Lifestyles

Unitarian Church Forum Features ‘Avenue Q’

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UCLA News:

The community is invited to attend the Forum at the Unitarian Church at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, April 5.

The Forum will feature “Avenue Q” by Director Holly Haas. Avenue Q is a Tony Award winning musical, performed with puppets.

Come to this Forum to hear Haas talk about the Los Alamos Little Theater production, which starts May 1. Learn what is unique about this play that has caused so much attention.

The play will be presented jointly by the Los Alamos Little Theater and the Dixon Community Players and should be outstanding. This will not be just a talk. Some of the cast members Read More

Food On The Hill: Chocolate Bird Nests

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Chocolate Bird Nests. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos

This Week’s Recipe: Chocolate Bird Nests

I contributed refreshments to a party Friday night at Fuller Lodge for the first night of an art show connected to the imminent opening of the new Nature Center. It’s a wonderful show based on PEEC’s mission in operating the new Center: inspiring connection with the canyons, mesas, mountains and skies of the Pajarito Plateau. 

The two recipes most frequently requested that night were the Pueblo Stew and the Chocolate Bird Nests. I’ll share the stew recipe next week; Read More

Holy Week Services At Bethlehem Lutheran Church

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SPIRITUAL News:

The community is invited to join in Holy Week services at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2390 North Road (next to Mountain Elementary School).

 

Maundy Thursday, April 2
  • Thomas Mass at 7 p.m.
Stations of the Cross, Friday, April 3
  • Tenebrae Service at 7 p.m.
Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 4
  • Worship at 7 p.m.
Easter Sunday, April 5
  • Worship at 8:15 a.m. & 11 a.m.
  • Easter Egg hunt for 5 years of age and under – immediately after early service
  • Easter Brunch Pot Luck – between services
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Smart Design With Suzette: How To Design A Home Office

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Home Office. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
How To Design A Home Office

Whether your home office is designated for running a business, the occasional telecommute, or simply a nook for paying bills, a well-designed home office is a necessity. It should be a place you want to work in.

Purpose

Designers make very conscious decisions about what to emphasize in a space, because the focal point immediately determines its purpose. When it comes to your home office, it’s important to emphasize objects that instinctively tell your brain “this is a space for  Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Nanny And A Book

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How The Hen House Turns
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.
 
Nanny and A Book

When the Hen House was ready, complete with hand-picked straw in the nest boxes, we packed everyone into the car on the pretense of visiting friends in the valley.

When we turned into the yard where we were to choose Shawne’s birthday present, we found to our horror that many chickens were running around loose, with no insulated, bomb-sturdy Hen House to shelter them.

Shawne took great delight in picking out three hens to take home. Nanny was a little hen with dark red feathers. She was easy to catch. What amazed me most, Read More

Pastor Granillo: Embracing The Big Picture

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

I can relate to poor ol’ Peter in the Bible. He means well but has a tendency of putting his foot in his mouth at all the wrong times. I think I relate to him because I see so many of us “regular folk” in his methods and in his heart. He loves Jesus, he knows Jesus is the Messiah, he anticipates all the great things that are being done through Jesus; but when Jesus tells him something that doesn’t fit into his picture of what God is supposed to do, Peter actually pulls Him aside and rebukes Him! (Mark 8:31-32).

Can you imagine hearing God say one thing and then you pull Him to the Read More

Griggs: Dateline San Salvador February 2015

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Bishop Romero at the Tivoli Fountain in  Rome in the 1950’s when he was a simple parish priest. The Lutheran and Anglican Churches celebrate his feast day on March 25. Courtesy/Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen

 

Pilgrimage To San Salvador
By DAVID H. GRIGGS
Formerly of Los Alamos 

At the end of January, I planned to travel south from Guatemala to Nicaragua to attend a Rotary Project Fair. Planes would be faster, but buses give you a chance to see more of the country. Central America has a great system of public transportation. I chose one of the Tica Bus “Pullmans”, Read More

RTD Adds Additional Bus To Accommodate Chimayo Pilgrims On Good Friday

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RTD News:

In addition to its regular Chimayo Route bus, the North Central Regional Transit District (RTD “Blue Bus”) will be adding an additional bus along its Española to Chimayo route to accommodate people making the annual pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayo on Good Friday, April 3.

Two ADA accessible buses will run on a continuous loop throughout the day 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (the first bus begins at 8 a.m. and the second at 8:30 a.m.) departing from the RTD stop on the north side of the Santa Claran Hotel in front of the Arrow Motel.

The route then traverses NM Highway 76 with multiple designated RTD Read More

Forum Series: Peec Tips To Connect With Nature

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Sue Watts
 
PEEC News:
 
Environmentalists are beginning to sense that there is a new environmental crisis brewing. More and more people, more and more kids, are losing, or never forming, a connection with nature. Why is this a problem? 
 
Sue Watts will talk about the reasons this issue concerns environmentalists and about ways people can help their kids, grandkids, and themselves become more connected with nature. Since that also is the mission of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), Watts will highlight ways it is striving to enrich
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