Smart Design With Suzette: Backsplash Beauty
Decorative backsplash. Courtesy photo
By SUZETTE FOX
Los Alamos
Backsplash designs are an extremely important element to consider during a kitchen renovation. The right backsplash design should be a focal point of your kitchen and really tie the whole room together.
Kitchen backsplash design should really incorporate your own personal style. Many people have trouble choosing a backsplash. I’m here to help. I’ll show you examples of what’s tending now and guide you to make an educated decision that suits your personality.
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Glass or ceramic, subway tile is still Read More
Faith & Science Summer Series: ‘What Makes Us Human?’ At TOTH Wednesday
Bob Reinovsky’s lecture at 6:15 p.m., Wednesday addresses ‘The Quest for Human Uniqueness.’ Courtesy photo
LAFSF News:Blue Window Bistro Begins Full Bar Service Monday
The Blue Window Bistro begins offering a full bar service Monday at 813 Central Ave., in Los Alamos. The Blue Window Bistro has been serving Los Alamos for more than 30 years with a simple goal: Combine excellent service in a unique atmosphere with a focus on fresh, local, quality ingredients. Special services include private events, outdoor dining, catering, event planning and special events. Its most popular events include wine dinners, musical entertainment and wine tastings, as well as Blue Window traditions including a five-course Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve dinner. For more Read More
Former Cop Gives Talk To Protect Children Thursday
Deacon Robert Bustamante
COMMUNITY News:
The community is invited to hear a presentation by Deacon Robert Bustamante on his time as a police officer assigned to the vice squad in Portland, Ore.
Young people are often very naive to the dangers lurking in the world and can fall into the traps set to draw them into that life, especially young people going to college and away from home for the first time.
Young people, parents and other community members are invited to hear this important talk at 6:30 p.m., Thursday in the Parish Hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 3700 Canyon Road in Los Alamos. Read More
Pastor Granillo: Answering Wisdom
By Pastor RAUL GRANILLOAnswering Wisdom.
“Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud: “To you, O people, I call out; I raise my voice to all mankind” (Proverbs 8:1-3 NIV).
There is a great need for wisdom in our world. Wisdom to discern the truth from the lie. Wisdom to choose the right leaders. Wisdom to identify the victim from the assailant. Wisdom to bring order into the chaos that is found in our everyday life. There Read More
Pasta Paradiso Opens For Business Saturday!
Pasta Paradiso owner Renee Lee gave the Los Alamos Daily Post a sneak peek inside her new restaurant Monday afternoon at 1315 Trinity Dr., which is set to open its doors to the public at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 16. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
A look inside the newly renovated Pasta Paradiso on Trinity Drive. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
The newly remodeled front patio at Pasta Paradiso on Trinity Drive offers dining in a garden setting. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Renee Lee hosted a private dinner for about
Modular Buildings Moving Off Hill July 19 To Aug. 3
COMMUNITY News:
Beginning Tuesday, Desert Wind Transport is moving seven modular buildings from Los Alamos Middle School to School of Dreams Academy in Los Lunas.
One building will be moved per day on July 19, July 21, July 24, July 26, July 28, Aug. 1 and Aug. 3.
The state requires these types of buildings be moved at night and traffic may be disrupted between about 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. as each building is 28-feet wide at the base and nearly 30-feet wide at the top.
Direct questions to Desert Wind Transport at 505.793.4066. Read More
Smart Design With Suzette: Calling All Builders … Please Return My Call!
Contractor on a ladder. Courtesy photo
By SUZETTE FOXYes, this is the busy season for renovations. Have patience. As an interior designer, I can’t get contractors to call me back either. So, don’t take it personally.
Clients get extremely frustrated and often ask if they have done something wrong in searching for a contractor. I understand the frustration. But believe me when I say that skilled contractors are in high demand. Good contractors are very, very busy.
This means when you do start phoning contractors, don’t be surprised that they don’t immediately answer their phones — Read More
Oil Rig Explosion Closes Highway 550 Near Nageezi
Fire burns five-acre area comprising more than 30 oil storage tanks this morning near the intersection of County Road 7890 and U.S. Highway 550. Courtesy/jemezdailypost.com
JEMEZ DAILY POST:
Travelers on U.S. Highway 550 are being notified that the highway is closed today in both directions at mile marker 114, near Nageezi and Councelor due to a fire on an oil and gas well.
The five-acre site, comprising more than 30 oil storage tanks, is near the intersection of County Road 7890 and U.S. Highway 550.
