Sister Bay Lions Club Hosts 37th Annual Door County Antique Show

• The Sister Bay Lions Club will present the 37th annual Door County Antique show July 28 – 30 at the Gibraltar High School in Fish Creek. The show will be open 10 am – 5 pm each day.

This show will feature 35 professional exhibitors from the Midwest as well as a crystal & china repair booth. Collectors will find period furniture, art glass, clocks, textiles, china, sterling flatware, unusual pottery and crocks, jewelry, prints, and more.

This traditional Door County event is sponsored by the Sister Bay Lions Club to raise money and awareness for the Leader Dog for the Blind program. The Lions Club founded Leader Dog for the Blind in 1939. The dogs are specially selected and trained to assist the visually handicapped.

Maggie Weir of Sturgeon Bay is the director for the Door County program, which operates entirely on donations. Volunteers will be on hand throughout the show to answer questions regarding the program.

The admission is $5 and good for all three days. Arrangements for the show are under the direction of Sister Bay Lions’ member Russ Sunstrom and Manager Ray Hanson. For more information call 715.355.5144.

• The Door County YMCA honored Carla and Ellsworth Peterson at the annual Heritage Club Dinner on June 30 at Stone Harbor Resort.

Two hundred plus people were present to honor Ellsworth and Carla Peterson’s support in creating and sustaining the Door County YMCA over the past 25 years as well as their contributions to numerous other non-profits through Door County. Sharing their appreciation and sentiments for the Petersons at the event were Robert Schaupp, Chair of the Door County YMCA Endowment Board, Cyndy Stiehl, Board Member and Endowment Board Member, Shaun Tauber, Board CVO, Tom Beernsten, Endowment Board Member, Mike McHugh, Door County YMCA Aquatics Director and Doorfins Swim Team Coach, and Dick Skare, former Board Member. The former Miss Wisconsin, Kimberly Sawyer also performed the song “When You Believe.”

The annual Peterson Volunteer of the Year Award was also awarded to Dr. J. Eric Paulsen. Dr. Paulsen’s dedication to serving so many people and organizations in this community and abroad made him a deserving recipient for this distinguished award. Tom Herlache presented Dr. Paulsen with the award.

For more information call 920.743.4949.

• The Door County Triathlon will take place on July 16 & 17, and there are still opportunities to volunteer available.

As a charity partner of the Door County Triathlon, the Door County YMCA is once again helping to make sure all intersections along the race are made safe with the presence of volunteers directing traffic. As a course volunteer, people will get to view all the participants firsthand as they run or bike through Door County. All are encouraged to volunteer with a friend or family member and enjoy a great morning or afternoon outside, while cheering on the competitors and making sure they stay safe and on the right path.

Volunteers will receive free food at the post-race party at Murphy Park and a free T-shirt. Volunteers will be needed for just a few hours.

There are also many other volunteer opportunities available in Murphy Park the week of the event.

For more information or to sign up to volunteer, visit http://www.doorcountytriathlon.com.

• Christ Child Society’s (CCS) 16th annual Style Show and Luncheon will benefit young mothers and children in need. This year’s event will be held on August 3, starting at 11:30 am at the Log Den. Tickets will cost $30.

“Nothing is ever too much to do for a child,” said Mary Virginia Merrick, founder of the National Christ Child Society. Love and concern for children is still the backbone of the Door County Chapter of CCS.

Members put together layettes for needy mothers and their babies that include clothing, blankets, bootees, pajamas and diapers. Members also assist children with specific needs such as specialized equipment when needed. They equip children with school supplies and clothing in assistance to the Altrusa organization each fall.

For more information or to make reservations call 920.868.1583 or email [email protected].

• The Women’s Fellowship of the Sister Bay Moravian Church will hold its annual fundraiser on July 21 from 11 am – 2 pm at the church.

Attendees will enjoy a simple lunch of brats, hot dogs, cherry desserts, and more. Homemade bakery items, handmade rag rugs and other crafts, good-as-new-items, and much more will be available for purchase.

All proceeds will support a variety of community outreach programs that are supported by the Women’s Fellowship.

The church is located on the corner of Hill Road and Old Stage Road (one mile east of the intersection of Hill Road and Highway 42 on the north edge of Sister Bay).

• A Door County landmark, anonymous for the last 40 years, was re-dedicated on June 26, the final Day of the 2011 Olde Ellison Bay Days festival, at the Community Park.

The landmark, literally a land marker, is a slab of dolomite stone, dragged across the frozen bay in winter and erected in 1965 near the base of Ellison Bay’s “Big Bluff,” the highest inland shoreline outcropping of the Niagara Escarpment in the lower 48 states.

The Escarpment Marker also commemorated the advent of what has become a Door County tradition, the annual summertime visitation to our county of young people from around the world. In the 1920s, professor Robert S. Platt and other professors from the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin camped and built vacation cottages along Ellison Bay’s northeastern shore. Platt was asked to teach a summer field course on geography for graduate students; and for the next 38 years, hundreds of students traveled to Ellison Bay from the U.S. and all over the globe to study the Niagara Escarpment at its apex.

The bronze plaque on the original marker was lost sometime during the 1970s, and the new inscription, carved into the stone, reads “Dedicated 1965 to the History of the Niagara Escarpment and the work of Professor Robert Platt.”

Speaking at the dedication were Carol Lango, president of the Ellison Bay Service Club, sponsor of the event; geology Professor Roger Kuhns, commenting on the significance of the Niagara Escarpment; and Nancy Platt Rayfield, recalling the work of her father, Professor Robert S. Platt, whom the marker honors.