“What is Door county’s greatest asset?” from the August 8, 1978 Door County Advocate
Linda Adams asks
What is Door County’s greatest asset?
Mrs. Leon DeFere, R. 7: “The beauty of the county — the water and beautiful trees are the greatest assets. However, I do think the county is getting a little too big. Out near us they are building all around where there used to be just small farms.”
Norma Uecker, Forestville: “There are so many nice things about the county I really don’t know what the greatest asset is.”
James Neuville, 1034 Alabama Pl.: “I think the greatest asset to me is the natural geographic location surrounded by Green bay and Lake Michigan waters. The water creates ideal conditions for outdoor recreation and tourism and is also the basis for the strong economic force from the shipbuilding’ industry.”
Marvin Degeneffe, Baileys Harbor: “I would say the greatest assets of Door county are the natural beauty and the hard working people. There are the farmers that work 12 months of the year to provide constant income for the community, the businessmen and those in the shipbuilding industry that must be considered in addition to those in the tourism field when talking about the good life of Door county.”
Sue Phelps, Washington Island: “My feeling is that the greatest asset is the beauty of the county — the clean air and all the lovely scenery. We are year around residents and we enjoy the different kind of beauty of the winter just as much as the summer.”
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
[ https://wish.wisconsin.gov/ reports there were 191 babies born in Door County in 2022. The estimated Value of a Statistical Life for a child, $23.2 million, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/24/2023-06081/notice-of-availability-proposed-draft-guidance-for-estimating-value-per-statistical-life, means the combined economic value of all the babies born in 2022 is $4.64 billion dollars. This is nearly three times larger than the combined value of everything bought, sold, manufactured, or contracted within the county in 2022, which was $1.63 billion: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=397&eid=1069737
Because people running businesses and institutions are involved with money, and it is something where it is possible to have a measure of power over it, that contributes to a disregard of what St. Paul describes in 1 Timothy 6:10, that “the love of money is the root of all evil”. Instead of arranging a society or government around money itself, financial considerations should be made to serve other goals and intentions.]
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