Community

Residents Wrap Downtown Trees in Teal Ribbon

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In memory of Cheri Host, Kathy Aikin and Emmy Hopson, community members gathered Saturday to tie teal ribbons around trees in downtown Los Alamos. Courtesy photo

 September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Saturday’s event was held to raise awareness and not lose any more women in the community to the disease. For more information, visit www.ovariancancertogether.org. Courtesy photo 

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Community Invited to Public Tree Planting Event

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PEEC News:

At 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 there will be a public tree planting day on Pajarito Mountain to reforest the burned areas.

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center received a grant from REI, Inc. to support the reforestation project on the burned areas of Pajarito Mountain.

Nearly 2,000 tree seedlings (Englemann spruce, Douglas fir, limber pine and corkbark fir) have been ordered, mostly through the New Mexico State Forestry Division’s conservation seedling program. 

Firefighting backpack pumps were also purchased with grant funds to water the seedlings.
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Los Alamos Concert Association Begins New Season Sept. 23 with World-Class Violinist

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LACA News:

The Los Alamos Concert Association kicks off its 2012-2013 season at 4 p.m. Sunday Sept. 23 with a concert featuring Rachel Barton Pine. 

An extraordinary violinist, the Washington Post wrote, “An exciting, boundary-defying performer – Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.” 

Barton Pine will be accompanied by pianist Matthew Hagle, who has been praised for the “rare clarity and sweetness” of his playing by Clavier Magazine.

In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Read More

Madame Marie Curie to Visit Los Alamos

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LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

In a series of performances from Sep. 11 through 14, storyteller Susan Marie Frontczak will portray perhaps the most famous of women scientists, Madame Marie Curie (née Maria Skłodowska.)

Madame Curie changed the world in which we live through her discovery of radium and radioactivity. Through collaboration with the medical community, she and her husband Pierre discovered and established the first successful radiation treatments of cancer. 

Simply through her own passion and perseverance, Marie Curie opened the doors of science to women worldwide. Read More

Just Crazy to Ski Raffle Benefits Bathtub Row Press

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area have teamed up for a raffle featuring the publication, Just Crazy to Ski: A Fifty Year History of Skiing at Los Alamos.

For $10, raffle ticket buyers will receive the book and an opportunity to win a 2013-2014 season pass to the Ski Hill.

Only 700 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held Nov. 1, 2013. (Yes, that is more than one year away, as is the season for which the ski pass can be used.)

Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Historical Society’s publishing venture, Bathtub Row Press, which has put Read More

Multimedia Bird Banding Talk Thursday at PEEC

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PEEC News:

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At 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, Dave Yeamans will give an updated talk at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) about bird banding. The talk is free and open to the public.

Bird banding starts with getting a permit to conduct a study on birds of a particular type in a defined area.

Yeamans’ talk will focus on passerines (perching birds in the areas around upper Alamo Canyon in Bandelier National Monument and the Valles Caldera ranch headquarters.

During bird migration season, researchers set up up to 20 nets 20 meters long and 3 meters high, and then patrol the Read More