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For close to a quarter of a century, the Madigan Foundation has steadfastly, and consistently, labored to make the lives of servicemembers, their families, retirees, and the Madigan Army Medical Center's staff better and healthier. Created in 1995, the nonprofit 501(c)(3) foundation is unique in the community of military medicine. "The Foundation
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A group of Joint Base Lewis-McChord Soldiers who gained YouTube and Facebook fame for videos of themselves making trick basketball shots on base has done it again. This time, the Soldiers are using ping-pong balls. "T Wo Trick Shots" filmed its basketball video at hoops around the base in June. The latest
Veterans
There are several fitness "boot camps" across the Puget Sound area, each vowing to make participants sweat, push them to their physical limits and whip them into great shape. But there is only one boot camp taught by someone who has actually been to the real thing. "You don't have the right
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Most Servicemembers are transient, but that doesn't mean they can't be active, productive members of their communities. For the city of Puyallup, the relationship with Soldiers goes two ways. The connection stems from JBLM's community connector program, which allows cities to "adopt" units from the base. Since about 2007, Puyallup has been
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For Operation Homefront Washington's president John McDonagh, the question of what they're doing for military families over the upcoming holidays has a quick answer. "For starters, we have our annual toy drive going on nationwide with the Dollar Tree stores," said McDonagh. The drive, which collects toys, baby items and toiletries, is
Veterans
It's safe to say that if not for the influence of Lawrence Mackey, lacrosse in the local area would not be nearly as popular as it is. Not only did he found the Tacoma Men's Lacrosse (Huron) team in 1991, but also brought the sport to local underprivileged youth with his
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Listening to historical illustrator Alan Archambault talk about a period of history is akin to reliving the event. "I picked up on the vibes of history when I was a boy," Archambault said as we recently sat and talked in one of the four remaining quarters of Fort Steilacoom. Born in Warwick,
Health
Jackson Dennis picked up a toy hammer and began to bang away at plastic play pegs. "He was born at 28 weeks and weighed only one-and-a-half pounds a birth," his grandfather Dan Dennis said. "He spent the next 93 days in intensive care at Mary Bridge." Today, the little guy attends A
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Babies are on the brain and in utero here at the Hopkins house. While we had been trying for Baby #2 for months now, I felt the same shock and disbelief as I did the first go-round when I found out I was pregnant. Ecstatic, I called my husband, broke the
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The Minutemen were citizen soldiers who volunteered before the start of the American Revolution to fight British soldiers at a minute's notice. This spirit of responding quickly in helping today's citizen soldiers is evident in the work of the Minuteman Fund of Washington. "The fund provides assistance grants to Washington National Guard
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Families that stay at one of the two Fisher Houses at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are under stress, perhaps far from home, and always worried about the well-being of a loved one. Especially if that loved one is a baby. "We have a large neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) here at Joint Base
Military Life
One of the hardest things about moving often is that you have to start over in a new community. You have to make new friends, find a new hair-dresser, and in many cases for military spouses, rebuild your business from the ground up. One Joint Base Lewis-McChord's most beloved cosmetologists
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The sun is still blazing in quiet moments here and there but seriously though, it's fall. It's chilly, moist and my husband's just happy that he doesn't have to mow the lawn as often ... though I'm warming up my raking muscles. Festival season is over; it's time to cozy
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ANNOUNCER: Open just over a month, Souper Pho in Tacoma's Westgate Center is designed with family in mind. A little taste of several Asian cuisine favorites will surely fit the bill for everyone. Jackie and Dutch are always up for a menu with lots of options.JACKIE: Souper Pho is one
Music
Humans have the capacity for doing a great many things -- good, bad and indifferent. We've all been inundated in our lives with moments of cruelty, both on a large scale, and on a smaller, more insidious one. Our instincts for conflict, exclusionism, and a fear of uniqueness have resulted
Arts
The Broadway Center presents Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition in the Tacoma Armory. The late Renaissance master's famous fresco on the Sistine ceiling and its accompanying "Last Judgement" painting on the back wall of the chapel have been photographically reproduced at the original size on special fabric that mimics the
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Would you be comfortable hanging out with your exes? What if one of those relationships was, to put it mildly, tempestuous? Imagine you and your ex were musicians. Could you tour the country with that person, singing songs that remind you of both the best of times and the worst
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A group of local retired Rangers is leading the way in an effort to build a new memorial for 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (2/75) Soldiers. The Pointe du Hoc Foundation (PDHF), named after the pivotal D-Day Ranger mission in Normandy in 1944, began work just five months ago. Though its
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Nov. 13 was a cool, rainy Sunday morning - the kind where many burrowed deeper beneath warm blankets. Yet 43 volunteers attended a Support America's Armed Forces (SAAF) event at the American Legion Post 67 in Puyallup to make care packages for troops in Afghanistan. SAAF and the Captain Meriwether Lewis
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A reserve aeromedical evacuation crew from the 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron with the 433rd Airlift Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, was flying to support patient transport missions out of Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, when they came together to save the life of a man suspected of having a
