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Door County community news from the Peninsula Pulse. Find information about health programs, fundraisers, announcements, and more to keep you in the loop in your community.

  • Silent Auction, Eating Contests, Music from Modern Day Drifters at Corn Fest

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    Sunshine House will present their 15th annual Corn Fest, taking place at Schopf’s Hilltop Dairy on Sept. 9. There will also be a bake sale, corn maze, sweet corn and pie eating contest, live music by the Modern Day Drifters (11 am – 3 pm), raffles, silent auction, food from the corn café and more. […]

  • Nathan Wilson Coalition Awareness Walk Kicks Off Suicide Prevention Week

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    Join the second annual Prevent Suicide – Door County Nathan Wilson Coalition Awareness Walk on Sept. 11. The walk will start off National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 10 – 16. The walk begins at Martin Park in Sturgeon Bay (by the Maple/Oregon St. Bridge) at 6 pm and will cross the Oregon Street Bridge to […]

  • DCHS Holds ‘Stray Soiree and Murder Mystery’ Fundraiser Sept. 15

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    The Door County Humane Society (DCHS) invites all to attend a Stray Soiree and Murder Mystery Sept. 15. The event begins with cocktails and appetizers at 5:30 pm followed by dinner and a murder mystery performance starting at 6:30 pm. After dinner, guests will be able to enjoy a live auction. The soiree takes place […]

  • LifeWay Christian Book Fair at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church

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    LifeWay Christian Book Fair is coming to the Master’s Cup Coffeehouse at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 1756 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay. The book fair will be open during the following dates/times: Sept. 15, 2 – 6pm; Sept. 16, 9 am – 5 pm; and Sept. 17, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm. LifeWay Christian Stores […]

  • QPR Suicide Prevention Training Session is Sept. 20

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    The Door Association for Home and Community Education (HCE) is sponsoring a suicide prevention QPR training session Sept. 20. This program will be presented by Sue and Katie, Door County public health nurses. People trained in QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, […]

  • Door County Takes Top Spot in ‘Best Wisconsin Attraction’ Contest

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    The fans spoke and Door County took the top spot in the USA TODAY – 10 Best Readers’ Choice Contest for “Best Wisconsin Attraction.” Voting began July 31 and ended Aug. 28. Door County was chosen as one of 20 nominees by a panel of relevant Wisconsin travel experts, and the top 10 winners were […]

  • Adopt A Soldier-Door County Needs Volunteers for Fall Events

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    Adopt A Soldier-Door County’s fundraiser on Aug. 6 was a success and raised money to help cover the shipping for more than 400 care packages to Door and Kewaunee County troops around the world. Each year, Adopt A Soldier-Door County sends more than 1,000 care packages to our troops, each costing about $20 in shipping […]

  • Door County Medical Center Urges Lawmakers for Increase in Nursing Home Beds

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    Leadership at Door County Medical Center (DCMC) are urging state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to approve budget language allowing for an increase in skilled nursing home beds at their facility in Sturgeon Bay, which is regulated by the state. DCMC worked with state Sen. Frank Lasee and state Rep. Joel Kitchens to secure the […]

  • DCMC Skilled Nursing Facility Receives CMS Five-Star Rating

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    Door County Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility received a five-star rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily. Nursing homes with five stars are considered to have much above average quality in categories like health […]

  • Cottage Life Survives at Heritage Lake Resort

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    For nearly a century, the typical Door County vacation home was a simple cottage on a piece of prime real estate. Rarely winterized, they had small, basic kitchens and sparse living rooms. Those coming to the peninsula, after all, were coming in July and August to take advantage of the cool breezes off the lake […]

  • Ephraim Vintage Festival Brings Elegant Automobiles to the Escarpment

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    This weekend will see a temporary yet spectacular change in the roads of Ephraim. Saturday morning, workers will go about the task of setting up 30 concrete barriers and 400 hay bales to construct a one-mile course for the Ephraim Vintage Festival Hill Climb and Concours d’Elegance. Entrants bring their vintage cars to run the […]

  • Write On’s Jerod Santek and His Leap of Faith

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    “In the summer of 2013 I took what many might consider a huge leap of faith,” Jerod Santek said. “And left my job as program director at one of the oldest writing organizations in the country to head this new center. It is the best thing I’ve ever done.” After 19 years working with writers […]

  • A Brilliant Stranger: The Art & Evolution of Dawn Patel

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    Dawn Patel remembers the scene vividly:  yards of organic linen and silk blend fabric lying on her driveway, the bleach she applied in intricate patterns eating away at the delicate and expensive material. It was the only fabric she had to work with, so Patel gathered it up and brought it inside. A cold-water rinse […]

  • Making a Music Scene: Musicians Talk What Makes a Music Scene Magical

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    “I came to realize that you can sometimes tell in advance whether or not a given situation will develop into a vibrant scene… It doesn’t depend entirely on the inspiration and creativity of the individuals hanging out there. A confluence of external factors helps encourage the latent talent in a community to flower.” — David […]

  • Pumping Life Into the Roadside: Don Koepsel Adds New Fuel to Historic Local Gas Pumps

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    Don Koepsel’s barn across the street from the farmhouse in which he grew up would be described by some as an art gallery. Historic gas pumps stand like vibrant statues against a backdrop of vintage metal signs hanging on the wall. The retired insurance agent needed something to do with his time and it turned […]

  • A Farmer and His Cattle: Raising Shorthorns on Washington Island

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    Every morning for the past year, Joe Elmore has risen with the sun, its rays bouncing off the waters of Washington Harbor and into his home on the northern end of Washington Island. He makes his way down the road to a barn at Riola Shorthorn Farm. Inside the barn, fans are blowing cool air […]

  • SCAND Auxiliary to Hold Annual Luncheon/Style Show

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    The SCAND Auxiliary will host its 35th annual luncheon and style show at noon Monday, Sept. 11, at Gordon Lodge. Cheri Boock is chairing the event, which will feature 11 models, each wearing two outfits from the auxiliary’s Bargains Unlimited resale shop. All the clothing will be for sale. Like its name, Bargains Unlimited is […]

  • News From This Week’s Past: Sept. 1 – 8

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    All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors.   The Expositor, August 28, 1874 PROF. CHAMBERLAIN, now making the geological survey of this county, is professor of geology, zoology and chemistry in Beloit College. He has […]

  • How Red Smith Lured Readers to Door County

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    By Craig Sterrett A Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman revered for poetically telling extraordinary stories about ordinary events made Sturgeon Bay resident Mike Dietman world famous 58 summers ago. Back then, he was a fisherman. As bait, Dietman used one of the hellgrammites he netted from then-pristine Little Lake in Sunset Park and sold to tourists or […]

  • Coordinated Community Response Column: CCRs Explained

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    CCR (coordinated community response) has as its core a philosophy that as domestic violence is a community problem, our response to it requires the entire community address the issue. Since their inception in Wisconsin in the mid-1980s, CCR teams have brought together key players in community systems, usually on a countywide basis, to develop strategies […]