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Daily Bread for 7.5.25: Pigeons (Often Underrated, Seldom Appreciated)

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with evening thunderstorms and a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:22 and sunset is 8:36, for 15 hours, 13 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 75.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1937, Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation:

Ken Daigneau, the brother of a company executive, won a $100 prize that year in a competition to name the new item. Hormel states that the meaning of the name “is known by only a small circle of former Hormel Foods executives,” but a popular belief is that the name is a contraction of “spiced ham”. It has also been speculated to be an acronym for “shoulder of pork and ham.”

Spam musubi variant which includes egg. Spam musubi may take many forms, either with the spam on top of rice, or sandwiched between rice. Other possible additions include pickled radish and furikake. When having egg, it is commonly known as potama, especially in Okinawa (Japan). By Dllu – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link.

Whitewater’s Independence Holiday celebration continues today at the Cravath Lakefront:

Christman Family Amusements Wrist Band Sessions 12-4 PM, 5-9 PM: $25 
Civic Organization Food Vendors 12 PM to 11 PM
40th Annual Car Show 2-6 PM
Live Music at the Frawley Amphitheater:
12-1:30 PM Brian Matteson
2 PM Sawyer Road
5 PM Gebel Girls
8 PM Brightside

Fireworks 10 PM

Note: Weather may lead to a change in the fireworks schedule, including an earlier start time, if conditions permit. See Whitewater’s Annual Fourth of July Celebration @ Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BxVHxdBLJ/, for updates.

Pigeons:

See Ben Crair, This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major City in the World, New York Times, June 24, 2025.

Watch as a dust storm hits in Las Vegas:

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