Bingaman Discusses Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Los Alamos Historical Museum Event
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman spoke today at a gathering at the Los Alamos Historical Museum of the importance of establishing a Manhattan Project National Historical Park with sites in Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Hanford, Wash. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., was honored Monday afternoon at a gathering at the Los Alamos Historical Museum for his support of Los Alamos during his 30 years of service in the U.S. Senate.
Los Alamos County Council Chair Sharon Stover presented Bingaman with a plaque of appreciation on behalf of the Council, Read More
Food on the Hill: Grilled Salmon
“Food on the Hill” by Sue York
This week’s recipe…
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Grilled salmon
Fish seasoning:
- Equal parts of — No Salt Cajun Seasoning
- Onion Powder
- Garlic Powder
- — 1/2 part of Mesquite seasoning
- Salmon Filets with skin on
- Spray butter
- Seasoning (above)
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comPolice Halt Jail Fight This Morning
Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
LAPD News:
A fight between inmates broke out this morning at the Los Alamos County Detention Center.
Police officers stepped in and stopped the fight quickly.
Los Alamos Fire Department EMTs were called to the scene and are transporting this 24-year-old inmate to the Los Alamos Medical Center as a precaution.
Medic 3 considers this a non-emergency transport.
The cause of the fight is not readily known.
LAPS Hosts Annual All Hands Breakfast and Meeting
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Superintendent of Schools Gene Schmidt, right, and Los Alamos Board of Education President Kevin Honnell welcome staff and teachers to the annual “All Hands Breakfast and Meeting” Monday morning at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Jim Ivanovich, newly hired principal at Mountain Elementary School greets staff and teachers arriving for breakfast at LAHS. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Tim O’ Leary from the Los Alamos Site Office helps greet teachers and staff at the All Hands Meeting. Photo by Salvador Read More
The Valles Caldera Deserves a Rim Trail
Yvonne Delamater of Los Alamos looks out over the Valles. Courtesy photo
LOS ALAMOS MOUNTAINEERS News:
The Valles Caldera deserves a trail around its rim. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15 in Fuller Lodge, Historian Dorothy Hoard will tell of her 12-year still unfinished odyssey to make the dream a reality.
The resurgent dome of the Valles Caldera is, geologically speaking, very young. Its structure is largely intact.
It is also a small caldera, a mere 13 to 15 miles in diameter, so it is easy the see its bowl-shape depression atop a mountain.
These attributes led a small group of dedicated Read More
UNM-LA Community Education Offers Unique New Classes
By Bonnie J. Gordon
This fall, the UNM-Los Alamos Community Education department kicks off the semester with an interesting set of new course offerings and ambitious plans for expanding the program even more in following semesters.
More than 20 new topics have been added to the schedule of classes, which includes new areas of focus such as:
- “Local History and Culture”
- “Contemporary Arts”
- “Native American Culture”
Class series, in topics such as Science Fiction, will also be debuted in the fall. In addition, the fall schedule previews the new Enrichment Classes Read More
Dance Arts Los Alamos Hosts Dancer’s Resale and Open House; Announces Fall Classes
Photo by Paulo T. Photography
DALA News:
Dance Arts Los Alamos (DALA) will kick off its 2012-2013 year with the Dancer’s Resale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the White Rock Studios at 111 Longview Dr. in White Rock.
An Open House will be held noon to 4 p.m. for families new to DALA, or anyone who has questions about classes or needs assistance with the registration process.
DALA has expanded its class offerings again this year and is offering more than 45 classes at its three studios located in both Los Alamos and White Rock.
DALA is pleased to add Melissa Briggs to the faculty who will Read More
Board of Adjustment Meets Today in Council Chambers
COUNTY News:
A Board of Adjustment meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. today, Aug. 13 in Council Chambers in the Community Building at 20th Street and Central Avenue.
AGENDA:
I. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
II. PUBLIC COMMENT
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
IV. PUBLIC HEARING (Quasi-judicial case)
A. Case No. 12-BOA-015
A request for approval of a fence height waiver to place a 6-ft high chain link fence within the required 25-ft front setback at 2403 Club Road, North Community No. 2, Lot 1, in an R-1-8 (Single Family Residential) zone. Owners/Applicants: Dennis and Opal Lee Gill, owners; Case Manager: Nancy Read More
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 4 to Aug. 8, 2012
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.
Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.
Aug. 4 at 1:27 p.m. / A 28-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that she was the victim of criminal trespass.
