You’re going to see a chart in this issue of the Geneva Shore Report and that chart is a section of the 72 page Lake Geneva budget which is put out by finance to allow the finance commission and the city council to decide in what needs to be paid, what revenue is earned (or unearned for that matter) and all manner of other monetary amounts and conclusion
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Twenty-three percent of all citizens living in Lake Geneva are dependent upon the SNAP program for food.
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Perhaps the pea part of that headline was spelled wrong, as this article partially pertains to that part of physical relief dealing with liquids. The public library in Lake Geneva, for many years, has served as the outdoor bathroom site for so many locals and visitors coming to hike, lounge around, or go to the beach in the summertime.
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It’s all tricks on the Sunday before the following Friday when Halloween actually goes down. Traditionally, Halloween has always been celebrated throughout the country in the early and late evening hours of the 31st itself, but times have changed, as has the orientation of some people’s minds.
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The downtown businesses are getting ready for this big fall event. The residents are excited to attend the fall festival, but are also bracing themselves as traffic and people will flood the city. Visitors are planning to attend in great numbers as always and have usually booked the weekend when they checked out last year.
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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.
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The television show called Get Smart introduced America to the Cone of Silence, a device humorously used to display what it’s like to keep secrets and silence in a social world of intense communications and electronic devices, not to mention the craving need to know in a world where so much more is revealed but much less is becoming truly known
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There was a folk singing group back in the early sixties that performed a song with lyrics that have carried important feelings and critical thinking through the years. “The Green Leaves of Summer” was written in 1961.
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The communities that surround Geneva Lake took Labor Day in stride, as is the custom and practice. The tourists, mostly from the Chicago area, come in droves during the weekends all summer long, unless the weather is bad.
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:WHAT WE HAVE HERE… is a failure in communication.” That expression came from the screenplay for the movie called Cool Hand Luke, and it has become one that describes people’s sometimes inability to see the logic of what’s facing them.
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The Geneva Shore Report ran a story last week in which the staff’s displeasure at the topsy-turvy and unnecessary way the purchase of a new police boat and the money to operate it were jammed through the police and fire commission and then the city council.
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I’ll see you in September is a phrase most known from an old popular song, and so how did it become the phrase that has best described the city’s inability (whether through ignorance or deliberation) to have Channel 25 come live for the audio and visual presentations of city meetings
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