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Call for Artists: Naked
Amy Bjarke
FULLER LODGE ART CENTER News
As the season warms up and life starts bursting forth, Fuller Lodge Art Center challenges you to explore your vulnerabilities.
The Art Center will host an exhibit called Naked between from May 18 – June 23. Strip away the mask, expose the hidden, and pare off the extra frills.
Uncover hidden beauty and help us come face to face with the world around us. All media are welcome. If you have questions, give Ken Nebel a call at 662-1635. Download the application at http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103899759177-299/CFA_Naked_form.pdf Read More
Watch Los Alamos Compete in FIRST Robotics Competition
The team from Los Alamos competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition in Salt Lake City, had a fantastic day yesterday. People at the competetition were shocked to learn they are a rookie team. To watch the matches in real time, click on the link below.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/utah-s-2012-regional-first-robotics-competition
The match schedule is below (Match, Time – all times Mountain Standard):
4 9:51
14 11:01
18 11:29
25 1:38
32 2:34
41 3:46
44 4:07
52 5:03
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Education Department Secretary-designate Joins LAMS for Pi Day
LAPS News:
Pi-rates Amy Bartlett and Sharon Fogle, math teachers at LAMS, compare notes on how to measure eggs at Tuesday’s Pi Day event. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
New Mexico Public Education Department Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera was a special guest at Los Alamos Middle School for the fourth annual PI Day to celebrate the birthday of Albert Einstein.
Secretary Hanna Skandera creates a mask at Pi Day. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Skandera expressed enthusiasm for the staff’s effort to celebrate math in such a fun fashion.
Los Alamos Public Schools Board Secretary Read More
Community Garden Takes Root
By Kirsten Laskey
An idea was planted in a Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) classroom and through the efforts of community organizations such as the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB), has sprouted into a full-fledged program – the Los Alamos Youth Food Project.
Photo: Sylvan Argo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
The program continued to germinate during Tuesday night’s Los Alamos Board of Education meeting as members unanimously approved a memorandum of agreement to provide a piece of land on the middle school grounds for the program’s community garden.
In the general conditions of Read More
School Board Elects New Officers
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos Board of Education held an election of officers during Tuesday night’s meeting.
Kevin Honnel was elected president.
Dawn Venhaus is vice president.
Melanie McKinley is the new board secretary.
The remaining two board members include:
David Foster
Judith Bjarke-McKenzie Read More
Pinon’s Chihuly Exhibit Reveals Student’s Artistic Talents
The source of inspiration for the show and some of the pieces. TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Monday’s Dale Chihuly Art Exhibit at Pinon Elementary School in White Rock revealed a wealth of talent within the local student community.
The event wasn’t an exhibit of renowned artist Chihuly’s work, but he served as an inspiration to the students to create artworks resembling his style.
Students used a plastic sheet media that could be softened in warm water and bent into any desired shape, which was then painted/stained using special colored materials.
Pinon Art Teacher Stephanie Read More
What the Community Read the Week of March 6-12
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a Teen, Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer and and Amy B. Middleman
- Wonder, R. J. Palacio
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mal and Chad: the Biggest, Bestest Time Ever! Stephen McCranie*
- The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, Philip Taubman
- The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages
- 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
- Los Alamos Trails, Craig Martin*
- True Brit: Beatrice – 1940, Rosemary Zibart
School Board Holding Several Meetings This Week
Los Alamos Public Schools News:
The Los Alamos School Board is set to meet three times this coming week:
- 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater to discuss district construction, a preventative maintenance plan an Excellence for Student Achievement Award nominee, Trinity Renovations, Quality of Education Survey questions, the School Board’s meeting schedule and the donation of Los Alamos Middle School Garden Shed and agreement with the Family YMCA on the Garden Shed. Also on the agenda is the superintendent’s Professional Development Plan, the superintendent’s
Go-Green-Go!
Plants begin to sprout during an educational project getting underway at the Espanola YMCA. Courtesy Photo
Spring is on its way and that means the Espanola YMCA Teen Center, operated by the Los Alamos Family YMCA, is preparing to begin its annual Go-Green-Go! environmental project.
Youth will have the opportunity to learn about agriculture and the importance of preserving natural resources.
The teens also will gain hands-on experience through growing their choice of vegetation during the summer months.
At the end of the cycle, the novice farmers harvest their vegetation to give to a friend,
Local Hoop Shooting Robot Now Locked in Bag
Staff Report
Steve Aumack and Nate Phillips work on the robot operator control panel as the team gets ready for the competition in Salt Lake City March 15. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
A team of 14 Los Alamos High School students and 10 adult mentors built a robot that can shoot hoops. The team began work Jan. 7 and wrapped up the project Feb 21.
