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For a limited time, Amtrak is offering “Buy One, Get One Free” if you book by September 30th!

Do you go crazy staying home? Now is the perfect opportunity to book a short break for you and a companion for the price of one ticket! If you book on the Acela and Northeast Regional trains by September 30th for selected dates by December 12th, you will be eligible to purchase and receive a free special. (The only condition is that no journeys are allowed on Fridays and Sundays.)

To ensure the safety of passengers, Amtrak has taken several precautions to comply with CDC guidelines. The train will undergo improved cleaning procedures and a fresh air exchange every 4 to 5 minutes. Bookings are limited so only the person sitting next to you is part of your booking group.

Instead of squeezing yourself into a mid-sized seat at 30,000 feet, you can use Amtrak for a little more space. To ensure adequate social distancing, we are limiting booking capacity to 50%. So sit back and enjoy the ride … along with a little more peace of mind. pic.twitter.com/LSPvmscojY

– Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 25, 2020

Sample tariffs to / from the city:

• New York – Washington, DC (Acela: $ 129 / Northeast region: $ 69)
• Boston – New York (Acela: $ 99 / Regional Northeast: $ 69)
• Philadelphia – New York (Acela: USD 99 / Northeast region: USD 56)
• Washington, DC – Philadelphia (Acela: $ 99 / Northeast Region: $ 56)
• Baltimore – New York (Acela: USD 129 / Northeast region: USD 69)
• Boston – Washington, DC (Acela: $ 129 / Northeast Region: $ 104)
• Richmond-Washington, D, C. (Regional Northeast: USD 30)
• Norfolk – Washington, DC (Northeast Region: $ 50)
• Richmond – New York (Regional Northeast: $ 84)
• Norfolk – New York (Regional Northeast: USD 86)

For the latest Amtrak deals, visit the Amtrak deals page. Which city are you going to visit for your next autumn adventure? Let us know in the comments below!

COULTER, MARIE S. Long-time resident of Severna Park, Marie S. Coulter, died peacefully on April 18 at the age of 93 at her son’s home in Vienna, Virginia. She had been in a hospice shortly after surgery in Annapolis and rehabilitation in Virginia.

Marie was dedicated to her faith, her family, her friends and her flowers. Born at home in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina, she lost her father early in her childhood and grew up on a 25-acre farm outside the small town of Cullowhee with her sister and mother, a teacher. She finished second grade of her high school at age 15 and attended college briefly before going to work during World War II. She settled in Baltimore, where she met the young naval officer Frank J. Coulter as a young assistant director of a large theater. A storm of publicity sparked her new career as a Navy wife, accompanying her husband on missions to Hawaii, Annapolis, Norfolk, Washington, DC, Korea, San Diego, and New York State while raising her two children.

Marie and her husband Frank moved to Severna Park in 1970, where both were church and community active. She left her job as a Girl Scout trainer to focus on church and garden club activities and the Rotary Club Inner Wheel. She served her faith and church as a Sunday School teacher, women’s group leader (including president of the Association of Lutheran Church Women in Maryland), member of Bible study groups, volunteer for the homeless and disadvantaged, and for decades the chief creator of the weekly newspaper, Flower Arrangements for the Altar. Creation and craftsmanship were at the center of their work in gardening clubs. She began gardening on the family farm as a child and began arranging flowers through the Naval Academy Garden Club in the early 1950s. Her decades of experience flourished at Severna Park, where she not only won hundreds of blue ribbons and special awards for her arrangements, but also served as President of the Chartwell Garden Club and the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, Director for District II and the Central Atlantic Region of State Garden Clubs and as a decade-long board member of National Garden Clubs, Inc. Certified and Accredited Landscape Critic / Advisor and Master of Flower Shows, she shared her knowledge and love of gardening, flowers and creative arrangements with thousands of others in the Over the years, toured the state giving demonstrations and hosting hundreds of workshops in her basement workroom, both for teaching and leading groups making wedding and funeral arrangements for friends. She was an active member of Ikebana International and an avid student of the Sogetsu School of Design. Marie was particularly passionate about daffodils, growing dozens of varieties, and serving as a judge for the American Daffodil Society and Chair of the District II Daffodil Show for 39 years. The Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland presented her with their most prestigious award in honor.

