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Volume 8, Number 2AUGUST 15, 2012

Hundreds gather to celebrateVillage’s 100th birthdayBy Mary Struck, Publisher

Hundreds of past and currentresidents of the Village of Kohlerturned out to celebrate the Vil-lage’s centennial, which took placeAugust 3-4, 2012.

The festivities began on a warmFriday night in the Ravine bowl,where concert-goers spread blan-kets and lawn chairs on the ravineslopes to hear classic rock hitsplayed by Sky House Band.(Scenes from Woodstock came tomind during songs from the late60s, but without the rain and mud).

The American Club and theKohler Fire Department served upbrats, burgers and corn on the cob,and a booth by Country KettleCorn from Portage, offered its ket-tle corn, funnel cake, and lemon-ade. The intermission featuredfireworks by Bartolotta.

The music was well received byattendees, many of whom ex-pressed appreciation that the vol-ume was just right. An oldergentleman from Plymouth who in-quired about the band, was excitedto hear some local legends fromthe former Sunblind Lion bandwould be performing, which in-cluded Keith Abler, Larry Baldock,and Mike Dellger, who impressedthe crowd with his tribute to BobDylan. (Dellger’s love for Dylan iswell known amongst students atKohler Schools, where Dellger hastaught English for a number ofyears).

Other members of Sky HouseBand include Bob McManus, AmyPatenaude Schmidt, Luke Abler(son of Keith), and Cindy Howley,who is the Manager of Steward-ship and Corporate Events forKohler Co. Howley was also a

valuable (and tireless) member ofthe Kohler Centennial planningcommittee.

Saturday’s lineup included an-other blast of heat from MotherNature, and a parade featuring ap-proximately 30 local groups, fol-lowed by a community picnic.

Crowds of parade onlookerslined streets from Highland Driveto Lost Woods Park. Highlights in-cluded Herbert Kohler and hiswife, Natalie Black, dressed in el-egant Victorian era style clothingriding atop a carriage pulled bytwo majestic Friesian horses with

Mr. Kohler at the reins. An antiquefire truck, courtesy of Kohler resi-dent John Esche, also added a his-torical flavor. Other notableparticipants included the Milwau-kee Brewers sausage mascots; andthe University of Wisconsinmarching band. See video of theparade at kohlervillager.com.

The UW band played its fa-mous “Fifth Quarter” performanceat the picnic at Lost Woods Park,while the Kohler Police AthleticLeague sold approximately 1,000brats and burgers within the first90 minutes of the picnic. At onepoint, a KPAL member had tomake a “bun run” after running outof hamburger buns.

Many positive comments wereexpressed about the Kohler VillageRemembers book, which was dis-tributed at the picnic.

Village Board President TomSchnettler took to the podium togive a short speech and read aproclamation from WisconsinGovernor Scott Walker proclaim-ing August 3-4, 2012 as Village ofKohler Days throughout the stateof Wisconsin. Schnettler then in-troduced Herbert Kohler, whogave a moving speech that beganwith an account of how LostWoods Park received its name (seetranscript at right). Following thespeech, a replica of a gift to theVillage from Kohler Co. was un-veiled. The finished product willbe a large etched brass map of theVillage, which will be attached tothe exterior of the Village Hallbuilding.

During the picnic, I had the op-portunity to talk to lifelong Kohlerresident Lorraine Erbstoesser, who

Stop, children what’s that sound? It’s Mr.Dellger on the drums!

Herbert Kohler drives horse and carraige with wife, Natalie Black. Continued on page 3

“Centennial Memories”

The following is a transcript of the speech delivered by Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. at the Village of Kohler centennial picnic at LostWoods Park on August 4, 2012.

I’d like to tell you a story aboutLost Woods Park. Long before itwas a park, it was named LostWoods by a couple of rebelliousvillage kids named Bobby Jones,Stevie Zeitler, Billy Dz-wonkowski, and me, HerbyKohler.

We named it this because webelieved that no one could everfind us there. Deep inside thewoods was a bramble patch. Andinside this bramble patch we dug ahole about 4 feet deep and 7 feetwide. We covered that hole with avery intricate pattern of sticks –like an igloo – making it impossi-ble, so we thought, for anyone tofind us inside our hideout. This be-came our headquarters – during allfour seasons of the year – and weused it primarily to smoke andretell our adventures.

One afternoon, we were smok-ing up a storm when suddenly thesticks of the doorway were thrownback and there was my mother, ap-palled at what she saw. I don’tknow who was more surprised,mother or kids, but she hollered atall of us, then dragged me away,holding me by the ear all the wayhome.

