LA Walks Fall Start-up Meeting Set For Sept. 25
LA WALKS News:
LA Walks will hold a Fall Start-up meeting and invites public attendance. The meeting is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. in (upstairs) meeting room 1 Wednesday, Sept. 25 at Mesa Public Library.
LA Walks is a citizens’ group whose mission is to support pedestrian safety, accessibility, convenience, and comfort throughout Los Alamos. We are interested in new members and our focus is to start the current fall season by setting new project goals for our walkability advocacy group.
Come and join the group discussion Sept. 25.
Fusion Multisport Opening in Downtown Los Alamos!
New business owners Brad and Rose Nyenhuis anticipate opening Fusion Multisport in late October or early November in Central Park Square. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
- Runners – free computerized
Einstein Dipped in Dunk Tank
Seen here preparing to be dipped in the dunk tank, Albert Einstein (AKA Chamber Manager Katy Korkos), was spotted making the rounds at Saturday’s Next Big Idea Festival in downtown Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
Einstein spent time palling around with the Beave from this year’s major event sponsor Beaver Toyota. Courtesy photo
Not one to dilly dally when there’s work to be done, Einstein pitched in and assisted Carolyn Mangeng and, not pictured Heather McClenahan and Kelly Stewart, at the event information booth during Saturday’s Next Big Idea Festival. Einstein commended Read More
Democrats Meet 7 p.m. Thursday
DPLA News:
The Democratic Party of Los Alamos will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in Building 2 at UNM-LA.
There will be a celebration of the recent marriage equality decision in Los Alamos, discussion with speakers and refreshments.
All Democrats are welcome to attend. Read More
Explosives Experts Present Lecture
LANL News:
Cary Skidmore of Detonator Technology and Dan Hooks of the Associate Directorate for Weapon Engineering and Experiments will talk about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work with explosives in a Brown Bag lecture noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 at the Bradbury Science Museum.
The talk titled “Seventy Years of Leadership in High Explosives Science,” will look at the Laboratory’s work in the field of explosives — from creation and invention of new explosive molecules to waste treatment.
Skidmore will describe the birth of explosives science at Los Alamos and highlight historical Read More
Cone Zone: Week of Sept. 16
Non-County Projects of Significance:
Hygea Health Bite: Five Surprising Sugar Bombs…
Hygea Health Bite: We do sugar in this country like we do everything else ─ in a big way, but it hasn’t always been like this. The average American now consumes about 130 pounds of sugar per year. That’s three pounds per week or 3,550 pounds over a lifetime.
You may be thinking, “There’s no way I eat that much sugar.” Most of us don’t consume that much sugar on purpose, but it comes hidden in many of our everyday foods.
Excess sugar is definitely not our friend. It has been linked to weight gain, depression, low-energy, metabolic, Read More
Valles Caldera Welcomes Back Two Trustees
VCT News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – The Valles Caldera Trust board of trustees has rescheduled its meeting in public to Sept. 26 at the Hilton Santa Fe Buffalo Thunder in Pojoaque instead of the originally planned Sept. 19 date in Espanola.
The meeting is pushed back a week to accommodate the return of Dr. Melissa Savage and Dr. C. Kenneth Smith to the board of trustees. The White House recently announced President Barack Obama’s intent to nominate both former trustees for reappointment to the board. Their previous terms expired in January 2013.
By statute each trustee position is filled with a specific Read More
GOP Central Committee Meets Thursday
GOP News:
All interested members of the Republican Party are invited to attend the regular monthly meeting of the Los Alamos County Republican Central Committee.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19 in room 610 on the UNM-LA campus.
Chairman Robert Gibson will conduct the meeting.
First TAC Meeting 6-7 p.m. Monday
TAC News:
TAC stands for the Topper Advisory Committee.
This committee serves as a site-based advisory council for Los Alamos High School to advise the principal on critical issues that directly impact the needs of all students, to develop broadly based communication mechanisms to enable stakeholders to work together and become a resource for all, to evaluate the site goals and Educational Plan for Student Success (EPSS) yearly and make recommendations for the following year’s EPSS and goals, and to disseminate information to stakeholder groups.
Parents are invited Read More
Students Organize Suicide Awareness Activities
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Two high school students have planned a week of activities on suicide prevention next week at Los Alamos High School.
Faith Glasco and Elizabeth Hjelvik have put together a list of activities.
“After the events of last school year, I decided it was time someone did something to try preventing this tragedy,” Hjelvik said. “I did a lot of research on suicide and discovered that it is 100 percent preventable if the person is reached out to and having this week’s activities will show people that people do care about them.”
