Daily Bread for 6.25.13

Good morning.

Whitewater will hold a public meeting this afternoon, beginning at 4:30 PM, to reveal plans for the reconstruction of the downtown’s East Gate Way. Following open house introductions, two identical presentations will take place at 5 to 5:30 PM and 6 to 6:30 PM. At the Cravath Lakefront Community Building.

The Urban Forestry Commission will also be meeting at 4:30 PM today.

There’s great inspiration in tenacity, in refusing to yield, and in making the most of the present. I’d say the Chicago Blackhawks understand that very well. Through those virtues they overcame a 2-1 game deficit in an astonishingly brief time (17 seconds!), to win not just a game, but the Stanley Cup:

So very well done.

Puzzability has a series about cars, running from 6.24 to 6.28:

Assembly Line
This week—summer road trip! For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the make and model of an old car.

Example:
Body’s energy important in acupuncture / penultimate word in many fairy tales / Hogwarts mail carrier / scraped into, as a pattern in glass / compete / large often-canvas bag

Answer:
Chevrolet Chevette (chi / ever / owl / etched / vie / tote)

Here’s the puzzle for Tuesday:

Tiney utensil / slang for great, like a comedy jam / Boeing 787, for one.