Category: Community
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.
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MDCMC Introduces New Online Service, HealthEVists
Ministry Door County Medical Center (MDCMC) recently announced a new online service that will enable patients to receive quick, convenient care from home for mild health conditions.
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FFA Dairy Breakfast Features Live Music, Hayrides, Petting Zoo
The 34th annual Dairy Breakfast takes place at the NEW Antique Power Association Grounds, 5005 Country View Road, Sturgeon Bay, from 6 am to 1:30 pm on July 5.
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Sevastopol Sponsors the Summer Food Service Program
Stressing the importance of offering nutritious meals to children during the summer months, the School District of Sevastopol announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program.
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Free Mouthguard Day is Scheduled for July 23
Door County Dental Care is hosting its 7th Annual Free Mouthguard Day on July 23. All area student athletes are invited to receive a free custom-fit, team color-coordinated mouthguard.
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Learn First Aid at the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station
The Sister Bay & Liberty Grove Fire Department is partnering with the American Safety & Health Institute to offer classes to educate the community in the proper method of using an AED and performing CPR, as well as basic first aid.
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Peninsula Players Receive Sustainability Grant for The Play’s the Thing
The Door County Community Foundation recently awarded Peninsula Players a Sustainability Grant from the Arts Fund to support the program, The Play’s the Thing.
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Greg Casperson to Lead Funeral Planning Discussion
Northern Door Health & Wellness Ministry continues its Community Health Information Programs on July 19 at 4 pm with “Funeral Planning: A Discussion Every Family Needs To Have.
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Ephraim Historical Foundation Enters Public Phase of Campaign
The Ephraim Historical Foundation has entered the public phase of a campaign to raise $1 million for its endowment. Income from the endowment, managed by the Foundation’s Heritage Fund, provides one-third of the Foundation’s annual budget, including the maintenance needs of Ephraim’s historic museums: Anderson Store, Anderson Barn, Pioneer Schoolhouse, Goodletson Cabin and Iverson House.
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Annual JHS Meeting Set for July 22
Jacksonport Historical Society’s (JHS) annual dinner meeting on July 22 at Mr. G’s Logan Creek Grille, 5890 Hwy. 57, Jacksonport. Pat Grahn will present “A History of Wedding Gowns” and covers wedding gowns from the turn of the century to the present day.
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Calvary United Methodist Church Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Calvary United Methodist Church, 4650 County E in Egg Harbor, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the building at a worship service on July 12 at 10:15 am.
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Graduation of the LDC Class of 2015
On June 9 nearly 100 people gathered at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay to celebrate the commencement of the 25th graduating class of Leadership Door County (LDC).
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has launched a free smart phone application that will provide statewide travelers with information on traffic incidents, delays/backups, closures/detours, work zones and weather-related road conditions.
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A Sport Built On Determination
Born on the sidewalks of California in the late 1940s by surfers looking for something to do when the waves were flat (according to Skateboarding Magazine), skateboarding has cruised its way into the mainstream sports category alongside basketball, baseball and football. For the first few decades, its popularity ebbed and flowed, largely driven by the […]
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Historic Door County Summer Camps
Happy campers…Door County was full of them in the 1920s. Its forests, fields and bays reverberated with Reveille at dawn and Taps at dusk. From the Mabel Katherine Pearse modern dance camp on Washington Island to the rustic Adventure Island Camp off the shores of Ephraim to Camp Meenahga in Peninsula State Park, Door County […]
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The Toft Family and The Places They Called Home
Most people in Door County are likely familiar with the name Emma Toft. Some of them probably know that the Baileys Harbor house associated with her was, until recently, occupied by the Red Geranium Gift Shop. But Emma, “Wisconsin’s first lady of conservation,” has been gone for 33 years, and memories fade. Many may not […]
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A very public transformation took place recently on Alabama Street in Sturgeon Bay when a drafty summer cottage sitting on a canal to the bay was carefully torn down and a sturdy, super-efficient year-round home was erected in its place. “The old house was cute and everybody loved it, but there was no insulation to […]
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Meet Death in Door County Authors
A number of authors have used the Door County peninsula as a setting for their fiction; among the earliest and best known to do so is LaVyrle Spencer in her 1990 romance Bitter Sweet. But more recently, murder mysteries have scattered their clues on the terrain. Patricia Skalka’s Death Stalks Door County (2014) is the […]
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Kim Souther: Door County’s Avant-Garde Cellist
When Kim Souther was in sixth grade, she sat down with her band teacher and expressed her interest in switching from piano to oboe. She loved the mellow sounds of the instrument in Peter and the Wolf, the musical children’s story written by Sergei Prokofiev, and wanted to emulate that sound for her school band. […]
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Door County’s Peter Pan: Dave Ellmann
For most of the past 40 years, Dave Ellmann has rolled into Door County in May, fresh off a winter waiting tables in Florida or Hawaii, back to do the same here, his Door County Farmhouse waiting for his return. The anticipation of summer buzzes, calling Ellmann home, where he is a walking, breathing symbol […]
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Mother Nature’s Artist – Algoma’s Kirsten Christianson
When Algoma environmental artist and teacher Kirsten Christianson walks the shore of Lake Michigan, observing the ebb and flow of the water, the crisp color of the sky, the bright leaves of summer trees, she is noting nature’s structure as much as she is appreciating it. When she returns home, she will bring those mental […]