United Skates Celebrates 50 Years
By Don Casperson
LAHS Senior Appreciation Night. Photo by Don Casperson
FUMC News:
The First United Methodist Church, 715 Diamond Drive (adjacent to Sullivan Field) has hosted the Friday night skate program called “United Skates” for nearly 50 years now. With many thanks to church historian Alice Carter, we know that the very first United Skates sessions took place Friday, May 11, 1962, not long after the construction of Fellowship Hall was completed.
Legend has it that the church took over the skate program from the YMCA at that time, and inherited all of the old four-wheel Read More
Thayers Travel to Africa
Longtime Los Alamos residents Nina and Gary Thayer pose outside their accomodations while traveling in Africa last year. The couple spent Oct. 22 to Nov. 7 on their Serengiti Safari to Tanzania and presented photographs and a talk about their adventures to the Rotary Club last Tuesday at Fuller Lodge. Photo from the Thayer Collection
Rotarian Nina Thayer shares details of the couple’s trip last fall to Tanzania wth the Los Alamos Rotary Club as her husband Gary Thayer operates a computerized slide show of the adventure. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Bold Knights and Ladies Fair Celebrate the Middle Ages in Los Alamos
Fighters in armor at North Mesa Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
By Bonnie Gordon
On April 28, 2012, the banner of the Shire of Bryngolau (Shining Hill in Welsh) was raised for the first time when local members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) gathered for a day of fighting, feasting, music and dance in the style of the Middle Ages.
It was the Shire’s first official event.
SCA is a non-profit educational organization devoted to the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It isn’t just about research — far from it.
Members of SCA live the part at their events. Members dress Read More
Pancakes, Arts & Crafts this Saturday
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos is hosting a Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, May 5th at the Betty Ehart Senior Center from 7 – 11 am. Stop by for a delicious breakfast of eggs, sausage and pancakes before heading over to the lawn at Fuller Lodge for the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Arts and Crafts Fair.
The Los Alamos Arts Council has presented arts and crafts fairs in Los Alamos since 1967. The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos was founded in January 1948. It is the oldest service organization in Los Alamos.
Rick Reiss and John Arrowsmith prepare pancakes. Courtesy Photo
The cost of the Kiwanis breakfast Read More
Atheists Host Discussion at Mesa Public Library
LOS ALAMOS COMMUNITY OF ATHEISTS News
The Los Alamos Community of Atheists will be hosting a discussion regarding the relationship between morals, ethics, and atheism. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 in meeting room one at the Mesa Public Library. All are welcome. Read More
Local Group Welcomes the Growing Season
OUR LADY OF THE WOODS News
Beltane is one of the most important days in the Wiccan year, marking as it does the beginning of summer, the season of growth, warmth and fertility. This period was very important for ancient cultures, dependant as they were on the success of the growing season for the survival of the community. “Modern people don’t always see this Long Term Nutrition and Weight Management Tips
Column by Kent Pegg
With warmer weather approaching, now might be a good time to think about your nutrition plan and the role it plays in your life.
Daily, I address this issue with people who are looking to change the way they eat and who want to develop a nutrition plan that helps them achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Proper nutrition, combined with an exercise program consisting of muscle strengthening, cardiovascular endurance training, and increased flexibility, will help you reach your goals and enjoy a better life.
For the most part, your calories come from three sources: proteins, Read More
Horizons Preschool Becoming Own Entity
A classroom at Horizons Preschool and Daycare inside White Rock United Methodist Church, 580 Meadow Lane. Courtesy/Horizons
By Kirsten Laskey
After 19 years as a preschool and 29 years as an afterschool program through White Rock United Methodist Church (WRUMC), Horizons Preschool and Daycare is becoming its own entity.
“Horizons is becoming a separate entity from WRUMC financially, for tax purposes, but will continue the strong Christian and proven academic curriculum that it now uses,” Horizons Board President Nancy Ferenbaugh said.
This Christian-based day care takes Read More
Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview – April 20, 2012 [AUDIO]
The Los Alamos Daily Post's events calendar audio webcast, "Clark & Kendall's Weekend Preview." Carol A. Clark and Greg Kendall co-host this weekly program, which previews each upcoming weekend's events scheduled throughout Los Alamos and White Rock.
Today's Weekend Preview ran about 20 minutes in length because there is so much going on around the community this weekend and beyond that was covered in this webcast.
This program is sponsored by Kristin Henderson for Council (Paid for by Kristin Henderson for County Council, George Chandler, Treasurer, Read More
Life After Faith Community Dicussion
Tom Rheam Trio Plays Blue Window Bistro April 21
BLUE WINDOW News
The Blue Window Bistro in Los Alamos will host a Jazz Night featuring the Tom Rheam Trio Saturday, April 21. Tickets are $15 per person and dinner reservations are required.
