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Roger Chester of Everett received a $10,000 check from Snohomish and Island County Les Schwab Tire Stores after winning the company’s Grand Slam Inning contest at a recent Everett AquaSox game. Chester is the first fan to win this contest in more than a decade, which pays when an AquaSox player hits a grand slam home run in the sixth inning of a home game. In a recent game against the Vancouver Canadians, Everett outfielder Jabari Blash hit a grand slam home run over the center field fence in the sixth inning at Everett Memorial Stadium. Pictured (from left) are Everett AquaSox player Jabari Blash, Les Schwab managers Mark Donohue, Rob Picklesimer and Brian Pasley, contest winner Roger Chester and Les Schwab managers Rob Dwoskin and Gary Foglesong. Contributed photo On Sept. 23, Fred Meyer presented Camp Fire USA Snohomish County Council with a check for $20,074.41 in support of program services for more than 8,000 children in Snohomish County. The check represents the change collected at Fred Meyer checkout counters in all Fred Meyer stores in Snohomish County during April and May. Pictured from left to right are Fred Meyer store managers Laura Tuttle, Kerry Rivera, Kym Smith, Dave Surface from Fred Meyer, Mark Coleman, Katie Kinman and Tom Quinlan. This donation from Fred Meyer was part of a multistate commitment by the company that included all Fred Meyer stores in Alaska, Idaho, Washington and Oregon supporting programs reaching 62,802 children in Camp Fire.

Judd & Black gives $11,500 to nonprofits

TULALIP — Cory Long of Everett appliance retailer Judd & Black gave checks to two Everett groups at the conclusion of the company's annual charity golf tournament at Battle Creek Golf Course in Tulalip for the benefit of local children.

Long presented an $8,500 check to Christmas House board members.

The Saybrook Forum: Alumna Lyn Freeman launches new ...

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Saybrook Alumna Lyn Freeman has been one of the leading researchers on guided imagery as a healing technique.  In 2005 she received the first National Institutes of Health grant to study it as a method of support for cancer survivors.

Treatment for cancer can often leave survivors exhausted, depleted, and drained -- but modern medicine had little to offer them.  Freeman's research was designed to give them something to lead them back from "surviving" to "health."

Based on the Phase I and II results of her studies, the National Cancer Institute has directed Dr. Freeman’s company, Mind Matters Research, to make its therapeutic intervention available to cancer patients and survivors.

While the company is launching the program in Alaska, there is every possibility that it will grow nationally.  The Phase II grants Dr. Freeman received require Mind Matters Research to develop and clinically test their approach via tele-medicine and the web.

Dr. Freeman’s ENVISION Behavioral Medicine Intervention is one of a kind anywhere, relying on brain plasticity strategies that are imagery-based.

Strategies include imagery-driven biofeedback to assess and modify heart rate variability and temperature; art, storytelling, and sound to effect physiology and mood state; mind mapping memory practices; and many other therapies that are implemented and evaluated on a daily basis with cancer patients and survivors. Methods utilized are personalized depending on participant symptoms and response. The Intervention optimizes health promoting changes in physiology, biochemistry and mood state.

Blue Movie

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The Cross, God's Way of Salvation

John 3:16 has often been called "the heart of the Bible" and "the gospel in miniature.

Home, A Memoir of My Early Years

Featuring over fifty personal photos, many never before seen, this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.

The Cross

Tiina Nunnally's exquisite rendering of this unforgettable novel, both more faithful to the beauty of the original Norwegian and more readable than the existing ...

Cross

With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a ...