Letter to the Editor: Youth Team’s Final Event Monday
By JENNA ERICKSON and SIENNA AHLERSHello! This is Jenna Erickson from the United Way Youth Team, and I am back with the news of our fourth and final event happening this coming Monday.
Hamburger Night, which takes place 5-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 at Bandelier Grill in White Rock, is the last event of United Way’s 2014 youth campaign. We are so excited to put it on, and we hope everyone is able to come out and join us. We have had tremendous support for the other events thus far, and we are truly grateful for each and every person involved. Thank you!
Now, a word from Hamburger Read More
Etching Completed On United Church’s Sandstone Sign
Etching is now complete on the large sandstone sign installed in September at the United Church of Los Alamos on the corner of Central Avenue and Rose Street. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
The sandstone sign being installed in September at the United Church of Los Alamos on the corner of Central Avenue and Rose Street. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Interpreting the ‘Our Father’ Sunday At TOTH
Father Gary and Mother Alicia. Photo by TK ThompsonEver spoken, recited, chanted, meditated on, or prayed the “Our Father” and thought, “Huh?” For example, why do we say an expanded “Our Father” over what Matthew 6:9-15 says? Why do we have such variable phrases for the same words, such as “Our Father who is in heaven, uphold the holiness of your name” instead of “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”? And then we have “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
FREE community dinner. Photo by TK Thompson
Hm. If God Read More
Halloween Party Tonight At Unitarian Church
Last Day For Shuttle Buses To Bandelier This Year Is Monday
One of the Atomic City Transit shuttles at the Bandelier Visitor Center. The last day of shuttle service to the park this year is Monday, Oct. 27. Courtesy/NPS- Shuttles carried more than 45,500 passengers to Bandelier between May and October
Now that the busy summer season has passed, park visitors will again be welcome to drive down to the Visitor Center area throughout the day.
Letter to the Editor: Knights of Columbus Thanks Community for Support of Golf Tournament
JEFF BROWN, ChairLos Alamos Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Council 3137 held our annual scholarship fund raising golf tournament on Friday Sept. 16 at the Los Alamos golf course with over 80 golfers participating, followed by a wonderful steak dinner at the Hall.
The tournament raised nearly $10,000, all of which will be used to award scholarships to worthy Los Alamos High School students. As the Knights look to support students with potential but from disadvantaged backgrounds, these scholarships have a real impact.
We are Read More
Rail Runner Hosts In Transit Book Club’s Author Series
LITERARY News:
If you commute on the Rio Metro Regional Transit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you’ll be excited to hear about the upcoming “Author Event Series” as part of New Mexico Rail Runner’s In Transit Book Club in collaboration with Upland Avenue Publishing Group. The upcoming events are as follows:
Oct. 25 is “Ride the Rail with Germaine.” Kids will come dressed in Halloween costumes and enjoy the decorated pumpkins, free candy, giveaways, coloring sheets, and listen to Los Alamos author Janice Lovato of “Germaine the Beatle” read to them.
November is the “Art and Literary Lounge.” A local Read More
Food on the Hill: Curried Squash and Mushroom Soup
Food on the Hill 
Photo by Felicia OrthHow the Hen House Turns: A Homesick Dog?
How the Hen House TurnsIn late summer 1983 we drove to Flagstaff, Ariz. to begin a delightful year of teaching and folk dancing. Our Santa Fe shepherd, Poncho, went with us. He hated riding in the car, until we stopped at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Gallup and shared our lunch with him.
What a mood change! Instead of moping, all curled up in the back seat, he sat up and stuck his nose eagerly into the crack in the rear window, all the way to our rented house on the hill above the railroad station in Flagstaff.
The house was nice enough there, but Read More
Los Alamos First Co-Op Brewery Seeks 300 Member-Owners In Order To Open
LABC News:
Los Alamos, New Mexico will soon be among only a handful of cities in the country to open the first cooperative craft brewery, and is brewing up several rich and tasty incentives to attract 300 new member/owners and investors to make that happen. Without more capital, the brewery will have to delay opening.
The Los Alamos Beer Co-op (LABC) estimates that the future brewery will open its new location early in 2015. With 300 more memberships in the next few months, the Co-op hopes to hire a professional brewer and eventually produce four varieties of beer, along with root beer and Read More
Solo Traveler: Spectacular Rocks
Beefsteak Hill on the road from Albuquerque to Los Alamos. Photo by Sherry Hardage
Fall color in the Jemez. Photo by Sherry HardageSolo Traveler: Spectacular Rocks
When I returned to my home state in the 1980s, I bought Halka Chronic’s book, “Roadside Geology of New Mexico.” Her books are a great resource for people who want to know more about the amazing scenery they drive through.
