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Traveling the World on $100 a Day

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Kerri (Foxx) Frazier, Jason Frazier and Sydney Frazier Riding bikes in Paris, France. Courtesy photo

Kerri (Foxx) Frazier, Sydney Frazier and Jason Frazier in Denia, Spain. Courtesy Photo

 

Traveling the World on $100 a Day
By TERALENE FOXX
Los Alamos

Travel can be expensive. Can you travel around the world on $100/day/person? 

Jason, Kerri (1991 graduate of Los Alamos High School) and their daughter Sydney, 8, are on a Round the World Trip (https://ladailypost.comcontent/traveling-world.)

Before going, they researched costs and found the estimated $25,000 per person per Read More

Los Alamos Youth Food Project Seeks Volunteers

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YMCA News:

The first volunteer meeting for the Los Alamos Youth Food Project (LAYFP) will take place 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 at PEEC, 3540 Orange St. in Los Alamos.

The group will brainstorm ideas, projects and its collective vision for the LAYFP as the spring growing season begins.

Future volunteers will learn about opportunities within the Los Alamos Youth Food Project, including  helping to build the garden infrastructure, planning fundraiser dinners and events, school outreach (classroom activities and teacher trainings), coordinating or facilitating community Read More

Craig Martin Experience Jazzing Up Final Beer and Band Event

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The Craig Martin Experience playing at the Dixie Girl in Los Alamos. Photo by Greg Kendall

Staff report

The final Pajarito Mountain Beer and Band event of this season will be noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 16 at the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area.

The beer will be from Marble Brewery and the band will be the Craig Martin Experience.

The Craig Martin Experience (CME) came together in late 2010 as a loose assemblage of musicians interested in sharing ideas on jazz performance.

CME’s repertoire is an eclectic mix of about 60 tunes from the 1930s to the present.

“We like to play a mix of songs that the audience Read More

Los Alamos Teens Offered Grief Support

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LATC News:

The Los Alamos Teen Center is offering a grief support group at 3:30 p.m. today, March 14, in the upstairs area (Kelly Hall) of the building at 3900 Trinity Dr.

Candles will be provided for lighting to celebrate the life of Los Alamos High School student Isaac Hayden, 16, who died Tuesday night.

Aimee Schnedler and Michelangelo Lobato will lead the group. It’s free, snacks will be provided and it is a place to talk for any teen that so chooses. Read More

Los Alamos Geological Society to Feature Dr. Shari A. Kelley

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Geologist Dr. Shari A. Kelley is an adjunct professor of geology at New Mexico Tech. Courtesy/NMT

LAGS News:

The next meeting of the Los Alamos Geological Society is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 at the 1st Christian Church, 92 East Road.

The featured speaker is Dr. Shari A. Kelley, a geophysicist and field geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources in Socorro and an adjunct professor of geology at New Mexico Tech.

Kelley received her B.S. in Geological Sciences from New Mexico State University in1979 and her Ph.D. in Geophysics from Southern Methodist University in1984. Read More

Observers Continue to Follow Comet PanStarrs in Sky Over Los Alamos

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The comet PanStarrs as seen over Los Alamos Tuesday, March 12. Viewing of the comet should be better tonight from the perspective of weather, although most casual viewers will find the comet slightly harder to find, for lack of the convenient ‘pointer’ in the sky that was last night’s nearly-new moon. Photo by Bill Johnson

Check our Facebook page for more amazing views of the comet and the moon, including an amazing video.  Click HERE to view. Read More

Encouraging Innovation Topic of Hive Brown-Bag

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THE HIVE News:

Does our present system discourage innovators? Is the patent system broken?

What are the impediments to moving from an invention idea to a readiness level that would interest investment? 

In what environment would innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers, manufacturers, and investors all find reward from their efforts?

How can New Mexico become the hotbed of invention that it should be?

The brown-bag lunch on Thursday, March 14 at The Hive will address these and other related questions. There will be a short presentation, intended to stir this pot of questions, and then Read More