During Tuesday’s Rotary Club meeting at the Dixie Girl Restaurant, Rotarian Alison Walters reads the accomplishments of Los Alamos High School senior Marcus Gutierrez, selected as Student of the Month for October. Gutierrez is joined at the podium by his father Joaquin Gutierrez, right, and mother Melinda Gutierrez, not shown, and LAHS social studies teacher Jonathan Frost. Gutierrez selected Frost as his most influential teacher. Photo by Hal Davis Read More
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Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Oct. 25
This week’s preview is sponsored by www.fyila.com
Author Speak features Margaret Wood 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25 @ Mesa Library Upstairs Rotunda
Wood is the author of O’Keeffe Stories. Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the world’s most well-known and beloved artists. In 1977, Margaret Wood began a five-year stay as companion and caretaker to then eighty-nine year old Georgia O’Keeffe.
Halloweekend – Trick or Treat on Main Street 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26
A great weekend of activities from many great businesses and organizations. Activities to include Trick or Treat on MainStreet, Read More
LANL’s Carl Beard is Oct. 30 Rotary Speaker
ROTARY News:
Dr. Carl Beard, Principal Associate Director of Operations and Business at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the guest speaker at next week’s Rotary lunch meeting.
Beard will speak on a topic of his choice during the meeting, which begins at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 at the Dixie Girl Restaurant, 1789 Central Ave.
Space is limited. Community members who wish to attend Beard’s talk may reserve a seat by calling Rotary President Linda Hull at 662-7950. Read More
Hoop-House Raising Celebrates Community Garden Funded by State Farm
From left, Pat Santoro, local State Farm Agent Lou Santoro, the State Farm Good Neigh Bear and local State Farm Office Manager Marcella Martinez hold a check for $96,250 to present to the Los Alamos Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) in support of an educational and outreach community garden in Los Alamos. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
By Greg Kendall
A small “barn-raising” was held on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Los Alamos Cooperative Market, in conjunction with a national State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant award presentation.
Youth and adult volunteers were invited to assist Read More
Challenge: Write 50,000 Words in 30 Days
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MESA LIBRARY News:
National Novel Writing Month Kicks Off Nov. 1
‘Everyone has it in Them to Write a Novel’
November has Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, blustery weather, and the change back to Standard Time – the perfect time to give thanks, contemplate life, curl up somewhere cozy, eat too much … and write a novel.
November is also National Novel Writing Month and Los Alamos County Libraries are ready to support those with the steely resolve to write the required 50,000 words in 30 days.
On Nov. 1, Mesa Public Library will have an event to kick off this Read More
Local Woman Shares Some Difficult Times
Kay Dreamtrader of Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comWoman Who Suffered Emotional Distress Hopes to Inspire Others
By Carol A. Clark
Kay Dreamtrader is a medical assistant at Los Alamos Medical Care Clinic in Los Alamos.
She went through some very difficult periods in her life in the last few years and decided to share her experiences with the Los Alamos Daily Post in the hopes that she might help others.
“I went thru a very sudden and devastating break up of a nine-year relationship in the fall of 2009,” Dreamtrader said. “I
Read More Join Dorothy Hoard for Hike Across Beanfield Mesa
Beanfield Bend. Courtesy photo
PEEC News:
Join PEEC at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27 for a hike across historic Beanfield Mesa. Living Treasure, author and local historian Dorothy Hoard will lead participants around the mesa top, past historic locations and to spectacular viewpoints.
Prior to 1943, two old roads were built to access a farm high atop Beanfield Mesa. Located across Rendija Canyon north of Barranca Mesa, the mesa featured a substantial line cabin (unfortunately lost in the 2000 Cerro Grande fire.)
Those farmers tended crops on Beanflield Mesa, but the history of the mesa also includes Read More
Pumpkin Splash & Halloween Carnival Oct. 27
COUNTY News:
Join the Los Alamos County Recreation Division on Oct. 27 for the pirate themed Pumpkin Splash and Halloween Carnival at the Walkup Aquatic Center.
This fun family event will be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and includes pirate themed carnival games, jumping into the pool and finding your pumpkin, decorating your pumpkin and watching pirate movies.
The cost for the event is $ 7 per person. Sign up today at the Aquatic Center as the event is limited to 150 participants.
For further information, contact the Recreation Division, at (505) 662-8173, visit the website at www.losalamosnm.us/rec, or Read More
World Polio Day: Rotary Club of Los Alamos Works to End Polio Across the Globe
ROTARY News:EVANSTON, ILL. – In honor of World Polio Day, which is widely recognized on Oct. 24, the Rotary Club of Los Alamos will soon be accepting member and community donations as part of Rotary’s 27-year mission to eradicate the crippling childhood disease polio.
On World Polio Day, Rotary International also will launch the “World’s Biggest Commercial,” an innovative, interactive campaign at endpolionow.org. that gives everyone a chance to join Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bill Gates, Jackie Chan, Amanda Peet and other world figures and celebrities already participating
Read More A Day Filled With Young Eagles and Smiles
One Young Eagle waving at another just before the machine guns start blazing. Courtesy photo
By Will Fox
One of the things I enjoy most as an EAA member is being able to participate in the Young Eagles program.
Recently, we were were asked by the airport manager at Lindrith (Population: 109), in the mountains of northern New Mexico, if we could fly some kids as part of the Young Eagles program.
We said sure and started to figure out how we were going to do it. You see, the Lindrith airstrip, which is just about on the Continental Divide, is at an elevation of 7200′ MSL and is only 3300′ x75′. Read More