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CELEBRATING THE RESIDENTIAL PARK COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS

McCormick’s Classic Car Auction takes car enthusiasts on the ride of their life

In This Issue

Senior News Line.................................2 Celebrity Extra......................................7 “Sweat” at Dezart Performs.... .............8 Classifieds..........................................11

1. SCIENCE: What is dendrochronology?

2. FOOD & DRINK: What are the ingredients in a Tom Collins drink?

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who is considered to be the father of nuclear Navy submarines?

4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “Anne of Green Gables”?

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wner Keith McCormick launched his first biannual classic car auction nearly 34 years ago in 1986, drawing a natural comparison between the area’s midcentury modern architecture and the vintage cars of yesteryear. The 68th auction will again feature 600 cars set to cross the block, including roadsters, muscle cars, convertibles, European classics, antiques, trucks and motorcycles. Rare entries have previously included a 1932 Pierce Arrow Coupe with rumble seat, a 1964 Ford Thunderbird, a

• It was American political scientist, economist, psychologist and professor Herbert Simon who made the following sage observation: “What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of infor-

5. AD SLOGANS: Which product is advertised as “the quicker picker-upper”?

6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the shortest president in U.S. history?

1966 Shelby Cobra CSX4236, a 1949 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, a 1951 Mercury Coupe and other unique finds.

Many of the auction vehicles are entered as “No Reserve,” selling to the highest bidder no matter what the price. Opening day Friday is free and open to the public with complimentary champagne happy hour at 11 a.m., and on Sunday guests can sip on free mimosas and bloodymarys from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

For a sneak peek at some of the most impressive vintage autos in

the country, guests are invited to stop by McCormick’s year-round show room at 244 N. Indian Canyon Drive in Palm Springs.

McCormick’s Classic Car Auction is held 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday, February 21-23. Saturday and Sunday tickets are $15 per day or $25 for both days. The Palm Springs Convention Center is located at 277 North Avenid Caballeros in Palm Springs. For more information, call 760-320-3290 or visit classic-carauction.com.

8. GEOGRAPHY: Which country lies on the eastern border of Ukraine?

mation creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

squeezable ketchup bottle, the disposable diaper, heated pizza boxes and the dental floss dispenser.

officer, it’s president of the United States. A total of 9% of our presidents have been assassinated.

• There are more Polish people living in Chicago than in any city on Earth except for Warsaw, Poland’s capital.

• The shortest song in the world is “You Suffer,” recorded in 1986 by the British band Napalm Death. It lasts precisely 1.316 seconds.

• You might be surprised to learn that the most dangerous profession in the country — in terms of the percentage of people holding that profession who have been killed — isn’t firefighter or police

• Renee Zellweger was born the same year that Judy Garland died: 1969. Zellweger played Garland in the movie “Judy,” which debuted 50 years after her death, in 2019, the same year that Zellweger turned 50.

• Those who study such things claim that the act of licking a stamp burns one-tenth of a calorie.

• Stanley Mason was an inventor who really got around, in a manner of speaking. In addition to coming with the idea for the granola bar, he also created the

7. HISTORY: Who was the oldest signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?

9. MOVIES: Which 1980s movie featured the Top Ten hit song “Danger Zone” (Kenny Loggins)?

10. MEDICAL: Who is the drug morphine named for? © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 9

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I’ll be worse off financially this year, despite the Social Security increase we just received. I won’t be the only one.

For the average recipient who receives $1,460 per month, that 1.6% equates to a gain of $23.36 per month. Medicare went up $9.10 to $144.60, so that drops the extra cash to $14.26.

Except my Medicare supplement went up $42 and the drug plan went up as well. Rent went up $20 per month, justified by management with the “big increase” in Social Security we all got.

With so many of us in the same situation, we need to think of ways to save money: If you take a daily newspaper and pay for it by the month, calculate whether you’ll save money if you pay for it by the year. If you have a tablet, ask if they offer a

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digital subscription at a lower rate. Making yearly payments might also work for your car or homeowner insurance.

Call the local food bank about getting free food. Don’t worry about running into someone you know. Just make the call. Whatever you get from them you won’t have to buy at the store.

Check into “senior helper” groups in your area. These are people who volunteer to take care of home repairs for free, instead of paying a plumber $150 per hour.

If you have a credit card, make payments on time. Check AARP’s member discounts. Buy at Goodwill. Ask for lower prices. Buy generic groceries. Get serious about clipping coupons. Ask about senior discount day.

