SURPRISING STUFF
Just a friendly reminder that because of Venetian Fest the City of Lake Geneva boat launch will be closed during evening hours on August 19th and on until August 23rd.
The city brush drop-off will also be closed now through August 25th. Wrigley Street will also be closed, and no right turns will be allowed to go past Flat Iron Park. Only left turns will be allowed to proceed east and north on Wrigley Boulevard during the festivities.
The CD3 mess moves into a tangled set of weirdness that just about matches the nature of the Starry Stone Wart infestation it was brought in to do something about.
The boaters are supposed to wash their boats before entering the lake and then when leaving the lake. You cannot even begin to see the impossibility of getting that done once you try to figure out how to work on a boat that’s on a trailer, and not necessarily on a trailer near the launch point where the boat is being put in and taken out of the water.
How does a boater get a vacuum head up and under the hull of a boat that’s about a foot off the concrete? Is the boat owner supposed to crawl under the boat on the wet concrete? Well, the boaters are not going to do it, and this they proved when they tried to get boaters using the downtown Lake Geneva Pier machine…the affair was what was termed an ‘epic fail.’ The boaters ignored the CD3 machine.
What’s to be done? The CD3, just by looking at the rig, is an epic failure all in of itself. It can’t work and it does not work. What are the communities around the lake to do? Go see for yourself. The CD3 machine is going to be moved to the Southside of Baker Street up near Seminary Park. Do not laugh when you check it out and then imagine some of the more sizeable pleasure boats that are going in and out of the lake. Oh, and don’t forget the drinking that goes on out there on the water. There are simply no real solid motivators to get boaters to use the machinery, no monitoring and enforcement, and no punishment for not using it.
End of this story. Starry Stone Wart one…Geneva Lake nothing.
Place of the Week
The historic Church of the Holy Communion has called Lake Geneva home since 1882. Come take a tour any Thursday during the Farmers Market.
