Lifestyles

Tonight’s Rotary Club Crab Fest Is On!

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Rotary News:

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos will host its annual Crab Fest fundraiser starting at 5:30 p.m. today as planned at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

The fundraiser will feature live and silent auctions that includes a number of noteworthy items to bid on such as a four-night stay in a condo in Steamboat Springs, Colo., fine jewelry, a guided hunting trip and much more.

The Crab Fest begins with a social hour and cash bar at 5:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. by a dinner of all-you-can-eat crab and prawn with all the fixings.

Proceeds from this event benefit the purchase of picnic tables for the Read More

Solo Traveler: Zoos Around The World

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A coati (or coatimundi) at the zoo in Belize. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
A spider monkey at the Belize Zoo. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
Zoos around the World
By SHERRY HARDAGE

While on a family trip to the Dallas zoo, in the late 60s, my father spotted a man cleaning out the yak enclosure. He asked if he could have a small bag of yak poop. The man looked at him in horror, as if he imagined those little round balls might end up as a joke in somebody’s spaghetti sauce.

I was in junior high at the time, and got away from that conversation as fast as I could. My father seemed to delight in finding Read More

Knights Of Columbus Fish Fries Begin Friday

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IHM News:
 
The popular Lenten Friday night fish fries hosted by the local Knights of Columbus are in full swing again at Karen McLaughlin Hall next to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Canyon Road. 
 
The Knights will serve fish with coleslaw, wild rice or fries and dessert with tea, lemonade/limeade, or coffee for $10 for an adult meal and $7 for a kid’s meal. Grilled cheese sandwiches with fries also are available for $7. 
 
The fish fries will run 5-7 p.m. each Friday through April 3.
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Real Estate Corner: 10 Tips To Purchasing A New Home

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Real Estate Corner
By CARRIE MONTOYA-PEGG
10 Tips to Purchasing a New Home

Buying a new home is exciting and a big commitment, both emotionally and financially. These 10 steps of the home buying process can help you make the best decision possible so you can purchase with confidence:.

  • Step 1: Find a Mortgage Lender. Your mortgage lender can pre-qualify you for a mortgage and provide with the price range you should be looking at in your home search. A pre-qualification letter will be issued to you by your mortgage lender.
  • Step 2: Find the right Real Estate Professional. A Realtor ® can help you find
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United Church Of Los Alamos: Mexico Mission Auction March 21

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UCLA News:
 
The United Church of Los Alamos has announced their Mexico Mission Auction date, changing the date from a Sunday to a Saturday.
 
The event will take place March 21 with a silent auction at 2 p.m., followed at 3 p.m. with a live auction. The funds will send students and sponsors to build homes for the poor during spring break.
 
Items can be donated to the church by calling 505.662.2971.
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How The Hen House Turns—Chicken Moxie

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How the Hen House Turns
Chicken Moxie
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Last week I reviewed our experience building the Hen House. What amazed me then, and still resonates now, is how the birds adapted to our ideas.

They laid eggs in the nest boxes. They entered the House at dusk and sat on the roosts to sleep. They drank from water jugs (cut down gallon plastic jugs), re-supplied their gizzards with oyster shells to grind their food (LA tuff doesn’t provide good hard pebbles for grit.), and ate their lay pellets laced with cracked corn.

Over its 40 years of intermittent occupancy, the Hen House provided Read More

Food on the Hill: A Lighter Eggplant Parmigiana

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FOOD on the HILL
By FELICIA ORTH

I know that if I ask the husband what he wants for dinner, he is likely to say “vegetables in curry” or “eggplant parm.” (Either answer, of course, is better than “I don’t care,” which I find annoying and unhelpful, even if his intention is to convey that he’s flexible, or something.)  

Although I’ve been cooking since I was a child, I had never prepared eggplant parmigiana before our marriage. When I did finally try to make it for dinner, I was put off by the amount of cheese, bread crumbs, frying oil and active time necessary to prepare it. Over the years I tried to reduce Read More

Infinity Squared Music Presents Spoken Lead Singer Matt Baird In Los Alamos Concert Tuesday Evening

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Spoken lead singer Matt Baird performs at 7 p.m., Tuesday. Courtesy photo

INFINITY SQUARED MUSIC News:

Don’t miss this concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Matt Baird, lead singer for Spoken, has come from Iowa by way of Texas to do an acoustic show at New Beginnings Fellowship for a $5 cover fee.

This event is the third show in six months, brought to you by a new Los Alamos community group, represented by the name Infinity Squared Music and coordinated by local Phil Jacobson.

The name was born out of the first show (September 2014), where nationally-acclaimed Everfound performed at White Rock Baptist Read More

‘Culture Day’ At Roundhouse Offers Best Of State Museums And Historic Sites

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State News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs will host “Culture Day” 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday at the State Capitol Rotunda.
 
Interactive exhibits featuring New Mexico’s state-run museums and historic sites, as well as arts, historic preservation, archaeology and library programs will be offered to legislators and visitors to the Capitol throughout the day:
  • New Mexico Arts will provide “Oculus Rift Glasses” offering the wearer a cutting edge virtual “Pull of the Moon Experience.”
  • The NM State Library will display the new “Brainfuse” online tutorial
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