The Trio will perform 7-9 p.m. Tom Rheam plays trumpet and piano, Dick Hogle plays drums and sings and David Moir is on bass.
Rheam has played on the road with Ray Charles, played backup to Frank Sinatra on recordings, toured with the Glenn Miller Band and many other well-known professional singers and musicians.
Hogle has worked in the Catskills in New York state as a show drummer, played on cruise Read More
Local Volunteers Build Homes South of the Border
By Carol A. Clark
Los Alamos High School youth and other volunteers spent Spring Break building homes for families in need in Mexico. Courtesy Photo
A contingent of 50 Los Alamos High School youth and several adults and four volunteers from Colorado, traveled to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico over Spring Break on a mission – to build homes for two families in need.
This was the 27th annual Spring Break Mexico Mission trip for high school youth sponsored by The United Church of Los Alamos.
“Since 1986, we have built the equivalent of 131 single houses,” said Laura Erickson who Read More
Heavenly Day Greets Easter Sunrise Service
Easter Sunrise Service was conducted at Overlook Park in White Rock this morning as a joint effort by the Church of the Nazarene, White Rock Baptist, White Rock Presbyterian and White Rock United Methodist churches. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
The Reverend Harry Cole, Interim Pastor of White Rock Presbyterian Church, gave the Homily. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
A brass quartet supplied the music at the Easter Sunrise Service this morning at Overlook Park. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.comImportant Rituals Highlight One of the Jewish Religion’s Most Sacred Holidays
White Rock resident Jacob Sigeti reads from the Haggadah, containing the story of the Exodus from Egypt during a Seder meal at his home Friday evening. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Friday marked the beginning of one of the Jewish religion’s most sacred and widely observed holidays, Passover, which commemorates the story of the Israelites’ departure from ancient Egypt. Jews observe this weeklong event with a number of important rituals, including traditional Passover meals known as Seders, the removal of leavened products from their home, Read More
Annual Chimayó Easter Pilgrimage is Underway
A mother walks with her son along the highway to Chimayó Thursday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Pilgrims making their way to El Santuario de Chimayó were seen Thursday and Friday along the highway to the tiny shrine in Chimayó. They walk from short distances to 100 miles or more during Holy Week leading up the Easter Sunday.
Some carry wooden crosses. According to the Santuario de Chimayó website, tens of thousands of worshipers pass through the doors of the little chapel, built almost 200 years ago on a site that is sacred to many Pueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish settlers.
Somewhere Read More
Renew Boot Camp
Instructor Rita Brake offers Renew Fitness Classes or Renew Boot Camp at the First Baptist Church-LA Gymnasium at 2200 Diamond Drive.
Renew Fitness Classes
This class is a boot camp style training that mixes traditional callisthenic and body weight exercises with interval and strength training. It also includes various forms of jogging, jumping rope, and interval training that involves bursts of high intensity work. This is a great work out!
These classes are comprehensive fitness programs specially designed by me to help you:
Diabetes Alert Day
THE FAMILY YMCA News
Tuesday, March 27 is Diabetes Alert Day, and the Family YMCA wants residents of Los Alamos and the surrouding areas to be aware of their risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes and the preventative steps they can take today to reduce that risk. Currently, nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and a staggering 79 million people have prediabetes, a condition where blood glucose is elevated, but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes.
While the nation’s struggle with obesity and type 2 diabetes is well chronicled, the amount of people with prediabetes is a growing Read More
Taiji as Spiritual Practice
TAIJI News
Beginning in April, the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos will offer a series of eight Saturday morning Taiji (T’ai Chi) classes to study the Yang Style 24 Forms. Classes will begin on Saturday, April 7th from 11 AM to noon in Robinson Hall.
No previous experience is necessary. Classes will explore proper body alignment with coordination and flexibility exercises, and breathing techniques to cultivate the flow of Qi, or life energy. The primary focus of the class is to study the 24 Forms of the Taiji routine which can become a daily discipline of spiritual practice. Students Read More
Are Science and Religion Compatible?
Community Event News
The Los Alamos Community of Atheists will host a community discussion in room 1 of the Mesa Public Library on Wednesday, March 28 at 6:30 pm. The discussion topic is: Finding Truth: Are Science and Religion Compatible?
As a primer for the discussion, participants are encouraged to read two recent Huffington Post articles: Science, Religion Incompatible? Hot-Button Debate Features Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, Dr. Michael Shermer (https:////huff.to/yVbD64) and The Fall of Foolish Faith (https:////huff.to/zFHa78%29, both published March 9th. All are welcome.
Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore the week of March 13-20, 2012
- The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, Philip Taubman
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, LANL*
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
- Wonder, R. J. Palacio
- 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction, John Austin