GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Heated debates over the utility of getting rid of grassy knolls in Geneva’s St Jean park in order to discourage drug dealers appear to have fallen on deaf ears, with city workers starting to knock them down this week, reports the Tribune de Geneve. City workers were out in force Tuesday 23 August with digger tractors in the St Jean park, an area which one resident interviewed by the paper calls a McDrive for drug consumers. The rationale is to flatten the hills to make it more difficult for dealers to hide their wares and to sell discreetly.
The measures are being met with skepticism from the public, according to the Tribune.
Title: Exhibit: Geneva-based artists
Location: Geneva
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Description: An exhibit of works made by a group of Geneva-based artists. No entry fee.
Date: 2010-03-08
Title: Terrase du troc: performances and more (open air activities)
Location: Geneva
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Description: After two years at the Quartier de St-Jean, the Terrasse du Troc project moved to the Bois de la Batie.
La Terrasse offers workshops for children and adults, performances, DJs, music and dancing, as well as lectures (all open air activities).
Start Date: 15 Jul 2009
End Date: 23 Aug 2009
School of Saint-Jean, Geneva
Update 11:30 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The end of the year “Boom” or school festival in Geneva’s St Jean district ended on a tragic note Thursday night 25 June when two children were struck by a car on Rue de St Jean in front of the elementary school.
The festive mood at the school suddenly turned into a parent’s nightmare when a former student and her 3-year-old brother were struck by a vehicle around 22:00. The Geneva Police and paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after and converted picnic tables set up for the party into a makeshift triage center for the two injured children, who were later taken to the hospital. Their lives are not in danger but the hospital is not releasing further information.
Title: Sunday musical brunch – Cappuccini 2009
Location: Geneva, Quartier de St. Jean
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Description: The Cappuccini is a Sunday musical brunch hosted at the Maison de Quartier de Saint-Jean in the city of Geneva.
March 8 Chanson
March 15 R&B and World Beat
March 22 Jazz
Free entry -but the actual brunch is CHF9-.
Start Date: 01 Mar 2009
End Date: 22 Mar 2009
