GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A couple aged 85 and 87 in Annemasse, France were found dead early Thursday by a member of the family, reports the Tribune de Geneve, apparently from accidents related to the cold. The couple were retired farmers and the wife, 85, may have slipped on the ice when she went out to feed her chickens. Her husband reportedly suffered from heart problems and died in the barn a few hours later, where he may have gone to look for his wife.
Good but unwanted furniture and clothes can’t just end up in the garbage! Some suggestions for recycling:
Neighbouring France
Two charitable French associations will gladly welcome your household items, books, toys and clothes as long as they are in good, working condition. The groups will even schedule a pick up at your home for big pieces such as sofas or refrigerators. The local chapter of Emmaus is near Annemasse, in Cranves-Sales. On the other side of the lake, visit AGCR, 129 rue Tiocan, 01630 Saint Genis Pouilly, +33 4 50 28 20 50.
The Pays de Gex Red Cross, in Prevessin, will also take clothes, children books, toys and tableware but can only receive small furniture (side tables, cribs). No home pick up. These places are also a good resource for buying second-hand items, now that your donation has made room at home!
Switzerland
In Annemasse.
Location: Annemasse, France
Link out: http://www.chateau-rouge.net/site/saison-2010/i…
Date: 27 May 2011
Annecy, France (GenevaLunch) - France will try two of its citizens on attempted murder and other charges stemming from an October 2009 fight outside a disco in Martigny, canton Valais in Switzerland. The attorney general in Valais, Patrick Burkhalter, said Tuesday 26 April that close work by French and Swiss authorities led to the arrest of one of the accused in Geneva in May 2010 and the second in Annemasse, France in June 2010.
The two men, aged 21 and 24 at the time, will now face charges in front of the Grand Tribunal d’Instance in Annecy, with the man arrested in Geneva extradited for the case. The two have admitted to the facts, say Valais police, who have now closed their file and turned over their information to French judicial authorities.
The fight broke out at 04:00 outside a disco, where one of the accused knifed a victim while the other intentionally drove a car into a group of six people, injuring them.
Annecy, France (GenevaLunch) - The killer of a young man, Freddy, murdered near Geneva in September 2007 because his murderer suspected Freddy had stolen €450 from him, was sentenced 3 March to 30 years in prison. The crime drew massive regional media coverage at the time partly because of the gruesome business of finding the victim’s body, which had been chopped into pieces and thrown into or near the Arve river. Two fishermen were the first to find part of his body, the trunk.
Title: Voix de fete music festival
Location: Geneva
Link out: Click here
Description: Geneva, Carouge and Annemasse are stage to French-speaking singers from around the world.
Start Date: 2010-03-03
End Date: 2010-03-14
Title: Jazz for the 21st Century
Location: Annemasse, France
Link out: Click here
Description: With Chinese violinist Guo Gan.
Date: 2010-01-20
Title: Theatre and film from Chile
Location: Annemasse, France
Link out: Click here
Description: Sin sangre is a Chilean film and theater production presented by Compañia Teatrocinema. In Spanish with French subtitles.
Date: 2010-01-19
Title: “The morning after the big fire”, contemporary art
Location: Annemasse, France, Villa du Parc contemporary art centre
Link out: Click here
Description: Two young British artists, Michael Samuels and Sara Barker, in an exhibit of sculptures and wall pieces, supported by the British Council. Note that the centre is closed from 24 December-1 January.
Start Date: 2009-12-18
End Date: 2010-02-27
New trams to Meyrin from Saturday 12 December
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Geneva’s tram lines 14 and 16 will go all the way to Meyrin starting 12 December with five new stops in the town of Meyrin itself. The city’s public transport company, TPG, says that its entire route network has been extended and the frequency of bus and tram services increased.
The fare zones have been changed, partly in anticipation of the joint venture with canton Vaud’s Mobilis fare cooperative starting in late 2010, which will allow a person to travel from Annemasse to Lausanne and beyond with a single ticket. TPG also announced that its call up service Taxibus will be cancelled.
Until 1995, the only tram was the 12 from Carouge to Bachet. From 1995, TPG began important extensions to the tram network which now covers 30km of routes.
Background: “Vaud’s Mobilis tickets to cover most of canton“, 02 December 2009, GenevaLunch
Background on local and national Swiss votes 29 November, GenevaLunch
Update 16:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss voters turned Sunday voted to ban the construction of new minarets in the country, with 57.5 percent of voters approving the initiative and 42.5 percent opposed to it. The vote went along language lines, with Swiss Germans voting for the ban and French speakers voting against, although cantons with both languages, such as Valais and Bern, voted soundly to support the ban.
The result is widely seen as a slap in the face to the government, which has strongly opposed the initiative. But it will also be read as a vote against the current situation of Muslims in Switzerland, say most Swiss media. On the one hand, approving the ban will send a signal that the Swiss are worried about “creeping Islamization”, a phrase that was used by the UDC (right-wing People’s Party) during the campaign, and on the other hand, a signal that Muslim ghettoes are not acceptable, reports Swissinfo. The Muslim population has increased by about 350,000 and is now around 4.5 percent of the Swiss population, according to Swissinfo.
Switzerland set to continue arms exports
Voters rejected by 68 percent, early results indicate, a popular initiative to stop Swiss arms exports.
