Community

LANL Scientist Nate McDowell Presenting Nov. 1 Talk

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LAMG/LAEO News:

The Los Alamos Master Gardeners and Los Alamos Extension Office are sponsoring a program by Nate McDowell, a staff scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

McDowell will share his research methods and results with the community at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 at Fuller Lodge.

McDowell studies the inter-dependency of plant and ecosystem water and carbon cycles and their response to climate and disturbance.

What are the exact physiological mechanisms that lead to tree death during prolonged drought and rising temperatures?

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Community Invited to Teen Center Design Meeting Nov. 1

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TEEN CENTER News:
 
A community meeting to review and provide comments on the design of the new Los Alamos Teen Center is set for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Community Building next to Ashley Pond.
 
The new teen center will be developed in an existing building in Central Park Square that faces the back lawn of Fuller Lodge.
 
The public is welcome to attend Thursday’s meeting and provide input on the design for the new teen center.

Area teens will gather from 3:15-4:30 p.m. at the current Teen Center at Trinity on the Hill Church, Canyon Road at Diamond Drive, for pizza and Read More

History Nuts Column: What Makes Our Historic District a Special Place?

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Column by Janie O’Rourke

History is an integral part of the landscape that surrounds us. The lives and actions of those who have come before us have created, layer upon layer, the places in which we live. 

Historic districts are special areas set aside to protect pieces of these layers: historic and archaeological sites, historic buildings, and even viewsheds or cultural landscapes without manmade structures.  

Here in Los Alamos we are fortunate to have a historic district located in our downtown.

If you have attended a lecture or concert at Fuller Lodge or strolled across Read More

New County Attorney to Talk at Lunch with a Leader

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County Attorney Rebecca W. Ehler. Courtesy photo

LWV News:

The League of Women Voters will host its monthly Lunch with a Leader event at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 at Mesa Public Library.

The leader for November is new Los Alamos County Attorney Becky Ehler.

After working in Alamogordo for 19 years as the city attorney and as the legal advisor to the City’s Department of Public Safety, Ehler came to Los Alamos in June 2012 with her husband of 34 years.

They purchased a house in White Rock where they live with the animals the kids left behind when they moved out.

She has worked in Gallup and Roswell Read More

Huge Yard Sale to Benefit Fire Damaged Church

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NBFC News:

The New Beginnings Fellowship Church will hold a benefit yard sale starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 3.

Anything that is donated to the yard sale will be greatly appreciated by the chuch, which suffered heavy fire damage in July.

Donations can be dropped off until noon Friday behind the church at 112 East Road.

“We are hoping for a community-wide response to help the New Beginnings Fellowship Church devastated by fire on the Fourth of July.”

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Heart Council’s Health Fair Draws Massive Crowd

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 More than 60 participating vendors from Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico provided educational information, performed free health screenings and handed out freebies such as bags, bookmarks, pens and water bottles at Saturday’s Health Fair. Photo by Ann ReVelle 

HEART COUNCIL News:

 
The Los Alamos Heart Council’s 27th Annual Health Fair was a rousing success with more than 1,600 attendees Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon.
 
Some 720 adult flu shots were provided free of charge by the Los Alamos Medical Center. A large number of people also took advantage
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Los Alamos Youth Participate in English Setter National Dog Show

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Event Judge Ronald Horn with Los Alamos Middle School 8th grader Jennifer Necker and Aspen School 6th grader Tazler Smith. The students will participate in the English Setters junior showmanship competition Friday, Nov. 9 in Albuquerque. Courtesy photo

Special to the Los Alamos Daily Post

English Setters Bring Lots of Spots to the Albuquerque Spotlight

The English Setter Association of America will hold its National Specialty Nov. 6-9 at the Marriott Pyramid North, 5151 San Francisco Road NE., in Albuquerque, finishing up the week with a Hunt Test Saturday, Nov. 10 at Founders Ranchin Read More

Los Alamos Co-op Expands Sustainability Programs

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Co-op board members, Gale Zander Barlow and Nancy Savoia display the Terracycle Bin at a Gordon’s Concert this summer. The artistic styling was created by Marshall Jansen. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

The Los Alamos Cooperative Market launched three green programs this summer.

Two Terracycle bins now greet shoppers at the entrance to the Co-op. Sandra West, Community Outreach at the Co-op Market, credited Gloria Brehm for suggesting the Terracycle Program.

“When I was president of Pinon Elementary PTO, I implemented this program within the school Read More