Lifestyles

PEEC Discussion Course To Explore Sustainable Living

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 4, 2018
Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is bringing another discussion course developed by the Northwest Earth Institute to Los Alamos. 
 
Choices for Sustainable Living is an eight-week discussion course where participants will explore sustainability and learn its unique meaning from individual, societal, and global perspectives. This course meets 6-7:30 p.m., Wednesdays at the Los Alamos Nature Center starting Jan. 10 and running through Feb. 28. This free course is open to
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Just One Thing To Do This Week: Watch For Tracks

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 4, 2018
By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
 
Happy New Year!
 
This greeting among friends is frequently followed by a discussion about New Year resolutions. This is the time when we reflect on the past year, and it’s a time when we contemplate what we can improve on in the coming year. And this year, like every year, I have resolutions and the best of intentions. I am not sure where this will get me.
 
I have been thinking a lot lately about getting back on track, and of course, this is the optimal week to do so. Except, I realize, I can’t think of when I have might have actually been on track for any notable
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Los Alamos Residents Tour Holy Land

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 4, 2018

Roger and Lilly Anaya of Los Alamos and parishioners of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church are on a trip to the Holy Land with 54 pilgrims from all over the country being led by Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio. Courtesy photo

Roger Anaya of Los Alamos makes friends with a donkey shepherd while on his trip to the Holy Land. There are about 20 pilgrims from New Mexico including Roger and his wife Lilly Anaya and John and Connie Russell from Los Alamos. Former IHM Pastor John Carney is leading the New Mexico congregation. The group celebrates Mass every day from a different chapel or church Read More

FEMA To Stop Discriminating Against Churches, Synagogues Hit By Hurricanes

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 3, 2018
BECKET News:
 
  • Supreme Court decision requires equal treatment for houses of worship hit by hurricanes
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― FEMA announced a new policy today that ought to put an end to its discrimination against churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship. The new policy comes in response to two lawsuits brought by three Texas churches and two Florida synagogues seeking immediate and equal access to disaster relief aid.
 
FEMA says that the new policy is required by the Supreme Court’s June 2017 decision in Trinity
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Letter To The Editor: Cowboy Pancake Breakfast

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 3, 2018
By LINDA HULL
Los Alamos Rotary
 
Start the New Year with a Cowboy Pancake Breakfast!
 
The first breakfast of the year is 7-11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, at the Posse Lodge on North Mesa Road. The all-you-can-eat breakfast features a variety of pancakes plus eggs, sausage, bacon, coffee and juice.
 
Adult meals are $7 and children 10 and under eat for just $4.
 
This month the proceeds from breakfast will benefit the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. The Rotary Club, which has been serving the Los Alamos community for more than 50 years, plans to use the funds for
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What Is Orthodox Christianity?

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 3, 2018
By Fr. Theophan Mackey
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church

What is Orthodox Christianity?

As I am out and about in Los Alamos, wearing my long black robe (it’s called a cassock, by the way) and cross, I get this question quite often. “What are you?”

I am an Orthodox Priest. A trained and ordained pastor, chosen by a bishop to serve the people of, Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church, my parish, and the people of Northern New Mexico.

Orthodox means “right worship” or “right belief.” In essence our beliefs have not deviated from those of the earliest Christian communities, and we have our roots in their communities. Read More

Recipes For National Spaghetti Day Jan. 4

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 2, 2018

Simple Vegan Chickpea Spaghetti. Courtesy/explorecuisine

RECIPE News:

National Spaghetti Day Jan. 4 and with delicious spaghettis made from chickpeas, lentils, black beans, edamame and more, Explore Cuisine offers an easy way for everyone to celebrate this foodie holiday while still sticking to those healthy New Year’s resolutions.

Explore Cuisine helps take the guilt out of those favorite pasta meals. All Explore Cuisine products are vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and jam packed with nutrients –the perfect alternative to other glutinous pastas.
 
