Friday Snippets and Soundbites

It's Friday and that means "Snippets and Soundbites"! If today's edition leaves you wanting more, check out page 38 in the August (and every month) issue of ec. You won't be sorry!

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• Apparently, there's a museum for everything. Case in point: Wisconsin's Mustard Museum, currently located in Mount Horeb, Wis., but moving to Middleton this fall. The townspeople of Mount Horeb (a city of just over 6,000) are sad to see the museum go. Village administrator Larry Bierke put it this way in an interview with USA Today: "[We're] disappointed to see such a large tourist attraction leave." The museum draws in about 30,000 visitors a year, more than we even though possible. This weekend, the museum will go out with a big bang as residents and visitors gather on Mount Horeb's Main Street to celebrate the last National Mustard Day at the musuem. Hot dogs with mustard will be free. There's a $10 charge for anyone who deigns to ask for ketchup. Read all about the musuem and its move here. Read about National Mustard Day here.

• Are you a self-proclaimed "word nerd"? Do you smoke your competition at any and all Scrabble games? Well, you might want to find out more about the National Scrabble Championship. This week, an Ohio man took home $10,000 when he won the national title at the competition in Ohio. To claim the title, Dave Wiegand of Portland, Ore., a 35-year-old mortage underwriter, garnered 25 wins and six losses in the 31-game competition. Read more about Dan's big win here. Check out info on the National Scrabble Championship and Association here.

• As it turns out, Connecticut's Nurse of the Year isn't a nurse at all. Authorities say Betty Lichtenstein was pretending to be a registered nurse at a local doctor's office, and the doctor in charge believed her, especially after she received an award from the Connecticut Nursing Association as "Nurse of the Year" in 2008. The police now say no such organization exists and believe Lichtenstein spent up to $2,000 of her own money to stage the elaborate banquet honoring her as the Nurse of the Year. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began investigating the woman after receiving patient complaints about her. She was arrested and charged yesterday and could face up to five years in prison for reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation charges. Read more here.

• Canadian divers are saying they may have found the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force plane lost in 1942. In 1942, during World War II, the plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in the United States, and serviced an airfield in the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec. During the early years of the war, the U.S. constructed a series of airfields in Eastern Canada so they could ferry aircraft to Allied air forces in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called "Crimson Route." The construction of the airport in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan was to serve as an emergency airfield along the ferry route between Presque Isle and Goose Bay, Labrador. The plane, an amphibious aircraft, went down in rough weather on November 2, 1942, in the waters surrounding what is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Nine crew members were aboard the aircraft when it went down in 1942. Four managed to escape and were rescued by local fisherman. The remaining five people went down with the plane. The wreckage appears to be in good condition and divers hope to recover it, along with the remains of the five victims. It is important to note that the wreckage has not been confirmed as the lost plane. Read all about the finding here. Learn more about Canada's role in WWII, go here.