If you love movies, consider that the price of Netflix for one month is the same as seeing one movie at a theater.

Check online for a FreeCycle in your area (freecycle.org) and get things you need or want for free.

And always, always ask for your senior discount. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Rambling Dog Raises Neighbor’s Hackles

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My neighbor’s dog routinely gets out of their house and runs around in our yard. He is a huge mixedbreed who looks kind of like a pit bull. He hasn’t acted aggressively, though. That’s one issue, but my other problem is that we are adopting a puppy from the shelter soon. Does the neighbor’s dog present a danger to my puppy? -Claire T. in Columbus, Ohio DEAR CLAIRE: Years ago, my neighbors had a black Lab, “Terry,” who was great friends with my hound dog mix, Pharaoh.

Terry was allowed to roam as he pleased, and his favorite thing was to lift the latch on my backyard gate and let Pharaoh out so they could ramble the streets together. I loved that they were friends, but I didn’t like having to

go and find them constantly.

Roaming dogs are always a reason for concern, even if they seem friendly. If you and your neighbors are on good terms, talk to them and ask if there is a solution to their dog wandering into your yard. You’ll probably need to put up stronger fencing, unless the fence is on their side -- and that enters the whole realm of property lines and who fixes what.

It’s up to you whether you want to let them know you’re getting a puppy. If you’re on good terms, and they’re willing to work with you to fix the issue with their dog, you can suggest introducing the dogs to each other after your new puppy has had his shots. This should be done with both you and your neighbor present, and with both dogs on a leash, just in case one of the dogs becomes aggressive. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ACROSS 1. Stain one’s hands 7. Subdivision 10. A passage to be performed slow 12. Invests in little enterprises 13. Medians 14. Member of the giraffe family 15. Makes official 16. Choose in an election 17. Hill or rocky peak 18. Member of an ancient Iranian people 19. Crest of a hill

11. Taking everything into account 12. Famed Czech engineer 14. Impress into silence 17. Boxing term 18. Marketplaces 20. Pounds per square inch 23. Locomotives 24. Short musical composition 25. Football position (abbr.)

26. Heavyhearted 29. Denotes particular region 30. Famed NHLer ANSWER TO PUZZLE ON PAGE 9 31. Ingested 21. Small, faint 48. They resist too much constellation authority (slang) 32. Formulates 22. Cultivated from 49. Formats 35. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.) crops that 50. Many 36. Broad, shallow yield oil craters 27. The ancient DOWN 38. Thick cuts Egyptian sun 40. Breezed god 1. Mental object through 28. Hollywood 2. Blackbird 41. Breakfast tough guy 3. Undergarments is one 33. Chinese drums 4. Old cloth 42.

“Rule, 34. Merits 5. One from Utah Britannia” 36. Indicates center 6. Greek goddess composer 37. Increases of the dawn 43.

Periodicals motor speed (slang) 7.

Become less 38. Mentally fit 44. Indian title intense 39. BBQ favorite of respect 8. Developed to 40. Wings 45.

More readiness 41. Female parents (Spanish) 9. Defunct phone 44. Marks left 46. Creation company from wounds 47. A loud 10. About 45. Soften by utterance soaking in liquid Freemason

SUDOKU

ANSWER TO SUDOKU ON PAGE 9

Brain Teaser I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I? SEE ANSWER ON PAGE 9

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Q: Is Kerry Washington from the TV series “Scandal” still married in real life? I never see her husband with her at awards shows. -- Y.S. A: Yes, the actress is still married to former NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, and they have three children together. She recently talked to Willie Geist of “Sunday Today” about why she doesn’t publish pictures of her kids on social media. She says she believes in keeping their lives private and only shares their photos with her parents and her counselor.

“I have a private Instagram for my shrink and he loves it!” Washington explained. “It’s not great when I get parenting feedback, incidentally, based on something he heard me [say] in the background of the video.”

Next up for Washington careerwise is the upcoming series “Little Fires Everywhere,” opposite Reese Witherspoon and Joshua Jackson.

It’s based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Celeste Ng and will premiere Wednesday, March 18, on Hulu.

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Q: When will the new “Fantastic Four” Marvel movie be out? I’m skeptical that it will be any good since the one from a few years ago wasn’t. -- C.C. A: Were you disappointed in the 2005 movie and its sequel, or the 2015 version? The 2005 “Fantastic Four” featured a pre-Captain America Chris Evans (as Johnny Storm), Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis. They all returned for the sequel, “The Rise of the Silver Surfer,” in 2007.

