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Article: Doors open to foreign workers at Door County, Wis., resorts.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 19, 2005
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Byline: Mary Umberger
Aug. 19--ELLISON BAY, Wis.--Jewel Ouradnik has 300 toilets to clean.
And that's only the beginning. She also has to build a fire for the fish boil, rent out the kayaks and wash several hundred dishes. And who, she worries, will flip the Swedish pancakes?
In all likelihood, it will be someone who possesses a name like Agnieszka, Lukas, Valeria, Ruslan or Esra--all of them current employees--and a passport from Eastern Europe.
Ouradnik owns the Wagon Trail, a sprawling, piney-woods resort that happens to be in a county where most of the population is too old or too wealthy to be interested in the seasonal, ...