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The Oktoberfest fun is about to start.
This weekend, October 7th through 9th, Lake Geneva will be all about fall, food, beer, and fun. There will be live entertainment at the Clock Tower Oktoberfest Stage and the Brunk Pavilion. Saturday and Sunday will include Stein Hoisting Competitions at 2 p.m., and the Doxie Dash Races at 4 p.m. The weekend of family fun wouldn’t be complete without the traditional food of Oktoberfest provided by local vendors, quality arts and crafts, and kids activities including bouncy houses and pony rides.
Flight For Life.
Officials with Flight For Life broke ground on a new facility located at the airport in Burlington in order to help them respond faster when every second counts. Burlington put them at an optimal location for better response time and the proper care that patients need. Flight For Life will have a bigger and better facility for the staff that’s on premise 24/7. If you are a patient of Flight For Life then it is unlikely that you yourself called in to get the service, as most of the flights are for emergency transport to save a patient’s life.
The problem with this system, and it is a real problem is twofold. One, the cost is huge to get flown, like almost forty-thousand dollars in many cases. Second, the cost is often not covered by insurance (including Medicare) or the ‘sharing’ of the cost, which is the part the patient must pay, is quite possibly around ten thousand dollars. All of that for a service the patient might have benefited from but sure as hell probably didn’t call. Be careful out there, and never ever forget that flying in a helicopter to get somewhere under emergency conditions is about three times as hazardous as ground transportation.
The South Street bike path and hiking trail continues to pound sand.
The subject was mentioned again at the Meeting of the Whole on Monday night. Is that grant expiring for lack of interest (actually, a lot of negative interest on the part of the people who live in homes on that street)? The amount of money that was granted is substantial and the city is having a very difficult time saying no since Lake Geneva does not have the deep pockets of either Town of Linn or Fontana (both of those places have tons of multi-million-dollar lakeside homes to collect taxes from), so the million bucks, or so, has real hard meaning. The city went back to the state in order to modify the terms of the grant but, so far, the state has not been responsive to any changes. The grant was specifically for the building of a bike and pedestrian path and not some of the other stuff the city might be able to get its South Road citizens to agree to.
