Wiarton Willie the groundhog has died.

[Catherine]

It seems 2021 is not done messing with us. We have lost Wiarton Willie the albino groundhog. He actually died before groundhog day last year, but it was covid time and we couldn't hold the public prediction anyhow. Next year was to be his return to public life. Willie was from a long line of albino groundhogs. Sadly his understudy is an ordinary brown groundhog. They have been unable to find another albino. The show must go on, but it won't be the same without Willie.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/wiarton-willie...-1.5677803


https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/11/onta...on-willie/

Of course we will grow to love the new Willie. We will get just as excited about the chance of an early spring...or 6 more weeks of winter.
Either way people will laugh and have fun and enjoy a mid winter outing. We loved our funny white groundhogs and we will miss them.
Thank-you Willie for many early springs or at least the hope of early spring. Sometimes the hope is enough to get us through a bad winter.