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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe. Tacoma - Triangle District. Hot August Amocat Live, featuring Amy Bleu, Joe Holcomb, Beatrice Ensunsa, Volkert Volkersz, The Collaborators. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Spar Cafe. Olympia. Paul Mauer. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Buffino's Golden West Restaurant and Lounge. Tacoma - South. Back Porch Band. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza. Tacoma - South.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar. Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Jeff Ross. 8 pm. Olympia Farmers Market. Olympia - Downtown. Part Of Fortune. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Buffino's Golden West Restaurant and Lounge. Tacoma - South. Back Porch Band. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Dave's of Milton. Milton. Comedy Night, featuring Rebecca Corry, Michelle Westford, Bahiyyih Mudd,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art. Olympia - Downtown. Open Shape Note Singing. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill. Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza. Tacoma - South. Chicago Blues Jam. 8:30 pm. NC. City Hall Saloon and Eatery. Enumclaw. Rockin' Blues Jam
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza. Tacoma - South. Acoustic Couch Jam. 8:30 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill. Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss. Tacoma - Downtown. Jerry Miller. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge. Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Harmon Tap Room. Tacoma - Stadium District. Tap Room Trivia. $50 cash
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub. Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies. Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Stonegate Pizza. Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino Band rockin' blues. 8:30 pm. NC. Summit Pub. Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and
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BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill. Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill. Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill. Bonney Lake. Wednesday Night Blues Jam. All Ages. 7-11 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Pints & Quarts Pub Westside. Olympia - Westside. Bingo. Win prizes.
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Restoration on the Lewis Army Museum building itself is finished, now the galleries and exhibits within need to be reconstituted. Currently the museum is open to the public Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and for scheduled tour groups
Kids
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- If you have children, especially teenagers, you already know the harrowing statistics that illustrate the dangers they face in the world today. Daily we see news about kids left to their own devices after school who have taken the wrong path
Military Resources
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Taking care of Air Force families has been a passion of Suzie Schwartz, wife of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, and Paula Roy, wife of Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy. They have tackled issues that have ranged
Focus
Some deployments are harder to deal with. While deployed with the 62nd Airlift Wing's 8th Airlift Squadron to Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, Capt. Daniel Hewes missed a couple of key moments in his infant son's development. Of his four deployments, he said, this one was the toughest. "You can see how much has changed,"
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(62nd AW PA) - The 4th Airlift Squadron deployed July 25 in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, New Dawn, Odyssey Dawn and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. More than 90 Airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing's 4th AS departed for a 60-day deployment to the Middle East. They are accompanied by Airmen
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(446th AW PA) - It wasn't until 17 years after joining the 446th Airlift Wing that Derek Bryant started training for triathlons and Ironman competitions after seeing an advertisement for one listed on the calendar of a running magazine back in 2009. Since then, the 46-year-old standard evaluation loadmaster with the
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(446th AW PA) - Imagine working in a building with no air conditioning, a leaky roof, cracked walls, a poor telecommunications system and no storage space for vital equipment. Add 150 people into a space designed for half that number and you'll get a glimpse into the workspace Reservists from
Schools
In a summer marked with athletes, medals and matches, it's nice to know that local students are following suit. Last week, Clover Park High School's own Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill teams made a lasting impression when they swept multiple events at a national competition. Although the Clover
Focus
How to run a city wasn't in the curriculum at West Point, or part of Col. Thomas Brittain's 23-year infantry-heavy Army experience before his arrival at Fort Lewis. Yet at the end of his three-year joint base command, as the de facto mayor of the sixth-largest city
News Articles
In a warehouse on Joint Base Lewis McChord, parachute riggers from the 201st Battle-field Surveillance Brigade worked at four long tables with the Army's newest parachute system spread out in front of them. The Maneuverable Canopy-6, part of the Advanced Tactical Parachute System and used by the
News Articles
The job of helping Soldiers prepare for deployment changed hands Aug. 1 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord when Col. John Velliquette Jr. assumed command of the 1st Joint Mobilization Brigade from Lt. Col. Steven Donnelly. Velliquette steps into a crucial role for the base. The 1st JMB runs
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With sweat dripping from their dirty faces, a group of "Utmost" Soldiers from the 110th Chemical Battalion charged obstacles during the battalion's inaugural rite of passage event "Iron Dragon Fury," on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Lewis North, July 31. "This event shows Soldiers that they are capable of doing
