Photos: Making candles in Door County for Ukraine relief
Door County Candle Company has raised more than $851,000 over the past year with the sales of its blue and yellow candles.
Empty boxes await filling at Door County Candle Company. A recently completed expansion project has provided more room for packaging and shipping.
Christiana Trapani, owner of Door County Candle Company shows off the packaging that helps protects candles during shipping.
Some of the art donated to Door County Candle Company after it began making candles to benefit the people of Ukraine.
Door County Candle Company has sold more than 90,000 candles to benefit Ukraine.Â
Donated artwork fills a shelf at Door County Candle Company. The round piece is actually a satellite dish with a glass and tile mosaic.
The artwork of school children decorates Door County Candle Company.
A dove holding a Ukrainian flag is part of the art work that has been donated to and displayed at Door County Candle Company along Highway 42 in Carlsville, just north of Sturgeon Bay.
Since May, Laura Donnell has driven each Tuesday from her home in Ellison Bay to Door County Candle Company in the hamlet of Carlsville, just north of Sturgeon Bay. Her job last Tuesday was to use wipes and isopropyl alcohol to clean the wax from the outside of glass containers that hold candles to benefit earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey.
Jake Vander Velden, left, fills glass containers with wax while Laura Donnell, a volunteer, cleans wax from the outside of candles that will be sold to benefit earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey.Â
Kay Ellis makes the drive from Green Bay to volunteer on a regular basis at Door County Candle Company. Here she is adhering wicks to the inside bottom of glass jars that will eventually become candles.
Julia LaViolette, an employee at Door County Candle Company, works on topping off scented candles. In the foreground are 5-ounce candles to benefit the people of Ukraine.
Door County Candle Company is located along Highway 42 and is across the road from Door Peninsula Winery.
Glass jars are placed on a pouring table that has a raised edge that allows Jake Vander Velden to partially fill a jar to the top of the edge, which ensures uniform fills.
Wax is melted in large vats at Door County Candle Company before it exits a spigot into a small bucket and then is poured into glass jars.
Jake Vander Velden at Door County Candle Company partially fills 16-ounce glass jars with yellow wax that ultimately will become candles to benefit Ukraine. After the yellow wax dries, blue wax will be added to top off the candle. The company has sold more than 90,000 of the $30 candles and raised more than $851,000 for the people of the war-torn country.
Liquid yellow wax is filled by hand into glass jars to make candles to benefit the people of Ukraine.
An old coffee pot is used to melt wax at Door County Candle Company. The left side holds blue wax for the top of a candle for Ukraine, while the right side holds beige-colored wax for candles that will benefit earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey.Â
Christiana Trapani, who is a second generation Ukrainian, shows off her new packaging and shipping area at Door County Candle Company.
Door County Candle Company has sold more than 90,000 candles, raised nearly $900,000 and is expanding its fundraising efforts to other causes.
Door County Candle Co. near Sturgeon Bay has sold more than 100,000 candles over the last 14 months to benefit Ukrainian relief efforts.
