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How the Hen House Turns: Conversations With Dogs, Pt. 2

How the Hen House Turns
Conversations With Dogs, Pt. 2
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Like the body language Poncho used to ask about going on a pack trip, Scooter these days uses the same language to make her wishes known. After two weeks, she gave up looking for her littermate and lifetime companion DeeDee.

Spoiling her with added attention seemed to help. Oddly, having only one dog again slipped a minor cog in my brain, and I often called her Poncho.

Scooter is 14 now, and on many cold, windy days she would prefer not to patrol the yard while the birds take their morning swim in the stock tank. Read More

NM Counties Land $37 Million in PILT Payments

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan

CONGRESSIONAL News:

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District highlighted more than $37 million that New Mexico counties are receiving through the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program for Fiscal Year 2014. 

Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewel announced that 32 local governments throughout New Mexico are receiving $37,677,905 $3 million more than last year through the program that compensates counties and local governments for non-taxable federal land in their jurisdictions.

“The PILT program provides vital resources Read More

OBITUARY: John R. Dummer Oct. 30, 1959 – June 21, 2014

JOHN R. DUMMER Oct. 30, 1959 – June 21, 2014

John R. Dummer made the longest day of the year his last day, but he was all about living life with gusto. Making people laugh was a gift and his passion.

John loved Los Alamos and was happy in the mountains and his small town. He embraced adventures and each was enjoyed with the enthusiasm of a little boy … rappelling off Peggy Sue Bridge, rafting rivers, motorcycling with friends, scary acrobatic skiing, taking pictures of flowers, and coaching the infamous Dummer Racing shovel racers.

He shared and recognized everyone on facebook, sent wonderful Read More

‘Valle Grande and Jemez River’ Mural Installed in Council Chambers During Special Re-dedication

Los Alamos County Council Chair Geoff Rodgers cuts the ribbon at the re-dedication of the mural ‘Valle Grande and Jemez River’ by artist Sam Tubiolo, left, in Council Chambers Tuesday as those involved with the project look on. The center panel of the mural was originally in the former Council Chambers. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Artist Sam Tubiolo with the full mural he created. The two side panels were newly created for the space. The center panel was created by Tubiolo for the former council chambers in 1991 and was refurbished for the new location. Photo
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Luján’s Staff Holds Mobile Office Hours in Los Alamos Thursday

Rep. Ben Ray Luján

Congressional News:

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján’s staff will hold mobile office hours in the Third District Thursday, June 26. The Los Alamos time is 1-3 p.m. at Time Out Pizza, 1350 Central Ave.

Mobile office hours provide constituents who may not have the means or time to travel to one of Luján’s six district offices greater access to the services offered. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits, immigration applications, veterans’ services, and other federal programs.

Staff in Los Alamos will be partnering with the Los Read More

Local Business Women to Showcase Wares Friday

Business News:

Join local business women for a unique local shopping experience 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 27 at Rosebud Cafe, 35 Rover Blvd. in White Rock.

Those attending will have the opportunity to see a showcase of home business products and services offered locally in Los Alamos and White Rock, enjoy free wine and delicious Rosebud Cafe finger foods, browse the products and listen to each vendor give a short talk about their products, services and any exciting business opportunities.

Attendees also will be entered in a raffle to win free products and services, including a two-hour Herbal Class, Read More

Young Natives Arts & Crafts Show July 12-13

Kimberly Ortiz, 9, left, and her sister Kelly, 3, worked with their sister Renetta, 13, to create this Jemez Pueblo pottery for the Winter 2011 Young Native Artists Show and Sale. Photo by Kate Nelson
 
NAAP News:

SANTA FE—Begin collecting art, jewelry, pottery and more from the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople at the summer Young Natives Arts & Crafts Show. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the Portal Program will demonstrate their own work in the Palace Courtyard 9 a.m.to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 12 and 13.

See the artwork, purchase Read More

Energy, Water and Climate Change Discussed at ‘Nature on Tap’ June 26

PEEC News:

Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) will host “Nature on Tap,” part of a new informal discussion series, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 at the Blue Window Bistro.

The “On Tap” series is a new project from the Los Alamos Creative District and is held every Thursday with the themes “Nature on Tap,” “History on Tap,” “Science on Tap,” and “Art on Tap.”

It is a great way to get out in the community and meet people with similar interests. This event is the second “Nature on Tap” discussion, which will be held on every fourth Thursday of the month.

For this installment of “Nature on Tap,” Read More

Lady Silver Bullets Take First in LT Invitational Basketball Tournament!

The Lady Silver Bullets, front row, Destiny Valdez. Middle row from left, Ana Abeyta, Nikki Cole, Erin Vigil and Samantha Archuleta. Back row from left, Reyna Morales, Hannah Sanchez, Erica Medina and Kaitlyn Gonzales. Courtesy photo

SPORTS News:

The New Mexico Lady Silver Bullets took first place in the LT Invitational Basketball Tournament in Albuquerque last weekend.

The sixth grade team won the tournament after playing hard all weekend and winning all four games played. 

