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Daily Bread: October 22, 2008

Good morning, Whitewater

In the city today, there are no public meetings scheduled. Don’t complain — someone might schedule another one. After all, wasn’t last night’s Council meeting enough?

In our schools today, there is a 6:30 p.m. college planning workshop at the high school.

The National Weather Service predicts that today will be partly sunny, with a high temperature of in the lower 50s. The Farmers’ Almanac continues a multi-day prediction that “colder and drier weather moves in.”

Yesterday’s better prediction: Both. It’s rare that these two predictions agree. That’s a clue, though — because the optimal situation would be one in which both would be right all the time.

In Wisconsin History on this date, in 1938, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, a Footville Man Wins Husking Title:

On this date Dick Post of Footville won his sixth county title by husking a record 24.5 bushels of corn in 80 minutes. Two days later, he husked 1,868 pounds in 80 minutes to win the state championship. Post finished fourth in the nationals at Sioux Falls, S.D.

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