Good morning.
The week ends for Whitewater with a likelihood of showers and a high of fifty-nine.
There is a reception for city manager candidates today at 4 PM, and a community forum at 6:30 PM today:
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. COMMUNITY RECEPTION – MEET AND GREET
Innovation Center Atrium, 1221 Innovation Drive in Whitewater –
Candidates will meet members of the Whitewater Community6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. COMMUNITY PUBLIC FORUM
Candidates will respond to questions from the Whitewater community.
The forum will be held in the Council Chambers in the Municipal Building at 312 West Whitewater Street.
Whitewater’s Pig in the Park begins this evening and continues tomorrow at the Cravath Lakefront.
On this day in 1780, Benedict Arnold betrayed America:
On this day in 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold, a former American hero, became synonymous with the word “traitor.”
From Google’s daily puzzle, a question about ancient chemistry: “What did the ancients call the chemical element that’s often used as a vulcanizing agent?”