Re: Juergens Announces Candidacy

--- Fred Juergens <FredJuergens@charter.net> wrote:

> Press Release: For immediate release.
> December 1, 2005
>
> Fred Juergens announced that he is a candidate for
> Evansville District
> #2 Alderperson in the April 2006 election. He was
> recently appointed
> to that position on Evansville Common Council to
> fill the remaining
> portion of the term vacated by David Kooyman, who
> left Evansville due
> to a job change
>
> Fred has lived in Evansville for more than five
> years. He moved to the
> city from Madison, WI when he married Evansville
> native Eloise Eager.
> They live at 401 Badger Drive. He is a strong
> advocate that citizens
> be active and informed contributors to their
> communities. He is a
> board member of the grass-roots
> educational/political group Citizens
> United of Union/Evansville, and coordinated its
> public forum on
> health-insurance issues. He recently spent three
> weeks as a Red Cross
> volunteer assisting victims of the Katrina, Rita,
> and Wilma hurricanes.
> He has been a volunteer with Rock County Habitat
> for Humanity, for the
> local Meals on Wheels program, and Second Harvest
> Food Bank. An
> enthusiastic amateur musician, he performed with
> the Evansville
> Community Band for the past three summers and in the
> pit orchestra for
> "The Music Man" at Evansville High School.
> Evansville Review readers
> will recognise him as a writer of Letters to the
> Editor.
>
> Mr. Juergens is a retired chemist. He taught
> high-school early on,
> worked for Corning Glass Works and Johnson's Wax as
> a development
> chemist, and spent the majority of his career on the
> academic staff of
> the Chemistry Department at the UW-Madison. He
> currently works
> part-time collecting survey data for the Wisconsin
> Agricultural
> Statistics Service.
>
> Former Common Council member Carol Endres said;
> "Fred's lived next door
> to me for five years, and he's been a good neighbor.
> I know he's
> conscientious, that he follows through on tasks, and
> that when he
> doesn't know about a topic, he enjoys studying it
> before forming an
> opinion or taking action."
>
> Liberty St. Resident Phil Kress said, "Fred has
> shown he is a person
> concerned about others and willing to give his time
> to assist our
> community. He has quickly become an Evansville
> citizen who contributes
> to our community. Hhe has my support for
> alderperson."
>
> Fred Juergens aspires to make contributions to
> Evansville in several
> areas: understanding and managing Evansville's
> growth while preserving
> its "home-town" feel and respecting its past,
> promoting responsible
> economic and environmental policies, encouraging
> citizen participation
> in Evansville's governance, enhancing the sense that
> all its residents
> "belong" here, and improving, when necessary, the
> city administration's
> responsiveness to the needs of its residents. He
> invites conversations
> with all Evansville residents on these issues. He
> may be reached at
> 882-2489 and at fredjuergens@charter.net.
>
>
> For more information, contact:
> Fred Juergens
> 401 Badger Drive
> Evansville, WI 53536
> 608-882-2489
>