Good morning,
The forecast for Whitewater is for a mixture of rain and snow, with little or no accumulation of snow, and a high of 35 degrees.
It’s a busy day in our small town. In the City of Whitewater, there will be three public meetings involving the city or related organizations. At 4 PM, there is a meeting of the Whitewater Community Development Authority. The agenda is available online. Surprisingly, there’s not a single item about the purchase of a defibrillator or oxygen tank for the resuscitation of Tax Incremental District 4.
Later, at 6 PM, the Planning Commission meets. That agenda is also available online.
At 6:30 PM, the Library Board meets. The agenda is available here.
The Police and Fire Commission meeting last week was cancelled, and the City of Whitewater calendar doesn’t list an updated time for the meeting, as of this post. One should not be surprised. The only surprise is why anyone serves, from Council or otherwise, on a board that does so little, so very consistently.
In our school district, there’s a scheduled listening session with the district administrator tonight, beginning at 5 PM in English, and a second session, in Spanish, beginning at 5:45 PM.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1964,
On this date, for the first time, shares of Janesville’s Parker Pen Co. were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. For its first 40 years, the company was a closed corporation. In 1928, Parker stock was offered on the Chicago Stock Exchange, which became the Midwest Stock Exchange in 1949. [Source: Janesville Gazette, December 14, 1964, p.1 ]
The plant will close in January.