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Gardening with the MultiCare grounds crew: choosing rose plants
Spring is here, and not only is it a great time to plant new shrubs, such as roses, it is also when the selection of roses at local nurseries is at its best.
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For the kids: fundraising tips for the Courage Classic
Every year, hundreds of cyclists suit up for the Alaska Airlines Courage Classic, a 173-mile bicycle tour over three of Western Washington’s most well-known mountain passes. It’s a challenging and fun event that raises money to support the Rotary Endowment for the Intervention and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect – which provides significant support for Mary Bridge’s Child Abuse Intervention Department (CAID).
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Riding through the elements
Every year, hundreds of cyclists suit up for the Alaska Airlines Courage Classic, a 173-mile bicycle tour over three of Western Washington’s most well-known mountain passes. With this year’s ride less than 160 days away, and with spring weather still a month away, we asked Mark Craddock, a 10-time Courage rider and top fundraiser, to share his favorite tips for training in inclement weather.
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Do something healthy: Derek Hough visits Tacoma
Derek Hough of Dancing with the Stars fame paid a visit to Tacoma, Wash. Feb. 6, 2013, for MultiCare Health System's 13th annual "Do Something Healthy" event. Past visitors have included Shaun White and Jillian Michaels.
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You ate what?! Top 5 worst game day foods
Each year, Americans consume billions of calories on game day. From nachos to pigs in a blanket, buffalo wings and more, the day is second only to Thanksgiving for food consumption. Even small treats or seemingly healthy treats can be packed with extra fat and calories, so be mindful of your consumption this Sunday. -
It's a dance party - and you're invited!
He's sambaed with Shannon, jived with Jennie and rumbaed with Ricki. Now Derek Hough is set to tango with Tacoma. And you can be a part of it!
Hough, who has danced his way into the hearts of viewers nation-wide on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars(DWTS), is the featured speaker at MultiCare’s 2013 “Do Something Healthy” event.
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500 clocks find good homes, thanks to tree designer Sheldon Arkin
More than 500 clocks decorated the 2012 Mary Bridge Festival of Trees entry by longtime Horticulturist and Landscape Designer Sheldon Arkin, who has designed a tree for the annual Mary Bridge Festival of Trees for more than 20 years. On Thursday, the clocks found their way to good homes.
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Festival of Trees: $1.7 million raised for Mary Bridge
The numbers are in, and it's going to be a merry Christmas at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center.This year's Mary Bridge Festival of Trees raised $1.7 million to support young patients at the children's hospital and health center. -
Young patients pick out gifts for family members at Holiday Shop
Some young patients at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital can’t leave the hospital to pick out Christmas gifts for family members, so on Thursday, the gifts came to them.
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Tree designers share motivation: Everyone has a Mary Bridge story
The 26th annual Festival of Trees in Tacoma runs through Sunday. In the past 25 years, the festival has raised more than $20 million to support young patients at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Tacoma. We asked 11 tree designers why they volunteer to put in so much work and effort for Festival of Trees. Here's what they said.
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Why we ride: Alaska Airlines Courage Classic Bicycle Tour
This weekend, Aug. 4-6, is the 21st Annual Alaska Airlines Courage Classic Bicycle Tour. Each year this fully supported, three-day, 173-mile event takes hundreds of cycling participants over three of Western Washington’s most well known mountain passes, Snolqualmie, Blewett and Stephens. It’s a challenging and fun event that raises money for a great cause, to support the Rotary Endowment for the Intervention and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect — which provides significant support for Mary Bridge’s Child Abuse Intervention Department (CAID).
We asked MultiCare employees to tell us why they ride the Courage Classic.
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Register now for 40th Roman Meal Sound to Narrows run/walk June 9
Feeling retro? Join us this Saturday to celebrate the 40th running of the Roman Meal Sound to Narrows, a Tacoma tradition since 1973.
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Over 1,200 people begin Pierce County Matchup weight-loss contest
Only in a weight-loss contest will you find teams proudly named "The Fat and the Furious," "The Not-So-Thin Blue Line," "No More Man Boobs" and "The Hunger Games."
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Mary Bridge kids find gifts for parents, siblings at Holiday Shop
"I'm going to get a big hug for this!" said 6-year-old Cameron McKeever after he wrapped up a gift that he picked out for his mother. Cameron was one of 50 young patients at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital who picked out gifts for their parents, brothers and sisters Thursday at a special Holiday Shop inside the Tacoma hospital.
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Through video chat, Santa brings cheer to children at Mary Bridge
Thanks to video chat equipment normally used for telemedicine visits between doctors and patients, Santa Claus greeted young patients in their hospital beds Tuesday at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma.
