100+ Women Who Care Gather At Unquarked
100+ Women Who Care toast their efforts to help local organizations during a gathering Wednesday at Unquarked Wine Room in Central Park Square. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comLAMS Production Of Disney The Lion King Jr. Today & Tomorrow
Courtesy photoUnhitched Trailers: Ordinance Changes Take Effect, Enforcement Sweeps Begin
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County Code Enforcement Officers will begin assisting Los Alamos Police Department patrols in tagging or towing unhitched trailers parked on streets, highways and public parking areas, under new changes to the County code that took effect Feb. 10.
The County Council recently approved a change in wording to Chapter 38 of the Traffic & Vehicles Section of the Code (Section 38-367), to address inadequate parking regulations that have in the past allowed trailers in these public areas as long as the trailer was hitched to a vehicle for at least 24 hours. The amended ordinance Read More
LANL Budget Request Holds A Few Surprises
The Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building was the first building in the now-cancelled Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement project. RLUOB will become the main service center for LANL’s plutonium pit manufacturing project with 19,500 net sq. ft. of office space, laboratories and many of the technical capabilities needed to replace the aging Chemistry and Metallurgy Research building by 2019. Courtesy/LANLBy ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post
The Obama administration’s fiscal 2017 budget for Los Alamos National Laboratory proposes a steady course, with Read More
LAMC And Dr. Miguel Dozier Educate To Save Lives
As part of LAMC’s lunchtime presentation Friday, Lori Coffelt, RN and Director of the LAMC Emergency Department, presented three automated external defibrillators (AED’s) to the senior center, for use in the Los Alamos and White Rock facilities. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
LAMC doctors and medical staff members provide lunchtime health and wellness talks at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) is pursuing certification as an accredited Chest Pain Center through the Society
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Room’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Room” is told from the perspective of a little boy named Jack (Jacob Tremblay). All he has known in the five years of his life is his “Ma” and the room in which they live. What is “real” is what he sees in “Room”. (What is on their TV is deemed “not real”.)
Movie poster for ‘Room’. Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
Joy Newsome (Brie Larson), we learn, was abducted at the age of 17 and has lived seven years in this shed behind the house of “Old Nick”. The metal door is secured with a numerical code lock. She and Jack are given the food and supplies they need to survive and Read More
About Automated External Defibrillators
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION News:
What is an AED?
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a lightweight, portable device that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart.
The shock can stop an irregular heart rhythm and allow a normal rhythm to resume following sudden cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac arrest is an abrupt loss of heart function.
If it’s not treated within minutes, it quickly leads to death. Most sudden cardiac arrests result from ventricular fibrillation. This is a rapid and unsynchronized heart rhythm starting in the heart’s lower pumping chambers (the ventricles). Read More
Delegation Calls For Probe Into NM HSD Suspending Medicaid Payments To Behavioral Health Providers
Update: Response from Kyler Nerison, HSD spokesman:
“This is nothing more than the same partisan stunt orchestrated by the same Washington politicians more than a year ago. The Feds have extensively reviewed this matter and found that the state acted in accordance with the anti-fraud regulations put in place by the Affordable Care Act.
The companies in question overbilled the state millions of dollars in Medicaid funding that should have been used to help those in need. That’s a fact, and we’ve already collected more than $4 million on behalf of taxpayers. The Attorney Read More
Obituary: Juan Francisco Borrego Feb. 17, 2016
JUAN FRANCISCO BORREGO Feb.17, 2016
Juan Francisco Borrego, 95, a resident of Pojoaque, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, after a short illness.
Juan was preceded in death by his wife of 67 years, Teresa Bustos, daughter Carmen Seitz, parents Juan C. Borrego and Lucia Montoya; brother Gilbert Borrego; sisters Trinidad Espinoza, Ascension Barth and Christina Valerio. Juan was born in Santa Cruz, New Mexico in 1920. He graduated from Holy Cross Catholic School (K-12) where he was Center on the basketball team.
In 1942, Juan enlisted in the Army/Air Force and was stationed Read More
DOE Secretary Says WIPP Will Reopen In 2016
CCNS News:
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) has announced that U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz recently said the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) would again dispose of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste in the deep geologic dump by the end of 2016.
