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The Watering Hole - Janesville - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 9/19/2008 1:26 AM and is filed under Friday Night Fish Fry.
This was the first weekend that Watering Hole offers their over-the-winter-months Friday night fish fry. As happens way too often, my job kept me close being I had to be back to work later in the evening. So the proximity, seasonal fish, and price fit my need. The inside is spacious for a tavern and well kept. I miss the pool table in the sunken room - rebuilt, no more table. The outside is neat and tidy too. You will usually find some guys in there talking about golf. In amongst the golfers, there is often blue-collar guys talking their trade shop-talk. It makes for an interesting combination. There always seems to be quite a diversity of age and gender groups in the place. The bartenders are friendly, the cook is the consummate fish connoisseur. The kitchen is the size of a row boat.
The Watering Hole offers a good Ol' tavern fish fry. To eat this type of presentation you just have to sit at the bar. The battered Cod is crispy, hot, and mouth watering. The fries and cole slaw hit the spot. With meal, a beverage, and tip I got out of there for about 14 Bucks.
Watering Hole is cool with Cool Dadio. Find them down on 1700 North Washington Street in Janesville (also called Business 14) down from Riverside Golf Course. Call (608) 752 - 4119 for times and more food options.
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Army Staff Sergeant Stephen G. Martin, 39. Staff Sergeant Martin died Friday, July 1, 2004, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had been flown to Walter Reed from a medical facility in Germany. Staff Sergeant Martin was a member of the Sheboygan-based Army Reserve, 330th Military Police Detachment. He was wounded in Iraq when a truck bomb exploded June 24, near his checkpoint outside an American military compound in Mosul. It is the same incident that killed Sergeant Charles Kiser, 37 (remembered in last week's Cool Dadio blog postings) of Cleveland, Wisconsin and also from the 330th. Their unit was engaging an approaching truck, the truck exploded, killing Kiser and fatally wounding Martin. Stephen was a New Jersey native. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he joined the Rhinelander police as a patrol officer in February 1996. He was a police sergeant at the time of his death. He worked in the bicycle patrol and the city's schools. Sergeant Martin had been prior-military-service and joined the Army Reserve in a Military Police unit in Sheboygan in January 2003. The unit was activated in December 2003, and sent to Iraq. The Journal Sentinel went on to mention Martin helped train Iraqi police and worked in emergency medical services and fire training. Staff Sergeant Stephen Martin was the 20th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq since Spring 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
86,661 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,530 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,147 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
576 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
314 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
360 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,561 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
2,379 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
91 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
11 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
130 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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