The Biggest Thank You!

The Bay Days Planning Committee would like to thank everyone who helped make the 2025 Bay Days weekend a huge success. Whether you volun­teered, attended, sponsored or helped spread the word about Bay Days, we are so grateful. We could not make this week­end what it is without all of you.

Our sponsors this year were beyond amazing. This event would NOT be what it is with­out them. We thank them for their support! Please, do your best to support them as well!

Platinum Sponsor

Lovin’ Lake County, Best of the North Shore, Duluth Lawn + Sport, City of Silver Bay Municipal Bar + Liquor Store, VanHouse Construction, North Shore Federal Credit Union, D+D Services, Julie’s True Value Hardware, Little Mara­is Restoration, Briesa’s Con­venience Store, Zup’s Food Market of Silver Bay, and the Northshore Journal

Gold Sponsor

Cleveland Cliffs, Adam’s Au­tomotive, Niemeyer Trailer Sales, Four Seasons Restaurant and Bar, and North Shore Oil and Propane

Silver Sponsor

Cooperative Light + Power and Sonju

Bronze Sponsor

Harbor Insurance, McCoy Con­struction and Forestry, Park State Bank, Tofte AmericInn, Norshor Agency, Mediacom, Black Beach Inn, Black Beach Mini Golf, Jenny Bjerken – Young Living Essential Oils and Cindy Rowlee – Pampered Chef

Friends of Bay Days Sponsor

Amy Jordahl – State Farm In­surance and Silver Bay Family Dental

We would also like to extend a huge thanks to the City of Silver Bay Street Department and Parks and Rec Department. These workers go above and beyond to maintain our beau­tiful city during the celebration weekend and it doesn’t go un­noticed.

Thank you to the Silver Bay Lounge crew! The bartenders worked hard day + night! We appreciate all of you!

Thank you to Ward Kaiser and the entire Silver Bay Mar­iner Football program! They volunteered to do a lot of the behind the scenes work for us for this event! They appreciate the support of the community in getting our hometown team back!

Thank you to the Car Show Crew! Dave Talus and his vol­unteers do amazing work with that event each year.

Thank you to Norma O’Leary and the crew at the Golf Course for all of their work they put into making the golf scrambles possible.

Thank you to Nick Bjerken (Blue Line Club) for organiz­ing the Bay to Bay 10K Run/ Walk. Thank you to the North Shore Boys Hockey Team for volunteering during the event. It was a great run with over 80 participants!

Huge thanks to the Silver Bay Volunteer Fire Department! They put on their own pancake feed, ran the bags tourney and shot off the fireworks! Bonus: they are always around to help us out if we need a hand with something. Great group … so we appreciate this community supporting them!

Thanks to the Silver Bay Po­lice Department for having offi­cers at our event!

Thanks to Jon Nelson and Palisade Firewood for all of their work on the firewood pro­cessing demo.

Also, thank you to Timmy Haus for playing at our Sponsor Party. We love having him here to showcase his talent! Spe­cial thanks to the Four Seasons Crew for preparing and serving our entire dinner at our Sponsor Party. It was beyond delicious!

Thank you to all the parade participants, food + craft ven­dors! This event wouldn’t be half the fun if you weren’t here. Safe to say many of us ate + shopped through the weekend!

Thanks to all of those who shared their talent with us throughout the weekend: Becky Goutermont, Gavin LeBlanc + Friends, Bump Blomberg, The Dweebs and SideTwo.

Thanks to Friends of the Li­brary for your work on the book sale!

Thank you to Brandon Swan­son for your work on the Pick­leball Open House!

Thank you to Tom Frericks for taking visitors on Ghost Tours through the high school!

Thank you to the Silver Bay Yacht Club for putting on the lighted boats display.

Thank you to Black Beach Mini Golf for hosting your glow golf!

Thank you to Brian Zup and Mike Johnson for the use of your parking lots.

Thank you to Jack Nelson for the use of your light tower.

We hope we thanked every­one, but if we missed someone, we apologize! As you can see, many people and organizations play a role in Bay Days success!

Again, we could not do this without each Bay Days Com­mittee Member. They include Jenn VanHouse, Faron Meeks, Angie Meeks, Jenny Bjerken, Cassandra Velcheff, Chris Be­langer, Jessalyn Hansen, Tra­cy Blood, Jena Bautch, Ben Bautch, Wade LeBlanc, Dave Talus, Morgan Meeks, Bryce Meeks, Madyson VanHouse, Addison Velcheff and Michael Klinker. They work on this event all year long and enjoy nothing more than people com­ing together and having a good time during this celebration. We are always looking for more volunteers to help, so visit our Facebook page (Bay Days) for more information.

If you have images or stories from the weekend you would like to share, please message them to us on Facebook or email them to baydayscommit­tee@gmail.com! We love see­ing and hearing the event from your point of view!

See you next year, July 10-12, 2026! We will be celebrating the 70th birthday of Silver Bay and the 250th birthday of Amer­ica!

Thank you,

2025 Bay Days Commitee
www.bay-days.org