I never did return to thesewoods as a kid, so being heretoday brings back a whole lot ofmemories.

There is a saying that the applenever falls far from the tree.When my son David was in junior

kindergarten, a wicked witch vis-ited his classroom on Halloween.The next year, on Halloween,David was determined to avoidthat scary witch, so he skippedschool and hid out in Ravine Parkwith his buddy Mitchell McGin-nis. They had so much fun play-ing hooky in the park that day thatthey skipped school for the nexttwo weeks just to play in the park.

Finally their teacher, thinkingthey must be quite ill to miss twoweeks of school, called our houseto inquire about David’s health. Itdidn’t take long to discover thatanother Kohler kid, just like hisfather before him, had found agood hiding place in one of thevillage parks.

Our parks are spread through-out the village. More than justgood hiding places, they are thecommunity’s playgrounds for theyoung and social centers for therest of us.

How these parks came to be,and how the Village of Riversideevolved into the Kohler Villagewe know today, is quite a fasci-nating history lesson.

When John Michael Kohlermoved his factory from Sheboy-gan to Riverside in 1899, he didso because he was looking for asetting in which his factory couldgrow without congestion and hisworkers could live in a clean nat-ural environment.

Continued on page 3

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By Kevin Struck1912 was a fascinating year.

With the Wright Brother’s flighthaving taken place only nine yearsearlier, it’s not surprising aviationwas often in the headlines. Therewere a whole host of firsts, includ-ing the first parachutejump from a flyingairplane, the first non-stop flight from Paristo London, the firstflight by a womanacross the EnglishChannel, the firstbombing using an air-plane, and the first re-ported case of lost luggage—okay,just kidding about that last one.

Perhaps the biggest headlinewas made not in the air, however,but on the water. On April 15, theRMS Titanic sank in the north At-lantic, taking 1,517 passengersdown with her. Some saw a con-nection between the multitude oficebergs and the “1912 coldwave,” which remains one of thecoldest winters ever to occur overthe northern United States. Niag-ara Falls, for example, froze overso hard that some people were ableto safely cross on ice bridges.Quite a contrast to steamy 2012.

Speaking of the Titanic, morethan 60 films were released in1912, with acting debuts made bythe now legendary John Barry-more, Lon Chaney, and LillianGish. Oliver Twist became the firstAmerican feature film to run overan hour.

The 1912 music charts weredominated by The Rolling Stones.(Well, hey, they’re almost thatold.) Actually, Irving Berlin wasthe king of pop back then, publish-ing classics such as “Alexander’sRagtime Band.”

Despite films and music gain-ing in popularity, books were stilltops. Authors who published

works in 1912 included Sir ArthurConan Doyle, D.H. Lawrence,Jack London, Beatrix Potter, LeoTolstoy, H.G. Wells, Carl Jung,and Bertrand Russell, among manyother well-known names.

Woodrow Wilson beat incum-bent William HowardTaft in 1912 to be-come our nation’s28th President. Wil-son once said, “If youthink too much aboutbeing re-elected, it isvery difficult to beworth re-electing.”(Wilson was re-

elected four years later, just in caseyou were wondering.)

Like 2012, 1912 was anOlympic year. The games tookplace in Stockholm, Sweden, andwere the first to use electronic tim-ing and public address systems.Good thing, too, because theUSA’s Donald Lippincott set theworld record in the 100 meterdash. Alas, Lippincott’s time of10.6 would not even qualify for theOlympics today and would puthim a full second behind UsainBolt.

Boxing, cricket, horse racing,tennis, and baseball were arguablythe biggest sports 100 years ago.The Boston Red Sox won theWorld Series, defeating the NewYork Giants. No, not the footballteam. These New York Giantsplayed baseball until 1958, whenthey moved to San Francisco. Thismight be hard to believe, but in1912 the Green Bay Packers didn’texist. If you wanted to watch foot-ball in the U.S., you had to watchthe college game—in person, ofcourse, since there weren’t any tel-evisions yet. Or computers. Whaton earth did people do? Read thenewspaper. Some things neverchange.

The worldin 1912Many firsts took place 100years ago

Jacob Hart, son ofTodd and Julia Hart, hasearned the highest honorof Eagle Scout. For hisfinal project, Hart led agroup of 15 scouts tostencil storm drains inSheboygan as part of theSheboygan Sustainable TaskForce.