WIPP has been shut down for two years following a truck fire and radiation release that contaminated 22 workers and the underground facility. Moniz made his remarks on February 9th when the Obama Administration released its proposed fiscal year 2017 budget, which includes $266 million for WIPP. Read More
Letter To The Editor: Los Alamos Sheriff History
By DIMAS M. CHAVEZI am a former resident of Los Alamos. Moved there with my parent in August 1943 and went on to attend school 1-12 finishing in 1955. I worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (as it was known back then) as a full time employee, summer student, and later under the Harold Agnew, and Don Kerr administration as the Employee Relations Manager.
When Los Alamos was still a closed community we were provided with quality security by the Blue Uniformed Security Guard Force, a branch of AEC. When Los Alamos became an incorporated community the city officials were Read More
Scenes From LAMS Jazz Band Tour Of Schools
The Los Alamos Middle School Jazz Band, here at Mountain Elementary School, toured all five local elementary schools Thursday performing for students and staff. The musicians performed music that they have prepared for adjudication today at the Albuquerque Jazz Festival. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Scene from LAMS Jazz Band performing Thursday at Mountain Elementary School. The band also toured all five local elementary schools. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Scene from LAMS Jazz Band performing Thursday at Mountain Elementary School. The band also Jemez Thrift Shop Hosts March Bag Days
THRIFT SHOP News:
Jemez Thrift Shop will hold March Bag Days 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 2; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 4; and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 5.
The store is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. all other Saturdays of the month. This will be true of Bag Day Saturdays going forward, April, May, on through the year. Read More
Daily Postcard: Quemazon Sunrise
Daily Postcard: Beautiful sunrise shot from Quemazon. Photo by Trisha Ancell Read More
Rotary Club Seeks Young Leaders For Week-long Camp
ROTARY News:
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos is seeking young leaders with an interest in attending a week long camp in the Manzano Mountains in July.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a program that originated with Rotary International and has subsequently been specifically designed by Rotary District 5520 for the students in New Mexico. RYLA encourages servant leadership in youth by recognizing and rewarding deserving 11th grade students who are chosen to attend RYLA as an “award” for their past and present leadership and service activities.
These select young Read More
Community Resilience Committee Meets Feb. 29
COMMUNITY News:New Mexico Corrections Department Seeks Public’s Assistance Locating Dangerous Absconder
Daniel Archuleta
NMCD News:
The New Mexico Corrections Department and New Mexico Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a dangerous probation/parole absconder.
On Feb. 16, 2016 at approximately 6 p.m., Daniel Archuleta cut off his GPS monitoring unit and absconded from the supervision of the New Mexico Corrections Department. Archuleta was being dually supervised on probation and parole for the charges of aggravated burglary, conspiracy, and tampering with evidence.
Archuleta is described as a Hispanic male. He is 38 years of age. He is approximately 5’8’ tall Read More
Going Solo: John W. Day Opens Private Law Practice
Criminal Defense Attorney John W. Day during an interview Friday in his new office in downtown Santa Fe. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
SANTA FE — After 20 years of representing clients in Los Alamos as a member of larger firms, attorney John W. Day has decided to go solo and open his own practice, John Day Law Office, LLC.
Day sat down with the Los Alamos Daily Post Friday afternoon to talk about his decision.
“The model of large law firms with big overhead expenses is changing,” Day said. “Opening my own practice allows me to keep the overhead Read More
Analysis Of Law; Policy Governing Office Of Sheriff
By GEORGE CHANDLERI will give you my best analysis of the law and policy considerations governing the existence and duties of the office of Sheriff of Los Alamos County and its relationship to the Police Department, and how these are affected by legislation pending in the New Mexico Legislature.
I will make informal citations to the constitution and statutes of the State of New Mexico, The charter and a resolution of Los Alamos County, and two pending proposed constitutional amendments. The analysis is straightforward; however there are a number of authorities that Read More
Public Invited To CIP Meeting At Noon Friday
COUNTY News:
Public meetings on future capital projects continue tomorrow at noon in the meeting room at White Rock Fire Station 3.
The public meeting is being held as requested by the Council as part of their deliberations on narrowing a project list to fund in the future.
The final public meeting will take place at 6 p.m., Tuesday in Council Chambers, with a focus on projects for Economic Development or Infrastructure. The Council will then have a wrap up of all of the public meetings and further discussion at their Council meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 in Council Chambers, when they Read More