Those movies weren’t exactly critically acclaimed, so Marvel tried again in 2015 with a “Fantastic Four” movie starring Miles

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Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. It didn’t generate high approval ratings either, so perhaps a reboot with another all-new cast will be the film that Marvel fans deserve.

There has been talk of real-life married couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski starring as Sue and Johnny Storm, and fans are suggesting the team be rounded out with Zac Efron and John Cena. If this does become a reality, don’t expect it in theaters until about 2023.

Q: Whatever happened to Calista Flockhart? I loved her as Ally McBeal. Is she still married to Harrison Ford? -- B.K. A: She’s still acting, and she’s still married to Ford. After she became a household name as “Ally McBeal,” Flockhart took a little break but then had another successful series in “Brothers & Sisters,” alongside the wonderful Sally Field. She most recently was a regular on the series “Supergirl” as Cat Grant, but that ended in 2018.

That same year she also joined her “Supergirl” co-stars Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood in a live reading of “Terms of Endearment” at a playhouse in L.A. to benefit the charity Stand Up to Cancer.

Flockhart and Ford met in 2002 at the Golden Globes Awards. She had just adopted her son, Liam, the year before. Last fall the couple helped Liam move into Amherst College in Massachusetts to begin his freshman year. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Cancer Treatments Kill Not Cure, Friends Say DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a relative with cancer who is about to begin multiple therapeutic interventions. My friends tell me that all cancer treatments are toxic and kill people instead of curing them, and that I should tell my relative to look into other forms of treatment. What do you suggest I do? -- K.C. ANSWER: There are hundreds of different types of cancer, and they vary widely in their capacity to grow and damage the individual, and in their response to treatment. For decades, this has meant mostly surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but now includes newer treatments, including immune therapy. While not all cancers are curable in everybody, every year brings sometimes incremental, sometimes dramatic improvements in life expectancy for individual cancers. Some cancers that were rapidly fatal even a few years ago are now curable in most cases. Getting the right di-

DesertMobileHomeNews.com agnosis quickly and getting to an expert in treating that cancer are critical to having the best chance of a good outcome.

Treating some cancers remains difficult, and in many cases the treatments have significant side effects. Surgery scars may impair function, and chemotherapy can cause severe symptoms and may permanently affect body systems, as can radiation. It can be very hard on a family member observing these treatments, and if his or her loved one nevertheless succumbs eventually to the cancer, it is understandable to think the suffering the person went through was in vain.

So, while I understand where your friends may be coming from, their well-meaning advice, based on bad experiences possibly a long time ago, might cause your relative with cancer to delay the potentially lifesaving treatments that are available now. A study published in July 2018 showed that people who use alternative medical treatments for cancer are less likely to be cured and have a shorter life expectancy.

My advice is that you encourage your relative to find the most expert cancer treatment available.

It’s up to your relative to accept the recommendations of the expert, but delaying the best available treatment in order to consider unproven therapies is likely to result in harm. (c) 2020 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

them of the United States. Francis Scott Key had composed the lyrics as he witnessed the overnight British bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.

On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention -- the telephone. Bell’s patent filing beat a similar claim

by Elisha Gray by only two hours.

On March 6, 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine.

On March 2, 1925, the first nationwide highway numbering system is instituted to minimize confusion. Later, interstate highway numbering would be improved by colored signs and the odd-even demarcation that distinguishes between north-south and east-west travel.

On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national an-

On March 4, 1966, Beatle John Lennon’s controversial quote is printed in the London Evening Standard: “We’re more popular than Jesus.”

After a reprint in the U.S., Bible belt radio DJs organized Beatles record burnings and protests, declaring Lennon’s remarks blasphemous.

Even the Vatican chimed in. Lennon eventually apologized.

On March 5, 1977, the Dial-aPresident radio program, featuring President Jimmy Carter, airs for the first time. Carter answered calls from all over the country from his desk in the Oval Office.

Approximately 9 million calls flooded the CBS radio studio during the two-hour broadcast.

On March 8, 1986, “Mask,” starring Eric Stoltz and Cher, opens.

Cher, who had launched a serious acting career with her appearance in Robert Altman’s “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” in 1982, received the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in “Mask.” (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie • 1/2 cup dry white wine • 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour • Kosher salt and pepper • 4 medium carrots • 2 stalk celery • 1 onion • 1 1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs • 1 sheet frozen puff pastry • 1 egg • 1 cup frozen peas • 3 tablespoon fresh dill sprigs 1. In a 5- to 6-qt slow cooker, whisk together the wine, flour, 1/2 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper.

