Lifestyles

Warm Hearts Yarn Announces Upcoming Classes

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WHY News:

Warm Hearts Yarn at 35 Rover Blvd. Suite D in White Rock announces its upcoming classes.

Weekly Stitching Group: 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday – this is a great time to get help, inspiration, and visit. Beginners are welcome to this free group!

Ear Flap Hat Class (great for adventurous beginners): this is a two-session class: Thursdays, March 7 and 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Class fee: $25/participant, includes pattern Instructor: Stephanie Hagelburg

Block of the Month Club: second Saturday of each month starting April 13, 11 a.m.-noon
Fee: $30 includes kit and instruction (there are only Read More

Perch Paperie Extends Hours; Adds New Classes

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Perch Paperie News:

Now shoppers will have more time to get crafty at Perch Paperie. The store is extending its hours!

Perch Paperie will now be open M-F 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Perch Paperie has lots of fun classes coming up this month.

New classes are added all the time, so be sure and visit Perch Paperie online at https:////www.perchpaperie.com/ or click on the Perch Paperie ad on the Los Alamos Daily Post to find out the latest.

Paper Straw Pinwheel kids class: 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, $7, all ages.
 
CD Case Sticker Book: 1-2 p.m. Thursday, March 7, $7, all ages, with
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Food on the Hill: Pesto

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This Week’s Recipe:
 
Pesto
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 

Ingredients:

4 oz. fresh basil leaves, stems removed and cleaned

2.25 oz pine nuts

6-8 cloves of garlic

½ cup (or more) olive oil

1/3 cup Parmesan/Romano cheese

 

Directions:

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

 

Clean basil leaves in a salad spinner, if you have one. If you don’t, you can clean them under running water before you take them off the stems. Dry them well. 

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 

In a food processor, put the pine nuts and the cloves of garlic

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Hunter Education Class in Los Alamos March 16-17

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NMG&F News:

There are several spaces remaining in the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Hunter Education class scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17 in Los Alamos.

All course registration is conducted online at https:////www.wildlife.state.nm.us and it is recommended to enroll as early as possible as courses fill quickly. Read More

Jeff Favorite Brings ‘The Gospel of Mark’ to the Stage

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Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
 
Favorite Brings “The Gospel of Mark” to the Stage
By LYNN FINNEGAN
 
An estimated 6,001,500,000 Holy Bibles have been printed. Before the Gutenberg Bible was printed in 1450, however, most of the illiterate population’s access to the Bible was purely oral: a rich Jewish storytelling tradition that grew in the homes of the early Christian church and was later professed to the populace by church authorities. 

“The Gospel According to Mark,” a dramatic one-person performance by Jeffrey Favorite at 7:30 p.m. March 8-9 at Trinity on the Hill

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Demolition Underway at New Beginnings Church

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Demolition crews were tearing down the fire damaged New Beginnings Fellowship Chapel at 112 East Road Friday. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Staff report

A morning fire destroyed the chapel of the New Beginnings Fellowship Church at 112 East Road in Los Alamos last July 4. 

The blaze left a burned out shell of a building. One firefighter was injured battling the flames that had traveled up into the building’s rafters.

There were unusual circumstances surrounding the fire and a state fire marshal was called in to investigate the cause. 

Last August, the fire was ruled Read More

Column: Are You a Closet Contest Enterer?

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Are You a Closet Contest Enterer?
Column by TOM GARRISON

Are you one of those? You know, a person who partakes in that guilty pleasure—a contest enterer?

Will you admit it in polite society? Probably not. When the topic raises its ugly head at a cocktail party, you are the one to steer the conversation to something safe, something like the latest Kardashian sighting.

Anything to divert attention from your hidden pleasure.

Ashamed of this aspect of your behavior? Don’t be. You are simply another victim in a society of victims—the victim of what behavioral psychologists call intermittent reinforcement. Read More

Writer Christina Nealson will discuss her ‘Wild Encounters’

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Author Christina Nealson

By KIRSTEN LASKEY

Almost every day, there seems to be a new product that promises to make life better. But what if life could be profoundly changed without techno-gadgets and beyond the commercialized world?

Author, blogger and traveler Christina Nealson believes it can be and the way is simple and free. Just walk out the door and into nature.

She will discuss just how this profound impact can be created during her talk, “Wild Encounters: The Sacred and Profane,” from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 3 at Mesa Public Library.

Her discussion of the sacred in nature will address human Read More

Jewish Communities of NNM Present Yom Limmud

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Courtesy/JCNNM

Staff Report

The Jewish communities of Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Taos will convene from 1-4:30 p.m. March 10 at St. John’s College for Yom Limmud: A Day of Jewish Learning, Arts and Culture.

The celebration will begin with a keynote by visiting scholar Dr. Alan Morinis, “Change Yourself, Change the World: The Jewish Spiritual Tradition of Mussar.”

Each attendee will have the opportunity to choose two workshops from a number of offerings.

The afternoon will include refreshments and socializing. Tickets are $12 in advance or $18 at the door.

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Pony Club Collecting Children’s Items

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Pony Club member Brenna Graham on her horse Bailey at the Las Cruces Horse Trials in November. Graham took 4th in her division. Courtesy/LAPC

PONY CLUB  News:

The Los Alamos Pony Club is collecting donations of children’s items that the club will tag to sell at the upcoming Little Forest resale.

Contributions are tax deductible and the club is willing to pick up donated items through March 7. The profits will fund club ptrojects. Contact Samara Graham at 662-1617 or Samara_graham@yahoo.com. Read More