SURPRISING STUFF
Half a tree, half a tree, half a tree onward.
When it is going to occur to the city leaders that they need to approach the beautification committee and ask them what a Christmas Tree looks like, all lit up and decorated. Friday night the leaders held the annual rite of Christmas Tree lighting by setting the big, donated tree ‘alight’ as darkness settled in and people gathered. The half a tree. Ninety-nine percent of the people who will ever see this tree will see it driving by on either Center Street or Broad Street as it winds by to become South Lake Shore Drive on the southern end.
That means that almost everyone viewing it will receive a view of the bottom half of the tree only. The upper half of the thrusts upward inside the cupola the arches up and over the base of the Brunk Pavilion and can only be seen from inside Flat Iron Park, and then only if standing within thirty feet, or so, of the structure. This is art idiocy when the city is trying to use this edifice as its main gathering point for celebrating Christmas.
At one time a giant tree was erected in the very center of the intersection of Main and Broad Streets. It was a wonder and a wonder that didn’t have to cost any more than this moronic make-believe form of Christmas bad taste that the Brunk tree expresses. Come on Lake Geneva, we can do better than this.
Holiday scams continue.
As you watch television this season you may turn to BBC for some welcome relief from endless lying ads and irresponsible reporting. Do not be fooled. The BBC has substituted regular ads for horrid and poorly done requests for money. They, in particular, want monthly payments coming out of your checking account. Don’t be fooled there, either. The show or cause requesting this regular small deduction will then go to a company that calculates how many times a person will pay before cutting payments off. That’s 43, by the way. That company then pays the show the value of 30 withdrawals and profits on the rest. If people drop out before, then the company, as secret as its existence is in your life (except for weird names withdrawing from your bank account), takes that hit but makes more money from people who forget the money’s coming out beyond the average 43 months. Oh, and there are the other BBC scams. Try Dr. Amen (not Hallelujah or something classier) and listen to a show that has you buy his book to completely cure all mental illnesses. The BBC denies it backs that claim, of course, but runs the show! Careful out there this Christmas.
Sara Soukup
Goodbye to the wonderful Sara Soukup.
Last week the library announced that Miss Sara Soukup was extremely ill and asked that she be remembered in everyone’s thoughts and prayers in hopes of a speedy recovery. With great sadness, the library announced that Thursday, December 2nd, Miss Sara passed away in her hometown of Yankton, South Dakota, with her family and friends gathered around her. The dreaded virus took another of Lake Geneva’s finest.
Miss Sara was the beloved children’s librarian at the Lake Geneva Public Library for almost twenty years. She watched the children in the community grow up and passed along her love of reading and vivid imagination. Tributes have been pouring in, along with condolences for her library family, friends, and family. Anyone that has pictures or memories of Miss Sara, that they would like to share, can reach out to the library, as they are putting together a collage for her family. They would like to share with her family and friends back home how much she was loved here in Lake Geneva, and that she will be deeply missed. Thank you for all the lives you have reached, touched, and changed Miss Sara.
Our community is less bright and will not be quite the same without you.