Hart, a 2012 graduateof Kohler High School,is a member of KohlerBoy Scout Troop 831 aswell as The Order of TheArrow, Boy Scouts Na-tional Honor Society. Hewill be attending Purdue

University in Indiana to study en-gineering.

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lived in Kohler fromthe time she was born85 years ago, until afew years ago whenshe required assistedliving facilities. Lor-raine talked about theKohler trolley, and ofsledding in an area inKohler known as“Devil’s Ditch.” To mydelight, she was able to identify thepurpose of a small wooden build-ing with a window that can be seensitting near the end of our drive-way in historical photos of ourhouse on Church Street. It was aswitching station for the trolley,which traveled from Kohler Co.past our house, then between theSchnettler’s and Conklin’s houses,and over a steel trestle that spannedthe ravine. Remnants of the trestlecan still be seen in the ravine.

Lorraine said her father workedat Kohler Co. for 54 years, begin-ning at the age of 14. Lorraine her-self worked for the company firstas a filing clerk, then in the mailingdepartment. Her son, Bill, and hiswife, Lynn, also reside in Kohler,where they raised two sons, Pauland Craig, both graduates ofKohler Schools.

After the picnic, nearly 300Kohler Schools alumni gatheredfor a multi-generational class re-union organized by Lynn Rousse,owner of the Surprises! store atDeer Trace Shopping Center. At-tendees came from as far away asCalifornia, Florida, and Delaware.

Janice Holton ofNewark, Delaware saidthat of the 28 class-mates who graduatedwith her from Kohler in1950, 14 were able toattend a special Class of1950 luncheon. Themost senior alumni toattend the reunion atLost Woods were Fred

Schnorr, class of 1940, (who wasaccompanied by his daughter,Beth, class of 1972) as well as LuGiefer and Elizabeth Kemle War-burton; all three (who are in their90s) are currently living in She-boygan. Also in attendance wereLaVerne Gier, Class of 1946, andDoris Wykoff and Jean Dehne,Class of 1947. Wykoff and Gierlive in Sheboygan, while Dehnecame from Titusville, Florida.

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He envisioned a community ofattractive worker-owned homes onwinding tree-lined streets with de-fined areas for homes and retailstores with his manufacturing plantto the east so that prevailing west-erlies would blow emissions andnoise away from residential areas.

Unfortunately, he died beforehis dream was finished. Riversidebegan to grow haphazardly like somany other communities in Amer-ica where manufacturing plantswere prospering and workers werelooking for homes just outsidetheir factories’ gates.

John Michael’s third son andultimate successor, Walter Kohler,was troubled by the unorganizedgrowth of Riverside and set out tocreate a long-range plan for the vil-lage. He and Richard Philipp, anarchitect friend from Milwaukee,traveled to Europe and met withSir Ebenezer Howard, architect ofthe English Garden City move-ment. They toured villages innorthern England and the Nether-lands looking for attributes thatwould generate higher standards ofliving at moderate costs, valuesand principles that would consti-tute “good living.”

Returning to the United States,they sat down with the OlmstedBrothers of Boston to create thefirst master plan for the newly-in-corporated Village of Kohler. Cen-tral to the plan was that homeswould be privately owned, archi-tect-inspired and complementaryto their surroundings. That a build-ing and loan would be owned bythose who used it to finance theirhomes. That the village would notbe a company town.

The result of Walter’s amazingforesight and the Olmsteds’ plan-ning is what distinguishes KohlerVillage from other communities oftoday. They recognized the powerof placing people in compellingsurroundings . . . in which to work. . . to play. . . to live . . . and togrow. They realized that Parkswere the lungs of a community.And in so doing, they created “AnAmerican Original.” Some sixtyyears later, the Frank Lloyd WrightFoundation and John Lillesandhelped us create what was called asecond 50-year master plan.

Many people have walked intheir footprints these past 100years. My father taught me the im-portance of roots; to respect thehistorical values and traditions ofthe village. He also taught me thatgrowth is essential to longevity.

I hope these ideas are adopted

by my grandchildren and they areable to instill them in their childrenand their children.

It has taken great leaders – atthe company, in village govern-ment, and in Kohler PublicSchools – working together – tobring our community to this cen-tennial year. It has taken boldnessand respect for each other from allthree to avoid stagnation and tofoster the growth and vitality thatthe village has today.

