Calling all Dachshunds! Tell your owners that Central Park Square is the place to be Friday, Oct. 26 for the Sixth Annual Los Alamos Hallowiener Parade. Arrive in costume and meet at 5:30 p.m. on the north side of Ashley Pond. The parade starts around 6 p.m., and ends across from CB FOX for the costume contest. Courtesy photo Read More
Community
Final Day to Buy Rotary Bulbs for Education is Saturday!
ROTARY News:
Mark your calendars! The Rotary Club of Los Alamos will host its final day of flower bulb sales from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., this Saturday, Oct. 20.
The final bulb sale is being held in conjunction with Fuller Lodge Art Center’s annual “Arts and Crafts Fair” at Crossroads Bible Church. 
Rotary members will be outside the church doors selling a selection of red tulips, pink angelique tulips and daffodils for fall planting.
The bulbs have been shipped directly from Holland through Dutch Mill Co.
This sale is one of Rotary’s main fundraisers of the year and provides financial awards given to Los Read More
Sandra Salazar Bids County Farewell Friday
Staff Report
Sandra Salazar joined the Los Alamos Police Department in April 2009 as Chief Wayne Torpy’s assistant. She said that she has “loved” working in the Police Department.
She also worked at the County Administrator’s Office from November 1989 to April 2009 as the Administrative Secretary.
Salazar has been employed with Los Alamos County for 25 and one half years and has the general knowledge of all County departments.
She supported the County Administrator’s Office, County Council, department directors and the public on the day-to-day functions and activities for Read More
Del Norte Credit Union Giving Away LA Co-op Memberships
By Karen Kendall
Board Member/Past President Los Alamos Cooperative Market
The United Nations declared 2012 as the International Year of the Co-operatives. Co-operatives are businesses owned and run by and for their members.
Whether the members are the customers, employees or residents they have an equal say in what the business does and a share in the profits.
The Co-operative Movement brings together over one billion people around the world and greatly benefits the communities they support. Co-ops come in all shapes and sizes but the philosophy is always the same.
“Through their Read More
Tour the World With the Los Alamos Community Winds Saturday
Courtesy/LACW
By Bonnie J. Gordon
The Los Alamos Community Winds will open their concert season with “A World of Music” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 at White Rock Baptist Church.
“This is a typical Winds concert in that we are performing a variety of music,” Winds Artistic Director Ted Vives said. “We started looking at people’s suggestions for music and I saw that there was a wide variety of locations around the world represented. The theme grew out of that realization.”
The concert theme is particularly appropriate because this performance by the Los Alamos Community Winds is part of the 11th Annual Read More
Council Recognizes Los Alamos Community Winds for National Accomplishment
Los Alamos County Councilor Vincent Chiravalle, on behalf of the Council, recognizes the Los Alamos Community Winds for their recent second place award in the American Prize Competition, accepted by flutist Carolynn Scherer during this evening’s County Council meeting at Fire Station 3 in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Community Winds flutist Carolynn Scherer and saxophonist Jonah Katz listen as Council recognizes the organization for their recent second place award in the American Prize Competition during this evening’s meeting at Fire Read More
State Farm Awards $96,250 Grant to Local JJAB
FAMILY YMCA NEWS:
The National State Farm Youth Advisory Board awarded a $96,250 grant to the Los Alamos Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) in support of an educational and outreach community garden.
JJAB has contracted with The Family YMCA to deliver the grant’s education and food-assistance objectives throughout the next year.
A small “barn-raising” is set for 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Los Alamos Cooperative Market, 95 Entrada Dr., in conjunction with the State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant award presentation.
Youth and adult volunteers are welcome to assist with the construction Read More
Martha Katko’s Photo Makes National Geographic’s Editor’s Choice List
Los Alamos resident Martha Katko shot her photograph entered in this year’s National Geographic Photography contest while visiting Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. “Walking near the waterfront in Vancouver, I was struck by the beautiful reflection of the nearby buildings in the glass of the Convention Center.” Photo by Martha Katko
Staff Report
Reflecting Vancouver is the name of a photograph taken by Los Alamos resident Martha Katko that National Geographic Magazine has chosen as one of its eight Editor’s Choice photos for the week.
Katko is a Senior Human Resources
Public Invited to View ‘Pink Skies’ at 6:30 p.m. Today!
LANL News:
“Pink Skies,” an inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women – overcoming obstacles as athletes and as human beings, is coming to Los Alamos National Laboratory for employees to view this afternoon.
Community members may view the film at 6:30 p.m. today at Duane Smith Auditorium at no charge.
The film follows Ruth, a breast cancer survivor as she hopes to join an incredible team of nearly 200 women from 31 countries to create a World Record all Women’s Skydiving Formation.
The team also has a goal to raise nearly $1 million for breast cancer research Read More
Friday’s Hailstorm Wreaks Havoc on Local Home
The home of Dawn and James Cline at 1164 Cheyenne St. is battered by Friday’s Hailstorm. Photo by James Cline
Staff Report
“Our house got trashed,” said Dawn Cline of Friday’s intense hailstorm.
Cline and her husband James Cline own Aspen Copies & Office Supplies, 1907 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos. She told the Los Alamos Daily Post that their home was hit the hardest in the neighborhood and sustained the most damage.
“We lost our full front siding and siding on the side of our trailer, all of the shutters and all of the front windows … the front Read More