Road America Tailgate Party
Vintage Cars, Free Food, Retired Packer LeRoy Butler at Road America, Saturday, May 15

Elkhart Lake, Wisc., May 11, 2004—Retired Green Bay Packer free safety LeRoy Butler
will join Miss Wisconsin, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Ronald McDonald and Alice in Dairyland
at Road America on Saturday, May 15 for the Road America Tailgate Party. SVRA, the Sports
Car Vintage Racing Assoc. will be on track beginning at 8 a.m. New for 2004, the Tailgate Party
will include an Arts and Crafts Fair. Admission to the Tailgate Party is free; race tickets are $10
Friday, $15 Saturday and $15 Sunday or $30 for the weekend. Entrance to the Tailgate Party is at
Gate 2. Road America is located about halfway between Green Bay and Milwaukee on Hwy. 67.
For more information, see www.roadamerica.com or call 1.800.365.7223.

Some 50 vendors will be part of the first Arts and Crafts Fair, selling antiques, blown glass,
doll clothes, fudge, home and garden items, jewelry, metal creations, water colors, wood carvings
and other handmade items.

Butler has written a book, The LeRoy Butler Story...From Wheelchair to the Lambeau
Leap. The retired Packer will have the $24.95 books for sale and will personalize copies for
$39.95 plus tax and shipping if necessary. Part of the proceeds will benefit breast and prostate
cancer and the Leroy Butler Foundation.

More than 200 children will participate in the Community Bank and Trust Big Wheels
Contest, which will begin at 10 a.m. Other activities include grilling demonstrations by Mad Dog
and Merrill, a WLKN radio-sponsored car show, bicycle helmet fitting by St. Nicholas Hospital
and track tours. The Plymouth Piggly Wiggly will have food and beverage sampling, along with
Palermos's Pizza and Sargento Foods. Sprecher Beer and Botham Vineyards will offer beverage
sampling for those over 21 years old with a photo I.D.

SVRA will field 10 groups of vintage cars Friday through Sunday. Some 200 competitors
from all over the U.S. and their teams and families will be in Sheboygan County for the annual
spring vintage racing event.

Local businesses involved in the 2004 Tailgate Party include Community Bank and Trust,
Elkhart Lake Tourism Commission, Jim Pankow Construction, Lake 98.1 and the Plymouth Piggly
Wiggly.

 

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