LITTLE GEMS
The Chamber of Commerce, now known as VISIT Lake Geneva, has opened nominations for its 2022 Impact Awards.
VISIT uses this occasion to honor those that have made a positive and significant impact on the community and have positively added to the quality of life in Lake Geneva. Nominations are open for Outstanding Citizen. An award is to be presented to an individual who represents the Lake Geneva region at its very best and makes a positive difference.
Community Betterment is an award to a person, organization, or business that is enhancing and improving the quality of life in the Lake Geneva region. The Hospitality Award is presented to a person or business exemplifying outstanding customer service, care, and hospitality.
The Rising Star Award is for a person or business who, in five years or less in their respective field, has made a substantial impact in their profession. Nominations will be accepted through August 5th. Award winners will be announced and celebrated in October. Good luck to all the nominees. Neither the staff nor the GSR as a newspaper, is expecting any nominations.
Motorcycle mania.
The pandemic changed everything. A company like Harley Davidson, selling technological dinosaurs that have been and remain totally unsafe, environmentally a disaster, and a horrid noisy blight on all of humanity within the range of hearing their products is resuscitated and brought back from the brink of a well-deserved death. The pandemic made it attractive for riders to distance and get out in the open air, and so the dual cylinder Tyrannosaurus has returned with a socially great ‘red-meat’ appetite once more.
Aging males of the culture can hit the road on these beasts and glory in the strange self-centered and totally selfish feeling they get by irritating almost everyone around them as they blast past, usually having removed the mufflers of the things in order to create even more havoc and gain more attention from those around them. In groups, they now violate most traffic laws, even including drinking and driving, however idiotic that seems.
Lake Geneva is an attractant for these groups of riders, most of whom are peaceful and nonviolent, although appearing unwashed and inelegant at every turn. How is it that these things with the things that ride them are featured in Veteran’s and Memorial Day parades as if this retro-idiotic vehicular display is somehow linked with patriotism and honor? Rationality has nothing to do with any of it. It’s all about frustration at being ignored in other parts of the rider’s lives and the craven need the riders have to somehow be attractive to an element of the opposite sex that mostly has no use for them. The sociological and psychological reports about such results of this ‘rolling thunder’ phenomenon are available and legend, but it matters not, as there they are, every weekend, adding a rumbling vibrant ion of a potential threat and awful exhibition of ‘art’ to everyone’s life around them.
Lake Geneva, like most other tourist attracted places of great ambiance and beauty, must accept this plague of thousand-pound locusts as part of being what they are during the good weather periods of the year. (article by new staff writer; Bradley Stevenson III).
