Community Newsletter JBLM | October 2021
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Think Pink Live Green Cancer has touched all our lives in one way or another. When the diagnosis comes in, time stands still as a rush of emotions takes over in that moment and everyone realizes life has changed. We all know someone who has experienced this and begins the fight for their life.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month! Breast Cancer remains one of the most common cancers for women and is projected to double globally by 2040. We all need to be aware, make changes to reduce the risk, get involved to support those who are diagnosed, and help find a cure! Studies have shown a direct connection between “living green” and lowering your risk for cancer. Check out the Think Pink, Live Green campaign at breastcancer.org for more information and tips. Lewis-McChord Communities
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In This Issue 1. Living Pink, Live Green 2. Trash Schedule 3. Upcoming Events Cont.
Living Green Tips: Living Pink, Live Green
Spouse Mixer - October
Costume Contest
Spooky House Contest
Trick Or Treat - Drive Through
4. Trick Or Treat Tips 5. Resident Reminders
Think Pink, Live Green is a way of living that aims to help women reduce their risk of breast cancer or help prevent the disease coming back in survivors. It’s also a way to help women make healthy choices. Tips:
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Get regular exercise
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Drink filtered tap water
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Manage stress levels
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Eat small meals
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Eat your fruits & veggies
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Get enough Vitamin D
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Avoid taking extra hormones
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Get a good nights rest/sleep
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Limit red and processed meat
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Know your food & product labels
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Eat good fats (polyunsaturated
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Limit bad fats (saturated and trans fat)
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and monounsaturated fats) For more tips and information visit: https://ww5.komen.org
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District Trash Collection Schedule Have your trash cans curbside by 5:30 AM on your designated day Please Note: If your trash day falls on a holiday, pickup may be delayed by one business day
Monday: Evergreen, Madigan, New Hillside Tuesday: Broadmoor, Davis Hill, Greenwood, Parkway Wednesday: All McChord Field
District Office Hours: Monday - Friday 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday & Sunday Closed Lincoln Military Housing
Thursday: Beachwood, Beachwood II, Eagleview, Meriwether Landing Friday: Clarkdale, Discovery Village, Hillside, Town Center Centralized Garbage Container Service: • Tuesday: Parkway and Town Center • Friday: Parkway and Clarkdale Resource Guide 2
Upcoming Events
Spouses Mixer October 19th: Glass Block Lights
Virtual Costume Contest October 31st.
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Resident Reminders
TRICK OR TREAT Halloween is an exciting time of year for children. Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) would like to take the opportunity to help you make it as safe as possible. Trick-or-treating will take place in JBLM housing areas October 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. Parents are asked to accompany their young children during trick-ortreating and to use caution when crossing roadways. If you are driving, please be extremely careful on the roadways, especially in housing areas and where children are present. •
Treats: Warn children not to eat any treats before an adult has carefully examined them for evidence of tampering. A good meal prior to parties and trick-or-treating will discourage youngsters from filling up on Halloween treats.
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Flame Resistant Costumes: When purchasing a costume, masks, beards, and wigs, look for the label Flame Resistant. Although this label does not mean these items won’t catch fire, it does indicate the items will resist burning and should extinguish quickly once removed from the ignition source.
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Costume Designs: Purchase or make costumes that are light and bright enough to be clearly visible to motorists. For greater visibility during dusk and darkness, decorate or trim costumes with reflective tape that will glow in the beam of a car’s headlights. Bags or sacks should also be light colored or decorated with reflective tape. To easily see and be seen, children should also carry flashlights or glow sticks. Costumes should be short enough to prevent children from tripping and falling. Children should wear well fitting, sturdy shoes. Mother’s high heels are not a good idea for safe walking. Hats and scarves should be tied securely to prevent them from slipping over children’s eyes. Apply a natural mask of cosmetics rather than have a child wear a loosely fitting mask that might restrict breathing or obscure vision.
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Pedestrian Safety: Young children should always be accompanied by an adult or an older, responsible child. All children should WALK, not run from house to house and use the sidewalk if available, rather than walk where ornaments, furniture, or clotheslines present dangers. To keep homes safe for visiting trick-or-treaters, parents should remove from the porch and front yard anything a child could trip over. Wet leaves should be swept from sidewalks and steps. Restrain pets so they do not inadvertently jump on or bite a trick-or-treater.
