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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - The Green Beret Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization that stands with and exclusively supports The U.S. Army Special Forces Regiment and their families, is proud to announce the significant expansion of its scholarship offerings through the strategic addition of the Special Forces Scholarship Fund. Marking a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. 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.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. John Phelan. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC.
Veterans
"I got a call from the Family Programs Office on Camp Murray and they said they needed a place to store all of these turkeys," explained retired Air Force Master Sgt. Elmer Clark, VFW Commander for Post 91 in Tacoma and District 3. "They also needed some help collecting the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Paddy Coyne's Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Celtic music with Martin Nyberg and friends. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Bethel Church Vashon. Vashon Island Chorale. All
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Hundreds of friends and family members of the 4-2 Striker Brigade Combat Team gathered in the parking lot of the Pierce County Golf Course in Spanaway to do the 2.5 mile walk at the Festival of Lights. Groups were huddled together under the shelter of umbrellas, while children were catching
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Seattle Seahawks fans are famous everywhere in the NFL for their emotion, loyalty and sheer noise level. Of all sports fans, football fans are probably the most raucous; of all pro football fans, Seahawks fans definitely set the standard for passion. And of Seahawks fans, the military booster club's members
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To best optimize itself for great power competition, the Air Force plans to, among other things, bring back warrant officers within the cyber and information technology professions, said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin during a presentation Feb. 12 at the Air Force Association's 2024 Warfare Symposium. That
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Blue Star Families, together with Heidi Murkoff, author of What to Expect When You're Expecting and founder of What to Expect Project, are hosting What to Expect: A Blue Star Baby Shower, a special event for 120 new and expecting military parents. Joint Base Lewis-McChord I Corps Commander's wife Jae Rin
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They're still going strong, and still swarming The Swiss to do good, get loaded, raffle stuff off and enjoy the spirit of the season. The Friends of the Holidays benefit is Sunday at The Swiss, and the T-town institution shouldn't disappoint: Mark Riley Trio, Tahoma Souls Alive, Junkyard Jane, Gin
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Adventure. For some, it is an irrepressible welling in the chest that will never go away no matter how many lakes canoed, rock faces climbed, horizons paddled after, peaks scaled, or miles of trail hiked. For others, adventure is something to marvel at - a celebration of man's achievements. Most
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Family Theater Olympia - East. Myshkin, Eleanor Murray, Samantha Chandler. All Ages. 8 pm. $10.Rialto Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Rose Ensemble: An Early American Christmas. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $39-$59. Bethel Church Vashon. Vashon Island Chorale. All Ages. 3 pm & 7:30 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Traditions Cafe
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Cities are ever-shifting organisms, in a constant state of decay and reconstruction and more decay, fighting to keep themselves upright and functional amid the slow rainstorm of time and money and development and evolution and corrosion. The same goes for newspapers. Hell, the same goes for public officials, those people
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Theatre on the Square Tacoma - Downtown. Christine Lavin & Uncle Bonsai: Just One Angel. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $42. Amocat Café Tacoma - Triangle District. Deborah Page, Patrick Galactic and Adam Hendricks. 5:30 pm. NC. Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. James Faretheewell. 8 pm. NC. Red
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Spar Cafe - Olympia. Ethan Tucker. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5.O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key
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As a musician, is there anything worse than having your gear ripped off? Well, aside from having your best friend sleep with your girl while you're on the road, probably not. Talk about feeling violated. Just the thought of somebody else fondling your cherished Zildjian 14in K Session Dark Hi-hat
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DRINK TO AN UNDERACHIEVER There's a new brew in town. Engine House No. 9 (611 N. Pine St., Tacoma) concocted Underachiever, a lager with limited release. You may grab a four pack of tall boys for $9.25. It can also be chugged at Doyle's Public House (208 Saint Helens Ave., Tacoma).
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) - The Secretary of the Air Force has reimplemented the Voluntary Retired Return to Active Duty Program in an effort to leverage the talents of our highly trained and experienced officer and enlisted military retirees to help minimize the service's critical manning shortages. Application window opens Feb.
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I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, so my family didn't celebrate holidays. I wasn't obliged to sit though two-hour saccharine overdoses about the true meaning of Christmas. In retrospect, perhaps that wasn't so awful. See, Nuncrackers presents me with a dilemma. I hated it. I really, really hated it. You
