SMALL JUNK

 

The Vape Shop on Center Street is history. One down and one to go. Mike Kocourek, the Michael Kocourek Lake Genevabest business property owner around the lake and one of the most significant, saw the light through the smoke and sent the Vape Shop packing. That’s right. Once he figured out that the place was nothing more than a crime attractant and thinly disguised drug paraphernalia shop it was out of there. Thank you, noble civic servant Mike Kocourek. It might be hoped, but not with much real expectation, that the owner of the property where the other “vape” shop has made its nest will get the message and take similar action. There is only one way to keep Lake Geneva a “class act.” Crummy low down operations cloaked under stealthy cloaks of respectability must be outed and then shown the door.

Galena Garlic Olive Oil and Spice is gone. Gone overnight. They had great olive oil. Dawn, the superlative retail salesperson who ran the place, has moved on to bigger and better opportunities…running the automotive repair operations at the new Automotive Guru’s, Inc. under the guidance of Sally Nimmow who built Elkhorn Automotive into the success it is today. With, Will Wilkening, automotive mechanical genius under the hood and Dawn and Sally doing everything else, this place is going places.

Sewing, you say? Roxanne Migut (husband Chris is the beloved tough character who owns and operates Lake Geneva Auto Body, Inc.) is opening a sewing circle center at 2346 Wells in Lake Geneva. You’ll know the place when you pass by because it’s the only single home left on that road. It sits behind some beautiful pines and Roxanne is doing wonders to re-design and make the place wonderfully relevant. This is going to be a class act and look for it to open some time in late June or early July.

The GSR goes racing. It’s not NASCAR but it’s something and it’s a bit more local, of course. Running hard around the track at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, among other tracks, part time road racer, part time attorney and part time newspaper editor Peter Wilson zips about pouring the coals to his 110 horsepower 97.3 cubic inch Miata sports car. He was second at the three hour “endure” last weekend at Blackhawk. The other drivers spun out on portions of the rained out track, had equipment failures or fell asleep because most of them are over age 65. It’s a lot of fun to go there and be a part of it all. The Geneva Shore Report is a sponsor of the “Blast Past” racing vehicle, which might be better termed “Blast Passed.”

Geneva Shore Report Editor Pete Wilson at Blackhawk Raceway

Peter Wilson, Miata Mad Max, works to extricate himself from his blindingly quick/red/not so quick race car.  They disqualify you from racing if it takes you more than ten minutes to get out of the car.  Racing Wilson made it nine minutes flat.  His prize for being second in the Enduro held last Sunday was a milk bottle with a blue ribbon around it.  The milk bottle is used if the driver can’t get out of the car fast enough.

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