kenoshanews.com

PLEASANT PRAIRIE — Two proposed distribution facilities in LakeView Corporate Park — one of 471,403 square feet —won unani-mous Plan Commission approval Monday night for the companies’ preliminary site and operational plans.

The larger plan was submitted on behalf of Ta Chen International Inc., a Taiwan-based global manufacturer and distributor of stain-less steel, high-temperature alloys, aluminum and nickel alloy coils, sheets, plates, long products, tubes, pipe valves and fi ttings. The company has fi ve factories — one in Taiwan, four in China — and eight distribution centers in the United States, including a 215,000-square-foot warehouse in Gurnee, Ill.

The new LakeView facility would be be-tween 107th and 109th streets, and 80th and 88thavenues. It would replace the Gurnee ware-house, according to Fred Nummela, a Ta Chen vice president who addressed the commission Monday.

The LakeView warehouse would more than double the size of the Gurnee site, and it would become Ta Chen’s largest distribution opera-tion in the United States.

Numella said he’s unsure how many jobs thefacility would bring. Ta Chen hopes to break ground in March and have it operational by November.

The Ta Chen plan, along with the commis-sion’s thumbs-up for the Meijer company’s 253,677-square-foot planned addition on the former SuperValu distribution center, 7400 95th St., will go before the Village Board next Monday for fi nal approval.

Meijer moves forwardBob Mooney, Meijer group vice president for

distribution, led the commission on a virtual tour via animated computer video of the fully

Village growth surges

BY BILL GUIDAbguida@kenoshanews.com

Gateway Technical College students now have the opportunity not only to kick start earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, they can re-duce their total tuition cost while revving up their fi nancial aid.

That’s been made possible by a new dual-enrollment plan Gateway and Parkside worked out late in the fall and became effective Jan. 1.

Under the partnership, Gateway students now may choose to enroll in what’s called the “1-Plus-3 Gen-eral Studies Certifi cate Program” and complete 30 credit hours of general education requirements, while simultaneously being admit-ted into Parkside.

While a 1-Plus-3 agreement has been in place for a number of years between the schools, until now it did not include dual enrollment, which offi cials said is signifi cant — not only for the students, but for the institutions as well.

“One of the things that I’m excited about is this is sort of the next step in our relationship with Parkside,” John Thibodeau, Gate-way assistant provost, said. “We were giving a (1-Plus-3) certifi cate before, but we were unable to pro-vide students fi nancial aid.”

He said for a Gateway student to earn fi nancial aid previously, the Wisconsin Technical Col-lege System required students to be enrolled in degree-awarding program. The structure of the former 1-Plus-3 program wasn’t of suffi cient duration for Gateway students to meet the requirement.

“Now, with dual enrollment, because they’re then admitted into Parkside and Gateway simultane-ously, they’re able to get fi nancial aid through Parkside because Parkside is able to admit them and offer them fi nancial aid. At a 4-year college, when you’re admitted, you become eligible for fi nancial aid upon admission. But, at a two-year tech college, you have to be in a specifi c degree or diploma program to become fi nancial aid eligible,” Thibodeau said.

Added Thibodeau: “From the practical everyday point of view of students, that’s important because they want to know how they’re go-ing to be able to pay for college.

Since the 1990s, the schools have honored what’s known as a

“2-Plus-2” articulation, or transfer, agreement. It allows Gateway stu-dents to earn two years of transfer credits at Gateway before enrolling at Parkside to earn their remain-ing credits toward a bachelor degree, based on the remainder amounting to about two years matriculation at Parkside.

However, the new 1-Plus-1 program provides students greater fl exibility in pursuing Parkside degrees, DeAnn Possehl, Parkside associate vice chancellor for en-rollment management, explained.

“This is for general education requirements. The 2-plus-2 is pro-gram specifi c. So, it doesn’t apply to all the programs. That’s the sub-stantial difference,” Possehl said

The schools began working on dual enrollment for 1-Plus-3 nine months ago when it came up during periodic conversations the campuses have about improving communication and transfer-related issues between them, as well as how they can smooth the experience for students, according to Possehl.

Gateway, Parkside united in new student dual enrollment, aid option

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Martha S. Koblenski, 71, of Kenosha, died Tuesday at St. Catherine’s Medical Center.

Tom A. Paddock, 50, of Paddock Lake, died Tuesday at St. Catherine’s Medical Center.

Mary Ann Sacripanti, 78, of Kenosha, died Monday at her home.

Evelyne T. Weidner, 82, of Kenosha, died Monday at Select Specialty Hospital, West Allis.

Joseph W. Hauswirth, 77, of Kansasville, died Sunday at Froedtert Hospital, Wau-watosa.

Shirley M. O’Connor, 86, of Kenosha, died Sunday at Hospice House, Pleasant Prairie.

Richard “Dick” Roy Parker, 79, of Bristol, died Sunday at Aurora Medical Center.

Daniel K. Dresen, 25, of Racine, died Saturday in Iowa.

Cynthia Sue Fanelli Mur-phy, 70, of Kenosha, died March 28.

For a complete list of obitu-aries, see Pages A4,5

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KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY BILL SIELKenosha fi refi ghters clean up after a truck fi re near the Brat Stop, 12304 75th St., Tuesday afternoon. While the vehicle was thoroughly engulfed in fl ames by the time fi refi ghters arrived, no one was hurt.

Large warehouses OK’d by commission

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AP PHOTORep. Samantha Kerkman, R-Randall, greets Gov. Scott Walker before his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers.

See the text of Gov. Walker’s State of the State address with this story at www.kenoshanews.com.