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Free Weight Loss and Tension Reduction Workshop with Michelle Harkey Saturday, May 31

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Michelle Harkey will offer a free seminar in weight-loss and relief from tension May 31. Courtesy photo

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

Have you ever felt stuck in a body that’s overweight and unhealthy? Or have you resented your body because it doesn’t work right?

Michelle Harkey has a message of transformative hope and healing, especially for women who are successful in other areas of their lives, but don’t see results when it comes to their bodies.

As a coach, Harkey specializes in helping her clients rekindle their mind-body connection. Through that process, her clients experience profound results Read More

DNCU Announces Seven Scholarship Recipients for 2014

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DNCU News:

Del Norte Credit Union, Northern New Mexico’s hometown financial co-op, is pleased to announce the winners of the DNCU Scholarship Program for 2014. The seven winners each will receive $1,000 toward the higher education program in which they are enrolled in the fall of 2014.

“We are deeply committed to supporting young people in Northern New Mexico as they make significant advances toward a brighter future,” said Chuck Valenti, President and CEO of Del Norte Credit Union. “While financial literacy is a core DNCU philosophy, education in all its dimensions is just as important. We Read More

Yang: Capturing Specialness In Bumper Sticker Slogans … Beware

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Capturing Specialness In Bumper Sticker Slogans … Beware
By ELENA YANG

Let’s have a little fun before the Memorial Day long weekend. 

States, cities, towns, little towns … all try to win money from tourism. These days they commission, with taxpayers’ money of course, studies to find their “unique” feature for “branding.”  But hey, when you plan a vacation, do you ever pick a place based on a slogan, catchy or not?

New York Times’ Gail Collins offers some thoughts about tourism, slogans and their unintended consequences in her May 15 column. And the readers provided more fodder.  Read More

Gator’s L.A. Vapor Celebrates First Anniversary!

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Owner Darin Diffey behind the counter at Gator’s L.A. Vapor. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Gator’s L.A. Vapor brought electric cigarettes to Los Alamos last year and is celebrating its first anniversary May 24 by adding Saturdays to its Monday through Friday operating schedule beginning in June.

“It’s going really well. We’ve had a lot of support from the community and we really want to say thank you,” owner Darin Diffey said. “New customers are still coming in. I have about 200 regular customers who come in weekly. All of them Read More

New Owners Pledge to Invest Millions to Enhance Pajarito Mountain Ski Area

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Ski Club members approve 233-17 the motion to authorize the Board to transfer substantially all of the Club assets to Los Alamos County and the Sipapu Group who would then own, manage and operate Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Incoming Ski Club President Susan Brockway, center, told the membership, ‘The County/Sipapu Partnership will care for our history as well as our community.’ Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess, left, chats with Sipapu Ski Resort Managing Partner James
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Los Alamos Ski Club Votes to Transfer Pajarito Ski Area to County and Sipapu Group!

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Members of the Los Alamos Ski Club, during its Spring Meeting this evening at Trinity on the Hill Church, voted 223 to 17 to transfer the Pajarito Ski Area to Los Alamos County and the Sipapu Group. Read full details later in the Los Alamos Daily Post. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com   Read More

Future of Pajarito Mountain Ski Area Decided Tonight

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LASC News:

Members of the Los Alamos Ski Club (LASC) will vote on the future of the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area at 6 p.m. today at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, 3900 Trinity Dr.

Following a discussion period, the club will vote on a proposal to transfer all land and assets of the Ski Area to the Los Alamos County and the Sipapu Group who between them would then own, operate and invest in Pajarito Mountain.

This meeting is open to the public. Read More

Fusion Cafe Closes Down

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Fusion Cafe and Coffee Roasters owners Chuck and Miracle Miller at their grand opening Nov. 1, 2013. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

The Fusion Cafe and Coffee Roaster has closed down.

“Our sales dropped 50 percent during the parking lot closure and we just couldn’t hang on,” Chuck Miller told the Los Alamos Daily Post today.

He and his wife and co-owner Miracle Miller of White Rock opened the restaurant in the space formerly occupied by the Coffee Booth in Mari Mac Plaza last November.

“It’s one of those things … we just had to close Read More

‘Once and Again’ Children’s Store Opens in Los Alamos!

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Owner Jacqueline Chrobocinski inside her new ‘Once and Again’ Children’s Store. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
A longtime dream of owning a children’s store came true for Jacqueline Chrobocinski of Los Alamos when she officially launched “Once and Again” May 2 at 1460 Trinity Dr., Suite 1.

The new entrepreneur carries a mix of new and like new quality clothes in sizes newborn to teen, along with maternity clothes, toys, strollers, high chairs, bouncers, car seats and more.

Chrobocinski also is

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Yang: Recommendation Letters For What They Really Are – Self-Promotion & Self-Protection

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Recommendation Letters For What They Really Are – Self-Promotion & Self-Protection
By ELENA YANG

Like many many things in our lives, once a practice adds a positive sheen or serves a useful purpose, it becomes a fad, which in turn becomes an end in itself. “Recommendation letters” is one such practice. It has become absurdity onto itself … not all the time, but often enough. 

What is the added value of a recommendation letter? Does it really offer more genuine information about the candidate than the candidate’s own track record would indicate? Are half the recommendation letters below Read More