Los Alamos residents from left, Tessa Dowell, Jonathan Dowell and Wende Songe during a sound check Thursday in Tulsa, Okla., began their two-week concert tour called “Celtic Christmas Showdown” at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. The tour wraps up with a concert at 7 p.m., Dec. 15 at Crossroads Bible Church in Los Alamos and a final concert in Santa Fe Dec. 16. Photo by Mike Lippiatt Read More
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Community Invited to Physical Wellness Seminar
Letter to the Editor: Rotary Thanks Los Alamos Garden Club
By Linda Hull, president
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, I would like to thank the members of the Los Alamos Garden Club for their generous donation in support of the Los Alamos High School Memorial Garden , a project to which Rotary has devoted three years of planning and fund-raising.
Doris Jackson, a member of the Garden Club and an accomplished floral designer, presented the check to Skip King, committee chair for the Memorial Garden project, at a recent Rotary meeting.
The dedication for the Memorial Garden , to which the community is cordially invited, is Read More
The Coffee House Embraces Artistic Trend
COFFEE HOUSE News:
The Coffee House in Los Alamos is joining a national trend by inviting local artists to showcase and sell their work at the restaurant in Mari-Mac Shopping Center.
“We are delighted to have local work at the Coffee House,” owner Brian Booth said. “We have had a potter and a photographer here already and have a jewelry and a knitter this week.”
Jeweler Patty Kokesh and knitter Maire O’Neill will be at the Coffee House from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8. Kokesh began working with leather craft at the age of 10 and expanded into other creative Read More
Letter to the Editor: Christmas Spirit is Alive
By Ann Hayes
Kiwanis Breakfast Chairperson
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos wishes to thank all those who helped to make last Saturday’s Breakfast with Santa successful. Our thanks go to Del Norte Credit Union for their continued support of our event.
We are also appreciative of the many attendees who came to see Santa and to donate food to LA Cares and money to the Foster Children Program at Christmas.
Thank you for reminding us that the Christmas spirit is alive and well in Los Alamos. Read More
Pet of the Week: Coquetta the Retriever Mix
Coquetta the Retriever mix. Photo by Don Taylor
Pet of the Week: Coquetta is a fluffy, 2-year-old female Retriever mix with an outgoing personality.
Coquetta is confident with people and most dogs. She is waiting to be adopted and has been the perfect “nanny dog” to the five Border Collie puppies that came to the Los Alamos County Animal Shelter a few months ago.
Friends of the Shelter don’t understand why such a lovely dog is still at the shelter after five months.
The Los Alamos Animal Shelter, 226 East Road, (505) 662-8179, has a great selection of on-site
Read More Holiday Open House at Fuller Lodge Art Center Saturday
FLAC News:
The community is invited to the Fuller Lodge Art Center Affordable Arts 2012 Holiday Open House this weekend.
On Saturday, we’ll open at 10 a.m. and stay open through the Light Parade in the evening.
Read More We will be serving hot cider and cookies all day.
If you love to bake, consider dropping off some of your home made cookies at the Art Center this week, so we can share them with the shoppers on Saturday!
‘Tis the season to go shopping! At many stores you can expect to see the same kinds of things year after year, increasing the challenge of finding the perfect gift. Things are different
Rotary Club November Student of the Month: Toni Batha
Toni Batha. Photo by Tara Key
ROTARY News:
Toni Batha, a senior at Los Alamos High School (LAHS), was recently honored as Rotary Student of the Month for November.
Batha is the daughter of Margo and Steve and sister of Benjamin Batha.
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos selects one student each month of the school year to honor as a Student of the Month. In addition to high school seniors, high school juniors are now eligible for the recognition. Students are nominated by their teachers and chosen on the basis of their academic achievement, extra-curricular activities, and, in particular, their service Read More
El Ilumindo Shines Light on Past
Review by Kirsten Laskey
It is easy to leave the past in the textbooks and some musty corner of a public library. But what happens when a piece of history sneaks its way into the present?
Writer Ilan Stavans and Illustrator Steve Sheinkin explore this phenomenon in their graphic novel, “El Iluminado.”
The book begins with a suspenseful and spine-tingling scene. In the dead of night a man, Rolando Perez, is being chased to the edge of a cliff in some lonely spot of the New Mexico desert. Rolando’s pursuer, a villainous silhouette, is demanding something but Rolando insists he does not have it. As he Read More
Celebrate Holiday and Holy Day at TOTH
TOTH News:
Puppeteers will present a short play about the Apostle Paul’s shipwreck called “Trusting in God” at 6 p.m. Dec. 9 at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, Canyon Road at Diamond Drive.
Join us early for a great free dinner at 5:17, then for our contemporary service with puppeteers and our live praise band.
God’s great gift to us, at Christmas and throughout the year, is that He is with us always, even in the darkest hours of our lives.
When we struggle in our lives, God is there. Christians celebrate Christmas as the day God lovingly gave the gift of Himself in human form to us. Since then, we Read More