Good morning, Whitewater
In the city today, there’s a scheduled dedication of the Trippe Lake Shelter for 4 p.m.
On this day in Wisconsin history, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin held its first constitutional convention:
1846 – First State Constitutional Convention Meets
On this date Wisconsin’s first state Constitutional Convention met in Madison. The Convention sat until December 16,1846. The Convention was attended by 103 Democrats and 18 Whigs. The proposed constitution failed when voters refused to accept several controversial issues: an anti-banking article, a homestead exemption (which gave $1000 exemption to any debtor), providing women with property rights, and black suffrage. The following convention, the Second Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin in 1847-48, produced and passed a constitution that Wisconsin still very much follows today. [Source: The Convention of 1846 edited Milo M. Quaife]
In our schools today, there’s a music parents meeting in the high school choir room.
For Monday’s homecoming activities at the high school, there’s pajama day, a canned food drive, a dollar war, and powder puff football.
Here’s today’s almanac:
| Monday, October 5, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| Official Time | 06:56 AM | 06:29 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 06:28 AM | 06:57 PM |
| Tomorrow | 06:57 AM | 06:27 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 3 minutes shorter | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 11h 33 m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 12h 29 m | |
| Moon phase: | Waning Gibbous | |