At 1:15 am on Jan 4, our smoke detectors started schreeching. Boy what a way to wake up. My wife…read moregrabbed a blanket and wrapped it around herself while she started calling our dog, Lucy. She came to my wife and was put into the back yard. I turned on the light on my nightstand and started looking for smoke and fire. My first thought was the christmas tree but that was ok. No smoke-no fire. I grabbed a blanket and started fanning the smoke alarm while my wife did the same in the bed room. They shut off after about 45 seconds. We searched the house and unplugged everything. The alarms started again. Back to the blanket thing. On the third time, I called 911 and the operator said help is on the way. Less than 5 minutes and the fire truck and crew were at our home. They searched inside,outside, and under the house with a heat imagining device. No hot spots, thankfully. We discussed new batteries for the alarms when I heard one of the firemen asking my wife if she was alright because she was having an asthma flare up and needed a shot of albuteral. Two of them stayed by her side to make sure she was ok. What nice people the firemen are. We are sooo lucky to have them in our community and ready to assist in any way they can. WELL DONE!

Good response time. That's about all I have to write, based on a few experiences not dealing with…read morefire, and not dealing with me (folks I know).

The Lakewood Chamber is an incredible group that is sincerely interested in helping the local…read morebusiness community. They have great events and connect people in the community. They also stay on the cutting edge in regards to their social media efforts. Many chambers have stagnated while the Lakewood Chamber has grown and thrived. We appreciate their efforts to help prosper our business!!

I have been attending the Lakewood Chamber events for the past decade. Great place to network,…read morelearn about business issues, while also having fun. And they work hard to promote business friendly legislation at the city, county, state and federal levels. There recommendations are always right on the mark!

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department: nice auditorium, professional staff.read more

while my son was stationed here enjoyed visiting ft lewis , the commissary, their community and…read morechristmas plays. The weather was always nice and his surrounding neighbors so quiet and the kids get to play out at the playgrounds right outside of their patio doors. will miss visiting ...moving on forward to next station THANK YOU

Im a yellow cab driver with buisness license and i was denied a visitors pass to pick up a customer…read morefor having a felony of selling cigarettes without a license this cost me 1 hours work at 30$ an hour .my dad was green barret special forces i come on the base all the time with him i was on there a few months ago im a blood realitive of president abraham lincoln i passed a back ground check to work at microsoft and for my buisness license but you all single me out today.expect a bad review

As retired military, we visit military installations for a variety of reasons. JBLM is south of…read moreSeattle and close enough for us to stop in during our stay in the area. Everyone who enters the base must present their military ID. The Main gate is just off exit 120A. Today we came for the barber located in the Exchange near the Main gate. This is a very large shopping complex with a food court. We also stopped for fuel while on base at the Marathon, run by AAFES. I'm unsure what resources are available on JBLM for service members and their families, but I worked for MWR in the past and definitely recommend everyone eligible to check MWR services as well as family and spouce resources. Military life can be rough, use all the resources you have available to you. Facilities I have seen on this base are in good condition and the landscaping kept tidy which is not true of all bases, so that's a bonus.

The Army life has been an amazing infuriating blessing of a path. Somehow we are coming up on 13…read moreyears of this Army life and have embraced the suck quite often. With all that, I have to admit I have never been so disappointed. On to the issue at hand. We got a call today saying the 9-12month waitlist for a home here on post is being extended 12 more months. A waitlist that you must be fully cleared and untethered from the current post to be placed on by the way. Each neighborhood on post has its own waitlist and you can only be on one at a time. Considering getting a home on post before we are about to pack up again seems like a slim chance and we'd prefer not to live in a 1 bedroom hotel room for 24 months. Additionally when looking into renting a house off post, we realized that to be able to afford a rental home would mean stacking kids on top of one another and living in the "slums" in a district with 2 out of 10 star rated schools for our kids. Joint Base Lewis-McChord does offer long term hotel lodging (which is booked until December) that takes your entire housing allowance by the way. We were lucky to get into a hotel on post for 80+ a night until the 21st, but then what??? There are families here who also got the phone call today and have been living in a hotel waiting for 9 months to be placed in a home, only to be told sorry you can either suck it up and keep waiting on this neighborhoods list or go back to day 1 on a different neighborhoods list. We have a couple of ideas to make it work, but I know for a fact that there are way to many families dealing with this situation and have been for long enough that there should be a solution by now. The US Military already uproots, over extends, overcrowds, and takes as much unnecessary time from families as they'd like; they shouldn't be aloud to force soldiers and their families to be placed in positions like this. Our soldiers deserve better! They deserve to not have a stress like this on their shoulders with everything else they juggle with on a day to day basis. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell as our Washington state senators what can we do to bring light to this issue and begin to resolve it?

A center that mixes research and policy! It is also a LEED certified building so just looking at it…read morefrom the outside is great. It has a green roof and green water recycling in its bathrooms. You need a key card to get anywhere in the building other than the first floor. If you are going to visit someone there or have a meeting, make sure that they meet you in the lobby. The secretary in the front never seems to get a hold of the office or tries very hard to figure out where you are going.

I walked into the Yelm Chamber of Commerce today, Tuesday around 1030 as I noticed it had moved…read morenext to the library. It's a much smaller space than where it used to be but it had an adequate amount of resources and I did like the Yelm Chamber of Commerce community guide and business directory. However, the woman never looked up to say hello or ask if I needed any assistance. she looked down on her computer the entire time I was there. What a terrible way to greet patrons. That's no way to welcome newcomers or people who live in your community. What kind of message are you sending? Get another job if you don't want to deal with people. Shameful. :-(

I love our Yelm Chamber of Commerce! Our director, Line works hard to make sure each of our…read morecommunity business are recognized and referred appropriately. It seems there are always so many great events to attend all over town, I can't possibly go to all of them, but it's so nice to be able to have such a variety of events to choose from to be able to really get to know our beautiful growing community.

Made a tough situation feel 100% natural, fun and comfortable. Unbelievable staff. Fun facility!!…read more100% recommend.