Lakemoor Blocks Fundraiser

Did you read this morning's paper about the Lakemoor man who wanted to hold a fundraiser for a friend with high medical expenses for cancer treatment?

Lakemoor - you know; that place over on Route 120, east of McHenry, where they allow people to rent a banquet hall and sponsor extreme fighting contests. Not quite the "fight to the death", but certainly brutal. I've never been able to figure out why they aren't against the law.

According to the paper, Mauch went to the Village of Lakemoor and got a permit for the fundraiser and then started making arrangements. Then the Village canceled the permit a month later. Nice, huh? Did they not think he might incur substantial planning and advance expenses during the first month after he received the permit?

The Village apparently felt that Mauch would not actually cancel the event, so they locked the gate to his property and would not allow even him on it, according to the paper. I mean, why would the Village of Lakemoor not trust a person to keep his word?

Could it have something to do with their own level of trust with one another? I won't bother to re-hash recent events that raised some eyebrows whenever people heard "Lakemoor."

Hopefully, Village President Virginia Povidas will remember her own words, when promoters show up in the future for another fight permit for the banquet hall. "We made sure to protect all the children and residents in the area of Lakemoor; that has to be first."

People showing up for a cancer benefit are probably a different class of people than the quiet, peaceful, unemotional crowd of Coca Cola drinkers at an extreme fight. It's a good thing that the Village is looking out for its children and residents." Yeah, sure...