Door County Triathlon donates $50,000 to charity

• The Door County Triathlon board of directors approved two large donations to Door County organizations. Friends of Door County Park System will receive $25,000, as will the Door County YMCA. The triathlon, held each July, starts and finishes at Frank Murphy County Park in Egg Harbor. It attracted nearly 2,000 participants in 2010.

• The Wall Street Journal featured a story about Al Johnson’s on its front page Sept. 17. The story centered on the legal dispute between Al Johnson’s and a Georgia business that was marketing goats on its roof, a business marketing tactic trademarked by Al Johnson’s.

• Baileys Harbor Town Clerk Doug Smith graduated from the 2010 Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute held July 11 – 16 at UW – Green Bay. Two-hundred-seventy-seven clerks and treasurers attended from around the state.

The course work focuses on the development of technical skills, learning state statutes and regulations, administrative knowledge, leadership, and financial management.

Local government officials completing the three-year sequence of programs earn all of the education points needed for national certification, with additional points earned by experience in local government and participation in other meetings and educational seminars.

• A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Sept. 20 to commemorate recently completed work on the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Federal officials and local leaders were on hand for the ceremony.

Repairs on the south revetment of the Sturgeon Bay Harbor and ship canal, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District project, were just completed. The $2.9 million project was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.