Udall, Heinrich Call For Emergency Help To Support Food Bank
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udalland MartinHeinrich called on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to make emergency purchases for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to ensure food banks in New Mexico and across the country are able to help families in need.
TEFAP buys food and makes it available to agencies, such as New Mexico’s Human Services Department, which work with the state’s major food banks to distribute to food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters.
In a letter, Udall, Heinrich and a bipartisan group of 20 other senators urged Vilsack to use Read More
LAMS Art Room Gets Makeover
Volunteers from left, Rex Kilburn, Anna Vargas-Gutierrez, Don Casperson, Morris Pongratz, Joanna Gillespie, Faith Koh and Camile Rousculp helped refurbish the Los Alamos Middle School Art Room. Courtesy photoLAPS News:
The Los Alamos Public School Foundation conducted a classroom makeover project at the Los Alamos Middle School Art Room.
Volunteers joined with Joanna Gillespie, LAPS Foundation Director, in repainting cabinets, painting walls and generally sprucing up the art room.
The art room makeover will continue next Monday and Tuesday morning, Gillespie said, and volunteers Read More
Extend Your Growing Season With PEEC Class
Planting seeds. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Summer is coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean your gardening season has to.
Local certified arborist Laural Hardin will give a basic class at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 for those who have any type of season extending structure and wish to learn how to operate and maintain it for optimum yield.
In this 1.5 hour class, Hardin will discuss important factors such as ideal temperatures, humidity, air exchange and environmental controls. Participants will learn the basics of sanitation and the importance Read More
Award Winning Teen Filmmaker Speaks to Rotary Club
Award-winning filmmaker, 17-year-old Samantha Filer speaks to a meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos on Aug. 6. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comROTARY NEWS:
Samantha Filer, a 17-year-old homeschooled home school student from Jemez Springs, received the Best of Festival Award in the statewide Desert Light Film Festival. She was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos Tuesday, Aug. 6
Filer produced, edited and directed “The Sword of Arundel,” a 56 minute drama with a Lord of the Rings feel. The Rotary Club saw a seven minute version Tuesday, which Read More
How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old Friend
The Neepers say goodbye to beloved elm tree. Courtesy photos
How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old FriendColumn by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.
Our girls called it the Lollypop Tree when we moved into our new (old government) house in 1969.
It stood at least six feet tall on one straight trunk, now a lovely old elm stump two and a half feet in diameter.
The branches on the young tree formed a perfect sphere and stayed that way for years. Miraculously, the tree rounded up after a long spell of single-digit freezes that killed one third of its branches. The wound left a dramatic hole Read More
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‘Salt and Pepper’ on Stage in Taos
Brandon Santos and Silvana Neal perform in ‘Warm Ashes,’ one of seven one-acts that make up ‘Salt and Pepper.’ Courtesy photoStaff Report
“Salt and Pepper,” written by local playwright, Robert F. Benjamin and directed by Jayne Aylesand Kay Peters Johnson, is a collection of short plays that celebrate aging with grace, courage and humor.
The play is on stage this weekend in Taos.
The play had its world premiere June 7 at the Toolshed Theatre in Dixon. The Taos production features the same cast and crew. It will take place at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Read More
Hail Forms 6-Inch Piles in White Rock
Hail drifted into 6-inch tall piles today in the courtyard of a home on Meadow Lane in White Rock. Courtesy photo Read More
Another Storm Pounds White Rock
Hail and heavy rain pounded White Rock today. Photo by Sue Souza
Following today’s downpour, water flowed over the curb at the intersection of Grand Canyon and Meadow Lane in White Rock, but fortunately the storm drains were doing their job. Photo by Sue Souza Read More
Los Alamos Beer Co-op Holds Annual Meeting
Los Alamos Beer Co-op President Micheline Devaurs addresses members during today’s annual meeting at the Posse Lodge. Photo by Kevin Holsapple
During today’s annual meeting of the Los Alamos Beer Co-op at the Posse Lodge, discussion included the plan to seek new members with the goal of opening a brewery in 2014. Join the LA Beer Co-op at www.losalamosbeer.coop. Photo by Kevin Holsapple Read More
State Shuts Doors and Windows on Los Alamos Eateries
New Mexico Environment Department has ordered the large windows lining the front of the Dixie Girl Restaurant to be closed permanently. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comGone are the days of dining in fresh air from open windows and doors at Los Alamos restaurants.
