Education

Rotarians Learn About UNM-LA Accelerate Program

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Gabrielle Fresquez and Derek Vigil are enrolled in the Accelerate Program at UNM-LA. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon

By Bonnie J. Gordon

At a lunch meeting Tuesday Nov. 6, Los Alamos Rotarians learned about the Accelerate Technical Training and Job Placement Program, available at six Northern New Mexico colleges, including UNM-Los Alamos.

The program is funded through a grant from the Department of Energy.

Accelerate is a program that trains and retrains people of all ages and educational backgrounds for enhanced employment opportunities in technology related fields while balancing academics Read More

Letter to the Editor: Vaccines – Elected Officials Should Not Feed Fear and Misinformation

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By Dr. Tom Csanadi, MD

As a health care professional who has dedicated my life to the health, well being and safety of children, I am deeply disturbed by a recent story published in the Los Alamos Daily Post and the comments made by (Rep.) Jim Hall concerning childhood vaccinations.

Hall said, “I’m concerned with this intensive business of hitting young children with these medicines in their formative years without fully understanding the consequences.”

As someone who has lived through the devastation of polio, measles, haemophilus, diphtheria, whooping cough and mumps it is stunning that

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LAPS Choir Boosters Hold Harmony Workshop

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LAPS News:

Los Alamos Public Schools Choir Boosters are presenting a harmony workshop featuring 540 Express from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Church of Christ, 2323 Diamond Drive.

540 Express is an all-male a cappella group comprised of singers and educators from Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The workshop will cover musical literacy, harmony, and tone quality and is open to all students in grades six through 12. Students will perform two pieces with 540 Express at a concert at 7 p.m. at the same location.

Entry fee for the workshop is $20 per student and students will need to bring a sack Read More

Jan McDonald Plays for LAHS Marching Band Fundraising Dinner

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Los Alamos High School Marching Band. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

BAND BOOSTER News:

Nationally recognized trumpeter Jan McDonald will join Los Alamos High School Marching Band Boosters for a fundraiser Italian dinner Wednesday, Nov. 7 at Trinity on the Hill Church’s Kelly Hall.

The fundraiser will benefit the LAHS Marching Band.

“Jan McDonald continues to support the Topper Band, which he directed for almost 30 years,” event organizer Karen Mehlin said. “We are so excited that he will play for this event.”

McDonald received his BA and MA degrees Read More

Los Alamos Schools Recommended for AdvancEd Accreditation

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Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

AdvancEd, which is the global leader in advancing excellence in education through continuous improvement, organization effectiveness and accreditation, completed its review of Los Alamos Public Schools with a recommendation for AdvancEdSystem Accreditation.

If the review team’s recommendation is accepted by AdvancEd, the district will be internationally benchmarked through an official announcement made by AdvancEd in January 2013.

Five positive themes emerged from the accreditation review. Based on information provided, the district has:

Meaningful, Read More

Del Norte Hosting Health & Fitness Seminar

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DNCU News:

Del Norte Credit Union is hosting the Health & Financial Fitness Seminar: A Focus on Women.

When: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2

Where: University of New Mexico – Los Alamos (4000 University Dr., Building 5)

Cost: This seminar is our gift to the women in our community

Registration: Contact Valerie Martinez (505) 455-5302 or vmartinez@dncu.org. Limited space available – please RSVP

Agenda Topics:

  • Take Control of Your Credit Report – Karyne Archuleta, Business Consultant, KLA Enterprizes
  • Everything You Want to Know about Menopause but are
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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

Exploring The World: Travel And Nature Journals

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Journals from an avid traveler. Photo by Katy Korkos

PEEC News:

Tuesday, Nov. 6, PEEC will offer the first in a series of three classes on travel and nature journaling taught by Terry Foxx, Katy Korkos and Fairley Barnes. 

The class is on three consecutive Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m., and costs $40 for PEEC members and $50 for all others.

This price includes all supplies and materials for the three sessions.

Many of us are looking for ways to connect with our world through travel or simply through observing nature around us.  

Traveling, we pack our suit case with a notebook intended to be a journal.  Read More

Sopahn Kellogg Wins Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico Northeast I District Competition

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Sopahn Kellogg is the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico vocal winner in Northeast I District competition.

Next, she will compete at the PMTNM State Conference Nov. 3 in Santa Fe with an Italian aria and a Schubert lied.

She is in 10th grade at Los Alamos High School. Her teacher and accompanist is Juanita Madland. Courtesy photo Read More

National Skunk Expert Jerry Dragoo Giving Local Talk

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PEEC News:

National skunk expert Dr. Jerry W. Dragoo is scheduled to present a talk at the Nature Center from 2-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11. 

This family talk is free to Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) members and $5 per person or $10 per family for non-members. 

Dragoo will talk about his years of skunk research, and give a behind the scenes look at the PBS Nature episode, “Is That Skunk,” on which he was featured.

The skunk is one of the most recognized mammals in North America and, due to its unusual use of extremely well developed scent glands as a defense mechanism, it also Read More