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Fall Wine Walk.
The Lake Geneva Business Improvement District’s annual spring wine walk is a very popular and always sold-out event. With so many interested in participating and so many not able to, as tickets sell out fast, the Business Improvement District decided to add another annual wine walk to the calendar. Don’t get the idea that the walk is for free, as the BID is all about making money here, even if it’s for a charitable cause. This year’s Fall Wine Walk will be held on Sunday, November 5th, from 12-4 p.m. Over twenty different locations downtown in Lake Geneva will be designated as ‘sipping’ locations.
Shopping along the way will be anywhere and everywhere downtown with so many fun additions to the shopping experience, and there will be special sales for the wine walkers. This wonderful afternoon (hopefully the weather will hold) will be more than a lovely afternoon of strolling downtown, it is also a great fundraiser for the Never Say Never Playground project. Tickets are $45 each and designated driver tickets are $20. Tickets have already gone on sale so you better act fast before they are gone.
For more information, and to purchase your spot on the walk, go to www.downtownlakegeneva.org/winewalk.
There’s one decision that no one can ever take away.
We must all recognize and work to help any person in that that decision-making situation to make a living decision. Suicide prevention is more than a prevention campaign, as is discussed and profoundly supported by so many organizations today. Suicide prevention is wading into the churning front and back wash of other uncomfortable minds with friendship, support and even love. That takes talent, heart, time, and money.
Attending a combat veteran’s session at the veteran’s hospital a troubled vet was asked “do you feel suicidal?” The vet stood up and nearly went postal. The shrink at the session, realizing his mistake, as most veterans think being suicidal is being weak, settled the vet down, and then asked him a different question. “You are not suicidal, I understand, but do you feel like you don’t want to be here anymore?” The vet quietly nodded his head. We must work hard and participate, not to prevent suicide but to give troubled souls a reason to ‘be here anymore.’ When a person in your life tells you that he or she is nearing s ‘not being here anymore’ situation, believe them, and move closer, not further away.
