Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have an even chance of thunderstorms in Whitewater today, with a high of seventy-eight.
On the FW poll question of whether respondents would eat from a subway floor that had been vacuumed with a Bissell product, 86.36% of respondents said they wouldn’t. Bissell Canada brand manager Ravi Dalchand may have done so, but I’d guess there aren’t many who’d follow his lead.
Some good solutions are traditional ones; the method for keeping brush under control proves to be one of them. Chicago’s O’Hare Airport uses a low-tech herd to solve maintenance problems at their high-tech facility:
On this day in 1862, Pres. Lincoln thanks Wisconsin soldiers, among others, for their service in combat:
1862 – (Civil War) Wisconsin troops rest at the White House lawn
The 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Infantry regiments fought in the Second Battle of Bull Run. By the end of this third day, more than 18,000 soldiers had been killed or wounded and Union forces had been pushed back to Washington, D.C. When the Wisconsin regiments arrived in Washington, they rested on the White House lawn. According to historian Frank Klement, “President Lincoln came out with a pail of water in one hand and a dipper in the other. He moved among the men, offering water to the tired and thirsty. Some Wisconsin soldiers drank from the common dipper and thanked the President for his kindness.”