Lifestyles

Los Alamos County Biennial Community Survey Mailed To Select Households Today

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County, in partnership with its contractor National Research Center, kicks-off its biennial Community Survey.

More than 2,500 postcards were dropped in the mail today, Dec. 5, to randomly selected households throughout Los Alamos and White Rock. Recipients are invited to partake in this survey online, or if preferred, wait for a paper copy to follow.

The survey aims to provide a comprehensive picture of citizen perspectives on community livability.  

While the County has been regularly conducting community satisfaction surveys for almost 30 years, in 2020 it moved Read More

Los Alamos Rotary Hears From Mission Possible Members

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Addie Murphy, right, U.S. Coordinator for Mission Possible, a faith-based non-profit serving Eastern Europe, explains field operations and support organizations as Mission Possible administrator Joy Ecklund joins Murphy at the podium during a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“Our founder was inspired by Brother Andrew, a Dutch missionary, who smuggled Bibles into the Soviet Union, sewn in the linings of coats,” began Addie Murphy and Joy Eklund, referring to the work of Mission Possible when they Read More

Fiber Optic Work On West Road & Fairway Begins Dec. 7

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County News:

COUNTY News:

Under contract with the Los Alamos County Information Management Division, Bixby Electric Inc. will install fiber optics in the County rights-of-way on the southeast side of West Road, between Diamond and Fairway, and the south side of Fairway at the West Road intersection heading west approximately 300 feet.

This work supports a project to bring fiber optics to the Los Alamos County Ice Rink.

Construction will begin Wednesday, Dec. 7, and may continue through Saturday, Dec. 10.

Traffic impacts should be minimal, as crews will be working 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the road Read More

Posts From The Road: Monterey Peninsula

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Pacific Grove: Late afternoon light skims the rocky shore and ocean at Pacific Grove, Calif. The coast of Monterey Peninsula around Pacific Grove is very unique, beautiful and photogenic. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Moonrise: An almost full moon rises above the rocky sea shore at the Pacific Grove Marine Gardens State Marine Conservation Area in Pacific Grove, Calif. where visitors can enjoy fantastic ocean views, coastal flowers and many tide pools along some very rugged and rocky coast line. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos 

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Fr. Glenn: The Good Sheepdog

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

There was a heart-touching story the other day about a sheepdog who fought off a pack of coyotes to protect his flock, in the process “dispatching” eight of them. That’s a tough and dedicated dog! While his breed is mentioned in the article, he looks like a Great Pyrenees, which is a powerful breed often sought for its powerful protective instinct when protecting its charges.

Begging the question: What makes a good protector or provider? Is it not one who cares for one’s charges as one’s own, with the same care with which the owner of the flock would give?

As we progress in this Advent Read More

And All Shall Be Well…

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Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo

By Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Los Alamos

Advent: “The fact of an event happening, an invention being made, or a person arriving.” “The period of four weeks before Christmas.”

My favorite time of any day is the pre-dawn moments before the light comes. I light candles and open the blinds waiting for that amazing sun to come up over the Sandias. Author and Spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton described it this way: “The world is Read More

Scenes From 2022 Creche Show

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Scene from the 2022 Creche Show today at the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints at 1967 18th St. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Members of the Rigg family including, from left, Lauren, Lori and Jody check out the creches on display during the 2022 Creche Show today at the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints at 1967 18th St. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the creche show. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Sister Roberson, left, and Sister Richards check out the creche show. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the creche Read More