Community Flamenco Dance Class Begins June 11
Dance Alliance November 2014. Courtesy photoSummer Family Evenings At Los Alamos Nature Center – Rattlesnake Museum
Visit the Los Alamos Nature Center on June 15 to learn more about rattlesnakes. Photo by Bob MyersSave A Life & Restart A Heart – Learn CPR For FREE
LAFD News:
Every person in Los Alamos will have the chance to learn how to be a hero by attending the New Mexico Heart Institute’s 6th annual Project Heart Start event Saturday June 25.
The free event will teach Los Alamos families a “new” form of CPR called Compression‐Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (COCPR).
Sudden cardiac arrest kills more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year, and nearly 9,000 of these cases happen in children under the age of 18. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if those close by had been aware of and taken a few simple, lifesaving steps.
If an adult suddenly
Unique Partnership Makes Housing Available For UNM-Los Alamos Students
Ponderosa Pines Apartments through Plateau Property Management will have units specifically designated for UNM-LA students. Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
UNM-Los Alamos, the New Mexico Consortium and Plateau Property Management (representing Cap Investors), are entering into a partnership that will benefit UNM-LA students and help them obtain housing.
UNM-LA students will have access to discounted rental rates at the Ponderosa Pines Apartments for the upcoming academic year. Students interning with the New Mexico Consortium will rent the apartments this summer, then the units Read More
Scholarship Winner Hopes To Inspire Young Women With A Career In Science
Scholarship winner Arasely Rodriguez is shown in the Taos Middle School science lab plating E. coli bacteria on a petri dish to incubate and then count the colonies that grow in order to better understand the bacteria’s morphological behavior. Photo by Andrea Multari/LANL Foundation
Arasely Rodriguez in the Taos Middle School science lab plating E. coli bacteria. Photo by Andrea Multari/LANL Foundation
LANL FOUNDATION News:
Taoseña Arasely Rodriguez is a soft-spoken, observant young woman. Her intensity of focus has been one of her greatest assets in defining her self-driven learning Read More
2016 Safety Town Program Begins June 13
Ofc. Adele Girmendonk teaches a youngster bicycle safety habits during last year’s Safety Town program. Courtesy/LAC
Students learn fire safety habits during last year’s Safety Town program. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
- For Children Entering Kindergarten This Fall
Safety Town begins at Mountain Elementary School at 9 a.m. Monday, June 13.
This free safety program is open to all children entering Kindergarten in the Fall or who will be five years of age by Sept. 1, 2016.
The program runs 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, June 13 through June 24. Don’t miss out on Read More
Officials Host Dedication Of Native American Literature Collection At Los Alamos Middle School
From left, LAMS Principal Mike Johnson and LAPS Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus thank the Honorable J. Michael Chavarria and Gov. James R. Mountain for attending the dedication of a Native American Literature collection at LAMS. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos Middle School’s new Native American Literature Collection was dedicated by the Native Hawks (a LAMS student group) the Honorable Governor James R. Mountain of the San Ildefonso Pueblo and the Honorable J. Michael Chavarria of the Santa Clara Pueblo, LAPS Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus, LAMS Principal Mike Johnson and Native Hawk Read More
Suzanne Lynne Selected As Chamisa’s New Principal
LAPS Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus thanks retiring Chamisa Principal Debbie Smith, left, while welcoming new Chamisa Principal Suzanne Lynne. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools welcomes Suzanne Lynne as Chamisa Elementary School’s new principal.
Lynne earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education in 1987 and her Master’s Degree in 1988 from the University of Florida. She specializes in teaching reading. She taught first and fourth grade in Florida for five years. In 1994, she and her husband Steve relocated to New Mexico.
“My husband and I decided we Read More
Scenes From Senior Appreciation Night At Nature Center
Docent Sue Barns assists students Theodore Peterson and Madeline Beck in the gift shop at the Los Alamos Nature Center May 28 during Senior Appreciation Night. Photo by Felicia Orth 
Rick Reynolds and his wife Bernice Williams are parent volunteers for SAN. Their son graduated this year. Photo by Felicia OrthLos Alamos High School graduating seniors and their friends celebrated the 31st year of Senior Appreciation Night (SAN) May 28-29.
SAN is co-chaired by the Los Alamos Parks, Recreation & Open Space Division and The Family YMCA.
The event began with
Rotary Selects Lauren Partin As Student Of The Year
Rotarian Shelly Wiemann, left, presents Lauren Partin, who has just completed her junior year at Los Alamos High School, with a Rotary Club of Los Alamos Student of the Year award. Partin is joined by her parents Marci and Doug; in attendance, but not pictured, is Partin’s brother Kyle. Partin, a well-rounded student, was selected based upon her dedication to community service. She volunteers for the Atomic City Children’s Theater and the Sheriff’s Posse and is a member of Olions, Young Voices of the Santa Fe Opera, and the high school choir. She is also a ski patrol training helper and member Read More
Nine Women Receive C3E Awards
C3E News:Plant Sale At Master Gardeners Garden Fair June 11
Perennial mound. Photo by Bob Walker‘A Climate For Change’ With Cynthia Scharf Monday
This lecture is free and open to the public. Read More
Heinrich And Higher Education Executives Huddle With LANL On Millennial Jobs
UNM-LA CEO Cindy Rooney with U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich at his Roundtable on LANL Workforce Training meeting Wednesday at the New Mexico Community College Association conference room in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
Millennials were on the menu Wednesday, as administrators from seven Northern New Mexico colleges and universities met with community and human resources officials from Los Alamos National Laboratory to digest the implications of a generational shift that is affecting much of the country. Members of the Read More
LAHS’s Dante Cote Sells Snow Cones To Help Nonprofits
COMMUNITY News:
Los Alamos High School student Dante Cote is selling snow cones 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday at the White Rock Artists Market outside the White Rock Visitor Center on N.M. 4.
Cote sells his snow cones to raise funds for various nonprofit organizations. This week, he is selling the icy treats to benefit the LAHS Topper Band as they prepare to head to Washington, D.C. for the Fourth of July parade. Read More
Community Invited To ‘A Starry Night In Seville’ July 2
Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Patrick CoulieScholarship Application Deadlines Approaching For Tribal Business & Nontraditional Students
LANLF News:PEEC: Summer Family Evenings – The Final Frontier
The bright side of the moon, visible at the Los Alamos Nature Center at its first Summer Family Evening program Wednesday, June 8. Courtesy photoNew Fractals Debut In Planetarium Friday
Fractal. Image/Wikimedia Commons, created by Wolfgang Beyer
PEEC News:
- Fourth Friday Fractals Show at the Nature Center Planetarium
Pajarito Environmental Education Center’s dynamic fractal show is back for one evening this month at 7 p.m. Friday, June 24 in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium at 2600 Canyon Road.
This show incorporates math, science, art and nature in a full-dome planetarium show featuring original music.
This spectacular show starts promptly at 7 p.m. and seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased by phone or at the nature center and are only $10 for adults and $8 Read More
