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Lake Geneva Rocked
Last weekend, Lake Geneva rocked! In the morning, there was the Red Bull Presentation and Competition at Riviera Beach, and then on into late in the day, with hundreds attending, and it was all free. Then there was the Alzheimer’s Walk for support, and that event had hundreds more, and some of the nicest people on earth. Finally, the Fat Tire bicycle race was conducted around the lake, but primarily in and around Lake Geneva.
The police, the fire department, and public works were terrific, each and every one. Peace and calm with no National Guard there to illegally conduct car searches. No ICE anywhere to be found, and how appropriately have they given themselves that name. The city leadership in all areas approved and set the rules of how everyone would integrate and what had to be planned and prepared as well.
Then, when Sunday was over, the cleanup was done in only hours and to the nines.
The Geneva Shore Report has been all over city leadership because of its inability to deal with Spectrum and get Channel 25 finally up and working so the public can credibly watch and hear city meetings. Finally, after tremendous prodding, Spectrum is going to install. It’s going to cost ten thousand dollars more, but no citizens or watchers will be charged anything to tune in. The process of installation involves, apparently, some digging up of fiber optic lines, even to go with the 4G system rather than replace all the lines to go with 5G. 5G will be a future consideration, so the decision to stay with 4G is a rational one to make at this point.
Coffee shops are all up and kicking in Lake Geneva with the arrival of the new blow-away upscale Summer Moon built in and opened near the Piggly Wiggly portion of north Lake Geneva. The Porch came in on Geneva Street and Cook earlier with its own demonstration of class and downtown placement, with such close parking available, even if it is all metered slots. Not like free at the Moon. The businesses of Summer Moon and Jersey Mikes sandwich shops have free slots but have put up fifteen-minute limit signs in many places (which are meaningless to those who know about the lack of enforcement on private property unless businesses want to tow customer cars off their property, and they are not going to do that). Inspiration and Starbucks round out the big four. Most cities the size of Lake Geneva are lucky to have one quality coffee shop instead of four, plus the little bitty Starbucks by Walmart.
It would appear that the city administrator is now performing at optimum, and that’s great to see. The mayor is right up there on top of his game, as well. The city council is operating like a V8 with only occasional misfires on a couple of cylinders now and then. The YMCA continues to attempt a ‘quarterback sneak’ kind of play to acquire the best part of the Hillmoor property while the city acts like no buyer is salivating on the sidelines, except for councilwoman Linda Frame, who publicly was rebuked by the mayor at the last meeting for referring to the “Y” as the buyer. Frame is smart, tough cookie though, so it can be very difficult to ‘frame her in’ so to speak, even by the wizardly hand and voice of Mayor Krause.
