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Fly-In Fish Boil draws a crowd

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  • By Monica Novak –

Sunny skies and a light northerly breeze greeted approximately 100 planes at the 2021 Washington Island Lions Club Fly-In Fish Boil on Saturday, July 17. The beautiful day brought everything from Cessnas to sea planes.

The community and aviators brought their appetites. Approximately 500 fish boil dinners were served from 700 pounds of whitefish donated to the event by Henriksen Fisheries in Ellison Bay. After a number of Island events were canceled in 2020, including the Fly-In Fish Boil, the Lions Club volunteers planned and worked hard to successfully bring the Washington Island community together again for this much anticipated and cherished annual event.

See more photos of the annual event in this week’s issue of the Observer.

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Washington Island school hosts State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor

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Photo by Heidi Hodges

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor visited the Washington Island school district, meeting with teachers, students, administrators and parents. Stanford Taylor arrived May 21, spending the school day touring classrooms along with her Chief of Staff Dr. Scott Jones. At the end of the day, Stanford Taylor posed with the entire school before heading back on the ferry and a trip back to Madison.

Tournament in Kiel hard-fought; yields triple-double for Gunnlaugsson

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By Jim Rose

Tiffany Wacaser takes a shot in the late-December game against Kewaskum, at Kiel.
PHOTO BY JIM ROSE

On Dec. 27 and 28, our girls basketball team participated in a girls tournament in Kiel, Wis. Our team was not originally invited but got a chance to play when one of the other JV teams could not make it. They did also have a varsity bracket. The first night our team played the host team, Kiel, and was defeated handily. I was not there for that game, but was able to make the next game, against the Kewaskum, Wis., JV team. This was a much closer match and made for an interesting game to watch. Our girls were ahead for almost the entire first half, until Kewaskum pulled ahead with seven seconds left in the half. Kewaskum pulled further ahead in the second half, but our girls did not give up, catching up to within one point twice in that half. But, by the end of the game, our girls were down by ten, and ended up losing with the final score being 39-49.

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