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SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT

The new leadership of Lake Geneva is ever so slowly taking over the reins of leadership throughout the city, from one end to the other.  The YMCA land was sold, and the leadership of Lake Geneva had nothing to do with it. There’s talk of a re-annexation back into the Town of Linn, in order for the property to enjoy a lower mill rate for tax purposes.  That won’t likely happen, as this new leadership is anything but inexperienced when it comes to seemingly clever moves by would-be developers to pay less of the public burden.

The current city administrator of Lake Geneva is departing, hence the headline of this issue of the Geneva Shore Report.  He came in puffing steam with propellers spinning for change.  He goes out in eerie silence in the dark as his final date in July comes ever closer.  The new leadership of Lake Geneva had nothing to do with his ‘early retirement.’  Hillmoor is opening as this issue of the paper comes to publication.

There is a ribbon cutting and walking tour on the 18^th of May as the public may now fully enjoy themselves and walk about the land it paid so dearly for a few years ago.  The new leadership of the city had nothing to do with this event taking place, other than providing the new mayor for ribbon cutting and hiking leader roles. The mural painting exposition will begin construction in several specific building sites of downtown Lake Geneva on Wednesday the 15^th of May.  The new leadership had nothing to do with the creation and application of this series of wondrous and highly entertaining events.

The ‘lagoon’ over there, near the dam at the very northern end of Geneva Lake, needs final diplomatic and economic solutions, as the Tower people, the Lake Geneva residents, and visitors who live up there in the sky, are called upon to pay a fair share of the necessary dredging as well as take out old ‘street people’ kind of tattered wooden piers and put in newer ones.  There will be screaming, tearing of hair, and gnashing of Joanie the Diner’s back teeth as she and her cohorts live up in the air inside that travesty of a Jack in the Beanstalk structure that replaced the old Frank Lloyd Wright hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are forced to cough up necessary and overdue funding. The new leadership of Lake Geneva has had nothing to do with the reorganization, redevelopment, and resurrection of the lagoon boating and water flow area.

Last Friday and Saturday nights were wild times for people wanting to view the Northern Lights, which came on in all their uncommon glory so far down from the North Pole.  The new leadership of Lake Geneva had nothing to do with the appearances.  But now, that same leadership is affecting every event and occurrence that happens in and around Lake Geneva, not by direction or even direct action but by the electromagnetic effect of great power unapplied but changing the sight and color of everything around.  The leadership of old, almost one and all, passed like silent ships in the night, not complaining, nor seemingly caring, but no doubt nursing a lot of pain from the drubbing they took.

If interviewed, it is almost certain that they, one and all, would comment that they went gladly in order to spend more time with their families. Passing like a ship in the night in politics is very much that way, silent and quick, unless quite possibly your ship is called the Andrea Doria or the Titanic. Finally, there is one other thing the new mayor is not responsible for.  The Republican candidate for senate in the coming election, Hovde, wants to ban Wisconsin residents and visitors from drinking any kind of alcohol unless they brew or distill it themselves!  Now, there’s dumb, and then there’s Laguna Beach, California dumb, where this Dodo bird has flown in from.