Celebrate The Seasons At Fire And Ice Restoration Festival
SW Jemez Mnts Landscape Restoration Project. Courtesy/SFNF
SFNF News:
SANTA FE – The Santa Fe National Forest’s Jemez Ranger District and the Village of Jemez Springs will host the Fire and Ice Restoration Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 28 at the Father Fitzgerald Park in Jemez Springs.
This free community event will feature educational booths and presentations that highlight the 210,000-acre Southwest Jemez Mountains Landscape Restoration Project. Special guests include Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl.
Activities scheduled throughout the day include a chain saw carving Read More
Help Recognize Those Who Strive For Student Achievement
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools Board invites the community to nominate a deserving person for the “Excellence For Student Achievement Award.”
Los Alamos Public Schools will choose a recipient through an open nomination process. The nominee should be a person in the Los Alamos School District who has made a significant difference to student achievement during 2014.
Nomination applications are available on the school district website or contact a school board member or the district office at 505.663.2230.
To be considered for this award, the nomination must be returned to Read More
Los Alamos Engineering Council Engineer Week Dinner
Prof. Cleve Moler
LAEC News:
This year’s Los Alamos Engineering Council dinner will feature Prof. Cleve Moler, chief mathematician, chairman and cofounder of MathWorks, which got its start in New Mexico.
The event is Wednesday, Feb. 25 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center and includes:
- Social Time: 5:30 p.m.;
- Dinner: 6 p.m.; and
- Lecture: 6:40-7:30 p.m.
Abstract: MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide, including many at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Read More
Pegg: Beginning Weight Training
By Kent PeggWhether you’re trying to rehabilitate an injury, build your bone density, lose weight, or increase your functional strength, weight training should be an essential component of your exercise routine. If you’re just starting out, consider checking with your physician, especially if you have any medical concerns, and then get started.
You’ll want to start slow. Begin performing one or two exercises for each body part and start with two sets of 12 repetitions for each exercise. Once you’ve gotten the feel for the different exercises for various body parts, and after developing Read More
USDA Announces Funding For Renewable Energy Projects
Geothermal heating and cooling equipment being installed by the Central Valley Electric Cooperative in Artesia. The equipment was partially paid for by the REAP program. Courtesy/USDA
USDA News:
- REAP Program Reduces Energy Costs for 47 Ag Producers and Small Rural Businesses in NM Since 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that rural agricultural producers and small business owners can now apply for resources to purchase and install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements.
These efforts help farmers, ranchers and other Read More
‘Bathtub Row Brewing’ In Los Alamos Becomes Fourth Beer Co-op In United States
LABC News:
After a six-month process, the Los Alamos Beer Coop (LABC) announced today that it has received its brewer’s license from the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, officially making Los Alamos’ first and only brewery the fourth cooperative-owned brewery in the United States.
The LABC’s brewery will be called “Bathtub Row Brewing” – a reference to the city’s historic Bathtub Row, named during the Manhattan Project era since the buildings on that street were the only ones that contained bathtubs.
“The state licensing employees were incredibly helpful with guidance and Read More
Los Alamos Historical Society Offering Overnight Tour To Trinity Site
Trinity Site tour. Courtesy/LAHS
LA HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
On July 16, 1945, the first man-made nuclear explosion was detonated in the pre-dawn darkness in the high desert ranchland about 30 miles southeast of Socorro. This year marks the 70th anniversary of that event, and the Los Alamos Historical Society is offering a special guided tour to the site.
For the first time, the Trinity Tour includes an expanded two-day, one night experience via the Alamogordo southern approach through the seldom seen interior of White Sands Missile Range. Departure from Trinity Site will be out of Read More
OBITUARY: Robert D. Hamblet Feb. 6, 2015
ROBERT D. HAMBLET Feb. 6, 2015
Robert D. Hamblet, 81, a resident of White Rock, suddenly passed away on Friday, February 6, 2015. He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Frances Hamblet.
Robert was a loving son and brother. His main passion was a participant for the Shrine Club, Lions Club, NRA, Air Force Veterans Society. When Robert wasn’t extremely busy with all the meetings for the various clubs he had to attend, he enjoyed the outdoors on his 4-wheeler. Robert also loved hunting and fishing. He will be dearly missed by all those who knew and loved him.
Robert is Read More
Prescribed Burn Planned On Santa Fe National Forest
SFNF News:
SANTA FE – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest plan to continue the Gallinas Watershed prescribed burns on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District this week.
The burns are planned through March 31, if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable.
The Gallinas Watershed prescribed burn is 1,000 acres, 20 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Prescribed fires are one of the most effective tools available to resource managers for restoring fire-dependent ecosystems. These fires mimic natural fires by reducing forest Read More
Sunday’s 5th Annual Music Marathon Raises Record Amount For UNM-LA Scholarship Fund
Performances flowed for eight hours at Sunday’s fifth annual Music Marathon at UNM-LA. Photo by Rick Wallace
Sopahn Kellogg, right, has performed every year since the onset of UNM-LA’s Music Marathon and this year she invited her long time friend Astrid Hengartner to join her. With guitar and ukelele in hand, they delighted the crowd while performing Rip Tide. Photo by Rick Wallace
The UNM-LA great room was The place to be Sunday afternoon. For eight hours, 47 performers entertained a generous Read More
PEEC’s Fun And Educational After School Program Introduces Geology And Minerals To Kids
Kids can learn about geology and minerals in a program at PEEC. Courtesy/PEECPEEC News:
Are you looking for something fun and educational for your school-aged child? Look no further than PEEC’s Introduction to Geology and Minerals, a two-part after school program on Wednesday afternoons.
