Until now, city ordinances banned pet owners from exercising their animals in all city parks from May 15 to Sept. 15. And another provision required the owners to have their pets on leashes no longer than 6 feet. All other city park areas remain off-limits to pets during summer months. The city will give Horizon the land and demolish the old Sears and Rock River Manufacturing buildings to make room for the apartment buildings, Acting as master developer, Horizon will involve other developers to construct three apartment buildings. The state reports that 1,604 people of Hispanic descent lived in Walworth County in 1988, making up 2.2 percent of the county's total population and ranking Walworth sixth among Wisconsin counties for Hispanic population.
Many residents are former migrant workers who settled in the county or their descendants.
Janesville's Let's Go Fly a Kite event draws 150 people. Washington School fourth-graders Heather Sanders and Manda Howard celebrate the last day of school by pooling their chore money to rent a limousine, tool around towns, play with the TV, compact disc player and telephone and suitably impress their friends. The brainchild of Dr. Robert Yahr, the gardens are a joint project of Janesville's two Rotary Clubs. At this time, the development schedule for Rotary Gardens is 10 years, but the new botanical park will prove so popular with volunteers and the public, that it will develop much sooner. Weins was paralyzed from the neck down in a car crash Sept. 5, 1988.