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City Reaches Agreement on New Granary Trolley Dramatic Goat Rescue in Sister Bay Millpond to be Filled... With Cement
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cover After years of fighting, the Common Council reached a compromise that will allow the Granary to remain in Sturgeon Bay as a new trolley service connecting the east and west sides of the city.
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A Chicago woman is being hailed as a hero by PETA today after a dramatic goat rescue in Sister Bay Thursday. “You would hope that it’s the kind of thing anyone would do if they were in my shoes,” Jasmine Berzak said. But few would. Berzak was enjoying her first ever visit to Door County Thursday, driving through Sister Bay looking for a place to grab lunch. At approximately 11:15 am she noticed a crowd of people surrounding a building
pointing at two goats stranded on the roof. The quick thinking Berzak, 39, sped into the driveway alongside the building, climbed onto the hood of her Honda Odyssey minivan, and leapt onto the roof of the log cabin structure. “I couldn’t believe all these people were just watching these goats up there, taking pictures,” she said. “Who knows how long they were stuck?”
Berzak scampered to the goats, which recoiled in fear. But she was able to calm the animals by luring them close with a few Cool Ranch Doritos she kept in her pockets in case of emergency. Once the goats got close she was able to bear hug one and then roll down the pitch of the roof with the goat and onto the roof of the minivan. In other news Thursday, Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant reported two missing goats.
Forestville Millpond to Become Skateboard Park
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(Left) The goats initially tried to chase goat-hero Jasmine Berzak off the roof. (Right) Berzak used Cool Ranch Doritos to calm the goats, luring them close before rescuing them from danger.
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In a surprise reversal, the Door County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at its March meeting to fill the Forestville Millpond with cement and create a massive, 74-acre skateboard park in Southern Door. This comes in the wake of widespread opposition to the previous plan for a gradual drawdown of the waters and a twoyear drying-out period to let the deep muck on the bottom solidify. The idea for the massive skate park began as a jocular comment from Supervisor Jethro Bodine, who said he has tired of all the controversy regarding the drawdown and asked, “Why don’t we just turn it into a big cee-ment pond?”
After the laughter subsided, Parks & Facilities Chair Jed Clampett said, “Maybe that’s not such a bad idea, especially if we turned your cement pond into a skateboard park.” “What about the flow of the Ahnapee River?” asked Supervisor Jane Hathaway. “A skateboard park with a water feature,” Clampett answered. “You won’t find one of them in your big cities. People will flock to such a place.” “Do we really want skateboarders flocking to Forestville?” asked Supervisor Milburn Drysdale, who represents the Forestville area. “Never have any problems with the kids who come to the skatepark in Sturge,” said
Supervisor Dash Riprock, who represents the west side of the city. “Especially if their parents have to drive them there, which they probably would have to do, seeing how remote the location is,” said Donna Douglas, who represents the east side of the city. “Hey!” Drysdale said. “Well, it is,” Douglas argued. After much discussion about the various vendors that would be allowed to set up shop on county property abutting the skateboard park, the board voted unanimously to begin emptying the millpond in May before filling the bottom with cement.
Studio Offers Goat Wine Sloppy Joe Yoga Serenity’s Gate Yoga Studio announced the debut of its goat-wine-paddleboardsloppy joe yoga classes. The new class offered by the Egg Harbor studio is billed as the “fourth wave of yoga.” The studio’s owner, Sara Appleonia, said she hopes to capitalize on the trend toward combination yoga classes. “These combination classes have become really popular – paddleboard yoga, hot yoga, goat yoga – and they give you such a level of spiritual clarity, but there are certain people who want to go further,” she said. “Sloppy Joes were the only way
to break through that final mental block that some of my yogis have encountered. Nirvana is truly just a mouthful of steaming-hot beef away at any given moment.” Class members said trial sessions have sent students home in awe. “There’s just something about that moment when you enter into tree pose, the waves rolling beneath the board, the goat balanced on your shoulders, that something is missing,” Sharon Johnson said. “That something missing is the sloppy joe. When Sara introduces that to the movement, and
you clasp it in your hands as she pours wine down your throat – the only word for it is magic.” Johnson said that yogis aim for the perfect pose. That’s when the hot grease of the sloppy joes runs down the sensitive skin on your forearm and pools in the crook of your elbow, burning a hole into the skin, letting the cool air of the lake connect with the bloodstream and making you truly one with nature. The classes are available weekly beginning in June.
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Wilson’s Will Reopen as Gallery of Wilson’s Images
Marine Sanctuary to Protect Green Bay’s “Most Dead Zone”
Wilson’s – Ephraim’s beloved, longtime ice cream parlor – will dump the frozen treat when it reopens in May, instead converting into a gallery of Wilson’s-themed art. The inundation by plein-air painters and amateur photographers has crowded out ice cream and restaurant customers, so the owners are running with it. “Instead of coming in for ice cream, we just have hundreds of painters and photographers lining up to show us the exact same image,” said Wilson’s manager, John Brighton. “We figured it would be easier to just become a gallery featuring those images.” The new exhibit space will feature more than 200 photos of Wilson’s on its interior walls, with exhibitions planned that will blend new works with those in its permanent collection. All plein-air paintings will hang – fittingly – outside on the beams of the patio. “It’s about time the thousands of Wilson’s images got their own space, and what better space is there than Wilson’s itself?” said amateur photographer Jerry Olbrich. “Some call it ironic. I call it art.” The new gallery is still accepting submissions for consideration, but it will accept only color images taken from the perspective of the southwest corner.
