Adoptees Invited To Free Month Of Special Coaching
LeAnne Parsons won the Audience Choice award at the Los Alamos Venture Accelerator’s (LAVA’s) Elevator Pitch Competition held last September. She is now taking the Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise at the LACDC, and raising funds to produce a video to help adoptees and their families. Visit www.lava.guru to find out about upcoming entrepreneurship events. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
LAVA News:
People who have been adopted may ask themselves practical, yet unanswerable, questions like, ‘What do my birth parents look like?‘ or ‘What kind of diseases Read More
Los Alamos Chamber Of Commerce Manager Nancy Partridge Trains For 2014 Avon Walk For Breast Cancer
Nancy Partridge at the 39-mile mark of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in 2013 in Santa Barbara, Calif. The ‘Every Three Minutes’ ribbon she is wearing represents the statistic that every three minutes, there is a new diagnosis of invasive breast cancer in the United States. Courtesy photo
STAFF REPORT
When Chamber of Commerce Manager Nancy Partridge is not at work, chances are, you’ll see her walking around North Mesa, around Barranca Mesa, around Northern Area, around Western Area, around Downtown and back again.
Partridge is training to walk the 2014 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Read More
Think New Mexico Launches Health Care Affordability Initiative
TNM News:
Think New Mexico is launching a new initiative to make health care more affordable by increasing transparency and ending price discrimination.
These reforms are aimed at making it possible for patients to shop around for the highest quality, most affordable health care by providing price and quality information for common medical procedures on a user-friendly public website, similar to those in fourteen other states (five more states are currently developing them).
In addition, we propose to end the practice of price discrimination, in which patients at the same hospital receiving Read More
Udall, Heinrich Announce More Than $550,000 To Strengthen Markets For New Mexico Produce
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $550,750 in grants to strengthen markets for New Mexico produce by providing tools and resources to help agricultural producers successfully enhance their competitiveness and expand their operations.
The funding is being awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Specialty Block Grant Program, and grants will be administered through the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. The grants are authorized through the 2014 Farm Bill, which Udall and Heinrich strongly Read More
Letter to the Editor: Catch and Release … Fine, If You Are Going Fishing
By KHALIL SPENCERIn a recent letter, Tina Andres indicates she will vote to retain Judge Sheri Raphaelson on the 1st Judicial District. Ms. Andres also referred to my “Catch and Release” editorial a few months back referring, of course, to Judge Raphaelson’s decisions in the matter of a local case that repeatedly came before her, first at trial and later because of a probation violation.
Readers should be aware that criticism of Judge Raphaelson’s performance on the bench go beyond those offered by citizens of Los Alamos who were impacted by a single case. Read More
LAHS Choir’s Pumpkin Patch Opens at 4 p.m. Today!
Los Alamos High School Choirs opens Pumpkin Patch at 4 p.m. today in the Canyon School parking lot. Proceeds benefit the Choir. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
LAHS News:
Enjoy seeking the perfect pumpkin, Selfie Patch, Story Times, Coloring Corner, Trick or Treat on MainStreet activities, Halloweekend Portraits and much more.
The fundraiser for the Chior runs through Oct. 29.
OBITUARY: Gilbert Richard Naranjo Oct. 2, 2014
GILBERT RICHARD NARANJO Oct. 2, 2014
Gilbert Richard Naranjo, 86, beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and friend, passed into the arms of the Lord on October 2, 2014, with his loving family at his side. Gilbert was preceded in death by his devoted wife Helen, parents Ted and Ellen Naranjo and sister Flora Miakos.
Although Gilbert suffered many health conditions throughout the years he always accepted his difficulties courageously and without complaint. He was a strong man of faith and integrity who found joy, humor, and laughter in every day, touching the lives of all Read More
It’s Kick For The Cure Week!
COMMUNITY News:
Kick For The Cure Week runs today through Friday. All three Los Alamos High School Topper Girls Soccer Teams will wear pink jerseys during home games Oct. 6, 7 and 8 for October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and will collect money at the games and again at the Friday, Oct. 10 football game to support the Los Alamos Council on Cancer – a local organization that helps residents with their fight against cancer.
The community is encouraged to come out and support the Toppers and give generously to this important cause.
