LITTLE GEMS
The Lake Geneva Public Library is hosting a plant swap.
Find a new home for your unwanted plants or add to your existing plant collection for free! Bring any plants you’d like to rehome to the library starting Tuesday, May 6. All donated plants will be made available for free starting on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., on the library’s patio. Arrive early for the best selection!
While at the library, you can also check out the great display of gardening books and materials. Happy planting!
The Lake Geneva Public Library is also hosting a community blood drive to be held on Friday, May 16th, 2025, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. All donors will receive a certificate for a pint of custard from Culver’s, and all successful donors will receive a free T-shirt. Make sure to bring a photo ID and eat something before donating (yes, if you have not donated blood in the last few years, you must identify yourself with proof before the donation process begins). As a community event, all are welcome to come visit the facility and see what they have to offer. And then support the community by donating lifesaving blood that will stay in the area.
If you haven’t found it yet.
While covering the Hebron story, the GSR reporter had the opportunity to visit a small burger joint called Dari, located right at the intersection where the two highways come together. What a remarkable place. It’s been there quietly for fifty-seven years, and everything about it is country quiet but spectacular. It’s owned and managed by Christine Sawvell, the daughter of a farm family located only a short distance from the intersection.
All the foodstuffs sold are local. The meat is grown and butchered at the Sawvell FarmBoy Farm, and burgers and everything else there is to die for. Anthony Bourdain would have spent hours there, not only eating the best burgers around (they also butcher and sell the farm pork and beef right from the burger stand window). The burger meat is not frozen! Six dollars for the burger. They also sell flavored soda that they flavor with syrups, about the only thing they buy from the outside world. When was the last time you had a Green River made from scratch with the syrup produced abroad?
Chistine is helped by Bree, the cook, and Emely, her ice cream ‘swirler.’ Yes, they make the ice cream there, too. The only downside of the fantastic place is the nearby intersection and also the small but ever-present loyal following, of which the publisher is now one. About eight miles down Highway 120 into Hebron is so worth the ten-to-twelve-minute drive. Nothing like it at all anywhere within forty miles…if that. One final benefit. The people who come around the noon hour? They’re a lot of fun to talk things over with, too, and will pull no punches about their beliefs and what’s going on.
