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The ‘Never Say Never Playground’.
The playground has been in the works for a few years and is finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Fundraising is always a daunting task and adaptive playground equipment is a large ticket item. The Never Say Never Playland will be located at Veterans Park in Lake Geneva. The focus will be on special needs, but it will be a place for everyone who shows up to play. This is a very needed and wanted addition to the park, as Walworth County has nothing quite like it. The most recent fundraiser for the project was The Mr. Lake Geneva Pageant. Lakes Area Lifeway hosted the pageant last weekend at the Badger High School. The contestants were all fun and entertaining, but there could be only one winner. Mr. Daniel Derrick is this year’s Mr. Lake Geneva helping to raise an amazing amount of money. After a very fun Saturday night the event was able to raise over forty thousand dollars for the cause playground cause.
Dress to impress in your patriotic best at the 3rd Annual Pub & Grub Crawl.
The event is all about eating, drinking, music, and raising money for the Veterans of Walworth County. Friday night at 5 p.m., will kick off the weekend at Lake City Social’s Entertainment Pavilion, and then head out to any of the participating bars and restaurants. Saturday will include the Baggo Tourney at 11:30 a.m. and live music from 12 p.m., through 4 p.m., at the Lake City Social Entertainment Pavilion, and then the crawl continues. Wristbands will be available at Lake City Social, Lake Geneva Country Meats, Magpie’s Den & Pen, Harpoon Willie’s, and Legends Food & Spirits. Wristbands cost $25.00 and they include; discounted food and drink specials at over twenty-five participating locations.
No mow May’ is now in its third year and is rooted in more Wisconsin communities than ever before.
If you live in a participating community, you can skip mowing your lawn the whole month of May, as long as you don’t mind your yard looking like the home behind it is mostly abandoned. If your community is not participating be careful because you could be visited by a code enforcement officer. Avoiding regular mowing during the month of May supposedly promotes the maturation of flowering plants such as dandelions, clovers, and violets that can provide food for bees and other pollinators very early in the growing season. Communities that have participated in no-mow May have seen an apparent increase in bee diversity compared to those that mow.
Samplings from Appleton, which was the first community in the United States to adopt No Mow May, not only increased the abundance of pollinators but insects in general, although counting such things has proven very difficult. Appleton’s initiative for letting residents’ lawns become quite overgrown has been established to attempt to make sure that bees come out of hibernation and have plenty of options for the nectar and pollen they need. This initiative has spread across Wisconsin, but if you live in a community that doesn’t participate in No Mow May you can still participate just by knowing about the new environmentally supportive measure through the media (like reading about it here and now). Maintaining a tidy mowed edge makes a busy natural planting look less like a welcome mat for homeless people and might make people think the new messier look is intentional rather than done because of neglect. Another downside to the No Mow May is directed at those people around the area, and there are many, who hire local landscape companies to mow. A No Mow May leaves these operations without a significant source of their usual income for that month.
