Klaubauf: Southern Door Addition is for the Public

A new fitness center and practice facility going up behind Southern Door High will be for public use and activities – not just for practices and weightlifting and workouts for the students, interim superintendent Tony Klaubauf emphasized in December.

Klaubauf is asking district residents to suggest names to brand the new building as a space that can have multiple uses, with permission. 

“There might be a thousand different ways to utilize that,” Klaubauf said.

He asked people to share ideas with him and high school principal Steve Bousley. School board president Penny Price asked the two student representatives to the school board to gather students’ ideas for a name.

The structural steel is going up, as well as masonry walls and weight-room framing, and the roof should go on by February or earlier, said Miron Construction Project Manager Luke Destiche. 

The new facility will have a 40-yard practice field with artificial turf and a new weight room and fitness center.

Blast From the Past: School-Lunch Throwback Night 

As part of Sevastopol’s ongoing 100th anniversary celebration, spatula-wielding volunteers stood in for the former “lunch ladies” and served up some of the best-loved school lunch entrees and treats from the middle and late 20th century.

Centennial organizer and school board president Lisa Bieri said the Sevastopol School Lunch Throwback Night drew in newcomers, curious diners and alumni who ate in the cafeteria back in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. 

Robert Kiehnau even took the night off from his Green Bay restaurant to enjoy old-school treats with his cousins, Craig Schumacher and Mark Geitner.

About 225 people had praline bars for dessert after pizza burgers, Mrs. Ash’s Chili mac and locally famous Johnny Burgers. 

Sevastopol Seeks Input on Spring Break, Calendar

Sevastopol school district parents and guardians soon will receive a survey asking for their preference pertaining to spring break. Following a lengthy Dec. 20 discussion and rejection of spring and Easter breaks, the Sevastopol board members voted to have superintendent Kyle Luedtke send out the survey.

Board member Jerry Worrick asked why public schools have spring break at all, triggering a litany of board member opinions and multiple motions for a vote. Luedtke noted that the proposed week off in March would align with Gibraltar’s calendar and benefit students in Gibraltar cooperative programs. He also said Sevastopol has had spring break six years in a row without arguments.

Luedtke said the district will send the survey to parents in January.

Southern Door’s Zahn Retiring After 20 Years

Southern Door County School Board accepted the notice of retirement, effective June 28, of high school administrative assistant Betty Zahn, who served the district for 20 years.

Harringtons Named to Coach Middle-School Hoops

Sturgeon Bay School Board this month named Casey Harrington as the eighth-grade girls basketball coach and Mary Harrington as the seventh-grade girls basketball coach. 

Casey Harrington is a high school special education teacher and Mary Harrington is a middle school speech and language teacher.

Sevastopol Losing Business Manager

Sevastopol school board voted to contract for payroll, W-2 production and other winter financial tasks with Karl Volkmann, the district administrative manager, who resigned effective in January. He is taking a job in the Mayville schools and relocating to Fond du Lac. 

Volkmann said he can work remotely to serve the district’s immediate needs as the district seeks a new business manager.

Volkmann also coached middle school football for Sevastopol.