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hear to what extent the county would charge the off-road motorist. the fence will need repairs and some of the fairway will need reseeding.
CITY WANTS WALMART
SUIT DISMISSED
Sturgeon Bay – the law firm representing the City of sturgeon bay is seeking to dismiss a civil suit brought by Walmart over the assessment of the company’s three parcels along egg Harbor road.
state park office after a vandal drove off state Highway 42 and onto the course over Labor Day weekend, causing some damage to fairways and a fence. park superintendent eric Hyde said after assessing damage to a fence and to turf on the first and ninth fairways, he yielded information to the Door County sheriff’s Department. As of sept. 6, he was waiting to
In the suit’s response, filed Aug. 23 in Door County Circuit Court by town Counsel Law & Litigation, attorney michael J. pflughoeft Jr. argues that Walmart is not entitled to a reduction in its assessed property value. the Walmart real estate business trust – which last year reached an out-ofcourt settlement with the city to lower its assessment for property-tax years 2021 and 2022 – alleges in its latest suit that the 2023 assessment for the combined value of the parcels should be no more than $4.45 million, compared to the current assessed continued on page 4
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A rare super blue moon lit up the skies on Aug. 30, with Door County skygazers setting up chairs at the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Nature
Preserve (below) to witness the sight. David and Rosann Hollinger – frequent photographic contributors to the Peninsula Pulse – said they arrived about 20 minutes before the moon rose, not knowing if it
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Sturgeon Bay to Become Green Tier Legacy Community
by KEVIN BONESKE kevin@ppulse.com
The Sturgeon Bay Common Council approved a resolution Tuesday authorizing the City of Sturgeon Bay to become a Green Tier Legacy Community (GTLC).
City officials decided a few years ago not to join the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) voluntary program for developing and implementing environmental sustainability measures, determining at that time there wasn’t enough benefit in doing so.
But with upgrades now planned at the city’s wastewater treatment plant, the possibility of receiving 10% principal forgiveness in borrowing money through the Clean Water Fund and Safe Drinking Water loan programs made becoming a Green Tier member more appealing.
The resolution states the city will benefit from partnering with the program “by receiving positive recognition, gaining access to a DNR staff liaison and their resource team, receiving preference on certain grants and streamlining certain Department of Natural Resources transactions.”
By adopting the resolution, the city, through Sturgeon Bay Utilities (SBU), “will be participating in quarterly meetings, networks and share information with our public and communities in the program, develop a baseline assessment of practices and provide an annual report noting the progress on our goals, and sustainability plans.”
The County of Door is now a Green Tier program member, as are five municipalities in northern Door County: the villages of Sister Bay, Ephraim and Egg Harbor; and the towns of Liberty Grove and Gibraltar.
SBU general manager Jim Stawicki said he is “not aware of any exceptional efforts required to participate in this program that would require a commitment of resources beyond those already in place at SBU and at the city.”
“Sturgeon Bay is already working towards a more sustainable future,” he said. “There is also a well-established network of GTLC in Door County.”
The resolution lists nine goals of the program:
•Assist and recognize local units of government in achieving superior environmental performance in their sustainability effort and goals relating to environmental practices, economic development and social commitments.
•Improve the quality of life and economic vitality of communities.
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•Help local units of government and the DNR address wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, wetlands and other water issues in a holistic, watershed-based manner.
•Assist local units of government in preparing, implementing, and improving an overall watershed plan(s) that integrates the municipality’s full range of water resources issues.
•Assist local units of government in preparing, implementing and improving over time a sustainability plan that reduces a local unit of government’s impact on the environment.
•Facilitate access to state and federal funding for projects and activities related to achieving the purposes of this charter, such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, comprehensive planning, transportation policies, and integrated planning for wastewater treatment, storm water treatment and management; and drinking water.
•Realize taxpayer savings through reduced municipal expenditures on motor vehicle fuels and energy resulting from efficient development patterns.
•Help local units of government comply with various water regulations in a more efficient, cost-effective and flexible manner.
•Achieve other demonstrable and measurable environmental improvements beyond what is required by local, state, or federal law.
Council Backs PUD for 14th Avenue Condo Project
by KEVIN BONESKE
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To allow more housing units to be built than the existing zoning would have permitted, the Sturgeon Bay Common Council recommended approval Tuesday of a planned unit development (PUD) for Estes Investments at 1361 N. 14th Ave. – the site of a former cherry-processing facility near Tadych’s Marketplace and Walmart.
The council also approved the first reading of an ordinance to rezone the property to a PUD, with the second and final reading slated for its Sept. 19 meeting.
Estes Investments previously received city approval to build a three-story, 22-unit apartment building fronting 14th Avenue and 12 commercial storage buildings in the rear.
However, the company changed its plans and asked the city if it could construct an additional two-story, eightunit condominium building, instead of eight of the storage buildings, to instead have 30 residential units and four storage buildings.
The eastern portion of the property where the three-story apartment
building will be located had been zoned Multifamily Residential (R-4), and the area to the west previously designated for the storage buildings was zoned General Commercial (C-1).
The city’s community development staff pointed out that the maximum housing units allowed under those zoning classifications would be 25, and approval of the PUD will allow the increase in residential density.
In granting the PUD, the council’s motion states the condominium’s bylaws require a 30-day-minimum rental period, and the north property line must be sodded as a temporary measure, due to concerns from the neighbors about runoff, until the final landscaping is completed.
Community development director
Marty Olejniczak said it would be best to include in the PUD conditions that the condominium bylaws don’t allow shortterm rentals, instead of the city enacting that restriction, given the latter might not survive a legal challenge because of existing state law.
“If [the condominium bylaws] restrict it, [it’s] not a problem,” he said. “If we put an ordinance out there that says you can’t do it, that potentially could be a problem.”
Dave Phillips of Bayland Buildings, representing the project on behalf of
Jason and Steve Estes, said the majority of the condominiums would be leased for a year, with those buyers able to rent them out for a minimum of 30 days.
“You don’t want weekly rentals, and we don’t either,” he said. “These are condominiums. We don’t want people coming in and out.”
The PUD also included conditions recommended by community development staff to create a public gathering space such as a gazebo, patio or recreational amenity on the property, have outside light that is downwardfacing and night sky-friendly, and have the design for the eight-unit building be approved by the city’s Aesthetic Design and Site Plan Review Board.
The PUD was recommended a week earlier by the Plan Commission.
Commissioner Jeff Norland cast the lone dissenting vote on the PUD because the eight-unit condominium building won’t have indoor parking, which he said would be an important amenity to be able to sell those types of units.
In addition to the outside parking planned, the 22-unit apartment building will include a parking area underneath it.
Democrats Propose Anti-SLAPP Legislation
by BAYLOR SPEARS
The Wausau Pilot & Review – a nonprofit, online publication with a staff of four – reported in 2021 that Cory Tomczyk, before he was a state senator, called a 13-year-old a homophobic slur during a public meeting. Tomczyk denied using the slur and demanded a retraction. When the publication stood by its reporting, Tomczyk sued for defamation.
According to the New York Times, Tomczyk admitted in a deposition to having used the word before “out of joking and out of spite” about his gay brother. Tomczyk’s case was dismissed in April when a Marathon County court ruled he hadn’t met the legal standard for proving that the report defamed him. Tomczyk filed an appeal in June.
Shereen Siewert, founder and editor of the Wausau Pilot & Review, told the New York Times that she has already garnered about $150,000 in legal bills from the case and is concerned about how she will continue paying her staff of four and the mounting legal fees. According to a statement last week from the Wausau Pilot & Review, the publication has launched a GoFundMe to help with the organization’s considerable legal expenses, which are not recoverable under Wisconsin’s current law. The publication has so far raised more than $102,000.
Strategic lawsuits against public participation – or SLAPP lawsuits – are
DOOR COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES
Those municipalities that publish their legal notices with us are indicated below with “LEGALS.”
COUNTY OF DOOR, POP. 28,650- LEGALS co.door.wi.gov
920.746.2200
County Board meets 4th Tuesday of month
Cty Clerk: Jill Lau jlau@co.door.wi.us
TOWN OF BAILEYS HARBOR, POP. 1,069LEGALS baileysharborwi.org
TOWN OF BRUSSELS, POP. 1,129 - LEGALS townofbrussels.com
920.825.7618
Town Board meets 2nd Wednesday of month
Clerk: JoAnn Neinas jonein789@centurytel.net
TOWN OF CLAY BANKS, POP. 392 tn.claybanks.wi.gov 920.493.7383
Town Board meets 2nd Monday of month
Clerk: Jessica Bongle townofclaybanks@gmail.com
TOWN OF EGG HARBOR, POP. 1,404 townofeggharbor.org 920.743.6141
Town Board meets 3rd Monday of month Clerk: Pam Krauel clerk@townofeggharbor.org
VILLAGE OF EGG HARBOR, POP, 207 - LEGALS villageofeggharbor.org 920.868.3334
2nd
Town board meetings 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of month
Clerk/Treasurer: Anastasia Bell tlibertygrove@gmail.com
TOWN OF NASEWAUPEE, POP. 2,114 - LEGALS townofnasewaupee.com 920.495.0920
Town board meets 3rd Thursday of month Meetings: 3388 Cty PD Clerk: Vacant clerk@townofnasewapeewi.gov
TOWN OF SEVASTOPOL, POP. 2,743 - LEGALS townofsevastopol.com
Town
a way of intimidating and silencing critics by burdening them with the cost of expensive, baseless legal proceedings. According to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 31 states and Washington D.C. have passed anti-SLAPP laws. Siewart said in a statement last week that anti-SLAPP laws “play a crucial role in protecting our constitutional right to freedom of the press and freedom of speech.” She added that it is “not a red vs. blue issue, but a bipartisan issue of fairness” and the bill proposed by Democrats “would discourage meritless lawsuits in the future and help local news organizations continue to serve their communities without risking their livelihood every step of the way.”
“Even if a suit is not viable, which is the case with Sen. Tomcyzk’s lawsuit, the cost and the stress associated with these frivolous, lengthy litigation processes are often enough to create chilling effects and force the defendant to silence,” Agard said at a press conference last week. “It takes a lot of stamina to be able to stand up against this type of political cohesion. Frankly, it is damaging to the state of Wisconsin and to our nation. It is damaging to our democracy.”
Bill Lueders, president of the nonpartisan Freedom of Information Council, cited a bipartisan shield law passed in 2010 that protects journalists from having to reveal the identity of confidential sources and disclosing unpublished news gathering information.
“Now, [the Legislature] needs to pass a bill to prevent news organizations of public stories in accordance with well defined legal standards to prevent them from being sued into oblivion,” Lueders said. Lueders said local news outlets are vital for having an informed electorate, but that the challenges outlets face have never been greater.
This article is republished from the Wisconsin Examiner under a Creative Commons license.
Sturgeon Bay Utilities general manager Jim Stawicki speaks Tuesday before the Common Council regarding the city becoming a Green Tier Legacy Community member. KeVIN bONesKe
Bill Lueders, president of the nonpartisan Freedom of Information Council, speaks at a press conference last month. bAYLOr speArs WISCONSIN EXAMINER
News Notes continued from page 2 value of $6.671 million. Last year’s out-ofcourt settlement lowered the assessed value to the current amount. prior to reaching that mediated agreement, it had been $7.65 million. before agreeing to that settlement last year, Walmart also claimed the parcels should have been assessed at no more than $4.45 million. In Walmart’s latest suit, filed by the milwaukee-based law firm of Gimbel, reilly, Guerin & brown, the company claims the assessed value is “excessive,” and the assessment was “not uniform with the assessment of other properties in the city and state and therefore violates the Uniformity Clause of the Wisconsin Constitution.” should Walmart prevail once again in seeking to lower its assessment in sturgeon bay – either in court or through an outof-court settlement – the company would also be able to receive a refund of property taxes determined to be excessive that were
imposed above what should be the assessed value.
sturgeon bay’s response to Walmart’s latest suit states the company is not entitled to a refund. In addition to seeking to dismiss Walmart’s latest suit and not allowing it to be refiled, sturgeon bay is seeking “an award of costs, fees and disbursements as allowed by law; and other relief that the court deems equitable and just.” the latest case has been assigned to Door County Judge D. todd ehlers. According to online court records, a telephone conference has been scheduled in the case for Oct. 10.
TOWN-HALL SESSIONS GATHERING RESIDENT INPUT
Door County – Destination Door County is creating a Destination master plan designed
to help guide sustainable growth and development in the county. the plan will be built around the needs of residents, visitors and stakeholders and range from tourism to economic development to county planning. since may of this year, Destination Door County has been in the research phase of the process, conducting one-to-one interviews, holding focus-group meetings and receiving more than 1,200 completed online surveys from residents and stakeholders. the Destination master plan will create a strategic and shared vision for the future of Door County’s economy to ensure its longterm economic sustainability while preserving the environment, quality of life for residents and quality of place. As important as the final document is, equally important is a planning process that integrates inclusive community engagement. residents’ input is critical to the overall effectiveness of the plan. All Door County
residents are invited to participate in the conversation and share their thoughts during upcoming town-hall events when consultants will ask for feedback that will support the plan’s development. No advance registration is necessary to attend one or more of the following meetings, all set for Wednesday, sept. 13:
• 9:30-11 am, at the sister bay/Liberty Grove Fire station, 2258 mill road in sister bay • 1:30-3 pm, as a virtual meeting at us02web.zoom.us/j/86508405647
• 5:30-7 pm, at the sevastopol town Hall, 4528 Hwy 57
SCREENAGERS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS
Institute – parents from anywhere in Door County can learn more about the effect of screen time on teenagers and gain some ideas for strategies during a free parent Cafe continued on page 5
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In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family camping, sailing, fishing and cross country skiing.
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Owners Will Rebuild Rowleys Bay Resort
Fire flattens iconic, Northern Door resort and home to Grandma’s Swedish Bakery by DEBRA FITZGERALD
debra.fitz@ppulse.com
For all those who thought their memories went up in smoke with the fire at the Rowleys Bay Resort in Ellison Bay, think again.
“We will rebuild,” said Jewel Peterson Ouradnik, owner of the resort that’s been in her family since the original inn was built in 1979, at that time known as the Wagon Trail Resort, and also home to Grandma’s Swedish Bakery.
“There’s just too much tradition and too many guests already supporting us like crazy,” Ouradnik said. “They’re saying, ‘please plan to come back and be part of our traditions again. Just come back. We want to continue our memories.’”
Situated on a secluded shore just a short kayak paddle from the Mink River, Newport State Park, and over 1,774 acres of land preserved by the Nature Conservancy, the resort at the end of County Road ZZ is believed to be the third largest in Door County (behind The Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor and Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay).
The original building in the heart of the complex was burned to the ground on Tuesday, Sept. 5, during a fire that started in the basement. The fire also bit a large chunk out of the western building, hollowing out that side of the resort.
Ouradnik’s optimism is buoyed by the eastern addition that appears, if not completely intact, then definitely salvageable. The reason for that, according to Chris Hecht, Sister BayLiberty Grove fire chief, is a cinder-block firewall. Constructed when the addition was built in 1993, the wall stretched from the basement all the way through and above the roof, stopping the fire from entering the eastern addition. Also to the west of the main building, there was a “one-hour fire stop” of double-layered drywall, Hecht said, that acted to slow the flames, though not entirely stop them.
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Fire Begins in the Basement
Ouradnik was on site when she and employees noticed flames coming from the basement windows. They pulled the fire alarms and called 911, but the fire was already too intense for their fire extinguishers to douse.
Emergency responders were dispatched at 12:53 pm, said Door County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Brad Shortreed, in command on the law enforcement side of the scene on the day of the fire, helping to route firefighters to the scene while keeping onlookers out.
Hecht said when he got to the site, heavy fire was already blowing out of multiple basement and first-floor windows. The early collapse of the roof and floor made it unsafe to enter the building, and all suppression was done from the exterior.
The weather created challenging firefighting conditions, with a heat index in the 80s and steady winds blowing.
“The size of the building worked against us, the wind worked against us, the multiple additions to the building, the heat for the men worked against us,” Hecht said.
On the plus side were those fire walls, and the resort’s 700 feet of Rowleys Bay shore frontage.
“We were pumping right out of the bay, so we had an unlimited supply of water,” Hecht said. “I would assume we used a couple hundred thousand gallons.”
Aft er an hour or more, Hecht said they finally gained the upper hand on what he said “is probably the largest structure fire we’ve been involved with in a single incident.”
Firefighters finally left around 9 pm aft er eight hours on the scene, with the Sheriff’s Office standing vigil through the night and Hecht making periodic visits to assure no hot spots arose.
As Wednesday morning dawned, the skies opened up, delivering torrential rains to northern Door County and dousing the danger of additional hotspots.
All departments in Door County, plus some in Kewaunee and Brown counties, responded with mutual aid to battle the fire, Sept. 5, at Rowleys Bay Resort in Ellison Bay, in what is believed to be the single largest structure fire to have occurred in northern Door County.
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Mutual Aid and No Injuries
Hecht had asked for an upgraded response even before he arrived on scene, based upon initial reports of heavy smoke and fire coming from the basement, with windows already failing.
Firefighters from every department in Door County would respond, from southern Door County to Washington Island. Departments from Kewaunee and Brown counties also responded, with the Green Bay Fire Department ladder truck arriving on scene around 4:30 pm.
Wisconsin Public Service arrived quickly, too, to isolate the buildings from power and overhead lines.
The Door County Sheriff’s Office assured all employees and guests were accounted for – Ouradnik said she had eight guest rooms occupied, and roughly 20 employees, some who also lived in rooms at the lodge.
Hecht said law enforcement’s efforts allowed the firefighters to focus on fire suppression and at the end of the day, not a single injury resulted.
He tried to thank everyone, knowing he would likely forget some, from the dispatchers coordinating the numerous response teams, to the Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Services personnel, to the mutual aid departments.
“Managing a fire like this would not have been possible without all of them,” he said.
Attack on the Shooting Sports?
education courses annually, though most are done outside of school hours.
In New York, the state recently completed a three-year youth hunting pilot program and the safety record is unquestionable (more here: nssf.org/articles/californianew-york-show-contrasts-cultivating-youth-hunting/).
at times.
Mary Spiering of Waukesha, who was vacationing at Wagon Trail Campground less than a half mile from the resort and had ridden her bike to the scene, said she and her husband always ate at Grandma’s Swedish Bakery during their annual Door County visit.
“It’s just such a tradition,” she said. “So iconic.”
That kind of support gives Ouradnik hope, even as her family’s legacy lay largely in ruins at her feet.
Her parents, Alice and Leonard Peterson, had moved their family to the site in 1970 when Jewel was only eight years old. Alice died in 1988, and Leonard – who died in 2013 – retired in 2003, handing the operation over to Jewel and her husband, Bob.
To lose the original, 1979 building is “heartbreaking,” Ouradnik said. Her father’s handiwork was everywhere, down to the main ceiling beams, and her mother’s recipes had formed the foundation of what would become Grandma’s Swedish Bakery.
“I grew up here,” she said. “My kids grew up here. They are just as sad.”
But there’s work to be done through the sadness. They’ve set up a temporary communications site at one of their buildings. Their original office burned to the ground, but their soft ware backed up each night to an outside source. They have all their guest and booking information. Everyone who is owed deposits or money will receive it, Ouradnik said.
“Not a problem at all,” she said. “It just will take time.”
The community response has been amazing, she said. At the present time, she could think of no outstanding needs.
As for the future?
“We’re going to be open in spring,” she said.
Extracurricular activities, Dorsey said, help instill a sense of belonging, improved social development, and opportunities to develop leadership skills, cooperation and peer interaction – key antidotes to widespread feelings of anxiety and depression among our youth.
Last year, the Administration proclaimed that “President Biden has made tackling the mental health crisis a top priority.”
A press release from the Gun Owners of America stated, “Many children who cannot compete in more traditional sports, like football or basketball, can excel in other forms of competition, such as shooting sports and archery.”
Writing for Forbes.com, Chris Dorsey said the Biden Administration appears to be twisting the intent of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) passed last year by blocking funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to schools that offer hunter education and archery programs. BSCA prohibits ESEA funds from being used to provide training in the use of a “dangerous weapon.”
Dorsey wrote that psychological health experts warn that removing programs that encourage outdoor activities will add to the nation’s mental health epidemic. In a recent Pew study, 70 percent of teens say anxiety and depression are major problems.
If that’s the case, defunding efforts like hunter education and the archery and trapshooting programs that get youths off screens and outdoors seems extremely short-sighted, at best.
Last month, 66 House Republicans pressed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to restore funding for archery and hunting programs, citing the long safety records and the opportunities the programs provide for students.
Similarly, 19 Republican senators asked the administration to withdraw Education Department guidance, specifying that federal funds can’t be used for firearm training programs.
“While the administration claims to be eliminating dangerous activities, this guidance will, in fact, have the opposite effect,” the senators wrote. “These programs continued on page 7
“The east may be salvageable, but not the rest,” he said.
this time, the cause of the fire is unknown.
A Family Legacy On the day of the fire, a few residents from neighboring homes stood on the road with bandanas over their mouths to shield their lungs from the smoke that burned thick and black
Dawn revealed the extent of the damage wrought by fire, Sept. 5, at Rowleys Bay Resort in Ellison Bay. rACHeL LUKAs
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Dr. Maureen Muldoon. Submitted. PRESENTATION ON DOOR COUNTY’S VULNERABLE GEOLOGY
the Door County environmental Council is hosting Dr. maureen muldoon, ph.D., on sept. 13, 7 pm, for “Why is the silurian Dolomite Aquifer so Vulnerable to Contamination?” muldoon is a licensed professional geologist and hydrologist in Wisconsin. she will discuss the hydrogeology of Door County’s silurian dolomite aquifer and explain the implications for water quality. she’ll also discuss manure impact in Kewaunee County, recent research from a site in southern Door County and an update on the airborne electromagnetic (Aem) survey, which shows soil depth to bedrock. this free presentation will take place at Crossroads at big Creek, 2041 michigan st., sturgeon bay, and will also be available via Zoom at dcec-wi.org.
156-Year-Old Ship Found O Algoma
Wisconsin Maritime Historians Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck have located the intact remains of the historic Great Lakes schooner Trinidad in about 270 feet of water off the Algoma shoreline.
The Trinidad was a 140-foot schooner built at Grand Island, New York in 1867 by shipwright William Keefe. The vessel was primarily used in the grain trade between Milwaukee, Chicago and Oswego, New York. It was lost in May of 1881 shortly aft er passing through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal with a cargo of coal for Milwaukee.
A three-dimensional (3-D) photogrammetry model has been created to explore the site virtually. Baillod and Jaeck will work with the Wisconsin Historical Society to nominate the site to the National Register of Historic Places in the near future.
SOME PEP IN YOUR
A new school year means a new opportunity for Gibraltar parents, teachers, staff, alums and any other interested community members who live in the area to play in pep band at home games during the regular sports seasons.
The wreck is among the best-preserved shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters with the deck-house still intact, containing the crew’s possessions, anchors and deck gear still present.
those interested should contact mariah Goode at mariahkgoode@gmail.com or 920.495.6639. supply an email address, mobile number, instrument played and whether you own the instrument or one needs to be supplied. If you are on the list from last year and plan to play this year, no need to email. Volunteers will need to fill out the district’s Volunteer/employee background Check packet on the school’s website at gibraltar.k12.wi.us/documents/ administration/district-forms/400904
BJÖRKLUNDEN GALA BESTOWS TWO AWARDS
björklunden, Lawrence University’s Door County campus, hosted the boynton society Gala on Aug. 20, resuming for the first time after a pause due to COVID-19. the group serves as the backbone of björklunden’s financial support. the boynton society recognized individuals’ achievements through the granting of two awards. Jeff and Jone riester received the richard Warch (Lawrence University’s president from 1979 to 2004) Outstanding service to björklunden Award. the riester’s have contributed to björklunden in numerous ways, as co-chairs of the boynton society for several years. the Winifred boynton Creative spirit Award, was presented to Northern sky theater’s Frederick (Doc) Heide, Jeff Herbst, and Dave maier. the award named in boynton’s honor recognizes individuals who have created something of significant impact and enduring value to Door County.
To view the 3-D photogrammetry model and detailed historical information, visit shipwreckworld.com/ articles/discovery-of-the-historic-greatlakes-schooner-trinidad.
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LOCAL HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT
marietta paschke tanck was born in egg Harbor above George Lemere’s barber shop and grew up in the village in a log home on the corner of County road e and Highway 42. she will share her egg Harbor story during an egg Harbor Historical society presentation. In her recorded video, she tells of growing up in the village and attending the village school on Harbor school road, which is now the fire station. the presentation is 2 pm, sept. 12, at the Kress pavilion, 7845 Church street, egg Harbor.