Marie and Frank had been married for 62 years when he died in 2011. They were avid fans of Orioles baseball and, in particular, football at the Naval Academy, where Frank was a proud member of the 1939 class. Marie remained as a season ticket holder after Frank’s death and had already bought tickets for the coming season. She leaves behind her sister Jean Mincey from Cullowhee, daughter Cynthia Dougherty (Chuck) from Washington, DC, son Frank Jr. (Liz) from Vienna, Virginia, grandchildren Megan Coulter Hoffmann (Bruno), Janey Coulter Keon (Travis), Leslie Dougherty Parker (Matt) and Peter Dougherty, five great-grandchildren (Nico, Luca, Riley, Betsy and Timmy) and several nieces and nephews.

Following the current pandemic, a memorial service and a funeral at the Naval Academy will follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, 400 Benfield Road, Severna Park, MD 21146. Online condolences can be made at www.barrancofuneralhome.com

Published by Baltimore Sun on April 25, 2021.

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On May 4th, FERC revised its final ruling on when to grant approval for the construction of natural gas pipeline facilities

Under Order 871-B, FERC will not grant any construction progress approval until the earlier of the following dates:

1. the date on which a trial application is no longer pending; or
2. 90 days after a trial application is considered rejected

The ban only applies if the trial application contradicts the project

FERC also announced a general policy to keep pipeline certificates in effect during the 30-day trial period

A pipeline project can apply for an exemption from this policy if it shows “significant hardship”.

“[Order No. 871-B] strikes a compromise that protects the interests of the parties affected by a new pipeline and at the same time gives developers the security they need to invest in energy infrastructure “- FERC chairman Richard Glick

Originally published May 10, 2021

The content of this article is intended to provide general guidance on the subject. Expert advice should be sought regarding your specific circumstances.

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Ellen MacEwen Humphries Ellen MacEwen Humphries passed away on Thursday June 26, 2014. She was born on May 15, 1931 in Washington DC to the late Harold and Ruth MacEwen. She grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and later settled in Arlington, Virginia. She retired to Charlottesville, Virginia in 2004 and enjoyed her new home in Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge until her death. She is survived by her daughter Carol Collier Lindsay and husband Walton Carlyle “Ky” Lindsay of Charlottesville, Virginia; Daughter Anne Humphries Arseneau and husband Robert Arseneau of Williamsburg, Virginia; two grandchildren, Anne Carlyle Lindsay and James Walton “Jake” Lindsay; and her brother Richard Alan MacEwen and wife Virginia Bole MacEwen of McLean, Virginia. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington DC in 1949 and from George Washington University in 1953 with a degree in chemistry and began her professional career in a research laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. She married Theodore McSpadden Collier (died 1986), a foreign service officer, in 1955, and they lived in Aden, Arabia and Copenhagen, Denmark, where Carol was born. In 1960 she returned to the NIH as a researcher and settled with Carol in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1966 she married Commander George Humphries, an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, and moved to Norfolk, then Arlington, Virginia. They were stationed in Norfolk, Washington, DC and Yokosuka, Japan. When George died on active duty in Yokosuka in 1971, she returned to Arlington to raise her two daughters. After graduating from Marymount University with her RN in 1977, she was a nurse at Sibley Hospital in DC for 18 years. She was known and loved for her strong contributions to the people and communities in which she served. Over the years she enjoyed volunteering with the PTA, Girl Scouts and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (Arlington) where she was in the Altar Guild and produced the Christmas contest for 20 years. She loved big parties, especially when it came to fireworks, and spent years putting on a July 4th block party on North Dinwiddie Street in Arlington. In Charlottesville, she was an active member of the Westminster Canterbury Chapel Committee. She showed an enthusiastic zest for life in all things. She loved her family, gardening, her Pi Beta Phi sisters, and serving a big breakfast (waffles were a must!). She was a gracious host and loved to chat. She was a mediocre bridge player but never let herself be stopped from social gatherings. She loved the beach and boardwalks of Rehobeth, Delaware and Ocean City, Maryland. She was an avid traveler who loved taking part in grand adventures with friends and family in the region, at home, and around the world. We would like to thank the wonderful staff at Healthcare 2 at WCBR for their loving care over the past two years. A funeral and memorial service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery this fall, with an announcement at that time. Instead of flowers, the family is asking you to contribute to a charity that will bring you the kind of joy that Ellen hugs every day.

