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A four-year starter and team captain on the Washington High School football team as well as a squadron commander within the school's Air Force JROTC unit, Jesse Tuivaiave laid the groundwork to become a leader within the Army after his high school graduation. Six months into his studies at the United
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At the risk of sounding snarky, I have a hard time imagining why anyone would want to see At Home Across America: Scenes from the 1930s to 1950s in Prints at Tacoma Art Museum. Unless they're writing an art history thesis. Or very nostalgic for the 1940s. On the other hand,
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As hard as it may be to believe, I'm going to avoid the compulsion to dedicate yet another column to Tim Tebow. There's literally nothing left to say on the matter. I'm out. I'll let everyone else take it from here. I am, however, going to focus on being a Denver
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Tacoma-native Megan Bostic's book, Never Eighteen, hits bookstores nationwide Jan. 17. Never Eighteen tells the story of 17-year-old Austin Parker, who lives in Tacoma and is dying of leukemia. The book falls into the young adult genre, but Austin is a wise and believable character who appeals to older readers as
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Hunkering down for the winter can mean staying indoors, inactivity and switching to a basic comfort food diet of meat and potatoes, pasta and bread. For all intents and purposes, the average Pacific Northwesterner embraces hibernation mode. Fresh fruit and vegetables disappear, and with them micronutrients and minerals. While that's not
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Ella Young spent the final years of her life doing what she loved most: volunteering and putting a smile on the face of Servicemembers visiting the United Service Organization's McChord Field Center. Young passed away Dec. 28 at the age of 88 at an area hospital. Young volunteered with the USO Puget
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(THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED) It’s “Anything Goes” at Chopstix Dueling Piano Bar on Sixth Avenue. Dueling piano players perform before lovely chiquitas grinding to Whitesnake, Sinatra, Beyonce and others while the crowd gets loaded and holler like maniacs. Chopstix is a knockdown, drag-out party that will basically hemorrhage
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Shoppers go to the mini-mall here for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they need to buy something for their uniform at the military clothing store, or send a package using UPS Inc. They might want to get a sandwich at Blimpie's, or some electronic entertainment
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PUKESNAKE >>> Friday, Jan. 13 So the band's called Pukesnake, and they craft songs with names like "Bird Funeral" and "Rainbow in the Toilet." I wish I could just give you that information and let you disseminate it however you wish, but I'm required to tell you a little bit more. Pukesnake
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It's sometimes said about artists like comedians, writers and musicians that they often start out co-opting someone else's voice or style - someone they look up to, artistically - before eventually chipping away the derivative qualities, and hopefully arriving at their own thing. The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, of
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What better way to welcome the sun back into our lives this April than by heading to the park with a good book ... or two ... or three ... or four ... okay, you get the point! There's something magical about cracking open a new book while lounging in
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For a sprained wrist or a nasty viral infection, you'll need to head to the doctor. Chances are, the problem can be fielded easily by a Primary Care Manager (PCM) physician. However, when a medical issue requires more extensive or specific care, patients often have to enlist the services of
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You'll shoot your eye out, kid." While any story even remotely related to BB guns would be remiss not to include a reference to Ralphie and the Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle he lusted after, much has changed in the world of replica firearms since A Christmas
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Each year the City of Tacoma hosts one of the best and most orchestrated MLK Day celebrations in the region, gathering for words, music and inspiration at the Tacoma Dome Events Center and coming together as a community to honor and trumpet Dr. King's life and vision for peace and
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In Olympia, the King's birthday has become synonymous with one man: Robert Washington - one of the world's top Elvis impersonators ... and a guy who happens to be black. To some this is controversial. To Washington, it's simply his calling. "I don't really think about it. I'm not going
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Tim Waer, executive director of the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Commission, is glowing with that combination of exhaustion and exhilaration one gets at mile 23 of a marathon. For good reason. Over the past 50 days, he and his staff of six have scrambled to give life to
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Tim Waer, executive director of the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Commission, is glowing with that combination of exhaustion and exhilaration one gets at mile 23 of a marathon. For good reason. Over the past 50 days, he and his staff of six have scrambled to give life to a long-term idea
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Salon is the French word for room. It sounds much the same in la langue française as it did in Latin (sala) or Italian (salone) in days past, but leave it to the Italians and French to elevate it into the realm of the intellectual. Beginning in the 1500s, artsy-smartsy
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For more than a year, Rainier Wing airmen have been taking care of their medical needs in different facilities around McChord while the 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron building was being renovated. The experience meant a less private and intimate session with providers, and often times customers had many stops. To showcase
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The Air Force now has an enterprise-wide mobile app designed to provide airmen with streamlined access to information they need for their lives and careers. Air Force Connect was one of six ideas to compete as a finalist in the 2018 Spark Tank competition, which provided the authority and funding to
