Second Grade GATE Students Transform Class Into Ancient Egypt
Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus chats with students at the museum March 3 at Baranca. Courtesy/LAPS
Parents, students from other classrooms, Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus and Board Member Andrea Cunningham visit the museum. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
“I always use project based learning in my class,” explained Ms. Shipley, the GATE teacher at Barranca Elementary School.
So, when her second-grade students wanted to learn about Ancient Egypt, they didn’t open a textbook. Instead they transformed the classroom into a museum.
They needed artifacts and they needed to be able to answer Read More
Co+op’s Six Year Birthday Bash Underway Until 3 p.m.!
The Los Alamos Co+op Market at 95 Entrada Dr. is celebrating its 6th Anniversary until 3 p.m. today by showcasing its Community Partners and Vendors. The entire community is invited to celebrate and enjoy interactive booths by a variety of nonprofit organizations including PEEC, LA Animal Shelter, Bathtub Row Brewing Coop, Los Alamos County Recycling and Delancy Street Shelter. Photo by Greg Kendall
Seven Co+op vendors are on hand to offer free product samples and to show appreciation to its customers, the Co+op is providing free chair massages. Photo by Greg Kendall
Sample foods, free chair Read More
Four Current Trends Impacting Insurance
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
The Jemez Agency
Car insurance. Does it seem like it’s a bigger drain on your wallet than before? It very well could be. Just look at these four trends that may be contributing to higher costs:
More new cars with more advanced features: Today’s drivers have a healthy appetite for new cars, and most of the vehicles are laden with technology. That makes them expensive to repair or replace after an accident. Americans bought 5.7 percent more new cars in 2015 than 2014, to the tune of 17.5 million vehicles sold, according to the 2016 Auto Industry Trends report from PricewaterouseCoopers. Read More
Smart Design With Suzette Fox: Easy Spring Decorating
Daylight Savings is a great opportunity to spruce up your house and bring nature inside your home. Courtesy/Suzette Fox
By SUZETTE FOX
Los Alamos
This weekend Daylight Savings Time begins. Yay! My favorite time of year! When spring’s breezes (or gusty winds – depending where you live) inspire you to embrace the new season, use these decorating ideas to freshen up your home.
Spring Cleaning
There are few rites of spring more satisfying than the annual cleaning. For many people, however, the pleasure comes only after the work is finished. It may never become effortless, but you can make the project Read More
Just One Thing To Do This Week: Slow Down Dinner!
By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
Early in your career dinner-time is pretty much the same as happy hour—you look forward to leaving work, relaxing with friends and family, and then enjoying a sociable meal.
After you start having children, dinner-time, formally known as happy hour becomes unhappy hour. For decades now I have called it arsenic hour but I am no longer sure if this is an original thought or if I have plagiarized it from someone—it has just been so long.
If you have babies, dinner preparation time coincides perfectly with the ideal hours for colic. Preparing meals with a screaming infant Read More
Cottonwood On The Greens Unveils New Menu
Cottonwood on the Greens owner Pawel Listwan makes traditional pierogi from his grandmother’s recipe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.comBy MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
One of the most popular items on the new menu at Cottonwood on the Greens is the traditional Polish pierogis served with carmelized bacon and onions and a small house salad.
Eatery owner Pawel Listwan actually makes the pierogis himself from a recipe that belonged to his grandmother. He even makes the cheese called “twarog” himself and prepares the potatoes on site.
New menu item Oysters Mornay, roasted Read More
Public Meeting: North Road Traffic Calming Concerns
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Public Works Traffic and Streets Division is hosting a Public Meeting regarding Traffic Calming Concerns on North Road.
This meeting 7-9 p.m., March 22 at Fuller Lodge and the public is encouraged to attend.
For questions regarding the meeting, call the Traffic and Streets Division at 505.662.8113 or email the public works general email at lacpw@lacnm.us.
An Open Book: Let There Be Light
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZA theoretical physicist and good friend of mine revels in the observation that in the Scriptures God created Light first. As if the cosmic microwave background radiation were not sufficient evidence of the theory of the Big Bang, he can point to Genesis as further cosmic, or maybe Cosmic, confirmation. To me, however, there is a simpler reason why God would have placed Light in the epicenter of Creation.
Without contrast, without distinctions, there is no universe, and the most fundamental contrast is between light and darkness.
I felt that contrast increasing Read More
National Puppy Day March 23
WELLNESS News:- General Benefits: There’s a reason that they say dog is man’s best friend. Having a pet, not limited to dogs, is something that everyone should experience at some point in their life. Pets can be calming, mood lifting, empathetic, and so much more. They teach you how to be selfless
Los Alamos Co+op Celebrates Six Years!
