Los Alamos County Science Fair Draws 319 Students
Los Alamos students at the 2012 Regional Science Fair. Courtesy photo.LAPS News:
The annual Los Alamos County Science Fair will take place Saturday, Jan. 26 in the Los Alamos High School Commons Area and between 1-3 p.m., the public is invited to view the projects.
Los Alamos Public Schools and home school students and teachers in grades K-12 will display projects in 4-5th grade individual elementary, K-6 grade elementary class, 6-8 grade junior division and 9-12 grade senior division.
The elementary projects are divided into three categories: Physical, Earth and Life Sciences. The students Read More
‘Show Some Class’ Closing Reception Saturday
Doris Jackson builds a stained glass piece. Courtesy/FLACBy Nancy Coombs
Three summers ago, Fuller Lodge Art Center hosted a week-long exhibit of children’s artwork after Summer Art Camp, with the art hung in the regular Exhibit Gallery.
The show was so popular that it has become an annual tradition. Now the Art Center is expanding the concept of student art shows by offering a two-week exhibit of adult student work from Jan. 11 through Jan. 26.
Stained glass lamp by Patricia Kokesh. Courtesy/FLAC
Show Some Class will feature more than 100 works by students, their teachers and also works Read More
Our Lady of the Woods holds Divination Night
OLOTW News:
Our Lady of the Woods will hold a Divination Night at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30 in the Art Room (upstairs, west end of the building) of the Los Alamos Unitarian Church. The group will gather to do divination for the upcoming year.
Amber K and Azrael Arynn K, authors of Heart of Tarot, will be among those attending. Heart of Tarot explores the Gestalt method of reading the Tarot.
In the book’s introduction, the authors’ write, “Your mind has an infinite capacity to make connections and to find meanings in disconnected facts or abstract symbols. Gestalt Tarot strips Read More
NYT Backs Udall’s Filibuster Reform Efforts
There’s a New Team in Town … The Pajarito Mountain Freeride Team!
The Pajarito Mountain Freeride Team last weekend in Red River before their competition back row from left, Coach Marshall Jansen, Cade Van Etten and Austin Salmon. Front row from left, Coach Tony Hinojosa, Charlie Herrmann, Kyle Cash, Steven Calhoun, Vikki Lee and Carmen Bouquin. So far, three skiers/boarders have qualified for Nationals. Courtesy photo
PMFT News:
There’s a new team in town … The Pajarito Mountain Freeride Team!
It is a competitive ski and snowboard team that trains at Pajarito Mountain and competes in the USASA Southwest Freeride Series.
Events include Rail Read More
How to Make Those New Years Resolutions STICK!
How to Make Those New Years Resolutions STICK!It’s my favorite time of year again, the beginning! Out with the old and in with the new!
I have a little ritual I do every January. I make a vision board of all the things I want to attract to myself in the upcoming year.
I gather pictures and affirmations from old magazines and paste them onto a piece of poster board. For example: I cut out a picture of a bicycle and a really fit looking woman and find the letters “I now have a fit, healthy body” or, “I happily exercise 5x a week”. I may add some great pictures of a vacation spot I Read More
The Marketing and Business of Dinosaurs…
Dinosaur fossil. Courtesy https:////www.staff.olympia.org/external/OHSLibrary/dino5.jpg
LAEN News:
Do you have a dinosaur you want to sell? Or maybe you want to establish a Jurassic park using that speck of DNA you found in a piece of amber?
Or maybe you are searching for a research grant in order to make blueprints of a paleontological marvel? Or maybe you are just curious about how the community of dinosaur hunters gets its money?
Find out with a fascinating presentation by Ralph E. Chapman at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24 at The Hive, 134 N.M. 4 in White Rock.
In his 2012 book “Marketing for Read More
Cowboy Breakfast Set For Sunday Feb. 3
Food on the Hill: Jager-Sahne Schitznel
This week’s recipe:
Jager-Sahne Schitznel
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comIngredients...
3/4 cup of cream
SING OUT!
TCC News:
SING OUT! The Taos Community Chorus, with Conductor Tina Sandoval, invites you to join us in singing this season in an exciting program of SPIRITUALS, arranged by Moses Hogan, William L. Dawson, Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, and many other outstanding arrangers and composers.
These stirring choral arrangements will move your soul!
Rehearsals begin Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, 6:30-9 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church of Taos, 215 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte.
The chorus rehearses every Monday evening at this same time. Concert performances are May 4, 5, 11 and 12.