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Choosing Safe Houses: Children should go only to homes where the residents are known and have outside lights on as a sign of welcome. Barracks are not authorized. Children should not enter homes or apartments unless they are accompanied by an adult. People expecting trick-or-treaters should remove anything that could be an obstacle from lawns, steps and porches. Candlelit jack-o’lanterns should be kept away from landings and doorsteps where costumes could brush against the flame.
*** Not all resident homes participate in Trick Or Treat, yet choose to leave their porch light on for safety and visibility purposes. Please visit your District Office for a Trick Or Treaters Welcome door sign. Please hang the sign on your door to let resident children know if your home is handing out treats or not participating in the festivities. Thank you. ***
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Resident Reminders Changing batteries in smoke detectors All of the homes in Lewis-McChord Communities are equipped with smoke detectors. You will find detectors on every floor of the home and in bedrooms. Some smoke detectors will be battery operated only and some are hard wired directly into the home with a battery back up. You are responsible for maintaining the smoke detectors in good working order. Please test your detectors regularly and change batteries when it is needed. If you are ever concerned or would like to have your smoke or carbon monoxide detectors checked, just simply call in a work order. ** TIP: A good way to remember your detector batteries is to change then every time you set your clock forward or backward in conjunction with Daylight Savings time and Standard time. Upcoming Daylight Savings End Date is November 4th (set your clocks back one hour).
Pet Responsibilities Pet droppings are odorous, unsightly, and a nuisance. More importantly, they can be a health hazard, especially for children. Therefore, pets must be kept under control so they do not defecate on parade fields, playgrounds, troop formation areas, sidewalks/walkways, common areas, miniature playgrounds of the housing areas, and neighbors' yards. You will immediately clean up droppings when your pet defecates outside of your residence yard. Droppings in your residence, including your yard, will be removed daily. Pet owners are responsible for disposing of their pet's waste, whether the pet is on a leash or in a fenced area. A pet owner who does not properly dispose of his/her pet's waste will be subject to a fine of $25 for each offense plus $5 per day that the violation persists. With the fall season comes heavy rain, wind and chilly weather. If you have a pet that spends time in the fenced yard, make sure you are taking the best care possible of your four legged family member. * Make sure your pet has shelter from the elements * Make sure your pet has food and water. * Bring your pet in when the weather is extreme. Remember if its too cold for you, its too cold for your pet. Be kind, bring them inside. Lewis-McChord Communities
Extended Leave or Vacation from your home. When leaving your home for an extended period of time (more than two (2) weeks), a Vacation and Extended Absence Form must be completed and given to your District Office. This form can be picked up at any of our District Offices. Before you leave your home, we strongly recommend that you: 1. Stop mail and newspaper delivery. 2. Leave pets with friends or at a kennel (pets are not allowed to stay in your home during your absence. ANIMAL CONTROL WILL TAKE PETS LEFT IN HOME DURING YOUR ABSENCE. 3. Unplug all unnecessary appliances such as a TV, coffee maker, or computers. 4. Lock and secure all doors and windows. 5. Turn off water supply line to washing machine. During winter months: Please call our Customer Service line at 253.912.3500 for special “cold weather” instructions to prevent frozen / broken pipes.