2. Add the carrots, celery, onion and chicken, and toss to combine. Cook, covered, until the chicken is cooked through and easily pulls apart, 6 to 7 hours on low or 4 to 5 hours on high.

3. When the chicken has 30 minutes left to cook, heat oven to 400 F. Cut the puff pastry into 8 rectangles and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush with the egg and bake until puffed and golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

4. Gently fold the peas and dill into the chicken and vegetables and cook, covered, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Spoon into bowls, sprinkle with additional dill if desired, and top with the puff pastry. Serves 4. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

Meryl Streep’s next films are HBO Max’s “Let Them All Talk,” for director Steven Soderbergh, with Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges, and Netflix’s “The Prom,” a film version of the Broadway musical.

Her co-stars are Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells and Kerry Washington.

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, studio moguls ran megastudios and actors were under exclusive contracts to appear just in their films. But today, for a superstar to remain on top they have to produce films for themselves and others. There are eight superstars who have been successful producing films that grossed well over $200 million each.

George Clooney says he’d rather produce than act, and his most successful production was “Argo,” a Best Picture Oscar winner that grossed $232 million. His next producing project is Netflix’s “Good Morning Midnight,” with Felicity Jones and Kyle Chandler.

Kevin Costner produced and starred in “Dances With Wolves,” a Best Picture Oscar winner that grossed $424 million. He returned two years later with “The Bodyguard,” which grossed $411 million, and then “Water World” ($241 million). Costner is currently producing the third season of “Yellowstone” for the Paramount Network.

Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” franchise films are always high grossers. The totals for the six films so far: 1. $458 million, 2. $546 million, 3. $398 million, 4. $695 million, 5. $683 million and 6. $791 million. In addition, Cruise also produced “Vanilla Sky” ($203 million), “The Others” ($210 million), “Last Summer” ($457 million) and “Jack Reacher” ($218 million). “Top Gun” is due June 26, and “Mission: Impossible” 7 and 8 are due in 2021 and 2022.

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Leonardo DiCaprio produced and starred in “The Aviator” ($214 million) and “The Wolf of Wall Street” ($393 million). Clint Eastwood won a best director Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby,” which grossed $217 million, and directed “Gran Torino” ($270 million), “American Sniper” ($547 million) and “Sully” ($241 million).

Mel Gibson scored big producing “Braveheart” ($210 million) and “The Passion of the Christ” ($622 million). He’s now producing “The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection” for 2021. Brad Pitt produced “The Departed” ($291 million), “Eat, Pray, Love” ($206 million) and “World War Z” ($540 million). His next is “Blonde,” with Ana de Armas and Adrien Brody.

But believe it or not, Bradley Cooper crushed them all with “Silver Lining Playbook” ($236 million), “American Hustle” ($251 million), “American Sniper” ($547 million), “A Star Is Born” ($425 million) and a slam dunk with “Joker,” at over $1.2 billion, which he’ll share with director Todd Phillips and co-producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff. Cooper is currently producing the World War II drama “Atlantic Wall,” an untitled Hulk Hogan biopic with Chris Hemsworth, and one with himself as Leonard Bernstein in a biopic. With grosses like that, who needs to act? (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

A Maelstrom of Mail Talk about being overwhelmed with junk mail. In fact, the post office in Twinsburg, OH told local resident Dan Cain recently that he would have to pick up his mail, which included 55,000 identical student loan statements, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. Dan and his wife had taken out the loan for their daughter. The loan company says that somehow a glitch in its processing system

caused the posting of the astounding number of duplicates. To make matters worse, the statement was incorrect and the company said they would make a correction and send Dan a new statement. Hopefully, they will have fixed their processing system, as well.

The Association of Mature American Citizens [www.amac.us] provides the Filler Files as a service on issues of concern to Americans over 50.

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Pulitzer Prize Winning ‘Sweat’

by Lynn Nottage Tells Workers Rage and Sorrow at Dezart Performs In 1949, Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesmanraised capitalism’s crushing weight on “Everyman” Willie Loman to the level of Shakespearean tragedy. Six decades on, SWEAT by playwright Lynn Nottage, likewise honored with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Literature,brings the collapse of the American working class to the stage in a wrenching production directed

by Michael Shaw for Dezart Performs of Palms Springs, February 28 – March 8.

