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LAHS Blood Drive Breaks Donor Record

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Los Alamos High School students donate blood at LAHS hosted drive. Courtesy photo

LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School recently hosted its second blood drive of the school year.

During the Tuesday Jan. 29 event, 55 donors successfully donated 59 units of blood.

This is the highest number of successful donors in the history of blood drives at LAHS.

These donations are enough to help up to 177 patients.

Students who attend schools that host two blood drives a year are eligible for a $1,000 scholarship through United Blood Services.

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Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Feb. 7

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This week’s preview sponsored by www.fyila.com

2013 Women’s Weekend at Pajarito Mountain Feb. 8 -10
For details and full itinerary, click https://ladailypost.comcontent/registration-underway-womens-weekend-fundraiser-pajarito-mountain

Enjoy an entire day of local music at the third annual UNM-LA Music Marathon. The Marathon is 2-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb.10 in the UNM-LA Student Center. The event is free and open to everyone. Donations will benefit UNM-Los Alamos student scholarships. The day will include everything from Renaissance music for viols to modern jazz with the Read More

Learn a New Method of Gardening at The Hive Thursday

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THE HIVE NEWS:

Wes Myers will present his idea for the “Urban Micro-Farm System,” a modular, expandable approach to vertical gardening at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 at the brown-bag lunch at the Hive, 134 N.M. 4 in White Rock. Myers is a LANL retiree. The meeting is open to the public at no charge. 

The urban micro-farm system offers the potential to grow quantities of many types of vegetables, herbs and other plants inside a footprint less than one-quarter to one-half of that required for a conventional Read More

LANB Icon Bill Enloe Retires

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Bill Enloe

By Carol A. Clark

The Los Alamos Daily Post has learned that effective Friday, Feb. 1, Chief Executive Officer Bill Enloe retired from Los Alamos National Bank.

Enloe is a beloved figure in Los Alamos and White Rock. His strong support of community organizations and events has touched the lives of thousands of people over the past four decades.

LANB President Steve Wells worked with Enloe for nearly three decades. He shared his sentiments about Enloe’s retirement with the Los Alamos Daily Post late Tuesday.

“I have worked with Bill for 28 years at LANB and have a great appreciation for Read More

Public Invited to ‘Co-opROCKS!’ Feb. 16

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LACM News: 

The Los Alamos Co-op Market, La Montanita Co-op and Warehouse 21 present Co-opROCKS! 11 a.m. to 9  p.m. Saturday Feb. 16. at Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe.

Co-opROCKS! is a music and art based annual event that brings cooperative values to light through community involvement, cooperative partnerships and creating opportunities for education while promoting local talent.

Attendance for teens and adults is free. For more information and event schedules, visit the Co-opROCKS! Facebook page https:////on.fb.me.U9c9jy.

This year, Co-opROCKS! presents Read More

Battle Veteran Presents Iwo Jima Film and Talk

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Courtesy photo

Library News:

A video, including an interview with a local Iwo Jima Marine Corp veterans, will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.19 at Mesa Public Library, Upstairs Meeting Rooms.

Battle veteran Bill Hudson will show a video “Uncommon Valor: The Battle of Iwo Jima,” produced by the Canadian History Channel.

On this 68 anniversary of the American forces’ landing on Iwo Jima, this showing will commemorate that historic battle and all those who fought and those who were lost.

This video has not been aired  publicly on television in the United States.

Hudson went back to Iwo Read More

Municipal Building Construction Update

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Recent interior shot of  the new Los Alamos County Municipal Building. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

Construction on the Los Alamos County Municipal Building project on Central Avenue is rolling right along as employees prepare for the big move into the new facility over the weeks ahead.

Offsite Work:

At the corner of Iris Stree and 9th Street, construction of angled parking has been completed. At the corner of 9th Street and Central Avenue, construction of handicapped walk ramps and revisions to the drainage elevations have been completed.

Onsite Work:

  • Concrete work near the west building
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Bonnie Gordon Joins Los Alamos Daily Post

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Bonnie J. Gordon has joined the Los Alamos Daily Post as lifestyles editor. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff report

Thanks to overwhelming community support, the Los Alamos Daily Post is growing in readership and revenues every day and is pleased to announce an important addition to its news team.

Longtime Los Alamos resident Bonnie J. Gordon has joined the online newspaper as lifestyles editor.

“Bonnie is well known and respected throughout the local artistic community,” Publisher Carol A. Clark said. “She is a talented writer whose experience reviewing Read More

Lecture Examines Seven LANL Explosive Fatalities

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Cary Skidmore. Courtesy photo

By Kirsten Laskey

In 1954, seven workers in Los Alamos lost their lives as a result of three high explosive accidents.

It is not a well-known event. In fact, at the time, even the workers’ families were not given a lot of information.

Times have changed, however, and Cary Skidmore, a group leader for the Explosives Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is sharing the story with the public.

Skidmore will present “The Seven LANL Explosives Fatalities: Technical and Human Perspective,” as part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s lecture series.

The free talk Read More