Food on the Hill: Wine Poached Stuffed Pears
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Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comColumn: Following The Hogwarts’ Path On Power – Part III
Column by Elena Yang
When leaders are absent, there are those amongst the followers who would and could step in and become leaders.
When the trio, Harry, Hermonie and Ron, returned to Hogwarts to find the final Horcrux, they found Longbottom and Ginny Weasley had lead the students in various rebellious acts against the Dark Lord’s cadre of teachers and rules.
When Harry had to pretend to be dead in Hagrid’s arms, it was Longbottom who came charging at Voldemort. Charging at Voldemort!! And it was Longbottom Read More
Letter to the Editor: The Importance of Voting ‘NO’ on Charter Ballot Questions
By Patricia Max
There have been several posts regarding the four ballot questions designed to amend sections of the Charter that concern Initiative, Referendum, and Recall.
I urge voters to vote No on all four ballot questions for several reasons.
The first reason is that Council is required by law to present only legal questions to the voters. These four questions are not legal questions because each one was derived from a number of ordinances that were voted on as a group, not individually. This is in direct violation of the following sections of the Charter:
203.2.1 which describes the introduction Read More
Letter to the Editor: Vote ‘NO’ on Charter Amendments
By Jack and Colleen Hanlon
We are going to vote NO on all four proposed Los Alamos County Charter Amendments for the following reasons:
- The Charter Review Committee (CRC) process was flawed. We believe the County Council (CC) formed the CRC because the CC was uncomfortable about their decision to reject a petition signed by 2,000 citizens. An over-whelming majority of the CRC members supported the CC view to reject the petition, and consequently, the CRC gave little credibility or voice to the petitioners. What a surprise! The CRC was even more repressive then the CC. They proposed Charter
Letter to the Editor: LAGRI Logic
Robert A. Pelak and Skip Dunn
Los Alamos Governmental Review Initiative
In a recent letter Fire Chief (Doug) MacDonald questions “LAGRI logic” and cites its opposition to the current charter amendments.
Let’s set the record straight: “LAGRI logic” (Los Alamos Governmental Review Initiative) is founded on its commitment to public participation in local government.
The original LAGRI petition sought to provide voters brand new opportunities to vote on capital projects.
The opportunities to vote on projects indirectly through bonds essentially disappeared Read More
Author Reflects on Working for Georgia O’Keefe
Author Margaret Wood. Courtesy photo
By Kirsten Laskey
There are 9-to-5 jobs where the days are spent inside the small confines of a cubicle.
Then there are other occupations that leap beyond those fabricated office walls.
These jobs break all forms of convention but they are unforgettable.
Margaret Wood had one of these boundary-breaking jobs.
In 1977, at the age of 24, she left Lincoln, Nebr. to move to the sparsely populated and very rural Abiquiu to work as a caregiver and companion.
While the town may have been a small speck on a map, Wood’s employer was a woman who was known throughout the world. Read More
Column: Link Between Back Pain and Spinal Posture
By Jessica Kisiel M.S.
Several painful back conditions – stenosis, disc bulge or herniation, spondylolisthesis and sciatica – are due to improper spinal alignment.
Proper Spinal Alignment
Consisting of 33 bones called vertebrae the spine preforms a delicate balancing act. The top eight vertebrae create the cervical spine, the next 12, the thoracic spine, and the lower 5, the lumbar spine.
At the base of the spine are the sacrum and coccyx, which are segments of fused vertebrae.
The spine has three main curves. A forward or aching curve in the cervical and lumbar spine and a backward or Read More
