Student Musicale At Crossroads Church Sunday
MUSIC News:
Enjoy a free recital of Los Alamos students at 2 p.m., Sunday at Crossroads Church. The performers range in age from six through 16 and will be performing works from the Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern musical eras.
The Sunday Musicales are regular presentations by the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA), presented in fall and spring terms for the public’s enjoyment and as performance opportunities for students dedicated to private study and advancement on their instrument. The concert is presented without intermission, and will last one hour. A reception follows Read More
Man Dies Tuesday Night On Walnut Street
POLICE News:
Los Alamos Police responded to the scene of a man found dead Tuesday night on Walnut Street.
Neighbors began contacting the Los Alamos Daily Post overnight following the sound of gunshots saying it appears the man died on the street at about 10 p.m. of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“With our initial investigation, we have determined that there is no threat to the community,” Cmdr. Preston Ballew said.
The Office of the Medical Investigator will determine the cause of death, Ballew said. Read More
AlgaStar/BioStim And Los Alamos National Laboratory Renew Research
Biostim test setup at LANL. Courtesy/AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com
SCIENCE News:
A research team at AlgaStar Inc., a Florida-based biomass R&D cultivation company, reported to the Algae Biomass Summit in 2014 that electromagnetic field (EMF) biostimulation had yielded a 300 percent biomass growth increase and 174 percent increase in lipid oil content in several alga samples over controlled growth conditions.
Part of this research is being carried out by BioStim Inc., AlgaStar’s wholly owned subsidiary located in New Mexico. They are leading a consortium of small businesses as a part Read More
LANL Post Doc Ari Le Wins Concerto Competition
Violist Ari Le, a LANL post-doctoral student and winner of the SFCO Concerto Competition. Courtesy photoAri Le, a post-doctoral student from MIT with a four-year appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is the winner of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra’s Concerto Competition.
Le will solo with that group, performing the “Lachrymae for Viola and Strings” by Britten at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17 at the St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. The concert also feature’s Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 5” and the world premiere of “Benthic Metropolis” Read More
2016 District Pinewood Derby Race In Central Park Square Saturday April 30
Letter To The Editor: Roundabout Construction – Clear Sight Lines
By DICK BOUDRIE
Los Alamos
The roundabout at Diamond and North Mesa Road provides the needed experience. This roundabout has raised ground, a very nice sculpture and lots of vegetation. At my urging the County is now keeping the vegetation
Geoffrion Parker’s ‘Red Tulip’ Juried Into WFWS Exhibit
‘Red Tulip’ by Kathi Geoffrion Parker. Courtesy photoArt News:
Los Alamos Artist Kathi Geoffrion Parker, a signature member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, has been juried into the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies (WFWS) 41st annual exhibit at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in Arvada, Colo. (a suburb northwest of Denver).
Geoffrion Parker’s painting, entitled “Red Tulip,” was one of 134 selected from among more than 1,065 entries from 12 watercolor societies by nationally known juror Sterling Edwards. The exhibit, which Read More
Letter To The Editor: No Loyalty Left In Sports
By ROY M. MOOREGFOA Presents County’s OMB Its ‘Distinguished Budget Presentation Award’ For 24th Straight Year
Deputy County Manager/Chief Financial Officer Steven Lynne
COUNTY News:
The Office of Management and Budget for Los Alamos County was recently notified by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) that it has been awarded the “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award” for its FY16 Budget.
This is the 24th year in a row that the County has received this prestigious national award. In order to receive the award, the County had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. It must be rated “proficient” in four categories, which contain 14 mandatory Read More
Los Alamos Historical Society Team’s Last Day In Japan
Kallie Funk and Judith Stauber cutting up at Nagasaki Ropeway. Courtesy photoWilliams: Multi-lane Roundabout At Central–N.M. 502 More Accident Prone Than If Signalized
Courtesy imageGeorge Jennings, Jr’s letter on “Arts In Public Places” For New Roundabout here gives me an opportunity to make some comments and to offer an “ART” suggestion.