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From Carl Verstrepen

20 years ago a group of Belgian firefighters traveled through the southwestern United States. This was a lovely tourist trip that included San Diego, Los Angeles, Yosemite National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas. As with all fire brigade tourists, their cameras were taken out and operated at full capacity when fire trucks passed and their rental cars came to a complete stop when there was a fire station to visit and visit. One of those stops was the Kern County Fire Department in Bakersfield, California. The Belgians were welcomed with open arms and given a great tour of the train station, machinery, equipment, and equipment.

Our American brothers took a couple of Belgians for a ride and a phone call. This experience was very different from operations in Belgium, where fire stations were more like prohibited territory for all non-department members.

In May 1996 a group of 12 Belgian firefighters spent a few days in the San Diego (CA) fire department stations. They rode out on calls, watched the training and talked about procedures and experiences. The Belgians “stole” knowledge with their eyes. On the return flight to Belgium, Marc Opstal, the organizer of this trip, decided with a few other firefighters to set up an organization to organize such trips. This idea resulted in Fire Observers vzw in October 1996.

ONE NAME, OUR ORGANIZATION AND ITS BOARD AND GOALS

The choice of an English name for the group was unanimous, although finding the right one was not that easy. Marc Opstal became President of Fire Observers vzw, while some participants on the San Diego trip joined the board in several other positions. (Vzw is the Belgian abbreviation for non-profit organization.) We chose a non-profit organization because we did not want to work for profit. This was also the easiest way to set up an association and work legally under a very strict Belgian law on organizations.

Over the years a lot has changed in the operation of Fire Observers vzw; the board was one of them. Today Opstal is still president of the organization, but the other key positions and board positions have been filled with new talent.

The board consists of 11 members who work for the association without compensation. Board members act as program directors; Once we have departmental approval for a training program, the board members do all of the planning; Administration; and booking of flight tickets, rental cars, hotels, etc.

All of our board members have been working in the fire and rescue service for several years. They are a mix of all ranks from firefighter to boss, career and volunteer; they are all approved for the rescue service and / or several special forces.

Since the establishment of Fire Observers vzw, we have made it very clear that these programs are not just a vacation. These are seven to ten day training programs followed by a few days of downtime, so tourist visits and beach time are more likely towards the end of the trip. The actual program provides a busy schedule of work-related visits, exercises, lessons, demonstrations, and station life, including responding to all kinds of incidents. Our main goal is to convey to our members how US fire departments are organized, how they train and how they work, to learn more about their procedures and equipment, and to share experiences and ideas. Then we can take this knowledge with us to Belgium and try to implement it accordingly in our departments and services. In addition to our main goal, we want to enable our members to learn more about the United States of America, its history, the American way of life and of course the Brotherhood.

OUR MEMBERS: 1996-2015

All of our members must work in the fire and rescue service. 94 percent are professional firefighters or volunteer firefighters with ranks ranging from firefighter to chief. Six percent are non-fire fighters who work as trainers, paramedics, nurses in rescue services and emergency rooms, lifeguards or emergency dispatchers. Since 2001 we have also received a large group of fire fighters from the Netherlands. Today we have more than 200 members in our association.

In the first few years of our existence, we kept the number of programs per year at two. Communication wasn’t the same as it is today. For example, not everyone had access to the internet so members of our organization joined through word of mouth.

Communication with the host departments did not happen overnight either. Due to the increasing number of members, we have been offering four programs per year since 2012. In 2013 we also started a program in Canada.

Once a program is posted on our website, members can apply for approximately 30 days before the selection process begins. There are two lists – the first (1) with members who have never joined a program before and the second (2) with returning members. Each program has 75 percent free places for members for List 1 and 25 percent for List 2. The selection is based on the list ranking.

In October 2015, a group of 10 Belgian fire observers was invited to a training program by the Mobile Fire Brigade (AL). It was the second time there was a program in Mobile; a very successful program was carried out in May 2007. The Mobile 2015 program was the 50th project by Fire Observers vzw! These 50 programs have brought more than 550 fire fighters from Belgium and the Netherlands to US fire departments to observe, train and share knowledge.

The list of hosting departments is long and varied. Others include San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Nashville, Mobile, Jacksonville, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach County, Atlanta, Richmond, Norfolk, Washington DC, Fairfax County, and Detroit . Numerous departments have hosted us more than once.

For 2016 we have four very exciting programs on the program again, with hosting departments such as Miami-Dade, Houston, Long Beach and Phoenix. A total of 44 fire observers take part in these programs.

