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Hilltopper Basketball Red Chile Powder Fundraiser

Sharon Lucero, left, and Jenny Gallegos are busy filling bags with a pound of red chile. Courtesy photo

Bags of red chile that volunteers have filled are ready for sale and awaiting pick up. Courtesy photo

 
HILLTOPPER News:
 
The Hilltopper Basketball red chile powder fundraiser is under way. Each Lady Basketball player, C team JV and Varsity player will be given 20 red chile bags to sell.
 
All proceeds from this fundraiser will help defray the cost of expenses within the basketball program.
 
The donation for each bag of chile would be a minimum of $12 for each 1-pound bag.
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Cinema Cindy Reviews: Battle Of The Sexes

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Battle of the Sexes” was released at the end of September, but only recently came to our local theater, thus this late review… The film tells the story of the public battle for equal pay and recognition for female athletes, championed by tennis great Billie Jean King, and culminating in what was deemed “the Battle of the Sexes”, the September 1973 tennis match between the 29 year old women’s tennis great King and the 55-year-old former men’s champ, Bobby Riggs.

Significant steps along the way are covered in the film, but not in much detail. Historically, in 1970,

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Hilltopper Girls Fall In 5-A Championship Match

Alissia Haagenstad finds the goal early in the first half of the game against the Albuquerque Chargers. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
 
BY RJ MONTAÑO
LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST 
rjmontano@ladailypost.com
 
BERNALILLO – The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls’ soccer team fought tooth and nail all the way to the final whistle before dropping the New Mexico Activities Association’s Class 5A championship 1-0 to the Albuquerque Academy Chargers.
 
The competitive match remained a stalemate through the first half with both teams having chances, but neither capitalizing to
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Governor Proclaims Nov. 9 ‘Congratulations To 2017 World Series Champions Alex Bregman; Ken Giles Day’

STATE News:

SANTA FE — Today, Gov. Susana Martinez proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017 as “Congratulations to 2017 World Series Champions Alex Bregman and Ken Giles Day” throughout New Mexico.

Bregman and Giles, both of Albuquerque, made significant contributions to the Houston Astros’ 2017 World Series championship-winning season.

Full text of the proclamation:

WHEREAS, THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPION HOUSTON ASTROS DEFEATED THE NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPION LOS ANGELES DODGERS IN THE 2017 WORLD SERIES; AND

WHEREAS, TWO NEW MEXICANS, ALEX BREGMAN AND KEN GILES — BOTH FROM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Read More

Scenes From NNMYF All Stars Weekend

Eight teams played at  the Northern New Mexico Youth Football All Stars Weekend at St. Michael’s in Santa Fe Nov. 4-5 including this Blue Crush team that won their game 19-0 Saturday against the Orange Crush team. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos Extreme Division 2 youth football players were part of the All Stars Blue Crush team which won their game 16-7. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos Extremes youth football players were part of the Division 3 Blue Crush All-Stars team who won their game 13-12 against the Orange Crush team. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos Extremes Division 4 players were part of the Read More

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