Swiss-based Jumbo stores offer a great combination of products to improve your home and garden. Save time and energy and in just one trip, find plants and tools, candles and curtains, storage boxes (a very large selection) and paints, carpets and lamps, even skis, indoor and outdoor bikes and cleaning products, to name a few. As far as services go, some Jumbo stores will custom-cut carpets and glass, frames and curtains. They will also service your skis, bikes and lawn mowers. Two stores near Geneva, in Meyrin and Chavannes-de-Bogis, three more around the north side of Lake Geneva and several others throughout the country (see map of stores).
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A man who had been sexually accosting, but without force, girls from 6 to 11 years old since 2002, has been behind bars since January, Geneva police announced Thursday. The 38-year-old has admitted to committing 60 sexual acts, usually asking the children for assistance to urinate and then masturbating.
The man, who lives in Ain, in France, operated mainly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, in Versoix, Meyrin and Lignon. He was unknown to police on both sides of the border, which made it difficult to find him, despite a long investigation and traces of DNA left at some scenes. It was known that he drove a black 4×4, but it took new evidence after another crime committed in January, to track him down. He worked as a building manager.
GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND – Nine men, six from France and three from Switzerland, all drivers for a transport company in Meyrin, were arrested after their boss called in police at 13:00 Wednesday 15 June. He suspected that the men were stealing petrol from the company. Officers checked the cars of two employees leaving the site and found 20 litres of stolen petrol in the back of one and two jerrycans with 25 litres each in the back of another.
The men admitted that the practice has been going on for months and is widespread, but Geneva police have not said what they were doing with the petrol, if it was for personal use or re-sale.
An avant-garde staging of Simon Bolivar’s last trip through Colombia by Geneva’s Malandro Theatre.
Marking the 200th anniversary of the wars of Latin American independence, two Colombian artists, William Ospina and the theatre director and researcher Omar Porras, take the myths and legends surrounding the father of American emancipation to create a show that confronts Bolívar’s dreams with the reality of his legacy.
Location: Meyrin
Link out: http://www.forum-meyrin.ch/spectacle/bolivar-fr…
Start date: 28 Sep 2010
End date: 10 Oct 2010
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
Meyrin, Geneva (GenevaLunch) - The driver who died when her car caught fire late Sunday night in Meyrin has not been officially identified, while police await the results of an autopsy on the person they describe only as a 72-year-old woman. According to the Tribune de Geneve the driver was from Vaud, a musician who had just given a concert, followed by a small celebration, and she was heading home to Begnins.
The circumstances surrounding the accident remain unclear, with police saying she drove up onto a pedestrian area and into a post in the area between the town hall and the Forum Meyrin. For reasons not yet understood, she appears to have left her foot on the gas pedal while the car was blocked, causing the tires to explode and the fire to start.
Title: Accelerating Science, an interactive exposition of particle physics
Location: Globe, CERN, Route de Meyrin, Meyrin
Link out: Click here
Description: A tunnel that looks suspiciously like the interior of the Large Hadron Collider is the venue for a look at all the science we don’t know yet. Entry free. Contact: +41 (0)22 767 76 76
Start Date: 16 Nov 2009
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 21 Nov 2009
End Time: 17:00
Title: Norwegian Christmas bazaar, Geneva
Location: Meyrin, Geneve
Link out: Click here
Description: At Forum Meyrin, from 11am-4p.
Held by the Norwegian church, the bazaar will sell traditional Santa Claus figures, textiles, cakes, waffels, hot wine and yes, Norwegian salmon and cod.
Date: 06 Dec 2008
