BY JOURNAL TIMES STAFF | Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:00 am
According to various online sources, black olives come in a can because they're cooked in a can. The olives go in and the brine is added before the cans are sealed and placed in a cooker. Glass won't withstand the heat.
Green olives are pasteurized, not cooked, and then put in jars with brine.
To whom do you report a burned-out streetlight in the City of Racine?
You can do this online at the Web site for the City of Racine's Engineering Department.
Go to http://www.cityofracine.org. Click "Departments." Head to the Web page for the Department of Public Works and find the link for the City of Racine Engineering Department.
Scroll down that page and you'll see information on reporting a burnt-out streetlight.
You'll see an interesting fact. Did you know that there is a total of 8,183 streetlights in the City of Racine (WEPCO - 4838, City Streets 3345)?
Click the link that says "Report Street Light Outage" and a form will open in a separate window.
Every wooden pole is assigned a pole number, and you'll need that number. It's stamped on a metal strap at eye level. Cement and metal poles do not have numbers.
Make sure you also have the pole's precise address and location. You'll also want to check if the light is cycling, which means it's turning on and off, or if the light is off all the time.
I'm curious which American Indian tribes have occupied parts of Racine County since the first arrival of Europeans on the continent. Can you help?
"Racine: Growth and Change in a Wisconsin County," a collaborative history of Racine County edited by Nicholas C. Burckel and published in 1977, deals extensively with American Indians and Racine County's history.
The first chapter of the book, written by Nelson Peter Ross, a former Chairman of the History Department at Carthage College, is titled "Two Civilizations - Indians and Early White Settlement."
A section in that chapter is titled "Indians and White Contact (A.D. 1650 to 1840)." The first paragraph of that section is the short answer to this question; it appears below.
"At some point prior to white contact in the mid-17th Century, the Indians of the upper Great Lakes had divided into tribes or 'nations.' Two such tribes, both descendants of the ancient Woodland Indians and speakers of Algonkian languages, inhabited Racine County. Members of the Miami tribe lived in the Country during the later 17th century, and from about 1700 to 1840 the county was the home of the Potawatomi. The Miami lived in Racine County during the first period of the French fur trade. The Potawatomi of the county also took part in the fur trade with the French, then that of the British and finally that of the Americans. With the coming of American settlers, the Potawatomi lost Racine County along with the rest of its homeland in the region."
According to the book, the Miami migrated from Racine County and into southern Michigan and northern Indiana by about 1700, where the tribe found it more advantageous to trade furs with the English.
The Potawatomi were shoved off its lands in southeast Wisconsin as a result of the Treaty of Chicago, dated Sept. 26, 1833. The U.S. government persuaded more than 70 Potawatomi chiefs to sign the document; Chief Caw-we-saut from the Racine-Kenosha area was among them.
And with that so-called treaty the Potawatomi ceded roughly 5 million acres in southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois to the government, and took a similar amount of land in western Iowa.
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