The group is competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The competition involves short games played by robots. The students build and program their robots, which are remotely controlled during the competition.
Each team receives a kit of parts Read More
Dr. John C. Hopkins to Lecture on ‘The Cold War and U.S. Nuclear Weapons: From My Perspective’
Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion of July 25, 1946. Photo taken from a tower on Bikini Island, 3.5 miles away. Courtesy Photo
Los Alamos Historical Society News:
Dr. John C. Hopkins will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fuller Lodge on “The Cold War and U.S. Nuclear Weapons: From My Perspective” as part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s 2011-2012 lecture series.
John Hopkins
“Nuclear weapons, and hence Los Alamos, played a major role during the Cold War.
Immediately after World War II, the task at Los Alamos was to rebuild the staff Read More
FSN Offering Programs for Teens, Tweens and Parents with Workshops that take out the ‘Squirm Factor’
Family Strengths Network News:
Youth Volunteer Natalie Smith spends time helping a local child get creative during a Gingerbread House Building event at the Family Strength’s Network. Courtesy/FSN
Adolescence is a critical developmental time for every family.
While young people are learning to use their emerging independence to discover their strengths, parents look for opportunities to balance their child’s need for freedom with guidance and direction.
Proactive families know that while children don’t come with a handbook, there are local resources to facilitate a positive Read More
Los Alamos Middle School Design Wins EPA Award
By Carol A. Clark
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the design of the Los Alamos Middle School’s upcoming addition/renovation project for achieving the ENERGY STAR ® award — a rating 75 or greater.
Director Jean Lupinacci of ENERGY STAR Commercial and Industrial Markets for the EPA wrote a letter to project architects Dekker/Perich/Sabatini saying, “Your firm will be listed on the ENERGY STAR website for submitting building designs that achieve superior energy performance. You may also display the Read More
PEEC Offers Class on Small and Unusual Fruits
Gooseberries. Courtesy/PEEC
Join popular gardening instructor Martha Davis for a class on Small and Unusual Fruits for Los Alamos.
The class will be held from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at PEEC, 3540 Orange St. The class is $20 or $18 for PEEC members – and advance registration is requested.
Participants in the class will discover small and unusual fruits such as gooseberries, currants, Cornelian cherries, and quinces.
Learn how to grow these in your Los Alamos or White Rock yard, and what to do with them once you’ve grown them.
Davis will share strategies to deal with an unfamiliar Read More
FREE My CD (Manage Your Chronic Disease) Workshop at The Family YMCA
Are you an adult with an on-going health condition?
The Family YMCA is offering a FREE MyCD (Manage Your Chronic Disease) Workshop.
If you have diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, or other chronic health condition, a MyCD Workshop can help you take charge of your life.
You’ll get the support you need, find practical ways to deal with pain and fatigue, discover better nutrition and exercise choices, understand new treatment choices, learn better ways to talk with your doctor and family about your health, set your own goals and make Read More
Historical Society’s Community Tea Focused on Breathing New Life into Oppenheimer House
Sunday’s Los Alamos Historical Society Community Tea and Interpretive Planning Session examined how to enhance and celebrate a world-renowned legacy.
Some 70 preservationists, scholars, museum experts and community members spent 3.5 hours Sunday afternoon brainstorming the ways to use J. Robert Oppenheimer’s famous Bathtub Row residence to tell his story “in his own words.”
“Historic houses throughout the country are closing down … I don’t want this to be a velvet rope museum where a guide takes people through and they hear the Read More
Find It @ Your Library
The Mesa Public Library and White Rock Branch Library have books in Chinese, Russian, Spanish and more … Visit the library’s foreign language collections, in print and online.
Whether you are learning a new language, keeping up with new releases in your native language or just enjoy honing your foreign language skills, Mesa Public Library and White Rock Branch Library aim to please.
The libraries provide all patrons, including local readers, listeners and viewers, with materials in languages from around the world.
- The foreign language book collection has hundreds of titles in both fiction
Los Alamos High School Students Complete Construction of Hoop Shooting Robot
Xian Eutsler welds on the frame for the robot in the UNM-LA shop. She did all the welding on the Los Alamos FIRST Robotics project. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
By Bonnie Gordon
In six short weeks, a team of 14 Los Alamos High School students and 10 adult mentors built a robot that can shoot hoops. The team began work Jan. 7 and wrapped up the project Feb 21.
The group is competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The competition involves short games played by robots. The students build and program their robots, which are remotely controlled during the competition.
Each team receives Read More
