Senior Airman Melissa Dearstone, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
March 1, 2012
By Senior Airman Melissa Dearstone75th Air Base Wing Public AffairsAir Force ensemble to visitRampart Winds, a woodwind quintet from the United States Air Force Academy Band, will be performing in Utah on March 2-5.The five musicians have come together to spread the good news about the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Academy through their instruments which include a flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon...
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Mary Lou Gorny, Hilltop Times Editor
March 1, 2012
Ogden Depot Logistics Agency members participating as Key Workers in the Combined Federal Campaign expressed great enthusiasm after the campaign for efforts within the agency this year.DLA raised $51,596 which exceeded the Key Representative's goal this year."The fiftieth anniversary of the CFC meant a lot to me this year," said Caren Chavez, DLA training liaison. "I know a lot of people have a...
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American Forces Press Service
February 16, 2012
WASHINGTON -- Service members and their families are among the Americans who will benefit from a "landmark" $25 billion foreclosure settlement between the government and banks, federal and state officials said Feb 10.The federal government and 49 state attorneys general reached the agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage lenders to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses...
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Senior Airman Jefferey Carlson, 75th Operations Support Squadron
February 16, 2012
Severe weather can be one of the biggest threats to an installation, with potential to destroy equipment and property on a large scale and even result in death. Planning for severe weather threats is everyone's responsibility. Everyone must know how to respond individually and how their organization will respond when threatening weather approaches.Severe weather responses start with a forecast...
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Staff Sgt. Eric Burks, 2nd Combat Camera Squadron
February 16, 2012
WEST POINT, Utah -- For most Americans, the contents of a refrigerator don't usually have an immediate impact on our lives.While what lies inside may ultimately have an impact on our waistline or our health, those are gradual changes that develop over long periods of time.But for U.S. Army Cpl. Isaac Jensen, a refrigerator in a house near Malalah, Iraq, contained something that would change his...
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February 9, 2012
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- My education journey took a very long time to achieve.My father never finished high school and my mother finished only two months of nursing classes before she married my father. I was the oldest of six children, and only one of two in my family to receive a college degree. It was never the intention of my parents to not support education; it was a matter...
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Shari Lopatin, TriWest Healthcare Alliance
February 9, 2012
Regular walking can reduce your chances of heart problems by about 30 percent, according to Harvard Health Publications.Those results came from the analysis of 18 studies between 1970 and 2007. Study participants who walked 5.5 miles each week began showing benefits to the heart. And the more they walked, the greater the benefits.So, just how can walking help you live healthier this year?Heart...
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Anne Morrison, Hilltop Times Staff
February 2, 2012
Members of Team Hill's Thrift Shop and the Golden Spike Dog Obedience Club traveled to the 75th Security Forces Military Working Dog's kennel on base recently to see their donations in action.Hhouston, a military working dog, and his handler, Staff Sgt. Matt Wilson, bounded through the freshly shoveled path on the snowy training grounds to which five new inches of snow had been added. Tech. Sgt....
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Steve Salles, Standard-Examiner movie critic
February 2, 2012
It's rare when a good movie is followed up by an even better sequel. "Kung Fu Panda 2" is that rare exception.I'd almost forgotten that Jack Black could do comedy after his last two thuds, "Gulliver's Travels" and "Year One," but here he is making me laugh as Po the portly panda. Settling in nicely as the region's premier kung fu master, Po, now called the Dragon Warrior, and the Furious Five...
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Steve Salles, Standard-Examiner movie critic
February 2, 2012
When a filmmaker decides to use time as a metaphor for futuristic wealth, as in "In Time," it opens the floodgates for other clever cliches.Just living one day at a time. Hey, can you spare a minute? Hold on a second! And it might have worked, if not for a two-dimensional script, silly plot points and ridiculous sound effects. Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives in the poor part of town with his...
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