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James David Wollman.
The thirty-year-old son of Lake Geneva Alderperson and President of the city council, Mary Jo Fesenmaier, died last week and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him. When he was younger, he worked for Speedo’s Harborside Grill and also over at Popeyes. James received his associate degree in accounting from Gateway Tech in Elkhorn and was working on a bachelor’s degree at the University of California- San Diego where he made many friends. James took long walks when next living in Colorado with Rachel. Returning to Wisconsin, he took care of his grandfather while working as a lifeguard.
James was known for his smile. He loved spending time with family and friends, especially his sisters and nephews. Sports were important to him – golfing, bowling, and basketball were tops. He set a goal to take his nephews to their first professional baseball, basketball, and football games. This he achieved. James was a man of Peace befriending everyone who met him. Services have been set for 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Derricks Funeral Home, located on Edwards Boulevard. Rosary will go from 3:30 to 4:00 that same day and place. A Catholic Mass will be said in James’ honor at St. Vincent’s, and this will be said at 10:30 a.m.
His Holy Card reads: “I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave behind when day is done.” So very Jamie.
The Lake Geneva Regional News.
This newspaper, Lake Geneva’s traditional and official newspaper, has been in a bit of trouble as the years have gone by. It was a pleasure for the staff of the Geneva Shore Report to get hold of the paper (it does cost three bucks for God’s sake) and read it through and through. Travis, the new managing editor, Travis Denton, has been doing a much better job, as there’s some actual recent and occurring news being reported. The writing is improving and Travis, formerly the sports editor (he still wears that as a second hat) is doing an even better job with getting the latest on local sports. It is a relief to see this venerable aged newspaper begin to be resuscitated and brought back to a vibrant life. The staff of the GSR much enjoys being an ‘alternative’ to the Regional News so its certainty on into the future is closely watched and cared about by everyone at the GSR.
The Shodeen Development in Walworth.
Tuesday night is coming in Walworth, not the county, but the town itself. Out of the blue, Shodeen, the rather testy and careless developer, trying to make a strangely unassociated clone of the Symphony Bay ‘boxes upon boxes, rows upon rows’ in Lake Geneva tried to pull one over on the Town of Walworth, but so far has fallen flat. Pollard slipped his mess of a sardine can complex through the plan commission and then the city council of Lake Geneva a few years back. That complex is so ugly when everyone drives past a good part of it on the Bypass (Highway 120) that Pollard’s planted a long row of pines to try to hide it.
Shodeen’s idea, to build 400 homes around Pettit Lake, a tiny freshwater lake located on the south edge of the town, fell flat when it hit the plan commission’s five members last week. The vote was four to one against, but the plan commission only recommends, it does not decide. The city council will decide, for the first time, this week, but even that may not be the end. If the project fails to pass, then Shodeen gets to modify it and try again. The tine expensive homes to be built upon little bitty lots (not to mention a hotel, as well) deserve to be turned down unanimously, but we, at the Geneva Shore Report, will see how it goes and then report back.
