Lifestyles

Los Alamos Elks Lodge #2083 To Host Thanksgiving Dinner

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Community Thanksgiving with the Elks Thursday, Nov. 23 at 1601 Trinity Dr. Courtesy photo

Elks Lodge News:

Looking for a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner? The Los Alamos Elks Lodge #2083 will host a  Community Thanksgiving with the Elks, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 23. 

The menu will feature smoked turkey, turkey, smoked ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, sausage stuffing, rolls and desserts.

Please enter through the side door of the Elks Lodge (15th Street side of building) at 1601 Trinity Drive.

Donations are welcome and appreciated. Read More

Sugar & Cream Prepares To Open In Downtown Los Alamos!

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Local restaurateur Laura Crucet gave the Los Alamos Daily Post a sneak peek Wednesday of her downtown eatery, ‘Sugar & Cream’ which she is preparing to open at 1801 Central Ave. in the former Starbucks. She had originally planned to open a sandwich shop called ‘Cochon’ but during construction delays decided on a new concept. ‘Sugar & Cream’ will offer coffee, pastries prepared onsite and gelato. ‘We want this to be a space for friends and families to enjoy gathering and for realtors to meet their clients and be a place to go before the summer concerts … for comfort food by the spoonful,’ Read More

Los Alamos County Atomic City Transit: Holiday Hours

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COUNTY News:

Atomic City Transit regular bus service and para transit service will not operate on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 23 and the day after Thanksgiving, Friday, Nov. 24.

Regular Atomic City Transit service will resume Monday, Nov. 27.

Route 3 and Peak Service on Routes 1 and 6 (AM) will remain suspended until further notice due to staffing shortages.

Call the Atomic City Transit office at (505) 661-RIDE (7433) for questions or use the ACTracker to locate bus routes in real-time.

For specific route service schedules, visit https://www.losalamosnm.us/Services/Atomic-City-Transit Read More

Update On Drive For Food, Clothing, Cash Donations For Asylum Seekers

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
On Behalf of Cooperating Houses of Worship

As announced to the community earlier, The Unitarian Church, United Church, White Rock Presbyterian Church, Pajarito Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Los Alamos Jewish Center are collaborating in a drive to raise food, clothing, toiletries, children’s art supplies and financial support for the work with asylum seekers of Colores United in Deming.

So far, community members have donated, among other things, about 60 boxes of clothing to the drive. The organizers of the drive are very grateful to the community Read More

Father Theophan To Bless New Bells At Saint Job Nov. 26

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Four bells from a bellmaker in the Lusk region of Ukraine were recently shipped to Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church in Los Alamos. Photo by Father Theophan

Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church at 1319 Trinity Drive. Photo by Father Theophan

By Father Theophan
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church
Los Alamos

Bells in churches have a thousand-year-old tradition, both east and west, announcing times, events and calling the faithful to worship. They are rung for those outside the church to bring the people in and remind them what is going on inside the church.

Eastern and Slavic church bell ringing Read More

SFWAF To Host Lunch Talk/Discussion With Jack Shlacter On Oppenheimer And Strauss, A Difficult Relationship – From A Jewish Perspective Thursday Dec. 7

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From The Santa Fe World Affairs Forum:

‘A Jewish Perspective on the Relationship Between Lewis Strauss and J. Robert Oppenheimer’

The Santa Fe World Affairs Forum invites the community to attend a buffet lunch and talk, noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7 in board room #223 at Santa Fe Community College.

In June 1954 the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) revoked the security clearance of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bombs. Particularly in Los Alamos, the canonical view today of the clearance clash between Oppenheimer and 1954 Read More

Posts From The Road: Bishop’s Palace In Galveston, Texas

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Bishop’s Palace Exterior: The exterior of the Bishop’s Palace seen from the front of the house reveals the size and ornate details of this magnificent castle. The house was built for Walter Gresham and family between 1887 and 1892. The house was sold to the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese in 1923 for Bishop Christopher Byrne hence the name Bishop’s Palace. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Stairs: After entering the front door of Bishop’s Palace one takes a few steps into the octagonal rotunda where the 40 foot tall mahogany stairway was the focus of the room. Rare woods were used throughout Read More