Community Quick Notes for Oct. 9 – 16

• The Jim Larsen Boys & Girls Club of Door County has announced plans to host a celebrity golf outing to be held at the Horseshoe Bay Golf Club next June 14, 2010. The celebrity golf outing is the major fundraiser for the club, with a goal of raising $30,000 to $35,000.

“We are excited to have current and former NFL players, a current NBA player and a former television anchor woman accept our invitations to help us with this fundraiser,” said Dave Resch, chairman of the event. Celebrities who thus far have committed to be participants in the event are Chris Greisen, Nick Greisen, Al Johnson, Joel Pryzbilla, Harry Sydney, Fuzzy Thurston, Randy Wright and Marti Spittell Ziegelbauer.

Resch said the event will be limited to 100 golfers and consist of 18 holes of golf, lunch, dinner, prizes, four hole-in-one contests and a $10,000 putting contest. Prizes for the hole in one contests are a car provided by Witt Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an ATV and $5,000 in cash.

For more information about the Jim Larsen Boys & Girls Club or how to register for this event please contact Sally Weber-Hasenfus at 920.255.3181 or Dave Resch at 920.743.8705.

• The 2010 Census is coming, and every household in the country will receive the 2010 census questionnaire in March of 2010. There has been some confusion among some people about this as they are aware of Census employees going door-to-door in our area since last spring. These Census employees have been updating address lists, as many addresses have changed in the last 10 years.

While the process begins with Census employees going door-to-door to update address list nationwide, it will continue this fall with recruitment of Census takers. After Census questionnaires are mailed to households, Census takers will visit households that did not return a questionnaire by mail. In December 2010, the Census Bureau will deliver the population counts to the President, and by March of 2011, the Census Bureau will complete the delivery of redistricting data to states.

For more information regarding the 2010 Census and the Door County Complete Count Committee, please call Jill Lau, Door County Clerk, at 920.746.2200 or Stephanie Reinhardt, Sturgeon Bay City Clerk, at 920.746.2900 to schedule.

• October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and HELP of Door County would like to invite everyone to view the Silhouette Project displayed throughout the Door County Community. The largest display is located at the Baylake Bank clock tower in Sturgeon Bay. Other locations include local libraries throughout Door County.

The shadowed figures of the silhouette project are a visual representation of the victims of domestic violence that exist within our community. The information attached to each silhouette is a startling reality of the domestic violence epidemic. Each statistic is being utilized to define the problem, educate our community and eventually find the solution to end domestic violence.

Please take a moment and view the silhouette project throughout our community. For more information or if you feel unsafe in your relationship, please call HELP of Door County, Inc. at 920.743.8818.

• Winners of the Door County Rib Fest were announced at the event sponsored by Neighbor-to-Neighbor Volunteer Caregivers held on Saturday, October 3. The event featured 11 entrants between local restaurants and celebrity chefs, and attendees sampled the ribs before voting for their favorites. Pelletier’s Restaurant in Fish Creek was the fan favorite, with The Bone Yard in second place. Colleen Crocker MacMillin swept the celebrity chef category, with Mark Kramer finishing second. Others participating in this inaugural event were John Henry’s, Mojo Rosas, Sonny’s Pizzeria, Casey’s BBQ and Smokehouse, Earl Arbter, Ed Evenson and Bill Weber.

For more information on Neighbor-to-Neighbor, call 920.743.7800.

• Everyone is encouraged to be smart at Fall Fest by purchasing a $20 raffle ticket to win the 2009 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet valued at $18,885 plus an extra $5,000 cash, as the drawing will be held on October 25.

Smartie, the Northern Door Children’s Center raffle car, will be parked across from the post office during Fall Fest, and everyone has just one week left to buy a ticket for the grand prize. Economic, ecology-smart, and built by Mercedes-Benz, Smart cars have been sold to more than a million drivers throughout the world..

This is the sixth year that the NDCC has raffled a car, and proceeds from the raffle help fund the NDCC’s non-profit work for early childhood education and care – especially during the winter months when funds are at their lowest. The Center gives excellent care to children from 6 weeks to 11 years old.

Only 4,000 tickets were available for sale, and your chance to win a 2009 Smart Car plus $5,000 increases with every $20 ticket you buy! Tickets are available by calling 920.854.4244, at participating Northern Door businesses, and online at http://www.northerndoorchildrenscenter.org.

Join NDCC director Cindy Trinkner-Peot and staff on Sunday, October 25, at 2 pm at the Center, 10520 Judith Blazer Drive in Sister Bay, for the drawing. Winner need not be present.

• Young Automotive raised $915 for the Door County Humane Society (DCHS) during their September fundraising drive. Five dollars was donated from every oil change for the month.

Company president Fred Young thanked his customers who helped raise funds by coming in for an oil change in September, the same month as DCHS’s Bark in the Park event.

“I’m glad we are able to give back to the community through programs like this,” said Young. “In addition to thanking all that got an oil change, I also want to thank Marisa Kasriel; she helped me come up with the idea to do this.”

For more information about Young Automotive call 920.743.9228 or visit http://www.youngautomotive.net. For more information about the Door County Humane Society call 920.746.1111 or visit http://www.dooranimals.com.

• Operation Welcome Homes (OWH) recently kicked off their first major fundraising campaign, “30-Days to Veterans Day,” in an effort to expand their outreach nationwide.

In 2006, Don Rubin and Barbara Winer – owners of a Fish Creek vacation home that remained vacant most of the year – started OWH, where “open-occupancy” space in commercial lodging facilities, condos, time-shares and vacation homes could be provided as part of no-cost vacation packages gifted to returning soldiers and their families in order to uplift their morale.

The model program successfully launched in Door County has provided vacations to more than 80 military families since, and now Rubin and Winer hope to take their efforts nationwide.

Businesses are encouraged to continue or join in the vacation package effort by contributing lodging, food or gift certificates in the usual manner. Cash contributions from individuals and businesses are also very important to cover increased operating expenses.

Door County businesses may contact local OWH coordinator, Stephen Kastner at 920.839.9639 for further information. Anyone can contribute online at http://www.OperationWelcomeHomes.org or send contributions to: Operation Welcome Homes, Inc. 
P.O. Box 595
Highland Park, IL. 60035.