The team consists of girls from the Los Alamos, Pojoaque and the Espanola Valley areas. They are coached by Head Read More

Mariela Saenz Best Predictor in Tuesday’s Pace Race

Tuesday’s Atomic City Roadrunners Pace Race in the Quemazon and Pipeline Road areas. Courtesy photo

ACR News:

Tuesday night’s Atomic City Roadrunners Pace Race was held in the Quemazon and Pipeline Road areas on steep 1, 3 and 3.2 mile courses. With all 33 predicted and actual runner times adjusted to the 3.2 mile course, the best predictions were by Mariela Saenz (13 sec.), Meera Nadige (22 sec.), Linda Vance (23 sec.) and Katie Gattiker (41 sec.).

Fastest on the one mile course were Patricia Burnside (9:30) and Rao Garimella (10:39). Fastest on the 3 mile course was Zach Medin (37:27) Read More

Visit Elk Herds in the Valles Caldera With PEEC

Elk in the Valle Caldera. Courtesy/Valle Caldera National Preserve

PEEC News:

One of the many Take Wing events that Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is offering exclusively to those who donate $150 or more to its capital campaign, is sure to delight.

At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 a small group, limited to 10 people, will explore the Valles Caldera by van, getting up close to the resident elk.

PEEC is raising roughly $1 million through the capital campaign to fund indoor and outdoor exhibits for the new Los Alamos County Nature Center, slated to open in spring 2015.

Participants Read More

Incoming Los Alamos Rotary President Troy Hughes: ‘Measure Yourself By What You Give…’

Incoming Rotary President Troy Hughes. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Incoming Los Alamos Rotary Club President Troy Hughes takes over the reins July 1. He stepped up to the podium during Tuesday’s regular club meeting to propose a new theme for the upcoming year measure what you give.

The theme was inspired by a Bible passage that Hughes learned from a childhood friend’s father who was a Rotarian. The verse explains the rewards that can be reaped when people give to others. Hughes encouraged members to incorporate this theme into Read More

Local Expert Chick Keller Leads Wildflower Walks

Wildflowers along Quemazon trail. Photo by Yvonne Keller

PEEC News:

Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) Jemez Mountain Herbarium Curator Chick Keller will lead another Wildflower Walk at 5:15 p.m. Friday, June 27.

The Wildflower Walks occur monthly and are easy walks to identify some of the wildflower beauties found in and around Los Alamos. Each month Keller picks a different trail, depending on what is blooming at the time. The walks are free and there is no advance registration required.

Participants will receive a plant list and that, along with instruction from Keller, will Read More

Mountain School Certifies as NWF Schoolyard Habitat

Members of Mountain School Green Team with club sponsor Michele Altherr, third from right. Courtesy photo

LAPS News:

Mountain School’s Green Team certified their campus as a Schoolyard Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation.

Certified schools provide the four elements of a habitat: food, water, cover and places to raise young. Elements of a habitat can be natural features such as trees, flowers, rocks, logs and seasonal wet areas, as well as artificial features such as bird feeders, saucers of water and nesting boxes. 

The Green Team went to work on certification last spring. Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

Column By JIM O’DONNELL    
Reel Deal Theater

This week we are opening Transformers: Age of Extinction. We will hold Chef, The Fault in our Stars, and How to Train your Dragon 2. Edge of Tomorrow will end Thursday.

I went to see Chef the other night and liked it so much I decided to hold it another week. It is funny, thoughtful, and refreshing and I don’t think it deserves an R rating. A PG-13 would have been fine. There might have been some language but I don’t even recall that. One of the main themes of this film is the relationship between 11 year old, Emjay Anthony, (Chef’s son) Read More

Solo Traveler: Religion

A group of Buddhist women in a temple society on their way to the dedication of a new cultural center that was created from an abandoned women’s prison in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler: Religion
By SHERRY HARDAGE

Religion has always been of interest to me, except for a period of time when I thought it was just used to control people and I rejected it all.

Aspects of religion are still used to control people and get them to donate large sums of time and money, but traveling the world has changed my ideas. There are good reasons to have religions. All over the world Read More

PEEC and New Mexico PBS Present Science Café: Mysterious Life of Caves

A caver explores Lechuguilla Cave. Courtesy/PEEC
 
Fantastic formations inside Lechuguilla Cave. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is once again teaming up with the New Mexico Public Broadcasting System (PBS), to bring to Los Alamos another installation of the popular New Mexico PBS Science Café.

This time the topic will be the mysterious life of caves and will focus on the Lechuguilla Cave in southeastern New Mexico. The free program is 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 28 at PEEC.

Lechuguilla Cave, often considered the most beautiful cave in the Read More

‘Images of Mary in the New World’ Exhibit Opens at New Mexico History Museum June 29

Scene from ‘Tatoo Nation.’ Courtesy photo

NMHM News:

A new exhibit, “Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World” opens June 29 at the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) in Santa Fe, with an array of special events planned throughout the summer and fall.

Events include:

Saturday, July 19, 1-3 p.m., Printing Our Lady, Gathering Space. Free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents; children 16 and under free daily. Bring the family and print a historic image of Our Lady on a replica medieval press. Using a Bobcat Press built in the 1970s by Cedar Crest’s Richard Hicks, visitors Read More

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