Good morning.

It’s a mostly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-five degrees.

There’s a dedication this morning at 8 a.m. of a less-than-one-mile-long, two-million-dollar spur between Starin Road and the Business Park.

In our schools, there are various end-of-the-year adventures before the last day of school on June 9th.  Have fun, having earned — surely — an adventure or two after a year of hard work.

For the Whippets at State today and tomorrow — good luck and best wishes.

From the Wisconsin Historical Society, there’s note of a birthday on this day in 1911:

1911 – Ellen Corby Born in Racine

On this date Ellen Corby (nee Ellen Hansen), TV’s Grandma Esther Walton, was born in Racine. The daughter of Danish parents, she grew up in Philadelphia and began her entertainment career in Hollywood as a chorus girl. She also worked as a script girl for RKO Radio Pictures for 12 years before making her 1946 film debut in “Dark Corner.” Corby is best known for her Emmy Award-winning role on The Waltons (1972-1979). Corby suffered a stroke in 1977. After a year’s convalescence, she resumed playing Grandma Walton, although she was visibly frail and unable to speak more than a mumble. After 1979, her character all but disappeared from the series only to reappear in the occasional made-for-TV movie/sequel featuring the Walton family. Corby appeared in over 100 films and is best known by movie fans for her role as the eccentric Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948), a role for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Corby died on April 14, 1999, at the age of 87, at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. [Source: The Waltons.com]

Good morning.

It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-seven.

Here are pet videos to start the day — with one of them having been viewed six-million times on YouTube — of French bulldogs, and a cat —

Good morning.

It’s a sunny day in the forecast for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the mid-seventies.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour was docked at the International Space Station, on the last mission of that spacecraft.  The technology’s now old, the program soon to end, with NASA unsure about its future.  For it all, each mission remains an accomplishment, and photos of the current mission are striking.  See, Final Trip: Shuttle Endeavour Docked at Space Station.

Endeavour landed safely earlier today.

Good morning.

It’s a warm day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-four degrees.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1899, the

Gideons Got Going

On this night two salesmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, crossed paths a second time, in Beaver Dam. The pair had first met eight months before in the Central Hotel in Boscobel and discussed the need for some way to provide Christian support to traveling businessmen. During this second meeting in Beaver Dam the two decided to “get right at it. Start the ball rolling and follow it up.” They invited their professional contacts to an organizational meeting to be held in Janesville on July 1, 1899, at which the organization was formally named and chartered. By 1948, The Gideons had distributed over 15 million bibles world-wide. View more information about the founding of the Gideons elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org [Source: Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles]