Letter to the Editor: Kiwanis Says Thanks
Dear Editor,
Despite the damper of dry weather and fireworks show cancellation, the 2012 Fourth of July Celebration at Overlook Park was a great success.
After a few months of dangerous drought, the big rain was even welcome.
Though we canceled the festivities earlier than planned, the fun picnic setting, yummy food, wonderful music, and very cool skydiving display by the Habanero Skydiving Club made for a great afternoon and evening.
We missed the fireworks, but we still celebrate living in the United States of America – the very best country in the world to be from!
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos Read More
The Taming of the Shrew (Aspen)
-The Taming of the Shrew (Aspen) … this consummate white barked beauty is difficult to grow in Los Alamos landscapes.
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) are trees with admirable beauty, and it naturally follows that we want our landscapes filled with what we find beautiful.
Unfortunately, try as we might, aspen are not well adapted to domestic landscapes, even here in Los Alamos.
They are short-lived, as expected from their role in forest ecology, and even properly cared-for trees may not reach 20 years.
Aspen
Day Journeys to the Middle of Nowhere
Travel Column by Kirsten Laskey
Discovering Tierra Amarillo
Driving down N.M. 84, we watched Los Alamos, Espanola and even the scatterings of roadside businesses in Abiquiu just slip past the windows.
Soon, there was nothing filling the windows but a gray strip of asphalt and huge, scenic landscapes.
This is when the adventure began.
My traveling partner (my mother) and I picked Tierra Amarillo to visit at random.
Photo: Tierra Amarillo Municipal Complex. By Kirsten Laskey
It was just a faint spot on the map and an oddball collection of photos on a website.
It was declared an “almost” ghost town Read More
Why Afghanistan?
Dr. Bob Fuselier of Los Alamos with friend Blake Batten, Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti and graduating students in Afghanistan. Courtesy photo
Column by Dr. Bob Fuselier
The main purpose of our Afghanistan trip last month was to visit the graduation ceremonies for Green Village Schools’ Advanced Education Center (GVS-AEC) in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province.
My organization (the Afghan Sister Village Project) and Blake’s organization (Project PeacePal founded by Sarah Wilkinson of Albuquerque) acted as support players for Green Village Schools, the organization that runs the Read More
The Girls I Left Behind
Column by Bonnie J. Gordon
I’m grateful to my friends — my new friends for giving me a chance and my old friends for hanging in there with me all this time.
I’ve done things like lose touch for 30 years until rediscovering someone of Facebook and low and behold, most of these people still want to be friends with me.
Maybe that’s less surprising than that people right here in Los Alamos put up with me on a daily basis.
You don’t get another chance with everyone.
Some people are gone for good, whether by choice or by mischance.
I look back and think, how could this have happened? How could I have Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thanks For Your Support
I would like to thank everyone in Los Alamos who took the time to meet with me over the past few weeks. I truly enjoyed getting to know my neighbors on the hill, and will continue to work with you to address issues of mutual concern as a Rio Arriba County Commissioner.
I anticipate many opportunities to strengthen regional collaboration towards clean water, economic development, educational opportunities, health care and other issues we all care about over the next few years.
Fire and Water: The Las Conchas Fire
Column by State Representative Jim Hall
On June 4 and 5, I attended a conference “Impacts and Lessons Learned from the Las Conchas Fire,” sponsored by New Mexico’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR–https:////nmepscor.org/).
NM EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation, and this year their focus was to research the impacts of climate change on Northern New Mexico water resources.
The Las Conchas Fire broadened their focus to the environmental impacts of wildfire–with water and water quality as an important subtext. Read More