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The current city council of Lake Geneva is a gift this season to our controversial newspaper.
Writing about what those alderpersons are up to during the cold and normally quiet winter months has become as entertaining as a warm winter fire with a spicy strong drink in hand.  Following the stupendous increase in the highest city worker’s pay checks and the new 4 buck per hour parking coming to your ‘theater’ soon, they are adding goats.

Yes, the suggestion made by the mayor when the subject of what to do with the newly purchased Hillmoor land (but not fully closed yet, for some unpublished reason or another), is being implemented.  The FLR (Finance, Licensing and Regulation) committee is voting to send the addition of forty rental goats to be added to the city register of employees.  The goats will probably have to be supported by a goat cleanup animal of some, yet unknown, species that will consume what the goats leave behind.  Hillmoor is made up of about 200 acres.  The common per acre consumption of full-grown goats on grassland is 4 per acre.  Hillmoor needs 800 goats, not 40.  The 40, plus cleanup if the land is going to be used by humans as parking or play land, is required to do the job.   Assume that 30 acres of the land has no grass-like growth to be eaten, that’s still a big number.  How are the goats to be taken care of if they are rental goats?  Who pays for that, including veterinary and other feeding, birthing, or baby goat situations?

A string of illegal car entries in Lake Geneva by the Kwik Trip and along Lake Geneva Boulevard.
Thursday night the Lake Geneva Police Department received three calls in under an hour with reports coming in on cars being rummaged through and stuff taken from them. This is more common than one might think as on the same night the Maple Park neighborhood on the other side of town also had reports of car break ins. This is a reminder to everyone to lock up vehicles and not leave any valuables in them if possible. The police very rarely recover the stolen items from these ‘snatch and grab’ situations.

One of the victims from Thursday night shared her frustration and disappointment in herself, for not locking her car, and for trusting that her vehicle and its contents would be safe for ten minutes. In exploring the neighborhood for any items thrown or discarded by the thief other victims from the same area were seen doing the same thing. This is a reminder to everyone to lock up vehicles and do not leave any valuables in them.

The annual ‘Electric’ Christmas Parade.
The Christmas parade held at the North Pole was what it felt like.  The music was strangely presented, the attitude was darker than the night and there were plenty of barricades to make anyone attending feel like the wagon train was circling against an attack by non-existent wild Indians.  The city seems to have a bit of a problem holding celebrations lately, what with the Veteran’s Day celebration that never was, the minimal presentation of the Christmas Tree lighting and then a Christmas parade that felt more like a funeral procession.  Lake Geneva needs to “lighten up, Francis” a bit but that must come from within.

So many wonderful people living together around the lake but so many wonderful people who don’t know or associate with one another.  Hopefully, the city will throw its back into making next year’s holiday a much grander event, as it has been in days gone by.  The city, and the country, if not the world, have paid such a great price with what has occurred in response to the virus.

 Warnok won the U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, making the senate as a whole, much more controlled by the democrats.
Maybe the former president is finally finished, and the republican party can come back as the Grand Old Party!