“For the last two decades, small towns across the United States have been devastated by the loss of union labor, decreasing wages and a changing workplace.

Jobs once thought secure, liter-

ally, vanished overnight,” said Shaw, founding artistic director for Dezart Performs. “This play brings home the economic, bluecollar misery of the Rust Belt in an uncompromising fashion.”

The cast for “SWEAT” includes Eddie Stephens (Evan), Corydon Melgoza (Jason), Cortez Johnson (Chris) Mike Truelock (Stan), Miguel Arballo (Oscar), Theresa Jewett (Tracey), Desireé Clarke (Cynthia), Melanie Blue (Jessie) and Cary Thompson (Brucie).

Dezart Performs presents “Sweat” at the Pearl McManus Theater at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club located at 314 South Cahuilla Road in Palm Springs. For ticket, call 760-3220179 or visit dezartperforms.org.

Abandoned at Birth When a mom leaves a newborn on a stranger’s doorstep one can only guess the reasons why. But Cornelius Williams of Camden County, NC can’t even begin to fathom why a pair of newborn bear cubs were left on his doorstep in a box, says the Association of Mature American Citizens. Fear not. The

cubs are now in the capable care of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

The Association of Mature American Citizens [www.amac.us] provides the Filler Files as a service on issues of concern to Americans over 50.

Chicken a la King Casserole Chicken is an almost universal favorite — and especially when served in tasty, easy dishes like this.

• 1 1/2 cups diced cooked chicken breast • 1 (2.5 ounce) jar sliced mushrooms, drained • 1/2 cup frozen peas • 1 1/2 cups cooked noodles, rinsed and drained • 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can reduced fat cream of mushroom soup • 1/4 cup fat-free milk • 1 (2-ounce) jar diced pimiento, undrained • 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

1. Heat oven to 350 F. Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with butter-flavored cooking spray.

2. In a large bowl, combine chicken, mushrooms, peas and noodles. Add mushroom soup, milk, undrained pimiento and parsley flakes. Mix well to combine.

3. Spread mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Place baking dish on a wire rack and let set for 5 minutes. Divide into 4 servings.

Each serving equals: 241 calories, 5g fat, 23g protein, 26g carb., 440mg sodium, 3g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 2 Meat, 1 1/2 Starch. (c) 2020 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Crossword Answer

WordSearch Answer

Sudoku Answer

TRIVIA ANSWERS 1. Scientific method of dating tree rings

6. James Madison, 5-foot-4 7. Benjamin Franklin (70)

2. Gin, lemon juice, simple syrup 8. Russia and club soda 3. Admiral Hyman Rickover

9.”Top Gun”

4. Lucy Maud Montgomery

10. Morpheus

5. Bounty paper towels

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Agent Orange Exposure Outside of Vietnam The Government Accounting Office stepped into the fray to document exactly where all the Agent Orange was used and stored when it released a report entitled “Actions Needed to Improve Accuracy and Communication of Information on Testing and Storage Locations” in November 2018.

The GAO report compared the records it had unearthed against the information provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs

and the Department of Defense.

It found that half of Agent Orange was used in Southeast Asia but that records were incomplete.

Of the 13.9 million gallons of AO shipped, documentation was only found for 12.1 million gallons.

The GAO took the VA and the DOD to task for omitting testing and storage locations and for failing to update the locations for more than a decade -- even though both had been getting reports about it since 2006.

In 2006 the GAO found 40 locations not in Vietnam, some in the U.S., that never made it to the DOD list provided to the VA. Now, at the GAO’s prodding, the DOD has provided a list (posted on the VA website) of U.S. locations where Agent Orange was tested, disposed of or stored: Arkansas, California, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Kansas,

Brain Teaser Answer Fire.

Hitori Answer

Quote of the Week When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mississippi, Washington, Puerto Rico, Texas, Georgia, Montana, Indiana, Florida and Utah.

How’s that for close to home?

Foreign countries include Cambodia, Canada, India, Johnston Atoll, Korea, Laos and Thailand.

Veterans trying to verify or determine their exposure to AO have been stymied, of course. As of June 30, 2018, the VA denied service-connected decisions to more than 58,250 veterans for service outside Vietnam.

To read the whole GAO report, go to gao.gov/assets/700/695490. pdf. Be sure to read the Objectives, Scope and Methodology sections starting on page 62. The GAO left no stone unturned.

For the (now supposedly correct) list on the VA site, go to publichealth.va.gov and put Herbicide Tests and Storage Outside Vietnam in the search box. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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