Though tiny in relative size, thevillage enjoys a character and rep-utation unequaled by any otherWisconsin community, really byany American community. Someof the world’s finest products con-tinue to be made here in machineshops, a pottery, in foundries withplating and enameling. Yet hardlytwo blocks away resides a five-starfive-diamond hotel – one of only36 in the world – and anotherblock away resides a series of pub-lic schools that consistently grad-uate accomplished men andwomen charitably focused – andall of this surrounded by commu-nity, by recreation, by green space.

Recently, a renowned portraitartist and a man who was able topreserve 40,000 acres of Pennsyl-vania landscape toured our village.His first impression was – what abeautiful, charming, clean commu-nity this is. It’s obvious, he noted,that people who live here reallycare about what makes their vil-lage unique.

It’s always comforting to comehome to this safe place we love.To a place that holds special mem-ories of lifelong friendships, manyof which began in kindergarten atthe Kohler Schools.

Today, we share memories ofstate championships, summerplayground games, and sleddingdown Devil’s Run in Ravine Park.Memories of eating homemade pieat ice cream socials and soaking upice cream sodas at the corner drugstore.

Memories of winning a prize atthe doll buggy parade, dancing atthe youth center, getting your firstpaying job cutting your neighbor’sgrass or pulling mustard on theKohler Farms, buying your firsthome in the village.

This is our centennial … mem-ories of what we were about andthe values and friendships thatsprung from them.

To commemorate the momen-tous occasion, it is my pleasure topresent a special gift from KohlerCo. to the village. I’d like Tom

Schnettler, our village president,and members of our village boardto join me for this presentation.

Our gift will be a large etchedbrass map defining Kohler Villageas it exists today on its 100th birth-day. It will be placed on the wall atthe entrance to Village Hall.

The etching of the map will beexecuted by an architectural metalsfabricator who assisted with theArts/Industry program in theKohler factory. The map is still inproduction, but here is what it willlook like.

The growth of Kohler Villageover the past 100 years will beeasy to trace on the map. The orig-inal 1902 plat for the small Villageof Riverside extended along whatis now Highland Drive, fromtoday’s Design Center south to therailroad tracks.

The Olmsted Brothers startedwith that plat and laid out thestreets, parks, and residential lotsin West One, West Two, and SouthOne. The second 50-year planbreathed new life into the villageby defining areas for expanded res-idential, commercial, and recre-ational development.

I hope that 50 or even 100 yearsfrom now, village residents andvisitors will look at this plaque andnote how, through careful planningand a single, far-reaching sense ofquality, the village has grown andprospered over the years.

John Ruskin, an English artcritic and sociologist in the late1800s had quite an influence onthe company when he wrote: “Lifewithout labor is guilt, Labor with-out art is brutality.” He also hadquite an influence on communityplanning and provides us with athought appropriate to this centen-nial.

“When we build,” he wrote,“let us think that we build forever.Let it not be for present delight norfor present use alone. Let it besuch work as our descendants willthank us for, and let us think, as welay stone upon stone, that a time isto come when those stones will beheld sacred because our handshave touched them, and that menwill say as they look upon thelabor and wrought substance ofthem: ‘See! This our fathers did forus.’”

Happy birthday, Village ofKohler. You are an American Orig-inal. Let us celebrate in one of thelungs of your community!

Lifelong Kohler resident Lorraine Erbstoesser.

Doris Wykoff and Jean Dehne (Class of ‘47)and LaVerne Gier (class of ‘46).

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continue the KJN Hockey Scholar-ship which has awarded $3,000 inscholarships over the past twoyears.

Coach John Elmendorf’sKohler 5th/6th grade team andCoach Mark Hansen’s Kohler

5th/6th grade team along withteams from Sheboygan and Ply-mouth participated. Kohler boys,coaches, and parents supportedthis tournament to honor Kyle andplayed not only with passion forthe game but with love for the

Neurohr family. Coach Mark Hansen’s Kohler

team won the Constellation Cham-pionship and proudly presented thetrophy to Scott and Lori Neurohr.

First Annual Kyle J. Neurohr Memorial Youth Baseball/Softball Brat Fry held

Back Row: Lori Neurohr, Brian Childs, Coach Mark Hansen, Scott Neurohr, Middle Row -Carter Gebler, Sean Farrell, Ben Herold, Matt Childs, Jack Cassady, Front Row - Davis Maki,Parker Hansen, Ben Maki, Tyler Ruminski, Jacob Foster.

Back Row: Marcus Knuth, Coach John Elmendorf, Craig Stock. Middle Row - PJ Elmendorf,Trent Stock, Connor Cassidy, Colin Hogan, Joe Conklin, Front Row - Ben Heins, Josh Gille-spie, Carter Knuth, Ben Tengowski, Nick Wandschneider, Chase Ducharme.

