LITTLE GEMS
There are four more concerts in the park this summer.
Flat Iron Park, every Thursday until August 10th, is home to Concerts in the Park. This annual event, provided by Visit Lake Geneva, is a great way to soak up summer fun. Flat Iron Park offers a beautiful view of Geneva Lake and a large partially shaded and sunny area to set up a great spot for the family. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and family and friends, and enjoy the music (and don’t forget mosquito spray). Thursday, July 20th, Hurricane Reggae Band will perform authentic reggae from the Dominican Republic. On July 27th, Superfly will be next up. This party band will play some classic rock, pop, funk, disco, and more. August 3rd, the Alex Mexner Band will take the stage and is a favorite at the Walworth County Das Fest. Last, but not least, on August 10th, the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra will entertain everyone who comes by for the evening.
Linda Frame soldiers on.
This woman, a new alderperson elected by District 2 in Lake Geneva, is a fighter and a tough logician when it comes to working on behalf of her constituents and the rest of the Lake Geneva population. However, and it’s a big however, she is not thought of that way by Mayor Mayor or Joanie Yunkers because Linda does not ‘go along to get along.’
Linda Frame is an RN out of Moorhead University in Minnesota. She’s a specialist in trauma treatment, which is a good thing because she has probably been abused by the current city administration to the point where she has to treat herself. Linda Frame worked as the Harbormaster until Tom Earle fired her two years ago. She came back to run for the city council and defeated a very popular council member named John Halverson. That should tell people something, but not if those people are going to the little carriage restaurant that Yunkers runs.
Linda has more advanced education and degrees than Tom Earle will likely ever possess, as he certainly doesn’t have them now. Yet, Tom Earle, heading up Public Works for the City of Lake Geneva, wants the new Park Manager, who has Linda Frame’s kind of advanced education and life experience to report to him. Why is Lake Geneva ‘upside down’ in so many areas (like the automatic intersection signals that would seem to many anyone wants artificial intelligence the sooner the better), the traffic mess on summer weekends, the parking mess, the Big Foot Beach ‘pit’ of scrub brush and dirty sand, the cell phone towers all over the city that are turned off to save the cell companies on electricity payments (they only have to provide what they themselves determine is ‘adequate’ service), no parking structure planned for the future and so much more.
The appointed city leaders sit in their offices (and who knows when they actually are there) behind thick glass and locked doors doing little more than contemplating their next four or five grand every two-week paychecks. How did things come to this? Success. The pandemic brought huge crowds because Lake Geneva had no mask mandates or other protections as required by law in Illinois. Chicago came in droves and many (those who did not go home and passed away due to the fact that they associated so closely with Lake Geneva, grew to love the place, and now keep coming back).
The inexperienced and naïve leadership of Lake Geneva fell in love with their own importance but have failed miserably to understand that it is the working, owning, renting, and participating local population that should get the benefit of this new importance but, so far into 2023, they are being left out of the bargain. It is a vital obligation for present and former leaders to step back up to the plate and hit some home runs out of the park because the current mass of ‘leadership’ isn’t doing the job.
