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Blogging Mayor of Round Lake!

Serving as the Mayor of Round Lake is a constant challenge. I hope you enjoy interacting with this web blog. My e-mail address is bgentes@eroundlake.com. Please understand that the opinions expressed in this web blog are mine and mine alone, and do not represent official positions of the Village of Round Lake.

New Blog Location plus Holiday wishes to you and your familly!December 24 2008

The time has come to say goodbye to the eroundlake.com/blog (no April Fools joke this time) and welcome it to its new location, which has actually been its old postion all the time. It just pointed to the eroundlake.com site, those pointers will be removed, and the blog will reside at its new headquarters.

billgentes.blogspot.com

The new blog will debut on January first, but you can go look at it now if you like, it looks slightly different appearance wise, but all the content is there so from that aspect nothing has changed. The blog will however change and I think that will make it more readable and enjoyable.

Finally I wish all of you a wonderful holiday tommorrow and I hope all of us get exactly what we wanted from Santa, and then we move on and have a wonderful 2009.

The End of the Road!December 22 2008

Well this post is the last post I will be making on this blog, don't despair I am just relocating it to another location, which is actually not new, its where it has been forever, I just removed the pointers! So here is the new location go ahead and bookmark it:

billgentes.blogspot.com

In addition this is the last post of the year, since I am taking the rest of the year off from blogging! So see you on January 1st 2009 and on the new location, which is up and running so you can go enjoy it all over there.

I will switch comments over to the new blog on the new years eve. So you can still comment to your hearts content.

Worse/Best TV Show ever!December 19 2008

Over the years I have slowly stopped watching TV, reducing my viewing to sports, and the news. However the promos for one show caught my eye, and my daughters as well, Momma's Boys on NBC. Needless to say we Tivo'ed it and thank god we did, because some of the lines were so priceless we had to replay them a few times.

The premise of the show are three adult men who still live at home with Mommy (that's what they call their mother) are going to chose from 32 high quality young ladies, who range from doctors to convicts and all points in between. The moms live with the 32 girls in some monster mansion on the pacific coast while the three boys live in condos somewhere nearby. At some point the boys kick off the girls one by one, based I would assume on mom's orders. Talk about emasculating!

The highlights/lowlights of the show encompass the following:

• Creepy audition videos, where one mom asks her son to disrobe so everyone can see his body.
• Racist creepy audition videos, where one mom disqualifies the entire human race from being with her son.
• Mothers packing son's clothing for the t

County Snow AlertDecember 18 2008

Current forecast guidance suggests that the onset of precipitation for Lake County will not be until around 9:00pm tonight, with the heaviest rates of precipitation occurring between 2am and 8am. The Weather Service currently expects all of the precipitation across Lake County to fall as snow, with snowfall rates of up to two inches an hour possible. There is a potential for thunderstorms within the overall storm system, and heavier snowfall rates are possible where thunderstorms develop. In general, the expectation is for from 8 to 14 inches of snow, with the potential for locally heavier amounts, across Lake County. Because of the nature of this storm system, the snow will be wetter and heavier than what fell earlier in the week.

Former Trustee John Huebner (1934-2008)December 18 2008

Yesterday the village lost a wonderful public servant John Huebner who was a life long resident of Round Lake, and who served as a Village trustee for 16 years, retiring in 2003. John passed away yesterday after a long struggle with cancer.

John was a village trustee when I was elected and I served with him for two years until he retired, I always valued him for his insight, opinions and his support. He had a passion for water issues and was always a useful person to consult on the history of why something was done that way versus another way when it came to engineering or public works.

Trustee Dale Multerer and I had been visiting him at the hospital for the last few weeks and his sense of humor and command of the facts were there right to the end. John will be missed by all of the village.