THE BRIGHT SIDE
Geneva Lakes Museum 2023 Parade of Trees.
This event has come to an end until next year. The Geneva Lakes Museum has been hosting this wonderful community event for the 5th year. The parade of trees is a festive way of bringing the community together during the holidays. Over forty different trees adorned both sides of the old Main Street in the center of the museum. Viewing and voting for the creative and beautifully decorated trees ran through 2023’s holiday season. Votes have been tallied and the winners have been announced. The Third place in the Parade of Trees went to Glass/Schenning Insurance Center, the Second Place was presented to Lake House Fudge, and the First place won by Yerkes Observatory.
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the Geneva Lakes Museum for bringing the community together for a wonderful holiday event.
Todd Krause runs for mayor and the race is on.
Mayor Mayor secured enough signatures from her dwindling supply of supporters to run again. Running to where becomes the most interesting question. Out to some abandoned plane of the ecliptic that has what once used to be a lake, along with Joanie the Diner, here mixed past-brained companion, and knee-jerk supporter? Joanie is running too but who wants to go there? No, this short article is all about Todd Krause, the man motivated to clear the boards and return Lake Geneva to financial good sense and future stability. Todd, the man who is being supported by the Geneva Shore Report, to replace Mayor Mayor (and a good bunch of her elected and appointed cabal), believes in fiscal financial responsibility, spending when needed but not necessarily attracted to, revenue raising but not at the expense of residents, voters and business operators and owners.
Todd Krause wants to do something about Hillmoor (he was aghast to discover, for example, that no effort or expense has ever been made to mow the lawn, grass, and weeds on the Hillmoor property). Todd isn’t big on six-figure appointees unless those appointees have real justifications for being some of the very highest paid in the state, no matter what the size of the community (the comptroller in Lake Geneva, for example, makes much more than the comptrollers in Green Bay, Racine, or even Madison). No matter what happens on the national scene there needs to be a return to real accountability and responsibility in local government.
