This week the bag o' mail delves into the mysteries of fireworks injuries reports, the Dodds Park vote, war correspondents, a long-ago celebration at Memorial Stadium of George Washington's birth, strange lights at Memorial Stadium today, the future of the old Coca-Cola plant in Champaign, the Ash Wednesday controversy, Illinois' unbalanced accounting with the federal government and those flying rats known as geese. "In 1932 I was in the first grade at Dr. Howard School and there was a big celebration for George Washington's 200th birthday.