Creating a Marketing Plan that Builds Community
SBDC News:
Many businesses and organizations struggle with creating a marketing plan.
Join Founder and CEO Rubina Cohen of Firefly Innovation Group to learn how to create and implement the various parts of a marketing plan that not only grows and sustains your business or organization, but one that gives back and builds community.
Utilizing a brand new and easy method of marketing planning called the Firefly Method, which focuses on the needs of the business and the needs of the community, participants learn how to market and grow their business or organization for long term sustainability. Read More
Pajarito Brewpub & Grill Opening This Fall!
Restaurateur Patrick Mockler-Wood stands in the center of the Pajarito Brewpub & Grill Thursday, which is set to open later this fall. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
The highly anticipated opening date of the Pajarito Brewpub & Grill is drawing near. Partner Patrick Mockler-Wood invited the Los Alamos Daily Post on Thursday to tour progress at the new eatery at 614 Trinity Dr.
“We are opening later this fall and are very excited to have the community finally get to come in and enjoy this restaurant,” Mockler Wood said.
The Jemez Mountains are the Read More
Smith’s Gas Station Takes Shape on Trinity Drive
Smith’s Gas Station on Trinity Drive near 15th Street is moving forward with the installation of new pump islands last week. Photo by Leland S. Lehman/ladailypost.comBestsellers at Otowi Station: Aug. 26-Sept. 1
- All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Hubert Dreyfus
- Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico, Mark Cross*
- 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
- Wonder, R. J. Palacio
- Survival Under Atomic Attack, U.S. Government
- Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
- Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now, Margaret Coel
*Local or regional author. Read More
The End of an Era: ‘The Black Hole’ is Closing
Despite operating a junk yard, Ed Grothus almost always dressed in a white shirt with an elaborate inlaid kachina bolo. Often his enthusiasm overrode the caution to don work clothes and he ruined countless shirts and pairs of pants. He wore the bolo everywhere for years. Courtesy photo
BLACK HOLE News:
Barbara Grothus, president of Los Alamos Sales Company, a unique salvage store affectionately dubbed “The Black Hole,” has announced that the business will close.
The business, established in 1953, has operated at 4015 Arkansas Ave. in Los Alamos since the 1970s. Edward Grothus, the company’s Read More
Ishwari Sollohub Opens Los Alamos Office
Former LANL Director Drops By Local Bookstore
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Robert Kuckuck stopped in to peruse the books and gifts available in the Otowi Station Bookstore Thursday. Consensus among employees: “What a nice man.” Kuckuck is pictured here in his office preparing for a business meeting. Courtesy photo
Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore: Aug. 19-25
- 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
- Los Alamos Trails, Craig Martin
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- New Mexico Atlas and Gazetteer, Delorme
- Survival Under Atomic Attack, US Government
- The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages
- Wise Hombre Quizzes for Westerners, Lannon Mintz
- Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction, John Austin
- State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
- Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
Chamber Members Tour Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service’s New Home on Canyon Road
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce held its August FAN Club this evening at the new home of the Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service. Chamber members and prospective members turned out to tour the former Scout Lodge, 2202 Canyon Road, which the LAVNS purchased earlier this month to house its administrative offices with plans to construct a hospice facility on the property. Photo by Karen Kendall/ladailypost.com
CPA Debbie Reiss, left, Kiwanian and developer Rick Reiss and Kristy Ortega of the United Way and the Kiwanis president toured the new facility. Photo by Karen Kendall/ladailypost.com Read More
Wednesday FAN Club at Former Scout Lodge
Courtesy/CofC
CHAMBER News:
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce August FAN Club is set for 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29.
This is a great opportunity to see the site where the Los Alamos Visiting Nurses organization will be building Los Alamos’ first-ever hospice, and tour one of the more historic buildings in Los Alamos at the same time, in the former Scout Lodge, 2202 Canyon Road.
The driveway is just to the east of the Jewish Center and will be well marked for the occasion.
FAN Clubs are a great way to enjoy some light refreshments and network with fellow chamber members. Read More