Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-four. Sunrise today is 5:16 AM and sunset is 8:32 PM. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with 85% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6 PM.
The U.S. winner of the 7th annual Doodle 4 Google art contest is Audrey Zhang of New York. Her original work appears today on Google’s U.S. search page, and there’s a YouTUbe video reporting on the finalists’ work:
On this day in 1973, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown:
With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown–the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. In one of the finest performances in racing history, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, completed the 1.5-mile race in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, a dirt-track record for that distance.
Here he is, in that race, pulling far ahead:
Here’s Puzzability‘s Monday game from a new weekly series, Pop Flies:
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This Week’s Game — June 9-13
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Pop Flies
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It all starts with Dad this week. For each day, we started with a word that begins with the two-letter chunk PA and deleted it to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer PA word followed by the shorter word.
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Example:
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Undercover scheme to entrap the gang of kids wielding liquid adhesive
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Answer:
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Pasting sting
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase, with the PA word first (as “Pasting sting” in the example), for your answer.
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Monday, June 9
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