Why the City of Lake Geneva has it all over a place like Richmond, located right across the line in Illinois, only 12 miles away?
Richmond simply must do something about the trucks and traffic that are passing through town on Main Street, with a very high noise threshold and disregard for anything local.  This wonderful and cute town has been torn asunder by having Highway 12 as its Main Street, and then an idiotic state-run truck-weighing station set up on its north end.  The solution is to use Lake Geneva as an example.  Install four more traffic lights and then one more at each end of town.  Force the state to move its weigh-station somewhere else.  Very quickly the truckers will get two things; one, that they no longer must use Richmond to avoid the freeway weigh stations, and two, that they cannot move through the town any longer at high-speed belching their awful diesel smoke and noise.

Richmond has potential, real potential, but that must be recognized by its residents and the town’s leadership, like what has happened in Lake Geneva.  For the time being, Richmond isn’t even a truck stop…it’s a truck go.  Incidentally, the trucks that are forced to stop at that weigh-station ‘get even’ by blocking Highway 12 deliberately while they wait to enter the station.  The town needs to enact a thousand-dollar per incident fine for that unsafe and miserable behavior.

 

Fall is here!
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, at 3:21 p.m., is the official start of the fall equinox. Every year in mid-September autumn is greeted as the daylight hours lessen, and the dark night hours begin to get longer. Fall arrives, whether the temperatures start to cool, or the summer heat is still felt, and here in Wisconsin, it could be a combination of both. Fall is also a transitional period for all things to prepare for the winter. Everywhere you look you can see visible changes as nature prepares. Leaves are changing color, temperatures are cooling, animals’ coats are thickening, birds are flying south, and so on…and you will also note that tons of the human population are headed south, leaving the wonderful white world of a Wisconsin winter to the local residents.

 

125 Years of Service, from 1896 through 2021. 
The Altar Society has served St. Francis de Sales Parish Altar Society is the oldest existing parish organization. Generations of women since 1896 have volunteered and spent countless hours cleaning the Altar and Sanctuary, providing food and serving funeral luncheons, and baking and selling items. The Altar Society which for most of its history met monthly now meets three times each year in January, April, and September to plan events, approve expenditures, and support the evangelical and spiritual needs of the parish.

The group provides christening bibs for baptisms, keeps a display of yearly baptisms on an ornate scroll, hosts Hospitality Sundays, purchases the hosts and wine for Holy Communion at all Masses and for the homebound, and sponsors Seven Sisters Apostolate. Throughout the years, women of the St. Francis de Sales Parish fulfill a mission of service to others.  Join us on Sunday, September 26, 2021, for a special blessing at our anniversary mass at 9:00 a.m. to give praise and thanksgiving for 125 Years of Service.

 

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