Proposals For Annual United Way Community Action Fund Grants Due By 5 P.M. April 13
UWNNM News:
United Way of Northern New Mexico (UWNNM) Community Action Fund Request for Proposals (RFP) were released March 9 and due no later than 5 p.m. Friday, April 13.
A copy of the RFP can found on the UWNNM website at unitedwaynnm.org/fund ing or by calling 505.662.0800.
Proposals go through the UWNNM Grant Committee, which consists of UWNNM board members, investors and community members who contribute a lot of time researching needs in the communities through Health Profiles, Youth Risk & Resiliency Surveys and other means. They review all applications Read More
Celebration Of Life Event For Edward R. ‘Ed’ Flynn, Jr.
Edward (Ed) R. Flynn, Jr.
COMMUNITY News:
Edward (Ed) R. Flynn, Jr. passed away on Dec. 14, 2017, at his home in Carlsbad, NM.
A 1981 graduate of Los Alamos High school, Ed served his country in the United States Navy from November 1983 to March 1990. After his service, he was employed for 27 years at the Waste Isolation Plant for the majority of his time as an Operations Specialist in Instrumentation and Control. During his tenure at WIPP, he graduated from Thomas Edison State University.
Ed is survived by three daughters: Gail Flynn, Allison Flynn, Cara Flynn, their mother Sara Flynn, his father Read More
Heinrich Secures Commitment From Energy Secretary On Key LANL Mission, Highlights Funding For New Mexico Labs
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing to review the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) atomic energy defense programs for Fiscal Year 2019, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) secured a commitment from Energy Secretary Rick Perry to support maintaining Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) role as the nation’s Center of Excellence for Plutonium Research.
Work is currently underway to upgrade facilities at LANL in preparation to produce 30 pits per year by 2026, and the National Nuclear Read More
Sheehey: Listening To The Community
Dist. 43 Candidate Pete Sheehey, left, talks with Estaban Summers at the Los Alamos Co+op Market. Courtesy photoBy PETE SHEEHEY
House Dist. 43 Candidate
A very important part of my job as a County Councilor is to go to as many community meetings as I can. At these meetings I learn and offer information, but most importantly, I listen to the concerns that are expressed. In addition to public meetings, I answer questions and exchange ideas with people when I ride the bus, shop at the Co-op, eat at fundraisers, go to church or the YMCA, or attend the many cultural, arts, music, educational and recreational
Luján On FY2018 Omnibus Appropriations Package
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
From the Office of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) today released the following statement on the $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations package for Fiscal Year 2018.
Luján opposed the bill:
“Once again, Republican leaders in Congress have delivered a funding bill that ignores our nation’s true priorities and fundamentally fails in their responsibility to govern. The bill fails to provide a permanent solution for 800,000 Dreamers, despite repeated promises by the President and Speaker Paul Ryan; it does not safeguard the pensions Read More
Lab Profile: Jim Stein Lives Life To The Fullest, Camera In Hand
Jim Stein of Los Alamos National Laboratory has a passion for photography. Courtesy photo
A starry night seen from Los Alamos. Photo by Jim Stein LANL News:
As a child, Jim Stein, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Quality & Performance Assurance Division, loved poring over the awe-inspiring photos of National Geographic magazine. With a small camera his parents bought for him, his passion for photography was ignited.
“I started playing around with the camera like I was a Nat Geo photographer,” he said. “And although I really was pretty awful, I’ve been hooked ever since.”
After
Just One Thing To Do This Week: Take A Vowel
By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
Two really great things happened last week:
- I scored 546 in Scrabble. It is the most I have ever, ever scored. In my opening move I spelled “zippers” with the help of a blank, and on every turn after that I scored more than 28 points. While it was happening and immediately afterward it felt magical. Shortly thereafter I realized I had achieved my personal pinnacle of the Scrabble challenge, and then felt a little down-hearted. Which is why it was fantastic that a second great thing happened.
- I was selected to serve as the Executive Director for the United Way of Northern
Local Wrestler Jordan Herrera Wins First At State
Jordan Herrera celebrates taking first place in the March 3 AAU State Wrestling Tournament in Santa Fe in the third/fourth grade, 70-75lbs division. Herrera took first place at two regular tournaments prior to the state event and was 6-0 going in. He doesn’t wrestle year round and started training just a week before the state competition with Coach Tim Valdez at New Era. ‘He’s just a beast,’ Valdez said. Courtesy photo Read More
Realtor Of The Month: Meet Chris Ortega
By CHRIS ORTEGA
RE/MAX First
A native of Los Alamos, I attended Aspen Elementary School and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 1991. After high school I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was stationed at Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms in California.