For more information on becoming Read More
OBITUARY: Martin Gursky March 19, 1927–Jan. 17, 2013
MARTIN L. GURSKY March 19, 1927 – Jan. 17, 2013
Martin Gursky passed away Jan. 17, 2013 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, two months short of his 86th birthday.
Martin was the moral, intellectual, economic and political compass of a close, loving and devoted family. His wit, wisdom and thoughtful counsel will be missed by family, friends and acquaintances alike. At his side since graduate school, has been his devoted and accomplished wife, Judith Cassidy Gursky.
Martin was born in New York City, New York on March 19, 1927 to Russian immigrant parents Mayer Gursky and Sonia Balen Gursky, who preceded Read More
Today Marks Nation’s 57th Presidential Inauguration
In a ceremony today marking the start of his second term, President Obama addressed the nation about acting together to move America forward. Upcoming activities throughout today include at 2:35 p.m. ET (estimated), the Inaugural Parade, Pennsylvania Ave., and at 7 p.m. ET (estimated), the Commander-in-Chief’s Inaugural Ball … available at: www.pentagonchannel.mil. Courtesy/whitehouse.gov Read More
Nation Remembers Civil Rights Leader
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech Aug. 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Courtesy/bio.org
Hundreds of thousands of people descended on Washington, D.C.’s, Lincoln Memorial Aug. 28, 1963. It was from the steps of this memorial that King delivered his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. King’s many speeches and nonviolent actions are credited with being instrumental in shaping the nation’s outlook on equality. Courtesy/wikipedia.org
Staff Report
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in Read More
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Jan. 10 to Jan. 16, 2013
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.
Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.
Jan. 10 at 4:17 a.m. / Police received a report from Los Alamos National Bank of criminal damage to property in the 2000 block of Trinity Dr. the estimated loss is less than $1,000.
Jan. 10 at 5:11 p.m. / Police received a report from a 20-year-old Los Alamos man that he was the victim of fraud in the 4900 block of N. Sol. The estimated loss is less than $100.
Jan. 11 at 8:08 a.m. / Police received a report Read More
Column: Part II – Parallel Process of Intergroup Dynamics
Parallel Process of Intergroup Dynamics: How Men’s Covert Conflicts Got Expressed in Overt Conflicts Between Women – Part II, Intervention and Outcomes
By Elena Yang
The principle of parallel process can be applied to intervention. A small group of representatives chosen from the larger system can grapple with pertinent issues, unpack the layering of conflicts, understand their emotions and the sources, and imperatively, reflect back their lessons to the larger system.
In this case of “Fixing the Women,” Smith and his colleagues created a “microcosm group” to identify issues, Read More
Rick Nebel Discusses DC Transformer Project Jan. 24
THE HIVE News:About 100 years ago, there was a dispute between Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla about whether the United States would run on alternating current (AC) power or direct current (DC) power.
Tesla ended up winning that battle solely on the basis that it is easy to move the voltages and currents up and down with AC power using transformers.
Community Invited to Local AARP Meetings
AARP News:
Local AARP Chapter 492 is holding two meetings Tuesday, Jan. 22:
- noon at the Betty Ehart Senior Center; and
- 2:30 p.m. at the White Rock Senior Center.
State Director Gene Varela will speak at both meetings about chapter activities.
The community is invited to attend and to contribute their ideas on activities … all are welcome.
Perch Paperie Officially Opens for Business!
Owner Gloria Brehm cut the red ribbon on her new new business, Perch Paperie, 13 Sherwood Blvd., in White Rock Saturday as Felicia and Pam Naugle, left, and Adam Brehm, Katy Korkos of the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce and George Brehm holding son Luke grasp the ribbon. The event was packed with family fun including a bouncy house, face painting and balloon animals and included snacks and a raffle. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
A crowd filled the Perch Paperie, 13 Sherwood Blvd., Saturday during the store’s grand opening hosted by the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce. Read More
Park Service Employees Cross Paths Between Bandelier and Dry Tortugas
At left, the ruins of Tyuonyi Village at Bandelier National Monument and Beach Day at Dry Tortugas. Photos Courtesy of the National Park Service
In a perfect example of coincidence, Glenn Simpson, acting administrative officer at Bandelier National Monument, is preparing to leave the park’s canyons and mesas for the islands and coral reefs of Dry Tortugas, a National Park in the Florida Keys.
Meanwhile, Kelly Clark, an employee at Dry Tortugas, traveled to Bandelier National Monument for a temporary Read More
Warmer Weather Floods Local Car Wash
The recent Los Alamos ‘heat wave’ brought out a flood of drivers Saturday to the car wash on Knecht Street to spray away the grime built up on their vehicles during frigid temperatures earlier in the month. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
