Lifestyles

RTD Chile Line Launches July 1

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NCRTD Chair/Mayor of Taos Daniel Barrone, second from left, stands alongside the newly wrapped bus with, from left, NCRTD Transit Bureau Chief David Harris; NCRTD Vice Chair/Santa Fe County Commissioner Miguel Chavez and NCRTD Executive Director Anthony Mortillaro. Courtesy/NCRTD

NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD), operator of the RTD “Blue Bus,” and the Town of Taos will consolidate operations of the Taos Chile Line July 1, launching the RTD Chile Line.

The RTD Chile Line will provide fare-free bus transit service within the Town on the Red Route and

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Smart Design With Suzette: The Future Of Design

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Bechtel’s environmental classroom – Smith College A Living Building. Courtesy photo
 

Smart Design With Suzette

By SUZETTE FOX
The Future of Design

In reading an article recently about design ideas that matter, I was blown away. All roads lead in the direction of resiliency – not just sustainability, but designing and building for the next hundred years. Architects, designers and developers are creating innovations into the next century. Pretty cool stuff.

Buildings That Produce Their Own Energy

Architect Eric Corey Freed feels that the typical new building is an energy Read More

Pastor Granillo: All Powerful Access

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Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

Billy Sunday once said, “If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.”

I confess that I have struggled with the importance of prayer in my Christian walk. I’m an action guy and I am driven to engage physically in whatever needs to be done. My struggle has been with the reality that I can accomplish more from my knees than from anywhere else. I struggle with this because my natural instincts tell me that being on my knees makes me weak, and to depend on God’s power is a gamble.

Even for the mature Christian, it can be difficult to grasp the fullness of God’s power. Read More

WR Baptist Church Launches 30 Hour Famine

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WRBC News:
 
Over the years, the youth from the White Rock Baptist Church have participated in an event called the 30 Hour Famine. At the famine, students and adult sponsors go 30 hours without eating anything.
 
There’s year’s event began at noon Friday and participants will break their fast at 6 p.m. today. Students do this event in order to raise their own personal awareness of global hunger issues, but they also do this event as a fundraiser. Students find donors willing to sponsor their famine, and the proceeds go to benefit World Vision—a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization
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LAHS Graduate Josh Willms Gives TED Talk

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Josh Willms gives his TED Talk, ‘What if Everyone Searched for Belief?’. Courtesy photo
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

When Josh Willms graduated from Los Alamos High School in 2008, he was a devout Christian. He headed for Texas Tech University in Lubbock with the plan of becoming a physician and a missionary in Africa.  

“My belief meant everything to me,” Willms said.

When his father, a pillar of his Los Alamos church lost his faith, it was a huge crisis for Willms.

“I’d try to talk to my dad, but he was so much smarter than me,” Willms said. “I wanted to level the Read More

NNMRC: Four Week Biblical Worship Course

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NNMRC News:
  • Four week course on Biblical worship
Many Christians today have a keen awareness that God has more for His people than we are currently experiencing. Jesus said that the Father Himself seeks out those who worship in spirit and in truth (John 4).
 
If that is indeed the case, is it possible that we are not experiencing God as He intends because our worship doesn’t inspire Him to seek us out? Is there more to worship than we have previously understood? Could there be a deeper level of intimacy with Him that He longs to share with us? What are the characteristics of worship that captivate
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How The Hen House Turns: Raising Finches 3

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How The Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.
 
Raising Finches 3

Having successfully raised two baby Cassin’s finch, we realized the time would come when they must be released to the wild. We double-checked the Release Check List provided by the Kragdahls. Release should be done at 6 to 8 weeks. The time was approaching in mid August, and the birds were still insisting that I feed them.

I knew they had to be self-feeding for two weeks, so I steeled myself and left their food, which now consisted of insects, seeds and crumbs along with their gruel of Gerber’s baby beef and cereal, hard boiled Read More

First United Methodist Church Hosts VBS July 13-17

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CHURCH News:
 
Everest Vacation Bible School will be hosted July 13-17 at First United Methodist Church.
 
At Everest, kids discover what it means to hold on to God’s mighty power in everyday life. Kids participate in memorable Bible-learning activities, sing catchy songs, play teamwork-building games, make and dig into yummy treats, experience one-of-a-kind Bible adventures, collect Bible Memory Buddies to remind them of God’s love, and test out Sciency-Fun Gizmos.
 
Plus, kids will learn to look for evidence of God all around them through something
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Food On The Hill: Watermelon Gazpacho

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Watermelon Gazpacho. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Food On The Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos
 
Watermelon Gazpacho

I lived in Madison, Wisc., from 1980-1983, not long after an idealistic group of “flour children” hoping to effect positive cultural change opened the first of the Ovens of Brittany restaurants.

Elegant décor, a classical French menu, local natural ingredients, fine wines, fresh flowers, classical background music, hand-painted murals of European farm scenes and memorable baked goods made the Ovens a Midwestern phenomenon. One restaurant became six, plus five bakeries, Read More