Kohler High School seniorLogan Willis finished in a tie for11th place at the WWSGAWomen’s State Stroke Play Cham-pionship held at House on theRock Resort in Spring Green. Thetournament fielded 76 women am-ateurs from across the state. Willis,16, was the youngest player in the

field and competed in the Champi-onship Flight (reserved for playerswith USGA Handicap Indexes of 6or lower). Willis shot rounds of 85-83-82 (250) on the 6050 yard, par73 course. Former UW Badgerstand-out, Jessie Geary of Madi-son, won the event with a 54-holetotal of 230.

Logan Willis ties for 11that Women’s State StrokePlay Championship

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CLASSIFIEDSTaylor Drive multi-use pathway public information meeting set forAugust 28

The Sheboygan County Plan-ning and Conservation Depart-ment is hosting a publicinformation meeting to discuss theupcoming Taylor Drive Multi-UsePathway project. The project in-volves the construction of a multi-use (bicycle and pedestrian) pathon the east side of Taylor Drivefrom Kohler Memorial Drivesouth to potentially Crocker Av-enue. The mostly asphalt path willbe 10 to 14 feet wide and will in-clude a bridge over the SheboyganRiver and Union Pacific Railroad,retaining walls, and a boardwalkover wetlands. The work will in-clude improvements to the inter-sections along the route to make iteasier for bicyclists and pedestri-ans to cross. The path will provideaccess to area schools, employers,and shopping and recreational des-tinations. In addition, the path willconnect several existing trails inthe City of Sheboygan and She-boygan County. At this time, con-struction for this project isscheduled to begin in 2014.

The purpose of the meeting isto provide updated information onthe project and gather public input.Representatives from the County,City of Sheboygan, and the designteam will be available to answerquestions. The UW-Extension ishandicap accessible.

The Meeting will be Tuesday,August 28th, 2012 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. in Room 5022 at UW-Extension, 5 University Drive,Sheboygan. The meeting will bean open house format, with a briefpresentation at 5:30 p.m.

Design and construction of theproject is being funded throughSheboygan County’s Nonmotor-ized Transportation Pilot Program.For more information, contact theSheboygan County Planning andConservation Department at (920)459-3060 or Tammy Kuehlmann,Design Team Project Manager at(920) 803-7364 ortkuehlmann@donohue-associates.com.

The Kohler Fire Departmentwas among area emergency agen-cies called to assist with a rescueand recovery effort on Lake Michi-gan on Friday, August 10, afterhigh winds and waves swept fish-ermen into the lake off of theNorth Pier break wall.

Five people had gone out on thepier to retrieve fishing equipmentlost earlier in the day, when highwaves washed two men, Kurt Net-zer, 37 and David Diener, 21, offof the break wall at approximately3:27 p.m. A 38-year-old womanwho attempted to help the menwas also washed into the water, butwas able to cling to a ladder untilshe was pulled to safety.

The 911 call was made by She-boygan resident Tom Resch, who

was at the lakefront with his dog,“Trouble,” when he witnessedwaves knock the two men off thebreak wall. He said he saw the menstruggle to reach large rocks alongthe base of the break wall, but an-other wave came crashing overand on top of them pushing themunder, and Resch said he did notsee them resurface. Resch also re-ported seeing a woman in a wheel-chair, who was reportedly themother of one of the victims, onthe break wall sustaining the crash-ing waves as another woman whohad been pushing her ran for help.

The Kohler Fire Department re-sponded as part of a SheboyganCounty support team, which alsoincluded the City and Town ofSheboygan Falls, Plymouth Fire

and Ambulance, Cedar Grove firedepartment, the SheboyganCounty Sheriff’s Department, andthe Coast Guard. The DNR alsosupplied boats.

Kohler Fire Chief Mike Lind-strom said the department trainswith the dive team, and assists bylending equipment and manpower.The KFD provided staging duringthe weekend incident, which in-volves checking in and out all thedivers and other responding per-sonnel, so they can be accountedfor.

Some of the Kohler Fire De-partment volunteers also rode outon the boats to be a line of commu-nication to the divers, who arewearing headsets, and they alsoserve as “tenders” for the divers –

holding ropes attached to driversand guiding them as they swimsearch patterns. Lindstrom saidvisibility was extremely low onFriday due to the high winds stir-ring up sediment. Divers werebarely able to see in front of theirfaces. Sunday was a little better,when visibility about 2-3 feet. Spe-cially trained dogs are also used.

