Lifestyles

Free Dinner at Trinity on the Hill Sunday

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Marilyn and Paul Lisowski attend a Sunday dinner at TOTH. Courtesy/TOTH

TOTH News:

Yes, you read it right! A FREE community dinner and contemporary worship service! Our yummy and lovingly prepared meal will begin at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, followed at 6:07 p.m. with the service and a live praise-and-worship band—come see what we’re all about!

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Mother Alicia Pope will be talking about love and how God’s love is different from human love.

This teaching will explore human love and how that kind of love differs from the love of God. Read More

Solo Traveler: Screwed Up!

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Solo Traveler: Screwed Up!
By SHERRY HARDAGE

Not too long ago, I wrote about money security and how easy it is to lose one’s debit card in machines that “eat” them.

Well, now on a trip through Belize, I made the mistake of not retrieving my card, so I lost it. What a shock that was! But it’s just the sort of thing that can happen to anyone.

A few days ago, I went to an ATM in Ladyville, sandwiched between the bank and the grocery store. It was 4 p.m. I tried to get a thousand Belize dollars. The machine said I didn’t have enough in my account, which wasn’t true. I tried a smaller amount, then an even smaller amount, Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Hunting Dogs as Bird Sitters

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How the Hen House Turns: Hunting Dogs as Bird Sitters
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Of course our dogs do not reside in the Hen House. They have a huge pillow bed and a life-sized artificial bear rug to sleep on under my desk-door-resting-on-file-cabinets and a closet devoted to the double-dog-door system husband Don invented to prevent heat loss (into the closet, then outside.)

The dogs’ job is to watch and protect the birds while they’re out in the yard, even now at age 13 ¾, but only when it’s sunny and warm. They do their job effectively, except when the hungry hawks that nest next door Read More

Food on the Hill: Sweet Polenta

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This Week’s Recipe: Sweet Polenta
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
1 cup of corn meal for Polenta
1 cup heavy cream
2 ½ cup milk
¾ cup sugar
½ cup coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup each of three chopped dried fruits (I used cherries, apricots, blueberries)
 
Directions:
In a medium sauce pan, mix together the cream, milk, sugar and coconut. After the sugar has dissolved, add the corn meal by pouring it a little at a time while whisking.
 
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
 
If you pour it slow while whisking, you will not
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Steve Boerigter Shares European Adventure with Kiwanis Club

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Steve Boerigter at the Leadership Los Alamos exposition Friday at the Betty Ehart Senior Center with a Kiwanis poster and handouts. Courtesy/Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos
 
By CHARMIAN O. SCHALLER
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos

Kiwanis First Vice President Steve Boerigter shared his European vacation with club members recently, projecting a series of photos and describing his experiences with his wife and parents during a trip through France, Belgium and England.

His photos included many of the famous sites in Paris—notably the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame Read More

Dixie Girl Renamed The Manhattan Project!

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Dixie Girl Restaurant at 1789 Central Ave., has been renamed The Manhattan Project. File photo

Staff Report

A new name has emerged for the Dixie Girl Restaurant following a three-day survey published this week in the Los Alamos Daily Post. Community members cast 1,215 votes to rename the Dixie Girl Restaurant and chose The Manhattan Project by a sound margin.

Restaurant owner Victor Medina. File photo

Final results:

  • The Manhattan Project: 439 votes – 36.58 percent
  • Los Alamos Bar & Grill: 327 votes – 27.25 percent
  • The Summit: 231 votes – 19.25 percent
  • Ground Zero: 218
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Last Day to Take Rename Dixie Girl Survey – 1,066 Votes Cast So Far!

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Dixie Girl Restaurant. File photo

Staff Report

The community survey to rename the Dixie Girl Restaurant ends at midnight today. There have been 1,066 votes cast to date since the survey launched Wednesday and the results so far are:

  • Los Alamos Bar & Grill – 282
  • The Manhattan Project – 375
  • The Summit – 209
  • Ground Zero – 200

Here’s your chance to pick from among the top four choices members of the public have submitted to Dixie Girl owner Victor Medina as new names for the restuarant.

Victor Medina and his wife Patricia purchased the Dixie Girl in November from Denise Read More

Creationism Debate Simulcast at Crossroads Bible Church Feb. 4

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Courtesy/debatelive.org

CBC BIBLE News:

Crossroads Bible Church will be the location of a simulcast as Bill Nye debates Ken Ham on the question, “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern, scientific era?” The simulcast is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4 in Lower Level #4 – LL4 at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road in Los Alamos.

Leading creation advocate and bestselling Christian author Ken Ham is joined at the Creation Museum by popular TV personality and evolution advocate Bill Nye. Ham, a former science instructor who emigrated to the United States from Australia Read More

Two Days Left in Survey to Rename Dixie Girl!

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Vic Medina inside the Dixie Girl. Photo by Carol A. Clark

The first results for the survey launched Wednesday to rename the Dixie Girl Restaurant are in:

  • Los Alamos Bar & Grill – 23
  • The Manhattan Project – 41
  • The Summit – 23
  • Ground Zero – 15

Here’s your chance to pick from among the top four choices members of the public have submitted to Dixie Girl owner Victor Medina as new names for the restuarant.

Victor Medina and his wife Patricia purchased the Dixie Girl in November from Denise Lane and they would like the community to rename the restaurant.

Votes will be tallied Read More