Little Gems
Holiday mailing this year.
The virus has resulted in many more online and distant retail orders being directly made with stores and shops across the country. Lake Geneva has three main entry and exit ports for shipping, unless having some retail store ship it directly to you or to another person under instructions. Those three places are Amy’s Shipping Emporium on Broad Street, Copies Plus over on Wells Street, and the United States Post Office located at the intersection of Center and Main Streets downtown. Fortunately, all three do a terrific job.
Amy’s is the UPS node, or point of entry and exit for that company, primarily, as well as a most excellent place to have a mailing address assigned and maintained. Copies Plus is Federal Express and the USPS is the USPS, and a great one. All three places have been overwhelmed with shipping this year, which has been both good and bad for them. The lines are difficult to endure, more because of social distancing than because there are more people waiting. Breathe in and out deeply through your mask and endure. It’s Christmas, and all this one will day soon pass.
What’s going on with the garlands and lights decorating the downtown Lake Geneva Streets?
The company hired by the Business Improvement District brought in real pine garlands and put them up all over town, never stopping to think that this winter’s onset has been notably warm. The garlands turned brown after only a few days. Down came all the dead garlands. The dead garlands are being replaced by more dead garlands, but the very green pieces of holiday decoration are deliberately dead. They are made of plastic, although they look amazingly green, fresh, and pretty neat. The company that put up the original garlands (Land Shapers) is replacing the brown garlands with the new ones at no charge. They are a class act, from beginning to end, except for being mildly color blind…either that or not very good at paying attention to weather forecasts.
Street Department functionality in Lake Geneva.
Tom Earle, the head of the department of public works, which includes the street department, hasn’t gotten much in the way of plaudits for his conduct as the leader of this outfit for quite some time. The ‘prison’ he rebuilt, (which the street department now resembles), and now the grounds, will also be the emplacement for the police department storage facility. The edifice of this area is anything but neither comforting to citizens looking in from the outside. (what’s going on in there, anyway?). The cold emotion the place emits to anyone visiting near the location is befitting of deep winter months. But the streets are being repaired, the water mains being fixed, and the beach lifeguard tower taken down, repaired, and then put back up. What kind of metal is Tom Earle made of? That will become much more apparent as the biting cold depth of Wisconsin’s coming winter begins to make itself felt to us all.
Dogs Of the Week
Hank and Fred the resident dogs at the Bottle Shop!
