Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 4:22 PM for 9h 19m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 39.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1895, the first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago’s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
The Washington Post reports on how non-profit agencies are doing the good work of helping California’s Indigenous farmworkers overcome vaccine barriers:
It’s estimated that California is home to over 350,000 Indigenous people from Oaxaca and other states in southern Mexico. Many do not speak Spanish, and therefore are left out of critical information regarding covid-19 and the vaccine. Nonprofits conduct outreach in their native language to get this vulnerable community vaccinated.
The BBC and PBS offer an adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days:
Let the race against the clock begin! Phileas Fogg (David Tennant), Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch), and Jean Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) are setting out on the adventure of a lifetime, starting on Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 8/7c.