Chris Clark

New Mexico, Colorado Delegations Urge President To Direct Federal Resources To Gold King Mine Response

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Members of the New Mexico and Colorado congressional delegations are urging President Barack Obama to direct any and all appropriate federal resources to help respond to damage from the Gold King Mine spill that occurred last week in the Animas River.
 
Communities in both states along the affected rivers are working quickly to minimize the short-term and long-term public health and economic challenges caused by the tragic spill.
 
Recovering from the spill will take a full and coordinated approach from the Environmental Protection
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LAFD Ceremony Honors Promoted; Retiring Firefighters

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Los Alamos County Fire Chief Troy Hughes welcomes family, friends and community members and delivers opening remarks at Friday’s promotional and retirement ceremony at fire station 3 in White Rock. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Fire Chief Troy Hughes recognizes newly promoted firefighters, from left, Joe DeFranco, Ray Gandara and Larry Roybal. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider addresses the audience. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Larry Roybal’s son pins a promotional badge on his dad’s
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SFI Holds Two-Night Lecture Sept. 15-16

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Jennifer Dunne, ecologist
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) holds two lectures, “The Web of Life and the Ecological Human” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 15-16 at the James A. Little Theater (1060 Cerrilos Road). 
 
Life has a hidden order. In two lectures over two nights, ecologist Jennifer Dunne will reveal surprising characteristics shared by ecosystems in radically different environments, comprising different species, and in different time periods.
 
By highlighting patterns in the architecture of how species, including
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Announces Volunteers Of Year

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Ed and Juan hold up their art project. Courtesy photo
 
BBBS News:
 
Big Brothers Big Sisters Los Alamos Rio Arriba recently announced their Big Brothers and Big Sister of the year for 2014.
 
The winning volunteers were recognized at the 4th annual Drive for Matches Golf Tournament awards dinner. The tournament and awards dinner were July 18 in Los Alamos with the Bigs of the Year being presented plaques by Regional Director Dawn Brown of Los Alamos and Rio Arriba Counties.
 
Los Alamos School Based Big Brother of the Year
 
Big: Edward Jacquez
Little: Juan
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PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Visualizing Nature With Art

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Maple leaf. Courtesy photo
 
Maple leaf painting by Cathy Hillegas. Courtesy image
 
 
PEEC Amateur Naturalist
By ROBERT DRYJA
 
Visualizing Nature with Art
 
The natural world can be visualized with a digital technology in a variety of ways.
 
A digital photograph may have its contrast, spectrum, or color saturation manipulated to create a more interesting image or emphasize some characteristic. The maple leaf photograph is an example of this.
 
The leaf is lit from behind in order to emphasize the rib pattern in it. The contrast also has been increased
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MOWW Guest Speaker Stephen Younger Aug. 18

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MOWW News:
 
This month’s meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) is 6 p.m., Tuesday Aug. 18, in the Los Alamos Research Park, 2nd floor conference room. 
 
The Los Alamos Research Park building is west of the South Mesa Fire Station. Parking is available east to the fire station (accessible from southbound lane of the Los Alamos Canyon Bridge) or east of the Research Park building (access is through the LANL control stations to West Jemez Road.)
 
Entrance to the Research Park main conference room is from the ground level by use of the
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PyroClassic Mountain Bike Race Results

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Courtesy photo
 
PyroClassic News:
 
The Pajarito Mountain Bike Patrol and Valles Caldera National Preserve released resuls for the 2nd annual PyroClassic XC Mountain Bike Race held Aug. 2:

Time / Name / Category / Age Group / Gender / Racing Age / Race Entered:

  • 1) 2.15.18 / Brenneman / Cameron / PR / M / 38 / XC M Pro
  • 2) 2.18.56 / Flores / Randy / PR / M / 44 / XC M Pro
  • 3) 3.08.01 / Lemke / Nicholas / PR / M / 32 / XC M Pro
  • 10) 2.45.17 / Staples / Orion / Ex Cat 1 / 20-29 / M / 21 / XC M 20-29 Ex Cat 1
  • 11) 2.19.57 / Corona / Hadji / Ex Cat 1 / 30-39 / M / 38 / XC M 30-39 Ex Cat 1
  • 14) 2.20.55
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Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Meets Aug. 14

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RCLC News:
 
Regional Coalition of LANL Communities meets 9-11 a.m., Aug. 14, at Santa Fe County Chambers (102 Grant Avenue).
 
Agenda:
 
A. NM Congressional Delegation Updates (5 mins) 9:15 – 9:20 a.m.
B. Presentation on the future of the LANL Workforce (30 mins) 9:30 – 10 a.m. 
C. Presentation on Tech Transfer in NM by Katie Richardson, Sen. Heinrich, David Pisiri, Feynman Center for Innovation (30 mins) 10 – 10:30 a.m.
D. Updates for Board Members (10 min) 10:30a – 10:39 a.m.
  1. Recap of ECA Meeting on Manhattan
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An American Modernism Opens At NMMA Oct. 2

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Andrew Dasburg, Sangre de Cristo, circa 1933, watercolor, 15 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. Edwin F. Gamble, 1968 (2235.23P) Photo by Blair Clark
 
NMMA News:
 
SANTA FE — An American Modernism opens 5:30-7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 and runs through Feb. 21, 2016.
 
An American Modernism joins the exhibition O’Keeffe in Process, both at the New Mexico Museum of Art, in the “Fall of Modernism” cultural collaboration with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Drawn primarily from the museum’s
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