LIVING HERE
The Never Say Never Playland is offering a fun way to help sponsor the playground.
The 13,000 sq. ft playground will be surrounded by a fence, with one entrance/exit. Now is your chance to engrave a fence picket with up to twenty-two letters, including spaces. The cost is $50 and a great idea for families, businesses, children’s names, and even a great gift idea. Anyone who is interested can fill the form out on their website at https://neversayneverplayland.com/donate. This is a fun and unique way to make a difference in the community and support the children.
What’s going on in the Town of Linn?
Cully Pillman, along with Conner, his son, now kind of taking over the nursery business (Woodhill) at the corner of Pilgrim Church Road and Highway 120 in Town of Linn built an absolutely ugly warehouse near that corner and across the street from the cute but isolated Pilgrim Church kitty corner to it. That was a year ago. Now comes the second clone of the ugly first one. Is there no taste in the Town of Linn? No ambiance, or expectation of it? The second warehouse is up but that corner’s not done with the community. The church is no longer a church. It’s now a barber shop, of all things. Next to the church, Mr. Whiting, the owner, and part of the old Whiting family that used to own the old Frank Lloyd Wright designed hotel next to Wrigley Bridge by the current Towers building that replaced it years ago. Mr. Whiting, and Jose, the barber, are planning on putting in Pickleball courts with a clubhouse, of course, just like the one that a great guy named Patrick wanted to put in on Linn Pier Road but got turned down by the town board. It is presumed that the formula for success at the coming Pickleball courts will be serving alcohol. Wisconsin seems to be expanding its usage and sales of alcohol at a stunning pace over the course of the last few years.
The developers are nearly out of control in almost all the communities that surround Geneva Lake. Symphony Bay is an incredibly dense and ugly development, but Mr. Pollard has made a fortune…oh, and he pays no impact fees to do what he does to the local public. Shodeen is another one of the same ilk. He wants to build densely packed together homes in the Town of Walworth, nearly a clone of Symphony Bay. Ugly as all get out. America doesn’t have many pretty and accommodating small communities. One has to travel to Europe to see that kind of planning and design. How unfortunate.
The increase in Harley’s in and around the downtown area is becoming quite noticeable.
The cycles seem louder than ever as they travel around Geneva Lake, stopping to hit one bar after another when the riders are not entering restaurants. The deliberate ‘in your face and ears’ noise of their passing is uncomfortable, to say the least. This last week, in a place called Red River, New Mexico, several biker gangs got together and attended a miniature Sturgis type congregation. The gangs could not get along, which is not uncommon among them, so three people were shot to death and two remain in critical condition in local hospitals. At what point is city leadership, and other community leadership around the lake, going to get together and begin to regulate these antiquated, pollution emitting and noisy beasts of the road that should have been relegated to scrap heaps many years ago.