The Co+op is having a 6-year anniversary party this weekend and everyone is invited. Courtesy photo
Co+op News:
The Los Alamos Co+op Market is celebrating its 6th Anniversary this Saturday by showcasing its Community Partners and Vendors.
The entire community is invited to celebrate and enjoy interactive booths by a variety of nonprofit organizations including Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), Los Alamos Animal Shelter, Bathtub Row Brewing Coop, Los Alamos County Recycling and Delancy Street Shelter.
Seven Co+op vendors will be on hand to offer free product samples and Read More
Eat Wings. Raise Funds. Los Alamos Relay For Life/American Cancer Society Event March 11
Los Alamos is one of more than 5,200 communities planning a Relay for Life signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society this year. Organizational meetings are already being held and fundraising events are already underway. The Los Alamos event is scheduled for Aug. 18.
Saturday, March 11, Buffalo Wild Wings on Zafarano in Santa Fe, is hosting an “Eat Wings Raise Funds” event. From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., if people present the above coupon to their server, Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 10 percent of their total bill (not including tax, gratuity, Read More
United Church Of Los Alamos Hosts 32nd Annual Trip
Group photo. Courtesy photoRep. Candie Sweetser’s Tiny House Bill Passes 66-0
Rep. Candie Sweetser STATE News:
SANTA FE — Rep. Candie Sweetser (D-Deming) recognized the emergence of the tiny house industry, with her bill to define and allow assessors to review tiny homes. Monday night, her HB 512 passed unanimously by a vote of 66-0.
Tiny homes arrived on the scene in recent years as a creative way for people to live sustainably and own a home without the burden of unmanageable mortgage payments.
“I think this is the beginning of giving tiny homes an avenue to move forward in New Mexico,” Rep. Sweetser said. “This bill facilitates options for New Mexicans who are looking Read More
Los Alamos Shows Support For Threatened Jewish Communities Across U.S. At Tonight’s Candlelight Vigil
Since Jan. 1, 77 Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) — nearly half of all JCCs in the United States — have received bomb threats, as have eight Jewish schools. Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Rochester, New York have been vandalized. And a bullet was fired into the window of a (thankfully, empty) synagogue classroom in Evansville, Ind. This surge of anti-semitic acts has left many American Jews, including members of the Los Alamos Jewish community, feeling new anxieties about their own safety and the safety of their communal institutions. To show support for their fellow JewishLetter To The Editor: About ‘Civility’ In Public Discourse
By RICHARD NEBELThis is in response to two columns by Father Glenn (link, link), two letters to the editor by Khalil Spencer (link, link), a column by Pastor Granillo (link), along with contributions from the prophet Isaiah, St. Luke, St. Paul, and everybody else who has recently written in to the Los Alamos Daily Post discussing “civility” in public discourse.
Now, who could possibly be opposed to “civility” in public discourse? Well, it depends on how it is defined, who defines it, and most importantly, how it is implemented.
The simple fact of the matter is this: “civility” Read More
Pysanky: Learn Thousand Year Old Art Form March 25
RTD 255 Mountain Trail Bus To Ski Santa Fe On Weekend/Holiday Schedule Through March 17
RTD News:
In recognition of Spring Break, the North Central Regional Transit District RTD 255 Mountain Trail bus to Ski Santa Fe will be operating on its weekend/holiday schedule each day throughout the Spring Break period from Monday, March 6 through Friday, March 17.
The weekend/holiday schedule provides seven roundtrips per day to Ski Santa Fe, rather than the normal weekday schedule that provides three roundtrips per day.
The fare is $5.00 each way, exact change required. Riders to the ski basin will be given a token upon exiting the bus that can be redeemed for $5 off anything at Ski Santa Read More
2017’s Property Taxes By State―WalletHub Study
WALLETHUB News:In order to determine who pays the most relative to their state, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2017 Property Taxes by State report, which compares home and vehicle taxes across the nation and features
Los Alamos Stands With Jewish Communities Across America With Candlelight Vigil Monday Evening
COMMUNITY News:
Just since the beginning of this year, 77 Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) — nearly half of all JCCs in the United States — have received bomb threats, as have eight Jewish schools. Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Rochester, New York have been vandalized. And a bullet was fired into the window of a (thankfully, empty) synagogue classroom in Evansville, Ind.
This surge of anti-semitic acts has left many American Jews, including members of the Los Alamos Jewish community, feeling new anxieties about their own safety and the safety of their communal institutions. Read More
