LITTLE GEMS
What’s going on around the city?
Fat Cats is under renovation, and they are now working their tails off, plumbing, electrical, siding and paint, not to mention new bar and furniture. That place is not going to resemble anything like what was there before it. Fat Cats will also not keep its name, although the Geneva Shore Report at this time has no idea what the new name will be.
The Beef joint over where the Red Geranium used to be is still on hold, needing more approvals before that highly respected and loved den of meat comes alive. Doesn’t seem to need much work, as far a a retail food facility is concerned, but the GSR staff has not city planners or architects or any of that kind of specialty.
Gambling disappeared from the bowling alley right after we outed the Care Bear once again. Successful establishments cannot afford to have the Feds come in, investigate them and their customers and then charge felonies around the place.
Herner’s Hideaway, that restaurant in Genoa City, right on the edge of southern Wisconsin, is loaded with gambling machines that pay off using debit card deposits (which, by the way, if paying gambling proceeds won in Wisconsin not from a licensed casino, is a whole other world of federal felonies Will the Hideaway be the next place to dump its gambling and continue to make its substantial profits from legal means? Unknown. The GSR’s job is simply to point those things out, not run the businesses or force them to do anything. The GSR staff does not gamble in Wisconsin at all, nor in Illinois. It’s done too much study to follow that foolish path of enriching others and getting nothing but trouble in return.
The goats are gone but not forgotten.
What’s not forgotten is the money. Over eight-thousand dollars $8,000) was collected by Mayor Mayor (Lake Geneva’s part-time mayor) and Joanie-the-Diner (part time worker at a seedy local diner-style restaurant). So far (at least as far as the Geneva Shore Report is concerned), the only thing discussed at all has been about paying the contracting firm that leased the goats and services to the city. When the city welshed on the agreement there had to be charges for the short exposure the goats experienced on the Hillmoor property plus some kind of additional charge for bailing out early. That ‘go fund me’ kind of collection of funds can’t exactly be put in the city’s general fund, by ordinance, for the deadly duo to do whatever they want with it. Is there talk of the contributors getting their money back? That’s the way it ought to play out. The city council ridiculously voted to contract for the goats so the city should pay the fees involved, one would think…but, then again, this is Lake Geneva.
Persons of the Week
Patty and Allen are fans of the GSR and we’re happy to have met at the Riviera.
