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Los Alamos Dog Obedience Hosts Training Seminar

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Joey Padilla of Santa Fe Tails Dog Academy teaches Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club members and Animal Shelter volunteers new training techniques last Sunday at LADOC. Courtesy photo
 
LADOC News:
 
The Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club (LADOC) and the Friends of the Shelter hosted Joey Padilla, CTC, CPTA-KA, of Santa Fe Tails Dog Academy, Daycare and Resort for a seminar Sunday.
 
More than 20 LADOC members and Los Alamos Animal Shelter volunteers learned new techniques in dog training and teaching dog training classes. A highlight of the morning was a mini “class” in which Joey instructed
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New Sculpture Adorns Central Park Square

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Central Park Square owner Philip Kunsberg, left, and Shidoni President/CEO Scott Hicks with the newly installed ‘Galapagos Tortoise’ sculpture, which replaces the ‘Wally on the Bench’ sculpture near Unquarked the Wine Room. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
‘Galapagos Tortoise’ by artist William Allen. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
President/CEO Scott Hicks of Shidoni Foundry and Galleries in Tesuque has once again generously loaned a large sculpture to Central Park Square for the community to enjoy.
 
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Bandelier National Monument Open Thanksgiving Day

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Courtesy photo
 
BANDELIER News:
 
Although many federal, state, and local facilities and services will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Bandelier National Monument will be open that day as well as through the weekend. 
 
The Visitor Center will be open usual hours, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and trails are open dawn to dusk. In addition, the bookstore will have a discount of 20 percent off of everything in stock, and that 20 percent can be added to membership or other existing discounts. 
 
The Bandelier Trading gift shop will offer a 10 percent discount on selected
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Food On The Hill: Veggie Turkey, Trout And Rosemary Walnuts

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Leo’s veggie turkey in 2014, an arrangement of vegetables including bell peppers, asparagus, endive, red leaf lettuce and carrots. Courtesy photo

 
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos
 
This will be our third Thanksgiving with two new traditions, one begun by each son: Leo’s veggie turkey and Alex’s fresh trout. I could not be happier with these developments.
 
The Veggie Turkey―The photo of the appetizer table above shows the veggie turkey: an arrangement of vegetables including bell peppers, asparagus, endive, red leaf lettuce and carrots.
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Los Alamos Indian Community Celebrates Annual Festival Of Diwali With Family And Friends

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Diwali group. Courtesy photo
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
The Los Alamos Indian community celebrated the annual festival of Diwali with family and friends Nov. 14 at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church.
 
Diwali is the festival of lights, symbolizing the victory of light over darkness, good over evil. The celebration opened with a moment of silence for peace in honor of the victims of the Paris attacks and continued with a colorful affair with music, dance, a full catered Indian dinner spread, and fireworks for the kids to enjoy.
 
This annual event has been organized
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Udall, Heinrich Urge LWCF Reauthorization, Funding Before Year Ends

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and a bipartisan coalition of 12 other senators sent a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to include the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) along with full mandatory funding in one of the bills Congress must pass before adjourning for the year.
 
“The LWCF is funded with offshore oil royalties and was designed not to use taxpayer dollars. However, since the creation of
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SCEC Improves Understanding Of Earthquake Hazards With Supercomputers, Achieves Societal Impacts

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SCEC News:
 
LOS ANGELES ― Decision-makers from various sectors now have better knowledge to assess and mitigate earthquake risk owing to high-performance computing research by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), headquartered at the University of Southern California.
 
On Thursday at the 2015 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Network Storage, and Analysis (“Supercomputer 2015”) in Austin, Texas, SCEC Director Tom Jordan will present an invited talk on the societal impacts of SCEC’s research and development in using
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Shop On The Corner Christmas Sale Dec. 2

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Preparations are underway for the Dec. 2 Christmas sale at Shop on the Corner. Courtesy photo
 
SOC News:
 
Volunteers for the Shop on the Corner (SOC) Thrift Store are getting the Shop ready for the big yearly Christmas sale, beginning at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 2.
 
This highly anticipated event features all kinds of Christmas décor, fancy, fine jewels, treasured collectables, anything you can imagine that would be lovely to receive as gifts or to just enjoy yourself. 
 
Dressy clothing for the holidays and for the upcoming cruising months also will
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Funding For Environmental Health Internships

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NEHA News:
 
DENVER — The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in collaboration with the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs is accepting applications for 30 summer 2016 environmental health interns sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 
Local, state and tribal environmental health departments are eligible to host students from accredited universities and colleges for this National Environmental Public Health Internship Program (NEPHIP). 
 
“This is a great opportunity
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