Category: People
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In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. You could call him Door County’s best friend, and he doesn’t even live here. “Those islands up there in northern Door County are so beautiful and every time I get a chance to go out there I […]
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Altrusa’s annual Back-to-School Fair provided new backpacks to more than 480 children at an August 10, 2013 event at the Sturgeon Bay YMCA. In addition to backpacks, children received school supplies, paid registration fees, school shirts, new shoes, bike helmets and other new school items. Submitted photo. Door County Economic Development Corporation Board Chair David […]
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Biking for Bo: Matthew Burress
In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. On Aug. 20 Matt Burress asked people to do something most athletes in training hate. He went to Facebook and asked people to interrupt his workouts. “I’ll be cycling around the county over the next three weeks […]
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Simply Filling a Need: Jane and Jennifer Lee
In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. Jane Lee has lived across the United States, from Atlanta, Georgia, to Orange County, California, and places in between, but happily found a home in Door County. “I started coming up 30 years ago when my parents […]
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During the decade that Casey Rabach played for the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Redskins, he and his wife Nicole volunteered with a number of nonprofit organizations, including two associated with NFL personalities – the Ed Block Courage Houses, havens for abused children established in cities with NFL teams by the longtime head athletic trainer […]
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‘If You Can Do It, Why Not?’: Bruce Alexander
In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. Bruce Alexander of Alexander’s of Door County credits his mother for setting an example for him of giving back to the community. “She was always giving an extra hand. That’s just the way she was. She could […]
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Warming the Children of Swaziland
For the past several years, inside the Papa Murphy’s pizza franchise on Egg Harbor Road in Sturgeon Bay, customers have been leaving blankets, hats, mittens, and suitcases in or adjacent to a cardboard box that sits on the floor underneath a homemade posterboard sign. The sign, adorned with photographs, announces the yearly collection goal for […]
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Breaking the Constraints: Victoria Cerinich and Peter Wyatt
In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. Name any Door County nonprofit, and chances are Victoria Cerinich and Peter Wyatt are either members, volunteers or supporters. Door Property Owners? Check. League of Women Voters? Check. Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin, food pantries, Door County […]
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Translating to Empower: Sonia Williams
In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of eight people inspiring others in our community. Sonia Williams doesn’t let her talent go to waste. She’s a native Spanish speaker and understands the difficulty of being surrounded by a strange culture and an unfamiliar language. Williams volunteers by interpreting and helping Spanish speakers […]
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Lack of Good-Paying Jobs Requires Social Safety Nets
As director of one of three National Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Timothy Smeeding naturally spends a good deal of time thinking about poverty. “The real solution to poverty is jobs, and we’re not doing too well with those,” said Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research […]
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We Are Hope, Inc. Deploys a Wide Safety Net for Residents in Need
“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. “It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won. The richest […]
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Everyone has stories of eating ramen noodles during college or economizing in some manner at some point in life just to get by. That is circumstantial poverty, which is not the same as the daily grind of being at the very bottom of the economic strata in this land of plenty. Living in poverty means […]
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Volunteers Honored at 11th Annual Golden Heart Celebration
It goes without saying that none of the almost 400 nonprofit agencies that Door County houses could do the work they do without the support of their volunteers. They are the backbones of these organizations, the “worker bees” so to speak. An evening honoring their service barely scratches the surface of the incredible, inspiring work […]
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Barbara and Spencer Gould Named 2013 Philanthropists of the Year
On June 26, 2013, the Door County Community Foundation hosted its annual Celebration of Giving at Horseshoe Bay Golf Club in Egg Harbor. One-hundred-seventy-five guests gathered to honor Spencer and Barbara Gould as Door County’s 2013 Philanthropists of the Year. Spencer’s family has deep roots in the Door County community, so it was no surprise […]
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On Our Philanthropy Issue Cover
While Ed Fenendael spent less than a year creating “Mother and Child Reunion,” the painting featured on the cover of this magazine, the image has been with him for a long time. It started with a photograph he took at a festival in Kansas City. “Here was this woman with this child, tucked together like […]
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Gregg Curzon and Scary Fast Cars
Seeing Gregg Curzon, he appears how anyone would imagine a “local.” From Monday through Saturday he’s in his navy blue work shirt, busy helping locals and visitors with their motorsport and storage needs at his business Harbor Marine and Motorsports. He’s one of those guys who seemingly knows everyone in Door County, but, as he […]
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Fifty Years of Making Music: Pat Judy
Back in Mansfield, Ohio, 13-year-old Pat Judy was sitting at home when a man in the neighborhood stopped by, hat in hand, and asked the boy’s mom if he could sub for their sick drummer at the local Liederkranz Hall. The neighbor knew Pat played drums in school. Because he promised to chaperone the boy, […]
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When people in Door County want to know more about what’s growing in the woods behind their home or about the birds that chirp so early in the morning, they don’t always turn to a book.
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Saying Goodbye to our Community’s Pastor
This Sunday will mark the final service of Pastor Michael Brecke at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Juddville. Michael recently announced he is accepting an interim position with a church in Kansas so he can be closer to family in anticipation of his retirement shortly thereafter.
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I’m sorry I never met Norb Blei in person. His day of birth was exactly 19 years and 364 days before mine, so he was from my parents’ generation, but, still, I think we might have hit it off. I know we did hit it off on the telephone. I talked to him in 2002 […]