Continuing my time in California, I attended college at University of Southern California in Los Angeles where I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
My family began in California, where my two daughters, Meagan and Jordyn were born. Realizing I wanted to raise them in my hometown of Los Alamos, we moved Read More
Teen Center Thanks County Council For Support
A group of students, Teen Center Director Slyvan Argo and Assistant Teen Center Director George Marsden present a list of the Los Alamos Teen Center’s accomplishments during the Los Alamos County Council’s regular meeting Tuesday night in Council Chambers. Its successes include a new recording studio as well as high attendance at the center. In 2017, the center received more than 27,900 visits and has more than 600 active members. In addition to reporting on the center’s successes, the teens also thanked the Council for its support of the Teen Center. ‘Thank you Read More
Hotel Employee Charged With Attack On Colleague
Bryce Delano
A 30-year-old Los Alamos man has been arrested and charged with criminal sexual penetration and false imprisonment in connection with a March 10 incident at the Holiday Inn Express in Los Alamos.
Bryce Delano, a front desk clerk at the hotel, is accused of pushing his way into a room that was being cleaned by a colleague and allegedly forcing her to have sex with him.
An affidavit for an arrest warrant was filed MArch 20 in Los Alamos Magistrate Court by Los Alamos Police Det. Joey Robinson and a warrant Read More
The Legacy Of Frederick Reines
Robert Reines stands next to his father’s Nobel Prize medal in the Hans Bethe House. Photo by Todd NickolsBy HEATHER MCCLENAHAN
Los Alamos Historical Society
The only Nobel Prize won for work done at the laboratory in Los Alamos is justly on display in the Los Alamos History Museum’s Hans Bethe House.
The world’s top physics prize was awarded to Frederick Reines in 1995 for the discovery of the nuetrino, a subatomic particle produced by the decay of radioactive elements. They are called neutrinos because they are neutral—lacking an electric charge. As Reines himself said, nuetrinos are Read More
Mountain Elementary Students Present Three Fables
Wendy Chapin of the Santa Fe Opera leads a group of first graders in some warm up exercises before performing three fables in front of a large crowd Wednesday morning at Mountain Elementary School. The performances concluded the eight-week program called ALTO or Active Learning Through Opera. The Santa Fe Opera offered the program, which was funded by the Mountain PTA. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Acting as a principal, a Mountain Elementary School first grade student, center, scolds a misbehaving kangaroo while performing the fable, ‘The Bad Kangaroo’, The performance Read More
‘Kremlinologist’ At Fuller Lodge Thursday March 29
LIBRARY News
A new book, “The Kremlinologist” by Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson will be the topic for the March Authors Speak lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at Fuller Lodge.
The authors are the daughters of the subject of this biography, “The Kremlinologist – Llewellyn E. Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow,” and spent eight years of their childhood in Moscow. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the book traces the life of their father from boyhood in rural Colorado and New Mexico to U.S. ambassador to the USSR to presidential advisor on Soviet affairs. The Read More
Obituary: Betty Lou Coleman Eikleberry Aug. 2, 1930 – March 9, 2018
BETTY LOU COLEMAN EIKLEBERRY Aug. 2, 1930 – March 9, 2018
Betty Lou Coleman Eikleberry, age 87, passed away March 9, 2018 after a long illness. Her last hours were spent comfortably with her daughters and granddaughters, listening to stories and singing along with favorite show tunes, in particular, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma.
Betty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, one of five children, on August 2, 1930. Early in her marriage, she and her dear husband, Robert “Bob” Eikleberry, moved their family to Los Alamos in 1959, where they made it a home for the next 54 years. As a Registered Nurse, Read More
LAFD Breaks Down Fire Danger Levels
The public is alerted about fire danger levels through adjectives and colors based on the National Fire Danger Rating System’s criteria. Courtesy imageMore than 100 years ago, fire managers decided it was time to develop a fire rating system to predict the potential for large fire activity. Then in the 1930s, a fire danger meter that included some of the environmental variables we have today was developed.
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is a system that allows land agencies to estimate today’s or tomorrow’s
Los Alamos Rotary Hosts Russian Friendship Exchange
Rotary Russian Friendship Exchange guests, Los Alamos Club President-elect Vincent Chiravalle, right, and local Rotarians gather for a lunch meeting Tuesday at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Mary Beth Maassen 
Rotary Russian Friendship Exchange guest Denis Ivanov, left, exchanges friendship banners with Club President-elect Vincent Chiravalle at Tuesday’s meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Mary Beth MaassenLAHS Students Place In Regional History Competition
From left, Brent Collom, Thomas Chadwick, Christine Mathew, Logan Black, Ashley Miller, Abby Beus, Kyler Parkinson and Brooklyn Scott. Not pictured: Miriam Wallstrom. Courtesy photo
LAPS News:
On March 9, eight Los Alamos High School students from the National History Day Club entered their projects into the National History Day (NHD) Regional competition, and all placed either first or second, which means all eight will advance to the state competition in April.
National History Day is an annual competition that over half a million students participate in nationwide. Each year’s projects Read More
Benefit Screenings Of Highly Anticipated Isle Of Dogs
CCA News:Two benefit screenings Thursday, April 5 will support the shelter’s operations. The film will be preceded