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Key Club Sponsors UNICEF Benefit

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Special to the Los Alamos Daily Post by Katelyn Littleton, Concert Chair

Los Alamos High School Key Club is organizing a benefit concert for UNICEF’s Project Eliminate. In collaboration with Kiwanis and the rest of K-Family (including Key Club), UNICEF is hoping to eradicate maternal and neonatal tetanus from the world through this project.

The money raised through the concert will go directly to purchasing vaccines and the distribution of preventative health information.

“A vaccination for this type of tetanus will protect a mother and all of her future children from the terminal Read More

New Mexico WW2 Internment Camps Symposium: Inside and Outside the Barbed Wire

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The New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors will hold a symposium on New Mexico World War II internment camps. Learn more about the experiences of Japanese people held in New Mexico’s internment camps during World War II at an April 21 and 22 symposium. “From Inside and Outside the Barbed Wire: New Mexico’s Multicul­tural World War II Internment Stories,” will be in the History Museum auditorium, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21 and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 22.

Organized by the Committee to Preserve New Mexico’s Internment History, the symposium commemorates the 10th Read More

Russ Gordon Performs with DK & the Affordables

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Last night, Russ Gordon held a fundraiser concert at the Hilltop House to raise funds for the summer concert series. DK & the Affordables performance was followed by Eddy & the Nomads. The Los Alamos Concert Series is presented by the County of Los Alamos and coordinated / managed by Russ Gordon.

Russ Gordon delighted the crowd when he joined DK & the Affordables during the fundraiser concert. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

From Gordon's website:

This series of Friday evening concerts-in-the-park spans the summer from late May into early September and is held at various Read More

Local Volunteers Build Homes South of the Border

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By Carol A. Clark

Los Alamos High School youth and other volunteers spent Spring Break building homes for families in need in Mexico. Courtesy Photo

A contingent of 50 Los Alamos High School youth and several adults and four volunteers from Colorado, traveled to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico over Spring Break on a mission – to build homes for two families in need.

This was the 27th annual Spring Break Mexico Mission trip for high school youth sponsored by The United Church of Los Alamos.

“Since 1986, we have built the equivalent of 131 single houses,” said Laura Erickson who Read More

2012 Los Alamos Senior Olympic Games Are Underway

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From left, Abel Castillo (55-59), David Bullock (50-54), Cy Jakubowski (65-69) are all local qualifiers for the State Senior Olympic Games in Frisbee Accuracy. Courtesy Photo
 
The 2012 Los Alamos Senior Olympic Games began Friday at the Family YMCA with competition in basketball free-throw and the recreational event: Frisbee accuracy.
 
Abel Castillo (55-59 age division) qualified for the New Mexico State Games with a score of 10 out of 15 free-throws.
 
He also qualified in the 3-point shot competition.
 
His score was tops in the Frisbee Accuracy Throw earning 10 out
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Retirement and Exercise

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Column by Kent Pegg

If you are one of those who have decided that now is the time to begin a new phase of your life by retiring, more hours have suddenly become available for other activities. And now is the time to reserve some of those hours to take care of your health through a program of regular exercise.

If you can allot a few hours per week of the extra time you have available to exercise at the onset of your retirement, it will become a regular part of your new life. It’ll be much easier to maintain this regular pattern than it will be to add it to your life months down the road after a new life pattern has been Read More

Atomic Tumblers Finish Strong at State Championships

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Atomic Tumblers Ramya Stevens, Jenna Weatherbie, Katya Skurikhin, Elyse Phillips and Elizabeth Lockhart, foreground, cheer on their teammates at the State Championships. Courtesy/LASG

Los Alamos School of Gymnastics’ three optional gymnasts gave a solid finish to their season at the New Mexico State Championships March 17, held at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque.

Forty-one of New Mexico’s top Level 7 gymnasts competed in the morning session. 

LASG Level 8 gymnast Annika Bronkhorst finishes up a tumbling pass with a full twist layout, while coach Loui Janecky looks on. Bronkhorst Read More

Democratic Party of Los Alamos Meets Thursday

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The Democratic Party of Los Alamos County will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. April 19 at Mesa Library.

The agenda includes discussion of the upcoming dinner event on June 2 honoring a special Los Alamos Democrat, plans for July 4, the County Fair, and other events between now and the November election.

Looking forward, the May 17 meeting will be to attend the League of Women Voters forum at Fuller Lodge to listen to both Democrats and Republicans who have primary opponents. Read More

Local GOP Meets Thursday

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The monthly Los Alamos County GOP meeting will be held at 7 p.m. April 19 in the third floor conference room of the Hill Top House Hotel.

The topics of the meeting will be the new Los Alamos County polling places, Voter Registration training and meeting the GOP candidates running for local offices.

All registered Republicans are invited to attend. Read More