WHAT DOES A TRAINING / RIDE-ALONG PROGRAM LOOK LIKE?

Our group is looking for fire departments that are large and busy enough to house a group of 10 to 14 fire watchers for about a week. Our members are assigned to the busiest units and stations in the city and take part in daily station life such as equipment and equipment checks, cleaning and homework, lessons and exercises, physical training, shopping and cooking, and (of course) responding to various incidents.

We also schedule many work-related visits during the program. For example, we will visit the Emergency Call Center, the Fire Department Academy, the Fire Department Museum (if any), the U.S. Coast Guard, fire equipment builders, and trauma centers.

We also try to do a few courses, drills or demonstrations like live fire drills, height rescue, confined space rescue, hazmat incidents, SWAT medics, trauma helicopters, rapid water rescue, ARFF, sea fire fighting, etc.

We always have a good time, but these programs are not vacations and our members know that. There is a very high standard; This is a 100 percent active program with very few hours of downtime.

In the stations, our members can be assigned to engines, trucks, bosses, medical units and special units. In responding to all incidents, our members remain in an observing role. However, several departments have asked us to work on actual incidents. Some involve us with their field operations such as fires, salvages, medical assistance and rescues. Others have also included us in indoor fire and roof operations.

OUR SUCCESS

It has been proven that these programs are a success! The mixture of education and tourism in a high class organization leads to an increasing number of members and an increasing number of applications for each program. More than 60 applications were received for the 32 free places in the 2015 programs.

Because we are a non-profit organization that is not affiliated with any federal or local government or any other department or agency, we do not receive any grants or financial aid. All of our members and board members are responsible for their own expenses such as flights, rental cars, fuel, hotel / accommodation, tourist activities and insurance; they even have to take time off from work. The members apply on a voluntary basis and are of course highly motivated to take part in these programs.

For more information about our organization and programs, please visit our website at http://www.fireobservers.org.

Carl Verstrepen has been working in the fire and rescue service since 1996 and has held several positions in four different departments and offices. He joined Fire Observers vzw in 2004 and shortly thereafter became a board member. He has been CFO and contact person for public information since 2014.

Our readers ask Umbra questions here and then vote for the question they want them to answer the most. That was the winning question last week.

F.I’m not giving up … but if I moved where in the United States could I go to minimize climate change?

– Uncomfortable in a U-Haul

A.Dear discomfort,

So you want to escape climate change. That’s a sensible impulse – climate change is competing with nuclear war for the greatest threat to human life in the history of our species’ existence. Every survival instinct that we have cultivated so far should understandably lead us to get away from it.

Let’s start by assessing the regions of the United States based on the basics of what we expect from climate change. We know the seas will swell and temperatures will rise. This endangers a large number of coastal cities with relatively warm climates, especially in summer – Miami, New Orleans, Norfolk, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles. A 2017 paper in Nature Climate Change estimated that the 13.1 million people displaced from these cities by sea level rise could head for inland locations such as Atlanta, Houston, and Phoenix.

So there you have it, restless! Let’s all go to Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix.

But wait a second: Hurricane Harvey gave an alarming preview of how Houston will fare in a climate-changed future. Phoenix is ​​located in the middle of a desert with no reliable water source, where temperatures can rise to 120 degrees F in summer. And Atlanta is the third fastest metropolitan area in the country.

Forget these cities. What is a beautiful, temperate place? Never gets too hot or too cold, has a lot of water? Aha – the Pacific Northwest. Umbra’s home! After all, it is part of the rainforest.

But it’s a rainforest that has seen bigger, hotter, deadlier, and more unpredictable forest fires lately. Even a small increase in temperature has a negative effect on the moisture of plants and soil, which means that the forests dry out and become real tinder boxes. And we had warmer winters, which means less snow in the mountains and thus a less reliable water source for the region. (Oh, and a really devastating earthquake is long overdue, but that’s different from climate change.)

Hmmm … how about Alaska? Tons of snow. Very cold. Well, unless a spike in average temperatures has already begun to displace thousands of the state’s indigenous people along the coast. In addition, when the permafrost becomes less permanent, millions of ancient viruses and bacteria that humans have lost immunity to will be unearthed.

That’s hard math. Or maybe hard geography? I called Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation specialist and faculty member at Harvard Graduate School of Design, for a more informed perspective on where to limit their exposure to climate change.

