Good morning, Whitewater
The CDA Business Park Marketing Committee meets at 4:30 p.m. today, and the Planning Commission meets at 6 p.m. tonight. As of this post, the CDA Business Park Marketing Committee agenda was not online. The Planning Commission agenda is available here.
On this day in 1969, the Wood stock festival concluded. The New York TImes covered the event:
Waves of weary youngsters streamed away from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair last night and early today as security officials reported at least two deaths and 4,000 people treated for injuries, illness and adverse drug reactions over the festival’s three-day period.
However festival officials said the folk and rock music could go on until dawn, and most of the crowd was determined to stay on.
Campfires Burn
As the music wailed on into the early morning hours, more than 100 campfires – fed by fence-posts and any other wood the young people could lay their hands on- flickered around the hillside that formed a natural amphitheater for the festival.
By midnight nearly half of the 300,000 fans who had camped here for the weekend had left. A thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon provided the first big impetus to depart, and a steady stream continued to leave through the night.
Drugs and auto traffic continued to be the main headaches.
But the crowd itself was extremely well-behaved. As Dr. William Abruzzi, the festival’s chief medical officer, put it: “There has been no violence whatsoever, which is remarkable for a crowd of this size.
Here’s today’s almanac:
| Almanac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 17, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 06:03 AM | 07:54 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 05:32 AM | 08:24 PM |
| Tomorrow | 06:04 AM | 07:52 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 3 minutes shorter | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 13h 51 m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 14h 52 m | |
| Moon phase: | Waning crescentr | |