Community Health Fair at Sturgeon Bay YMCA Tuesday
NEW: Flu Shots Won’t Be Available

The Sturgeon Bay YMCA will host a Community Health Fair tomorrow for all ages from 8:30am - 1pm. There will be free health screenings and more. Attendees will receive 50 percent off the Y’s joining fee as well. For more information, call the Y at 920.743.4949.

The flu shot clinic originally scheduled for the fair has been canceled because the vaccine is not available. The flu shot clinic will be rescheduled.

The Sturgeon Bay YMCA will host a Door County Community Health Fair tomorrow for all ages from 8:30am - 1pm. There will be free health screenings, a flu shot clinic, and more. Attendees will receive 50 percent off the Y’s joining fee as well. For more information, call the Door County Y at 920.743.4949.

Gibraltar/ Sevastopol’s soccer season came to a heart-breaking end yesterday in Wrightstown when the Vikings lost 2-1 in overtime. A win would have sent the Vikings to state.

The season was the best in the program’s history, as they tied Sturgeon Bay for the conference title and advanced to the sectional final for the first time ever. In fact, it was one of the best showings by a Gibraltar team ever. Since 1979, when baseball won a state title, only cross-country, golf, and track individuals have advanced further.

Football makes playoffs, soccer one game from state

For a decade, they didn’t win a game. One season, they scored 12 points. But last night the Gibraltar Vikings football team advanced to the playoffs for the first time in its history by defeating Reedsville 36 - 26 in Fish Creek.

That win came just hours after the Gibraltar/ Sevastopol soccer team beat Wrightstown in Baileys Harbor to advance to the sectional final, 1 - 0. It will be the Vikings first trip to the sectional final, the culmination of a steady evolution into a soccer power. If the Vikings win Saturday in Wrightstown, they will become the first Gibraltar team to go to state in a team sport since the baseball team won it all back in 1979.

Dalton Witallison scored the game’s only goal with about 20 minutes to play.

The Viking football team was led by seniors Tom Sawyer and Mitch Weborg as they overcame a 4th quarter deficit against Reedsville. Weborg provided the power, bowling over defenders on a sloppy field, while Sawyer’s shiftiness was difficult to contain as he scored two fourth quarter touchdowns. Adam Breseman came up big with a late fumble recovery near midfield.

In Green Bay, the Sturgeon Bay Clippers saw their stellar season come to an end in a 3 - 0 loss to Green Bay Notre Dame.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

By Myles Dannhausen Jr.

When Donald Driver broke Sterling Sharpe’s Packer record for career receptions yesterday and became the most prolific pass-catcher in the history of the 90-year-old franchise, it marked the pinnacle of the under-appreciated career for one of the sport’s good guys.

Driver was a little-known, little-used 7th round draft pick coming off a forgettable rookie year in April of 2000 when he visited the Sister Bay Bowl to appear at a youth sports banquet. I was in my first year running Husby’s in Sister Bay at the time, but was in Milwaukee at a food show that night. I called in to check on the restaurant (which was a catastrophe, but that’s a longer story for another blog) and my mom told me there was somebody who wanted to speak to me.

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Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Last Week for Smart Car Raffle

The Northern Door Children’s Center will draw the winner of a 2009 Smart Car on Oct. 25 at 2pm, which gives you one more week to buy a ticket for just $20. The winner also gets $5,000 in cash. Only 4,000 tickets will be sold.

Today the car is parked across the street from the Post Office in Sister Bay for Fall Fest weekend. Proceeds from the raffle support the Northern Door Children’s Center. Tickets can be purchased by calling 920.854.4244, at participating businesses, or by visiting www.northerndoorchildrenscenter.org.