Living Here
The Geneva Inn.
Deirdre, the woman at the front desk of the Geneva Inn is no longer there. She left the Geneva Inn last Friday. The mystery of her departure remains shadowy and unknown by all those members of local and visiting humanity who passed through that lobby for twenty years and received the beneficence of her cheer and smile. She will be missed at that establishment. She is likely less hurt by the leaving than all those who trailed in admiration, trust and care. To Deirdre, from those who love her:
“If you go away, as we know you must,
There’ll be nothing left in the world to trust,
Just an empty room, full of empty space,
Like the fading smile we see on your face…”
The Geneva Java Coffee Shop, Inc.
Jim Sieg bills himself as “The Last of the One Man Bands,” although his small group is staffed with a few more entertainers than just Jim. And they are a fantastic group. The Geneva Java Coffee Shop, at 252 Center St., is now presenting Jim and his group, showcasing wonderfully performed rock and country, in the front courtyard.
The show is free.
Four bucks for a bottle of New Glarus, three for a beer brat soaked overnight in Miller, and seven bucks if you want to go upscale and have a glass of wine while you enjoy the music.
Five to nine p.m. on Saturday nights, right downtown.
There is little that can be said about alderperson Elizabeth Chappel that isn’t good. But every once and awhile…
Following a presentation by a citizen at Lake Geneva’s Meeting of the Whole, Elizabeth Chappell blurted out that she couldn’t understand why anyone in the City of Lake Geneva would care about the Geneva Inn’s commercialization of the lakeshore when it’s way across the lake in Buttons Bay.
Alderperson Chappell, normally pretty clear and cogent, was not on her game Monday night. She has to know that sometimes the whole must be considered and acted upon to protect the one. Commercialization of the beach front areas might start in Buttons Bay and then spread to anywhere, even to the residential lakeshore in Chappell’s District #1. The early settlers of Lake Geneva immunized the entire residential lakeshore from what they considered the virus of commercialization with the 1910 Covenant. Stopping the Geneva Inn now is a very necessary ‘booster shot’ to inoculate the Lake Geneva Community from runaway commercialization of its waterfront.
Historic Maple Park residents are signing- up in growing numbers!
Seventy-six local residents to date have signed up to protest the Vendetta Parking Lot Mayor Gumby (mayor of Lake Geneva) and company are using to punish the public for not approving the city’s parking structure last year.
At Monday night’s Meeting of the Whole another large group of Maple Parker’s showed up to plead for sanity before the city council. They claimed that there is absolutely no reason for tearing down a historic home built in the 1870’s to construct an unnecessary parking lot, and create a blot on the surrounding community. If there really is a parking problem, Ken Etten showed the council at least a dozen different ideas for more parking, that wouldn’t require destroying any homes in that proud and beautiful neighborhood.
This Weather was Just Passing Through
Please query Alderman Elizabeth Chappell about her opinion regarding the destruction of 833 Wisconsin Street and the demise of the National Historic District. When I asked her what her opinion was she replied, “I have nothing to say.” This is HER Aldermanic district and ward and she has “nothing to say”?? Chappell needs to review her duties as a city official and the responsibility she has to her constituents.
We appreciate your diligence regarding your elected alderman, Elizabeth Chappell, Charlene.
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Charlene,
I also wanted to say Elizabeth Chappell is a fine alderperson but occasionally, like the rest of us, she has her moments.
This was one of those moments where she lost sight of the total situation and only thought about the potential of local effects.
She gets a pass, and no doubt has rethought her position….
Especially if she read your comments!
Hi Mr. Strauss,
Thanks for your reply. I have spoken with three other residents, one as recently as this morning, Saturday, August 7th, that have reached out to Elizabeth and have received the same response that I did. They are absolutley livid.
I hope that you ask her what her opinion is on the demise of the historic district and the future of the dangerous comprehensive plan change that is about to be voted on and will quickly multiply throught the city.
If you do, I would be interested to hear what her reply to you is, and whether she is voting yes or no on the issue that her constituents are so adamantly opposing.
Kind regards,
Charlene
We appreciate your further information on this matter, Charlen.
I am sure you and your friends are applying pressure to Alderman Chappell.
Also you may want to ask her in a letter to the editor here on the digital version of GSR
Letters Here
And also we can include in next weeks printed issue.Stop by the office anytime, have a cup of coffee and fill us in.