You will see a new shining silver top on a local church when you drive through Institute on Highway 57.  Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Institute recently installed a new dome on its building steeple thanks to several volunteers and Therma-Tron-X in Sturgeon Bay.  TTX Sales Engineer Darin Ploor says the project occurred over a year ago when the church wanted to replace the old fiberglass silo roof with a stainless-steel dome similar to the original copper dome.  With only a photo of the original copper dome from a 1959 church directory, Brent Rankin, a former TTX employee, and St. Peter & Paul School graduate, volunteered to create the final drawings, with TTX agreeing to participate and donate a portion of the work.   Ploor says the community project was rewarding for him and his co-workers.

The cost of transporting the new dome and installing it was also donated by church members and local businesses.  The old dome that was installed in the 1950s was taken down during the summer with the stainless-steel dome being erected on September 27th.