His suggestion: places whose water does not depend on snow cover, groundwater aquifers or reservoirs. More specifically, these are rural, forested northern areas with plenty of clean water wells – that is, the upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan Upper Peninsula) and maybe parts of Montana. Justin Timberlake was up to something!

But if everyone moves to rural areas, changes the forest landscape and tax all these pristine wells, they won’t last long as climate strongholds.

“Well, exactly,” said Keenan. “There is nowhere to hide. I think you have to come to terms with what you think you are running away from. Are you trying to hit people for something? Are you trying to escape because there is danger and you are in danger? Are you running for your health or for your well-being? Then you have to put up with the fact that you are trying to make an economic investment decision where you want to use your limited resources. “

Resources, whether limited or huge, are the deciding factor here. I imagine that when you ask this question you have some means of picking up and moving around. That’s not the case for many people – you could say most people, considering that nearly two-thirds of Americans have less than $ 1,000 in savings and the average long-distance move costs around $ 5,000.

But even if you put the money aside, moving is no small feat. You have to start a whole new life, build a new social circle. “You can try moving to one of these places,” Keenan said, “but you have to learn the position you put yourself in and you have to become a part of these new communities.”

Keenan said he got versions of your question almost daily – usually from “people at large institutional real estate funds, rich people looking to buy or already own land, or survivors.” And acquiring the ability to answer the question: “Which country will survive climate change?” Is a lucrative undertaking.

Not to shame you, but the fact that the unholy triad of insurance companies, real estate investors, and Silicon Valley is raising those concerns should hold you back a little.

When you realize that climate change is a huge, terrifying problem and you have the means to at least escape it – why not use those funds to remedy it instead, especially when you know it is impossible to escape ? By “fixing” I mean trying to make the place where you live, where you’ve made a home, where you have a sense of ownership and responsibility – and oh, let’s call it investment – more resilient to make climate change. Maybe you are agitating for more storm-resistant infrastructure, local transport, green spaces.

Because the future is not certain, but escaping the problem ensures that it is.

Permanent,

umbra

PS If you want a preview of how climate change will affect every region of the United States, take a look at the map my colleagues have put together here.

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The Jamgrass Quintet’s extensive run includes appointments in the Midwest, Northeast, Central Atlantic, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

By Scott Bernstein June 16, 2021 • 12:34 p.m. PDT

Yonder Mountain String Band confirmed a long autumn tour. The excursion currently runs from October 21 to November 20 and will be followed by an appearance by the group at Strings & Sol 2021.

Stoughton, Wisconsin, Stoughton Opera House is hosting the tour opener on October 21st. Yonder then meets Evanston, Illinois; Kimberly, Wisconsin; St. Louis and Kent, Ohio before turning the Northeast with stops in New York City; Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ardmore, New York; Troy, New York and State College, Pennsylvania.

The Yonder Mountain String Band plays The National in Richmond, Virginia on November 9th. This is followed by concerts in Norfolk, Washington DC, Charlotte and Boone (North Carolina). Then head to Oklahoma for shows in Tulsa November 16-17, and Nebraska for Kearney’s Joe’s Honky Tonk on November 18. The group concludes the tour in Colorado with appointments in Colorado Springs on November 19 and Fort Collins on November 20.

Ticket sales start on Friday, June 18.

Inheritance, honor and service mean everything to Rob Lewis.

They define the Auburn man as someone who is loyal to his family, tribe, crew and country.

For nearly six years in the US Navy, Lewis was a “bubblehead,” a sonar technician on three nuclear-powered submarines. Lewis, the son of a professional soldier, lived and explored other lands and sailed around the world while in the Navy, using special skills and sharing camaraderie with his brothers in arms during the post Cold War era.

“It was a way for me to move forward in this world,” said Lewis, 48, a Muckleshoot Tribe, husband and father of four, and now a surveillance technician who protects the tribes’ property like he’s back on board Protect land from threats swirling in international waters.

“Being a veteran is a little different for me than it is for other people,” he said. “I still don’t see it as an identity or anything, but it was an experience that informed and shaped me.”

Smart and ambitious, Lewis left Auburn to learn a trade and find his way. Reading Tom Clancy’s books made him interested in submarine culture. True to his roots, he wanted to serve his tribe and his homonymous state by joining the navy in 1989. He longed to be part of the USS Olympia or USS Bremerton submarines, but was assigned to the USS Flying Fish and later. served on the USS Baton Rouge and the USS Sunfish.

