🌞Hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead of you. The Weather Channel tells us to expect weather that will correspond with any outdoor plans you might have. Expect some clouds here and there with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Easter Sunday is projected to be very sunny!
For Christians, it's Good Friday, the culmination of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Many might wonder if banks, post offices, UPS and FedEx are open. For the most part, it's business as usual. Here's what we know. Side note: One of my visiting in-laws said that they got paid early because the banks are closed on Good Friday, and it's a national holiday in Ecuador — the same with these nations.
But not everything Easter originated from Christians. Legend has it that the Easter Bunny's journey doesn't begin with the Bible but with pagan festivities honoring the goddess Eostre. Like Christmas, Easter involves a lot of rebranding of Pagan traditions.
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🐤Some Easter and non-Easter events in Lake County
I'm a sucker for anything 1960s-related. Maybe it's all the syndicated "Monkees" and "Dick Van Dyke Show" episodes I watched on TV after school. From Mary Tyler Moore's Laura Petrie to Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly to Jane Fonda's Barbarella and Lynn Redgrave's Georgy Girl, it was such a groovy, glam time, and many women made their mark with iconic style and sass in the 1960s.
That's why I'm excited about "Shout! The Mod Musical" at The Ice House in Mount Dora. The show is a madcap trip down memory lane and should be a good time if you need an uplift. It's not the only theater show. There are a few other fun musicals and comedies, and events happening around Lake County that don't involve the Easter Bunny.
If you have kids, there's enough Easter fun happening in Eustis, Groveland, Clermont and Mount Dora to keep them and yourself entertained.
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🚗3 Questions with Dori Madison
We caught up with Dori Madison, who's been managing communication for the new State Road 516 portion of the Central Florida Expressway that's breaking ground next week. (Look for our story coming soon in the Daily Commercial.) Madison explained how EV cars will be able to get their batteries charged, safely, we're told, on a new leg of the coming section of the expressway embedded with charging hardware to zap electric vehicle batteries.
Is it dangerous for humans if they're ejected from their vehicles? "No, not even people with pacemakers or animals. ... In September, the CFX had scientists from all over the world here that are part of this. First, there's the work with concrete and then all the conduits and the wires that go in it, and then around 10 more inches above it. So it has to conduct up into the car battery. The technology's not new."
Who created the technology being used? "Aspire, based out of Utah."
How would the road charge different types of vehicles? "There are actually three vehicle classifications. One's passenger, one's mid-size truck and one's large truck. And they require three different voltages to charge their EV batteries. It's the first in the country that is going to use what's called variable or dynamic wireless charging."
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Bye for now!
JG
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