Good morning, Whitewater
The National Weather Service predicts a rainy day with a high of 61. The Farmers’ Almanac forecasts squalls migrating into the Great Lakes, then fair.
There are two scheduled public meetings in Whitewater today. There will be a Community Development Authority Business Park Marketing Committee meeting this afternoon at 4:30 p.m.
Later, at 7:00 p.m., there will be a meeting of the Park & Recreation Board.
Whitewater’s school board meets in executive session tonight at 6:30 p.m. There will be a PTO book fair at the middle school, and a 6:30 p.m. meeting of music parents at the high school.
In Wisconsin history on this date, in 1958, the Wisconsin Historical Society reports that Janesville women were first allowed to go to a bar:
On this date the Janesville city council voted 4-2 to finally end a paternalistic and discriminatory ordinance that prohibited women from drinking at the bar. Since the end of Prohibition in 1933, women had been banned from being served while standing at the bar in Janesville taverns.
There’s no word on whether this ordinance had been enforced diligently prior to its repeal.
On this date in American history, in 1974, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.
Today is also the anniversary, from 1966, of the television debut of Star Trek on NBC.