SCHEDULE:
- Varsity
Yang: Follow-up On ‘Reluctant Leaders’ And ‘Followership’
Follow-up On “Reluctant Leaders” And “Followership”First, a little humor (at someone’s small expense) on how data-driven decisions without context can be colossally stupid. Mr. Ben Bernanke’s recent application for refinancing his D.C. house was turned down. Mr. Bernanke, you recall, was the former chairman of the Federal Reserve. According to the writer of the NY Times article (click here), the cause probably stemmed from Mr. Bernanke’s employment status, which changed from an 11-year salaried position to commission-based income (which includes $250,000 Read More
LAMC Auxiliary Takes Trip With Buffalo Tours
The Los Alamos Medical Center Hospital Auxiliary Board sent members on a fun tour day of the Espanola Valley with Buffalo Tours. It was a much earned reward for all their hours of volunteering. The Hospital Auxiliary has 48 active volunteers working at several different stations throughout LAMC. Photo by Georgia StrickfadenMelissa Bartlett Teaching Acrylics At Karen Wray’s Studio
Melissa Bartlett. Courtesy photo
ART News:
There’s a new class, All About Awesome Acrylics, being offered at Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery and Studio.
“Acrylics paints are awesome,” instructor Melissa Bartlett said. “They are the masters of disguise and Jack of all trades of the art supplies world. You can create a soft wash watercolor or a thick palette knife impasto painting, a mixed media collage or a hand pulled print, all with the same set of acrylic paints.”
Bartlett, a nationally known artist, is offering a six week class for those who wish to learn Read More
Letter to the Editor: Actions On Animal Ordinance Short-Sighted And Harmful To Community
By JODY JONESNM Delegation Welcomes Photonics Manufacturing For DOD Innovation Institute Competition
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham welcomed an announcement by the White House to award more than $200 million in public and private investment to create an Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute, led by the Department of Defense (DoD), and the second of four new institute competitions to be launched this year.
This selection comes just four months after the delegation wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressing their strong support Read More
Letter to the Editor: I Adamantly Do Not Support Charter Being Changed
GERALD SANTOS
Los Alamos
Mr. (George) Chandler, I am not a former utilities board member but I adamantly do not support our charter being changed for the following reason.
Our city government i.e.: the County Council has absolutely no restraint in spending. They are so much like our federal government that it boggles the imagination as to how they can campaign and lie to the people of Los Alamos that they will be fiscally responsible. How can someone claim to be fiscally responsible when they spend our tax dollars like a spoiled teenager with daddy’s credit card. And you want to give then the keys Read More
Autumn Colors At Guaje Pines Cemetery
Autumn colors brighten the landscape Sunday afternoon at Guaje Pines Cemetery. Photo by Mark BjorklundChamber Block Party Celebrates Central Business District
Central Avenue merchants cut the ribbon celebrating the re-opening of Central Avenue Saturday between 15th and 20th streets. The main street of Los Alamos has been closed this summer for improvements. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost
The Los Alamos Hill Stompers entertain the crowd at Saturday’s Central Avenue Block Party. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost
Primo the Pizza Slice from Home Run Pizza does the shimmy with one of the Hill Stompers. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost
Chamber Manager Nancy Partridge welcomes the crowd and introduces theMeet Elise Koskelo Participating In 2014 Los Alamos Artists Studio Tour
Los Alamos artist Elise Koskelo. Courtesy photo
ART News:
This year’s Los Alamos Artists Studio Tour is Oct. 11-12 and the Los Alamos Daily Post is featuring a “Get to Know Your Artist” series leading up to the annual event.
Each of the 16 artists participating in the tour will be showcased prior to the beginning of the tour to allow our readers an opportunity to learn about them and their work.
Meet Los Alamos artist Elise Koskelo:
I am a Los Alamos High School student and owner of a retail business called Blueprint Wraps here in Los Alamos.
My art is rooted in my love of architecture Read More
Red Falls On Diamond Drive
Ristras for sale on Diamond Drive spell fall in Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypostLetter to the Editor: They’re Caught In A 1960’s Time Warp
By GEORGE CHANDLERIf you’re paying attention to the ongoing battle over the utilities charter amendment, Question 2 on the upcoming ballot, you may wonder at the fervor of those who oppose the amendment. All are former members of the utilities board (Wismer calls them Utilities Board Alumni, or UBA), or former managers of the utilities department.
Three Charter Review Committees (1994-1995, 2010-2012, 2013) recognized problems including accountability and liability, ambiguous language, the need for a process of dispute resolution between the council and a too-independent Read More
Adoption Day For Stella At Los Alamos Animal Shelter
Lani and Dan Baha and their children Hayden and Aliza adopted Stella Saturday at the Los Alamos Animal Shelter. They have another Shelter alumni, their dog Lacey, at home. Lacey was named for Lacey, Wash. where the couple met and Stella for Stellacoom. Wash. where they became engaged. The Shelter has new weekend hours: Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 12-3 p.m. at 226 East Road. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com