(Foreground, from left) Adults playing clarinet with the pep band are Mariah Goode and Claire Erickson. Submitted. PUT
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Schooner Trinidad as it appears today. tAmArA tHOmseN AND ZACH WHItrOCK, stAte HIstOrICAL sOCIetY OF WIsCONsIN.
(Left to right) The schooner Trinidad wintering at Sarnia, Ontario, 1873. JOHN s. rOCHON
Trinidad wheel. tAmArA tHOmseN, stAte HIstOrICAL sOCIetY OF WIsCONsIN.
Annual Meeting of the Shiloh Church Lot and Cemetery Association at the Shiloh Church Building 2468 S. Shiloh Road
5:30 p.m., September 12, 2023 NOTICE
AUCTION BRUCE HELING
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Truck - 2016 2500 RAM Laramie Long Horn, 4X Mega Cab, Short Box W/Cap, Cummings Diesel, 37,000 mi, 2 Sets of Tires & Wheels, Capet, Winch, Dark Brown Leather Interior, Color; Silver Metallic, Excellent Condition
Boat - 1992 Thompson, 233 Eclipse, 25’ Welcraft w/ Tandem Trailer, Chev 454 Inboard/Outboard Motor, w/4 Stroke Troller, 9.9 Johnson, Suzuk 2Hp Trolling Motor, Number of Life Jackets (All Sizes), Large Assortment of Fishing Poles, Small Ankers, Oars, Tackle Boxes, Minnow Box, 3-Ankers, Fishing Gear, Lg. Fish Net, Tackle & Tackle Boxes
Tools - Log Splitter, Large # DeWalt Tools, Chargers & Batteries, Milwaukee Sawzall, Wrenches, Disc Sander, Air Compressor, Predator Super Quite Invertor 2000 Generator, Lg & Sm. Drill Bits, Lg Selection of Taps, Socket Sets, (regular & deep well), Levels, 2 Screw Driver Sets (New), 7 pc. Long T-Handle Set (New), Lg. Selection of Hammers, O-Ring Kits, Filters, Tire Valves & Accessories, Screw Drivers. Plyers, Allen Wrench Sets, Snap Ring Plyers, 1.5 & 3 T Floor Jacks
Miscellaneous - Trek Dominator Tracks w/Universal Mts. for Side by Side, or 4-Wheeler, Aluminum Load Ramps, Ice Auger, Chain Saw, Chicago Electric Submersible Pump, Aluminum Ladders, Carhart XLCoveralls & Jackets, XL-Arch Flash Electrical Suit, XL-Leather Jacket, 2-Live Traps, 275-Gal. Fuel Tank w/Elct. Pump, Picnic Table. A lot more items will be listed as they become available.
Notice: All verbal announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. Auction company claims no warranty on any machinery, SOLD AS IS Not responsible for accidents. Terms: CASH OR GOOD CHECK
Any questions contact Ralph 920-559-0466
Complete Listing and Pictures can be found on website www.bocheksales.com
Sale managed by Bochek Sales, Ralph Bochek WI Registered Auctioneer #308
THE VILLAGE OF SISTER BAY & THE TOWN OF LIBERTY GROVE WILL BE SPONSORING A DRUG DROP-OFF/SHREDDING/ APPLIANCE-ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT FROM 9:00 A.M. TO NOON ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
In an effort to protect our water, land and air, the Village of Sister Bay and the Town of Liberty Grove are encouraging everyone to recycle and participate in an Appliance-Electronics Recycling/Prescription Drug DropOff Event that will be conducted in the parking lot at the Liberty Grove Town Hall, 11161 Old Stage Road, from 9:00 A.M. to Noon on Saturday, September 16, 2023. All Village of Sister Bay and Town of Liberty Grove residents, property owners, and business owners or operators are also encouraged to participate in a Shredding Event that will be taking place on that same day.
There will not be any charge to recycle most small household appliances or items such as bicycles, lawn mowers, snow blowers, stoves and washing machines, but fees ranging from $5.00 to $60.00 per item could be charged to recycle anything with a compressor or a screen such as LCD and CRT monitors, televisions, refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers and air conditioning units. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive.
There will also be no charge for VILLAGE OF SISTER BAY OR TOWN OF LIBERTY GROVE RESIDENTS, BUSINESS OWNERS and PROPERTY OWNERS to have documents securely shredded. (WE’RE SORRY, BUT DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE IN THE PAST, INDIVIDUALS FROM OTHER MUNICIPALITIES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY OF THE SHREDDING SERVICES.) All shredded materials will be recycled.
• Please note that there will be a limit of five (5) Bankers Boxes filled with materials to be shredded per household or business.
• If you wish to drop off items to be securely shredded please be prepared to present “proof of residence” at the entrance to the Town Hall parking lot.
• Before large items can be placed on the recycling truck any and all recycling fees must be paid in full.
In response to requests from a number of concerned citizens a representative of the Door County Sheriff ’s Department will also be on site to accept and safely dispose of unused or outdated prescriptions and overthe-counter medications. There will not be a charge for this service, but please note that liquids, creams, syringes, lotions, Chemo Therapy drugs, aerosols and inhalers, needles and mercury thermometers will not be accepted.
For further information regarding the previously mentioned event please contact Stacy at the Town Office, ph. (920) 854-2934, or Janal at the Village Office, ph. (920) 854-4118.
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LANDMARK RESORT ENTERS ROUND THREE
BANK ANNOUNCES FIRST FEMALE CHAIRWOMAN
Bill Hoag Ephraim, Wisconsin continued on page 11
Internet for the Town of Sturgeon Bay Special Town Meeting
Monday, September 18, 2023, 6:00 PM
Crossroads at Big Creek Auditorium 2041 Michigan Street, Sturgeon
Notice is hereby given for a public meeting to present information and solicit feedback on the proposed deployment of highspeed internet to every address in the Town of Sturgeon Bay. All permanent and seasonal residents, as well as business property owners, are encouraged to attend and give oral and written feedback on the proposal
Frank E. Murphy County Park in the Town of Egg Harbor, and Baileys Harbor Ridges County Park.
A New Tool to Build A ordable Housing
by BRET BICOY, President and CEO,
County should be able to afford a safe, quality place to live. This simple idea is the driving force behind the launch of Door County’s Workforce Housing Lending Corporation. For more than two years, the Door County Community Foundation has convened groups of business leaders, housing developers, government officials and local citizens to develop a new approach to affordable workforce housing. Rather than establish another government program, our goal was to use targeted incentives to create a marketbased solution to this problem.
In most communities, it’s not possible for a private developer to build a multifamily unit, rent it out at a rate commensurate with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) definition of affordability, and still make a profit. As a result, affordable-housing developments typically involve a “funding cake” in which there are several layers of financing and incentives.
The first layer might be some traditional bank financing, but other layers likely include financial assistance from HUD, low-interest financing from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), or refundable tax credits from the state. By combining several layers of financing and incentives, private developers can create a funding cake that lowers their construction costs and thereby enables them to rent units at an affordable price.
We Know How Lucky We Are
The crowds are gone; the crowds will come again. September in Ephraim is the serenity of early mornings and the anticipation of October’s blazing beauty. On Labor Day evening (no finer time in all the year) I sit on the beach alone, basking in beauty and gratitude. The gentle shush, shush of the passing southbound cars on 42 is echoed in the soft shush, shush of the small breaking waves on the sand. Tomorrow, the exodus from our condominium building will begin. Slowly, reluctantly, cars will be packed and slip away to Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, Arizona. Each autumn it becomes more bittersweet. With each year added to the 70 and 80-plus behind us, the question of return looms larger than ever before. Will cancer win its relentless battle, will dementia destroy the sweetness, will a silent assassin waiting patiently in someone’s body come to life?
This, the quiet time in Ephraim, is more than anything a time of reflection; of awareness and appreciation of the blessedness of this place.
This small group of residents is united in its love of this sacred spot. We know how lucky we are.
Nancy Barkman Ephraim, Wisconsin
Locals Support Better Lives for Visitors
In response to the idea that visitors help support better lives for local residents – h**l, no. At least not in today’s world.
At one time, in our not-so-distant past, they actually did. But in today’s world, those with deep pockets who have visited previously (or maybe not), and have now decided to scoop up properties by offering over-andabove prices, have effectively made sure that those who have lived here since birth or shortly thereaft er are being pushed out because living and working here has become unaffordable for the working class.
Door County is currently on the road to implosion because the powers that be (especially within the Door County tourism bureau) are pushing advanced tourism with absolutely no consideration of the backbone of any community – which is those who work and serve those visitors.
Within our communities, we have seen the closure of many businesses, and if they haven’t closed, they are operating at reduced hours because they don’t have sufficient staffing. And, most importantly, those working at these businesses are running their butts off to service those who are visiting while sacrificing their personal lives, with little to no appreciation or respect, hoping to h**l that what they are doing will pay their bills and feed and support their families.
Then, adding insult to injury, the working-class individuals, many of us with deep roots, have received in the mail the current property assessments that will drive more of the working class away due to not only increased property taxes, but increased homeowner’s insurance premiums.
It’s beyond time that our community, local governments and entities start paying attention to what makes Door County tourism both viable and possible –which is those of us who work here.
I am way past exhausted and sick and tired of being treated as “less than” because of the fact that I have lived here my entire life, work my butt off to have what I have, and increasingly, especially within the recent past, am made to feel that I just may need to reassess my future.
Jeni Tveten Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
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Unfortunately, private developers have a strong financial incentive to build their affordable properties in Madison, Milwaukee or other urban areas where HUD regulations allow them to charge higher “affordable” rents than they can charge in rural Door County. If the goal is to make a profit, it’s typically the better business decision to avoid building an affordable rental project in Door County.
Consequently, the few affordable units that are constructed in Door County involve a private developer who has a personal commitment to our community.
Although we’re lucky that so many people love Door County, this is not a sustainable strategy for creating workforce housing. Instead, we need a tool that provides a financial incentive for private developers to build in Door County.
That’s at the heart of this entire project: We are adding a new layer to the funding cake that is available only to developers who build their affordable units in Door County.
Central to our plan is Door County’s Workforce Housing Lending Corporation, a newly created 501(c) (3) corporation that is governed by the Community Foundation in partnership with the nonprofit NeighborWorks Green Bay. Because this is not a government program, we have the flexibility to offer low interest rates, years of early forbearance while a developer meets other obligations, and payment terms that can be tied to cash flows.
The units we partially finance may constitute the entirety of an affordable development or may involve a negotiated number of affordable units set aside as a part of a larger project. Furthermore, restrictive covenants ensure that the units we finance cannot be converted to short-term vacation-rental properties.
Each individual loan that the Workforce Housing Lending Corporation makes will be a relatively small percentage of the total financing for any particular housing development – remember, we’re just a single layer in the overall funding cake – but our loans will offer an incentive to developers to build their affordable units in Door County. WHEDA approved an investment of $1.5 million in our effort to be earned on a matching basis. Hence, the first $1.5 million in contributions to the Workforce Housing Lending Corporation will be matched dollar for dollar, thereby doubling the impact of each gift .
The Door County Board of Supervisors has already allocated $500,000 to this effort, and private donors have contributed nearly that amount as well. Our ultimate goal is to raise another $2 million beyond the WHEDA match so that we can achieve a total loan pool of $5 million. Through the use of our leveraged loan structure, as well as “recycling” the money several times over as loans are paid off and the capital is redeployed, we seek to assist in constructing hundreds of affordable workforce rental units in the years to come.
Although our initial focus is on fostering this construction, our future plans potentially include a down-payment assistance program to promote homeownership, a housing-rehab loan program to help restore dilapidated housing stock, and employer-assisted homeownership programs.
If you’re affiliated with a for-profit housing developer, nonprofit housing organization or local business that recognizes the need to provide affordable rental units for our community, visit BuildDoorCounty.org to learn more. Door County’s Workforce Housing Lending Corporation is open for business. Contact Bret Bicoy at bret@givedoorcounty.org.
classifieds & legals
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PLAN COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Sister Bay Plan Commission will hold a
Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 5:30 PM, at the Sister Bay-Liberty Grove Fire Station at 2258 Mill Rd., Sister Bay, for the purpose of considering a conditional use permit application and amendments to the Village of Sister Bay Municipal Code related to land divisions.
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION
RaeAnne, LLC proposes to establish a Mobile Food Vendor Court per Sec.
66.0320(c)(11) of the Zoning Code. The court would host up to 7 food trucks. The property is located at 10563 Country Walk Ln. and in a General Business (B-1) zoning district.
TEXT AMENDMENTS TO LAND DIVISION CODE
Amendments to the Municipal Code, Ch. 54, Land Division and Platting Code, are proposed that would allow cluster subdivision development. Other miscellaneous amendments are proposed to address changes in state and local statutes and codes; staffing assignments and application processes; parkland dedications; road design; tree planting requirements; and definitions. The specific amendments can be found at www.sisterbaywi.gov, scroll to the bottom of the Homepage, and look for “LAND DIVISION CODE CHANGES”.
The purpose of the public hearing is to obtain comments and input from the public on the proposed application and amendments. A copy of the files, as well as the current version of the Village’s Zoning Code, Municipal Code and Zoning Map are available for inspection at the Sister Bay Administration Office, 2383 Maple Drive, Sister Bay, and may be viewed M-F between 8:00AM and 4:00PM. The documents are also available on the Village website at www.sisterbaywi.gov. Written testimony, including e-mails addressed to janal.suppanz@ sisterbaywi.gov, will be accepted until 4:00PM on Thursday September 21, 2023, at 2383 Maple Drive, PO Box 769, Sister Bay, WI 54234 (FAX 920-854-9637). Correspondence received after that date will be summarized at the public hearing and entered into the record. Letters will be available for public inspection during normal business hours until the close of business on the day of the hearing.
Anonymous or disrespectful correspondence will not be accepted. By order of the Plan Commission of the Village of Sister Bay Julie Schmelzer, Administrator WNAXLP
NOTICE THAT ASSESSMENT ROLL IS AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION FOR THE TOWN OF GIBRALTAR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the assessment roll for the Town of Gibraltar is open for inspection on Thursday, September 21, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
FURTHER BE ADVISED that the Assessor for the Town of Gibraltar will be present on Thursday, September 21, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Assessor’s Office (Gibraltar Town Center) at 4097 Highway 42, Fish Creek WI and at said meeting instructional materials shall be available.
The Assessor will also take open book over the telephone on September 26, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Associated Appraisal will be taking Open Book appointments at 920-749-1995 If you have any questions, please contact Theresa CainBieri, Town Treasurer of the Town of Gibraltar at 920-8681714 between 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. or in person at the Town Office located at 4097 Highway 42, Fish Creek during these business hours.
WNAXLP
SOUTHERN DOOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2073 County Highway DK, Brussels, WI 54204 Approved at the Regular Board Meeting – August 21, 2023 REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES MONDAY, JULY 17, 2023 –6:30 PM
SOUTHERN DOOR HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY President Price called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm. Members present: Marissa Norton, Janel Veeser, Sam Counard, Penny Price, Macaine Bouche, Kim Starr. Absent: Josh Jeanquart Also Present: Jason Melotte, Dan Viste, Sue Ann Hubbard; Kami Harvey, Dave Desmond, Steve Bousley, Marc Vandenhouten, Kate Lardinois, Kelli Boyers (ARC), Karen Wendlandt (ARC). Members of the Public Present: Karen Kepler, Sue Marchant, Rick Rankin, Jim Englebert, Cory Vandertie.
Motion Starr/Jeanquart properly called/convened/ proper notice given; carried. Pledge of Allegiance recited; Board Commitment read by Sam Counard. Public Forum – No members of the public came forward to speak.
District Updates The Board extended a warm welcome to Kami Harvey, new Middle School Principal & Curriculum Director. Construction Update (Jason Melotte)
• Parking lot should be completed in approximately two weeks.
Haunted Mansion Grant Distribution (click link for specific grant information)
• As a final farewell, Haunted Mansion is sponsoring the Kids from Wisconsin by paying all performance fees and presenting it to the community for free
• Total Haunted Mansion donations throughout the years is over a half million dollars.
Haunted Mansion Sculpture
Proposal
• Commission a stainless-steel Eagle sculpture for installation in front of Eagle Gym OR by the new District Office (former Talon Fitness).
President Price read the Consent Resolution Agenda
Janel Veeser made a request to pull Resolutions D, E, F.
Motion Starr/Norton to approve Resolutions A, B, C. With no further discussion, roll call was taken, all aye. Motion carried. A. Past Minutes: June 19, July 10, 2023. B. Expenditure/Revenue Reports & Current Bills Payable – Check Register.
C. Donations: Southern Door P.I.E.; Mary Hilliker.
D. Adoption of District Curriculum Standards for the 2023-24 School Year
E. Act 125 Restraint & Seclusion Annual Report
F. 2023-24 Co-Curricular & Athletic Codes for High School and Middle School
Pulled Resolution DAdoption of District Curriculum Standards for the 2023-24 School Year Question posed as to how we verify that curriculum standards are being followed. Marc Vandenhouten, Elementary Principal, responded that each teacher has very specific curriculum frameworks that include the standards for all subject areas for each grade.
Pulled Resolution E - Act 125 Restraint & Seclusion Annual Report Question posed as to whether it was really only one student who was involved in all 6 situations. Dave Desmond, Pupil Services Director, verified that is correct.
Pulled Resolution F - CoCurricular & Athletic Codes for High School and Middle School Question posed regarding SDHS handbook, Section II Penalties, Item #1, last sentence reads, “The coach can enforce the penalty if he/ she becomes aware of the scholastic infraction prior to the grades being published.” The board reached consensus that the line be struck from the handbook. It was noted that in one section a word was missing. Under section III. Disciplinary Action, Item #1c, the word
ANNUAL MEETING
SOUTHERN DOOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 6:30 PM
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING AND BUDGET HEARING SOUTHERN DOOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified
electors of the Southern Door County School District that the annual meeting and budget hearing of said School District for the transaction of business will be held in the Southern Door High School Library on the 19th day of September, 2022 commencing at 6:30 PM. The budget in detail is available for inspection in the Southern Door County School District Office.
Dated this 8th day of September 2023 Marissa Norton, School District Clerk WNAXLP
ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING & BUDGET HEARING AGENDA SOUTHERN DOOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SOUTHERN DOOR HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 – 6:30 PM
If you wish to attend this meeting in person, you may do so. Upon request, reasonable auxiliary aids and services will be provided for individuals with disabilities. Please provide 24-hour notice by contacting Sue Ann Hubbard, shubbard@sdsd.k12.wi.us or calling 920-825-7311.
1.CALL MEETING TO ORDER: Board President, Penny Price.
2. ELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON: Board President, Penny Price.
3. MINUTES OF LAST ANNUAL MEETING: Waive reading if motion to do so; otherwise by Clerk, Marissa Norton.
4. TREASURER’S REPORT AND AUDIT SUMMARY: Treasurer, Janel Veeser.
5. RESOLUTION A: Transportation of Students: Clerk, Marissa Norton.
“Counseling” had been accidentally deleted from the beginning of the sentence. The sentence should read “Counseling concerning the problems inherent in the infraction may be required of the student found in violation of the rule.” The mistake has been corrected in the handbook.
Motion Veeser/Norton to approve Resolutions D & E as originally presented, and Resolution F with the above listed change/correction. Roll call; all aye. Motion carried. Future Agenda Items Make sure that athletic codes and coach’s handbooks are revisited.
President’s Comments: President Price has received very positive community feedback about the visible construction progress. Teachers are already starting to prepare, and everyone is very excited to have Kami Harvey on board. Ms. Price also thanked Jason Melotte for all his hard work managing two full-time positions over the last few months.
Motion Starr/Counard to waive reading executive session wording. Voice vote; all aye. Motion carried. President Price announced closed session would be held according to State Stats. §19.85(1)(a),(c),(e),(f); 118.125; 120.13 - Closed Minutes: June 19 and July 10, 2023; Contracts / Negotiations / Personnel; Auditorium Director Responsibilities and Contract; Discuss Possible Reinstatement of Policy Committee. Motion Bouche/
152 Zoning of the Village of Egg Harbor Municipal Code per section §152.028 Area, Width, Height and Yard Setback Restrictions (C) (1) to have a maximum structure height of 35 feet. The applicant is seeking an area variance for electrical equipment and elevator shaft that exceeds the maximum structure height by 21 ¾” or 1’- 9 ¾”. All interested parties are invited to give testimony either in person or on zoom. In person testimony will be received first followed by those testifying by Zoom. Members of the public wishing to provide sworn testimony for conditional use permit consideration will need to do so using the video option of the zoom meeting. Deliberations will be made by the Zoning Board of Appeals immediately after the public testimony is presented. Dated September 6, 2023
Published September 8, 2023 WNAXLP
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE DOOR COUNTY, WI RESOURCE PLANNING COMMITTEE DOOR COUNTY
GOVERNMENT CENTER
421 NEBRASKA ST.
STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
A public hearing and subsequent business meeting will be held by the Door County Resource Planning Committee (RPC) on Thursday, September 28th, 2023 in the Door County Government Center Chambers Room (C102, 1st Floor). Applicants and others who wish to offer oral testimony must attend in person. Members of the public who wish to simply monitor/observe the hearings and meeting may attend in person, or do so remotely by using the link below, or via the Zoom smartphone app, or by calling (312) 626-6799. Link: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/88200200650?pwd=TUJ MTisrVEJ4N3c4M1FrUks5Yj
The hearing will begin at 3:00 p.m. to give consideration to the application below for a conditional use permit, as specified in the Door County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.
BAILEYS HARBOR
Pete Hurth, on behalf of GL Partners LLC, requests a Conditional Use Permit to expand the existing Multiple Occupancy Development (MOD), Gordon Lodge, located at 1420 Pine Drive. The proposal is to construct 3 new buildings, each containing two occupancy units, with one bedroom per unit. Expansion of a MOD shall be authorized by a Conditional Use Permit in
the Recreational Commercial zoning district. The purpose of a hearing is to allow parties to explain how their interests are affected, how the public is affected, and to bring out any facts pertinent to the case related to public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare. Written testimony will be accepted on 8 1/2” x 11” paper only and must be received by 12:00 p.m. (noon) the day before the hearing. Anonymous correspondence will not be accepted. Letters are available for inspection upon request. Letters are entered into hearing records, but are not read aloud. Please note: Correspondence or testimony submitted for town-level proceedings does NOT get forwarded to the county. All application materials may be viewed on-line approximately four business days before the hearing at https://www.co.door.wi.gov/ AgendaCenter. Additional materials may be posted up until 4:30 p.m. the day before the hearing. The list of names to whom this notice was sent by regular mail is available upon request.
David Enigl, Chairperson Resource Planning Committee c/o Land Use Services Dept. Door County Gov’t. Center 421 Nebraska St. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Phone: (920) 746-2323
FAX: (920) 746-2387
Publication Dates: September 8th & 15th, 2023 9/5/2023 WNAXLP
Line classifieds submissions are due by noon on Tuesday. Send them to classifieds@ppulse.com.
AUTOS
CArs
Subaru Outback 2.5L 2015. Good condition. Light Blue. 149k miles. SRVD (blind spot detector) light in. Tow hitch added. 4S4BSBFC0F3296415. $8,800 OBO. Cash or cashiers check. Optional additional trailer. Jeff at jlutsey@gmail.com
trUCKs
1996 Ford F350 Dually Pickup Crew cab. long bed. Centurian conversion. 7.3L IH turbo diesel. 43k orig miles. Like new. Climate stored. $42K firm. 920.809.1938
FOR RENT
ApArtmeNt
Apartment For Rent
Partially furnished 1 bedroom apartment. $875/mo. heat & utilities included. No smoking, no pets. Egg Harbor area. 920.493.3981
THE GLEN ESTATES IN SISTER BAY
Apartment for Rent! 2 bedroom/2 full bath, Washer/ Dryer and Attached Garage. Includes Heat. Pet Friendly! OnSite Management. 920-854-0167 For Rent – Sister Bay Sister Bay across from Beach Park. Furnished upper 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Available Nov. 1 thru April. Includes cable, tv, internet, sewer and water, snow plowing, garbage pick up. $1,400/month. No pets. Call 715.572.7634
Apartment For Rent 1 bedroom apartment near downtown Sturgeon Bay. $850/mo all utilities included. Contact 920.256.2351
CLASSIFIEDS
NEW One and Two bedroom apartments at Bay Pointe
Brand new apartments near Target in Sturgeon Bay. 1 and 2 bedroom units, heat included. All come with appliances, including in-unit washer & dryer. Most units include garage. Ground floor and upper units available. Rents start at $995/month; contact us for move in specials. 920.341.6027 or bp@alliancewi.com.
