Lifestyles

Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship Winners Announced

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Free Throw Championship winners. Courtesy/Andie Trottier and Yvonne Gonzales
 
Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship competitors with coaches Gary Ahlers, left, and Roger Anaya. Courtesy/Andie Trottier and Yvonne Gonzales

K OF C News:

Sunday, Jan. 26, 22 boys and girls competed in the annual local Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. Four girls and four boys were named local champions and earned the right to compete in the district competition which will be held in late February. The state championships will be held in March.

Charles Steinkamp was the 10-year-old boys Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Personhood

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How the Hen House Turns: Personhood
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Over the years—40 of them, more or less—the Hen House gang has made one thing quite clear. Persons, conscious beings, dwell inside the feathers and behind the beaks of birds who dwell there.

K-Lynn Smith and Sarah Zielinski agree with me. Their article ,“Brainy Bird” in Scientific American, February 2014, pp. 62-65 https:////www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/current/ ‎tells us that scientists have learned that a chicken “… can be deceptive and cunning … possess communication skills … Read More

Food on the Hill: Appetizers, Part Two

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This week’s Recipe: Stuffed Peppers with Caviar

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
 
Bottle of Perradew peppers (Albertsons or Whole Foods)
Herb goat Cheese, room temperature
Romanoff black Lumpfish Caviar (Albertsons)

Directions:

Drain the peppers well.

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Place the goat cheese in a strong Ziploc bag and snip off the point of the bag. Fill the peppers with the cheese.

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Place a small amount of caviar on each pepper top.

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Chicken Read More

Healing Hands: Managing Pain with Massage

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Healing Hands: Managing Pain with Massage
By GREGORY BARTHELL

Your local massage therapist can help you manage pain. The American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM) reports that up to 50 percent of all primary care physician visits are due to some type of musculo-skeletal pain. Pain reduction is indicated for a majority of people suffering from musculo-skeletal pain with regular application of therapeutic massage.

Massage effectively and therapeutically applied, warms the soft tissue and improves circulation which in turn improves oxygen and nutrient uptake. Cellular waste products Read More

New Beginnings Rebuilds After July 4, 2012 Fire

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Lanessa Amburgey, left, and Shelly Jankowski at work Saturday putting finishing touches on the main lobby of the New Beginnings Fellowship Church. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The new auditorium in which services are being held at 10 a.m. Sundays. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Members of the New Beginnings Fellowship Church, 112 East Road were busy Saturday putting finishing touches on the rebuilt church destroyed in a July 4, 2012 fire.

The inside of the New Beginnings Fellowship Church following the July 4, 2012 fire. File photo

The New Mexico Fire Marshal’s Read More

Boys and Girls Invited to Participate in Annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Competition Jan. 26

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Knights of Columbus Youth Coordinator Roger Anaya, left, and Grand Knight Ray Chavez with last year’s Free Throw State Champions EliIram-Bent and Alicia Gonzales and Runner-Up Champ Wilhelm Schmidt, right. Photo by Yvonne Gonzales

K of C News:

All boys and girls ages 10 to 14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition is 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26 at Los Alamos High School’s Griffith Gymnasium.

Registration is free of charge and will be held onsite beginning at 12:30 p.m. on the date of the Read More

Solo Traveler: Red Light Districts

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Hot tamales for sale in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler: Red Light Districts
By SHERRY HARDAGE

When I turned 15, my family lived in the Panhandle of Texas. The town, Dimmitt, wasn’t exactly the buckle on the Bible Belt, but it was definitely one of the holes.

The city fathers believed that dancing was a sin-like playing cards and drinking alcohol. Playing cards leads to gambling, drinking alcohol leads to a life of debauchery, and dancing leads to sinful unmarried sex.

We never had a dance at the high school for prom or homecoming but Read More

Skin Care Column: Why Clients Prefer Chemical Peels

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Skin Care Column: Why Clients Prefer Chemical Peels
By JUNE ENGLISH

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, chemical peel sare the second most common non-surgical procedure performed by medical professionals and clinical estheticians today.

This cornerstone of topical treatments offers numerous advantages to the client looking for a non-invasive skin treatment. When chemical peels were introduced more than 50 years ago, the formulations were highly aggressive. Newer chemical peel formulations have evolved into skin-friendly blends that include biocompatible lactic Read More

Dinner and Jazz at Dixie Girl Saturday Night

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The Craig Martin Experience will perform Saturday night at the Dixie Girl. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

MUSIC News:

Los Alamos jazz moves to the Dixie Girl Restaurant this weekend as the Craig Martin Experience (CME) brings its blend of smooth horns and a swinging rhythm section to the town’s newest music venue.

“We were ready to groove the afternoon crowd at Beer and Band on Pajarito Mountain, but the lack of snow nixed that,” band leader Craig Martin said. “Victor Medina, owner of  the Dixie Girl, stepped in and offered us a chance to perform for the dinner and after Read More

Antarctica Adventure Subject of Unitarian Forum

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Bill Priedhorsky and Melissa Bartlett on their Antarctica adventure. Courtesy photo

UNITARIAN News:

This week, The Forum at the Los Alamos Unitarian Church presents an Antarctica adventure at 10:10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, at the church, 1738 Sage Loop.

Traveling aboard the good ship Sea Spirit, Bill Priedhorsky and Melissa Bartlett of Los Alamos made their way to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island and the South Shetland Islands before landing on the continent of Antarctica, a voyage of more than three weeks.

Penguins, seals, whales and sea birds were in great abundance and they observed Read More