Letter to the Editor: A Huge Thank You to the Community!
By Los Alamos Elks Lodge Youth Activities CommitteeThe Los Alamos Elks Lodge Youth Activities Committee would like to thank ARAMARK for donating 750 steamed eggs for the annual Elks Easter Egg Hunt at Ashley Pond on April 19.
We sincerely appreciate your charitable donation year after year. Thank you to all of the Elks volunteers, friends and families who donated their time, funds, supplies, and talents, from coordination to clean-up, for this large scale event.
Thank you to the Los Alamos Fire Department, the Forest Service, Elroy the Elk, and the Easter Bunny for bringing such Read More
Solo Traveler: Train-Wreck Moments
Arnulf Wirth, a resident of Ha’Omek’Ka who was originally from Germany, shows one of several composting bins for kitchen, farm and toilet waste. Photo by Sherry Hardage
Solo Traveler: Train-Wreck Moments
My friend Margarita was a stewardess with Delta for 20 years and an avid global traveler before she settled down in retirement.
We share an interest in the affairs of the world and have enjoyed many hours talking about our travels. I told her how a recent experience at a sustainable farm in southern Mexico had dramatically altered my thinking about life.
Healing Hands: The Mobile Massage Therapist
Healing Hands: The Mobile Massage TherapistMany local massage therapists make house calls and do on-site chair massage, taking treatment to people to whom it might not be possible otherwise. A portable massage table or chair and a quiet place to set up are all that is necessary to provide therapeutic massage.
Groups of people at work can set up a time and place for the therapist to set up a massage chair and receive 10 to 15 minute treatments per person. Home bound people can call and have a mobile massage therapist come to them, or it makes a great surprise for a loved one to receive Read More
Pain Free Athlete: How Fit Are You?
The Pain Free AthleteCan you … 
Bench press 1.5 times your body weight? Complete 50 abdominal crunches in one minute? Squat 2 times your body weight?
Feeling unfit right now, I am! These, however, are a few of the assessments that are commonly used to determine fitness level. If you analyze the components of these tests you’ll notice they are measuring your muscular development and ability to perform a specific movement against resistance or within a limited amount of time. How well do these skills translate into real life and fitness? Honestly, Read More
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column by JIM O’DONNELLThis week we are opening Godzilla and Million Dollar Arm. Wewill hold Neighbors andThe Amazing Spiderman 2for another week. Heaven is for Real, and Bears willend this Thursday.
We originally had not planned on Godzilla, but It has been getting great reviews, and I’ve heard from our local teenagers that they want more scary movies at the Reel Deal, so here it is. I hope you like it.
Movie poster for ‘Godzilla.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal TheaterGodzilla: Read More
How the Hen House Turns: Wild Neighbors (Number Four) Skunks
How the Hen House Turns:Our daughter’s pet skunk Streak lived from 1974 until 1981. In those years, wild skunks often dug under the Hen House. They lived there quietly, only occasionally stealing an egg. They probably helped themselves to leftover lay pellets in the birds’ open dishes.
We took kindly to them, and they returned the favor, if they sensed no danger coming from our direction. After our children’s dog Poncho died, they had free run of our three-fourths acre.
Our only defense was moth balls, which we used to
Food on the Hill: Apricot Ice Cream
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comIngredients:
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