Thanks for Making Earth Day Festival a Great Success

The Every Day Is Earth Day Festival held April 26-28 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor was a great success, attended by more than 500 people prepared to make their lives more earth friendly.

EDED was designed to educate, inspire and disseminate information about the environment, near and far. Growing concerns about air and water quality, catastrophic weather events, plastics pollution and housing shortages touch all of us. As we acknowledge this, we begin to more fully realize the importance of learning earth friendly practices we can individually and collectively adopt. Responding to these serious issues empowers us every day.

The weekend was made possible by the enthusiastic support of local businesses, individuals and organizations. A sincere “thank you” to the following for making the goal of presenting this shared learning experience a reality.

Al Johnson’s, Artisan Cheese, Amber Beard, Book Nook Gardens, Celebrate Water, The Clearing, Climate Change Coalition, Cool Choices, Annie Deutsch, Door County Land Trust, Door County Library System, Door County Master Gardeners, Door County North, Door County Scrap Metal, Door County Thrive, Ephraim Moravian Church, Ecology Sports, Forest Recovery Project, Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands, GEO DC, Get Real Café, Going Garbage, Mariah Goode, Green Tier, Greens N Grains, Hatch Distillery, Island Orchard Cider, Jerry’s Flowers, David and Chris Kellems, Kick Ash Products, Lake Michigan Wind & Sun, Main Street Market, Nature Conservancy, NatureWise WPS, Newport Wilderness Society, NWTC, On Deck, Open Door Bird Sanctuary, Piggly Wiggly, Renew Wisconsin, Ridges Sanctuary, Serenity Bridge Yoga, Shipwrecked, Sister Bay Moravian Church, SLO Farmers Co-op, Sustain Door, Virge Temme, UW Extension DC, Waseda Farms, WDBK, White Gull Inn, Jane Whitney, Wild Ones, Wolfe Horticulture.

With many thanks to the Village of Egg Harbor and the Kress Pavilion Staff.

The musicians: Sara Bong, Beth Chafey-Hon, Jeanne Kuhns & Mary Beth Mattson. Poets/readers: Lauren Bremer, Cynthia Johnson, Renny Lea, June Nirschl, Tom Toerpe and Karen Wilson. Heather Frykman: Photographic art background. Diane Kirkland, Ephraim Moravian Church, Program Design.

The Every Day is Earth Day Plan Team

Pat Glen

Ellison Bay, Wisconsin