Good morning,
It’s a mostly sunny day in store for Whitewater, with a predicted high temperature of thirty-four degrees.
In our schools today, it’s Coffee with the Principal(s) of each school in the district, beginning at 8:30 a.m. That’s coffee with the real principals, I’d guess (the for-a-day program lasting, expectedly, only for a day). At Washington School, beginning in the afternoon, there will be a ?Soup-er Family Art Night.? This, from a district press release:
Whitewater School Hosts ?Soup-er Family Art Night ?
Whitewater, Wisconsin ? February 9, 2010. The Washington Elementary P.A.T.T. will be hosting a Soup-er Family Art Night on Friday, February 19. The event kicks off with a $5 ?all you can eat? soup dinner. The variety of delicious homemade soups is once again being generously provided by the Don Engling family. There will also be a bake sale and live music from students and local musicians throughout the evening. Dinner is served from 4:30-7:00 p.m. in the school?s cafeteria. From 6:00-7:30 p.m. the fun continues when Washington students and local artists showcase their talents….
There’s a story over at Wired entitled, Green Avenger: Botanical Guardian Assaults Alien Flora, about the work of the Nature Conservancy, an environmental conservation group committed to private solutions to preserve natural habitats. It describes how much can be done through a private solution:
The Kauai watershed is the world?s most extreme botanical garden, a 144,000-acre cloud forest along jagged cliffs that can spike 3,000 feet in elevation over just a quarter of a mile. So when Nature Conservancy of Hawaii project director Trae Menard observed that the area had been invaded by millions of water- sucking, plant-strangling Australian tree ferns, he knew he couldn?t exactly stroll around and yank them out. The terrain would make manual removal prohibitively expensive. The solution: aerial warfare with hoses and paintball guns. This spring, Menard….will take to the sky in a helicopter to pinpoint nonnative species and pick them off with targeted blasts of herbicide.