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  • But the Greatest of These Is Charity

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    The genesis for Edgewood Orchard Galleries’ latest cookbook, An Artist’s Food for the Soul, lay in the past. “Twenty years ago my mom had the idea,” Nell Emerson Jarosh recalled, “and began gathering recipes.” But that project was eventually set aside. “[Our] 30th anniversary [in 1999] was really fun, with bands and tents,” she continued. […]

  • Balancing Act

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    Almost inevitably, every community-minded leader in Door County will be asked at one time or another to serve on the board of directors of one of our local charities. It’s volunteer work, so it sounds simple enough; but, what does it actually mean to serve on the board of directors of a non-profit organization? To […]

  • Double Standard

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    In 2008 Muhtar Kent, Chief Executive Officer of Coca Cola Company, made nearly $14 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation. That same year Louis Camilleri, CEO of Philip Morris, took home $36.9 million, and Robert Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, filled his pockets with $51.1 million. Directors of companies that sell soda, […]

  • Door County Celebrates Giving

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    Guenzel is Door County Community Foundation’s 2009 Philanthropist of the Year Jo Guenzel has spent three decades giving to the Door County community, helping to organize the first free clinic and women’s health program on the peninsula. On July 22, 2009, the Door County Community Foundation thanked her at its fourth annual Celebration of Giving, […]

  • The Vission of Jim Haynes

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    I stumbled across Jim Haynes thanks to Michael Perry’s book, COOP: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting. A quick glance at Haynes’ Web site tells the story of a stunningly interesting man.

    “People

  • Do Nothing, and Nothing is What We’ll Get

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    Since I began writing about Door County’s Brain Drain in the Pulse, I’ve received more feedback than for any other topic I’ve covered in my five years at the paper. The goal in writing it was to start

  • Filling in Door County’s Age Gap

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    Door County is losing its young people rapidly. Students, young adults, and young families are going the way of the Dodo on our peninsula.
    But our sad future as the Door County Shady Shores Retirement

  • Budget Cuts Get Real in Colorado

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    Times are tight and threats of cuts in services are thrown about all over, but in Colorado Springs the knife has come, and residents are seeing what it means. Reader Todd Frisoni shares this article from

  • Sturgeon Bay Mayor Interviews

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    Sturgeon Bay Public Access will air interviews with mayoral candidates for the City of Sturgeon Bay beginning Feb. 11. The interviews will be conducted by Roger Levandusky on Wednesday evening and will

  • Warrior’s Getaway

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    Lucy Lawless, best known for playing television’s “Xena, Warrior Princess,” had kind words for Door County in a short interview in the Chicago Tribune Jan. 24.
    Q: What is your best or worst vacation memory?
    A:

  • Big Night In Packerland Hoops

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    It was a night of surprises in the Packerland last night. Sevastopol took Southern Door to overtime before Jon Baudhin put the game away for the Eagles in the extra period. The eagles won 60-53. Meanwhile

  • Rooting Against the Robot – Peyton Manning

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    Yup, I’m on the ‘Who Dat?’ bandwagon. It’s not so much that I’m a fan of the Saints – though they are likable. And I really don’t buy the “great football team saves a city” angle. That storyline serves

  • Instant Replay: After Big Pick Even I can’t make an excuse for Favre this time

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    I’m as big a Brett Favre apologist as anyone alive, but even I can’t say much to defend his final play of the season yesterday versus the Saints. Wow.
    Yes, his teammates didn’t help him by soaking their

  • Asian Carp…For Dinner?

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    The dreaded (and hideous) Asian Carp is in the news everywhere lately, and most of the time the news isn’t good for the carp’s image. But some Louisiana businessmen see an opportunity where many see catastrophe.

  • Door County Favre Fan Doesn’t Waver

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    Pete D’Amico has been one of Brett Favre’s biggest fans (yes, even bigger than this writer) for nearly 20 years. In Favre’s heyday in Green Bay the restaurateur made his pilgrimage to Kiln, Miss., the

  • Baseball HOF Debate Time

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    If football chose MVPs like baseball, Brett Favre would have no less than six MVP trophies on his mantle.

  • Best of the 2000s

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    The Packers had the sixth highest winning percentage of any team in the NFL in the 2000s, counting playoffs. That didn’t surprise me, but the number five team on the list did. The Patriots were number

  • Polar Plunge 2010

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    There wasn’t a tan in sight at the beach in Jacksonport yesterday as waves of New Year’s celebrants sprinted into the icy waters of Lake Michigan. Hundreds took part in the annual Jacksonport Polar Bear

  • So Long to the Chubs

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    The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and particularly Dan Egan, have done fantastic work over the past several years investigating the changing ecology of Lake Michigan. On Wednesday, reporter Karen Herzog

  • What Happened to Fixing Things?

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    Somewhere along the line we got away from fixing things. I’m not sure exactly when, but it seems that it was around the mid-90s that I started to hear the phrase “it’s cheaper to buy a new one” all the