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  • Stress and You: A Recipe for Success

    Books of recipes fill row upon row in book stores and libraries across the country. No matter what you might be cooking, there is no shortage of ingredients to try and instructions to follow.Just like each chef works hard to build a recipe for the best sauce, cake or steak, each family can work at

  • Trick or Treat?

    It's almost Halloween, which means it's that time of year when once again little ghosts and goblins will walk the earth in search of unwary victims to haunt and to forage sweet edibles. But remember, there may be evil and dangers prowling our community streets in the shadows of twilight, seeking out

  • Who turned out the lights?

    When I pulled out of the parking lot and into the path of a dark maroon vehicle with no headlights on this morning, I blurted out an old "Sanford and Son" saying: "Oh no, this is the big one Lamont." Gone are the beautiful days of summer with warm temperatures and early morning sunrises. We are now

  • Sven’s Costume Safety Tips

    Halloween brings back great memories of roaming the neighborhood dressed in my older brother's hand-me-downs in hopes of filling my pillowcase with candy. This would fuel our sugar highs for the next two weeks! Times have changed a little; I am now a parent and therefore no longer trick or treat.

  • AMC meets, exceeds Air Force ground energy goals

    Air Mobility Command has saved millions of dollars through energy-efficient projects across its 13 installations. With an annual energy bill of $100 million, it plans to save even more. As a leader in energy and water conservation efforts, AMC continues to aggressively pursue the federally mandated

  • You pick: Healthy options survey

    A newly implemented team wants to provide healthier on-base eating options and needs your help.The Military Nutritional Environmental Assessment Tool team is sending out a 16-question email survey Oct. 18 to get the community involved. The survey also can be found here."First we have to consider

  • EC commander hosts conference at Grand Forks AFB

    The head of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center brought his senior leaders to Grand Forks on Oct. 12-14, to showcase a "base in transition" during a Commander's Call Conference."It was an opportunity to share the various concerns we have with joint basing and with bases in transition like Grand

  • Yonkers tours Grand Forks AFB

    Terry Yonkers, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations, Environment and Logistics, took a whirlwind tour of Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., on Oct. 12 and 13.During his visit, Mr. Yonkers toured the base, attended briefing sessions with the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Command's

  • AMC Chief Scientist: Alternative fuels can be the ‘cleaner jet fuel’

    Just as the character "Doc" in the "Back to the Future" movie loaded the flux-capacitor of the time-travel modified 1975 DeLorean with a banana peel and trash from Marty McFly's garbage can, Air Force scientists are looking for the next readily available, renewable clean-burning aircraft fuel.Air