Local Businesses Collect Spare Change
Los Alamos High School staff support College & Military Day during September for Assets month. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
The following businesses are collecting spare change from the community throughout the month to support the Community Assets Awards:
- Morning Glory Bakery;
- Finishing Touch;
- Aspen Copies;
- Chamber of Commerce;
- Children’s Clinic;
- Los Alamos Co-op;
- Animal Clinic of Los Alamos;
- CB FOX; and
- White Rock Smith’s.
Additional businesses are collecting food and snack items to support projects like Cookies & Conversation including:
- Betty Ehart Senior
Masonic Community Breakfast Benefits Los Alamos Eta Zeta Chapter Of Beta Sigma Phi
Pajarito Masonic Lodge #66 hosted a community breakfast Saturday morning to benefit the Los Alamos Eta Zeta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, an international Women’s Friendship network. For more information on Eta Zeta and Beta Sigma Phi, visit www.betasigmaphi.org or e-mail etazetabspla@gmail.com. For more information on Pajarito Lodge or Freemasonry, contact Jake Turin, wm@pajarito66.org. Courtesy photo Read More
Preparing For Your Future In A STEM Career
SFCC News:
Santa Fe Community College is hosting a free College Student STEM Workshop: Preparing For Your Future in a STEM Career, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 in the Jemez Rooms at SFCC, 6401 Richards Ave.
More than 100 students, researchers and scientists from New Mexico’scolleges, national laboratories and science businesses will attend Preparing For Your Future in a STEM Career: Bringing Together Students, Research Professionals and the Science Industry to Shape the Next Generation of New Mexico’s STEM Workforce.
Undergraduate and graduate students studying biomedical science, Read More
‘FIRE UP’ For Scouting!
BSA News:
The Boy Scouts of America is holding its Fall Fire-Up for Scouting Cub Scout recruiting events at fire stations in Los Alamos and White Rock this week:
- Event #1 is Tuesday Sept. 22, 6:30-8 p.m. at Fire Station #3 in White Rock, 129 NM 4; and
- Event #2 is Thursday Sept. 24, 6:30-8 p.m. at Fire Station #4 in Los Alamos, 4401 Diamond Dr. across from the Golf Course.
Boys who are starting 1st through 5th grades (6-10 years old) can be registered for the Cub Scouting program. Information for registering boys in 6th-12th grades in Boy Scouts will also be available. Fire station firefighters Read More
Girls Expand Horizons With Cool Science
‘When I grow up I want to be a forensic scientist. I want to go to College at Penn State,’ said Jenny Kilde, 12, of Los Alamos Middle School. She was taking part in the Physics of Toys workshop, led by Ruth Howes and Nancy Watson Saturday at the Santa Fe Community College. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
These girls are not learning ‘What’s the matter?’ but rather, ‘What matter is,’ and (the title of their workshop) ‘Why Empty Matters,’ taught by Kateryna Artyushkova and Linnea Ista, a chemist and a microbiologist at the University of New Mexico. They’re finding out about vacuums, gravity, Read More
Outstanding High School Students Encouraged To Apply For Highly Competitive Senate Youth Program
SENATE News:Class Of 1980 Tours Los Alamos High School
The LAHS Class of 1980 was in town for Homecoming weekend last week. The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation provided a tour led by Kurt Steinhaus and Cheryl Pongratz of the new high school for the classmates. The Class of 1980 made a $500 donation to the Foundation. Photo by Kurt Steinhaus Read More
Aspen Elementary Has Highest Participation Rate In Summer Reading Challenge In New Mexico
LAPS News:
- Reading Challenge Success
Aspen Elementary School students have reason to celebrate. They students logged more than 22,300 reading minutes this summer, earning Aspen the title as the number one New Mexico school in the 2015 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. The school will be listed in the 2016 Scholastic Book of World Record.
Aspen’s librarian, Mr. Lloyd, knew students would get excited if offered the chance to “read for a world record” and registered all Aspen students for the summer challenge in May before school let out. Congratulations Tigers! Your parents, teachers, Read More
AFT New Mexico Celebrates Introduction Of Senate Bill To Repeal Healthcare ‘Cadillac Tax’
AFTNM President Stephanie Ly
AFTNM News:
ALBUQUERQUE – American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
“Working New Mexicans can be proud of Sen. Heinrich and his bi-partisan efforts to repeal the regressive healthcare ‘Cadillac Tax’ from the Affordable Care Act.
