Area Happenings for Geneva in January
January 1, 2010 by Meaghan Kilroy
Filed under Announcements
With Christmas decorations packed neatly away and a list of New Year’s resolutions fresh in your mind, why not take some time to explore Geneva this January? Throughout the month, various events will provide participants with an escape from icy temps and a chance to flaunt community pride.
On Saturday, January 2, the Geneva High School Girls Varsity basketball team kicks off 2010 with a game against Batavia. Fans are encouraged to pack the Bulldogs’ gymnasium with a sea of Viking blue and white.
Reservations and voting for “Dancing with the Geneva Stars” will be available beginning Monday, January 4. The event will take place on Saturday, February 6, at the Eagle Brook Country Club. Tickets are $35 per person, and all proceeds benefit the Geneva Academic Foundation and Geneva Cultural Arts Commission. Remember to view the city’s Web site for the profile of your favorite local celebrity couple. Contestants this year include: Geneva High School alumni, prominent merchants and other community supporters.
From Wednesday, January 20, through Sunday, January 24, stop by the Geneva Commons to witness professional and student sculptors carve elaborate figures from snow. Perhaps you will be encouraged to go home and create your very own masterpiece on your lawn this winter.
On Friday, January 29, members of the Geneva History Center can preview the Scouting Exhibit, which is open to the public on Saturday, January 30. Aside from highlighting one troop’s intricately carved totem pole, the display provides visitors with an opportunity to recall their own days spent selling Thin Mints and sewing on patches. Specific questions regarding Geneva’s Scouting History can be answered by Jessica McTague at a Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, January 12.
Another engaging event hosted by the History Center occurs on Monday, January 18. Geneva’s youth can spend their day off listening to Pamela Welcome and her portrayal of the courageous Sojourner Truth. So whether your resolution is to become more involved in the community or you wish to fight off the winter blues, remember to take advantage of all Geneva has to offer this New Year.
Meaghan Kilroy is a senior at GHS who has served as news editor for the Viking View and plans on pursuing a career in journalism.
This article first appeared in the January 2010 issue of eGeneva Magazine.
Dancing with the Geneva Stars Returns
January 1, 2010 by Joe Stanton
Filed under Community Events
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A year ago I said that Dancing with the Geneva Stars was the most entertaining and innovative event I’ve ever attended in Geneva. And I believe my comments didn’t do it justice. Besides my resounding “WOW”, the 2009 fund-raiser received rave reviews from those attending the sold-out event. Fabulous, amazing and impressive were only a few of the adjectives used to
describe the evening where 12 brave performers, dressed in costumes appropriate for their dance,
entertained the over 360 enthusiastic people attending the standing-room-only contest.
Now here’s your chance to decide for yourself. This successful event, modeled after the popular TV show “Dancing with the Stars”, returns on Saturday, February 6, 2010, with a new cast of dancers. These local celebrity teams are already in rehearsal preparing their dances in hopes of
generating enough votes to become the 2010 Dancing with the Geneva Stars champion.
The 2010 line-up includes David and Shawn Ginsberg doing the Cha-Cha, Weldon Johnson and Joanne Buckley doing the Quickstep, Matt and Kimberly Lennert doing the Tango, Tim and Barb Moran doing the Waltz, Harry and Marcia Smith doing the Swing and Jim and Susan VanderVeen doing the Salsa. If you know any of these soon to be amazing dancers, lend them your support.
Ticket reservations and voting for the event (every dollar contributed is equal to one vote), which benefits the Geneva Academic Foundation and Geneva Cultural Arts, will begin on January 4,
2010. The committee anticipates another sold-out event.
More info on Dancing with the Geneva Stars. You absolutely, positively do
not want to miss it!
This article first appeared in the January 2010 issue of eGeneva Magazine.
