Trailblazer
A balancing act
On July 3 this summer, a work holiday for the Town of Long Lake, Alex Roalsvig was still busy on the phone and checking email, waiting for important information. Would there be a Fourth of July fireworks show, even as other towns and villages were canceling theirs due to the coronavirus pandemic? It’s one of the town’s biggest events of the year.
Roalsvig, Long Lake’s Parks, Recreation & Tourism director, planned to close the town beach, scratch the live band and barbecue, and spread people out at a virus-avoiding distance so the show could go on. A police officer would be stationed at the beach to keep people from crowding there. She had the town board’s permission, but was waiting for direction from the governor’s office and the Hamilton County Health Department.
Once she had it, she’d need to let people know … just not too
