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  • November

    The district’s second player, Anne Holdener, is in her rookie season. Holdener, a budget analyst for Mud Mountain and Howard Hanson Dams, goes by the derby name Holdener Hosstage. Donning number 33, she played in her first career bout in April with her team, the Rainier Roller Girls, losing a last second, back-and-forth battle to the Grunge City Rollers.

    Cruisin' for a bruisin'

    For some, extracurricular activities are traditional sports like bicycling, running, basketball,
  • Great Bridge Lock, Chesapeake, Va.

    Great Bridge Lock down; Corps divers on the scene

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the Great Bridge Lock in Chesapeake, Va., at approximately 7:30 a.m., today to repair inoperative valve.
  • David Quebedeaux has built miles of trails as part of his job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and in his volunteer position with the Boy Scouts. While at the Philmont Scout Ranch this summer, Quebedeaux (left) and Eagle Scout Marshall Knox (right) and the rest of the crew helped lay out and begin construction on a new section of trail near the Cimarron River, shown here June 14, 2013. Courtesy photo.

    Corps park ranger builds future leaders through Boy Scouts

    CLARKS HILL, S.C.-David Quebedeaux has been in the "picnic table" business for 24 years. Among Quebedeaux's colleagues, that's an idiom for being a park ranger. "While other people go to school to be doctors or lawyers, I majored in picnic tables," he said.
  • PVA member Tommy and his son Max get ready to hunt from a wheelchair accessible hunting blind at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Richard B. Russell Lake.

    Helping heroes through hunting

    ELBERTON, Ga. - As part of an ongoing partnership with the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District hosted two deer hunts for PVA members and their families at Richard B. Russell Lake, Oct. 23 and 24. "We are honored to have a District-wide partnership with PVA to provide quality hunting and fishing opportunities for them and their families," said Zachary Baldwin, a natural resource specialist and event coordinator at the Russell Project Office.

  • Strengthening relationships with close allies through FMS

    WINCHESTER, Va. - The Middle East District hosted a delegation of military officers from the United Kingdom in Winchester, Va., Oct. 7-8. Visitors included Cmdr. Fiona Shepherd, Royal Navy; Maj. Paul Brooks, British Army; Capt. William Macgill, British Army; and Flight Lt. David Littlemore, Royal Air Force.