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2023 is here let’s make it a good one!
The new year brings hope and a fresh start for so many. As people reflect on last year’s achievements and failures, they also celebrate what may come in the new year. New Year’s Eve was the last day of the year, and it got a little crazy, just like it usually does. New Year’s Eve is celebrated by so many. with family and friends, eating, dancing, drinking, and then continuing the party into New Year’s Day. Now that it is almost a week into 2023 the promise of greatness continues. Here’s to a blessed and happy new year from the entire staff of the Geneva Shore Report to everyone who reads the paper…and even most who don’t.
Winter weather activities are in abundance.
A great way to start the new year is by renting an Igloo. These special shelters are available for rent at the Ridge, Mars Resort, Pier 290, and at other places. Igloos are a great way to enjoy winter’s beauty without the cold slapping you in the face. The igloo experience comes with warmth, coziness, food and beverages, each venue has a little different take on it, but all are worth checking out. With the cold weather comes ice. and many areas are offering ice skating rinks for the public to use this year. The Ridge has an ice rink, just as it has an outdoor rink every year. The rink is open to the public and rental skates are available. Grand Geneva’s Mountain Top Ski Hill offers an ice-skating rink and sledding hills to the public. Tickets are required to use the skating rink and sledding hill and can be purchased online at the Grand Geneva and Mountain Top website.
The newest winter experience in the Lake Geneva area is at the Ridge, which is offering Snow Globes. Reservations are scheduled to open January 13th and the Ridge is excited to offer this new venue. Snow Globes are a lot like the wonderful igloos but are just a bit more substantial, part stargazing observatory, part gondola carriage, and part secluded hideaway. Whatever winter fun you choose you are sure to add some wonderful lifelong memories.
The new potential entrants for offices on Lake Geneva City Council are forming up to run.
Peg Esposito is going to give Alderperson Hedlund (city council president) a run for his money. Hedlund is the captain of the now newly termed Titanic, that used to be called the Meeting of the Whole. Somehow that meeting went down with all hands except him. How typical. She’s currently on the Park Board and spearheaded the successful “Slo Mo May” movement to allow local residents not to mow their lawns through the month of May in order to better protect the environment in several ways. Peg is also president of the Friends of White-Water River (which has something to do with the recent city purchase of Hillmoor, and only lost the last election to Hedlund by three votes.
Linda Frame, taking advantage of the fact that current city council seat-holder John Halverson didn’t really stand up for the South Road citizens when South Road was about to be torn apart and all of the huge old trees lost (and South Road is in his 2nd district). Linda gets her experience for the job by having served most excellently as the Lake Geneva Harbormaster. She has also been a highly regarded RN serving many hospitals around the Geneva Lake area. Halverson was the managing editor of the Regional News and has performed very well in his conversion from the Fourth to the First Estate (media being the Fourth estate and the executive body of government the First), but he will face a serious challenge from Linda Frame.
Judge Sibbing is running against former Chicago Judge Paul Karkula, while Alderpersons Straube and Howell are running unopposed.