COmmerCIAL
Hwy frontage, ample parking, multiple uses 6709 hwy 42, Town of Egg Harbor, 1,000 + sq.ft., housing available, handicap accessible, lease required, Jim Riead 262.949.1470, email jriead@att.net
Commercial or Private Space Available Located on 42/57 in Sturgeon Bay, We have a 36×60 Heated Warehouse with 2-12 ft Doors and a 10ft door. Gas and Electric is metered. Has water and floor drains. $1,800 per month. We also have 2800 sq feet that can be turned into what you need it to be. Willing to split. Give Allen a call. 920.365.2537
resIDeNtIAL HOme
For Rent Log home in Valmy. 2 bed, 2 bath. Available 9/18/23. $1,700/ mo. Contact 239.777.4412
Country home for rent Nov 1, ’23 to Apr. 30, ’24. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, furnished. Baileys Harbor. $1800/ mo. Utilities Included. TEXT Randall, 414.258.9515
Waterfront Cabin For Rent 3 bedroom cabin on the water off Bay Shore Drive Egg Harbor. Available 11/1/23 to 5/15/24. $900/mo plus utilities. Contact lkey@wi.rr.com
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WINTER STORAGE BOAT/ CAR/CAMPER EGG HARBOR Winter boat/car/RV storage. Secure, concrete floor, 15 ft clearance, no heat, fully enclosed. Call Sarah 920.559.6455
INDOOR / OUTDOOR STORAGE across from DC airport BOATS RV’S CAMPERS VEHICLES. 3465 CTY PD Sturgeon Bay. Winter rates for Indoor, “not heated” storage $15.00 per linear foot. Outdoor Storage $50.00 per month. For details, call Bill at 612.483.0875 or email eisinmn@yahoo.com
Storage – Indoor / Outdoor – Boat Car Truck ATV
Indoor / Outdoor Storage: Boat, Watercraft, Car, Truck, and ATV. Available one mile east of Valmy on Whitefish Bay Rd. Please Call Dale 920.559.0603 HUGE STORAGE UNIT 66 x 60 with a 16’ tall door.
frozen, canned and dried), Cherry Cider, Honey Crisp Blend Apple Cider, our new apple grape and peachy apple and apple cranberry ciders. Fresh Eggs, Maple Syrup, Honey, Pickles, Spices, Fudge, Gifts & Gift Boxes and Much More. Pick Your Own Cherries and Apples in season. Six Generations Growing and Marketing Fruits and Vegetables. Wholesale and Retail products. We ship UPS. Accept WIC checks. For Sale Earthquake Chipper/Shredder plus other items. Sturgeon Bay. Contact 920.59.6056
GARAGE/ YARD SALE
GArAGe/YArD sALe
INDOOR RUMMAGE – 4
GENERATIONS OF THINGS Barbie vintage clothing and accessories 1960-1990’s, candles, dishware, many antiques, vintage Christmas deco, garden/planting supplies, books, stylish women’s boots, maple syrup supplies, scuba gear, crafts, toys, pictures, pellet stove with hopper, water tank and more. 5030 County P (West of Institute) Friday 9/8 & Saturday 9/9 9am – 1pm each day.
Vintage Fall Market
We’re back! Select Midwest vendors bringing you the ultimate vintage experience. Cool clothes, campy and cottage overload, jewels and trinkets, and a fresh flower bar. Saturday, September 9, 9-4pm. Simple Solutions 10331 N. Water Ephraim
Garage/Moving sale Sat 9/9 9am – 2pm & Sun 9/10 9am -12pm. 4112 Cty Rd M Sturgeon Bay. Variety of collectibles, household items including furniture, even a kayak. Come to check it out.
Moving Sale – Saturday Sept. 9th, 8am to 4pm 9174 County Road A, Fish Creek. Queen Size Mattress, Box Spring and Bed Frame, Loveseat, Twin Size Memory Foam Mattress, Yard Tools, Snow Shovels, Snow Shoes, Seasonal Decor, Garden Art, some Adult Clothing, German “Sammeltassen” (decorated cups with saucers and plates). Portable CD player, 43” LG TV, DVD’s, CD’s and other assorted items.
Estate Sale: 3130 James Way – Sept 14-16 TH 1-6, FRI 8-5, SAT 8-12. Bed sets, dressers, end tables, table/chairs, recliner, rugs, decor, household goods, adult clothing, snow blower, rototiller, yard tools, electrical supplies, and more.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Wanted – Antiques & Estates
We pay cash for stone crocks, old primitive furniture, wooden bowls, old signs, advertising items, wagon wheels, weather vanes, jewelry, church pews, wooden pulleys, work benches, copper items, wooden barrels, horse drawn manure spreader, road graders, guns, deer antlers, toys & more. Will come to you. Questions welcomed. Eberts Antiques Manitowoc. 920.682.0687. Open all year. For Sale at Hyline Orchard Bulk firewood, landscaping wood mulch. Delivery available. Call Hyline Orchard, 8240 Hwy 42, fish Creek. 2 miles north of Egg Harbor. 920.868.3067 or 920.493.4083
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Pond sailers and modellers need for nothern Door Modellers needed and sailors for establishing a pond sailing group in northern Door. Build and sail bearospace Radio controlled sailing pond boats with available plans. Reenact WWII ship battles and build
and pilot Gato and XVI Uboat submarines and convoy protection with sub chasers reenactment. Underwater and on water design and build boats and submersibles. Looking for people interested in establishing a group and build and sail and battle for fun. see www.youtube. com/watch?v=balkc5xeAoI. 920.629.1116
Karate
5th degree black belt instructor Brad Elkins offers group classes for kids (7-13) and adults (14+) at Ironwood Yoga Studio in Sister Bay. For information contact Brad at 850.766.9030 or doorcountydojo@gmail.com. Marnie Massey at 920.421.4766 or ironwoodyoga.com.
REAL ESTATE
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40’X60’ Storage Building For Sale
NEW 40’X 60’ Storage building for sale in Nasewaupee. Commercial grade, 2X6 stud construction, Two 14’ Garage doors with openers. Clear roof panels. Lighting and receptacles installed. Ready for winter. $155K. 920.824.9696
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340’ WATERFRONT /Gills Rock with cabin and stairs to water–dividable into 3 parcels. FOR INFO ON LINE: TinyURL. com/DCLittleHouse890 resIDeNtIAL
Condominium Home Ellison Bay FSBO. 1624 Jensen Dr., Ellison Bay, WI. Bilevel condominium home in tranquil Cottage Glen Development. 1950 sq feet.
MARKETING DIRECTOR – FULL-TIME (Year-round)
Join our extraordinary Northern Sky team and work and play in beautiful Door County.
Northern Sky is seeking applications for the position of Marketing Director & Events Coordinator. The Marketing Director has primary responsibility for all strategic and tactical marketing activities, as well as coordinating stewardship, fundraising, and marketing events for Northern Sky. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing and managing marketing budgets, plans, and strategies as well as achieving performance metrics.
You’ll be enabling well over 30,000 people to experience Northern Sky’s amazing original productions. The position requires a positive team player with a “can do” attitude, a creative thinker with the ability to manage projects simultaneously, an interest in the performing arts and the ability to articulate their importance. If you’re familiar with Northern Sky, that’s a plus. Degree in Marketing or Arts Administration preferred. Salaried position. Health insurance and HRA available.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Primary responsibility for all strategic and tactical Northern Sky Theater marketing activities.
• Responsible for achieving performance metrics determined by Managing Director.
• Compile sales reports, demographic reports and statistical reports as requested by Managing Director.
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Marketing Direction
Content Management
Social Networking
Digital Marketing
Public Relations
Special Events
Merchandising
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scholarship program, a four-day work week with no nights or weekends, and benefits package. You offer us energy, creativity, flexibility, dependability, and a love for working with children. Experience appreciated, but not required. Get started on a career in Early childhood education! For quick consideration text to 920.421.5009 or email teachdoorcounty@gmail.com to receive application and set up a time to chat. Join our team now! Questions? Contact Cindy or Sue at 920.421.4244
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Dental Assistant, FT/ Year-Round
Interested in a career in the dental field? Dentistry by Design in Sister Bay is currently seeking an extraordinary Dental Assistant to join our team. Experience is preferred, however on the job training is available for the right candidate. If you are someone who is reliable, self-motivated, compassionate, detail-oriented, and teamfocused, you would be a perfect complement to our team. 4 days/week, M-Th. Benefits: $1,000 Signing Bonus, Dental, IRA, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Uniform Allowance. Email: cora@ doorcountydentistry.com
HOteL/LODGING
THE KIDS ARE HEADING BACK TO SCHOOL!
We are looking for Housekeepers through October. 3 – 5 Hours/ Day. Competitive pay. Wonderful working conditions, And A “FUN” Staff! Contact Mark 920.493.1187 OR 920.868.3115. theview@ eggharborlodge.com
Pine Grove Resort is hiring!
Pine Grove Resort is staffing for fall! We offer competitive pay, end of season bonus & onsite housing! Full and part time hours available for front desk, laundry & housekeeping. Apply online or email us at rita@theprimesite.net
Housekeeping
HOUSEKEEPING-Fish Creek
8:30a-1/1:30p 3-4 hrs Must be available Sundays $20-$23 + (BONUS SUNDAYS +$25)..EZ CLEAN. ALSO: Housekeeping w/ Front Desk. Lynne: 920.421.0663
Front Desk: Year-Round
The Homestead Suites in Fish Creek is looking for the right candidate to complement our Front Desk Staff. Predominantly night and weekend shifts with day shifts as available. We offer a premium wage and benefits. Email resume to kevin@ homesteadsuites.com or send to: Homestead Suites PO Box 730 Fish Creek WI 54212
LANDsCApING/ mAINteNANCe
Part Time Maintenance For Apartments
Looking for part time maintenance for three apartment buildings in Sister Bay. Please inquire at info@ skbmanagement.com
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Peninsula Pulse Seeking Fall/Winter Intern
We have a great opportunity for a college student to gain experience working for a newspaper while still in school through a fall/winter internship with the Peninsula Pulse, Door County, Wisconsin’s largest-circulation newspaper. Our award-winning, weekly publication is consumed by different audiences in different ways via print, our website, our Door County Pulse Podcast, our Pulse Picks daily e-letter and our video component, Peninsula Filmworks. Our fall/ winter intern would provide support to our print and digital products through research, uploading, news-gathering and the curation of press releases. Responsibilities will evolve based upon an individual’s interests and strengths, and could include writing opportunities. The position will be remote, with one or two days onsite for training. We want to talk with you if you are: Self-motivated, Take initiative, Are highly curious, Are comfortable talking with people from all walks of life, Have a firm grasp of spelling, grammar, structure and style, Pay attention to details, Have strong organizational and time-management skills, Are responsible, reliable and punctual, Can take direction, Have a sponge-like willingness to learn, Understand the working principles of Mac computers and Google Drive. The position pays $14 per hour, with a minimum of 10 hours a week required. Beyond that, you may work as much as your schedule allows. All interested candidates should send a cover letter, three writing samples and a résumé to Peninsula Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald via email at debra.fitz@ppulse. com, or via jobs@ppulse.com.
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Veterinary Technician
Door County Veterinary Hospital is looking for a thorough, hard working, Self motivated team player with excellent communication skills to join our team of pet care professionals. Candidates need to be organized, detail oriented, able to multi-task, and lift 50#. Willingness to learn and help in various tasks is a must. 920.743.7777
Now Hiring O ce Manager
e White Gull Inn is hiring year-round bookkeeper and office manager.
Responsibilities include:
- Routine daily bookkeeping duties
- Handling accounts receivable and payable
- Reviewing and preparing payroll
- Managing annual license, insurance, and benefit renewals
- Maintaining inventory of office supplies
Experience in bookkeeping as well as a basic knowledge of QuickBooks is desired, but we will provide on-thejob training to get the right candidate up to speed. is position is full- or part-time, and offers competitive wages and benefits including health insurance, 401-K, on-duty meal plan, and two weeks paid time off. We are accepting applications immediately and will be able to start training any time this fall. We are excited to find the perfect addition to our White Gull family, hopefully for many years to come!
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Alexander’s Alexanders restaurant is looking for a Hostess and bussers. Start immediately, meals provided, great pay and great co-workers! Stop in at 3667 Hwy 42 Fish Creek and ask for Bruce.
Cafe Positions Available Julie’s Park Cafe in Fish Creek is looking to add a host and dishwasher to our team for the remainder of the fall season. Shifts go from 8 am – 3:30 pm. Part time or full time available. Stop by or text Sande at 920-421-3336.
Coyote Roadhouse on Kangaroo Lake is Hiring! Year Round and Seasonal positions available. Line Cooks, Night Bartender, Servers (day and night), Host/Hostess. Call or stop in today, ask for Carrie. Or send an email: graybillca@yahoo.com Now More Machine Than Man
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Retail Associate/Wine
taster Wanted Looking for Fall help; weekends or Full Time. Top tier pay. Come sample wine and local food, have fun and join a great team. Apply today. Hiring immediately. Barrel Room, 4170 Main Street, Fish Creek
Join our Team!
We have 1 full time year round or 2 part time year round sales positions available at Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor. Applicants must be passionate about health and local organic foods! Also must be able to carry 30# and climb stairs. We also have full time positions available in the Cafe- mid August til the end of October. Pls stop in and pick up an app or email us. info@greens-n-grains.com
Al Johnson’s SKAL Retail Sales Associate
Looking for people to join our team! No experience necessary, just a good attitude and a willingness to provide friendly customer service. Skal offers a fun, energetic work environment with lots of perks as part of the Al Johnson’s family business. Full and part-time positions are available, both seasonal and year-round. Call/ text 414.429.6657 or email zoe@aljohnsons.com
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Facebook, Google, amateur or professional Ocassional as needed assistance with Facebook, Google presentation. Haus of Art & Wine, call Jim Riead 262.949.1470 or email jriead@att.net
HELP WANTED: CARPENTERS
Looking for a change and/or gainful year round employment? Look no further. Great Northern Construction is looking to add to our team of professionals. Work on high end residential new builds, additions, and remodels alongside other great people. Great pay, Great benefits. Paid health insurance, paid holidays/vacation, company 401K contributions, Etc. Call us today to schedule an interview: 920-868-3611
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Clippers Edged by Bears, 20-19
by KEVIN BONESKE
kevin@ppulse.com
Sturgeon Bay’s football team battled with Bonduel to the end Sept. 1, but came a point short in a 20-19 Packerland Conference loss at Memorial Field.
Clippers quarterback Danny Lodl, who threw for three touchdown passes, gave the team a 6-0 lead late in the second quarter on a 41-yard scoring strike to Patrick Haese.
With the game tied at 6-6 midway through the fourth quarter, Sturgeon Bay regained the lead on an 83-yard touchdown pass from Lodl to Bryce Plzak. The Clippers’ 13-6 advantage was short-lived. The Bears closed out the game with a pair of touchdown passes and a two-point conversion, while Sturgeon Bay added one scoring strike to Dominic Robertson without an extra point.
Lodl ended up completing 19 of 31 passes for 320 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. Haese caught nine of those passes for 151 yards and a score. Plzak added 127 receiving yards on six catches with a touchdown.
The Clippers, who dropped to 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the Packerland, will seek to snap a two-game losing streak Sept. 8 with a conference game at Marinette.
by KEVIN BONESKE kevin@ppulse.com
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starters from last season returning, including the only senior, Ezra Linnan. “Even though we return eight starters, we are still a young team with limited varsity experience,” he said.
Roedl said he is looking forward to seeing the team grow and progress this season.
The team lost last year’s Packerland most valuable player, goalkeeper Theo Goode, as well as midfielders Garrett Voight and Mateo Jauregui, to graduation.
In addition to seeking another topthree conference finish, he said the team goals also include performing well in the playoffs.
Sturgeon Bay’s Patrick Haese (10) runs toward the end zone to score a touchdown late in the second quarter during the Packerland Conference home game Sept. 1 against Bonduel. rACHeL LUKAs
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Sturgeon Bay’s Julia Kurek. FILe CLIPPER GIRLS THIRD AT FINLAN CC INVITE
sturgeon bay’s girls cross country team placed third thursday in the Green bay preble tom Finlan memorial Invitational held at Josten park.
preble recorded the top team score of 21, followed by bonduel (55), the Clippers (100), sheboygan Falls (111) and Omro (112) rounding out the top five. preble junior melana Webber won the race in 20 minutes, 42.8 seconds.
sturgeon bay’s top finish was recorded by senior Julia Kurek, who placed sixth in 21:33.3. the Clippers’ other four runners whose finishes counted toward the team score included senior mikayla LaLuzerne (22nd in 24:24.6), senior Jade tomberlin (23rd in 24:36.3), senior Alexis Olson (27th in 24:46.8) and sophomore Claire Quaderer (30th in 26:44.1).
Kayden Klotz (9) controls the ball with Algoma’s Brogan Ray (30) in pursuit during the Aug. 31 boys soccer match at Clark Field. Klotz scored four goals in the Clippers’ 8-0 victory over the Wolves. KeVIN bONesKe
FOUR GOALS FOR KLOTZ IN SHUTOUT WIN
sturgeon bay’s boys soccer team did all the scoring Aug. 31 when the Clippers defeated Algoma, 8-0, at Clark Field.
Kayden Klotz tallied four goals, with Finn stevenson scoring twice and Aldo rangel and ethan DeNamur adding a goal apiece for sturgeon bay. the Clippers improved 2-0 in the packerland Conference going into thursday’s league game at NeW Lutheran.
BERNS ‘REENERGIZED’ TO RETURN AS EAGLES BASEBALL COACH
After resigning as southern Door’s varsity baseball coach following the 2023 season, John berns said he had a “change of heart” this summer and wanted to come back for his second season in charge of the team. When the eagles’ baseball season came to an end this spring, berns said he wasn’t ready
Sevastopol’s Naomi Rikkola. FILe PIONEER GIRLS 13TH AT DE PERE CC INVITE
sevastopol’s girls cross country team placed 13th out of more than 25 teams competing Aug. 31 in the De pere Invite held at the University of Wisconsin-Green bay. shawano had the top team score of 111, followed by Freedom (127), New London (171), mukwonago (190) and West De pere (202) rounding out the top five. the
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to sign the contract that needed to be signed by June 15 for him to return.
“I was then asked to submit a letter of resignation, which I submitted,” he said. “by the middle of July, I was reenergized and informed [athletic director mark Jonas] of my interest in continuing as the southern Door baseball coach.” berns said he then applied for the position, went through an interview process and was approved by the school board at its Aug. 21 meeting.
berns, who previously was a head baseball coach at sevastopol and sturgeon bay before taking over as the eagles’ coach this year after Dave Neinas resigned in February, said he is “very pleased to continue for a second year in the southern Door baseball program.” In his first year as the eagles’ head coach, southern Door finished runner-up in the packerland Conference and also advanced to the WIAA Division 3 regional final, ending the season 19-4 overall.
John Berns
Pioneers Drop Peninsula Football Opener to Gillett
by KEVIN BONESKE kevin@ppulse.com
After falling behind by three touchdowns in the first half Aug. 31, Sevastopol’s eight-player football team cut the deficit to four points in the third quarter, but ended up losing its Peninsula Conference opener at home to Gillett, 51-30.
The Pioneers, who trailed 28-8 at halftime, scored their first touchdown in the second quarter on a 73-yard touchdown pass from Logan Schuh to Logan Frank. Sevastopol opened the third quarter with a pair of touchdowns on a 42-yard run by Schuh followed by a
three-yard run by Alex Andreae. Schuh ran in both twopoint conversions to trim the Tigers’ lead to 28-24.
Gillett then responded with two touchdowns of its own and extended the lead to 43-24 in the fourth quarter.
Sevastopol scored its final touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 44-yard run from Frank, who ended up rushing for 123 yards on 17 carries.
Schuh, who added 85 rushing yards on 13 carries, also completed six of 13 passes for 130 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
The Pioneers, who dropped to 0-2 overall and 0-1 in league play, will seek their first victory in their first road
game of the season Sept. 8 against Lena/St. Thomas Aquinas.
Vikings Victorious at Suring
Gibraltar’s eight-player football team opened Peninsula Conference action Aug. 31 with a 35-32 victory at Suring.
The Vikings, who led 21-14 at halftime, added two fourth-quarter touchdowns, including the game-winner on a one-yard pass from Brady Kita to Braden Sitte.
Kita completed nine of 17 passes for 152 yards, with four touchdowns thrown to Sitte, who ended up with eight receptions for 137 yards.
Kita ran in the other touchdown from 57 yards away. He also accounted for 86 of Gibraltar’s 168 rushing yards.
The Vikings (2-0, 1-0) will seek to remain undefeated on the season Sept. 8 when they host a league game against Algoma.
Clippers Edged by Bears
Eagles Fly Past Mishicot
One-third of the way through the regular season, Southern Door’s football team remains undefeated.
The Eagles scored the first four touchdowns Sept. 1 when they opened the Packerland Conference portion of their schedule with a 30-7 victory at Mishicot.
Southern Door quarterback Drew Daoust threw two scoring strikes to Tyler Neinas and another to Braylon Berg while also recording a rushing touchdown.
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Daoust completed eight of 12 passes for 115 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. The Eagles rushed for 154 yards. Zack Lynch led the team with 61 yards on eight carries.
Southern Door outgained the Indians in total offense, 269-166.
The Eagles (3-0, 1-0) return to action Sept. 8 with a conference game at Bonduel.
Door County residents wanted!
TOWN HALL SESSIONS SEEK RESIDENT INPUT
Destination Door County has gathered a group of community leaders and local organizations to create a Destination Master Plan for our community. This dynamic, resident-influenced longterm planning document will help guide sustainable growth and development in Door County.
All Door County residents are invited to share their input at one of three upcoming community town hall events where our consultants will ask for input that will support the development of the Destination Master Plan.
Meetings are open to the public. Pre-registration not required.
Date: Wed. Sept. 13, 2023
Time: 9:30-11:00 AM
Location: Sister Bay Fire Station, 2258 Mill Road, Sister Bay, WI 54234
Date: Wed. Sept. 13, 2023
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM
Location: Sevastopol Town Hall, 4528 Hwy 57, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Date: Wed. Sept. 13, 2023
Time: 1:30-3:00 PM
Location: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/8650840564
Sevastopol’s Logan Schuh (12) throws a pass while being rushed by Gillett’s Ben Matczak (4) and Brandon DeBauch (20)
during the Aug. 31 Peninsula Conference game at Pioneer Stadium. rACHeL LUKAs
Sevastopol’s Aiden Isaksen (18) runs with the football while being pursued by two Gillett players during the Aug. 31 Peninsula Conference game at Pioneer Stadium. rACHeL LUKAs
Sturgeon Bay’s Danny Lodl (right) throws a pass while being rushed by three Bonduel players as Sturgeon Bay’s Braylon LaRoche (22) provides blocking protection in the Sept. 1 Packerland Conference game at Memorial Field. rACHeL LUKAs
Door County Youth Attend World Youth Day
by THE STELLA MARIS PILGRIMS
orld Youth Day is a worldwide pilgrimage (not a vacation) for Catholic youth that happens every three to four years. This year, 14 of us from Door County traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, to join the 1.5 million youth at this year’s World Youth Day, Aug. 1-6, where nearly every country in the world was represented. We exchanged handmade gifts with teens from many other countries. Many of our group had never traveled outside the United States, taken the metro, or even been on a plane, so this experience was totally new for us.
Our first day was a walking tour of Lisbon and learning about Portugal’s culture. While in Lisbon, we were able to see the Churches of Saint Dominic, Saint
Mary Magdalene, Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha, Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Mamede, Our Lady of Mercy, the Cathedral of Lisbon, the Basilica da Estrela, and last but not least, the church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon!
The church of Saint Dominic was built in 1417 and had survived an earthquake, a fire and even a flood. This beautiful church managed to stay standing throughout the centuries and Catholics still worship there. The church of Saint Mary Magdalene was a small and greatly ornate church where we were able to celebrate Mass with a couple from Hong Kong.
