Make-overs Transform Los Alamos Mothers and Daughters
Jordon Pinkerton, left, and Michelle Pinkerton got a new look at Wednesday’s Mother-Daughter Make-over Event at Professional Skin Care Choices. Eleven ladies were transformed with the aid of two makeup artists using Jane Iredale products. Each mother received a rose and everyone got bags filled with PCA skin care and Jane Iredale makeup samples. Owner June English provided refreshments. Professional Skin Care Choices is at 127 East Gate, Ste. 212-D. Call 505.507.0124 for more information. Photo by Bonnie Gordon/ladailypost.comYouth Business Grant Applications Available
LACDC News:
The Los Alamos Youth Business Grant Program has released its 2014 applications. The applications are available at http://www.losalamosbusiness.com/.
Donations to the program and mentors for youth business owners are also being sought. Questions can be directed to 505.661.4846.
The Youth Business Grant Program is sponsored by the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation.
Jemez Mountain Emergency Physicians at Los Alamos Medical Center
Los Alamos Medical Center. Courtesy photo
LAMC News:
Local physician group Jemez Mountain Emergency Physicians currently provides the physician services for the Emergency Department at Los Alamos Medical Center. Dr. Kristy Ontiveros is the Medical Director of the group, and the group is made up of board certified, residency trained physicians.
There were questions recently at the hospital and Los Alamos National Laboratory about the in network status of the Jemez Mountain physician group with New Mexico Blue Shield. The physician group confirms that although it does not have a Read More
UNM-LA Students Pitch Biz Ideas to Local Experts
UNM-LA instructor Nicholas Seet, left, with Jason Cox and Gary Xie, the two students who presented the winning business idea at pitch day. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
Students from Nicholas Seet’s Intro to Entrepreneurship Class at UNM-LA who presented business ideas during a pitch day last week. Photo by Mandy MarksteinerBy MANDY MARKSTEINER
The audience quiets … the lights dim … the projector whirs and the clock starts. You have 10-minutes – before a panel of experts and an audience from throughout the community – to tell everyone your team’s Read More
SBDC and LACDC Collaborate on New Model for Assisting Small Business
BUSINESS News:The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UNM-Los Alamos and the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC) are working together to create a more efficient business model for the delivery of small business assistance services in Los Alamos.
Previously, the SBDC was operated by the LACDC in downtown Los Alamos. As of Jan. 1, 2013, the SBDC began operating under a contract with UNM-LA. The LACDC continued to assist businesses until the SBDC settled into its new offices on the UNM-LA campus.
The SBDC is now fully staffed and providing help for entrepreneurs, Read More
County Approves Branding Study Plan and Tagline: ‘Los Alamos County … Live Exponentially’
Community Brand Supervisor Adam Winstead of North Star Destination Strategies in Nashville, Tenn., presented the results of his branding survey for Los Alamos County Tuesday night in Council Chambers. Council voted 7-0 to accept the results of the North Star Branding Plan and direct County Administrator Harry Burgess to return to Council for approval of a County logo as well as the branding implementation plan within 12 months. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
County Councilors hear the results of the branding survey conducted by Community Brand Supervisor Adam Winstead Read More
Wells Fargo Closing Los Alamos Branch July 15
BUSINESS News:Deadline to Name Wine Bar & Provide Input is May 11
The home of a new wine bar opening this summer at 145 Central Park Square. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
- Mingle
- Uncorked
- The Wine Room of Los Alamos
- Wine Theorem
Los Alamos Cooperative Market Receives Rotary’s Districtwide Business of the Year Award!
Steve Watts, third from left, general manager of the Los Alamos Cooperative Market (LA Co-op), accepted the Sonny Brown Business Award of the Year Saturday at the Rotary District 5520’s annual conference in Albuquerque. The award is given based upon high ethical standards of business and service to the community. Joining Watts are Pat Murray, District 5520 awards coordinator, District 5520 Governor Kit Turpen and Linda Hull, immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. Photo by Eric Ferm
At the Sonny Brown Business Award Luncheon Saturday in Albuquerque from left, Linda Hull, Read More
Yang: Misusing Metaphors
Misusing MetaphorsUse of metaphors is probably the ultimate “socially constructed reality.” My favorite examples (from Kenwyn Smith’s Philosophical Problems in Thinking About Change: Snow blanketing the ground and snow sitting on the ground evoke different emotions in us. The former offers a sense of protection, and the latter domination. The context adds more complexity. In “the thick fog blanketed the city,” this “blanket” most decidedly does not offer any sense of protection.
We use “David and Goliath” as a metaphor for little guy’s beating the big guy despite all Read More
