Good morning.
Mid-week in Whitewater will be sunny and mild, with a high of seventy-five.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets this morning at 8 AM.
Seniors in the Park offers a free showing of Searching for Sugar Man today at 12:30 PM at Starin Park’s Community Building.
On this day in 1917, a change of name for the British royal family:
…during the third year of World War I, Britain’s King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with the use of German titles and surnames, changing the surname of his own family, the decidedly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor….
With the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, strong anti-German feeling within Britain caused sensitivity among the royal family about its German roots. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, also a grandson of Queen Victoria, was the king’s cousin; the queen herself was German. As a result, on June 19, 1917, the king decreed that the royal surname was thereby changed from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor….
Puzzability has a new series about summer, running from 6.17 to 6.21:
Summer Is a-Comin’ In
We’ll be welcoming in the new season every day this week. For each day, we started with a word, added the six letters in the word SUMMER, and rearranged all the letters to get a new phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
Example:
Fish tank scum; church basement flea market-style event
Answer:
Algae; rummage sale
Here’s the puzzle for Wednesday:
Attractive, as a wench; ability to perform a familiar movement without conscious thought.