The Cathedral of Lisbon is another beautiful church, however it did not look as one would expect from the outside, as it was built to be a safe fortress for the
• Howell Creek
• Just Paws
• Riverstone Boutique
• Riverstone Wine & Bags
• Nan & Jerry’s Outdoor
• Nan & Jerry’s – Door County Clothing
• Nan & Jerry’s Boutique
• Studio One Art Glass
• ‘Tis the
Christians. The Church of Nossa Senhora
Door County World Youth Day (WYD) Pilgrims with WYD Pilgrims from Puerto Rico in Fatima, Portugal. Submitted.
Why Won’t My Kids/Students Listen to Me?
by KAREN COREKIN-DELAMER, Education
and Community Relations Coordinator, Northern Door Children’s Center
This week I’m going to address a subject that has been a topic of discussion with many parents and teachers. “Why won’t my children (students) listen to me?” Luckily, there has been a great deal of recent research on the brain development of young children and adolescents on this subject. I hope you will find this as interesting and enlightening as I did!
If we took a survey of things that adults find most frustrating about interactions with children, I would feel safe in saying that the inability to listen and pay attention would be at the top of the list. This goes for children of all ages.
I was at an education conference a few years ago and attended a lecture given by Dr. Becky Bailey, a very well-known expert on brain development and social and emotional learning. There were about 200 educators in the room. Mid-lecture, Dr. Bailey asked us when we thought the human brain was fully developed and ready for listening and paying attention.
Audience members offered a variety of ideas, anywhere from five years to 15 years. Then she told us the correct answer – 24 years of age! The silence in the room was profound, as we all struggled to wrap our minds around this. A human being’s brain isn’t ready for what we think of as “listening and paying attention” until they are well into their second decade of life!
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “the brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s. The part of the brain behind the forehead, called the cortex, is one of the last parts to mature. This area is responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing and making good decisions. ”
Dr. Bailey also tells us that young children, especially those under the age of six, process verbal information 12 times slower than adults. This explains why you may need to repeat a request more than once.
Don’t despair! There are many great ideas for helping children listen when you talk. Here are a few:
• When attempting to communicate something to your child, put yourself where they are and get yourself to their level. So instead of trying to tell them something from across the room, put yourself directly in front of them, at eye level.
• Speaking of eye level, ask your child to make eye contact with you. I like to use the phrase, “Look at my eyes, please.” I follow that up by pointing to my own eyes as an extra prompt. Eye contact is usually an indicator that a child is paying attention.
• Once you are sure you have your child’s attention, make your verbal request using a “low and slow” voice. Children tune into things that are interesting. If you make your request sound like a cool secret or fascinating story, they are much more likely to pay attention.
• Because of the extra time children may need to process what you’ve said, give it a moment, then repeat your request. You can also
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Velha was a small, simple church. In the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary we were able to venerate Saint Pope John Paul II’s relics. In the Church of Saint Mamede, we were able to celebrate Mass with many other Pilgrims.
The Basilica da Estrela was a large and marvelous church. It had beautiful statues of different saints and prophets on the outside. At the Church of Our Lady of Mercy we were able to venerate Saint Joan of Arc’s relics, along with a large group of French pilgrims. The Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon is built on Saint Anthony’s birthplace.
While in Portugal we took a day trip to both the Eucharistic miracle at Santarem, and the place that Mary appeared to the three children at Fatima! Needless to say, many tears of joy were cried that day, along with many rosaries prayed. When we arrived in Santarém we were able to adore the real bleeding heart of Jesus. When we visited Fatima there were thousands of other pilgrims from different cultures who we could connect with through deep love for our Catholic faith. At the opening Mass for World Youth Day, we were among more than a million other young Catholics, and when the consecration started, the whole crowd went silent. All you could hear were the beautiful words of the consecration turning the bread into Jesus’s Body and the wine into His Blood.
We also had the opportunity to see Pope Francis while we were in Lisbon. We arrived at the place where he would be coming several hours early, and were able to stand just a few feet from him as he drove to the stage where he would give his speech. While he was passing by, it felt like we were the only ones there, despite being among a huge crowd.
Bishop Robert Barron also gave a talk one of the nights we were there. His talk was very moving, and there was a Eucharisitc procession and Eucharistic Adoration aft er. We unknowingly had chosen a spot that the Blessed Sacrament would pass right by, and were able to be mere inches from Our Lord. Many Bishops from the United States attended and there were even youth from other countries present to hear Bishop Barron’s talk.
The culmination of World Youth Day is an overnight vigil. We hiked to a huge park in Lisbon, slept out under the stars with 1.5 million other pilgrims and then woke up to participate in a sending Mass with Pope Francis.
ask your child to tell you what you just said, to make sure they understand.
• When asking your child to pay attention to multiple requests, be aware of their age. Young children need to be given requests and directions in small increments.
• If you have regular tasks that you need your child to do, related to the daily routine, a picture schedule with photos of your child doing the tasks can be a helpful visual cue to assist the communication process.
• Children tend to tune out yelling, so the calmer and more focused you are, the more likely it is that your child will tune into you.
• Above all things, children want your attention. If you make communication an opportunity for them to have your undivided attention, even for just a minute, the more successful your communication is likely to be.
If anyone has some other ideas that help children listen and pay attention, please feel free to share them with me and I’ll share them with all of you!
Resources: The Teen Brain: 7 Things to Know, National Institute of Mental Health: nimh.nih.gov; Dr. Becky Bailey, Conscious Discipline, consciousdiscipline.com.
Karen Corekin-DeLaMer holds degrees in elementary, special and early-childhood education. She has been a teacher, administrator and parent educator since 1984 and is the education and communityrelations coordinator for Northern Door Children’s Center in Sister Bay. Email your questions to her at k.corekin@yahoo.com
It is hard to express how it feels to be part of so many people all oriented toward the same goal. We were able to connect more deeply with our own group as well as with many other pilgrims.
All in all, World Youth Day was an experience we will never forget and one that moved each of us to be more deeply in love with God, Mary our Mother, and our beautiful, universal, Catholic faith.
Editor’s Note: The above article was a collaborative writing assignment for the youth who attended World Youth Day, as coordinated by Abigail Ahrens, faith formation coordinator for Stella Maris Parish, which serves the Catholic Community of Northern Door County.
From left: Samara Jauregui, Andie Schar, Jacqueline Sandoval, Helen McCormack, William Lautenbach, Abigail Ahrens, Jerry Ahrens III, Michael Stubenvoll, Teddy Roth, Thomas Jauregui, Yahir Valdivia, Jerry Krebs, Father Tom Farrell, Jean Krebs, Liz Stubenvoll, Diego Torres, Darrel Lautenbach, Rose Stackhouse, Meghan Ahrens, Lillian Ahrens, Gabriel (our guide). Submitted.
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September
In the U.S., overall:
time to bring to light some
46% of people who die by suicide had a diagnosed mental health condition — but research suggests that 90% may have experienced symptoms of a mental health condition.
• Although more women than men attempt suicide, men are 4x more likely to die by suicide.
• Suicide is the 12th leading cause of death overall in the U.S.
• Transgender adults are nearly 9x more likely to attempt suicide at some point in their life compared to the general population.
In the U.S., among youth:
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 1014 and the 3rd leading cause of death among those aged 15-24. 22% of high school students experience serious thoughts of suicide. 41% of LGBTQ youth experience serious thoughts of suicide. In fact, , lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth.
Last year, in Wisconsin, 888 lives were lost to suicide—a number that translates to nearly 120,000 Wisconsinites in a single year who would have been directly impacted by a completed suicide. Connection leads to progress
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide, including those who have experienced a loss. AFSP creates a culture that’s smart about mental health through public education and community programs, develops suicide prevention through research and advocacy, and provides support for those affected by suicide.
While we have made great strides as a society in talking about mental health, people are often still hesitant to talk directly about suicide. Research has shown that suicide is preventable and the more we openly, honestly, and directly talk about suicide, the more we can help to prevent it.
AFSP recently launched a powerful campaign to prompt direct conversations about suicide in order to save lives. With this campaign titled “Talk Away the Dark,”, AFSP strives to show the life-saving impact of simple, direct dialogue about suicide and show people how to initiate those conversations, when they are more important than ever.
988 Lifeline - connecting millions
The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, a network of more than 200 state and local call centers funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), answered nearly 5 million calls, texts and chats from people looking for help with suicide, mental health and substance userelated crises since launching in July of 2022.
In its first year of operation, the 988 Lifeline increased answer rates: Calls answered increased by 46%, chats answered increased by 141% and texts answered increased by 1135% compared to the same time period from 2021-2022.
Today, a year after the rollout of the 988 Lifeline, HHS and its 988 Lifeline partners announced the addition of Spanish Text and Chat services. Spanish speakers looking for services can press 2 when calling 988, text AYUDA to 988 or chat online at 988lineadevida.org or 988lifeline.org.
Almost 70,000 calls were routed to the Spanish calling subnetwork last year. The 988 Lifeline also uses Language Line Solutions to provide translation services in more than 240 other languages.
Suicide prevention resources
Suicide is a serious public health problem that can have long-lasting effects on individuals, families, and communities. If you, or anyone you know, are experiencing any of the symptoms above, there is help. Calling or texting 988—the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline— will connect anyone experiencing thoughts of suicide, a mental health concern, substance use issue, or any other emotional distress to a trained crisis counselor.
Additionally, HOPELINE, the text service with a network of 2,600 trained counselors across the state of Wisconsin, will continue to help those in crisis. To access HOPELINE, type 741741 in the “To” section of your phone’s text screen, type “HOPELINE” in the message area, then click “Send.”
In Door County, the local Mental Health Crisis Line—available 24/7—can be reached at (920) 746-2588. Additional local sources of information include your own Employee Assistance Program,
accessed through your employer, or the Community Resources tab on the Door County Library website. If it’s an emergency, call 9-1-1 or go directly to the hospital emergency room to avoid a tragedy.
The #1 preventative measure: Talk about it
Suicide is a topic that hides in the shadows. All too often it goes unaddressed, even when we may sense someone is struggling. More information about how to engage in meaningful conversations about mental health can be found at afsp.org/talkawaythedark/#convos.
Suicide prevention is important every day of the year. National Suicide Prevention Month gives us an opportunity to shine a special, encouraging light on this topic that affects us all, and send a clear, hopeful message that help is available, and suicide can be prevented.
AUGUST RECIPIENT
Marie Therrien RN, RN House
Marie Therrien Wins Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Anyone can nominate a nurse for a Daisy Award. Therrien’s heartwarming nomination came anonymously through the DCMC website:
Marie Therrien is a Registered Nurse (RN) with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and House Supervisor of the Medical/ Surgical Department at Door County Medical Center (DCMC). Since 2008 she has been using her nursing skills to care for and comfort patients. She started out as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the Women’s and Children’s Clinic, earned her RN degree and migrated to Med/Surg in 2010 where she flourished and became House Supervisor in 2013.
Therrien knew she wanted to be a nurse when she watched hospice nurses care for her Grandmother, “I knew I wanted to offer the same kindness, empathy, and compassion they gave my loved one to others.”
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care nurses provide everyday. Now, 21 years after its creation, The DAISY Foundation works with over 5,400 healthcare facilities and nursing schools in all 50 states and in 33 other countries and territories.
“I had not gotten a haircut in 20 years and had many split ends so when I got my hair brushed, it hurt me. I was talking to my Nurse (Marie) about it and she offered to bring her scissors from home. She came in the next day and got me into a wheelchair, washed and brushed my hair, then cut off 8 inches. That was very nice for her to go out of her way to do that for me. I appreciate her special care for me.”
Therrien says the award was unexpected, “I don’t think any nurse ever does something for recognition. We identify an unmet need, and we take the opportunity to improve their situation. I saw the patient as a whole, and not just as their medical diagnosis. A haircut is not a nursing intervention, nor did it change her medical situation, but it made her feel better. If something so simple can make someone feel better, then why wouldn’t you do it? Plus, I got to be a hairdresser for a day!”
We asked Therrien what she loves about working at DCMC. Her response, “If one department needs help, the organization works together to find support. Operating Room staff has assisted in the kitchen, Med/Surg helps the Skilled Nursing Facility, even our CEO stepped in to help clean rooms in the Emergency Department on a busy summer day. I don’t believe that is something you would see in many other facilities. When everyone works so hard to take care of each other, it allows us to take amazing care of our community. This is what inspires me and makes it possible for me to put my whole heart into my work.”
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Therrien is quick to thank her entire team of extraordinary healthcare workers who consistently raise the bar for providing excellent patient care as well as the patient that nominated her. Additionally, she’s grateful to her husband of 23 years who (along with her dog and two kittens) make coming home a joy.
The Door County Medical Center DAISY Committee gives out 4 awards each year—every November, February, May and August.
Each DAISY Award recipient receives:
The “Extraordinary Nurse” Certificate: recognizing the skill and compassion of that nurse and presented in a beautiful portfolio.
The DAISY Award pin: great for pinning to a lapel or an I.D. badge.
• Hand-carved Stone Sculpture: A unique, Zimbabwean sculpture, entitled “A Healer’s Touch.”
• A DAISY Foundation Spotlight Article: which will feature on the DAISY Foundation website, include a photo of the Honoree, and tell the story of why the nurse was honored.
In addition to each individual award, and the recognition that the nurse receives at the award ceremony, DAISY Award recipients are also eligible for numerous benefits and opportunities, including: Grants: like the DAISY Medical Mission Grants, the J. Patrick Barnes Grants for Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice (EBP), the Lynne Doll Grants for Dissemination of Findings, and the Health Equity Grants for Research and EBP. Reduced American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certification Fees: DAISY Honorees are eligible to apply for, or renew, their ANCC certification at a special reduced rate.
• Reduced Tuition: available at Chamberlain University College of Nursing through the DAISY Honoree scholarship. Conference Scholarships: Daisy Honorees can apply to the conference of their choice to support professional advancement.
Do you have a nurse who has touched your life or the life of a loved one? Please visit dcmedical.org/recognize-an-employee to learn more and submit a nomination!
Infant Safe Haven at Door County Medical Center
On the last day of 2021, a mother left her newborn in a box on a street corner in Alaska. Attached to the infant was a note that read, in part, “Please help me!!! I was born today on December 31, 2021 [at] 6AM. I was born 12 weeks premature…My parents and grandparents don’t have food or money to raise me.”
The unfortunate reality is that not every new parent has the ability or desire to care for a newborn, and every year, infant abandonment can—and does—occur for a number of reasons, from a lack of financial resources or social support, to the stigma associated with an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. In 2021 alone, 31 babies were placed in dumpsters, found in backpacks, or discarded in other dangerous locations across the United States.
However, that same year, 73 babies were saved by safe haven laws. “Safe haven was really inspired by a concern over rising neonatal deaths due to abandonment in the late 1990s,” says Sandy Vandertie, MSN RN and Director of Outpatient Services at Door County Medical Center (DCMC). “As a result,” she adds, “there was a big push nationwide to create a safe space where the birth parent or a caregiver could safely relinquish a newborn without fear of legal consequences.
What are safe haven laws?
A safe haven law, also known as a safe surrender law or a baby abandonment law, is a legal measure designed to provide a way for parents to safely relinquish their newborn infants, typically within a specific age range, to designated locations without facing criminal prosecution. These laws are enacted to prevent instances of child abandonment or infanticide and to ensure that newborns have a chance to be placed in a safe environment, such as foster care or adoption.
The specifics of safe haven laws can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but they generally share some common features:
Designated Locations: Safe haven laws establish specific locations where a parent, or an agent of the parent, can leave their newborns without legal consequences. These locations often include hospitals and clinics, fire stations, police stations, and other public facilities.
• Age Limit: There is usually an age limit set for the child, often ranging from a few days to a couple of weeks old. This limit varies depending on the jurisdiction.
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• Anonymity: Many safe haven laws allow parents to relinquish their newborns anonymously, meaning they don’t need to provide their names or any identifying information.
• Immunity from Prosecution: Parents who use the safe haven option to relinquish their child are typically granted immunity from criminal prosecution for abandonment or neglect, as long as they follow the procedures outlined in the law.
The first safe haven law was passed in Texas in 1999. Since then, all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico have enacted safe haven legislation.
Per the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, “Under Wisconsin law, a parent can leave their unharmed newborn child under 72 hours old with a police officer, 911 emergency medical staff person, or hospital staff member without fear of legal consequences. If you do not indicate that you will be back for your child this is called ‘Safe Haven’ or ‘Infant Relinquishment.’ You do not have to give your name or address to the professional accepting the baby, unless: the baby has been harmed; you are being forced by someone to give up the baby; the baby is more than 3 days old.”
Door County Medical Center is a designated safe haven location Door County Medical Center has had a written safe haven policy, and has trained staff on that policy since 2002. “At some safe haven locations,” remarks Vandertie, “there are Safe Haven Baby Boxes, which are physical boxes. So, for example, if a baby is placed in a Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station, a bell will ring alerting the firemen, and the parent or caregiver can walk away in complete anonymity.”
“At DCMC, we don’t provide a Safe Haven Baby Box,” Vandertie notes. “Rather, our internal policy follows along these lines: if someone comes in to relinquish a newborn, they can relinquish virtually anywhere in the hospital and to any employee, no questions asked.”
She continues, “Once the infant is relinquished, we follow official hospital policy. First, we would try to make a judgment call about its age, and also try to ascertain, per state law, whether the parent was planning on returning for the baby. If it seems as though they won’t be returning, then we accept responsibility for the infant.” After the infant is accepted, it is taken to pediatrics or the Emergency Department—depending on the time of day—for a medical evaluation.
A packet is also provided to the person relinquishing the infant that both looks for information and provides it. “While it is absolutely not required, we’re hoping the person relinquishing the infant will stay long enough to fill out the portion of the packet that provides us with detailed information regarding mom’s health at the time of the drop off—is she a smoker, or does she have diabetes or heart disease, that kind of thing—so that we have more information to better care for the infant,” Vandertie says. The packet also provides information about services—resources and education for the mother related to postpartum concerns.
• By offering an anonymous and legal alternative, safe haven laws have provided a crucial safety net for vulnerable newborns and helped prevent instances of child abandonment, allowing parents in distress to relinquish their infants at designated locations without fear of legal repercussions and ensuring that infants are placed in protective custody and receive proper care. Indeed, since 1999, over 4,500 newborns have been relinquished to designated safe haven locations. For more information on safe haven, and on safe haven locations across the state, please visit the National Safe Haven Alliance website at: www.nationalsafehavenalliance.org, or call 1-888-510-2229.
Employee Spotlight: Rebecca OsborneEmergency Department HUC
I developed a passion for mental health and advocacy during my 4 years in the NCAA. At the University Minnesota Duluth, I majored in psychology, was president of the athletic department’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), and founded the UMD Green Bandana Project; a mental health awareness campaign.
After graduating from UMD in ‘22, DCMC gave me the opportunity to join the Emergency Department (ED) as a Health Unit Coordinator. Just like at UMD, my time at DCMC provides me the opportunity to advocate for others and presents growth opportunities. I’m also very grateful to the nursing staff for their mentorship, support, and encouragement. The most enjoyable parts of working in the ED are the opportunities to give back to our community by helping our patients and their families feel supported.
This Fall, I will enter my 2nd year of graduate school at Springfield College in MA, majoring in Athletic Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I look forward to joining the ED once again next summer and working alongside some truly amazing individuals.”
CAROL STEVENSON GILBERT
Dec. 31, 1942 - Aug.25, 2023
Carol Stevenson Gilbert passed away Aug.25, 2023 in Altoona, Florida.
She was born Dec. 31, 1942 to Carl W. and Beulah Reed in Centralia, IL. She graduated from Centralia High School in 1960 and subsequently completed the nursing program at St. Luke’s in St. Louis, MO. She received a Master’s Degree from Illinois State University in Bloomington, IL. Her last position was a Parish Nurse and Wellness Ministry Coordinator in Door County, Wisconsin.
Carol married James Stevenson in Centralia on 8-2963. Two children were born to the couple and they later divorced after over 30 years of marriage. She moved to Florida in September, 2011 and married Fred Gilbert in The Villages in Oct., 2012.
Carol was an accomplished watercolor artist, and often exhibited and sold her work at art exhibitions. She actively participated in local church activities, offering advice and suggestions to those experiencing medical issues. She was active in women’s organizations and frequently was a presenter at healthcare seminars. She was deeply rooted in her faith, and endeavored to make the world a better place for all.
She is survived by her husband, Fred Gilbert, Altoona, FL; son Lance Stevenson, Tampa, FL; daughter Sarah (Marc) Noll, Oswego, IL; grandchildren Reed Stevenson, Brock, Piper and Hayden Noll; brother James (Jean) Reed, The Villages; stepdaughters Elizabeth (Don) Knotts, Madison, TN and Cynthia (Michael) David, Bridgeport WV. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews.
After cremation, a graveside service will be held at Hillcrest Cemetery in Centralia, IL at a future date.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
PHYLLIS (PHIL) SWAGEL
Aug. 21, 1924 - Aug. 28, 2023
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we share the news with you that Phyllis (Phyl) Swagel passed away peacefully the morning of August 28th, 2023. She was surrounded by her 5 children and a daughter-in-law when she left her earthly home.
Phyl had just celebrated her 99th birthday on August 19th, surrounded by an abundance of family and friends.
Phyl was born in Sturgeon Bay on August 21, 1924, to Walter and Marie (Peggy) Haertel. She had a younger sister named Janice (Jan). She was a lifetime resident of Sturgeon Bay and attended schools in Sturgeon Bay graduating in 1942.
Phyl married Harvey Swagel on June 16, 1945, and went on to have five wonderful children.
Phyl worked as a waitress at Bassett’s Drug Store, the Amity Factory, her father’s office in Kewaunee, a ceramic shop and as an Avon representative. Her proudest achievement, however, was being a mother and homemaker which she wore proudly and was incredible at.
Phyl had a passion for life and was always willing to try new things, she definitely had an adventurous spirit! She had many hobbies including card clubs, playing bingo at the Jaycee hall, going to the Senior Center to eat and play games, being a member of the A “DOOR ABLES” (Red Hatters), playing an assortment of games, reading an immense amount of books, traveling and watching games shows. She was also a prolific baker and cook which brought her immense joy, especially sharing her tasty soups, delicious meals and scrumptious desserts with others.
Phyl was her happiest when she was surrounded by family and friends showering them with her love.
Phyl is survived by her children Greg (Sandy) Swagel, Cindy Swagel, Pam (Swagel) Haskins, Becky (Abram) Harris, Shayne (Senta) Swagel; grandchildren: Tanya (Brian) Hansen, Ty (Brandon) Swagel, Justin (Nick) Welch, Nikki (Leon II) Voight, Jessica (TJ) Bardazon, Angela (Coop ) Oram, Cody (Kristy) Oram, Kyle Harris, Kim (Greg) Jacobson, Jill (Kurt) Degrave, Jeff (Val) Espe; sisters-inlaw, Delores & Gracie Swagel; cousins Gary & John Fischer and her dear friend Mary Tollkuehn. She also had many great and great great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Phyl was preceded in death by her husband Harvey Swagel, her parents Walter & Marie Haertel, sister Janice Haertel, cousin Laurel, grandson Tom Espe, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, aunts, uncles.
Family & friends are invited to gather for her visitation at the United Methodist Church on Friday, September 8th from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM followed by a memorial service and light reception.
In lieu of flowers, if you would like to make a donation we would suggest DOOR-TRAN in Sturgeon Bay. This is an amazing non-profit local transportation organization that can benefit from any monetary donations and awareness. What they offer the peninsula is amazing and Phyl often used their services so it’s near and dear to our hearts. A special thank you to Forbes Funeral Home and Reverend Ken Boettcher for handling the funeral arrangements and the memorial service. We would also like to thank our soloist Cheryl Simon and the entire Door County Medical Center staff of the emergency room, ICU Ward, the Medical Surgical Status Ward and Unity Hospice for their amazing, loving and tender care of Phyl.
ELLEN MAHER
With heavy hearts we announce the passage of Barbara Ellen Maher on Sept. 3, 2023, at the age of 88 in Door County, WI. A former resident of Milwaukee and Fox Point, Barbara was the caregiver to her parents, John T. Maher, Jr. and Esther B. Maher, in their later years.
Barbara attended Washington High School and Marquette University in Milwaukee. She was a career employee of Gimbels department stores rising from Assistant Buyer to Merchandise Manager at the time of her retirement. Barbara loved to read, knit, needlepoint, and send letters and correspondence to family and friends.
Barbara is survived by her brother J. Thomas Maher III and his wife Virginia Murphy Jones Maher. Barbara is further survived by step nephews William Jones (Katherine), Michael Jones (Kathleen), and step niece Megan Jones Townsend (Brian). Barbara was so fond of their children Hugh, Jack, Gretchen, Caroline, Liam, Mary Bridget, Nolan, Brendan, and Doug.