It was an interesting job, said Lewis, mostly routine, at times intense.

“It’s its own world, it’s a small world,” he said of the submarine’s sworn company. “Once you’ve spent a few years with people underwater, you know everything about them.”

These relationships continue today, as does his dedication to helping and serving others.

Lewis lit up when he recently discovered the Navy was commissioning a new, state-of-the-art, rapid attack nuclear submarine in Norfolk, Virginia, the port where he was once stationed. Fascinated, he and Sonny Bargala, a respected Vietnam War veteran of the tribe, went with gifts to the ceremony on October 7th.

The newest Virginia-class submarine, USS Washington (SSN 787) shone during a ceremony aboard Naval Station Norfolk. The submarine is 377 feet long, 34 feet wide, can dive to depths greater than 800 feet, and operate underwater at speeds greater than 25 knots. It will operate without refueling for more than 30 years.

“It put together the best of all classes,” said Lewis of the new boat. “It’s beautiful … it’s professional and incomparable.”

The USS Washington is a flexible, multi-mission platform designed to carry out the seven core competencies of the submarine force: anti-submarine warfare; Anti-surface warfare; Delivery of special forces; Strike war; irregular warfare; Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and mine warfare.

“As I have told the crew on many occasions, they are the most important part of the ship,” said the commander of the submarine, Gabriel Cavazos. “They give the ship its personality and fighting spirit. Without the occupation, Washington would not be the combat platform it was built for; But combine both and together we are the Blackfish. ”

Washington is the fourth ship in the US Navy and the first submarine to be named in honor of the state. The previous three ships were an armored cruiser (ACR 11) that served from 1905 to 1916, the Battleship (BB 47), a Colorado-class battleship launched in 1921 and sunk as a gun target in 1924 after construction was halted , and the battleship (BB 56) is credited with sinking more enemy tonnage during World War II than any other U.S. Navy battleship that served from 1941 to 1947.

Lewis and Bargala represented their tribe at the start-up. They gave the crew the Muckleshoot battle flag and two ornate paddles and gave the “boss” of the boat (COB) a personal box with an eagle feather.

It was like a tribal ceremony, a right of passage with an exchange of meaningful, powerful gifts, Lewis said. Many of the Navy’s nautical honors come from tribal traditions, he said.

“We wanted to represent our tribe and be part of it,” he said. “We wanted to repay that and return the honor.”

The USS Washington Patch symbolizes much of the culture and tradition of the Northwest and Native Americans, Lewis said, including images and art of mighty Mount Rainier and a black orca.

“That really appealed to me,” said Lewis.

The ceremony took place on the same pier on the exact same day that Lewis was honored and greeted 22 years ago before leaving his duty to go ashore.

“It took me a long way back,” he said. “I am proud and happy to be a part of it.”

U.S. Navy veteran Rob Lewis shows off the patch symbolizing the newest Virginia-class submarine, the USS Washington (SSN 787), which entered service Oct. 7. The patch contains images of the culture and arts of the Northwest and Native American people. MARK KLAAS, Auburn reporter

The summer dates that have already been confirmed are followed by an extensive autumn tour after Salat. The “Bring Back The Love Tour” includes 41 dates from July 2nd to December 12th.

The energetic funk band tours Colorado, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee in July before performing at Summer Camp, Tedeschi Trucks Mini-Festival and Hot August Music Festival in August. Lettuce then returns to the streets for headlining dates in Portland, Maine in September; Mason, New Hampshire; Providence; Memphis; St. Louis and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Venues in St. Louis and Grand Rapids will be announced shortly.

October for Lettuce includes a show in New Orleans on the 9th, an appearance at Suwannee Hulaween, and a Halloween concert at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. In November, Lettuce will take the tour to Raleigh, Norfolk, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Portsmouth (New Hampshire), Buffalo, Pittsburgh, New Haven, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), Indianapolis, Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis. The tour concludes with December stops in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Eugene, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

“Salat was started out of love and we continue to do so out of love for you. We love each other; We love the music; we love you ”, lettuce bassist Jesus is coming declared to be the name of the tour. “The opposite of hate is what we stand for, and we believe there is no better time than the present to be loving and respectful of all of life on this planet all the time.”

Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday, June 11th at 10 a.m. local time.

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