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Daily Bread for 4.3.21

Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 68.  Sunrise is 6:31 AM and sunset 7:24 PM, for 12h 53m 05s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 60.3% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1865, the Union Army liberates Richmond: “When Petersburg, Virginia, fell on the night of April 2, 1865, Confederate leaders hastily abandoned Richmond. The 5th, 6th, 7th, 19th, 36th, 37th and 38th Wisconsin Infantry participated in the occupation of Petersburg and Richmond. The brigade containing the 19th Wisconsin Infantry was the first to enter Richmond on the morning of April 3rd. Their regimental flag became the first to fly over the captured capital of the Confederacy when Colonel Samuel Vaughn planted it on Richmond City Hall.”

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 Marisa Iati reports Cocaine, a submarine and cash: CEO killed in plane crash was bankrolling drug empire, feds say:

On the surface, Marty Tibbitts led a charmed life.

The CEO of a Michigan-based telecommunications company, he lived in a historic waterfront mansion with his high school sweetheart and co-founded the now-shuttered World Heritage Air Museum. Family and friends remembered his “big smile and fun demeanor” after he was killed in a plane crash in July 2018.

But behind the scenes, prosecutors allege, Tibbitts was quietly designing an underwater drone meant to shuttle large amounts of cocaine to Europe as part of a massive drug trafficking organization that they say he was financing.

A freshly unsealed federal indictment, first reported by the Detroit News, details a six-year investigation into the trafficking ring whose reach ensnared more than a dozen countries, including the United States, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. The complaint brings criminal charges against an alleged drug baron arrested in North Carolina and portrays Tibbitts, 50, as a high-level co-conspirator.

  The Capital Times reports Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation donates $375,000, much of it to support food programs:

The board of the Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, recently approved $375,000 in grants to support seven local food programs and seven other local causes.

The biggest single grant, for $85,000, went to the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin.

“We are incredibly grateful for the ongoing generosity of the Evjue Foundation,” said Michelle Orge, Second Harvest president and CEO.

“This funding is a critical component in our ability to meet the food needs of so many in our community who will need support in the coming months as we recover from the pandemic.”

The Evjue board also approved grants to other programs that provide food assistance, including $15,000 for NewBridge, and $10,000 each for the Badger Prairie Needs Network, the River Food Pantry, the Middleton Outreach Ministry, St. Vincent DePaul and the Mellowhood Foundation.

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