Barbara will be missed by her family, relatives, and friends and all those whose lives she touched.
A special thank you to caregivers Brenda, Heather, Makenzie, Madison and to Unity Hospice nurse Angie for her attentive and compassionate medical care for Barbara in her last days.
A private Funeral Mass by Father Thomas Farrell will be held at a later date. Internment at Resurrection Cemetery in Mequon, Wisconsin. Forbes Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
MATTHEW J. SCHNEIDER
Matthew J. Schneider, 51, of Chippewa Falls, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, of natural causes.
On Jan. 20, 1972, Matt was born to Ken and Charlotte (Schuster) Schneider, in Eau Claire, WI. He graduated from Rhinelander High School with the class of 1990.
Matt graduated from UWLa Crosse in 1995, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications. He married Rebecca (Knudtson) on Aug. 3, 1996, at Grace Lutheran Church in Eau Claire. Matt enjoyed spending time with family and friends, especially his precious “daddy-daughter bonding time.”
Matt is survived by his wife, Rebecca; daughters, Emma & Lydia; mother, Charlotte; sisters, Vicki (Carl) Thiry and Terri (Jeff) Farley; niece, Elizabeth (Jeremy) PatrickCrane; nephew, Justin (Amanda) Farley; in-laws, Gerry and Kathy Brock; brother-in-law, Erik (Jessica) Knudtson; sister-in-law, Anne (JD) Woolard; along with many other loving relatives and dear friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, Ken.
The visitation was from 4 to 7 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, at Central Lutheran Church, 28 E. Columbia St., Chippewa Falls.
Per Matt’s wishes, there was a celebration of life memorial service at 11 am on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, at Central Lutheran Church with a visitation one hour prior to the service at church. Rev. Aaron Sturgis will be officiated. The interment will be at a later date.
With his background in medical research and commitment to helping others, Matt generously chose to be an organ and tissue donor.
In lieu of flowers, please support the following organizations that he was very passionate about, Rich Seubert Annual Trap Shoot, Feed My People Food Bank of Eau Claire, Central Lutheran Church Foundation, UW Carbone Cancer Center, and/or Ridin’ for a Reason Rally – Breast Cancer Fundraiser, or give to a charity of your choice.
Pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services, Chippewa Falls is serving the family. Please share your memories and condolences online at pedersonvolker.com
Diane Dieman Paterson, Sturgeon Bay’s first Girls’ State Championship team coach died Saturday, September 2, 2023 at the Horton Skilled Nursing Center in Sturgeon Bay where she was lovingly cared for by staff, Unity Hospice and her devoted family and friends. She was born May 3, 1946 in Waukesha, WI, to Paul Kenneth and Violet Zephonia (Dieman) Dumbleton. July 14, 1973 she exchanged wedding vows with James S. Paterson in Waukesha. The couple recently was honored at a 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration. Following graduation from Waukesha High School in 1964 Diane attended Wisconsin State College Oshkosh and competed on the college volleyball and tennis teams. Diane was hired as the women’s physical education teacher by Sturgeon Bay schools in 1968, prior to the advent of Title 9. Miss D, as she was called started women’s athletics coaching basketball, volleyball and track. In the course of her volleyball coaching career she won seven conference titles, three regional titles and in 1973 placed third in the WIAA State Tournament. Diane and her teams went on to win three Packerland Conference basketball titles. Her track teams earned six conference titles, two WIAA regional championships, three sectional championships in addition to the 1972 State Track title. Diane was inducted into the first Sturgeon Bay Clipper Athletic Hall of Fame Class Sept. 1, 2017. Even after retirement she could be found on the bleachers cheering on her Clipper teams as well as the children of family and friends.
Following retirement in 2001 Diane continued to remain active in the Door County community serving as president of the Door County Humane Society, where she was known for her work on the benefit called Animeal. Her love for her human and furry friends will shine on forever. She was a charter member of PEO Chapter DQ, served as a volunteer in the early days at the Door County Maritime Museum and also played saxophone with the Door County Symphonic Band for many years.
Well traveled, she and her husband made many trips to the East Coast, Florida, Canada and Mexico. She also toured Europe, Scotland and Ireland. She and Jim were known for traveling with their many Schnauzers.
Though slowed down by Parkinson’s Disease, Diane was always ready for a “top down day” in one of her convertibles. When asked how she would like to be remembered Diane replied, “Say she loved tennis, girls’ sports, fast cars and animals!”
Besides her husband Jim, she is survived by her sisterin-law Susan Dumbleton, nieces and nephews Danika Robbins (Matt) Seitzinger, Susan (Edward) Krenz, Stephen (Corinne) Stariha, Scott (LouAnn) Stariha, Sara (Rodney) Ellison and Shawn (Kimberly) Stariha.
Further surviving are 20 great nieces and nephews, 36 great-great-nieces and nephews and many special loving friends.
Preceding her in death was her brother, David Dumbleton, parents Paul K. and Violet Z. Dumbleton and in-laws James S. Paterson, Catherine Dorothy (Emmert) Paterson and Marilyn and George Stariha.
Memorial services will be held at the United Methodist Church, Sturgeon Bay, Saturday, Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Kenneth Boettcher officiating.
Friends may call at the church Saturday from 11:30 until 1 p.m.
Memorials may be made in Diane’s name to the Wisconsin Humane Society Door County Campus or Unity Hospice. The Forbes Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.
Thomas J. Smith, 83, of Rockford, Illinois, passed away peacefully, with his loving wife, Jill, by his side on Aug. 27, 2023, after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. The son of Roy C. Smith and Julia (Washichek), Tom was born Jan. 9, 1940, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He spent his youth working in his parents’ businesses in Door County, which included a cherry orchard and beer distributorship. He was a graduate of Sturgeon Bay High School (1958), and on Sept. 12, 1964, Tom married his true love, another Sturgeon Bay native, Jill Reis.
After a couple years running the beer business, winters living in an uninsulated cottage, including a near-death experience, plunging his International Scout through the ice on Clark’s Lake, Jill convinced Tom it was time for a change. So, in 1966, they moved to the Milwaukee area, and Tom went to work in the lab at Allis-Chalmers in Greendale, working on fuel cells for the space program. While working, raising his family, and attending night school, he later graduated from Marquette University (1968) with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Following in his parents’ entrepreneurial footsteps, Tom and Jill purchased some rental properties, which they managed while living in Milwaukee. During his many years at Allis-Chalmers / Siemens-Allis / Siemens Energy & Automation, he worked in Greendale and West Allis, Wisconsin, and then moved to Sarasota, Florida and eventually Cincinnati, Ohio. He later worked at other companies in Cincinnati and Rockford, Illinois, where they relocated in 1992.
Tom was a loving and fiercely devoted husband and father. He worked hard, consequently instilling a strong work ethic in his kids. Tom relished spending time with his family, waterskiing, downhill skiing, sailing his Hobie Cat and planting trees on every parcel of real estate they owned. While he drew the short straw with Parkinson’s Disease, he hit the jackpot with his strong, loving, devoted wife and caregiver, Jill.
Survivors include his spouse Jill (Reis) Smith, Rockford, IL; his children, Shelley (Dave Yaniak) Smith, Janesville & Milwaukee, WI; and Shawn (Jill) Smith, Frederick, CO; three grandchildren: Sydnee, Parker, and Chandler Smith; his siblings Jim (Heather) Smith, Sturgeon Bay, and Greg (Mary Ellen) Smith, Sturgeon Bay; special friends, Pete (Iva) Carlo, Scottsdale, AZ; and many Reis in-laws, and nieces and nephews.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents and his brother-in-law, Jay Reis.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial, which will be celebrated on Sept. 15, 2023, at 11 am at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Sturgeon Bay, with Fr. Matthew Rappl officiating. There will be no visitation prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, donations in Tom’s name to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research would be appreciated. Forbes Funeral Home is assisting the family. On-line condolences may be offered at forbesfuneralhome.com
Sincere thanks to the entire team at ProMedica Hospice, with special appreciation to Tom’s dedicated caregivers, Deanna, Karla, and Tara. Your loving care and support have been priceless.
BARBARA
THOMAS J. SMITH Jan. 9, 1940 - Aug. 27, 2023
NOTES
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ObItUArIes
Barbara Ellen Maher
Died Sept. 3, 2023
barbara ellen maher died on sept. 3, 2023, at the age of 88 in Door County, Wisconsin. A former resident of milwaukee and Fox point, barbara was the caregiver to her parents, John t maher, Jr. and esther b maher, in their later years. barbara attended Washington High school and marquette University in milwaukee. she was a career employee of Gimbels department stores rising from Assistant buyer to merchandise manager at the time of her retirement. barbara loved to read, knit, needlepoint, and send letters and correspondence to family and friends. barbara will be missed by her family, relatives, and friends and all those whose lives she touched. A private Funeral mass by Father thomas Farrell will be held at a later date. Internment at resurrection Cemetery in mequon, Wisconsin. Forbes Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. Please see the full obituary.
Diane Dieman Paterson
May 3, 1946 - Sept. 2, 2023
Diane Dieman paterson, sturgeon bay’s first Girls’ state Championship team coach died saturday, sept. 2, 2023 at the Horton skilled Nursing Center in sturgeon bay. she was born may 3, 1946 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to paul Kenneth and Violet Zephonia (Dieman) Dumbleton. On July 14, 1973, she exchanged wedding vows with James s paterson in Waukesha. the couple was honored recently at a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. Diane was hired as the women’s physical education teacher by sturgeon bay schools in 1968, prior to the advent of title 9. she started women’s athletics coaching basketball, volleyball, and track. Diane was inducted into the first sturgeon bay Clipper Athletic Hall of Fame Class sept. 1, 2017. memorial services will be at the United methodist Church, sturgeon bay, saturday, sept. 9 at 1 pm. Friends may call at the church saturday from 11:30 until 1 p.m. Please see the full obituary.
Bonita M. (Bley) Viste
March 14, 1940 - Aug. 29, 2023
bonita may Viste, born march 14, 1940, died on tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. bonnie was baptized, confirmed, and married at Zion Lutheran Church in West Jacksonport. she attended sevastopol High school and graduated in 1958. On Aug. 16, 1958, she married Douglas Viste, who preceded her in death in 1995. bonnie worked at Nelson shopping Center for over thirty years. After her retirement she worked part time at the red Geranium gift shop. she will be missed by her children: Jay (Kendra) Viste, Jayne (David) trauger, Jody (Carrie) Viste and Jolynn (David) Nelson; by her grandchildren, Kyle (paige) Nelson, Andrea (tyler) Nelson and Audrey Viste; and by great grandchild Nate Nelson. A memorial service will be held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, baileys Harbor, on monday, sept. 4, 2023, at 11 am. Visitation will be at the church from 9:30 am until the time of service. A tribute page and memorial donation details are available at huehnsfuneralhome.com.
Michael J. Schneider
Jan. 20, 1972 - Aug. 29, 2023
matthew J. schneider, 51, of Chippewa Falls, died tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, of natural causes. On Jan. 20, 1972, matt was born to Ken and Charlotte (schuster) schneider, in eau Claire, Wisconsin. He graduated from rhinelander High school in 1990 and graduated from UW-La Crosse in 1995. He married rebecca (Knudtson) on Aug. 3, 1996, at Grace Lutheran Church in eau Claire. matt enjoyed spending time with family and friends, especially his precious “daddy-daughter bonding time.” the visitation was from 4 to 7 pm on tuesday, sept. 5, 2023, at Central Lutheran Church, 28 e. Columbia st., Chippewa Falls. per matt’s wishes, there was a celebration of life memorial service at 11 am on Wednesday, sept. 6, 2023, at Central Lutheran Church with a visitation one hour prior to the church service. pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel & Cremation services, Chippewa Falls is serving the family. memories and condolences can be shared at pedersonvolker.com. Please see the full obituary.
Phyllis (Phil) Swagel
Aug. 21, 1924 - Aug. 28, 2023
phyllis (phyl) swagel died on Aug. 28, 2023. phyl was born in sturgeon bay on Aug. 21, 1924 and was a lifetime resident of sturgeon bay where she attended schools, graduating in 1942. phyl married Harvey swagel on June 16, 1945. phyl is survived by her children Greg (sandy) swagel, Cindy swagel, pam (swagel) Haskins, becky (Abram) Harris, shayne (senta) swagel; grandchildren: tanya (brian) Hansen, ty (brandon) swagel, Justin (Nick) Welch, Nikki (Leon II) Voight, Jessica (tJ) bardazon, Angela (Coop ) Oram, Cody (Kristy) Oram, Kyle Harris, Kim (Greg) Jacobson, Jill (Kurt) Degrave, Jeff (Val) espe; sisters-in- law, Delores & Gracie swagel; cousins Gary & John Fischer and her dear friend mary tollkuehn. A visitation will be at the United methodist Church on Friday, sept. 8 from 11 am to 1 pm followed by a memorial service and light reception. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to DOOr-trAN in sturgeon bay. Please see the full obituary.
Steven Philip Dhein Sept. 12, 1954 - Aug. 28, 2023
steven philip Dhein, 68, of Green bay and Deerbrook, died at st. Vincent Hospital in Green bay on monday, Aug. 28, 2023, surrounded by his family. He was born on sept. 12, 1954. steve grew up in West bend and spent summers in sturgeon bay at the family’s property on bay shore Drive. He married Debbie Yoder on september 3, 1993. steve will be greatly missed by his wife Debbie; sons Justin (Katie moyer), reed, and blake (Haley VanDenack); sisters Cindy (Jack) Follick and edie (Greg) Chmielewski; father-in-law bill (mary) Yoder and Debbie’s family; as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, and life-long friends. His life will be celebrated at the family’s sturgeon bay property next June. Online condolences may be expressed at prokowall.com. memorials in steve’s honor may be given to the Door County maritime museum at dcmm.org.
Thomas J. Smith
Jan. 9, 1940 - Aug. 27, 2023
thomas J. smith, 83, of rockford, Illinois,died on August 27, 2023, after a long battle with parkinson’s Disease. the son of roy C. smith and Julia (Washichek), tom was born Jan. 9, 1940, in sturgeon bay. He spent his youth working in his parents’ businesses in Door County. He was a graduate of sturgeon bay High school (1958), and on sept. 12, 1964, tom married Jill reis. they moved to the milwaukee area in 1966 and tom went to work in the lab at Allis-Chalmers in Greendale, working on fuel cells for the space program. He later worked at other companies in Cincinnati, Ohio, and rockford, Illinois, where they relocated in 1992. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on sept. 15, 2023, at 11 am at st. Joseph’s Catholic Church, sturgeon bay. there will be no visitation prior to the service. On-line condolences may be offered at forbesfuneralhome.com. Please see the full obituary.
Carol Stevenson Gilbert Dec. 31, 1942 - Aug.25, 2023
Carol stevenson Gilbert died Aug. 25, 2023 in Altoona, Florida. she was born Dec. 31, 1942 and graduated from Centralia High school in 1960, subsequently completing the nursing program at st. Luke’s in st. Louis, missouri. Her last position was a parish Nurse and Wellness ministry Coordinator in Door County, Wisconsin. Carol married James stevenson in Centralia on Oct. 29, 1963. they shared two children and later divorced after over 30 years. she moved to Florida in september 2011 and married Fred Gilbert in October, 2012. she is survived by her husband, Fred Gilbert, Altoona, FL; son Lance stevenson, tampa, Florida; daughter sarah (marc) Noll, Oswego, Illinois; grandchildren reed stevenson, brock, piper and Hayden Noll; brother James (Jean) reed, the Villages; stepdaughters elizabeth (Don) Knotts, madison, tennessee; and Cynthia (michael) David, bridgeport, West Virginia. A graveside service will be held at Hillcrest Cemetery in Centralia, Illinois at a future date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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STEVEN PHILIP DHEIN
Steven Philip Dhein, 68, of Green Bay and Deerbrook, passed away peacefully at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay on Monday, August 28th, 2023, surrounded by his family. He was born on September 12, 1954, to the late Willard and Annette (Solway) Dhein.
Steve grew up in West Bend and spent summers in Sturgeon Bay at the family’s property on Bay Shore Drive. He attended West Bend West High School and UW-Madison. After graduating he moved to Green Bay where he owned a computer store and built a family of his own. He married Debbie Yoder on September 3, 1993, in an intimate civil ceremony at the Brown County Courthouse. They met on a blind date and enjoyed many happy years together.
In 2004, Steve was hired by Dr. David A. Cofrin as Chief Executive Officer for the 1923 Fund, a charitable foundation established by Dr. Cofrin and his wife, Mary Ann Cofrin. After Dr. Cofrin’s death in 2009, Steve continued to administer and lead the philanthropic activities of the 1923 Fund Board of Advisors until his retirement in December 2022. Of the fund’s many worthy causes, including natural conservation, community services, and the arts, he was especially proud of their contributions in Panama to support the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). In 2013, Steve was awarded the Chancellor’s Award by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for his sustained service and commitment to the university.
Steve loved gadgets—especially the free flashlights from Harbor Freight. He was an early adopter of many tech devices—the first guy on the block with an Amazon Echo. “Hey Alexa, play Marvin Gaye on Pandora!” He was an avid Packers fan and a news junkie from grade school on, and never one to miss a game or the five o’clock news. He and Debbie spent all their spare time at the cottage near Antigo enjoying golf, fly fishing, and daily 6:00pm rides on their pontoon boat. They also enjoyed restoring their historic home in Green Bay and collecting art from Wisconsin artists.
Steve will be greatly missed by his wife Debbie; sons Justin (Katie Moyer), Reed, and Blake (Haley VanDenack); sisters Cindy (Jack) Follick and Edie (Greg) Chmielewski; father-in-law Bill (Mary) Yoder and Debbie’s family; as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, and life-long friends.
In addition to his parents, Steve was preceded in death by his mother-in-law Alice (Dave) Whitmore.
His life will be celebrated at the family’s Sturgeon Bay property next June. Online condolences may be expressed at www.prokowall.com.
Memorials in Steve’s honor may be given to the Door County Maritime Museum at dcmm.org.
CWADC will offer rides along the Ahnapee trail beginning sept. 12. Find more information visit cwadoorcounty.com.
LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS
RECEIVE GRANTS
the Wisconsin public service (Wps) Foundation delivered $80,000 to local responder groups across the state under its 10th annual rewarding responders Grant program.
the recipients in Door County were the sturgeon bay Fire Department, which received $2,000 from the foundation to purchase rapid-use mounts for heavy-duty rescue equipment. the mounts will allow firefighters to more quickly remove vehicle extrication tools from their fire engines, saving critical time during serious accidents. the mounts also will help reduce the potential for injuries when removing the rescue tools.
“Without the grant from the Wps Foundation, adding this equipment would not be possible,” said tim Dietman, fire chief for the sturgeon bay Fire Department, in a statement. “When our extrication tools are needed, time is a crucial factor. these brackets will allow us to deploy our extrication tools more quickly while also reducing the potential for injuries to our firefighters.”
the brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department received a grant for $1,950, and will use the award to purchase emergency scene safety equipment.
DEMONSTRATIONS
TAXIDERMY
master taxidermist mike Orthober will be back at the Door County Historical museum for a live demonstration sept. 9, 10 am – 3 pm.
Orthober, creator of the Historical museum’s seasons of Life diorama and member of the taxidermy Hall of Fame, will answer questions and demonstrate his skills for museum visitors as he prepares a local bird for display. the program will run throughout the day and is free and open to the public.For more information, call 920.743.5809 or visit co.door.wi.gov/166/museum.
HOPE UNITED SCHOLAR-INRESIDENCE PROGRAM
Hope United Church of Christ welcomes its scholar-in-residence Jennifer stevens, sept. 10. this year, the scholar-in-residence Committee’s aim was to identify a qualified Native American candidate. stevens, a milwaukee resident, is a member of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin and a descendant of the Lakota Nation. she is an educator and creator-director of children’s productions, an opera singer and an Oneida-Iroquois master potter/instructor.
Jennifer Stevens. Submitted.
stevens will present programs sept. 10 – Oct. 1 the public is welcome to attend these free programs. Her topics will include: sept. 10, 9 am, “Dispelling Native American stereotypes”; sept. 17, 9 am, “ the Oneida ‘Great Law’”; sept. 20, 5 pm, Native American meal (call the church to reserve); sept. 24, 9 am, “Oneida ‘philosophy of the Great mind’”; and Oct. 1, 10:30 am, stevens will speak in worship, World Communion sunday. All programs are held at Hope United Church of Christ, 141 s. 12th Avenue, sturgeon bay. For more information call 920.743.2701 or pastorcarol@hopechurchdc.org
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION
DAY PIRATE PARTY
Wisconsin voting organizations are coming together sept. 19, 6-7:30 pm, for a virtual National Voter registration Day pirate party to empower youth voters.
the pirate-theme just happens to coincide with National talk Like a pirate Day. to celebrate, and – more importantly –inform voters, sign up to join the event. this virtual event will include voter registration information, volunteer actions, games, a chance to win prizes and many bad pirate jokes. National Voter registration Day (NVrD) is a nonpartisan civic holiday celebrating our democracy. Celebrated every september, NVrD involves volunteers and organizations from all over the country in a single day of coordinated field, technology and media efforts. register at bit.ly/NVrDpirateparty.
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SEPTEMBER PROGRAMS AT UUFDC the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) is hosting programs throughout september. All programs are at 10 am. the rev. Joan shiels, who has been bringing messages of hope, hardship and humor to the fellowship for 23 years, will present “How to see a person” on sept. 10, which will explore the experiences of those who live with a disability or disfigurement.
the following week, sept. 17, marie Luna –who helped found the Unitarian Universalist Association of membership professionals group – will present “spending time in the Chrysalis,” an exploration of life transitions, both planned or unplanned. the last presentation for the month will be on sept. 24, “A Listening Heart,” with rev. Joyce palmer, assistant minister at UU Church of rockford, Illinois. palmer will discuss not feeling fully present during conversations and what may be missed because of it. Visit uufdc.org for more details. UUFDC is located at 10341 Highway 42 in ephraim.
PROGRAM TO HELP
CAREGIVERS SELF-CARE
It is important that caregivers pay attention to the physical, emotional and financial problems that their role may cause and continue to take care of themselves. “ the powerful tools for Caregivers” workshop, offered by the ADrC (Aging & Disability resource Center) of the Lakeshore, can help caregivers do that. the workshop focuses on the caregiver and self-care, and offers techniques to reduce personal stress and communicate effectively. there are two workshops scheduled to begin in October, in-person and virtual. the in-person workshop will be held each Wednesday, Oct. 11 – Nov. 15, 9-11:30 am at the Kewaunee County public Health and Human services building, 810 Lincoln st., Kewaunee the virtual workshop will be held each thursday, Oct. 12 –Nov. 16, 4-5:30 pm. An email address is needed to register for the virtual workshop. there is a suggested $10 contribution. Call the ADrC of the Lakeshore at 1.877.416.7083 to register. Class size is limited and open to residents of Kewaunee County.
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by CRAIG STERRET sterrettc64@gmail.com
Along-drive champ helped teams lower their scores at the 14th Celebrity Golf Outing at Horseshoe Bay Golf Club this summer.
But it was a therapist and Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy who drove home messages that inspired golfers to raise as much as possible at the event benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Door County.
Prior to the fundraiser’s shotgun start, long-ball hitter Victor Bourget put on a show, slamming mostlyaccurate tee shots about 390 yards. Then on the course, groups could make donations to play from where Bourget’s ball came to rest.
The more they paid, the closer to the green a foursome would be. And for a $1,000 donation, a team could mark a zero on the hole and then try one shot at a hole-in-one from wherever Bourget’s drive stopped.
Kori Coffeen, vice president of development and marketing, said a few players came close to holing out aft er Bourget’s shots and winning a trip to Palm Beach.
“We heard some yelling, so we thought we were going to get it a couple of times,” Coffeen said.
That presence of the long-drive hitter supplied by Charity Golf International helped boost the outing proceeds for the Boys and Girls Club to $142,780. Coffeen said funds from the event always go to general operations. However, mental health has become one big area of emphasis for those operations in recent years.