“As a union who represents thousands of educators across New Mexico, and often negotiates aspects of healthcare coverage, we’re intimately familiar with the fight to ensure all New Mexicans have the best healthcare access possible at the lowest out-of-pocket Read More
Ceramics Instructor Barbara Yarnell Continues To Inspire With Clay In Popular Classes At UNM-LA
SuFong Milonni, left, and Barbara Yarnell glazing their creations in the UNM-LA pottery studio. Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
After throwing her first pot in a Los Alamos Middle School class at age 14, Barbara Yarnell was smitten with clay.
Later in life, she found she also loved sharing her knowledge of the art of ceramics with others. She just taught the first day of Introduction to Ceramics to 20 students at UNM-LA during the first week of fall semester.
“I love the first day of school in the fall and that excitement of learning,” Yarnell said in a recent interview in her studio classroom at UNM-LA. Read More
LAHS’s Annual Pegasus Rummage Sale Saturday
LAPS Issues Recap Of LAMS Fire Alarm Activation
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools released a recap of this morning’s fire alarm activation at Los Alamos Middle School.
At 7:29 a.m. today, the Los Alamos Middle School fire alarm system was automatically activated from a sensor in the hallway between the staff lounge and the art room.
- LAFD and LAPS facilities personnel were dispatched to check the building;
- Safety first – everyone left the building safely; students were sent to the football field and other evacuation areas; staff helped with traffic control;
- The Superintendent provided a live KRSN interview from the LAMS parking
Mountain Students Celebrate Constitution Day
Students gather this morning at the flagpole at Mountain Elementary School in celebration of Constitution Day. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com Read More
LAPS Takes Steps To Address Stipend Issue
LAPS Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus
Readership response to the story published Sept. 10 in the Los Alamos Daily Post on the salary and stipend policy issues at Los Alamos Public Schools is much appreciated.
The published salaries of LAPS employees included stipends, which account for a portion of the disparity of salaries among some employees. Other factors include, tenure, education, certifications, hours worked and evaluations.
A dialog has opened up on the issue and Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus shared the steps being taken
Masonic Waffle Breakfast For Eta Zeta Sorority Sept. 19
Steinhaus: Measuring A College’s Value
By KURT STEINHAUS, SuperintendentThis is the time of year when many Los Alamos High School parents of juniors and seniors receive an onslaught of advertisements from colleges and universities all over the country.
Many will be attending the RMACAC College Fair in Albuquerque this coming Sunday and just in the next two weeks more than two dozen colleges and universities will be sending representatives to our high school to meet with students and parents. See the LAHS website for the times and dates.
Deciding on the best choice for your student can be daunting and overwhelming. Read More
SFI: ‘Space-Time Dynamics Of Uncertainty & Nonlinearity …’ Sept. 22
Darryl Holm, Imperial College LondonLANL Foundation Awards Small Educational Outreach Grant To Pajarito Environmental Education Center
Students learning how to gently handle wild birds on a bird banding field trip. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) received a Small Educational Outreach award in August from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation Board of Directors.
This award provides funding in the amount of $1500 to allow Los Alamos fifth graders to attend bird banding field trips.
The field trips funded by the Small Educational Outreach award allow youth to participate in hands-on science education and become more familiar with birds in the area as well as the field science Read More
Learn To Fly Fish With UNM-LA Community Education
The San Juan River below the Navajo Dam is a great spot to test the new skills learned in UNM-LA Community Education’s fly fishing class coming up Oct. 3. Courtesy/iStock
UNM-LA News:
Learn to catch that trophy trout with a theoretical classroom session and two field trips with UNM-LA Community Education’s popular fall fly fishing class.
The San Juan River in northern New Mexico is world renowned for big trout and a great place to practice casting and catching. Students should note that it was not affected by the Gold King Mine spill.
“The world class trout fishing in the San Juan River is still as Read More