DONAVEN VANWIJKWEIJER
Aug. 4 at 11:10 p.m. / Police arrested Donaven Vanwijkweijer, 18, of Los Alamos in the 1400 block of 40th Street and charged him with criminal trespass, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Aug. 4 at 11 p.m. / Police charged Phillip McFerrine, Read More
Fire Hydrant Testing Underway
Los Alamos Firefighters test the water pressure in area fire hydrants Sunday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Off to the next hydrant… Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Betty the Bullfrog Attracts New Parents
ROTARY News:
Betty the bullfrog charmed members of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos so much that the Club has adopted the portly beauty for an entire year beginning Nov. 1. Betty lives at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and is big and round, with a dark colored back and a creamy colored belly. She likes to hide underwater as well as float along the surface. Betty sometimes comes out of the water to bask under a warm lamp. She dines on earthworms, crickets and pinky mice. Courtesy photo
Staff report
Live animals are an important but costly part of the educational mission at the Pajarito Read More
Udall Co-Hosts 57th New Mexico Water Conference
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., will co-host the 57th Annual New Mexico Water Conference Aug. 28 in Las Cruces.Column: ‘Suffer Fools’
Column by Allen Weh
There should never be a time, but particularly now, that Americans should be forced to “Suffer Fools” when it comes to the people who are being paid to serve us.
Yet that is exactly what’s taking place with some currently unidentified staff members in the Obama White House, and their apparently deliberate leaking of classified information for political purposes.
Gratefully, the outcry in Congress has been largely bipartisan … Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence Mike Rogers stated “somebody committed a crime against their country,” and Sen. Dianne Read More
Appreciative Inquiry: Examples at Organizational Level
Column by Elena Yang
The critical first step of Appreciative Inquire (AI) lies in framing the initial question/inquiry. Framing provides the foundation; it sets the tone; it signals the direction.
Today, I will illustrate a couple of examples at the organizational level; next week, I will lay out two examples at the individual level.
The first organizational example is given in the book, “Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the mighty oak in the acorn,” by Tojo Thatchenkery & Carol Metzker.
Delaware Valley Friends School (DVFS) was established in 1986, designed Read More
Heather Wilson Meets with Local Business Community
U.S. Senatorial candidate Heather Wilson shares a lighter moment with Executive Director Kevin Holsapple of the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation and members of the Los Alamos business community during a luncheon Saturday at the Dixie Girl Restaurant on Central Avenue. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos County Council Chair Sharon Stover speaks with U.S. Senatorial candidate Heather Wilson during a lunch meeting with local business people at the Dixie Girl Saturday. Both Wilson and Stover, who is running for County Clerk, marched in Saturday’s Read More
Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse Lodge Makes State Registry
The Los Alamos County Sheriff’s Posse Lodge garnered unanimous approval Friday for placement on the State Register of Cultural Properties. Photo by Sal Zapien/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
Board President Carey Grzadzinski of the Los Alamos County Sheriff’s Posse was beaming with pride following Friday’s meeting before the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee in Santa Fe.
“We couldn’t be happier … we received unanimous approval and the Posse Lodge is now listed on the State Register of Cultural Properties,” Grzadzinski Read More
CONE ZONE: Road Construction for Week of Aug. 13
Public Works Projects:
For more information about the projects listed below, please e-mail lacpw@lacnm.us, call 662-8150, or visit the “Projects” link at www.losalamosnm.us.
School Flasher Testing
The Public Works Traffic Division staff will be testing the school flashers throughout the community on Monday, Aug 13, and Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 in preparation for the beginning of school on Wednesday, August 15, 2012.If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Public Works Department.
Pavement Preservation Program
Crews will be working on Range Road starting Monday, August Read More
Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore July 29 to Aug. 4
Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore the week of July 29 to Aug. 4:
- Curious George Visits the Library, H. A. Rey and Margret Rey
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
- Frindle, Andrew Clements
- No More Monsters for Me! Peggy Parish
- Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold
- Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
- Clifford the Big Red Dog, Normal Birdwell
- Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
- Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
- More Spaghetti, I Say! Rita Golden Gelman
Sam Hagan Performs Wednesday at BESC
LARSO News:
The Los Alamos Retired & Seniors Organization (LARSO) is hosting a wonderful lunch concert for seniors at noon Wednesday, Aug. 15 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center.
Sam Hagan, vocalist from Atlanta will be accompanied by Juantia Madland.
They performed together last year and were quite a hit. Sam is in town to attend the opera and offered to do a concert at the senior center.
Sam Hagan, one of the Southeast’s finest tenors, didn’t actually plan to be a professional singer. Until recently, he was a full-time biology and chemistry teacher at Atlanta Read More
LANB Float Takes Top Prize
2012 FAIR & RODEO PARADE WINNERS:
Los Alamos National Bank’s float won First Place in Saturday’s 2012 Fair & Rodeo parade on Central Avenue. Photo by Katy Korkos
Los Alamos National Bank employees pass out candy to the kids watching the parade. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Shriners garnered second place. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Shriners put on a show for the crowd. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
The Tin Lizzies, complete with period costumed people, won third in the 2012 Los Alamos County Fair & Rodeo Saturday. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com Read More