The New Mexico Environment Department issued warnings to the Pajarito Brewpub and Grill and the Dixie Girl Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos for having open windows while serving diners.
“The inspector tapped me on the shoulder at noon Wednesday and held his badge in my face Read More
KRSN Adding FM to Station
The FM equipment for KRSN is being installed and by the end of the day, listeners should be able to tune in to AM 1490 and FM 107.1. Courtesy/Facebook Share
LANL’s Frontiers in Science Lectures Focus on Epigenetics
Cells in the human body contains strands of DNA nearly 10 feet long that look like this and are packed into cellular sacks less than a millionth of an inch in diameter. Courtesy of LANL.Is Behavior Hardwired by DNA or a Product of Environment?
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Karissa Sanbonmatsu, will discuss epigenetics in a series of Frontiers in Science lectures beginning Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque.
The 7 p.m. talk, titled “Nature, Nurture or Neither: The New Science of Epigenetics,” focuses on the age-old question Read More
Help with the Hard Stuff: Managing Student Loans
Help With The Hard Stuff
This column begins a five-part Managing Student Loans series on some things to know and think about in managing student loans.
At this time, student loan debt is the second highest form of consumer debt behind home mortgages and is at the $1.2 trillion dollar mark. Yes, trillion.
Student loans are how many of us got to and through college and some into professional programs and practices. It was almost automatic and usually without much Read More
Evelyn Campbell Wins Tapestry Excellence Award
‘Sandhill Cranes over Pajarito Acres,’ a tapestry by local fiber artist Evelyn Campbell, won the American Tapestry Alliance Award of Excellence. Courtesy photoStaff Report
The American Tapestry Alliance has announced that Evelyn Campbell from Los Alamos received the ATA Award for Excellence in Tapestry for her piece, “Sandhill Cranes over Pajarito Acres.”
Her tapestry was displayed July 26-28 at the “Celebration of Fiber” sponsored by Intermountain Weavers Conference at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo. Campbell’s Read More
Location of Hive Lunch Changed
HIVE News:
The Hive has changed the location of its 11:30 a.m. Brown Bag Lunch today to the White Rock Visitor’s Center on N.M. 4.
Everyone is welcome and being late is not a problem. Read More
‘Next Big Idea Festival’ Exposes Youth to Science, Tech & Engineering Fields
A useful robot showed its stuff during last year’s Next Big Idea event. Courtesy photo
COUNTY News:
For the 5th year, Los Alamos will spotlight the community’s unique and creative heritage with the “Next Big Idea Festival: A Festival of Discovery, Invention and Innovation.”
The free, family friendly event is 11 a.m to 3 p.m., Sept. 14 in downtown Los Alamos. It’s designed to inspire and educate through science, technology, and arts. Likewise, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Student Day, Friday, Sept. 13, may stimulate interest among young people about Read More
Los Alamos Firefighters Train in Elevator Rescue
The special Los Alamos Fire Department High Angle Rescue Team trains every three months. Wednesday the firefighters received training in elevator rescue at the Municipal Building. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Firefighters prepare to repel down the elevator shaft. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.comUdall, Bingaman, McMillan, Hommert Speaking at Tech Transfer Conference
Sen. Tom Udall
STATE News:
SANTA FE ─ U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. will host a conference on ways to help spur innovation and create high-tech jobs and businesses in New Mexico by encouraging technology transfer from the national labs and universities to private entrepreneurs at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 12, in the Jemez Room at Santa Fe Community College.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman
Udall will present the keynote address at 10:40 a.m. at the half-day event and workshop, co-hosted by Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Read More
LANL’s Next 70th Anniversary Lecture Focuses on Little Boy Weaponeer ‘Deak’ Parsons
Little Boy weaponeer William ‘Deak’ Parsons, wartime Los Alamos division leader, is the focus of the Aug. 14, 70th Anniversary lecture at the Bradbury Science Museum. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Former Laboratory historian Roger Meade to talk about life, career, contributions to Lab, the nation by “The Last Commodore”
Los Alamos National Laboratory historian emeritus Roger Meade talks about William S. “Deak” Parsons, one of wartime Los Alamos’ first division leaders and the contributions he made as an ordnance engineer to the success of the Lab — including his role as the Little Read More