In addition to Murphy, former Packers Dave Robinson, Mark Tauscher, Paul Coffman, Harry
GOLF LEAGUE RESULTS
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Thursday Senior Men’s Group
Aug. 31, 2023
• Longest putt on #4: bill Albert
• Closest to the pin on #6: bill Albert
• Longest putt on #8: mark Jinkins
MAXWELTON BRAES
Bonnie Braes Ladies 9-Hole League
Aug. 31, 2023
• Low gross: Lori barnstorff 44, Linda mattes 45, Wendy strauch-Nelson 45, Carol DeVault 46, Char scher 46
• Low putts: Char scher 14, Wendy strauch-Nelson 14, mary Clegg 15, Linda mattes 15, Jacky Davies 16
• most pars: Carol DeVault 3, Wendy strauch-Nelson 3, Jone Kiefer 2, Judy Foster-meyer 2, Julie perley 2, Char scher 2, Donna Williams 2
• birdies: Lori barnstorff, Ally mcArdle, Wendy strauch-Nelson
• Chip-ins: Judy Foster-meyer
• event - predict Your score - Winners: Lori barnstorff, Linda mattes, Joan pleuss, Laura O’rourke, Kathy triolo
Sydney, Jarrett Bush, and John Kuhn participated in the event. They were joined by Packers legend Jerry Kramer and Bob Fox, the co-author of Kramer’s book Run to Win; as well as Mark Forsberg from the NFL Alumni Association.
Coffeen said the Boys and Girls Club continues to provide a safe place for children to have fun and socialize in a place where they feel comfortable and they belong, while spending time around adults who are positive influences and role models.
The Door County, Green Bay and Shawano clubs – all three comprise the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Bay and Lakes Region – all benefit from the work of Corrin Applekamp, licensed therapist, substance abuse and mental health counselor.
Applekamp delivered powerful stories of how the Boys and Girls Club has made a meaningful difference for many of the children and provided crucial services for many in need of help. Coffeen said having a licensed therapist and having trained staff to notice issues helps the club and Applekamp provide help to children who may need it immediately. Coffeen noted that it oft en takes six weeks for young people in need to see a specialist, but staff members can quickly seek out Applekamp if they see signs of a child in crisis or who has expressed suicidal ideations. Murphy – a longtime Boys and Girls Club supporter, Celebrity Outing participant, Door County homeowner and Maxwelton Braes owner – encouraged the 144 golfers and 66 additional banquet-goers to dig deep in their wallets to support such an outstanding organization, said
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STONE HEDGE PWGA Women’s 9-Hole League
Aug. 29, 2023
• Low gross: Kathy triolo 44, Jane mastrangelo 44, Jean torrey Cannery 46, Donna Williams 46
• Low putts: eileen King 13, Jane mastrangelo 14, Jean torrey Cannery 15, Donna Williams 15
Larry Brunette, Boys and Girls Club resource development chairman.
Brunette said he appreciated Murphy’s general message emphasizing the importance of supporting organizations that support children, and therefore the families, that live and work in Door County year-round.
The club also paid tribute to Jim Olson, who brought two foursomes to this year’s event and whose car dealership served as the event’s lead sponsor for 13 out of 14 years. Olson sold the dealership this year.
YMCA Bene t from its Own Horseshoe Bay Event Golf By The Bay this summer at Horseshoe Bay attracted 25 foursomes and raised more than $32,000 as part of Door County YMCA’s annual fundraising campaign. Funds support everything from wellness activities to free meals Monday through Friday for children and teens aft er and before school or during summer.
• most pars: Kathy triolo 3, Jean torrey Cannery 3, margie staats 2, eileen King 2, Donna Williams 2, Jacky Davies 1, Deb Hellen 1, Lynn barkinge 1, Joan pleuss 1
• birdies: Jane mastrangelo 1
• Chip-ins: Jane mastrangelo 1 THE ORCHARDS
Wednesday Hustle League
Aug. 30, 2023
• Low team, best three net scores of the foursome: bill shewchuk, John trampas, brian Ciesil, tom Gregory -8; Jim thiel, terry benjamin, tom Christenson, Jim mcDowell -5
• Low individual gross: Dan Welch 80, Jim thiel 80, bill shewchuk 80
• Low individual net: Jim mcDowell 69, ed movall 70, bill shewchuk 72, brian Ciesil 72
• Closest to the pin on #3: John trampas
Chris Hockers, Matt Hockers, Ian Johnson and Murphy Zinsheim smile after winning the Golf By The Bay fundraising golf outing for Door County YMCA. Submitted.
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Horseshoe Bay enjoyed
Hall of Fame member and Green Bay Packer Super Bowl I and II linebacker Dave Robinson (right, in white shirt), who has played in and supported 13 of the 14 outings for the Boys and Girls Club of Door County. Submitted.
Ice Age Trail to be Rerouted in Potawatomi State Park
Trail-building project will draw hundreds of volunteers, Sept. 6-10
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Potawatomi State Park will be rerouted away from the existing shareduse ski and bike trail and onto the edge of the Niagara Escarpment – a geologic formation, which runs from Door County all the way to New York state.
“With the re-route, hikers will be able to access the Eastern terminus during the winter without compromising the integrity of the groomed ski trails,” said Chad DuChateau, director of trail operations for the Ice Age Trail Alliance (Alliance).
The large-scale trail-building reroute project will take place Sept. 6-10 at the park.
[at Potawatomi State Park] is either the beginning or end of the Ice Age Trail,” DuChateau said. “And, the first (or last) mile of trail needed some improvements. While we were considering those, we took a broader view and decided to put in the work to create a better experience for all types of trail users.”
The project will include:
• Creating .6 miles of new tread along the escarpment;
• Building a 35-step, dolomiticlimestone staircase, which will take hikers to the top of the escarpment;
• Removing overgrown vegetation near the Eastern Terminus in preparation for future beautification efforts;
• Remediating closed, eroded trail to return it to a natural state; and
• Fixing trail signage.
“It’s always nice to have young people at the projects,” said Patrick Gleissner, trail operations coordinator. “Their energy and spirit pairs well with the expertise of our volunteer crew leaders.” Funding for the project came from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program; the National Park Trust and National Park Service through a Challenge Cost Share grant; and the Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation.
It’s been more than 10 years since the last major Ice Age Trail Trailbuilding project at Potawatomi State Park. In April 2022, the rock marking the Eastern Terminus of the Trail was moved a few hundred yards west from a parking lot near pit toilets to its current location, which overlooks the old ski hill and offers views of Green Bay.
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail is a 1,200-mile footpath contained entirely within Wisconsin, traversing from St. Croix Falls in the west, to Sturgeon Bay in the east.
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Nearly 150 Alliance volunteers from across the state will participate in the event. Many volunteers stay for the entire project, others come for a couple of days, or even for a few hours.
On Saturday, Sept. 9, a large contingent of area boy scout troops will be at the project.
The non-profit member and volunteer-based Alliance has been working since 1958 to conserve, create, maintain and promote the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Visit iceagetrail.org for more information.
April 2022 file
photos by Rachel Lukas.
Concert performed by Dr. Daniel Schwandt
Mushroom Season
by CHARLOTTE LUKES
This year’s very dry spring yielded only two morel mushrooms in my favorite hunting area. I didn’t even look for any chanterelles in July. A normal good season for these early edible mushrooms would have a winter of heavy snow and a spring with warm weather and lots of rain. None of these events occurred in 2023.
The three months of April, May and June brought less than four-and-a-half inches of rain. In fact, the first week of May was very wet, then from May 8 to July 5, I got less than a half inch of rain! The longer it stays dry, the more heavy rain is needed to bring the soil mycelium (the actual vegetative plant) out of dormancy. Then, more substantial rains will help the actual mushrooms, the “fruiting bodies,” develop.
Mushrooms are the reproductive part of the fungus, like the apple on a tree. However, fungi don’t have seeds or chlorophyll. They grow into mycelium from the microscopic spores that are released from the mushrooms. Since most mushrooms are 80 to 90% water, you can understand what a two-month drought will do to the mycelium: it becomes dormant.
Now, as I write this at the end of August, my wishes have come to fruition. July gave me three inches of rain and August has brought over five inches. I led my first of 19 scheduled mushroom hikes on Aug. 11 at The Ridges Sanctuary and found three new species for that property. Two of them were new species for my Door County list, bringing that total to 605.
People sometimes ask me to lead a mushroom foray in spring. I usually decline, knowing that so few mushrooms are growing at that time. The true morels are found in late April and May, but not many other species are seen. Most types have their own season of fruiting and the majority appear in summer and fall as the regular growing season for plants and trees begins to wind down.
The experienced hunters know that the true edible morel does not appear in autumn. Many of the good edibles seem to develop from mid-summer – like the golden chanterelle – and later into autumn. Some species don’t show up until the first frost.
I remember hearing about the massive volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June of 1991. Experts said it forced so much debris into the higher atmosphere that it might affect the world’s weather for the next several years. It was June the following year that Roy and I worked to build a tall wire fence around our large vegetable garden to keep deer and other animals out. We finished the job the day before Father’s Day. There was a killing frost that night and we lost about 60% of the tender crops.
Two weeks later, aft er a couple of heavy rains, I was finding shaggy mane and honey cap mushrooms. They normally don’t grow until September aft er a frost. That incident helped to prove my theory about how the weather can affect mushroom growth.
There are numerous good, edible mushrooms that begin to grow in late summer aft er substantial rains. The golden chanterelle, collected by many people, are winding down their season. They can be found from mid-July into September, but the quality deteriorates at the end of their season.
One of the favored mushrooms that Roy and his father would pick is called the honey cap, Armillaria mellea, a somewhat difficult species to identify at first. It is poisonous if eaten raw. In fact, all mushrooms should be cooked before eaten.
The honey cap grows either on trees or at the base of them. It has a brown convex cap with slightly raised scales and an incurved margin, but can become pale brown, smooth and flat as it ages. Many species may change colors and shapes as they age.
Another good mushroom to eat is the aborted Entoloma, Entoloma abortivum. It appears as a round white ball, sometimes near the normal mushroom, but has no gills, cap or stem. All other Entoloma species are poisonous, but this one is good to eat when fresh and solid.
If you want to eat wild mushrooms, always learn those that are poisonous in your area. Some will cause you to vomit within a couple hours, others may kill your red blood cells, some are hallucinogenic, and the worst one destroys your liver and kidneys. That one is called Amanita bisporigera, and the symptoms don’t occur until six to 10 hours aft er ingesting them.
Be very wise in your wild mushroom meals. Most poisonings are due to ignorance and carelessness!
Wild mushrooms continue to appear as long as we get enough rain and the temperature stays above freezing during the day. Once the freezing remains all night and all day, the mushroom season is over.
A pair of honey cap mushrooms
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the featured program “Introduction to telescopes” by DpAs member steve Hellman. If skies are clear, the organization will open the dome of the Observatory for an evening of nightsky viewing. meet at 2200 Utah st. in sturgeon bay. Find more details about these programs and others at Crossroads at big Creek, 2041 michigan st. in sturgeon bay, at crossroadsatbigcreek.org.
CLEARING HIKING TOURS
TREE STAND SAFETY REMINDER
the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources (DNr) reminds hunters to take proper precautions and follow all safety best practices before climbing into a tree stand this fall. surveys indicate one-quarter of Wisconsin bowhunters have experienced a fall or near-fall from an elevated stand in the past. Hunters should inspect their equipment before each use and always select a substantial and solid tree that can support their weight and is free from any dead limbs above. to learn more about tree stand safety rules and best practices, visit dnr. wisconsin.gov/education/Outdoorskills/ treestandsafety.
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the evening of sept. 12, 7 pm, join the members of the Door peninsula Astronomical society (DpAs) for
the Clearing Folk school is offering free, docent-led, interpretive hiking tours that cover the history, folklore and landscape of the school, its historic campus and its 128-acre property. the hikes last about two hours. they begin at the Jens Jensen Visitor Center at 1 pm on many saturdays and sundays through the end of October. maps are also available for self-guided tours during weekend open-house hours. No advance registration is necessary. the trail terrain is rugged in places, so sturdy walking shoes are recommended. Call 920.854.4088 or visit theclearing. org to learn more about these tours, weeklong classes and one- and two-day workshops. the Clearing Folk school is located at 12171 Garrett bay road in ellison bay.
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Hunter in tree stand. Photo courtesy of Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Fandom, from Fiction to Stage: Sherlock Holmes
by AUDRA BAAKARI BOYLE, Peninsula Players Theatre, business manager
Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the most written-about fictional character. His worldwide fame rivals that of Santa Claus, and his image has appeared on board games, cigarette cards, computer games and breakfast cereal. Holmes is amazingly intelligent, vain, moody and unapologetic, yet he remains a relatable man of his time and place – a time when the world is messy, change is happening quickly, bad people do bad things, and a cooly rational person armed with guile and wit confronts the mess and solves the crime.
As a detective, Holmes became the first to use chemistry, ballistics and toxicology to solve crime. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his fictional Holmes on Dr. Joseph Bell, his favorite, highly observant professor who gave his patients a very theatrical diagnosis. He would point out to students clues of professions he insisted they ought to observe at a glance from calluses and worn fabric patterns to distinguish a cork-cutter from a cobbler.
Doyle penned four novels and 56 short stories featuring Holmes. Those have been translated into 65 languages, including Esperanto, Braille and shorthand.
Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet in the 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual. The Irvine Herald and Ayrshire Advertiser, a Scottish newspaper, ran the story as a serial in April, May and June of 1889, but the consulting detective’s notoriety skyrocketed when A Scandal in Bohemia was published in the Strand Magazine’s July 1891 issue. Doyle’s criminalists made their way into newspapers worldwide and – long before films, television or the internet –Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were an international sensation, with young and old enthusiasts clamoring for more. Doyle eventually let his passion for historical novels, plays, romances, poetry and non-fiction take precedence over Holmes’ adventures.
In 1893, Holmes falls to his death while fighting his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in the short story The Final Problem. When Strand Magazine published the story in its Christmas issue, Holmes’ avid readers responded with passionate outcries, and more than 20,000 readers canceled their subscriptions and sent disapproving letters to editors. Such an outcry for a fictional character had not been seen before. An obituary was even published for Holmes in the Boston Post; his death was the beginning of fandom as we know it today. Meanwhile, in America, actor-playwright William Gillette used plot lines from A Scandal in Bohemia and The
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Final Problem to write the stage play
Sherlock Holmes. The play premiered in Buffalo, New York, on Oct. 23, 1899. While touring with the production, with Doyle’s blessing, the dashing matinee idol became the first great interpreter of Holmes. He popularized what became Sherlock’s iconic outfit: Inverness cape, calabash pipe, magnifying glass and deerstalker. Gillette portrayed Holmes more than 1,300 times during his career, forever linking the actor with the character. While on vacation in 1901, Doyle’s friend, Fletcher Robinson, told him about the legend of the hound from Dartmoor, Devonshire. Later that year, Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, which he called a “real creeper.” He needed a strong lead character, and rather than creating a new one, he made a prequel to The Final Problem and revisited Holmes and Watson. In 1903, American and British publishers finally persuaded the reluctant Doyle with a lucrative deal to revive the characters. It is this story that Ken Ludwig used to create the comedymystery Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery – which will be at Peninsula Players Theatre from Sept. 6 – Oct. 15. In 2012, Guinness World Records named Sherlock Holmes the most portrayed literary human in film and television. Many have donned the iconic costume, starting with silent screenera actors Gillette (Sherlock Holmes, 1916) and Sam Robinson, cousin of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, whose main character wears a deerstalker and carries a calabash pipe and a magnifying glass in the 1918 film A Black Sherlock Holmes, by Chicago’s Ebony Films. In 1939, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were paired in the film The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first of 14 films they did together. Rathbone last voiced Sherlock Holmes in Disney’s 1967 film, The Great Mouse Detective, and was the father-in-law of Caroline Fisher, the cofounder of Peninsula Players Theatre. Fisher was in Hollywood training for films in 1937 with Rathbone’s friend, English stage and film actress and acting coach, Constance Collier, when she met Basil’s only natural child, Rodion. Rodion was raised in England and came to the United States to reunite with his father. The young couple had a whirlwind romance, announced their engagement, and in 1938, Rodion and Caroline were married in the garden of the Rathbone’s Hollywood home. Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the third time Holmes and Watson have graced the stage at Peninsula Players Theatre. In 2008, Greg Vinkler and James Leaming portrayed Doyle’s characters and Cassandra Bissell and Maggie Kettering took on the pair in 2018’s Miss Holmes. Kettering returns to Door County to direct Allen Gillmore and Steve Pickering in Ludwig’s fast-paced mystery. The game is still very much afoot.
Peninsula Arts and Humanities Alliance, which contributes Culture Club, is a coalition of nonpro t organizations whose purpose is to enhance, promote and advocate the arts, humanities and natural sciences in Door County. Audra Baakari Boyle is celebrating her 29th season with Peninsula Players Theatre.
Basil Rathbone (left) with his only natural child, Rodion, and his bride Caroline Fisher, co-founder of Peninsula Players Theatre in 1938. Source: Peninsula Players Theatre archives.
William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes (from 1899-1932). Source: New York Public Library, digital collections.
Thomas Gomez and Basil Rathbone in the stage production, Sherlock Holmes. Source: New York Public Library, digital collections.
A MURDEROUSLY
FUNNY ADVENTURE
peninsula players theatre announces performances of Ken Ludwig’s
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery the fast-paced comic mystery is on stage sept. 6 – Oct. 15. the play is based on sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles. portraying the infamous detective duo are two actors making their peninsula players theatre debuts: Allen Gilmore as sherlock Holmes and steve pickering as Dr. Watson. Gilmore has performed on stages across the United states, Canada and europe. pickering is an actor, director and playwright who has performed on broadway and offbroadway. Christie Coran, who returns for her second season is among the three actors portraying various characters Holmes and Watson come across on their adventure. Also making their peninsula players theatre debuts are Kevin tre’von patterson and eric Damon smith. patrons should dress for the weather.
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is performed tuesdays – sundays, 7 pm, except for sunday, Oct. 1 and 15, 2 pm For more information and to purchase tickets, call 920.868.3287 or visit peninsulaplayers.com.
cover. Submitted. CD RELEASE CONCERT On sept. 9, 7 pm, at Northern sky theater’s Gould theater, midsummer’s music presents the release of Beneath the Waves CD with a concert and reception. memphis-based musician eric Lewis and midsummer music’s resident professional ensemble, the Griffon string Quartet, teamed up to record six original tunes and songs. tickets
theater is located at 9058 County
FALL WORKSHOPS AT NORTHERN SKY
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Cast of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (From left) Christie Coran, Allen Gilmore, Steve Pickering, Kevin Tre’von Patterson and Eric Damon Smith. Submitted.
Lachrisa Grandberry (left) with members of a previous writing group circles at Northern Sky Theater.
Fall Festivals
Sister Bay Fall Festival
Sturgeon Bay’s Pierhead Lighthouse. Photo by John Lajka, 2023 lighthouse photo contest winner.
Cinderella greets a young princess during Thrills and Chills. rACHeL LUKAs FILe
FOOTBALL PARTIES!
by TOM GROENFELDT
TPhotographers
Challenging the Rules continued on page 4
An image from the Dockside series, by Dan Cross.
GALLERY guide
Featured galleries are highlighted. It may be helpful to confirm galleries’ hours before visiting.
ALGOmA
Algoma Atelier of
Sculpture and Fine Art
E5977 Fremont Road (920) 487-4200
Clay on Steele
Pottery Studio
221 Steele St. (920) 487-3501
Ladybug Glass
Studio & Gallery
219 Steele St. (920) 591-2883
Robert Ray Gallery
520 Parkway St. (920) 495-6677
The Pottery CO-OP
610 Fourth Street (847) 772.0401
Yardstick Books & Gallery
317 Steele St. (785) 917-9628
Yonder
321 Steele St. (906) 295-0993
bAILeYs HArbOr
Bazyli Studio Wearable and Textile Art
2551 Ahrens Road (847) 347-3562
Chez Cheryl Art Space 8360 High Plateau Road, o EE (920) 421-1690 Donna Brown White Barn Gallery 2496 Meadow Road (920) 839-2883
Morning Mist Studio at Windmill Farm 3829 Fairview Road (920) 868-9282
Juddville Clay Studio Gallery 8496 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2021
sIster bAY
Blue Heron Glass Etching 10578 Country Walk Dr. (970) 319-0918
(1) DC StudiosDeanna Clayton 2571 Cty Q (920) 421-1604
Earth Art Studio Country Walk Shops
– Garden Level (920) 854-1912
Frykman Studio Gallery 2566 S. Bayshore Dr. (920) 854-7351
Hartmann Sign Studio and Art Gallery 10673 Sumac Lane (920) 854-5378
Ingwersen Studio Gallery 2029 Old Stage Road (920) 854-4072
Meadows Art Gallery 10560 Applewood Road (920) 854-2317
Mill Road Gallery 2328 Mill Road (920) 854-4416
stUrGeON bAY
Art Shed 517B Je erson St. (920) 559-9798
ARTicipation Studio & Gallery 10 E. Oak Street (920) 857-8544
Audrey M. Off
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 for a One Day Workshop at Jim Ingwersen’s Historic Studio.
Lois Sprague will guide you through demos and instruction as you develop your drawing skills while working from live models.
Morning session 9-11:30
Drawing quick poses progressing into longer poses from a model (Clothed)
Lunch included 11:30 - 12:30
Catered by Wild Tomato pizza and salad
Critique session 3-4
This will include wine, cheese and crackers (Sparkling juices as well)
Afternoon session 12:30-3
Focusing on just the Face / Portraiture, from a different model.
A time to debrief and have fun discussing the day. The day will be focused on charcoal and pencil. No painting allowed. Total cost $250
If interested please contact: Lois Rosio Sprague loisrosiosprague@gmail.com loisrosiosprague.com 719-499-0336
Ethereal paintings of Door County Landscapes by Master Artist Margaret Lockwood, also jewelry, mobiles, sculptures, ceramics, and gifts in an historic Sturgeon Bay building. In the Steel Bridge Creative District. Open May-October Thurs, Fri, Sat and always by appointment.
Margaret Lockwood Gallery
7 South 2nd Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 • 920-493-3635 info@margaretlockwoodgallery • MargaretLockwoodGallery.com
(1) CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY TOUR
Four festive receptions to showcase the diversity of the county’s contemporary art scene will run concurrently sept. 16, 3-7 pm, during the annual Contemporary Art tour. each of the participating galleries will feature recent works by the owners and the artists they represent.
Idea Gallery, 6551 County t, West Jacksonport, now in its sixth season, showcases 50 artists in all media, many of whom are nationally and internationally renowned. the featured Door County artists are gallery director and owner Dan Cross, Lynn Gilchrist, Jodi Gonzales, melissa resch, Daniel Higgins, Nan Helscher, emily roedl, John Whitney and Cynthia Wolfe. Cappaert Contemporary Gallery, 7901 Highway 42, egg Harbor, is the working
studio and gallery of artist Ginnie Cappaert.
Nature and her travels inspire and influence the oil, cold-wax and mixed-media paintings for which she has become known. Also represented are 40 artists – many nationally known – who work in sculpture, encaustic, painting, wood, ceramics and jewelry.
Deanna Clayton Glass, 8499 Highway 42, Juddville is a working studio and gallery showcasing Clayton’s sculptural glass works. In addition to the studio/gallery, she teaches workshops for any skill level. martinez studio, 5877 Highway 57, Jacksonport, showcases contemporary, hand-spun wool tapestries based on Wence martinez’s geometric patterns and the symbolist paintings of business partner, sandra. their collaborative, national-award-winning artwork is in the permanent collections of the smithsonian Institution, museum of Wisconsin
Hardy
David Graham – Always Looking
David Graham does documentary photography in large format color based on the American cultural landscape, oft en images along the highways and local roads across the country.
At The Hardy, Graham will show work he made since he moved to Wisconsin in 2021.
His wife, Terri Warpinski, also an internationally known photographer, described his process as she has seen it from the passenger seat.
“There is a lot of roadside where you’re just cruising along and you see a picture and pull over,” she said, turning to David. “You saw one on the way here.”
Graham agreed that is how it oft en works.
“You pull over and you take a picture. There’s a certain history of all that, since I’d say, the Farm Security Administration,” David said, referring to a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty, in which photographers were hired to show conditions across the country. “It’s a pretty active kind of way of looking at things.”
From 1990 to 2002, Graham did a lot of editorial work for national publications including the New York Times Magazine, Time Newsweek Esquire GQ Life and Details
(2) BOUQUETS ON CERAMICS two bridges studio & Gallery is featuring a collection of ceramics by ellen Levenhagen, Functional
“Assignments were like getting a little grant,” he said. “For editorial work, I shot medium format with a Hasselblad and then before and aft er I was shooting my own work with an 8 x 10 view camera.”