Simple Vegan Chickpea
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Fr. Glenn: Ringing In The New Year

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 31, 2017
By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

And so we come once again to a new year … and with the new year comes the anticipation of newness, improvement … and renewed hopes and dreams to be realized. (Personally, just “realizing” a few pounds of Christmas biscochitos off the midsection would make me pretty darn happy.)

We’ve ended the year here at IHM on a couple of really good notes. We had a new beautiful baby girl born a couple of days after Christmas—one of several newborns in our parish over the year, with the prospect of several more in the coming year as evidenced by Read More

Wedding Announcement: Murphree – O’Hara

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 31, 2017

Ross Murphree and Brenna O’Hara were married Dec. 29 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Frances of Assisi in Santa Fe. The bride is the daughter of Jim and Bella O’Hara of Los Alamos and the groom is the son of Glenn and Cheri Murphree of Lafayette, La. Father Glenn Jones of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Los Alamos officiated at the wedding. The reception was held at La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. The couple will continue to reside in Lafayette. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com Read More

Pastor Raul: The Light Of The World―Part 1

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 31, 2017
By PASTOR RAUL GRANILLO
La Vista Church of the Nazarene
White Rock
 
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. – Charles Dickens
 
Christmas lights are a beautiful part of the advent season. I know they bring joy to me, and my kids are still at the age where they are absolutely enamored by them. Of course, Christmas is over, and the lights will begin coming down. This may be a perfect metaphor for far too may people. That is to say that their lives may have brief seasons of light and beauty, but the darkness and sorrow may seem to be more consistent. The darkness
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Scenes From LA Big Band Christmas Dance At IHM

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 30, 2017

Los Alamos Big Band Dance performs Thursday night at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall on Canyon Road. The band performed a mix of classic big band songs and holiday tunes. In addition to live music, there was dancing and refreshments. The event was a fundraiser for youth programs at the church. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Ron and Corine Christman cut a rug during the Los Alamos Big Band Dance Thursday night at the IHM Parish Hall. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Colleen and Jack Hanlon at the Christmas Dance Thursday night at IHM Parish Hall. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More

Transportation Board To Meet Thursday, Jan. 4

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 30, 2017
COUNTY News:
 
The Transportation Board meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, in Room No. 110 at the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
 
The meeting is open to the public.
 
Agenda:
 
1. CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. PUBLIC COMMENT
4. LIAISONS’ REPORTS
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
6. OLD BUSINESS
  • Approval of the Revised 2018 Transportation Board Meeting Schedule.
    • Presenters: Brian O’Neil, Chair of the Transportation Board.
7. NEW BUSINESS
  • Approval of the FY19 Transportation Board Work Plan.
    • Presenters: Brian O’Neil, Chair of the Transportation
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An Open Book: Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 29, 2017
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
 
“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” William Shakespeare
 
Walking home on a star-lit night recently, we stopped so I could dig out my handy iPhone app that would let us chart the constellations above us. Correlating star patterns against internet cloud-based catalogs, how distant we were from the wonder and mysticism of those ancients who wondered as they looked at these same constellations; those ancients, who could stare and memorize their positions
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Just One Thing To Do This Week: Make List Check It Twice

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 28, 2017
By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos

It is an annual mental event. Christmas is not yet over when I start compiling my list of things to do differently next year. The purpose of the list is to make the holiday more manageable and more organized and yes, hopefully more fun and more memorable. But mostly I want to make the holiday easier on everyone, myself included.

Our family is growing by leaps and bounds. Thanks to the magic of blended families we are up to 14 grandchildren. Fourteen grandchildren that with few exceptions, do not need more stuff.  Last year after we opened gifts, we surveyed the gift Read More

NMSP Checkpoints & Saturation Patrols In January

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 27, 2017
NMSP News:
 
State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols; and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of January 2018.
 
NMSP is bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving.
 
Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right decision
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