Lifestyles

Come Dance With The Torah Scrolls!

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter holding a Torah at the Los Alamos Jewish Center. Courtesy/Los Alamos Jewish Center

By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos Jewish Center

The Los Alamos Jewish Center will be observing the holiday of Simchat Torah (literally Rejoicing in the Teaching) at 6 p.m. Saturday evening, Oct. 7 and all are welcome to join in the festivities.

This holiday, which marks the close of a multi-week Jewish holiday season, celebrates the annual completion of a reading cycle beginning with Genesis 1:1 and ending with Deuteronomy 34:12.

Los Alamos Jewish Center will be listening to the last few Read More

White Rock Presbyterian Church Parking Lot Sale Raises $1,500 For Navajo Partnership Projects

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Scene from recent White Rock Presbyterian Church parking lot sale. Courtesy/WRPC

WRPC News:

Reverend Deb Beloved Church was “pogo-jumping for joy” at the outpouring of community support for White Rock Presbyterian Church’s (WRPC) Saturday morning parking lot sale fundraiser, which raised over $1,500 for two Navajo partnership projects.

The money raised will be split between Nihitaa’ Binaanish (https://www.binaanish.org/about-us.html), a mentoring and self-help nonprofit working out of Bread Springs, NM, and Chinle Planting Hope (https://www.chinleplantinghope.com), a Diné-led Read More

Laboratory Retiree Group First Tuesday Breakfast Oct. 3

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LRG News:

Lab retirees (and potential retirees) are invited to drop in at the Laboratory Retiree Group (LRG) monthly breakfast social, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Muy Salsas at 1315 Trinity Dr.

LRG will pay for your coffee and tea. Individuals will pay for their breakfast and other drinks.

Contact sgirard@losalamos.com or 505.672.3497 for more information.

More information about the LRG can be found at the LRG website. Read More

United Church Thrift Shop Hosts Halloween Sale Sept. 30

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Autumn flowers at The United Church greet shoppers on the way to Graves Hall for this Saturday’s Halloween Sale. Courtesy/UCLA

United Church News:

Saturday, Sept. 30 all-things autumn and Halloween will fill Graves Hall at the United Church, 2525 Canyon Road, for the annual Halloween re-sale. This is the place to get a thrifty head-start on costumes, decorations, clothes, books and miscellaneous goods for the autumn holidays.

Parking is by the Thrift Shop across the street from the Nature Center. Find the big Halloween Sale by following the signs to Graves Hall up the elevator in the Christian Read More

McCurdy Ministries Hires New Executive Director

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New McCurdy Ministries Rev. Tiffany Hollums

McCurdy Ministries News:

McCurdy Ministries Community Center on Sept. 11 welcomed Rev. Tiffany Hollums as their new Executive Director.

Rev. Tiffany Hollums is an ordained United Methodist Deacon in the New Mexico Annual Conference.

“I always had a special calling in my heart to children, youth, and communities in need, which is why I chose to seek ordination as a deacon,” Rev. Hollums said.

Rev. Hollums grew up in Lovingto, and sensed the call to ministry as a teenager. She first learned of McCurdy Ministries as a young girl when she would eavesdrop Read More

Fr. Glenn: Looking For Work

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

I was watching a police show the other day in which robbers were targeting persons over 60 years old. The police commander’s urgent order was: “We have to find these punks before they prey on more of the elderly!”

Dang—so I’ve hit the “elderly” category?! Sure doesn’t feel like it … other than creaky joints, and worsening eyesight and hearing, and memory, and …). Next thing you know I’ll be getting “senior discounts”! Oh, wait! … I already get those.

Yes, time inexorably sneaks up on us. No matter how many times our elders warned us of how time flies, we don’t believe it ‘til we “get Read More

Cone Zone: Sept. 25, 2023

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COUNTY News:

Public Works Projects:

Los Alamos County Public Works’ staff manages the projects listed in this section through contractors. For more information, please email lacpw@lacnm.us, call 505.662.8150, or visit the “Projects/Public Works” link at https://lacnm.com/pw-projects Please slow down and use caution within the construction work zones. Please note the below information is based on a schedule provided by the contractors and may change due to weather or other delays. 

Loma Linda Road Improvements Project

Albuquerque Asphalt, Inc. will continue working on Loma Linda Read More

Izraelevitz: Circles Within Circles

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

In the Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah is not only the yearly observance of the beginning of our world, but also when God performs a conditional assessment of our behavior during the most recent year. However, the Heavenly verdict is not final until ten days hence, on Yom Kippur, and for year 5784, the final opportunity of Yom Kippur begins tonight. This holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a day of prayer and fasting, is also the date of final introspection, atonement and forgiveness, when, according to one tradition, God forgave the Israelites for the sin of the Read More

White Rock Presbyterian Church Parking Lot Sale Sept. 23

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WRPC News:

White Rock Presbyterian Church (WRPC) is hosting its 3rd annual Parking Lot Sale 8-11:30 a.m. this Saturday, Sept. 23 in the church parking lot at 310 Rover Blvd.

This year’s beneficiaries are two Navajo organizations: Nihitaa’ Binaanish and Chinle Planting Hope. Through both, Navajos serve Navajos, working faithfully and creatively to empower one another and their communities; and WRPC has the honor of partnering with both in different ways. Again, 100 percent of all donations received will go to these two groups.

Buyers are invited to contribute whatever amount they Read More

La Vista Church Of The Nazarene Hosts Garage Sale Saturday To Benefit Mission Albuquerque

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Volunteers serve a meal at Mission Albuquerque during a previous visit. Courtesy photo

Volunteers serve a meal at Mission Albuquerque during a previous visit. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

To assist Mission Albuquerque in feeding, clothing and caring for those who are in need, La Vista Church of the Nazarene is hosting a garage sale 7 a.m. to noon Saturday and again Sept. 30 at 15 Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock.

Items for sale have been accumulated by the church and include clothes, household items, toys, books and DVDs. If anyone else is looking Read More