Holiday Decorations Halloween Decorations must be removed by Nov 10th. Halloween decorations consist of Jack O’ Lanterns (carved pumpkins), skeletons, ghosts, spiders and spider webs, spooky decor, witches, scary cats and all related inflatable characters. Please be aware, we may ask that you remove gruesome and overly scary decorations. There may be Service Members recovering from PTSD in your community. Please keep Halloween fun and safe for the entire community. Fall seasonal decorations must be removed by Dec 10th. Seasonal decorations (Fall) consist of leaves, scarecrows, gourds, whole un-carved pumpkins, natural wreaths, hay bales, corn stalks, etc. Please note, immediate removal may be required of any decorations, alterations, additional or fixtures which are made or installed without Agent’s prior written consent, The premises will then be restored or repaired solely at the cost of the resident. For more informations regarding holiday / seasonal decorations please contact your District Office. Resource Guide 5
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Slay Vampire Power By Directorate of Public Works
Ghosts and goblins may only come out on Halloween, but energy vampires and phantom loads lurk in our homes and offices all year long. Energy vampires are appliances or other plugged-in devices that draw energy, or phantom loads, when they are plugged in but not in use. Think about your electric toothbrush, or the coffee maker. These vampires are wicked and wasteful, costing U.S. households an average of $100 per year. If you're not using an electronic device, unplug it -- that's the blanket approach to fighting vampire power. You can make this step even easier with a surge protector or power strip. Plug multiple items in the strip and simply turn it off when you're not using the devices. If the strip is off, you don't have to worry. Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a pre-eminent military power platform. It is also a city. The installation consumes a lot of energy to power daily operations. Reliable access to energy is critical to mission success and energy conservation starts with you! See the Environmental Division website (https://homeadmin.army.mil/lewis-mcchord/index.php/my-Joint-Base-Lewis-Mcchord/ all-services/public_works-environmental_division/energy-program) or follow Sustainable JBLM on Facebook for ideas on how to save energy. Lewis-McChord Communities
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Community Services
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Community Services Email: jblmcsevents@lpsi.com Office Hours: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Closed Saturday and Sunday Community Services Coordinator: Hope Schwickerath Community Services Manager: Marcia McDowell
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Community Services Mission Statement Our mission is to improve the quality of life for our military residents through programs designed to strengthen personal connections between neighbors, and to partner with like minded local organizations to support this goal. Resource Guide 10
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DISTRICT OFFICES LEWIS MAIN
LEWIS NORTH
MCCHORD FIELD
Lewis Main District Office
Lewis West District Office
Lewis East District Office
Lewis North District Office
McChord District Office
Broadmoor, Town Center and Clarkdale
Parkway, Davis Hill, Greenwood and Hillside
Discovery Village, Evergreen and New Hillside
Meriwether Landing, Beachwood North, Beachwood South and Eagleview
All McChord and Madigan
BLDG 5133 - Lewis Main Phone: 253-912-3460 lewismain@lpsi.com
BLDG 5133 - Lewis Main Phone: 253-912-3493 lewiswest@lpsi.com
BLDG 60100A - Lewis Main Phone: 253-912-3485 lewiseast@lpsi.com
BLDG 10400 - Lewis North Phone: 253-912-3475 lewisnorth@lpsi.com
BLDG 3209 - McChord Field Phone: 253-589-0523 mcchord@lpsi.com
District Manager: To Be Announced Maintenance Supervisor: Matt Clark
District Manager: Kimberly Trammell Maintenance Supervisor: Dale Kimball
District Manager: Lesley Bonnell Maintenance Supervisor: Yawanda Proctor
District Manager: Jessica Flansburg Maintenance Supervisor: Adam Alfau
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District Manager: Katie Dirkx Maintenance Supervisor: Joe Mavega
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Maintenance Tips
How Can We Help? Maintenance Requests, Suggestions or Residents Concerns Do you have a needed repair, a suggestion, or a concern? Lincoln Military Housing is committed to enriching the lives of military families through providing quality homes and vibrant communities. Your feedback is an important piece in helping us accomplish this goal, and we want to ensure we provide you with an avenue to initially address your needed repair, suggestion or concern and the process to escalate it, should that be necessary. Below is an outline of our easy Three- Step process for concerns and opportunities to provide feedback.
Three-Step Process for Resident Concerns Step One
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Identify the issue and contact Lincoln Military Housing:
If the issue is incomplete contact Lincoln Military Housing:
If the issue is still unresolved contact:
Lincoln At Your Service 24-HR Toll-Free Hot Line: 888-578-4141 LincolnServiceTrack.com
General Management Office 253-912-2111
Government Family Housing 253-967-2524
~ Lewis Main District Office | 253-912-3460 ~ Lewis West District Office | 253-912-3493 ~ Lewis East District Office | 253-912-3485 ~ Lewis North District Office | 253-912-3475 ~ McChord District Office | 253-589-0523 Lewis-McChord Communities
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