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  • Annual Cookie Drive

    With the holiday season in full swing, Shaw AFB and the Sumter community sent cheer to deployed servicemembers through the Annual Cookie Drive. This year, more than 47,000 cookies were donated. The Annual Cookie Drive is made possible by the combined efforts of a six person committee - members of

  • Saturday at the park

    Airmen and deployed families enjoyed lunch and a beautiful view of Sumter's Swan Lake Iris Gardens at a Hearts Apart event Saturday, Dec. 6. The Airmen & Family Readiness Center started the Hearts Apart program to provide care and support for deployed spouses and their children. On an overcast day

  • Viper East demo season comes to a close

    The Viper East demo team comes to the end of a great season, but practices continue as they prepare for next year's demanding schedule beginning in March 2009. Watching the Viper East demo team in action, it is easy to see this production takes a lot of hard work and dedication. "Until March I'll

  • Shaw chapel hosts tree lighting

    It was a cold evening at the Memorial Lake Pavilion but that did not stop the base chapel from spreading holiday cheer the Team Shaw Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Dec. 2. Twentieth Fighter Wing Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Ronald Underwood kicked off the ceremony by welcoming the wing commander, his

  • Lights by the water

    As the cold, crisp air fills the night at Swan Lake Iris Gardens, a crowd gathers by a stage. Sumter Mayor Joseph McElveen and 20th Fighter Wing Commander Col. Joseph Guastella, along with members of the Sumter community gather to announce the events. Swan Lake and the Sumter community host a

  • CFC surpasses goal

    The 2008 Combined Federal Campaign, hosted by United Way of the Midlands, may be over, but the $162,420.66 donated by Shaw servicemembers will make a lasting impact that has only just begun. "I'm very pleased with the response our Airmen have shown during this year's CFC," said Col. Joseph T.

  • AFRC creates new program

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center's new Military and Family Life Consultant program is now available to help servicemembers and their families cope with normal reactions to the stressful events created by deployments, war and re-integration. This new program should not be confused with mental

  • Not an ordinary shoe box

    This Christmas, 273 children in under-privileged countries will open gift-filled shoe boxes from Shaw servicemembers and their families. The Sumter community as a whole donated more than 3,000 shoe boxes through Operation Christmas Child Nov. 21-22. Samaritan's Purse began the OCC program in 1993 to