1 year ago: 2016

Kacie Jorgensen didn’t send out a typical invitation for her 9-year-old birthday party this year. Instead, the Luxemburg-Casco third-grader asked friends to wrap a donation to Literacy Partners of Kewaunee County or Holy Trinity School’s Marv Bins Food Pantry.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help has launched an enhanced website at www.shrineofourladyofgoodhelp.com. With fewer features, the site will provide more information and allow visitors to interact and share their shrine experiences.

At the Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation annual dinner of March 9, two community leaders were honored with awards. They are Gary VanDrisse of VanDrisse Insurance and Shawn Olson of Olson Fabrication, Inc.

10 years ago: 2007

Dr. Jack March, Algoma physician and long-time scouter, has been appointed a chairman of the local Friends of Scouting major gifts enrollment program. There are 611 members in 45 packs, troops and posts in the county.

Holy Rosary from Kewaunee won the championship in the cancer fund basketball festival held at Casco over the weekend.

Pat Zettel, former Algoma athlete, will again be pitching for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse baseball team this spring.

25 years ago: 1992

Lois Pflughoeft, former news editor of the Algoma Record-Herald, who regularly won awards for her weekly columns, has died. She was 77 and was employed by the Record-Herald for more than 40 years.

The new operator of the marina in the City of Kewaunee, Frank Bernard, plans to turn the Kewaunee Marina into a first-rate, full-service marina, offering service, storage and ship rentals.

Public support is made through the “Buy a Brick” program, to help finance a new $65,000 visitor’s information center in Algoma. Area residents can support the effort and provide a memorial or give a gift in honor of a family member, co-worker or friend.

40 years ago: 1977

Farmers listened intently as cloud seeding was explained on Friday night at NorthBrook in Luxemburg.

Frank Schnable, science teacher at Kewaunee High School, was elected chairman of the Kewaunee County Republican Party.

As of September, 1976, there were an estimated 1880 Wisconsin veterans in Kewaunee County.

50 years ago: 1967

Cheryl Haen, a fifth-grader at St. Mary’s School in Luxemburg, was the winner of the junior division top award last week in the Kewaunee County 4-H speaking contest.

Spec. Neil DeBaker was recently awarded the Good Conduct Medal. He completed his three-year Army enlistment this month. Then, he and his wife, the former Sue Perry of Sturgeon Bay and their sons, Bryan and Paul, will return to this area.

Paul F. Kozlowski enlisted in the U.S. Air Force for a four-year hitch. The son of Frank Kozlowski, Rte. 1, Algoma, is a 1956 graduate of Casco High School.

60 years ago: 1957

The Red Cross bloodmobile visited Algoma on Wednesday. It collected 119 pints of blood, six short of he quota. Colds and other illnesses kept a good many away, apparently, as 164 had signed up in advance, but 36 cancelled or didn’t show up.

Installation of a new diagnostic x-ray device began Wednesday in the office of Dr. H.G. Pudleiner, who says the new installation makes good pictures without complicated charts.

Employees of the Algoma Plywood and Veneer Co. earned individual awards for their outstanding safety records in 1956. Each earned a tri-color flashlight.

75 years ago: 1942

Besides the usual home methods of preserving meat by salting, smoking and canning, freezer locker storage is now available in many communities in Kewaunee County.

Kewaunee County residents contributed a total of $724.39 to the recent Infantile Paralysis Campaign.

Real Estate transfers recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds during the past week were: John Denamur to Raymond Denamur, a residence in the City of Algoma; Joseph Koutsky to Reinhardt Waterstreet, residence in City of Kewaunee; and John Kleiman to Eli Coppersmith, a farm in the Town of Pierce.

90 years ago: 1927

Charles G. Sell, one of the first farmers to adopt tractor farming in the Rio Creek area, last week purchased a Case tractor from the local firm, Kreft and Fett.

Someone discovered basketball in little old Rosiere about two weeks ago. They formed a team immediately and set up a game with Forestville. The score was 36 to 16.

Ice, rain, sleet, snow and hail, followed a day or two of soft weather, which made traffic dangerous. Long windrows of ice blocked the harbor entrance.

100 years ago: 1917

Dave Decker was in the city a few days ago representing the Ahnapee Dock Co. It is said a sale is being arranged by him to sell a tract of land to Henry Grimm and M.W. Perry for a consideration of $5,000.

Because of the increasing number of instruments being ordered, it is found necessary to add a new switchboard in the local telephone office.

The local post office has been given an overhauling and fixing up by Postmaster William White, greatly improving the appearance of the office.

110 years ago: 1907

The Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Co. sent a large consignment of goods to a Chicago firm today.

There are more sleighs and farmers noticeable on the streets today than have been seen for sometime. The possibility of the snow disappearing brought some of them to town.

It is the spirit of every thriving city to welcome any new industry or profession cordially, so it is hoped the citizens of Ahnapee will welcome Mr. J.C. Murphy who will open a dental parlor here in about a week.

120 years ago: 1897

Charles Mraz, the popular Fourth Street shoe dealer, has come out as an independent candidate for the office of city assessor.

Several bridges were washed away during the recent flood. Others were seriously damaged. Farmers who were stranded in town last Monday had to cross the Second Street bridge at their own risk.

William Torge has a possible fortune in business in store. His agency has a folding tub stand that always sells at first sight.

This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press Gazette: Memories from the archives: April 1