Summer Interns Wanted at the DPU!
Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities News:
Multiple positions are available this summer for engineering student interns who have completed a minimum of 30 credit hours in an accredited engineering program at the university level.
Interns will work as part of a team supporting the engineering department, operations staff and administrative functions as a contributing member of the staff.
The diversity of the DPU’s services offers a unique opportunity for an engineering student to gain hands-on experience in a functioning utility.
Examples of possible duties to be performed:
• Assist Read More
Area Leaders Contemplate Local Support of Teen Center
YMCA News:
State Rep. Nick Salazar spoke of the difficulty to secure funding from the state for community programs in these economic times. Family YMCA Executive Director Linda Daly. standing, and Rep. Debbie Rodella listen at right. Courtesy/YMCA
ESPAÑOLA–Business leaders, YMCA board members, and elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, met at the Española YMCA Teen Center Wednesday, April 4, to discuss sustaining the center’s $155,100/year budget.
“When I was last here, I visited with a group of teens and I asked them what they would be doing if the Center was not here,” Read More
Look Who’s Having a Great Conversation
Great Conversations is an afternoon of appetizers and desserts and an in-depth conversation with a subject area expert. The 3rd Annual Great Conversations will take place April 22 from 2-4:30 p.m. at Los Alamos High School in the new building. Tickets are $50 per person and can be obtained by filling out a registration form available at http://lapsfoundation.com/greatconversations.shtml
Look who’s talking:
Morrie Pongratz. Courtesy Photo
What’s your spark? According to Los Alamos, Morrie Pongratz is both a Living Treasure and the Voice of the Hilltoppers. Read More
Scholarships Available for Summer Art Camp
Courtesy/Fuller Lodge Art Center
Fuller Lodge Art Center has an opportunity to provide several students with scholarships for its Summer Art Camp program.
Youth between ages 4 and 18 who have a financial need and an interest in art are eligible to apply.
For more information, call 662-1635 or email director@fullerlodgeartcenter.com. Read More
Youth Co-op Conversation – Build Your Own Mini Greenhouse!
(Free Series)
Do you want to grow your own food?
Do you want to make your own mini greenhouse?
Come by the Co-op Tuesday, April 24 from 6 to 8 p.m and join the Los Alamos Youth Food Project (LAYFP), the JJAB and The Family YMCA by creating a miniature greenhouse. Kids of all ages can stop by the Co-op and learn about the LAYFP, sponsored by a grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board, and receive free supplies and instructions to get them going and growing. We can all help create a Healthy Community and Healthy Youth!
This is a FREE opportunity for members and non-members alike (no Read More
School Board Adopts $5 Million Bond
LAHS student Holly Erickson, right, Northern New Mexico International Science and Engineering Fair Qualifier with alternate LAHS Freshman David Murphy, won an all expense paid trip for herself and her sponsor to the International Fair May 13-18 in Pittsburgh, PA. Erickson will compete against 1,500 students from across the globe for $2.5 million in prizes and awards. Photo by Art Brown
By Kirsten Laskey
The Los Alamos Public Schools Board of Education adopted a $5 million bond, the final installment of the school district’s $40 million designated bank qualified bonds for construction projects, Read More
Breastfeeding 101
LAPS Creates Asset Manager Position
Joan Ahlers introduced herself to the Los Alamos County Council explaining that she was just hired to the newly created position of Asset Manager for Los Alamos Public Schools. More details to follow. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Tonight’s County Council Presentations Feature Youth
County News:
Los Alamos High School student Alexander Castille is presenting a distracted driving survey to the County Council that he and members of the Los Alamos Youth Leadership team conducted through spending time on strategic intersections around towncounting the motorists who were chatting on their cells, applying make-up, smoking and exhibiting other distracted behaviors. Most drivers were doing something other than just driving. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students Alexandra Berl, speaking, and Olivia Snyder, Tessa Snyder and teacher Read More
LAHS Robotics Team to ‘show its stuff’
The Los Alamos High School Robotics Team will ‘”show its stuff” — 120-lb. basketball-throwing robot and all — at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday April 24 in the UNM-Los Alamos Student Center. Kenny’s BBQ will be open during this event. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com Read More
Party for PEEC Will Benefit Nature Programs
A smorgasbord of traditional Native American dishes served at previous annual benefit parties for PEEC. Courtesy/PEEC
The annual benefit party for the Pajarito Environmental Educational Center, the nature center in Los Alamos, is being held at the Hilltop House Hotel from 5 p.m.-8 p.m., Sunday April 22.
This is the 13th year for PEEC’s involvement in the community-wide Earth Day Festival with its fund-raising effort.
For the last three years, Felicia Orth has been the chef extraordinaire at the Party for PEEC.
