THE BRIGHT SIDE
Save the Monarchs.
The Lake Geneva Rotary Club is on the job and is bringing Monarch Butterflies to Lake Geneva. The Rotary Club plans to create and maintain a Monarch habitat garden behind the library. The Rotary is funding the project with a grant and will be fundraising to match those generous funds. The Rotary is very committed to the project and is excited to share the garden and butterflies and educate the community about them. Appropriate plants that attract and nurture as well as Monarchs and other butterflies will be used. There will be educational signage, teaching about the importance of butterflies.
The Lake Geneva Youth Librarian will share in the effort, with a small children’s garden adjacent to the Rotary’s Garden and will be used for children’s programs. The Rotary wants to get it right and will be working with the Geneva Lake Conservancy, Northwind Perennial Farm, Lake Geneva Library, and the Public Works Department of Lake Geneva.
The state patrol air team has started patrolling Walworth County.
The state patrol aircraft program has three aircraft and five pilots. Aerial enforcement is being used to help keep the roads safe from speeders, as well as reckless and aggressive driving. Officials say it’s much easier to spot the drivers from above. By use of a timing device the pilots can clock target vehicles suspected of traveling at excessive speeds and then call down to waiting ground cars to initiate a traffic stop. As the only state-wide police aerial support unit, the State Patrol has received increasing requests from other enforcement agencies to provide air support for such things as drug activity surveillance, covert surveillance and tracking of criminal suspects. Requests have come from the State’s DEA agents as well as many local sheriffs and police agencies.
The aerial enforcement missions are announced publicly beforehand when watching for reckless and aggressive driving. If you get a ticket and feel you are not guilty then go to court and demand that the officer who saw and recorded the infraction be present to testify, since state law does not support another officer, not seeing the infraction, from being the accusing authority.
Place of the Week
Our own Bret Johnsen, maître de and waiter at Speedos in downtown Lake Geneva, cleared to welcome the president arriving at O’Hare last week.
