Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly sunny day with a high of fifty-nine degrees.
At Lincoln School today, a book fair continues. At Washington School, first and second graders will take a field trip to the Ivin Young Auditorium.
Today, from 5 to 7 p.m., representatives of Walmart will answer questions about a proposed expansion of Store No. 1274. They’ll be at the Municipal Building, in the main community room.
I posted yesterday on Walmart, and here’s an article from Radley Balko, entitled, Does Wal-Mart Make You Skinny?, that discusses a university study showing that “there was a small but statistically significant reduction in obesity rates in communities with a Wal-Mart, perhaps because the store also sells fresh produce of good quality at a good price.”
We could use more private competition in town, and the best way to have it is with as little government involvement as possible: neither burdensome regulation nor preferential treatment.
The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that today is a famous birthday —
1838 – John Muir Born
On this date John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland. He immigrated with his family to Wisconsin in 1849 and spent his youth working on his father’s farms in Marquette County, experiences that are recounted in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913). In 1868 he moved to Yosemite Valley, California, where he became a conservationist and leader in the forest preserve movement. His work led to the creation of the first national parks, the saving of California’s redwoods, and the founding of the Sierra Club. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 261]
