Chris Clark

Christmas Trees Available Starting Friday At Valles Caldera National Preserve – Help Restore The Forest!

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LAVC News:
 
Los Amigos de Valles Caldera will once again be helping the Valles Caldera National Preserve to thin overgrown forested areas to protect it from further large wildfires.
 
These freshly cut trees will be available for four weekends, starting on the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, at the Valle Grande Staging Area, off N.M. 4 between mile marker 39 and 40.
 
The Los Amigos de Valles Caldera will be there 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Saturdays and Sundays thereafter including Nov. 28-29, Dec. 5-6, Dec. 12-13 and Dec. 19-20.
 
The trees will generally be
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Los Alamos Fire Department Honors Firefighters At Promotion; Retirement Ceremonies

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Los Alamos Fire Chief Troy Hughes welcomes and thanks the public for their attendence at Friday’s promotional and retirement ceremonies at the White Rock Fire Station. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
From left, Bert Quintana, Jeff Saiz, Fire Chief Troy Hughes and Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider. Quintana was promoted to Driver Engineer and Saiz to Fire Captain during Friday’s special ceremony. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Cheif Justin Grider introduces Quintana and Saiz and talks a little bit about their history. Photo by Chris
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Boy Scouts Letter Carrier Food Drive Is Today

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BSA News:
 
Dear Residents of Los Alamos County:
 
Local Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Venture Scouts are prepared to help LA Cares to collect, sort, and store your donations of food and supplies during the Fall Scouting-for-Food Drive sponsored jointly by the Letter Carriers Union (NALC-4112) and the Northern New Mexico District of the Boy Scouts of America on Saturday, Nov. 21.
 
One in 6 Americans struggle to get enough food to eat. Even in our affluent community there are dozens of families, many with young children or elderly, who need help and this
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LAVNS Celebrates 21 Years Of Hospice Care

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Debbie Storms, Dr. Ross Bridge, Sande Cremer, April Cranmore, Collette Fordham, Pam Lee, Pauline Schneider and Deena Streit. Camera Shy: Kristi Bradshaw and Kristi Keffer. Photo by Debbie Weber
 
LAVNS News:
 
November is National Hospice Month. Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service Hospice Program is celebrating two decades of compassionate caring for patients.
 
“Several years ago my husband John Ledford was diagnosed with end-stage COPD, lung disease,” Tammy M. Thorn-Ledford said. “As the COPD progressed my husband John asked
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Dean Cummings Draws SRO Crowd To Mountaineers Meeting Co-Hosted By Los Alamos Ski Club

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Large crowd tunes in to Dean Cummings’ presentation Wednesday at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
Big mountain skiing legend Dean Cummings drew a standing-room-only crowd of all ages to his talk on heli-skiing at Wednesday’s Los Alamos Mountaineers Club meeting, hosted jointly with the LA Ski Club.
 
Dean Cummings speaks at LA Mountaineers Club. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Cummings showed photographs and video of heli-skiing in the Chugach Mountains around Valdez, Alaska over the last 24 years. He attributed his remarkable
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SFI: ‘Disturbance Ecology Meets Macroecology…’ Nov. 23

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Erica Newman, University of California, Berkeley
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) holds seminar “Disturbance Ecology Meets Macroecology: A new method for cross-system comparisons of ecosystems in transition” for 12:15 p.m., Monday Nov. 23, at Collins Conference Room in Santa Fe. 
 
Abstract: Natural disturbances increase heterogeneity and diversity of ecosystems, while anthropogenic changes often decrease ecosystem complexity and diversity.
 
To a disturbance ecologist, factors such as the type, size, and seasonality of disturbances
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Luján Discusses Need To Improve New Mexico’s Mental And Behavioral Health System

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CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― In the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee markup earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District discussed the need to improve the mental and behavioral health systems in New Mexico and across the nation. 
 
New Mexico’s behavioral health system is in a state of crisis following the freezing of payments to15 behavioral health providers and the eventual closure of a number of these organizations, as well as the exit of some of the Arizona providers that came into replace them. 
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IRS, States And Tax Industry Announce New Steps To Help Public Protect Personal Tax Data

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IRS News:
 
PHOENIX ― The Internal Revenue Service, state tax administrators and the private-sector tax industry today announced a new campaign aimed at encouraging more people to protect their personal and financial data online and at home.
The “Taxes. Security. Together.” campaign is designed to raise public awareness that even routine actions on the Internet and their personal devices can affect the safety of their financial and tax data.
 
The education campaign will complement the expanded series of protections the IRS, states and tax industry are putting in place
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SFI: ‘Biotic Interactions And The Diversification Of Life’ Nov. 23

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David Hembry, University of Arizona
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) holds seminar “Biotic Interactions and the Diversification of Life” at 12:45 p.m., Monday Nov. 23, at Collins Conference Room in Santa Fe.
 
Abstract: The argument that interactions promote the generation and maintenance of species diversity, thereby engendering the generation of even more biodiversity in a sort of virtuous circle, is long-standing and highly influential in ecology and evolutionary biology.
 
Not only is this one of the major problems in biology and the study
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Brown Mackie College & EDMC Schools To Forgive $632,000 In Loans Made To New Mexico Students

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EDMC News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― For-profit education company Education Management Corporation (EDMC) will significantly reform its recruiting and enrollment practices, and forgive more than $632,000 in loans for approximately 553 New Mexico former students, through a qui tam settlement with Attorney General Hector Balderas and a group of state attorneys general.
 
EDMC, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operates 110 schools in 32 states and Canada through four education systems, including Argosy University, The Art Institutes, Brown Mackie College and South
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