Mr. Jennings’ letter sounded like perfect satire with his bow for commuters (disingenuous, since commuters were the last consideration on the Council’s agenda) and a call for a humongous rocket/bomb display. I seem to remember that the council has made a great fuss about de-emphasizing the bomb business in an effort to promote Read More
Why Today Matters For Women’s History
Women suffragists picketing in 1917 in front of the White House. Courtesy/Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
By PAGE HARRINGTON
Executive Director
Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
One day in 1917, a dozen women gathered in front of the White House to stage a silent protest for women’s right to vote.
Spectators yelled at them, kicked them, and spit on them. They ripped the banners from their hands and threw them onto the ground.
Undaunted, these women brought those tattered banners back to a house across town. They cleaned them — sometimes carefully re-stitching Read More
Expert On Nature Play Visits Los Alamos
Ken Finch portaging a canoe. Courtesy photoPEEC News:
Generations of American children enjoyed outdoor play in wild spaces as a cherished part of growing up, but too many of today’s children are virtually trapped indoors. Veteran environmental educator and national nature play expert Ken Finch will speak at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. He brings an informative and light-hearted perspective of the growing movement to restore nature-based play to childhood. He will also explain how we can help foster it in our own family and Read More
Letter To The Editor: Why Is County Hemorrhaging Money In Lawsuits To Former Employees?
By KHAL SPENCERAs I have said before, and concur once again with Doug Pippin and George Chandler, its long past overdue for our County Council to level with the public on why, exactly, Los Alamos County and our government insurance carrier have been hemorrhaging money in lawsuits to former employees, whether faulty personnel and policy rules or poor administrative decisions (or both) are at fault, and why the public continues to be kept out of the loop on what is OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
I therefore have a modest proposal. All current Councilors standing for re-election, and all those Read More
Los Alamos Jewish Center Hosts Annual Community Passover Seder April 23
LAJC News:
The Los Alamos Jewish Center will hold its annual Community Passover Seder at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. The event is open to anyone interested in attending.
The Seder is a ceremonial dinner filled with rituals designed to celebrate the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. The Seder, which is Hebrew for “order,” ushers in the week of Pesach in which Jews refrain from eating Chametz. The celebration of Passover commemorates the miraculous delivery of the Jews from years of slavery, ultimately culminating in the birth of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, Read More
Angel Investor Paul Singh Hears Local Elevator Pitches
Paul Singh’s custom Airstream outside Unquarked Wine Bar in Central Park Square for the Los Alamos stop of his Tech Tour. Courtesy photoCinema Cindy Reviews ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Hello, My Name is Doris” is the first film in many years to star Sally Field in a leading role.
Her talent, flexibility and grace are the things that make this movie work. Doris Miller may not, however, be a character you can completely get behind. Sure she’s a shy, mousy, invisible accounting clerk, but she is also socially inept.
The movie opens with Doris’ mother’s funeral. Her brother Todd (Stephen Root) and sister-in-law Cynthia emerge at the wake to suggest to Doris that she get some help. It seems mother was a bit of a hoarder and Doris needs to clean out the house Read More
Registration Opens For White Rock Artist Market
Shoppers peruse last year’s Artist Market at the White Rock Visitor Center. Courtesy photo
ART News:
In June, the White Rock Artist Market will begin its 4th consecutive year as a monthly outdoor artist market. Local artists and artisans from Los Alamos, White Rock and the surrounding Northern New Mexico area are invited to participate.
The market is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, June through September
Participants will experience high levels of visitors traveling on the mandatory Bandelier National Monument Shuttle that picks up and drops off Read More
Obituary: Fay Hicken Jarvis Nov. 1, 1917–April 9, 2016
FAY HICKEN JARVIS Nov. 1, 1917–April 9, 2016
Fay Hicken Jarvis was born November 1, 1917 in Provo Utah to Elijah M. Hicken and Erma I. Jensen. Her family resided in Salt Lake City, Utah; Hinckley, Utah; Cowley, Wyo.; and Richmond, Utah where her father served as a seminary instructor and principal, and she later taught elementary school students.
Fay attended LDS Business College then BYU earning a degree in Elementary Education. At BYU, she met George Jarvis and married in the Logan LDS temple in August 1940, a year after her graduation. After his graduation, George and Fay moved to Madison Wisconsin
Daily Postcard: View From Beanfield Mesa
View taken from Beanfield Mesa Sunday. Photo by Robert Beberniss Read More