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Thursday, August 11, 2022 Volume 68 | Number 49
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
Puppy Foster Families Needed Guide Dogs of the Desert has a urgent need for puppy homes
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hat if volunteer work could be gratifying, meaningful, and totally adorable? It’s paws-ible with Guide Dogs of the Desert! Right now the organization is in urgent need of potential foster families for 10 puppies by September 2022. But you can help! By becoming a volunteer Puppy Raiser for Guide Dogs of the Desert, you’ll be an integral part of the process that helps people with visual impairments find independence through the use of a Guide Dog. You’ll also spend 18 months with a smart, playful new friend. The puppies are black Labrador Retrievers and Standard Poodles, each between 8-12 weeks old when they are placed with a Puppy Raiser. As a Puppy Raiser, your job is to help the dog learn about the world and interact with humans in a variety of situations. The puppy will remain in your home until they are 18 to 24 months old. Guide Dogs of the Desert will
• Modern body armor was created by pizza delivery man and former Marine Richard Davis, who was
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1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the only vowel on a computer keyboard’s middle row of letters? 2. LANGUAGE: What is the diacritical mark used over the first “a” in “chateau”? 3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of the Czech Republic?
be with you throughout the journey with training sessions, Puppy Raiser outings, Zoom meetings, and constant support. And when the puppy is old enough to be matched with their human — well, that’s when you change someone’s life. The Coachella Valley-based Guide Dogs of the Desert is an accredited Guide Dog school
and has been helping visually impaired students find independence and companionship through the use of a Guide Dog for almost 50 years. Interested in raising a puppy? Contact Guide Dogs of the Desert at 760-329-6257, e-mail puppyraisers@gddca.org, or visit gddca.org for more information and to fill out an application.
Row, row, row your boat
• In 2008, Nestle played an April Fool’s joke on Butterfinger fans by announcing that the candy bar’s name had been changed to “The Finger.” The company even distributed 200,000 bars with “The Finger” wrapper to 7-Eleven stores.
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You can bet that Libby Costello, Sophia Denison-Johnston, Brooke Downes and Adrienne Smith were exhausted, achy and very, very tired when they landed their row boat in Honolulu. They had been rowing nonstop after leaving San Francisco 34 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes earlier in hopes of break-
ing the record for the 2,400 nautical mile journey. How did they do it? They rowed in 2-hour paired shifts for 24 hours a day, averaging about an hour and a half of sleep per day. That’s apparently faster than any team of rowers have ever achieved and it is likely they’ll make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
wounded after a delivery turned into a shootout.
Demi Barnes created a wedding dress made of 1,500 divorce papers to heighten awareness of rushing into matrimony only to end up in divorce court.
• Japanese honeybees destroy hornets by enclosing them in a ball of bees then vibrating their flight muscles so fast that carbon dioxide levels increase and the ball’s temperature rises enough to kill the hornet. • Mastercard’s global headquarters is located on Purchase Street in Purchase, New York. • Talk about a novel way to make a statement! Teenage art student
• The “Emergency Bra” can be unhooked and split into two face masks that filter out harmful chemicals. • Recycling one ton of paper will save 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, 17 mature trees, 682.5 gallons of oil and 7,000 gallons of water. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
4. MOVIES: Where was the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy filmed? 5. MEASUREMENTS: What is 4 ounces of liquid equal to in cups? 6. U.S. STATES: Which is the only American state that begins with the letter P? 7. LANGUAGE: What is the word that stands for the letter Y in the international radio alphabet? 8. CHEMISTRY: What is the symbol for the element zinc? 9. TELEVISION: What is Kramer’s first name in the sitcom “Seinfeld”? 10. MUSIC: Which country is home to the rock group AC/DC? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6