Martinez: Create A Fraud Prevention Plan
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
President, Los Alamos Region
Enterprise Bank & Trust, Member FDIC
As we approach the end of 2022, now is the perfect time for small business owners to create a fraud prevention plan for the upcoming year.
According to Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity study, 43 percent of cyber attacks are aimed at small businesses, but only 14 percent are prepared to defend themselves.
As small businesses are less likely to have robust systems in place to help prevent attacks, it’s important for business owners to stay on top of fraud prevention planning. Our collection of fraud prevention Read More
Gruninger: Holiday Calm Not Chaos
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT
Los Alamos
This is it, the last four weeks before we turn the calendar. Hard to believe 2022 is almost over. And, if you are like most people, the holidays don’t always come with joy and cheer. It seems like they are often filled with dread, busyness, rushing and often a lack of kindness.
This is the best time to turn inward and find a bit of space for yourself each day. It’s also the perfect time to set up your self-support and inner resources to stay steady and calm during the holidays.
When we are calm, we can be kinder to ourselves and to others. Now that sounds like a holiday Read More
Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Pecan Pie
Pecan Pie freshly baked in the oven. Photo by Liddie Martinez
Video: How to prepare Pecan Pie. Video by Liddie Martinez
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
Holidays call for dusting off those baking dishes and breaking out the family recipes. Our home was always the place where extended family gathered to celebrate, share stories of old, seek advice, connect with old friends, share musical talents and feast. It is a time-honored tradition that my husband and I now have the honor of hosting for our family.
When all my nieces and nephews were still young, I used to make everyone’s favorite pie for Thanksgiving Read More
Kiesling: We Should Teach Cursive To All Our Students
By ANDREA KIESLING
Teach Plus New Mexico
In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law‘s family. In it, the soldier talks about the hardships of war and describes the fields around him near Riley Knob in North Carolina, telling his mother that “there is lots of pine and cedar and some of the clearest streams of water [sic] I ever saw.”
The soldier goes on to say that he‘s tired of marching and wishes the war would close. It’s a mundane letter—no juicy gossip about a spy in the ranks or harrowing journeys Read More
Ceballos: Pending D.C. Legislation Jeopardizes Affordable Banking Options In New Mexico
By JUAN FERNANDEZ CEBALLOS
CEO
Credit Union Association of New Mexico
In New Mexico, we care about community. We look out for our neighbors and come together to support one another. That spirit of community is what brought like-minded community members together to establish the 40 credit unions that serve one million New Mexicans everyday—from providing a mortgage for their first home to cashing their hard-earned paycheck.
Credit unions are part of the communities they serve. They know their members by name. And, as democratically governed financial cooperatives owned by their members Read More
His Eminence Archbishop DANIEL To Visit Los Alamos
Father Theophan, left, with His Eminence Archbishop DANIEL of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America during a previous visit to Los Alamos. Courtesy/Fr. Theophan
By Father Theophan
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church
Los Alamos
Saturday, Dec. 3, His Eminence Archbishop DANIEL of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America will arrive in New Mexico for his annual visit to Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church here in Los Alamos.
While here, he will preside over Great Vespers Saturday evening and serve the Divine Liturgy Sunday morning, where he will tonsure Read More
Local Woman In Search Of Emperor Penguins
Photographer Kristen Honig of Los Alamos poses with emperor penguins during her recent trip to Antarctica. Courtesy/Kristen Honig
The main colony consists of thousands of adult and juvenile emperor penguins. Photo by Kristen Honig
By KRISTEN HONIG
Los Alamos
Ever since my first trip to Antarctica in 2018, I’ve been dreaming of a return.
In part, because the wildlife is simply amazing, in part to see the uniquely sculpted ice, but mostly to see the elusive emperor penguin that I missed the first time around. After several years of waiting for adventure ships to return to the White Continent, I
