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Staff Report
National Sleep Week is March 3-9.
Teens need about 9.25 hours of sleep each night to function best. Parents can find more information at www.sleepfoundation.org.
Information on elementary school-age sleep needs, plus games and activities is available at www.sleepforkids.org. Read More
LAMS News:
Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS), with the help of Summit Foods, will be in the breakfast business during of the month of March.
LAMS Principal Rex Kilburn worked with students to create the Hawk Hangout, which will hold an inaugural event at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March 6 in the cafeteria, and if successful, will continue Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the month. Hawk Hangout also will feature music and hands on opportunities for youth to start their day on a creative note.
Students will have the opportunity to assist in a variety of youth development projects and win prizes later in Read More
Los Alamos Middle School students visiting Washington, D.C. over spring break in 2013. Courtesy photo
D.C. TRIP News:
There will be a mandatory meeting at 3 p.m. Friday, March 7 in the Los Alamos Middle School Media Center for students going on the anual Washington, D.C. trip over spring break.
Students may still sign up for this educational trip to the nation’s capitol. The trip is open to all LAMS 8th grade and home school students.
Contact Roberta Cocking at 505.670.0679 with questions or for more information about the trip. Read More
The evangelical Church Auferstehungskirche was built 1913-1914 and has had a sister church relationship with the White Rock Presbyterian Church for some 20 years. Courtesy photo
The Europa-Orgel ‘Felix Mendelssohn’ inside Church Auferstehungskirche was constructed in 2004 by the organ builder William Sauer. Courtesy photo
WRPC News:
Friends and neighbors of White Rock Presbyterian Church are invited to a German dinner at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 9 at the church, 310 Rover Blvd.
Bratwurst, red sour cabbage, hot German potato salad, green beans, bread, drink and German chocolate Read More
Evan Rose
UNITARIAN News:
The Forum at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos will feature “The Mayan World” presented by Evan Rose at 9 a.m. Sunday, March 2 at 1738 N. Sage Loop.
Rose has visited more than a dozen Mayan sites in three countries including Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, and has visited towns where modern Mayans live. He will share his growing understanding and appreciation of this ancient and continuing Great Culture.
This is part of the continuing Forum Series at the Unitarian Church.
The public is invited to attend. Read More
Cindy Eaton speaks to the Los Alamos Kiwanis Club about her trip to Vietnam. Photo by Don Casperson/Kiwanis What a difference 46 years can make.
Cindy Eaton, treasurer of Los Alamos Kiwanis and the club’s speaker Feb. 18, recalled that in 1968, she was a senior in high school in Alameda, Calif., who subsequently enrolled at the University of California-Berkeley. She watched the news every night, and it was dominated by stories of battles and body counts in Vietnam.
“All of the years I was there,” she said, “the war was the primary focus.”
While Read More
How the Hen House Turns: Feeling GuiltyAs we face up to the current drought, I keep thinking, we can do this—save some pure deep water for our great grandchildren. It will not be easy, but the sooner we start the easier it will be. Then I realize that I left the hose running while I fed the birds yesterday.
I have to admit it, sometimes, after I’ve filled the birds’ water dishes from outside the Hen House, it’s easier not to walk up the hill to shut off the hose. I think to myself, it will only take five minutes to put lay pellets and corn in the birds’ Read More
COMMUNITY News:
Aaron’s Kids was started as a ministry for the youth in the Los Alamos community as an outreach of the First United Methodist Church-Los Alamos, when the need was identified to provide lunches to the mid high and high school youth.
The need goes further; there is a need for clothing and shoes as well. The Aaron’s Kids Closet – Free Store will be opening its doors to serve community youth in providing gently used elementary, mid-high and high school clothing and shoes as well as backpacks and lunch boxes.
In a nut shell – what is needed:
Volunteers unload building supplies at a home construction site in Mexico. Courtesy photo
Note: Time is 9-11 a.m. for breakfast!
SAINT DIMITRI News:
Saint Dimitri Orthodox Church will host its Annual Blini Breakfast 9-11 a.m. Saturday, March 1. Russian blini, a type of thin pancake, will be served in traditional style with smoked salmon, herring, butter and sour cream. Vegetable caviar, eggs, cheese and a variety of berry preserves will be available as well.
Blini are traditionally served in Slavic households during the week before the beginning of the Lenten Fast. Thin crepe-like pancakes are traditionally eaten with fish, sour cream and butter in order to consume all these Read More