{"id":1439,"date":"2009-02-16T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2009-02-13T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T20:52:11","slug":"whats-going-on-whitewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1439","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up, Whitewater? (Freezefest 2\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple of web sites in the past for learning about events around Whitewater: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewaterbanner.com\/\">Whitewaterbanner.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.whitewater.wi.us\/\">City of Whitewater web site<\/a>. There are also web sites for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwusd.org\/se3bin\/clientschool.cgi?schoolname=school398\">school district<\/a> and the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewater.lib.wi.us\/\">public library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But now a new site has appeared: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywalworthcounty.com\/\">MyWalworthCounty.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s associated with Southern Lakes Newspapers, publisher of 21 area newspapers including the weekly <em>Whitewater Register<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All three of these sites (Whitewater Banner, the City site, and the Walworth County site) have information on <span style=\"color: #000080\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.whitewater.wi.us\/Departments\/Parks_Rec\/freezefest.html\"><strong>Freezefest<\/strong><\/a><\/span> taking place on <strong>Sat., Feb. 21st<\/strong>. Judging by what I saw last year, I recommend watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympicswisconsin.org\/plunge_a7-2.asp\">polar plunge<\/a> at noon at the Cravath Lakefront Park to see how many campus folks you may recognize (I&#8217;m especially looking forward to the &#8220;C&amp;I\/COE Polar Plunging Professors, et al.&#8221; team again). And hey, if you pledge to the plungers it goes to the worthy cause of Special Olympics Wisconsin. You can still see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printroom.com\/pro\/ipiwisconsin\">photos from last year&#8217;s plunge<\/a> online (select <strong>Feb. 9, 2008 &#8211; Whitewater<\/strong> in the drop-down box by &#8220;Step One&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple of web sites in the past for learning about events around Whitewater: Whitewaterbanner.com and the City of Whitewater web site. There are also web sites for the school district and the local public library. But now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1676,220,1677,1678,658,285],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-freezefest","tag-fun-stuff","tag-polar-plunge","tag-special-olympics-wisconsin","tag-web-sites","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}