Fire crews are standing by outside a half mile perimeter for the moment, since the fire Read More
Letter To The Editor: Unitarian Church Says Black Lives Matter
By Rev. John Cullinan, pastorThe murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week, along with the murders of police officers in Dallas, should serve as a wake up call to the people of our nation that cycles of violence in our communities cannot be dismantled until we begin to examine the effects of historic racism imprinted into the systems of our American culture.
The call of the Black Lives Matter movement to awaken to systemic racism in our country and to end the disproportionate amount of violence committed against Read More
Special Waffle Breakfast 7:30-10:30 a.m. Saturday
Worshipful Master Don Carlson, Pajarito Lodge #66. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
This Saturday, July 16, Pajarito Masonic Lodge #66 in Los Alamos is hosting a very special waffle breakfast, to support the Lodge’s fundraising capabilities.
Don Carlson, Master of Pajarito Lodge, says that over the last four years, the Lodge’s popular waffle breakfasts have raised almost $35,000 for 20 different community organizations.
These breakfasts have led to considerable wear and tear on the facility, and the Lodge now needs significant maintenance and upgrades in order to continue these fundraising Read More
How The Hen House Turns—Theory Of Mind
How the Hen House Turns—Theory of Mind
Tips To Becoming More Generous
Gregory Baumer was a 25-year-old analyst at a Boston private equity firm pulling down $250,000 a year. Why not drop $1,000 a month for dinners out with his wife? Baumer was a Spender. Courtesy photo
EMSI News:
Americans like to think of themselves as generous people.
John Cortines was earning six figures as a petroleum engineer for a major oil company in Louisiana. He so delighted in the prospect of shoring up wealth for his young family that his online banking password was ‘retire_at_40!’ Cortines was a Saver. Courtesy photo
And often, the numbers back that up, such as a recent report that Read More
Time Out Pizzeria Acquires Sporty Delivery Car
Time Out Pizzeria owners Omar and Trisha Sanchez today with their brand new sporty delivery vehicle at their eatery in White Rock. Courtesy photo
RESTAURANT News:
Time Out Pizzeria owners Omar and Trisha Sanchez just acquired a brand new sporty delivery vehicle for their restaurant at 118 State Road 4 in White Rock. They plan to purchase a second sporty vehicle for their location at 1350 Central Ave., in Los Alamos.
The couple have owned the White Rock location since 2007. They modeled it after one of Omar’s favorite childhood restaurants in Roswell. He was inspired by the restaurant’s display Read More
Daily Postcard: St. Francis Garden On Canyon Road
Daily Postcard: St. Francis Garden on the grounds of IHM Catholic Church on Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Pastor Granillo: Praise The Lord!
Pastor RAUL GRANILLOAdmittedly, there are days when praising God is harder than others. It’s harder to praise God when my wife and four kids are sick. It’s harder to praise God when an unexpected bill arises but the income doesn’t change. It’s harder to praise God when I feel like I have failed. It’s harder to praise God when we lose loved ones. The truth is, there are a lot of times when it is hard to praise God.
I used to think that all of the Psalms were Pollyanna type messages of how perfect life was for the believer and how easy it must be to praise the Lord. Then I read them. I realized that many,
LANB Announces Estate Planning Conversation Series
LANB’s Chief Wealth Strategies and Fiduciary Officer William ‘Bill’ Zaleski
LANB News:
Los Alamos National Bank (LANB) announces an initiative to increase community access to financial planning with a series of conversations about estate planning. The first of the conversation series, “Vocabulary of Estate and Financial Planning” is scheduled for Aug. 2.
“At Los Alamos National Bank, we believe it is our obligation to give back to the communities we serve,” states Bill Zaleski, Chief Wealth Strategies and Fiduciary Officer. “Our goal is to promote conversations about managing finances Read More
Northern New Mexico Sierra Club Releases Updated Edition Of Popular ‘Day Hike’ Guidebook
The Sierra Club Northern New Mexico Group releases the eighth edition of its best-selling Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area. COurtesy/SCNNM
SIERRA CLUB News:
This week, the Sierra Club Northern New Mexico Group published the eighth edition of its best-selling Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area.
The eighth edition contains 410 pages; 68 hike descriptions that, counting all the options and variations provided, cover more than 125 individual day hikes, 71 maps and 95 photographs; most of which are new to this edition.
“Generations Read More
Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum Presents Two Lectures By Dr. Justin L. Barrett July 13-14
Dr. Justin L. Barrett is Program Director, for Psychological Science (Non-clinical) in Fuller’s Graduate School of Psychology. Courtesy photo
