Category: Business

The Door County Visitor Bureau unveiled special Door County “Power Up, Wind Down” recharging stations at Mayfair Mall in Milwaukee on March 17 and at Hilldale Mall in Madison on March 18.

The next Buy Local business networking mixer will be held April 2 at DC Specialty Foods in Ephraim, and will feature a program by Ashley Lusk of Homebody Personal Training on “Fitting Exercise in Your Busy Day.

The Door County Job Center and We Are HOPE Inc. are currently recruiting companies for their Spring Job Fair. The event will be held on April 16, 2 to 7 pm, at Cherry Point Mall.

Lakeshore Community Action Program, Inc. – serving Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Calumet counties – is offering Home Buyer Education. The workshop offers practical tools, consumer information and includes handouts for each participant about the home-buying process.

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is hosting a Crowdfunding Rules and Regulations 
panel discussion on its Green Bay campus on March 26. The day begins at 
7:30 am with breakfast and networking; the panel discussion follows at 8 am.

Myron Orfield, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and one of the country’s foremost authorities on metropolitan governance, will present “Consequences of Inequities: Lessons From Across the Country” on Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.

Jacksonport Craft Cottage Gifts now offers a new product, hot/cold packs by Madeline. She’s been making these packs for about eight years, but just recently partnered with the craft cottage.

Let’s continue my discussion from the last column, in volume 20, issue nine of the Pulse, on commonly missed tax deductions for individuals. Here are a few more:

The Door County Economic Development Corporation and Northwestern Technical College are offering lunch and an informational meeting about the second round of Wisconsin Fast Forward Grant Opportunities on Friday, March 21, 12 to 1:15 pm.

Dr. Phillip Arnold of Ministry Door County Medical Center will receive the Award of Fellow from the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (AOASM).

Jacksonport Craft Cottage Gifts currently features handcrafted dishtowels by Doris. As a “cottage” industry, handmade items are the center of what the craft cottage features.

Join Parallel 44 on March 15 as they release their newest wine, Drink Pink!, to the public. Gently pressed Frontenac and Foch grapes, from the vineyards of Parallel 44, have a sweet/tart expression of strawberries, red raspberries and pink grapefruit.

The Door County YMCA has purchased the former Sneakers and Boots building located in the Sturgeon Bay Industrial Park to be used as a multi-function facility.

The winners of the Ethics In Business Awards will be announced on Thursday, March 27, and the public is invited to attend the celebration dinner. The three Rotary Clubs in Door County, together with the Business Department of Northwest Wisconsin Technical College, are interviewing the nine candidate businesses that daily exemplify outstanding ethical behavior in both their business and community.

Boettcher Communications recently moved their office to the Penthouse Suite of the Fairfield Building, located at 242 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay. Boettcher Communications was purchased by the local web development company IPSSolutions.

Door Peninsula Winery won three medals at the 26th Annual Florida State Fair International Wine Competition, sponsored by the Florida Grape Growers Association.

Arbor Crowne Properties, a realty firm specializing in luxury Door County homes, cottages and condominiums, has officially opened its doors at 10006 Water St.

Joshua Nelson recently returned from the sold-out Quantum Leap Seminar in Sedona, Arizona. He was personally invited by John F. Barnes (JFB) to attend the seminar, where more than 200 advanced and expert level myofascial release therapists reviewed new studies by the Fascial Research Congress, at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

A Luxemburg, Wis.-based manufacturer of plastic lumber products has agreed to stop making allegedly unsubstantiated claims about the recycled content and recyclability of two of its brands of plastic lumber.

Action Realty II, LLC in Sturgeon Bay recently distributed awards for 2013. Awards went to Betty Tipler and Julie Henkel for Multi-Million Dollar Producers; and Cindy Koutnik for Top Producer.