Good morning.
It’s a clear and breezy day for the Whippet City, with a high of nine; in Las Vegas, it’s a mostly sunny day with a high temperature of sixty-five.
Tonight at 7 PM, the League of Women Voters hosts a program at city hall: “Budget Repair Bill Update: Impact on City/County Operations” with speakers: Kevin Brunner, Whitewater City Manager and David Bretl, Walworth County Administrator.
On this day in 1937, an aviation record from Howard Hughes: “millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.”
In Wisconsin, an anniversary of which we can be proud:
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]
Today’s Google puzzle comes from Dave Matthews: “If these people didn’t make what they make with their truss rods and kerfing and braces, then I couldn’t play what I play.”