Dive teams were able to re-cover the bodies of Netzer and Di-ener on Saturday and Sundayrespectively.

Responding to this incident forthe KFD were Mike Lindstromand his son, Greg; Jack Jarvis,Chuck Keller, Randy Bauer, BrettEdgerle, T. J. Kramer, Brian Hor-neck, Bob Taubenheim, TomSchumacher, and Mike Kelm.

Kohler Fire Dept. assists with LakeMichigan search and rescue effort

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Dye-abolicalThrough October 31, 2012. Threenights and four 18-hole rounds ofgolf per person, one round eachon Straits and Irish courses atWhistling Straits and River andMeadow Valleys courses atBlackwolf Run.From $1,138

A weekend of exciting wineseminars, educational demonstra-tions and delicious tastings. Theevent includes nationally-renowned chefs, regional restaura-teurs, entertaining seminars from

award-winning local and interna-tional chefs, and opportunities tomingle with the top wine and culi-nary experts from across the na-tion. Many events arecomplimentary including food and

wine samplings, book signings,trunk shows and more. Tickets onsale August 1. Call 800-344-2838or visit KohlerFoodandWine.netfor tickets and information.

It’s Going to be aGood YearSave the Date for Kohler Food& Wine Experience on October 18-21

Golf EscapeThrough September 30, 2012,Sunday through Thursday. Onenight and one 18-hole round ofgolf per person on Straits courseat Whistling Straits and onMeadow Valleys course at Black-wolf Run plus one golf lesson. From $773.

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works of art that, at first glance, ap-pear to be assemblages of vintagegarments, natural forms, and/or dailylife objects. A master of trompe l’oeil,Isaacs’ compositions are actually con-structed of numerous pieces ofFinnish birch wood, which are thendeftly painted in acrylic to mimic a va-riety of materials. 920-452-8602

Heading off to school?Through August 1-31TraderShop our collection of officially li-censed WI Badger apparel! For a lim-ited time, receive 20% off men’s andwomen’s WI Badger tees and hood-ies.920-451-2113

Heal Your Life - Group Reiki Session Tuesdays, August 21 & 28, 4pm-5pm,$20 per personIntentionsUW instructor and ReikiMaster/Teacher John Oestreicher of-fers a group Reiki Healing Session.This service provides a powerful ses-sion that promotes healing; is afford-able and has the ability to help manypeople at the same time. Any sizegroup can benefit, from two people toone hundred. This session is de-signed to encourage healing for anymoderate to severe health issues in-cluding cancer and fibromyalgia.920-946-0363

End of Season Plant SaleAugust 13-31Kohler Gardener30-50% off select outdoor plants(while supplies last).920-458-5570

The Open Air Classic - CelebratingTwenty Topless !August 18, 3:30-5pm The Shops at WoodlakeYou are invited to view the cars andtalk with the drivers when approxi-mately 200 convertibles include a stopat The Shops at Woodlake duringtheir 2012 tour. The cars include greatmodels from the 60s and 70s such asMustangs, Firebirds, and Camarosand exotics such as Ferraris, Alphas,Audis, Porches and BMWs.

Please call 920-459-1713 for more in-formation or visit OpenAirTours.com.

SPORTS CORE SPECIALS ANDCLASSESFor more information, pricing de-tails and to register call SportsCore at 920-457-4444.

Tiny Tot Mini Camps: Through Au-gust 21, 9-10:30amPractice Dance Party: Through Au-gust 22, 6:45-8:45pmKids Zumba: August 24, 4-4:40pm

Sports Core Special OffersTake 5 Café: Enjoy 20% off anyPanini, Through August 31Pro Shop: The Pro Shop is celebrat-ing in August with its BLOWOUTSALE! Shoppers are welcome to takeadvantage of merchandise savingsup to 80%. Through August 19

Sports CoreWelcomes NewManager

Jason Keller comes to Hospi-tality after serving as WholesaleChannel Manager with theKitchen & Bath Group. His em-ployment with Kohler Co. beganin 1997 holding several positionswithin the Communications De-partment. These positions haveallowed Jason to demonstrate hisleadership capabilities by devel-oping strong relationships withboth internal and external cus-tomers, and driving key processimprovement initiatives. His newresponsibilities will include allaspects of Sports Core manage-ment as well as Yoga on the Lake.

Jason Keller – Photo courtesy of Kohler Co.

– Photo courtesy of Kohler Co.