But the New Mexico book left me cold because one of the prettiest drives in the state wasn’t even mentioned – the road from San Isidro north to Jemez Springs and on to Read More
Talk On Medications And Fall Risks Monday
LARSO News:
Jacqueline Kakos, MS, Health Educator at the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center will give a talk at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center on the subject of medications and fall risk.
Prescriptions can be very helpful to seniors, but often they put those who take them at great risk for falls.
This talk will identify risks, drug interactions, side effects and what to know and ask about medications in order to reduce the chance of falls. Read More
Taos Historical Society: Food Of Dia De Los Muertos Lecture
TCHS News:
The Taos County Historical Society presents a free, public lecture on “Food of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)” by Deborah Gallagher at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, the Kit Carson Electric Boardroom, 118 Cruz Alta in Taos.
El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) is by far the most significant of the calendrical festivals in the Southwest. El Dia de los Muertos is a time for families of the deceased to commemorate the dead. This day is set aside to commune with ancestors through the serving of a symbolic meal, and to tend to the grave sites of ancestors. Family members will clean and decorate Read More
LAJC Helps Stock Shelves For LA Cares
Students from the Los Alamos Jewish Center Religious School shopped at Smith’s Marketplace recently to purchase food for LA Cares with funds raised by the LAJC. Photo by Stephanie Rittner
JEWISH CENTER News:
Over the past six weeks, Los Alamos Jewish Center (LAJC) has been raising funds to shop for L.A. Cares. L.A. Cares is a small, independent organization, providing help to the needy of Los Alamos County. They provide both financial help and supplemental food help.
The Los Alamos Jewish Center raised more than $1,500 to purchase food. Students from the LAJC Religious Read More
Don’t Minimize Seriousness Of Problem Drinking
AL-ANON News:
Problem drinkers often say that their drinking is not as serious as people think.
Even people who are in close relationships with problem drinkers tend to minimize how seriously the drinker’s behavior has affected them. “Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism 2015” magazine, complimentary from Al-Anon Family Groups, offers ways to evaluate whether Al-Anon can help people cope with the drinking behavior of a family member or a close friend.
“Often, people think if the drinker cared about you, he or she would stop drinking to please you. Unfortunately, it is easy to avoid dealing with Read More
White Rock Presbyterian Church Volunteers Help Build Homes
White Rock Presbyterian Church and House of Fellowship church volunteers work together constructing a home near Gallup. Courtesy/WRPC
Members of White Rock Presbyterian Church and House of Fellowship church. Courtesy/WRPC
WRPC News:
Volunteers from White Rock Presbyterian Church (WRPC) worked with members of the House of Fellowship (HOF) church near Gallup over the Columbus Day weekend to work on houses for two families of the HOF. The House of Fellowship is a Navajo church ministering to the needs of the people in their community.
A young girl shows off a quilt. Courtesy/WRPC
The two churches Read More
Peterson: Weight Of Head Can Be 42 Pound Gorilla
The Weight of Your Head Can Become a 42 Pound GorillaI would like to talk about forward head posture (FHP) a painful and insidious condition, and how it occurs.
The average human head weighs around 8 to 12 pounds all stacked up nice and neat on seven little vertebrae. This wasn’t a problem until we developed a forward head leaning world through extended the use of computers and decided to load our children down with 60 pounds of books to carry around all day at school.
Normally, the head should sit directly on the spine and shoulders nice and balanced Read More
Sipapu Management Group Officially Begins Operating Pajarito Mountain Ski Area!
LASC News:
- Ski Area Now Preparing for Thanksgiving Opening
The Los Alamos Ski Club announced today that the management group that operates Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort officially started operating Pajarito Mountain Ski Area.
Resort officials say they are now preparing for a full ski and snowboard season starting Thanksgiving Day.
“We are excited to take this next step for the future of Pajarito Mountain,” said Susan Brockway, president of the Los Alamos Ski Club Board of Directors. “We have full confidence that this partnership will continue the Club’s traditions, protect Read More
Fly Los Alamos Adds Flights Around Thanksgiving Holiday To Meet Demand
New Mexico Airlines. Courtesy photo
COUNTY News:
Expecting increased demand for flights before and after the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, the Los Alamos Airport announced today that two additional flights have been added to the New Mexico Airlines flight schedule for the time frame of Monday, Nov. 24 through Monday, Dec. 1 (no extra flights on Thanksgiving day Nov. 27).
Flight 101 will depart Albuquerque at 11:22 a.m. and Flight 102 will depart Los Alamos at noon during these seven days, making it easier than ever for passengers to connect between flights at the Sunport and the local airport. Read More
Calvary Chapel Hosts 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Saturday
Scene from Calvary Chapel’s 3rd annual pumpkin patch. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
The community is invited to attend Calvary Chapel’s 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 at Calvary Chapel, 580 North Mesa Road.
The event is free and offers fun for the whole family:
- Hayrides, petting zoo, face-painting;
- Live music, food, treats; and
- Hot chocolate, pumpkins and more!
