Looking on the Bright Side

Sometimes the Geneva Shore Report gets it wrong.
And so it happened with the story that ran on the front page last week regarding the fire that caused all the residents of a Williams Bay apartment building to be evacuated, and were then unable to return to their residences. It was reported that the wonderfully generous woman running Daddy Maxwell’s Restaurant had inherited the restaurant from her father who’d started the place. Everything was factual about that except the GSR’s failure to indicate that Janette and her husband started the place with a loan from his father.

For that mistake the Geneva Shore Report apologizes.

Many letters to the editor came in, as well as comments to this website, about how everyone who suffered damage or injury because of the results of the fire did not necessarily receive benefits from either Janette’s gifting, or that of Daddy Maxwell’s Restaurant. About those situations and issues the Geneva Shore Report has little to comment on simply because weighing benefits distributed by people willing to give from the heart and with an open wallet is almost impossible to do. Perspective and opinion rise instantly to the surface of any such consideration. What is the physical nature of the supposed benefit and what is the psychological?

What is considered acceptable and what is disregarded as useless or unwanted? It also has to be taken into account that Williams Bay is not some barrio neighborhood or enclave. It has a per capita income of over $26,000.00 and a median family income of over $60,000.00, and those numbers place it number 51 of 631 towns and villages in Wisconsin (American Community Survey). Janette is to be richly thanked and applauded for her contributions and all the work behind making them.

Only the Geneva Shore Report can be faulted and, once more, the GSR accepts the lash of outrageous fortune and stinging criticism as part or its proper due.