Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a chance of light snow, with a high temperature of nineteen degrees.
In the City of Whitewater, there’s a 7 p.m. meeting about a Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve Restoration Plan. Here’s the city’s description of the meeting, with an agenda that’s available online:
Neighbors and interested community members are invited to attend a community meeting on Wednesday, January 19th at 7:00 PM, held at the Whitewater Municipal Building in the 1st floor community room. This will be the second public meeting, at this meeting Jennings & Associates will present a draft restoration plan for the site. The meeting will also be an opportunity to learn about restoration efforts at the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve (formerly Indian Mounds Park). A plan is being prepared to guide the city in the restoration and preservation of this archaeologically significant site in Whitewater. The City has contracted with Jennings & Associates, a planning firm that has significant background in both land restoration and planning, as well as archaeological preservation.
In our schools today, it’s Green and Gold Family Fun Night at Lakeview School, from 6 to 8 p.m. It’s also Spirit Day at the Middle School.
This is no ordinary day, as the Wisconsin Historical Society rightly recalls. It’s a day to honor Ernest Hausen:
1939 – Chicken Plucking World Record
On January 19, 1939 Ernest Hausen (1877 – 1955) of Ft. Atkinson set the world’s record for chicken plucking. [Source: Guiness Book of World’s Records, 1992]
