This is a big weekend in the City of Chester.
This is probably not the way Mayor John Linder and others wanted it to start. A man was shot and killed as he got into his car on Boyle Street late Thursday night. That comes just a day after a young man was shot as he rode his bike at lunchtime on Concord Avenue.
On Saturday, thousands of people will congregate along the city's glittering waterfront for the annual Riverfront Ramble.
They no doubt will enter the city, enjoy all the amenities it has to offer, and return home safely.
It's the same feeling those 19,000 people get every time they attend a Union game at PPL Park in the shadow of the Commodore Barry Bridge.
If only more Chester residents - those who actually live in the city - could feel the same way.
Call it the tale of two Chesters, the one visitors see when they go to Harrah's, the Wharf at Rivertown, or PPL Park.
Then there is the reality of what happens in too many city neighborhoods, where residents tell us random gunfire is becoming a daily routine.
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