Construction began last week on the new Wilson's Gallery of Wilson's Art. Work is expected to be completed in time for a June opening reception.
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The best thing to ever come out of Baileys Harbor is Highway 57.”
A group of concerned property owners on the waters of Green Bay have mobilized in response to the National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) expected to be implemented next year. The group seeks to preserve a portion of the dead zone as an homage to the region’s prolific agricultural, manufacturing and paperproducing industries. “That dead zone didn’t just come about through inaction,” said Carolyn Frank, president of the group Dead Green Bay. “It has taken decades of hard work from our surrounding industries to suck the oxygen out of the water and leave portions of Green Bay utterly lifeless. Improving the water quality would erase that legacy.” The group is seeking to carve out a section of the proposed NERR and preserve it’s deadness. Any reduction in agricultural runoff or pollution discharge in the watershed will be made up through additional pollutants discharged directly into the protected dead zone. “The dead zone in Green Bay is believed to be the largest and deadest freshwater zone in the world and that is something we should cherish,” Frank said. “Only through our continued work can we protect these unnatural resources from the clutches of environmentalism.” Dead Green Bay is hosting an informational session on April 1 at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay.
City Unveils Plans for Gran Tran After years of fighting, the city’s Common Council reached a compromise that will allow the Granary to remain in Sturgeon Bay, though not on the east or west side, but as a new trolley service connecting the east and west sides of the city – the Gran Tran.
Local Celebrates Birth of First Native Anchor Baby Rian Hill was all smiles Wednesday as he celebrated the birth of his first Door County native child. For the Egg Harbor man who moved back to the peninsula in November, it represented a new stamp of validity on his long-rudderless life. “It’s hard to describe what this means,” Hill said. “My family moved here from Kenosha when I was a child, so we never really fit in. Even though I came here very young, I was never a native, never really
the same to those whose Door County roots go back generations.” Hill’s first child was born in Brazil in 2017, so when he moved back to his “hometown” his family was still made up of outsiders. With the birth of Arlo he now truly has a native son in every sense. “To finally have a Door County anchor baby means everything to our family,” he said. “From what I understand this finally allows us to get a loan from local banks and grants us access to all of the
area beaches, not just those reserved for tourists. It doesn’t solve everything – I know it’s hard for a kid with a non-native father to earn playing time in sports here – but it at least gives him, and our family, a shot at a decent future.” Though Hill, his wife, and daughter don’t immediately get native status, they can apply once Arlo successfully debones his whitefish at his first fish boil, a rite of passage that traditionally occurs at a native’s sixth birthday.
“It’s fitting,” said one voter as she poured over candidate profiles in preparation for the April 2 election. “We haven’t been able to move forward on this issue for years, and now with the new 99-year lease agreement, the Gran Tran will be with us for as long as all of us are alive.” The trolley can hold up to 80 passengers on the main floor, but in peak load times can be modified to fit an additional 700 people stacked on each other’s shoulders in the old grain elevators. “The elevators actually make unloading incredibly efficient,” said engineer association with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “You open the shoot, and the passengers shoot out just like grain did back in the day. We’ve even outfitted it so they come out the side.”
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The decision likely won’t end the yearslong fight over the structure – the Granary won’t have a home on the east side, it won’t have a home at its original west side location, but it won’t be gone. In essence, both sides get everything they never wanted.
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CANDYLAND DETOUR In an effort to ease the pain of roadwork in downtown Ephraim, your Wisconsin Department of Transportation has teamed up with Hasbro – makers of the everpopular board game Candyland – to provide the Candyland Detour, a place where drivers are never required to make choices, but just follow directions. Each vehicle crossing the county line will be issued a Candyland spinner with the Candyland colors – blue, green, purple, red, yellow and pink. You move along the detour according to the color you spin when the signal person on duty indicates that it is your turn to go. Without a WisDotissued spinner, you will not be allowed on the Candyland Detour.
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At each of the pink spaces, WisDOT engineers have created features you would find in the Candyland game, such as Gumdrop Mountains and Peppermint Forest, where you are welcome to exit your vehicle and explore (and don’t forget to bring cash in order to take a bite out of each – credit/debit cards and checks are not accepted). But watch out for the slippery Ice Cream Slopes, the murky Molasses/Chocolate Swamp, icy cold Snowflake Lake and, especially crazy Nana’s Nutt House because we have found that once you get into some of those places, you never get out. WisDOT wishes you safe travels during this trying time of construction on the peninsula, and remember, everyone’s a winner on the Candyland Detour!
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