The liver soup was to die for!
Bohemian Cafe, a staple of South 13th Street, will close its doors Sept. 24.
Pretty bummed as a half-blood bullhunk who enjoyed some Czech fare at this place. The liver soup, rabbit, dumplings, kolaches and ‘Bohemian Sidecars’ will be missed.
Or charge Downtown businesses a DT trolley sponsorship fee? Or do both?
It costs tens of thousands of dollars to keep the trolley running each summer from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and organizers are looking to the community to help foot the bill for what they say is a valuable resource for downtown businesses and tourists.
Doesn’t that say it all right there? Visitors use it to the benefit of DT businesses. I think a solution would be to charge say $5 dollars for a day pass and if you purchase something at a DT business over $25 that business would give you a $5 dollar discount with proof of your pass. Seems we don’t blink an eye to raise paratransit, why not have tourists pay? Every place I have traveled to requires me to pay for my inner city transportation. Why should SF be any different? Let’s just see how much of an impact the trolley rides really have on DT business, conduct an experiment. We may just find out people are hitching a free ride to Falls Park and not spending a dime in Downtown. If that’s case, to the auction block.
Also, whatever happened to the promise of FREE trolley rides from DT hotels and restaurants to the Events Center? Did that ever happen?
Kenny & I had our first meeting at Granny’s Golden Oven
I didn’t get emotional tonight at the last meeting of the outgoing councilors. I know that I will still talk to them on regular basis. While not in my close circle of friends, our conversations over the years have been anything but coffee talk.
Kermit said it best tonight, local government matters the most in our lives. I dare anyone to pick up the phone right now and get a direct call to Thune, Rounds, Noem or Obama. Not happening. I can’t say that about our local officials.
I know they may or may not know it, but the conversations I have had with them have been wonderful, fruitful and enlightening. I will always cherish the ear they brought me. I still tear up thinking about when one city councilor just called to share their condolences about the passing of my grandma. It’s the little things that count.
I can be cold sometimes, even a real asshole, but I think my cynicism and pessimistic attitude coaxed them to be better, to look at the bigger picture, to ask the right questions, to shape policy that helps us all. It’s hard to say a bad word about the four that are leaving, they all served during an instrumental time in our city. I can honestly tell you, over the past 5-12 years they served they have changed our lives dramatically. Sioux Falls is different and better because of their service. I sometimes wish I had a recording of all those defining moments I could box up for each of them.
The one thing that the citizens of Sioux Falls should remember about these four guys is that they truly care about this town, and while at times it was easy to hate the decisions they made, they always had the heart of community, and what was important to them, their families and tax payers. It’s not an easy job, I get it.
Tonight, their hearts are heavy, I saw that in Kenny’s eyes, in Karsky’s commitment, in Jamison’s sense of support and always the historical aspect of Dr. Staggers. They may not be on the dais of Carnegie Hall after today, but they will always be committed to this community, I know this for a fact.
I wish them luck in the future and Godspeed.
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“Do the ‘Karsky’ “
The public is invited to attend a reception from 6–6:45 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at Carnegie Town Hall, 235 West Tenth Street. The event will honor Councilors Kenny Anderson Jr., Greg Jamison, Dean Karsky, and Kermit Staggers whose terms end on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Following the reception, the outgoing councilors will be recognized at their 7 p.m. regular meeting with a public service recognition award.
• Councilor Anderson Jr. was elected in 2008 to represent the Northeast District. He was reelected in 2012.
• Councilor Jamison was elected in 2008 to represent the Southwest District. He was reelected in 2012.
• Councilor Karsky was appointed in 2011 to the Northwest District seat vacated by Bob Litz. He was elected in 2012.
• Councilor Staggers was elected in 2012 as an At-Large City Council Member. He also represented the Central District from 2002–2010.
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