Popular presenter and geologist Patrick Rowe will tailor the workshop to kids, so that they can explore the topic in a fun and hands-on manner. The classes are 1-3 p.m. Feb. 18 and 25 at PEEC. Parents can sign their children up for one or both sessions.
During the first session Feb. 18, Rowe will describe the three Read More
Upcoming Love & Logic Class For Parents Of Teens
This Week At The Reel Deal
This Friday we are opening the much anticipated 50 Shades of Grey and Kingsman. We will hold The Spongebob Movie and Seventh Son for another week. American Sniper and The imitation Game will end this Thursday.
Movie poster for ’50 Shades of Grey.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
Fifty Shades of Grey: We are opening this film a day early for a special screening at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12. Tickets are on sale now at our Box Office every day during normal operating hours.
E.L. James’ kinky best-seller gets the big screen treatment Read More
Letter to the Editor: Disturbed By Low Vaccination Compliance
By BRUCE BLEVINSI am a Los Alamos native (from 1951) and a lifelong New Mexican. I was always proud to have been born and raised in Los Alamos. I can recall getting the polio vaccine on the sugar cubes at Pueblo school many, many years ago and how everyone was supportive of that prevention effort.
Now I find that Los Alamos, Taos and Santa Fe counties have become the lowest vaccine compliance counties in the state. How is it that these citizens have become so ignorant and non-scientific.
Dona Ana County now seems, in my estimation, way smarter in general than these Read More
Community’s Support Needed To Aid With New Born’s Medical Expenses
COMMUNITY News:
Johnathan and Rhiana Guise’s infant son, Ryder, needs the community’s support.
Ryder was born Jan. 21 and suffered from a series of medical complications immediately after birth including developing pneumonia and contracting the flu, and further complications from his breathing treatment that caused leakage of air from his lungs into his chest cavity. Ryder was airlifted to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque and was treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for 10 days.
Ryder is now home but continues to be on oxygen and requires home health care.
To help the Guise family Read More
Scouts Test Skills At 2015 Klondike Derby
Boys Scouts of America Troop 98 in Taos. Courtesy photo
SCOUTING News:
The Annual Klondike 2015 derby is Saturday at the Elliott Barker Girl Scout Camp in Angel Fire. The Boys Scouts of America (BSA) Troop 98 of Taos will host the race.
In the late 1890s, gold prospectors traveled the frigid reaches of Alaska and Canada by dog sleds to reach the gold fields of the Klondike. They braved all kinds of winter weather and hardships and therefore needed great survival skills. Boy Scouts recreate this awesome trek using their heads, scouting skills and team work. Scouts build their own sleds, pulled by scouts, Read More
LAMS Early Dismissal Feb. 26 For State Speech Debate Tournament
Courtesy image/NS&DA
LAPS News:
The State Speech/Debate tournament will be hosted by Los Alamos High School and Los Alamos Middle School Thursday, Feb. 26. There will be approximately 350 students, along with their coaches and chaperones, arriving at LAMS that afternoon.
To accommodate the facility needs associated with this tournament, LAMS students will be dismissed at 1 p.m., that day in order to utilize LAMS for the registration of participants and for State Speech and Debate competitions in the afternoon and evening.
Because it is the first day of the tournament, registration Read More
Food on the Hill: Spinach Balls
Food on the Hill“Knife and Fork,” “Sip and Sup,” “Circle Supper” – all names for monthly dinner parties organized by a volunteer coordinator at the church who randomly mixes and re-mixes couples and singles into groups of 8-10. We meet at a different residence on the first Sunday evening of each month. The hosts provide beverages and appetizers; each of the other participants brings one of the other courses: entrée, bread or starch, vegetable or salad, dessert. These are invariably delightful evenings in which we get to know one another in a deeper, more personal
Sierra Club Hosts Citizen Lobby Training Wednesday
SCRGCSierra Club Rio Grande Chapter (SCRGC) will offer lobbying trainings 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday during its Lands, Water and Wildlife Day at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.
Citizens who would like to learn how to make their voice heard at the New Mexico Legislature can join the free trainings at the Sierra Club table near the Rotunda and trainers will help them identify their own legislators and the best ways to find and speak to them at the Roundhouse.
For training times and other details, RSVP to Diane Reese at DianeAbqNM@gmail.com.
Lands, Water and Wildlife Lobby Day at the Read More
Education Reforms At Center Of Discussion Feb. 28
Anthony Cody
EDUCATION News:
SANTA FE—New Mexico school reforms will be the center of discussion during the Education Powerhouse 2015 conference 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 28 at the National Education Association (NEA) facility, 2007 Botulph Road in Santa Fe.
Anthony Cody, co-founder of the national Network for Public Education, author and veteran teacher will speak at the conference. Cody, author of The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation, and host of Living in Dialogue, a national education blog, is a 24-year teaching veteran. Read More