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Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer.
The Riviera Beach is ready for summer. Swimming piers are in. Kiosks are available for purchasing beach passes. Lifeguards are on duty. The summer season has begun. As always, Memorial Day weekend was extremely busy, and Lake Geneva was full of excitement. The shops were full, the restaurants were also well populated, and the hotels were mostly filled. Memorial Day was the end of the holiday weekend but not until beginning to tail down after the annual traditional Memorial Day festivities.
The Memorial Day parade began at 10 a.m. in front of Horticultural Hall and went through the downtown area using Broad Street until ending at Lake Geneva’s Ceremonial Flag and Memorial Day Ceremony in Flat Iron Park. The Memorial Ceremony was performed and remembrance of the service men and women who died in active military duty was observed. The attending public doesn’t even know them all but equally shares a responsibility to remember and honor them. The first official day of summer is Thursday, June 20th, beginning at 4:51 p.m. In all of Lake Geneva weekends until then are expected to be in full swing as if summer has already begun. Happy Summer.
The ‘cabal’ that replaced and then became the ‘cabal.’
It neither sits restlessly nor remains silent, although its voice is hushed to a murmur by a public that figured it out and then totally trashed every member of it in the last election. Joanie the Diner, at her faux dining car restaurant, meets all the time with other ‘secret’ members of the group, only mentionable by using wispy names descriptive but not truly valid. There’s ‘the ‘Gall of him’, ‘the G-Man,’ and ‘Hush Hush Sweet Charlette,’ as well as ‘the Santa Claus,’ ‘Douglas Fairbanks,’ and more. The dining car, a politically motivated eating establishment better described by William Shakespeare; “fire burn and cauldron bubble…,” meets all the time, while regular people order, eat, and remain mostly puzzled.
Joanie the Diner, up in her tower, is never going to allow ‘her’ tower building (think Rapunzel without the hair) to have one of the popular murals being painted on other walls around town. The tower’s parking lot wall facing Broad Street to the east would be perfect for one. She and her assembly of ‘double double toil and trouble’ crew will also (no doubt) fight to the last hang nail overpaying any money to help fix the mess of a lagoon just down from it to the south. The tower has great precedence for doing the wrong thing at every turn as it was illegally built after the old Frank Lloyd Wright hotel was plowed under. Go to the diner and have a burger or cup of soup. The food is good and reasonably priced, and the entertainment provided by the Shakespeare-described crew meeting and whispering is free. You won’t have to be concerned that any member of the GSR might be recording, videoing, or listening to you, as the GSR is wisely and reasonably banned from that establishment.