He’s published several books of his photographs with Aperture, the leading photography publisher in the U.S., including Taking Liberties and Land of the Free – What Makes Americans Different
Terri Warpinski – Camera as a Tool
Terri Warpinski is a professor emerita of art aft er teaching photography and serving in upper administration at the University of Oregon for 34 years. Now she divides her time between curating exhibitions for newARTSpace in De Pere, the gallery she and her husband own, and working on her own artwork in their shared studio.
“I have always been project-driven in my photography,” Warpinski said. “The camera is what first helped me locate content, or subject matter, and that becomes the seedbed from which the bigger ideas grow.”
Some of Warpinski’s project work is about borders, like the U.S./Mexico, Israel/
lPalestinian Territories, and Berlin in the time of the Cold War.
“When I relocated back to Wisconsin and we weren’t traveling anymore because of COVID, I was intent upon finding a subject in something here,” she said. “The Door County Land Trust has provided a rich basis for my recent work.” At The Hardy she will show work that builds on her exhibit at the Kress last year.
“It is the next elevation of the Land Trust work,” she said. “But it is more complex than straightforward. I mix
(Top to bottom, from left) Artist Dan Wieske. Facebook photo. | “Escarpment Lookout” painting by Dan Cross. Submitted. | “Soul Journey” painting by Ginnie Cappaert. Submitted. | Pressed
flower art by Linda Thompson. Submitted | Ceramic vase by Ellen Levenhagen. Submitted. | (Below ) Ceramic plate by Ellen Levenhagen. Submitted | Pressed flower collage by Linda Thompson. Submitted.
“Flamingo, Oshkosh, WI ‘22” by David Graham.
“Heins Creek Remains” by Terri Warpinski.
(3) OPENING RECEPTION AT SŌMI GALLERY
sŌmI Gallery welcomes guest artist Ariana Vaeth to the third room sept. 8. An opening reception is planned for 4-6 pm. Ariana Vaeth is a baltimore-raised artist focused on contemporary narrative through self-portrait. In Standby, she presents intimate figurative pastels and oil paintings that reflect the spirit of friendship and camaraderie. the entanglement of tender interactions between friends, family and chosen-family in her work expresses a universal quality of community and affection.
Vaeth is a 2018 emerging Artist mary Nohl Fellow and received the gener8tor Art creative entrepreneurial grant. she also received a Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award and spent fall of 2021 in Door County at the Al & mickey Quinlan studio and housing residency. Standby will run through Oct. 16.
sŌmI Gallery is located at 45 s 3rd Avenue, sturgeon bay.
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EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING
Celebrate the end of summer and welcome autumn with Flower Fest - A Celebration of beautiful endings, sept. 9, 12-5 pm. brilliant stranger is hosting the event in advance of its October closure of its retail shop and gallery. the sept. 9 event will include flower pressing with Linda thompson, food and tea tastings, sale items and live music by tony bessen 1-3 pm. For more information text 920.366.0301 or visit facebook.com/ events/261853450012284/ brilliant stranger is located at 7896 Highway 42, egg Harbor.
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10 YEARS AT LENSCH GALLERY
the Angela Lensch Gallery is celebrating its 10-year anniversary sept. 14, 4-7 pm, with live music, food and local beverages. the event is free and open to the public.
Founded in 2014 by artist Angela Lensch, the gallery originally featured Lensch’s hand woven gold and silver jewelry as well as three-dimensional artworks by Door County and Wisconsin artists including mosaics, stained glass, metal sculpture, cork purses, mixed fabric dream catchers and jewelry. the Angela Lensch Gallery is located at 7653 Highway 42, egg Harbor.
(6) EXHIBITION OPENING AT MILLER
the miller Art museum announces the opening of its 48th Juried Annual sept. 15. eight award winners, including the recipient of the Gerhard CF miller Award of excellence, will be announced at a free, public celebration, from 5:30-7 pm. Light refreshments will be served, with music provided by Craig schultz and mike miller. the exhibition will be on view through Oct. 28. the Juried Annual, a nearly 50-year tradition of the miller Art museum has broadened in geographic scope in recent
into my photographic practice other materials and other content, so the work is becoming more sculptural, more installation based. For example, there’s a large hanging fabric piece. The work also embeds more of the pre-history of the land here, and looks at the early colonization of Door County before statehood.”
Warpinski contrasted her approach to photography with Graham’s.
“I’m not a photographer’s photographer,” she said. “Everywhere David is, he’s looking for a picture and there is always a camera in the car. That’s not me. To me, the camera is a much more specific tool. It’s more like a paintbrush, something that has a very specific purpose for me.”
Warpinski’s work is not readily explicit, she added.
Having a hearing disability since birth has made him a close observer, Cross said.
“I took lip reading early in life,” he explained. “In turn, it led to looking at everything more closely, so my perspective of seeing things, from the big picture, is refined to seeing minute details.”
Cross has been photographing docks, and elements of docks, for most of his life, and that’s what he will be showing at The Hardy.
“Rendering Intent [ions]” – Contemporary Photoworks by Dan Cross, David Graham and Terri Warpinski will be at The Hardy Gallery in Ephraim through Oct. 8.
“It’s not like you’re going to get the notes on the side pointing out every detail, explaining exactly what it is, or why it is there,” she said. “I could be more didactic with the way that I photograph, but that’s not my voice. As an artist, I’m not making pictures to explain things, I want to provoke curiosity.”
Dan Cross – A Dream Realized
Dan Cross, photographer, painter, digital artist and owner of Idea Gallery, in West Jacksonport, has been coming to Door County since he was three years old. His father was an educator and had summers off, so they camped for weeks on end in Weborg Campground inside Peninsula State Park. This is where his story for his series “Dockside” begins. The big dock and the little pier in Weborg.
“I take elements out of context,” he said.
“Something that’s very small, I make large. I’m trying to give the viewer a different viewpoint, hopefully to slow people down to take notice of the docks and preserve them from a historical standpoint. The docks give the villages the charm visitors characterize with Door County. Many of the small piers and docks from my childhood are gone.”
Docks are a significant part of his sense of Door County.
“I’ve never had a show of this dockside series,” Cross said. “I remember thinking, I’ve shot these docks all my life; the most appropriate place to show them would be the iconic Hardy Gallery, a dock that’s been used since the schooner days. To be asked to exhibit this body of work is a dream realized.”
(Top to bottom, from left) “Love is Blind” painting by Ariana Vaeth. Submitted. | Artwork at The Angela Lensch Gallery. Submitted. | Tony Bessen. Submitted | Artist Karen Wieske. Facebook photo. | Art show barn. Facebook photo. | (Below) Glass bowl by Deanna Clayton. Submitted.
An image from the Dockside series, by Dan Cross.
))literature
Death’s Door: True Tales of Tragedy, Mystery, and Bravery from the Great Lakes’ Most Dangerous Waters.
NOVEL-STYLE HISTORY FEATURES
DEATH’S DOOR
the Wisconsin Historical society press will release its first graphicnovel style history this October: Death’s Door: True Tales of Tragedy, Mystery, and Bravery from the Great Lakes’ Most Dangerous Waters
Written and illustrated by the award-winning children’s book team of barbara Joosse and renèe Graef, this illustrated book for young readers relates five true, maritime stories. these tales span four centuries of Door County history, but they all take place in a stretch of water near Lake michigan’s notoriously dangerous western shore known as Death’s Door. the book accounts a 17thcentury fur-trading crew, an 18thcentury potawatomi trading party, a mail carrier and a shipbuilding family from the 9th century and an early 20th-century basketball team. An informative afterword provides insight into the author’s sources and features archival images and additional historical details about each of the stories.
Death’s Door follows society press’s best-selling maritime stories for younger readers, Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes and The Fishermen, the Horse, and the Sea ONLINE WRITING
PROGRAMS THIS FALL
Write On, Door County offers several new online programs this fall for writers at all levels, including one-time workshops as well and on-going classes.
“more Grammar for Writers,” led by tara Dapra, is a two-part series that will review some of those long-forgotten rules of grammar and explore how choices of syntax and diction define a writer’s voice. the class meets sept. 9 and sept. 16, 11 am – 12 pm, cost $40. Dapra is Associate professor of english and Writing Foundations at the University of Wisconsin-Green bay.
Award-winning author Anika Fajardo offers “memory, meaning, and metaphor in memoir” on sept. 12, 6-8 pm, cost $40. Writers will dig deeper into their own experiences to find those pieces of truth that make a story universal. Fajardo is the author of the memoir Magical Realism for Non-Believers as well as several books for young readers.
two four-week online classes begin in October. “Writing the Humorous personal essay,” led by Jeremy Owens, offers an in-depth look at various forms of personal funny essays. the class begins Oct. 4, 7-9 pm, cost $160. the “the Art of brevity,” led by robin sauerwein, will explore flash fiction and memoir, prose poems and other very short forms. the class begins Oct. 24, 6-8 pm, cost $160. A limited number of scholarships are available for these programs. For more information, visit writeondoorcounty.org.
Technology and Religion
by GRACE JOHNSON grace@ppulse.com
The Washington Island Literary Festival returns for the 11th year on Sept. 21-23. This year’s presenting authors – Amy Quan Barry, Brenda Cárdenas, Lan Samantha Chang, Meghan O’Gieblyn and Shelby Van Pelt – will host talks and workshops surrounding the 2023 theme, “Space for the Unexpected.”
The festivals kicks off with a free community creative lab on Sept. 21, 12-3 pm; author workshops will take place Sept. 22, with an evening reception at the Farm Museum; and the authors will have talks, a panel discussion and signings to close the festival on Sept. 23. Visit writeondoorcounty.org to get more details and register.
Presenter O’Gieblyn is an author, essayist and columnist for places such as The New Yorker The New York Times and WIRED, among others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her first book, Interior States, won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction, and her most recent book, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning, was published by Doubleday in 2021.
In a recent episode of the Door County Pulse Podcast, I talked with O’Gieblyn about her recent book, how she ended up writing about religion and technology, the current state of AI technologies, and how her work fits into the theme of this year’s festival. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Listen to the full interview by scanning the code.
Grace Johnson (GJ): Can you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and how you ended up writing about religion and technology?
Meghan O’Gieblyn (MO): It really grew out of my personal experience. I grew up in a very religious home. My family and my parents were fundamentalist Christians. We didn’t
use that exact terminology when I was growing up, but we believed that the Bible was the word of God, and that Christ was going to return eminently.
I actually studied theology in college. I went to a small bible school called Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. I wanted to be a missionary when I was young. But I ended up actually having a faith crisis during my second year and I left the school.
I sort of lost my faith over the period of years following that, and I was writing throughout that time. I was writing a little bit of fiction and journaling a lot about that whole process and reading a lot of philosophy and I got into technology.
GJ: I was curious what the process is like for writing something like this, something that contains a great deal of research that’s conceptualized or understood through your own personal experiences and anecdotes.
MO: It was tough. I mean this is the first book that I’ve written that was one sustained topic. My first book was a collection of essays, and I really consider myself an essayist at heart. It was a lot of trial and error.
The other thing that surprised me during the process is that initially, I didn’t think I was going to use that much of my personal experience in the book.
I started this project at a time when I was feeling very ambivalent about being a first-person writer and relying on my experience so much. I felt like it was oftentimes a distraction from the topic.
Once I was willing to put more of myself into the book and talk more about what these ideas really meant to me, that was really when the idea started to take off and I felt like I was able to get some more energy around the process.
GJ: You are one of the featured authors at the Washington Island
Literary Festival. This year, the theme for the festival is “space for the unexpected.” How do you see your work fitting into that theme?
MO: I guess the obvious answer is that technology is really a place of the unexpected, especially the technology that we’re developing right now. I think one of the most frightening things about AI [artificial intelligence], is that it’s really unpredictable. When we have a machine learning-process system that’s learning on its own through trial and error, it can develop weird emergent features – it can develop skills that weren’t programmed into it. I’m really interested in the way in which that process is mirrored in the creative process. When you start working on a project you don’t know what’s going to emerge. It’s a complex system. Language is a complex system, so there’s really no way to totally determine what’s going to come out in advance.
Recommended by DOMINIC FRANDRUP, director at the Door County Library
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Meghan O’Gieblyn. Submitted.
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Happenings submissions are due by noon on Friday the week prior. Send them to pr@ppulse.com.
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LIVE MUSIC
VINYL NIGHT
Drömhus Door County, 611 Je erson St., Sturgeon Bay. 608.333.4553. 5-10pm. Play Jazz records or bring your own.
BEN LARSEN Harbor Ridge Winery, 4690 Rainbow Ridge Rd, Egg
Harbor. 920.868.4321. 1-4pm. A mix of modern & oldies tunes.
JAMUS UNPLUGGED Door 44 Winery, 5464 County Hwy P, Sevastopol. 2-5pm. Acoustic variety.
AUSTIN SKALECKI The Cherry Hut, 8813 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.868.4450. 3-6pm. Blues, rock & folk. TURNOUT FRIDAYS VINYL NIGHT Sway Brewing & Blending, 2434 County Road F, Baileys Harbor. 4-8pm. Vinyl records spun by DJ Trent Magik.
Lake Fire Winery, 8054 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.9992. 4-6pm. Acoustic classic rock.
SCOTTY MEYER Boathouse on the Bay, 10716 N. Bay Shore Drive, Sister Bay. 920.854.3223. 5-9pm. Bluesy rock.
JAMIE LYNN FLETCHER
Florian II Lakeshore Supper Club, 8048 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2361. 5-9pm. Jazz, Brazilian, piano bar & pop.
Stabbur Beer Garden, 10698 N Bay Shore Dr, Sister Bay. 920.854.2626. 7-10pm. Rock favorites. THEATER
“LIPSTICK OPTIONAL”
DON’T MISS A BEAT. Scan for the digital calendar.
Northern Sky Theater – Park Stage, Peninsula State Park Amphitheater, 10169 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
4pm. Celebrating the women of Northern Sky with stories, song & dance. $25/person.
DIRTY MARTINIS Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N 1st St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.0700. 6:30-10pm. Rockabilly.
BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY” Peninsula Players, 4351 Peninsula Players Rd, Fish Creek. 920.868.3287. 7pm. A funny, fast-paced mystery. $42-48/person. Half o for under 18. “THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY” DC Arts Center, 917 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0816. 7:30pm. Four unique Southern women have an impromptu happy hour. $20/adults, $10/students. Presented by Rogue Theater. Reservations encouraged at 920.818.0816 or roguetheater.org. “FUNCTIONAL BOUQUETS” Two Bridges
MOUTH TRIO Stabbur
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CLASSES
Whether you’re looking for an in-depth foray into art, literature, nature, health or history, someone along the peninsula is sure to o er an experience for you. Please contact the institutions below for more information.
10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/ member, free/16 & under.
7-9pm. Learn about the Ridges’ nocturnal animals during a night hike. $15/public, $12/ member, $7/26 & under.
HORSESHOE BAY FARM TOUR Horseshoe Bay Farms, 7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor. Tours at 11am & 1pm. $10/person, free/13 & under. Register at horseshoebayfarms.org.
Clay on Steele Pottery 221 Steele St., Algoma 920.487.3501 clayonsteele.com
Dance with Willa! Northerndoor.recdesk.com wwilde5678@gmail.com
Door County Fitness Studio 10583 Country Walk Dr., Sister Bay 920.345.2287 DoorCountyFitnessStudio.com DoorCountyFitnessStudio@ gmail.com
Door County Music Co. 27 N. 3rd Ave., Sturgeon Bay 920.746.8908
Door County Rubber Stamp 751 Je erson St., Sturgeon Bay 920.746.9080 doorcountyrubber stamps.com ohansen@charter.net
Door County Yoga 920.413.1063 doorcountyyoga.com
Hands On Art Studio 3655 Peninsula Players Road, Fish Creek 920.868.9311 handsonartstudio.com info@handsonartstudio.com
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LIVE MUSIC
THE HITCHIKERS
The Hitching Post, 4849 Glidden Drive, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.1114. 4-6pm. Bluegrass KARAOKE
Mike’s Port Pub, 6269 Hwy 57, Jacksonport. 920.823.2081. 8:30pm-2am. Hosted by Jacob Mattson. CATHY GRIER
Parallel 44 Winery, N2185 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Kewaunee. 920.388.4400. 12-5pm. Fundamental female blues. TONY BESSEN Brilliant Stranger, 7896 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor. 920.366.0301. 1-3pm. Live music featuring handmade guitars by Dale Kumbalek. Performance part of Flower Fest.
BEN LARSEN Harbor Ridge Winery, 4690 Rainbow Ridge Rd, Egg Harbor. 920.868.4321. 1-4pm. A mix of modern & oldies tunes. THE CHARMS Door 44 Winery, 5464 County Hwy P, Sevastopol. 2-5pm. Rock, Americana & pop.
SCOTT WILCOX Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery & Market, 9197 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.868.3479. 2-5pm. Pop, country & blues hits.
CHRIS RUGOWSKI Door County Brewing Co. and Music Hall, 8099 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.1515. 3-7:30pm. Singer-songwriter. BRADY UEKERT The Cherry Hut, 8813 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.868.4450. 3-6pm. Folksy singersongwriter.
JOHN LEWIS Twelve Eleven Wine Bar, 10339 Hwy 57, Sister Bay. 920.421.9463. 5-7pm. Independent singer-songwriter.
SCOTTY MEYER Boathouse on the Bay, 10716 N. Bay Shore Drive, Sister Bay. 920.854.3223. 5-9pm. Bluesy rock.
JAMIE LYNN FLETCHER Florian II Lakeshore Supper Club, 8048 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2361. 5-9pm. Jazz, Brazilian, piano bar & pop.
Fragrant Isle Lavender
Farm & Shop 1350 Airport Road, Washington Island 920.847.2950 frgrantisle.com
Intermediate Yoga with Liz Heller Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor 920.421.3810
Junction Center
Yoga Studio 3435 Junction Road, Egg Harbor 920.823.2763 JunctionCenterYoga.com kathy@JunctionCenterYoga. com
NWTC Learning and Innovation Center 2438 S. Bay Shore Dr., Sister Bay 920.746.4970 NWTC Sturgeon Bay 229 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay 920.746.4900
ALL IN Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N 1st St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.0700. 6:30-10pm. 3 musicians spanning multiple genres.
GLAS HAMR Stabbur Beer Garden, 10698 N Bay Shore Dr, Sister Bay. 920.854.2626. 7-10pm. Rock & roll covers from the past.
GENEVIEVE HEYWARD & JACKSON MANKOWSKI
Trueblood Performing Arts Center, 870 Main Rd, Washington Island. 920.847.2528. 7:30pm. Singer-songwriter duo. $20/person.
KARAOKE Northern Grill & Pizza, 10573 Country Walk Dr, Sister Bay. 920.854.9590. 9pm. Hosted by Lena MacDonald. 21+ only.
KETCHUP Hill Street, 4149 WI-42, Fish Creek. 920.868.5282. 10:30pm. Funky instrumentals & certified hipster covers.
THEATER
“LIPSTICK OPTIONAL”
Northern Sky Theater – Park Stage, Peninsula State Park Amphitheater, 10169 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
4pm. Celebrating the women of Northern Sky with stories, song & dance. $25/person.
“KEN LUDWIG’S
BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK
HOLMES MYSTERY”
Peninsula Players, 4351 Peninsula Players Rd, Fish Creek. 920.868.3287.
7pm. A funny, fast-paced mystery. $42-48/person. Half o for under 18.
“THE SAVANNAH
SIPPING SOCIETY”
DC Arts Center, 917 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0816.
7:30pm. Four unique Southern women have an impromptu happy hour. $20/adults, $10/students. Presented by Rogue Theater. Reservations encouraged at 920.818.0816 or roguetheater.org.
PERFORMANCE
FALL CONCERT SERIES
Birch Creek Music Performance Center, 3821 Cty E, Egg Harbor. 920.868.3763.
7-9pm. Featuring Talk of the Town, an upbeat jazz group.
MIDSUMMER’S MUSIC
Northern Sky Creative Center & Gould Theater, 9058 County Rd A, Fish Creek. 920.854.7088.
7pm. Beneath the Waves CD release Concert and
Dearly Departed Cemetery Walk Ephraim Moravian Cemetery and Church Monday, September 11, 2023 - 1:00 p.m.
Learning in Retirement Classes 920.746.4947 nwtc.edu/lir dclir@nwtc.edu
Peninsula School of Art 3900 Cty F, Fish Creek 920.868.3455 peninsulaartschool.com sta @peninsulaartschool.com Roots Yoga & Healing 417 Steele St., Algoma 920.255.0776 jamieschmiling@gmail.com
Sievers School of Fiber Arts 986 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island 920.847.2264 sieversschool.com
Sister Bay Karate 850.766.9030 doorcountydojo@gmail.com
St. Joseph Formation Center 3035 O’Brien Road, Baileys Harbor 920.839.2391 cyexpeditions.org mail@cyexpeditions.org
Some Bunny Who Cares Creative Cards M3, 142 S. 3rd Ave., Sturgeon Bay 920.495.9445 tavherbst@gmail.com
Stone Path Yoga Studio 10172 Hwy 57, Sister Bay 920.421.1607 stonepathyoga.com stonepathyoga@gmail.com
The Clearing 12171 Garrett Bay Road, Ellison Bay 920.854.4088 theclearing.org clearing@theclearing.org
Turtle Ridge 11736 Mink River Road, Ellison Bay 920.854.4839 turtleridgegallery.com
Washington Island Art Association Washington Island 920.847.2404 washingtonislandarts.com
White Rose Healing Arts Studio 9281 Maple Grove Road, Fish Creek 920.421.2344 galeRitchey.com
Reception, Eric Lewis and the Gri on String Quartet
GALLERIES
GLASSBLOWING DEMO
Burnt Blu Stone & Glass, 8819 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.395.5191. 1-3pm. See how glass art is created.
STUDENT EXHIBIT
Morning Mist Studio at Windmill Farm, 3829 Fairview Rd, Jacksonport. 920.868.9282. 4-7pm. Watercolor artist and instructor Ed Fenendael and several of his students display their work.
FOOD & DRINK
WISCONSIN WINE
HARVEST FEST
Door 44 Winery, 5464 County Hwy P, Sevastopol. Enjoy an assortment of wines, food and live music. Take a tour of the grounds, participate in the grape stomp and more.
INDOOR
HANSON HOUSE TOURS
Bertha & Hans Hanson House, 2022 Utah Street, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.5895. 2:30pm-4:30pm. Visit a pioneer home and learn about life in the 1880s. All ages welcome. Free. POKÉMON TOGETHER
The Gnoshery, 23 N. 3rd Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0727. 10am-12pm. Learn about the game from Poké professors. TAXIDERMY DEMONSTRATION Door County Historical Museum, 18 N. 4th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.5809. 10am-3pm. Taxidermist Mike Orthober prepares local birds for display. HOW THE HECK DOES THIS COMPUTER WORK?
Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 10:30am. Computer Basics for Beginners. Bring a laptop if you have one. Training provided by Bug Tussel. FLOWER FEST Brilliant Stranger, 7896 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor. 920.366.0301. 12-5pm. Celebration of the beautiful endings of Brilliant Stranger with live music, flower pressing, wild food and tea tastings.
LITERATURE
WRITE ON EVENTS Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd, Juddville. 920.868.1457.
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Write On, Door County 4177 Juddville Road, Fish Creek 920.868.1457 writeondoorcounty.org info@writeondoorcounty.org YMCA Northern Door Program Center 3866 Gibraltar Road, Fish Creek 920.868.3660 doorcountyymca.org info@doorcountyymca.org YMCA Sturgeon Bay Program Center 1900 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay 920.743.4949 doorcountyymca.org info@doorcountyymca.org
“Do you prefer indoclots or syndicates?”
“Zoobas, crocks and no bra are appropriate, I hope.”
Alberta Seiler Kaminsky
Join us in our 12th year of portraying the historic people of Ephraim.
Limited parking at the cemetery for those with mobility issues. Rain? Come to the church at 9970 Moravia for the whole program. • Sgt. Marvin Hansen
The Wilson Women (Kay, Lil, Petie and Verna)
Listen to their stories, then see artifacts from their lives and enjoy refreshments at church. Tram between the church and the cemetery (Willow at Norway) 12:30 to 3 p.m.
We Purchase Collections
Bryan Stary @ Papa B’s
There’s one place you gotta’ know
When
OUTDOOR
HORSESHOE BAY FARM TOUR Horseshoe Bay Farms, 7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor. Tours at 11am & 1pm. $10/person, free/13 & under. Register at horseshoebayfarms.org.
