Focus
Lt. Col. Rodney Lewis tells his airmen, "Remember who you are." He wants to remind them that they are part of a rich heritage. "This is a way for me to remind them of the sacrifices made before they arrived in the squadron and to understand that we will leave our legacy,"
Operation Family Support
The Capital Playhouse in Olympia offers a variety of summer programs focused on the arts, including the Kids At Play (KAP) series, which will put on five performances this year. The first performance will be "Willy Wonka," based on the popular book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl,
Focus
The Washington Army National Guard's 133rd Army Band, which is comprised of 41 citizen-soldiers, will kick off their annual week's worth of free summer concerts for the local community. Venues, which will span from Olympia to Tacoma to the peninsula, are chosen based on the location's popularity within the neighborhood
Military Life
Like any good creative writer, Mariah Bellamoroso simply took what she saw around her and weaved it into a story. During a recent outing to Pike Place Market in Seattle, the 15-year-old saw an inspiring encounter between a street musician and someone watching him perform. The wheels started turning in Bellamoroso's
Focus
DIYALA, Iraq - "The best memory I had of my brother was going to the airport when he left to live with his dad when I was four," said Spc. Joshua Wagner, a cook from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 296th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry
Housing
Capt. Dayne Nelson, who recently completed his six-year residency at Madigan Army Medical Center, knew that he would be PCSing this summer and that he would need to sell his family's home. Nelson and his wife Quinn purchased their home in DuPont back in March 2006, when the real estate
Operation Family Support
In July 2007, Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a licensed clinical psychologist, began collecting resources, information and volunteers in order to found Give an Hour. Give an Hour is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free counseling and other mental health services to active duty servicemembers, National Guard members, reservists, and
Military Life
"The entire Army community is changing, and the spouses' clubs are following suit," explained Officers' Spouses Club president Stacey Phillips, whose husband, Lt. Col. Michael Phillips, is a commander with the 308th Brigade Support Battalion, 17th Fires Brigade. For the past two years, the OSC has shared building space with the
Resources
Hi, My name is Sam Ramos and I am a Samoyed. My adoptive human mother, Sheila, will be going away for training from July 16 through September 21, 2010. She will be going to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas and I wish I could go with her but I'd probably get a
Live & CD Reviews
It took nearly an hour and a half after the planned start time for a band to actually take the stage. I'm not ready to say that this was an entirely bad thing. In that empty hour and a half, the above average-sized crowd had ample time to get
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Have you heard? Tacoma's gargantuan feast of literary, visual and performing arts has moved from November to October. That's right; October is Tacoma Arts Month (formerly Art at Work Month), but the festivities actually start Oct. 2 with an opening party and the AMOCAT Arts Awards presentation at the Tacoma
Arts
Whether you know it or not, Tacoma is a fricken artsy place. Tucked into old buildings, abandoned storefronts and sometimes even brand new buildings are galleries, artist studios and places to learn a bit of art as well. All year round, the arts scene in Tacoma is part of what
Military Resources
Doubling down on a house is a good thing. Since 1992, the Fisher House has been a haven of comfort for family members to come and be near to loved ones receiving care at Madigan Army Medical Army Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "The Fisher House is our commitment to our warfighters
News
The old films are fading; the battle footage turning yellow; the color growing fainter with each year; the airplanes are stuttering in the air; the trucks and tanks growing dim. The photographs are starting to disappear; the images receding into the past. These are not the films of Word War
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Largely because of its abundance of offerings, the Olympia Arts Walk is a bit of a cross between a scavenger hunt and a grab bag. Local businesses - 93 of them this fall - become galleries for the weekend, week or month, showing paintings, sculptures, photographs and more. Some
Scene It
Thomas Alva Edison, who invented the phonograph in 1878, was a genius, but even he couldn't have foreseen the rise of his invention as a musical instrument. It's a shame. Imagine how his face would have lit up like a lightbulb (get it?) after witnessing a DJ elate a crowd
Arts
Largely because of its abundance of offerings, the Olympia Arts Walk is a bit of a cross between a scavenger hunt and a grab bag. Local businesses - 96 of them this fall - become galleries for the weekend, week or month, showing paintings, sculptures, photographs and more. Some serve as
Explore
There's a thunder on the horizon, Gritty City, and it's not our inevitable return to a gray autumn rainscape. No, that ominous rumble you hear, pitched way, way down in the basso profundo hum of a gathering tremor, is nothing more than the return of the Dockyard Derby Dames: Tacoma's