Geneva says yes to Ceva regional transport, Vésenaz tunnel
The years of debate are over for Ceva, the regional transport system that would link Geneva to Annemasse. Voters approved by nearly 62 percent a CHF113 million credit that will allow the project to go ahead. They also approved the covered tunnel for Vésenaz.
Map of incoming results on TSR: “la carte”
Title: Chateau Rouge, Annemasse: Julien Cottereau, clown
Location: Château Rouge 1 route de Bonneville, Annemasse
Link out: Click here
Description: Clown, mime. No words, just sounds and an expressive use of his body. Makes you want to take up clowning
For all ages from age 3. Tickets €17, €10 for <20 years .
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 20 Nov 2009
End Time: 20:45
Title: Chateau Rouge, Annemasse: modern dance, Zofia by t.r.a.s.h.
Location: Château Rouge, 1 route de Bonneville, Annemasse
Link out: Click here
Description: Dance by Netherlands’ t.r.a.s.h., choreography by Kristel van Issum. Born of the Dutch underground rock movement, they are typhoons of motion
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 10 Nov 2009
End Time: 21:45
Title: Chateau Rouge, Annemasse: Quatuor Terpsycordes
Location: Château Rouge 1 route de Bonneville, Annemasse
Link out: Click here
Description: Music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelsohn by one of the most renowned quartets to have come out of Geneva’s conservatory.
Tickets at €11, €7 for <20 years
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 18 Nov 2009
End Time: 20:30
Title: Dance: Hero, a temporary title
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: The Compagnie Gambit explores through dance the temporary category of heroes around us.
Free entrance to the dress rehearsal.
Date: 06 Nov 2009
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s right-wing UDC party is back in the news for its posters: Lausanne 7 October banned the party’s campaign posters that show a Swiss map crowded with minarets and a frowning, heavily veiled woman. The city says the posters are “racist, irrespectful and dangerous.” Basel-City also banned the posters Tuesday and Geneva will decide Wednesday. The Swiss will vote 29 November on a UDC-sponsored popular referendum to ban the construction of new minarets. Two of the six parties are in favour of it and the government is opposed.
The UDC (SVP in German; People’s Party) sparked a heated national debate and gained international attention in 2008 with posters showing several white sheep and a black one for a vote to send foreign criminals back to their home countries. In May 2009 the Swiss high court ruled in the party’s favour over another poster that showed Muslims prostrate in front of the Swiss federal palace in Bern.
Title: Neil Cowley Trio, jazz
Location: Annemasse, France
Link out: Click here
Description: British piano virtuoso and his jazz group, with alternative/jazz group Les Paiens as opening act, tickets €10-20
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 17 Oct 2009
Title: Tiken Jah Fakoly in concert, Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: Reggae for a good cause. Tiken Jah Fakoly, the reggae singer originary from Cote d’Ivoire, will be performing in Annemasse to raise funds to build a school in Burkina Fasso.
Date: 19 Sep 2009
Title: Summer concerts in Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: Every Saturday evening enjoy jazz at the Fantasia Park in Annemasse. The city of Annemasse is only a train stop away from trams 12, 17 and 16 from Geneva. Shows begin at 17:30.
Start Date: 16 Aug 2009
End Date: 29 Aug 2009
Not long to wait
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Opponents to the planned light rail extension known as Ceva, which will link Geneva’s Cornavin and Eaux-Vives stations and Annemasse, handed in 12,700 signatures, almost 5,000 more than necessary, to force citizens in the canton to vote on it. Voters will decide on a supplementary credit of CHF 113 million towards the project that Geneva’s parliament voted for in June.
The referendum’s date has not yet been fixed.
Title: Theatre, music, poetry and more
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: Phileas Barlaam a resident of neighbouring France is better described as a musician-author-music writer-actor-director-poet and handy man who will be performing in Annemasse.
Start Date: 26 May 2009
End Date: 29 May 2009
Title: Concert: Toots and the Maytals
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: Jamaican reggae in neighbouring France. Toots and the Maytals will be playing with “Wasulu Selecta”. (No Ben Harper this time around).
Date: 29 Apr 2009
Title: Concert: A tribute to the Stones
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: The Stones revisited by hip-hop, chanson and other rock artists. It is all happening in Annemasse this weekend.
Date: 14 Feb 2009
Title: Concert: Celtic heart, Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: An Irish duo that promises an evening of original songs.
Date: 07 Feb 2009
Title: Music: Quartet from the Archi Academy of Geneva, Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: The quartet will perform Beethoven and
Dvorak.
Date: 14 Jan 2009
Title: Music: World beat concert. Welcome to Mali, Annemasse
Location: Annemasse, neighbouring France
Link out: Click here
Description: Amadou and Mariam perform traditional Mali music fusioned with reggae and jazz sounds. The husband-and-wife duo met at the Institute for the Blind and have since performed together.
Date: 24 Jan 2009
Annemasse, France (Tribune de Geneve, Fre) – A 42-year-old man on trial in Annemasse, France, over the border from Geneva, told a court Monday that it took only seconds for a domestic argument to turn to violence in June 2007 when he murdered his wife, then put her body in a sleeping bag and tried to hide it in a swamp.
