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  • Safe Kids bicycle helmet fitting

    Spring is in the air and it's time to start thinking again about bicycle safety.Safe Kids Grand Forks - part of Safe Kids Worldwide - will be on base April 18, 2012, to help local youth ensure they're wearing properly fitted bicycle helmets, according to Jayne Flaagan, Parent and Child Center

  • March for Babies fundraising event planned in Grand Forks

    A Grand Forks Air Force Base sergeant who is organizing a team for a March of Dimes fundraising walk in late April knows first-hand just how important that organization can be."Our son, Matthias, was born premature at 26 weeks gestational age," said Staff Sgt. Tabatha Lugo. "He was barely two

  • Airmen battle through “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” tourney

    More than 50 Airmen battled for the title and bragging rights during the 2nd Annual Air Force Sergeants Association Call of Duty gaming tournament in the Community Activity Center here March 24.Airmen played "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" -- a first-person shooter that is arguably the most popular

  • March 30 is National Doctors' Day

    March 30 is National Doctors' Day - an opportunity to celebrate those who've dedicated their lives to keeping you healthy and treating you when you get sick.The very first observance dates back to March 30, 1933, in Winder, Ga., according to the National Doctors' Day Organization. On March 30, 1958,

  • Grand Forks AFB helps to modernize Air Force

    Modernization of the Air Force remains a top priority at every level of leadership, as highlighted by Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley during a speech in February."Modernization, as challenging as it is in this resource constrained period, will not wait, and remains essential to maintaining

  • New Horizons puts clarinets to work

    A highly mobile team of motivated Airmen helped educate more than 1,100 children in the Grand Forks area about life in the Air Force with the help of their weapon of choice: the clarinet.Four members of New Horizons - part of the U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Band from Offutt AFB, Neb. -

  • Grand Forks EO director named top in AF

    The U.S. Air Force named Tech. Sgt. Tomeka Parker of the 319th Air Base Wing as the Solomon Starks Jr. Equal Opportunity Director of the Year for 2011.Parker arrived in Grand Forks in November 2010 and single-handedly filled a two-person EO office assignment responsible for more than 1,300 Airmen

  • GFAFB to continue operating two schools

    Grand Forks Air Force Base will continue to operate two schools, according to local officials.The base school board voted March 20, 2012, against a recommendation to consolidate Carl Ben Eielson Elementary School and Nathan F. Twining Elementary and Middle School, according to Dr. Larry P. Nybladh,