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Muscatine’s Jim Sturms passed away at the age of 92 at the Wilton Retirement Community on Saturday. Sturms is mostly remembered for his kindness and his work with the YMCA.
 Many non-Jews who didn't grow up around Jewish food are still drawn to them  
The Vancouver Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying people believed to be involved in thefts over the past week.
Of the 800,000 Americans who have served in Afghanistan, some 115,000 were Marines — third in number after the Army and Air Force — and most were based at Camp Pendleton or Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C.
The beach city of Oceanside blossomed over the decades as tens of thousands of Marines trained at Camp Pendleton and veterans returned to live nearby. A somber mood has taken the town as residents watch scenes of chaos in Kabul.