Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 63. Sunrise is 6:25 and sunset is 7:20, for 12 hours, 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1976, Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
There’s no better day than today, crafted by cat lovers as Caturday, to catch up on the adventures of Terry Lauerman, a Green Bay resident who takes naps with cats at Green Bay’s Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. FREE WHITEWATER first posted about Lauerman in 2018, and I’m happy to read that he’s still doing well (in every sense of that term) in retirement:
At an animal shelter in Green Bay, a retired volunteer is living every cat lover’s — and nap lover’s — dream.
For seven years, 82-year-old former Spanish teacher Terry Lauerman has been donating his time to Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. The shelter is dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs with special needs and disabilities. Terry’s specialty? Lying down and snoozing with the shelter’s cats.
“When you get old, you fall asleep easily, so it’s natural,” Lauerman told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
See Beatrice Lawrence, Wisconsin’s viral ‘Cat Napper’ is living every cat lover’s dream (‘Retiree Terry Lauerman volunteers at Green Bay’s Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary, where he takes naps with the shelter’s special-needs cats’), Wisconsin Public Radio, September 5, 2025.
See also, from 2019, The Senior Taking Naps With Cats: