Good morning,
Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a chance of thunderstorms and a high of sixty-eight degrees.
There’s a late start for schools in our district today. Students can sleep in a bit.
There are some notable, local stories you may have missed worth reading:
From mid-April, the Gazette published a story on the fortunes of the Walworth County Economic Development Alliance, entitled, “Future promising for economic development alliance.” The story offers lots of detail and remarks from those connected to WCEDA.
From just last week, there’s a story about the investigation of a local crime, entitled, “Stalking suspect lived upstairs.” The account is notably chilling. The story offers expert information about, and suggestions for reducing the risks, of the harassment that stalkers inflict.
Also from mid-April, the Wisconsin State Journal has a truly moving story about Stalin’s daughter, who settled in Wisconsin, entitled, “Lana about Svetlana: Stalin’s daughter on her life in Wisconsin.”
The Wisconsin Historical Society reports that on this date, in 1898, a famous Wisconsin resident was born:
1898 – Golda Meir Born
On this date, Golda Meir (nee Mabovitch) was born in Kiev, Russia. Economic hardship forced her family to emigrate to the United States in 1906, where they settled in Milwaukee. She graduated from the Milwaukee Normal School (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and joined the Poalei Zion, the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party, in 1915. In 1921, she emigrated to Palestine with her husband, Morris Myerson, where they worked for the establishment of the State of Israel. Meir served as Israel’s Minister of Labor and National Insurance from 1949 through 1956 and as the Foreign Minister until January of 1966. When Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died suddenly in 1969, Meir assumed the post, becoming the world’s third female Prime Minister. She died in Jerusalem on December 8, 1978. [Source: Picturing Golda Meir]