Road America's Vintage Festival Weekend is Friday-Sunday. What to know if you go.
SHEBOYGAN - Racing’s past comes to life May 20-22 as the SVRA Vintage Festival Weekend returns to Road America in Elkhart Lake.
The season kick-off will showcase the sights and sounds from motorsports’ pioneering age to modern-era race cars, both on and off the track.
The event features a packed schedule with races featuring cars covering several decades. Many of the entries have previously competed at classic events, including Le Mans and the Indy 500.
The SVRA Vintage Festival Weekend offers tightly regulated, wheel-to-wheel racing, with a lineup that includes race groups for all SVRA classes, including Formula 5000, Formula Ford, sports racing, and production sports cars from marques such as Lotus, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, Porsche and Corvette from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The weekend will also be bolstered with the SVRA SpeedTour, a series of races and events from the Formula 4 United States Championship, Formula Regional Americas Championship series, Mazda Miata Heritage Cup Series, OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car championship and the Hagerty Cars & Caffeine show on May 21.
Fans can mingle in the pits, peek under the hoods and visit the paddock area for an up-close look at these rare vehicles, all while chatting with the men and women who dedicate their time to preserving the rich history of auto racing.
The event also allows enthusiasts to watch many of their favorite vintage sports cars and formula cars as they race around the tricky 14-turn course offering an unprecedented view of many different machines.
The weekend also includes on-track and off-track activities.
Road America will provide free admission to all active, reserve-duty military, and veterans with ID during the weekend.
Gates will open to the public each day at 7 a.m. Admission is $70 for the three-day weekend, $25 for Friday, $35 for Saturday and $35 for Sunday. Anyone 16 years old and younger is always free with a paying adult at the gate. All races are rain or shine. A tentative event schedule is at roadamerica.com.
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► Above & Beyond hosts workshop for neurodiverse individuals: Islands of Brilliance, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that teaches children and young adults on the autism spectrum creative skills, is taking its programming on the road.
From 10:30 a.m. until noon June 13, the nonprofit will host a 90-minute workshop for neurodiverse individuals and their families at Above & Beyond Children’s Museum in Sheboygan.
The cost per participant is $12.50. Interested families can sign up at islandsofbrilliance.org. Siblings and parents are encouraged to participate so the entire family can experience learning together and see firsthand the talents of their neurodiverse family member.
Participants will have the chance to learn, create and connect with their peers in a safe and supportive environment through free-form drawing, group storytelling and instructor-led art projects.
IOB uses art and design as an intervention tool to teach students technical skills while also helping them learn and practice social, emotional and communication skills.
The mobile program coming to Sheboygan is called Sandbox@ and introduces autistic students and their families to IOB’s three virtual Sandbox programs: Smactivities, Natterdays and Doodle Lounge.
► ELG High School plans spring concert: The Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah High School Music Department will present its annual spring concert at 7 p.m. May 18 in the Ronald Mauk Auditorium.
Performing will be the high school band and choir. Select pieces to be performed by the band include Randal Standridge’s “When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall”; “Fate of the Gods” by Steven Reineke; and Fillmore classic “Lassus Trombone,” arranged by Loras Schissel. Choral selections include “Cantate Hodie!” by Mary Lightfoot; an arrangement by Mac Huff titled “A Million Dreams”; and “Java Jive” arranged by Kirby Shaw.
Also performing will be student soloists and ensembles that performed at the state solo/ensemble festival.
The community is invited to attend. Tickets will be sold at the door. Proceeds will benefit music activities in the high school.
► Sheboygan to participate in worldwide Make Music Day: For the first time, Sheboygan will join the free, worldwide Make Music Day celebration June 21.
The event started in France in 1982 and is held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries.
Make Music Day is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas and porches to share music with friends, neighbors and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public.
More info is at https://www.makemusicday.org/sheboygan/.
► Oostburg company named a Top Workplace: Viking Masek Packaging Technologies, a manufacturer of automated packaging systems, was named a 2022 Top Workplace by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the second year in a row.
This is the 30th year the Journal Sentinel has published its list of top workplaces, and the second consecutive year Viking Masek has participated and been awarded.
The award was given to 146 companies in southeastern Wisconsin.
The Top Workplaces list is compiled based on anonymous employee engagement surveys administered by Energage, a cultural technology company. The survey measures 15 unique culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization.
Viking Masek’s overall survey results showed 72% of employees are engaged, which is 11% higher than benchmark.
Viking Masek scored well above its peers in management, meetings and concerns.
Viking Masek’s workforce has grown by nearly 30% in the last year. To accommodate the growing workforce, it completed a major expansion of its U.S. headquarters in late 2021 that added more than 36 new work spaces.
Viking Masek manufactures, sells and services fully automated packaging lines for food and non-food markets from its solar-powered manufacturing facility in Oostburg.
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