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Wildfire Preparedness Is Year-Round: Get Your Home In Condition To Resist Wildfire Ignitions

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Courtesy/FSG

Forest Stewards Guild News:

SANTA FE — It is important for residents to evaluate their homes and structures for resilience from wildfires.

The 2023 Wildfire Preparedness is Year-Round campaign provides monthly wildfire preparedness tasks that follow the changing seasons. In conjunction with Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week, the April message from the Forest Stewards Guild, the Fire Adapted New Mexico learning network (FACNM), partners, agencies and non-governmental organizations is, “Get Your Home in Condition to Resist Wildfire Ignitions.” 

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Freedom Church Los Alamos Invites Community To Join In 20,000 Egg Hunt Saturday And Easter Service Sunday

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Pastor Mike Brake, center, invites the community to attend Easter Service at 11 a.m. April 9 at Aspen Elementary and livestreamed here. Courtesy/Freedom Church

Freedom Church Los Alamos News:

The community is invited to celebrate Easter Sunday, April 9 at Aspen Elementary with Freedom Church in Los Alamos. 

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to celebrate Easter with a jam-packed weekend of events,” Pastor Mike Brake said.

Saturday the fun kicks off at 10 a.m. at Ashley Pond with giant inflatables, games, prizes, a raffle, wildfire day, and beginning at 11 a.m. a 20,000 Easter egg hunt!

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Jemez And N.M. 4 Intersection Project Revs Back Up

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The intersection of N.M. 4 & East Jemez Road prior to work completed in the 2022 construction season. Courtesy/LAC

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

After hitting the brakes on the road improvement project at the intersection of N.M. 4 and East Jemez Road in December due to the winter season, the project is revving up again.

A spokesperson for the contractor on the project, Star Paving, explained that the project’s major point is to improve safety but also to help with traffic flow for commuters to the laboratory.

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Luján Addresses 1st Year Anniversary Of Hermit’s Peak Fire

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U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. SENATE News:

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) issued the following statement today to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hermit’s Peak Fire.

“Today, New Mexico marks a solemn anniversary of the Hermit’s Peak Fire that upended the lives of far too many New Mexicans. From burning family homes, disrupting small businesses, and impacting our farmers and ranchers, this fire started by the federal government, and the flooding that followed, devastated the people of New Mexico and our way of life.

“As we reflect on this challenging time, it’s clear this Read More

An Open Book: Passover, Glazed Donuts, And Graduate School

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

Passover, glazed donuts, and graduate school do not mix well. This is a fact that I encountered, for five consecutive years, while laboring on my doctoral degree. Full appreciation of this physical law requires some background, so please bear with me for a paragraph or two.

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is the Jewish week-long holiday celebrating the Biblical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt. There is a ceremonial dinner, called the Passover Seder, that begins the holiday week and introduces the observance of the ritual laws surrounding this holiday, and central Read More

Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Chaquewe With Red Chile

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Video showing how to prepare Chaquewe with Red Chile. Video by Liddie Martinez

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

With Holy Week here, some of my favorite dishes are beginning to make their annual appearance at my dinner table with much fanfare. My Aunt Pauline came over to visit this past weekend and we were talking about all the delicious foods our moms and grandmas used to make like panocha, alverjón maduro and torta de huevo. It was always a delight to help in the kitchen as these dishes graced our tables but once a year and the opportunity to watch a master making each dish was a rare occasion that Read More

Easter Sunrise Service For Community At Ashley Pond!

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COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to attend the annual Easter Sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 9 on the west side of Ashley Pond (near the Justice Center). 

The service will be led by ministers and leaders from the Christian Church, First United Methodist Church of Los Alamos, Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church and The United Church. 

“The weather should be good for this celebration of the Resurrection! Happy Easter!” –Senior Pastor  David Elton of The United Church Read More

Scenes Of Non-Injury Plane Accident At Los Alamos Airport

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Scene of an accident at about 4:30 this afternoon in which a pilot ran off the runway during take-off and hit a tied-down local aircraft at Los Alamos County Airport. No injuries were reported. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Police and Fire departments are on the scene. The Federal Aviation Administration and New Mexico State Police have been notified to complete the investigation. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Week-long Jewish Holiday Of Passover Begins Tonight

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The week-long Jewish holiday of Passover begins this evening, April 5. During the holiday, Jews eat matzah instead of bread, and eschew eating leavened food products of any kind. Traditionally, Jews avoid owning or deriving benefit from leavened products during this time. One way to do this is to sell these items to a non-Jew for the duration of the Passover holiday. Shown here, Joel Kress purchases all leavened food with a down payment of $1 from Rabbi Jack Shlachter; the rabbi is serving as the agent for several Jewish community members in town. The sale of these items took place with a written Read More

New Mexico Unemployment Insurance Operations Center Closed For Good Friday Seasonal Observance April 7

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NMDWS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — All New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions’ (NMDWS) offices, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Operations Center, will be closing at noon April 7, for Good Friday seasonal observance. The department urges claimants to plan accordingly.

The Unemployment Insurance Tax & Claims Online System (www.jobs.state.nm.us) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Customer Service Agents in the Unemployment Insurance Operations Center will be available when business hours resume at 7 a.m. Monday, April 10.

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