🌱 Patch AM: How a Weymouth man is testing a breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Weymouth man is testing a breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug

Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Warm; a p.m. shower or two, with a high of 86 and low of 60 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Partly sunny and not as warm, temps: high: 76, low: 62.
• Saturday: Cloudy, showers around; humid, with a high of 70 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• New hope for one of the deadliest cancers (aamc.org) — A Weymouth business owner with advanced pancreatic cancer is seeing promising results from an experimental pill, daraxonrasib, in a Dana-Farber clinical trial, with tumors shrinking enough for surgery. His story highlights a broader wave of new KRAS-targeting drugs and mRNA vaccines that are finally improving survival for this notoriously deadly cancer. Local readers with family touched by cancer may want to follow upcoming FDA decisions.
   

📸 Around Weymouth

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Thursday August 20
• Weekly In Stitches Fiber Arts Club
  Weymouth Public Library Meeting Room 232 Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth, MA
  6:00 pm
Saturday August 22
• Fogg Library Open 9 AM - Noon
  Weymouth Public Library Fogg Library Fogg Library, 1 Columbian Street, South Weymouth
  9:00 am
• K1USN Amateur Radio Club
  Weymouth Public Library 232 Meeting Room Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth, MA
  9:00 am
• Fogg Library : Mindful Little Ones: Ages 0-2
  Weymouth Public Library Meeting Room 1 Fogg Library, 1 Columbian Street, South Weymouth\
  9:30 am
• Fogg Library : Mindful Little Ones: Ages 3-5
  Weymouth Public Library Meeting Room 1 Fogg Library, 1 Columbian Street, South Weymouth\
  10:15 am
Monday August 24
• Notary Office Hours
  Weymouth Public Library Meeting Room 134 Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth, MA
  10:00 am
• Mini Decorative Aquarium Jars
  Weymouth Public Library Children's Program Room Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, We
  4:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
• South Shore Elder Services, Inc
  Weymouth Public Library 231 Meeting Room Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth, MA
  9:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 20
• Summer Series: Mindful Movement
  Weymouth Public Library Multipurpose Room 138 Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street, Weymouth
  9:15 am
• Friends Bookstore OPEN
  Thomas Crane Library Bookstore Main Library, 40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA, 0216
  9:30 am
• Movement and Mindfulness for ages 3-5 - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
  Thomas Crane Library Children's Room Main Library, 40 Washington Street, Quincy
  10:00 am
• Curious George Storytime for ages 1+
  Thomas Crane Library Community Meeting Room Main Library, 40 Washington Street, Quinc
  10:00 am

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Burger King posted a job opening for Team Member in Weymouth. Apply here.
• Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. posted a job opening for Crew Member in Braintree. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Weymouth here.

🗞 Nearby News

Weymouth Town

• Poor recordkeeping muddies latest target of MassHealth fraud probe (commonwealthbeacon.org)
• Question of the Week: What's Your Most Unlikely Car Sighting?—WINNER'S UPDATE (bringatrailer.com)

Braintree

• General Dynamics Mission System Receives $229 Million Contract From U.S. Navy, With Some Work Slated For Its Wilmington Location (wilmingtonapple.com)
• Fogo de Chao Churrascaria to Open in the Former Davio's Space in Braintree (blogspot.com)
• Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (massgeneralbrigham.org)

Quincy

• Quincy College Seeks Candidate From Plymouth County For Board Of Governors (thequincysun.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Pepper makes them sneeze (Thank you Karla H. for sending it in!)
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