In 2010, she prepared food of the Native American period of our history. Read More
Associate Degree Students Inducted into Honor Society
UNM-LA News:
Jeff Bold is inducted into Phi Theta Kapp as PTK Advisor Dr. Zandree Stridham and UNM-LA Executive Director Dr. Cedric Page offer congratulations. Courtesy/UNM-LA
Nine new members were inducted into Beta Zeta Chi, the UNM-Los Alamos chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), on Friday, April 6.
Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society of the two-year college that recognizes and encourages scholarship among associate degree students.
It provides opportunities for the development of leadership and service, for an intellectual climate to exchange ideas and ideals, for scholarly Read More
Liam Johnson Takes Second Place in Patriot Pen Essay Contest
Liam Johnson with award. Courtesy Photo
Liam Johnson, 7th grader at Los Alamos Middle School won 2nd place and $350 in the VFW Patriot’s Pen essay contest for the state of New Mexico. Liam was honored at the LAMS Student of the Term Breakfast on Wed. March 28th. Ms. Gina Smith of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary will present the award and also 12 other certificates of participation to other 7th graders.
Mrs. Gina Smith of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary said, “The VFW promotes patriotism in the youth of our communities and Liam has demonstrated through his essay that he is an outstanding Read More
Scholarship Honors Memory of Jennifer Marie Fleming
A one time award of $1,000 is being offered by the Jennifer Marie Fleming Memorial Scholarship Fund to a graduating senior of LAHS Class of 2012. This scholarship is in memory of Jennifer Marie Fleming, a student at Los Alamos High School from 1985-87. Her enthusiasm for life, her concern for other people, and her desire to promote a drug and alcohol free environment for students are the inspiration for this award. Jennifer was killed by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve 1987 when she had helped plan and produce an alcohol free event for LAHS students. A declared major is not required but the applicant Read More
A Bomb in Plain Sight
Thomas C. Reed, former Secretary of the Air Force under presidents Ford and Carter, and co-author with Danny Reed of The Nuclear Express, returns to Los Alamos to sign his first novel,The Tehran Triangle.
Thomas C. Reed
The author will be at Otowi Station Bookstore at 6 p.m., Wednesday April 11 to sign and share refreshments and conversation with readers.
While taking a trip through New Mexico three years ago, Reed noticed the Santa Fe railroad ran past the first nuclear test site, Trinity.
“How logical, I thought, for the Iranians to simply build another Hiroshima-type A-bomb in El Paso, ship Read More
Last Week’s Top Book Picks @ Otowi Station
Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore the week of March 27-April 2:- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Wonder, R. J. Palacio
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Sijie Dai
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
- Property, Valerie Martin
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, Suzanne CollinsTop Book Picks
LAPS Fourth Graders Choose LA County Species
PEEC News:
Woodhouse’s Toad has been nominated by some fourth graders to be the Los Alamos County amphibian. This one lives at PEEC. Photo by Jennifer Macke
The Los Alamos Public Schools elementary librarians and fourth graders, with help from PEEC (Pajarito Environmental Education Center) have been working on a project to research and choose their favorite species for Los Alamos County.
Librarians Beverly Baker, Marilyn Branton, Julie Goen, and Jeffrey Lloyd have guided their fourth grade students in small groups in researching local mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, Read More
LAHS JROTC Navy Team Places 4th at Championships
The Los Alamos Precision Rifle team comprised of Los Alamos High School studentscompeted in the All-Service JROTC Championships March 24-25 in Anniston, Ala. This championship brought together the top five teams representing the Army, Marine, Navy and Air Force teams from the entire country. As current Navy champion team, the Los Alamos Navy JROTC Team, from left, John Gibson, Tessa Snyder, Jodi Cull-Host and Cory Aslin. They continued as the top Navy team and finished fourth overall in the competition. Cull-Host finished third individually in the two-day competition and received the Read More
Three School Board Meetings Scheduled Next Week
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board has scheduled a Special Meeting for 11 a.m. Monday, April 9 at 2075 Trinity Dr., Suite V to hear a presentation by Dr. Peter Goldschmidt from the Public Education Department on the A-F school grading system.
The Los Alamos School Board will hold its regular monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater.
The Los Alamos School Board also is meeting at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 12 at the Coffee Booth to review board policies.
These meetings are open to the public. Read More
College Advisory Board to Review GO Bond
UNM-LA News:
UNM- Los Alamos Advisory Board is set to meet at 5:30 p.m., April 9 in the college lecture hall.
The board is scheduled to discuss the General Obligation (GO) Bond Election for November as well as UNM-LA student housing.
Presentations are scheduled for Paul Terp and Myron Koop on the ETEBA Scholarship.
The board will recognize the Robotics Team #4153 “Project-Y” for its recent competition in Utah.
Staff presentations include the UNM-LA Budget for FY13.
This meeting is open to the public. Read More
