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Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center Announces Grand Prize Winner

December 27, 2011

Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center announces:

Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center’s 2011 Moo-La-La Gift Certificates event was another huge success! The Moo-La-La Gift Certificate giveaway promotes visitors and residents to shop locally and support our local businesses!


Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center held 3 daily drawings of $25 Gift Certificate giveaways that started on December 3rd. There were 57 winners of the $25 Gift Certificates and a grand total of $1,425.00 given away!

Callyn Harding was one of 57 winners!

Moo La La Winner on 12/18/11
$25.00 Moo La La Gift Certificate
to Madison Avenue Wine Shop

On December 22nd the:
Grand Prize Gift Certificate winner of $1000 was: Ed Douglass
Ed entered his name while shopping at Cornucopia Kitchen Corner on Jefferson Street.

Ed Douglass
Moo La La Grand Prize Winner!
$1000.00 Moo La La Gift Certificate
12/22/11

Ed Douglass
Moo La La Grand Prize Winner!
$1000.00 Moo La La Gift Certificate
12/22/11

The following stores participated:
Alley Katz, Enchanted, Samara Jewelry Designs, Avenson Photography, Gwendolyn’s, Sherry’s Hallmark Shop, Barn Door Quilt Shop, Bliss, Stone Harbor, Blue Ivy, Madison Ave Wine Shop, Sturgeon Bay Florist, Child’s Play, Monticello, T-Simon Jewelers, Cornucopia Kitchen Corner, Clipper’s Mate, Robbens Nest, Wilkins & Olander, On Deck Clothing Co., Northern Territory, Yankee Clipper, Door County Hardware, Nor Door Sport & Cyclery, Door County Traders

Door County Maritime Museum Continues Winter Speaking Series

December 31, 2011

The Door County Maritime Museum’s Speaker Series resumes after the holidays with a program literally and figuratively geared towards the big ships that ply the Great Lakes and what makes them go.

Ken Westcar will recount the repowering of the 1,000-ft. self-unloader Paul R. Tregurtha at Bay Shipbuilding on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum.

“The program will discuss how local expertise and an unwavering commitment to quality provided the vessel owners with a renewed asset that left the Sturgeon Bay yard on-time and on-budget and has since completed two full operating seasons with zero downtime while setting a precedent for future ship repowers in Sturgeon Bay,” explained Westcar. “There is also a short video showing how the new MaK engines can be equipped to run primarily on natural gas and therefore meet future exhaust emissions regulations without impairing ship efficiency and productivity.”

Westcar has been with the Caterpillar marine dealer organization for nearly 45 years with initial experience coming from the United Kingdom’s North Sea oil and gas exploration and production. Over ensuing years he has worked with a wide variety of maritime interests in assisting them in their fleet modernization efforts. A member of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering, the Ontario resident assumed responsibility for the sale and application of Caterpillar’s MaK medium-speed diesel engines for the entire Great Lakes in 2004 and he and his team have executed many repowers of U.S. and Canadian flagged vessels.

The Speaker Series will continue the first Thursday in February and March with programs relating on current and future work at Bay Shipbuilding followed by a presentation on the War of 1812 and its impact on the Great Lakes. The series concludes on Thursday, March 29, with a presentation on the Museum’s hugely popular boat building program.

All of the programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum. They are free of charge and open to the public with donations appreciated.

For more information contact the Museum at 920-743-5958 or visit www.dcmm.org.
 

First Annual “Love On Holiday” Songwriting Event Hosted by the Holiday Music Motel

February 2, 2012

The Holiday Music Motel Announces the First Annual “Love On Holiday” Songwriting Event, to Take Place February 7-14 in Sturgeon Bay

The Holiday Music Motel is excited to announce “Love on Holiday: Songs of Love, and Love Gone Away,” its first annual mid-February songwriting event. The week of collaborative songwriting, recording, and performances will commence on February 7, and continue through Valentineʼs Day, February 14. “Love On Holiday” will become one of three annual songwriting events hosted by the Holiday Music Motel, alongside the Steel Bridge Songfest “Construction Zone” and the Halloween-themed “Dark Songs.”

For “Love On Holiday,” The Holiday Music Motel will once again be hosting songwriters from near and far, who will spend the week collaboratively writing original love songs and documenting these songs in the motelʼs in-house recording studio, manned by renowned engineer Billy Triplett (James Brown, Prince, Nirvana, Pearl Jam). The songs will then be debuted in a special show the evening of Friday, February 10, at The Red Room in downtown Sturgeon Bay. The songwriters will also be appearing at the various open mics around town for some impromptu shows throughout the week, which will be announced on the event webpage, as listed below. Confirmed artists for the event include visiting songwriters Danielle French, Corey Carlson, Meaghan Owens, Charlie Cheney, Vee Sonnets and Anna Sacks, as well as local songwriters pat mAcdonald, melaniejane, Chris Aaron, Rob Atwood, Eliott Goettelman, Troy Therrien, Fred Young, Jamey Clark, Richard Whitney, Landon Capelle, Kory Christopher, Brittany Dauenbauch, Anya Kopischke and Lena MacDonald.

The Holiday Music Motel is located at 30 N 1st Ave in downtown Sturgeon Bay at the foot of the historic Michigan Street Bridge. For information or reservations, please call 920.743.5571 or visit http://www.HolidayMusicMotel.com. Event details and breaking updates pertaining to “Love On Holiday” may be found at http://www.holidaymusicmotel.com/loveonholiday.

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