Partners in this events include Key Club, National Honor
Naval JROTC Holds Nut Sale Fundraiser
JROTC News:
The Los Alamos Naval JROTC unit is raising funds through a nut sale with the Virginia Diner Company.
The sale is the biggest fundraiser the students do and will fund travel and team costs throughout the year.
Those interested can go to https:////www.virginiadiner.com/ to shop for what they want. Then enter LAHS NJROTC in New Mexico and the cadet name, Rachel Barthell, and then check out.
The unit has 104 students in the program this year and they hope to hold their first meet at Los Alamos High School.
If you would like a cadet to stop by and help with ordering, call the Read More
Support Limits on Carbon Pollution
RAMONA MAICZYNSKIThis summer, New Mexico saw deadly wildfires and yet more extreme drought.
Now, a new report reveals the biggest culprits causing the global warming pollution, which scientists warn will bring even worse extreme weather in the future.
Environment New Mexico Research and Policy Center finds that power plants are New Mexico’s single largest source of carbon pollution, responsible for over half of our carbon emissions. What’s more, the Four Corners Power Plant, outside Farmington, is the 15th most carbon polluting plant in the nation.
I urge New Mexico’s leaders, Read More
Letter to the Editor: Scheduling of Next Big Idea Festival
By RAO GARIMELLAI have been following the discussion on scheduling of the Next Big Idea festival on Yom Kippur. I just wonder if the community should also take into account the Chinese New Year or Dia del Los Muertos (which Wikipedia says is a national holiday in Mexico)?
Incidentally, my family follows Hinduism and on our festival days we wake up early to finish our rather elaborate worship or perform it in the evening and go about our secular activities during the day.
Other than Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year, which have become established as days that the entire nation takes time Read More
Bandelier Bridge To Be Reinstalled Tuesday
Installation of bridge created by Cadillac Fabrications in May 2012. Courtesy photo
Bandelier News:
Tuesday, Sept. 17, Bandelier National Monument will be re-installing the steel bridge that allows vehicles to cross Frijoles Creek.
A crane, accompanied by trucks carrying the two halves of the bridge and the crane’s counterweights, is scheduled to arrive in the Visitor Center area about 7 a.m. and by about 10:30 a.m. the procedure should be finished.
It will then take a couple of days for the park maintenance staff to prepare the bridge approaches and the areas across the creek for use. Read More
Still Time to Vote for UNM-LA Mil Levy
Los Alamos County Election Manager Gloria Maestas, left, with Los Alamos County Clerk Sharon Stover Thursday in the room where ballots for the UNM-LA Mil Levy election are stored. They said turnout so far has been on the low side at 4,500 ballots returned through late afternoon Thursday. Local mail in elections typically draw about 6,000 ballots. Registered voters still have 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to cast their ballot at the County Clerk’s Office. All ballots must be physically inside the County Clerk’s Office by 7 p.m. Tuesday. Photo by Carol A. Cark/ladailypost.com Read More
Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meeting Cancelled
LANL News:Catherine LeClaire Memorial Organ Dedication Concert Oct. 6 with Performance by Renowned Organist Maxine Thévenot
Catherine LeClaire. Courtesy photo
IHM News:
The public is invited to attend an upcoming musical concert hosted by Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Catholic Church of Los Alamos – to dedicate the new organ recently installed at IHM in the memory of Catherine LeClaire.
The concert will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 at IHM and will showcase the talents of organist Maxine Thévenot.
Dr. Thévenot (https:////maxinethevenot.com/) is amongst the foremost artists of her generation, hailed across North America and Europe for her skilful, musical playing and inventive programming. Read More
Letter to the Editor: Vote ‘Yes’ for our Community, our College
By MORRIE B. PONGRATZFormer member Los Alamos Board of Education
I have joined with many in our community including leaders of the local Democratic and Republican parties in supporting the UNM-LA mill levy.
As a retiree, I benefit from the training our EMS folks get at UNM-LA. We all benefit from the Fire Science courses our fire department personnel take at UNM-LA.
Most of all the presence of this high quality institution makes Los Alamos more attractive to the “best and brightest” that LANL needs to attract to compete effectively for future
Rio Grande Flows Loud and Muddy
Looking over the cliff at Overlook in White Rock following Friday’s massive rainstorm, the Rio Grande was muddy brown and nearby hikers and residents could hear it roar loudly as it flowed along. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
