Good morning.

Whitewater will hold a public meeting this afternoon, beginning at 4:30 PM, to reveal plans for the reconstruction of the downtown’s East Gate Way. Following open house introductions, two identical presentations will take place at 5 to 5:30 PM and 6 to 6:30 PM. At the Cravath Lakefront Community Building.

The Urban Forestry Commission will also be meeting at 4:30 PM today.

There’s great inspiration in tenacity, in refusing to yield, and in making the most of the present. I’d say the Chicago Blackhawks understand that very well. Through those virtues they overcame a 2-1 game deficit in an astonishingly brief time (17 seconds!), to win not just a game, but the Stanley Cup:

So very well done.

Puzzability has a series about cars, running from 6.24 to 6.28:

Assembly Line
This week—summer road trip! For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the make and model of an old car.

Example:
Body’s energy important in acupuncture / penultimate word in many fairy tales / Hogwarts mail carrier / scraped into, as a pattern in glass / compete / large often-canvas bag

Answer:
Chevrolet Chevette (chi / ever / owl / etched / vie / tote)

Here’s the puzzle for Tuesday:

Tiney utensil / slang for great, like a comedy jam / Boeing 787, for one.

Good morning.

Monday brings an even chance of scattered thunderstorms and high of eighty-four.

Whitewater’s Fire-Rescue Task Force meets tonight at 6:30 PM. At 7 PM, Whitewater’s School Board meets in open session following an earlier closed session discussion.

On 6.24.1997, a report about the 1947 Roswell incident:

On July 24, 1997, barely a week before the extravagant 50th anniversary celebration of the incident, the Air Force released yet another report on the controversial subject. Titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed,” the document stated definitively that there was no Pentagon evidence that any kind of life form was found in the Roswell area in connection with the reported UFO sightings, and that the “bodies” recovered were not aliens but dummies used in parachute tests conducted in the region. Any hopes that this would put an end to the cover-up debate were in vain, as furious ufologists rushed to point out the report’s inconsistencies. With conspiracy theories still alive and well on the Internet, Roswell continues to thrive as a tourist destination for UFO enthusiasts far and wide, hosting the annual UFO Encounter Festival each July and welcoming visitors year-round to its International UFO Museum and Research Center.

June 24th 1946 was a very wet day in Mellen, Wisconsin:

1946 – Most Precipitation in One Day
On this date Mellen, Wisconsin received 11.72 inches of rain within a single day. This set a record for Wisconsin for precipitation received within 24 hours. [Source: National Weather Service]

Puzzability has a new series about cars, running from 6.24 to 6.28:

Assembly Line
This week—summer road trip! For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the make and model of an old car.

Example:
Body’s energy important in acupuncture / penultimate word in many fairy tales / Hogwarts mail carrier / scraped into, as a pattern in glass / compete / large often-canvas bag

Answer:
Chevrolet Chevette (chi / ever / owl / etched / vie / tote)

Here’s the puzzle for Monday:

Sharp part of a pencil / by way of / fingerprint or DNA evidence / low haunted house noises.

Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of eighty-eight, and a slight chance of late afternoon showers.

If you’ve a house full of wild baboons, and one of them has not the slightest worry about your threats for it to leave, then you’ve a situation like this:

On this day in 1911, a first for Wisconsin aviation:

1911 – First Home-Built Airplane Flies
On this date Wausau native John Schwister became a pioneer in Wisconsin aviation by flying the state’s first home-built airplane. The plane, named the “Minnesota-Badger,” was constructed of wooden ribs covered with light cotton material. Powered by an early-model aircraft engine, the “Minnesota-Badger” flew several hundred feet and reached a maximum altitude of 20 feet. [Source: Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame]

Watch Wausau – Wisconsin’s First Homebuilt Airplane on PBS. See more from Wisconsin Hometown Stories.

Good morning.

Saturday brings an even percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mostly in the afternoon. We’ll have a high of eighty-four, and south winds at 5 to 10 mph. Sunrise was 5:17 a.m., and sunset will be 8:37 p.m. It’s a waxing gibbous moon, with 99% of its the visible disk illuminated.

Cartographers Stephan Hormes and Silke Peust have prepared an Atlas of True Names, describing locations with their names’ original meanings.

Here’s a map of our part of the world:

Red River Land‘s a good name, all in all.

On 6.22.1944, Pres. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill:

On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services–known as G.I.s–for their efforts in World War II….

By giving veterans money for tuition, living expenses, books, supplies and equipment, the G.I. Bill effectively transformed higher education in America. Before the war, college had been an option for only 10-15 percent of young Americans, and university campuses had become known as a haven for the most privileged classes. By 1947, in contrast, vets made up half of the nation’s college enrollment; three years later, nearly 500,000 Americans graduated from college, compared with 160,000 in 1939.

Good morning.

Summer comes to Whitewater on a partly sunny day, with a high of eighty-five, and a likelihood of afternoon thundershowers.

On this day in 1788, the U.S. Constitution receives ratification from a ninth state:

New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.

By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states.

Beginning on December 7, five states–Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut–ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially Massachusetts, opposed the document, as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states and lacked constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts and other states would agree to ratify the document with the assurance that amendments would be immediately proposed. The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed by Maryland and South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June, Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by New York in July.

On 6.21.1921, Wisconsin leads the nation:

1921 – Nation’s First Women’s Rights Bill Passed
On this day, the Wisconsin legislature passed the nation’s first bill ensuring that women have the same legal rights as men. Section 6.015 opened, “Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men…” It was signed into law on July 11. [Source: Chicago Tribune, June 21, 1921, p. 12]

Puzzability has the final puzzle in its weekday series about summer, running from 6.17 to 6.21:

Summer Is a-Comin’ In
We’ll be welcoming in the new season every day this week. For each day, we started with a word, added the six letters in the word SUMMER, and rearranged all the letters to get a new phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.

Example:
Fish tank scum; church basement flea market-style event

Answer:
Algae; rummage sale

Here’s the puzzle for today:

Utterly disinterested; abstract, as opposed to applied, study of numbers.