STURGEON BAY FARMERS MARKET Downtown Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2912. 8am-12pm. WASHINGTON ISLAND FARMERS MARKET
K.K. Fiske & The Granary Saloon, 1177 Main Rd, Washington Island. 920.847.2121.
9am-12pm. CORNER OF THE PAST FARMERS MARKET Corner of the Past & Old Anderson House Museum, 10310 Fieldcrest Rd, Sister Bay. 920.854.7680.
9am-1pm. Heritage Program: Watercolors by Sue Daubner.
HABITAT HEALERS
Crossroads at Big Creek, 2041 Michigan St, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.746.5895. 9am. Help with Crossroads’ land restoration e orts. Meet at the Workshop.
10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/member, free/16 & under.
VINTAGE MARKET
Liberty Grove Historical Society Museum Site, 11871 Hwy 42, Ellison Bay. 920.839.5022. 10am-3pm. Proceeds support LGHS.
CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT
Martin Park, 207 S 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.7943. 11am. Part of Sunflower Fest 2023, supporting disability recourse in the community. $100 per team, register at www. sunshineresources.org/store
DOCENT-LED HIKE
The Clearing, 12171 Garrett Bay Rd, Ellison Bay. 920.854.4088. 1-3pm. Learn about The Clearing during a 2-hour hike.
SPORTS
WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S Graham Park, 10 Pennsylvania St., Sturgeon Bay. 920.260.4682. 9:30am: Ceremony. 10am: Walk begins. Pre-registration encouraged at act.alz.org/doorcounty
SUN 9/10
LIVE MUSIC
MICKEY GRASSO Harbor Ridge Winery, 4690 Rainbow Ridge Rd, Egg Harbor. 920.868.4321. 1-4pm. Country & soft rock favorites.
JEANNE KUHNS MacReady Artisan Bread Company, 7828 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor. 920.868.2233. 11:30am-1:30pm. Emotive singer-songwriter. In the gazebo. NICKI SIMS Waterfront Mary’s Bar & Grill, 3662 N Duluth Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.3191. 12-6pm. High-energy party tunes.
JAMIE LYNN FLETCHER Florian II Lakeshore Supper Club, 8048 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2361. 1-5pm. Jazz, Brazilian, piano bar & pop. LEAH BROOKE Door Peninsula Winery, 5806 Hwy 42, Carlsville. 920.743.7431. 1-5pm. Indie-rock singer-songwriter. HUNTER GATHERER The Cherry Hut, 8813 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.868.4450.
3-6pm. Americana, classic rock & alternative country. BOB BERO One Barrel Brewing Company, 4633
Antique Show featuring the following curated collections:
• Circus Posters & Memorabilia c.1942
• Fisher Price toys complete sets c.1967
• The large Barbie Doll Dream House is fully equipped. A rare find!
• School house, books, toys, games.
• Exceptional collection of women’s vintage clothing and accessories, hats. (19401960)
UKULELE SOCIETY OF DOOR COUNTY JAM Door County YMCA – Northern Door Program Center, 3866 Gibraltar Rd, Fish Creek. 920.868.3660.
1-2:45pm. Open to all players & skill levels. Email dcukesociety@gmail. com for more info.
HUNTER GATHERER Peach Barn Brewing, 2450 S. Bay Shore Dr., Sister Bay. 920.944.2393.
3-6pm. Americana, classic rock & alternative country.
CHERYL MURPHY White Gull Inn, 4225 Main St, Fish Creek. 920.868.3517. 5-8pm. Harp music during dinner. For diners only.
KARAOKE Northern Grill & Pizza, 10573 Country Walk Dr, Sister Bay. 920.854.9590.
9pm. Hosted by Lena MacDonald. 21+ only.
INDOOR
ADRC ACTIVITIES
Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2372. 9:30am. “Artists in Making,” a mixed-media art group. Knitting group meets at the same time. 10am: DVD fitness program. 11am: Zumba. 12pm. Bridge. 12:30pm. Poker. 1pm. Mahjong & Samba STYLE SHOW AND LUNCHEON Gordon Lodge, 1420 Pine Dr, Baileys Harbor. 920.854.2317. 11:45am. Style show features clothing and accessories from Bargains Unlimited Resale Shop. Silent Auction. Register by Aug. 31. $25/Auxiliary Members. $30/guests.
DOOR COUNTY HOUSING
PARTNERSHIP OPEN HOUSE
748 Galley Drive Sturgeon Bay.
3-4:30pm. An opportunity to learn about the approach to a ordable housing in Door County. Free. ESCAPE ROOM Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 3-5pm. Case of Mondays Escape Room. Registration recommended at www. algomapubliclibrary.org.
BINGO FUNDRAISER Cherry Lanes Arcade Bar, 127 N 4th Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0093.
6-8pm. First 10 rounds are free; final round is $3/person and supports a di erent non-profit each week.
LITERATURE
MEMOIR MONDAYS Sturgeon Bay Library, 107 S 4th Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.868.1457.
10-11am. A creative lab for seniors to write their life stories.
POETRY CONNECTION
JAK’s Place, 1623 Rhode Island St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0525.
1-2:30pm. Bring a poem to share & discuss.
DOOR COUNTY PUBLISHED AUTHOR COLLECTIVE Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd, Juddville. 920.868.1457. 6-7:30pm. Networking meeting. All genres welcome.
10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/member, free/16 & under. CEMETERY WALK
Ephraim Moravian Cemetery, Corner of Willow and South Norway, Ephraim. 920.854.2804. 1-5pm. Learn about important figures in Ephraim’s history portrayed by locals. Tours at 1pm and 2pm. Refreshments. Free. Meet at Ephraim Moravian Church if raining. WALK FOR HOPE Sawyer Park, 36 S. Neenah Avenue, Sturgeon Bay. 920.495.2383. 4:30-7pm. Suicide prevention walk. Live music and food available. For More information and registration see the Prevent Suicide Door County Facebook page.
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Fall SEASON
You Wish Upon a Star, A Jazz
Hunter Gatherer
Sept. 15, 4-7 pm, One Barrel Brewing Company, 4633 Market St. in Egg Harbor
His unique sound demands attention, and is di cult to tie down in terms of genre. Call it what you will, at the end of the day, all that matters is whether or not the song is worth listening to.
TUE
9/12 LIVE MUSIC
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Waterfront Mary’s Bar & Grill, 3662 N Duluth Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.3191. 9pm-1am. Hosted by Adam Haste.
7pm. A funny, fast-paced mystery. $42-48/person. Half o for under 18.
GALLERIES
ART GROUP
JAK’s Place, 1623 Rhode Island St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0525.
2:30-3:30pm. Staled art activities.
INDOOR
ADRC ACTIVITIES
Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2372. 8:30am. “Practicing the Pause” Learn techniques to calm your mind & body. Email nscharrig@co.door.wi.us for Zoom link at least 24 in advance. 9am. Euchre. 10am. Learn simple Spanish. 10am. Chess. 12:30pm. Open game room. 1pm. Paint with watercolors. STEWARDSHIP WORKSHOP SERIES
Ridges Sanctuary –Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 9-11:30am. Learn about local environmental issues & what landowners can do to better care for their property. $25/ public, $20/members.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor. 920.868.3334. 10am. Relax your body & mind through yoga. Donations accepted. BRIDGE CLUB Stella Maris Church – Egg Harbor, 7710 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor. 920.868.6113. 12:30pm. Tournament-style duplicate contract bridge. $12/person. Reservations required at 920.868.6113 or dcbridgeclub@yahoo.com.
tours
You can explore the Door in so many ways! The organizations listed below o er regular tours. To learn more details, call the organization or visit its website.
Anchored Roots Vineyard & Winery
4873 Willow Road, Egg Harbor
Guided tours of the winery and production space with winemaker, Eric Gale, along with an overview of the estate vineyard, a souvenir wine glass and tastings.
Bella Sailing 9993 Water St., Ephraim (920) 854-2628
Enjoy the beauty of Ephraim from these sail tours that take you around blu s, islands, and more, all on a vintage sailboat. Cherry Train Ferry Dock, Washington Island (920) 847-2546
Explore Washington Island during a two-hour, narrated tram tour that stops at Schoolhouse Beach, the Art and Nature Center and more!
Death’s Door Charters & Scenic Tours Rock Island State Park Road, Washington Island (920) 639-7550 Travel through Death’s Door to see shipwrecks,
VIRTUAL REALITY OPEN PLAY Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 1:15-5pm. Try out the new Oculus Quest 2 gaming device.
lighthouses and shoreline cli s. Door 44 Vineyard & Winery
5464 County Road P, Sturgeon Bay (920) 388-4400 Walk through the vineyard, sample wines made from the vines you are standing next to and finish in the production area for a lesson on winemaking.
Door County Adventure Center 4497 Ploor Rd, Sturgeon Bay (920) 746-9539
Try a wide variety of tours. Paddle the Mink River in a kayak; explore Cave Point; or soar through the trees on a zipline.
Door County Adventure Rafting
4150 Maple St, Fish Creek (920) 559-6106
Take a ride on a high-speed tour boat that’s perfect for small groups to get close to shipwrecks, islands, lighthouses, caves and more.
Door County Historical Society
130 N 4th Ave., Sturgeon Bay (920) 421-2332
Learn about the peninsula’s history and historical sites. Tours travel to Heritage Village, the Eagle Blu Lighthouse, the Hanson Norwegian Homestead and more.
Door County Kayak Tours 8442 Hwy 42, Fish Creek (920) 355-2925
There’s something for everyone: kayak tours to Cave Point, fat-tire e-bike tours and rentals, standup-paddleboard yoga
HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM
Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor. 920.868.3334 ext. 3.
2-3pm. This week’s topic is “Born Above the Barber Shop.” DPAS MEETING
Crossroads at Big Creek –Astronomy Campus, 2200 Utah Street, Sturgeon Bay. 7pm. Learn about space with members of the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society.
and paddleboard rentals for a day on the water.
Door County Maritime Museum
120 N Madison Ave., Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-5958
You can’t discuss peninsula history without talking about maritime influences, so choose maritime tours that provide a look at the 1919 tugboat John Purves, climb the stairs at the Cana Island Lighthouse or check out the 10 floors of exhibits in the Jim Kress Lighthouse Tower.
Door County Trolley
8030 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor (920) 868-1100
Explore the Door in one of these red trolleys. With many tour options, you’re sure to find something that fits your interests: pub crawls, ghost tours, and visits to lighthouses, supper clubs and more.
Ephraim Historical Foundation
3060 Anderson Ln, Ephraim (920) 854-9688
Learn more about the history and historical sites of Ephraim on a tram tour, or try a walking tour of the Moravian Church and Iverson House.
Fish Creek Scenic Boat Tours
9448 Spruce St, Fish Creek (920) 421-4442
Check out the waters surrounding Fish Creek; listen to live music while watching the sunset; or see Millionaires’ Row. Refreshments are available on board. Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands PO Box 691, Washington Island Experience the beauty,
LITERATURE STORYTIME WITH MS. BETH Sturgeon Bay Library, 107 S 4th Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.6578. 10:30am. For babies through preschoolers. READERS RAMPANT BOOK CLUB Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Library, 2323 Mill Rd, Sister Bay. 920.854.2721. 2:30pm. Discuss “Raft of Stars” by Andrew Gra in-person or via Zoom.
history and nature of the Death’s Door Passage and the islands of the Northern Door aboard The Shoreline. Go online to view current cruise o erings and for booking information.
Gibraltar Historical Association & Alexander
Noble House
4167 Hwy 42, Fish Creek (920) 868-2091
Travel at your own pace to explore the history of Fish Creek through a free audio walking tour. The tour includes a map and details about more than 20 of Fish Creek’s historical buildings.
Gravity Trails
7340 Hwy 42, Egg Harbor (920) 854-9292
Paddle through the waters of the peninsula to check out a Door County sunset from the water, or explore Cave Point.
Grizzly Tours 3538 Park Dr, Sturgeon Bay (920) 493-7315
See Door County from a new perspective! Travel through the air as you take in the scenery, or sign up for a photo session.
Horseshoe Bay Farms
7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor (920) 495-9988
Throughout the approx. 1.5hour tour, a guide will walk you around the property and into select historic barns. You will learn about this non-profit’s rich history and vision for the future.
A variety of kayak and zipline tours allows you to experience Door County shipwrecks from a clear-bottom kayak or
OUTDOOR JACKSONPORT FARMERS MARKET Lakeside Park, Hwy 57, Jacksonport. 920.559.6275. 9am-1pm. Featuring live music. TRAIL RUN TUESDAYS Peninsula State Park, 9462 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. 920.868.3258. 9am. Meet at the Nature Center to run with a ranger. Most routes are about 3 miles with cuto s for shorter routes. Park vehicle sticker required.
take in the natural beauty of Kangaroo Lake.
Liberty Grove Historical Society 11871 Hwy 42, Ellison Bay (920) 680-1942
Explore nine historically restored buildings through the society’s website or by using the selfguiding tour handout.
O -Road Segway 2260 Seaquist Road, Sister Bay (920) 421-4111
Experience the thrill of riding o -road segways along Door County’s backwood trails and scenic country roads. The company o ers guided adventure tours that are customized to you and your skill level.
Parallel 44 Vineyard & Winery N2185 Sleepy Hollow Road, Kewaunee (920) 388-4400 Walk through the vineyard, sample wines made from the vines you are standing next to and finish in the production area for a lesson on winemaking.
The Ridges Sanctuary 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor (920) 839-2802 Visit the iconic range lights and explore this special sanctuary with a naturalist.
Sail Door County 10733 N Bay Shore Dr, Sister Bay (920) 495-7245
Leave your cares behind when you step aboard the 65-foot schooner or the 40-foot sloop. Tours take place throughout the day and highlight fantastic views of the county,
lighthouses, islands
GUIDED HIKE Ridges Sanctuary – Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/member, free/16 & under.
Paul Taylor
Sept. 14 5-7 pm, Twelve Eleven Wine Bar, 10339 Highway 57 in Sister Bay
Knowing the artist loves playing it all, jam to a mix of jazz, blues, funk, rock ’n’ roll, country, folk and beyond.
Learn more about Taylor in the Autumn issue of Door County Living Magazine, available on newsstands now.
Listen Up!
WED
9/13
LIVE MUSIC
ACOUSTIC JAM
Egg Harbor Library, 7845 Church St, Egg Harbor.
920.868.2664.
1-3pm. Open to all instruments and skill levels.
Listeners welcome.
NEV BURLETON
Peach Barn Brewing, 2450
S. Bay Shore Dr., Sister Bay. 920.944.2393.
3-6pm. Indie-folk.
CATHY GRIER & THE TOUBLEMAKERS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
The Alpine, 7715 Alpine Rd, Egg Harbor. 920.868.3000.
6-9pm. Channeling great female blues artists of the past. No carry-ins. Bring a lawn chair. THE HAWTTHORNS
Tambourine Lounge, 59 N. 2nd Avenue, Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-5571.
7:30pm. Rock n’ roll americana duo. $20/ticket. Tickets can be purchased at thehawtthorns.com.
OPEN JAM
Butch’s Bar, 234 Kentucky St., Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.3845. 8pm. Jam session for musicians & listeners.
THEATER
“LIPSTICK OPTIONAL” Northern Sky Theater – Park Stage, Peninsula State Park Amphitheater, 10169 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
4pm. Celebrating the women of Northern Sky with stories, song & dance. $25/person.
7pm. A funny, fast-paced mystery. $42-48/person. Half o for under 18.
GALLERIES
OPEN ARTIST STUDIO
M3, 142 S. 3rd Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.0707. 9:30am-4:30pm. Bring your own project. $15/person.
INDOOR
ADRC ACTIVITIES
Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2372. 9am. Pinochle and Sit & Stitch. 10am. DVD fitness program. 12:30pm. Poker. 1pm. Mahjong.
BREAKFAST SOCIAL St. Francis & St. Mary Parish, 9716 Cemetery Rd, Brussels. 920.825.7555. 9-10:30am. For older adults (55+.) Call 920.825.7555 for reservations. $5/ suggested donation.
TOWN HALL SESSION Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station, 2258 Mill Rd, Sister Bay. 920.743.4456. 9:30am-11pm. Help shape Destination Door County’s Master Plan in this open meeting for Door County residents to give input on sustainable growth in tourism and economic development. MEMORY CAFÉ Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 10-11am. For those with early-stage dementia or cognitive impairment and their loved ones. Dementia specialist on-hand.
BAYSHIP RETIREES LUNCH
Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 12-5pm. 12pm. Lunch 1pm. Meeting
FIREHOUSE KNITTERS Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station, 2258 Mill Rd, Sister Bay. 920.600.5086. 1-4pm. Knitters, crocheters & needleworkers work on their current projects together. Held in the conference room.
BINGO JAK’s Place, 1623 Rhode Island St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0525. 1:15-2:15pm. Play bingo with friends.
TOWN HALL SESSION Virtual Event. 920.743.4456. 1:30-3pm. Help shape Destination Door County’s Master Plan in this open meeting for Door County residents to give input on sustainable growth in tourism and economic development. Virtual Only Event: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/86508405647
TOWN HALL SESSION
Sevastopol Town Hall, 4528 Hwy 57, Institute. 920.743.4456. 5:30-7pm. Help shape Destination Door County’s Master Plan in this open meeting for Door County residents to give input on sustainable growth in tourism and economic development.
“WHY IS THE SILURIAN DOLOMITE AQUIFER SO VULNERABLE TO CONTAMINATION?”
Crossroads at Big Creek, 2041 Michigan St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.6003. 7pm. Free presentation with Dr. Maureen Muldoon, Ph.D. Available in person or on zoom at www.dcec-wi.org.
OUTDOOR
HORSESHOE BAY FARM TOUR
Horseshoe Bay Farms, 7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor. Tours at 11am & 1pm. $10/person, free/13 & under. Register at horseshoebayfarms.org.
SETTLEMENT SHOPS
FARMERS MARKET
Settlement Shops, 9106 Hwy 42, Fish Creek. 920.868.3788. 9:30am-1:30pm.
GUIDED HIKE
Ridges Sanctuary – Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/member, free/16 & under.
THU 9/14
LIVE MUSIC
LEWIS & MURPHY
Peach Barn Brewing, 2450 S. Bay Shore Dr., Sister Bay. 920.944.2393.
3-6pm. A blues vibe that’ll get heads nodding.
THE HITCHHIKERS
Hitching Post, 4849 Glidden Drive, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.1114.
4-6pm. Bluegrass
PAUL TAYLOR
Twelve Eleven Wine Bar, 10339 Hwy 57, Sister Bay. 920.421.9463.
5-7pm. Jazz, country & folk.
DAVID CAVANAUGH
Hügel Haus, 11934 Highway 42, Ellison Bay, WI. 920.633.4080. 5-7pm. Americana, rock & country blues.
CHERYL MURPHY
White Gull Inn, 4225 Main St, Fish Creek. 920.868.3517. 5-8pm. Harp music during dinner, for diners only.
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Drömhus Door County, 611 Je erson St., Sturgeon Bay. 608.333.4553.
7-10pm. For creatives to showcase their talent.
WRITERS NIGHT
Tambourine Lounge, 59 N. 2nd Avenue, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.5571.
7pm. Share original songs, stories & poetry.
THEATER
“LIPSTICK OPTIONAL”
Northern Sky Theater – Park Stage, Peninsula State Park Amphitheater, 10169 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117. 4pm. Celebrating the women of Northern Sky with stories, song & dance. $25/person.
“KEN LUDWIG’S
BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK
HOLMES MYSTERY”
Peninsula Players, 4351 Peninsula Players Rd, Fish
Creek. 920.868.3287. 7pm. A funny, fast-paced mystery. $42-48/person. Half o for under 18.
GALLERIES
TRILLIUM QUILT GUILD MEETING
Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station, 2258 Mill Rd, Sister Bay. 920.854.4021. 10am-12pm. Quilting club. Guests welcome.
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY Angela Lensch Gallery, 7653 Highway 42, Egg Harbor. 920.868.5088. 4-7pm. Angela Lensch Gallery celebrates 10 years in business. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Open to the public.
FOOD & DRINK
SUMMER COOKOUT JAK’s Place, 1623 Rhode Island St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0525. 12:45pm. More details at https:// lakeshorecap.org/jaks-place/ INDOOR
ADRC ACTIVITIES
Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2372. 9am. Friendly Crafters scrapbooking group. 12:30pm Play bridge with friends.
1pm. Knitting, or woodcarving at the same time.
“FINDING CENTER” YOGA Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor. 920.868.3334. 9am. Practice breath & body balance. $20/person.
LEGO CLUB Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 3pm. For kids.
TRIVIA THURSDAY Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N 1st St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.0700. 6-8pm. Test your trivia knowledge with friends.
LAKE LESSONS Ridges Sanctuary – Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 7-8pm. “Forensic Anthropology in NE Wisconsin.” This talk describes how forensic anthropologists achieve their goals, and gives examples from cases that occurred in NE WI, including Door County. Held in the Discovery Room. Free.
LITERATURE
BOOKS & BREWS von Stiehl Cider Bar, 105 Navarino St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 5:30pm. Meet with fellow book-lovers. No theme. Email the library to discuss if you can’t join.
OUTDOOR
EVENTS AT THE RIDGES Ridges Sanctuary – Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 9am-12pm. Invasive Species Workday. Remove & bag invasive plants. 10-11:30am. Guided Hike. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/ member, free/16 & under. HORSESHOE BAY FARM TOUR Horseshoe Bay Farms, 7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor. Tours at 11am & 1pm. $10/person, free/13 & under. Register at horseshoebayfarms.org.
Paul Taylor. RACHEL LUKAS
gets fuzzy on the details, the classic tales get a bit creative.
GALLERIES
OPENING RECEPTION
Miller Art Museum, 107 S 4th Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.0707.
5:30-7pm. Unveiling of the artists and award winners of the “48th Juried Annual.” Live music and refreshments. Free.
FOOD & DRINK
30TH ANNIVERSARY
Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 410 N 14th Ave, Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.2869.
10am-2pm. Fundraiser for Anniversary. Carjacks Patty Wagon Food Truck.
WET WHISTLE WINE FESTIVAL von Stiehl Winery, 115 Navarino St, Algoma. 920.487.5208. 5-9pm. Grape stomping, wine tastings, food & live music. Free admission.
INDOOR
CELEBRATE WOMEN 12TH ANNUAL LUNCHEON Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N 1st St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.1786. 10:45am. Doors open. 11:30am. Featured speaker Lachrisa Grandberry presents, “Women Who Carry the Light.” $75/ticket. ADRC ACTIVITIES Aging & Disability Resource Center of Door County, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.2372. 10am. Play poker with friends.
10am. DVD fitness program. 11am. Zumba. FUN AT JAK’S PLACE JAK’s Place, 1623 Rhode Island St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.818.0525. 12-2pm. Co ee & conversation. 2:10-3pm. Tai Chi. Open group led by a licensed instructor.
DROP-IN CRAFT TABLE Forestville Library, 123 Hwy 42, Forestville. 920.856.6886. 9:30-11:30am. Make seasonal crafts. Refreshments provided. FOSTER CARE IN DOOR COUNTY Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N 1st St, Sturgeon Bay. 920.746.1786. 10-11am. Doors open 9:30am. Panel discussion with experts/ leaders in Door County’s foster care community as well as a local foster parent.
Held in conjunction with the Women’s Fund luncheon. Free. RACE CAR OBSTACLE COURSE Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St, Algoma. 920.487.2295. 3pm. Take part in our “in-between the stacks” obstacle course.
OUTDOOR GUIDED HIKES
Ridges Sanctuary – Cook-Albert Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor. 920.839.2802. 10-11:30am. Explore the Ridges with a naturalist. $10/public, $7/ member, free/16 & under. 7-9pm. Learn about the Ridges’ nocturnal animals during a night hike. $15/public, $12/ member, $7/26 & under.
HORSESHOE BAY FARM TOUR
Horseshoe Bay Farms, 7212 Horseshoe Bay Road, Egg Harbor. Tours at 11am & 1pm. $10/person, free/13 & under. Register at horseshoebayfarms.org.
YOGA IN THE ORCHARD Door County Wildwood Market, 2208 Wildwood Rd, Sister Bay. 920.421.1566. 9-10am. $15/person.
YOGA IN THE VINES Anchored Roots Vineyard & Winery, 4873 Willow Road, Egg Harbor.
10am. $25/person, includes yoga session & glass of wine. Bring your own mat.
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The Bandits. Facebook photo.
The Bandits
Sept. 10, 6:30-10 pm, Stone Harbor Resort, 107 N. 1st St. in Sturgeon Bay
This ve-piece group crushes it, bringing killer drums, lead guitars and rocking bass with new and timeless rock, pop and country favorites.
