Huge Yard Sale to Benefit Fire Damaged Church
NBFC News:
The New Beginnings Fellowship Church will hold a benefit yard sale starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 3.
Anything that is donated to the yard sale will be greatly appreciated by the chuch, which suffered heavy fire damage in July.
Donations can be dropped off until noon Friday behind the church at 112 East Road.
“We are hoping for a community-wide response to help the New Beginnings Fellowship Church devastated by fire on the Fourth of July.”
Utilities Board to Hold Special Meeting
DPU News:
The Utilities Board will hold a special meeting at noon, Nov. 1 in the Department of Public Utilities Conference Room, 170 Central Park Square.
AGENDA
Call to Order
II. Public Comment
III. New Business
A. Approval of Change Order No. 2 & Revision of Project Budget for the Los Alamos Canyon Dam Modification Project
IV. Adjournment
DPU Board:
- Chair Glenn Woodwell
- Vice Chair Timothy R. Neal
- Member Kevin Anderson
- Member D. Christopher Ortega
- Member David Powell
- Utilities Manager John Arrowsmith
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Heart Council’s Health Fair Draws Massive Crowd
More than 60 participating vendors from Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico provided educational information, performed free health screenings and handed out freebies such as bags, bookmarks, pens and water bottles at Saturday’s Health Fair. Photo by Ann ReVelle
HEART COUNCIL News:
Los Alamos Youth Participate in English Setter National Dog Show
Event Judge Ronald Horn with Los Alamos Middle School 8th grader Jennifer Necker and Aspen School 6th grader Tazler Smith. The students will participate in the English Setters junior showmanship competition Friday, Nov. 9 in Albuquerque. Courtesy photo
Special to the Los Alamos Daily Post
English Setters Bring Lots of Spots to the Albuquerque Spotlight
The English Setter Association of America will hold its National Specialty Nov. 6-9 at the Marriott Pyramid North, 5151 San Francisco Road NE., in Albuquerque, finishing up the week with a Hunt Test Saturday, Nov. 10 at Founders Ranchin Read More
Los Alamos Co-op Expands Sustainability Programs
Co-op board members, Gale Zander Barlow and Nancy Savoia display the Terracycle Bin at a Gordon’s Concert this summer. The artistic styling was created by Marshall Jansen. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
The Los Alamos Cooperative Market launched three green programs this summer.
Two Terracycle bins now greet shoppers at the entrance to the Co-op. Sandra West, Community Outreach at the Co-op Market, credited Gloria Brehm for suggesting the Terracycle Program.
“When I was president of Pinon Elementary PTO, I implemented this program within the school Read More
Presentation: Financial Incentives for Historic Preservation
Courtesy/NMHPD
COUNTY News:
Residents who either own historic property or who may be considering securing a historic listing for their property are invited to attend a special presentation next week being sponsored by the Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Advisory Board (FL/HDAB.)
Harvey Kaplan from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division will present a slide show and talk focusing on “Financial Incentives for Historic Preservation” 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 in the Training Room of the Community Building, 475 20th St.
Kaplan will provide information about the Division’s financial Read More
Free Money Opportunities at SBDC Fair
SBDC News:
Ever wonder if there is FREE MONEY available in Los Alamos? Well you are in luck, there is! Come to the Free Money Fair at 2 p.m., Nov. 7 and learn about the opportunities available and whether they are a fit for your business.
There will be multiple presenters at the fair discussing the MainStreet Curb Appeal Grant, MainStreet Small Promotions Grant, Tourism Cooperative Advertising, Los Alamos County Small LEDA Project Grants, Los Alamos County Façade Improvement Grants, Lodgers Tax Advisory Board Small Promotions Grant and Pop-Up Retail Opportunities.
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Nov. 4 Cowboy Breakfast Aids MOWW
Making the Arts Accessible to People with Dementia
LIBRARY News:
Meet Me at Mesa – Making the Arts Accessible to People with Dementia
As director of the Betty Ehart Senior Center and as a music therapist, Pauline Schneider sees both the difficulties dementia sufferers and their caregivers face daily and also how music and the arts can help people connect and enjoy the arts’ beauty and energizing effects.
“I have worked with people in all phases of dementia and even those who seem to have stopped relating to the world around them remarkably respond to music. One person, who hadn’t spoken for quite some time, began to sing along Read More
Our Lady of the Woods to Host Two Events
OLW News:Heart Smart Poster Contest Winners Named
FAMILY YMCA News:
The Family YMCA and Los Alamos Heart Council co-sponsored a Heart Smart Poster Contest for children in grades K-6th.
Posters were judged on originality and healthy message depicted and winning posters were displayed at the Los Alamos Health Fair.
The following students won prizes for their posters:
K-3rd grade
1st Place-Heidi and Wendy Sheppard
2nd Place-Sarah Taylor
3rd Place-Ryan Worley
4th Place-John Worley
4th-6th grade
1st place- Sarah Worley
2nd place-Eliana Rodriguez
3rd place-Paulina Burnside
4th place- Maarla Duffield
Chaparral Prescribed Burn Planned Today
SFNF News:
The Santa Fe National Forest plans to begin the Chaparral prescribed burn Monday, Oct. 29, two miles south of the Rancho del Chaparral Girl Scout Camp.
Aerial ignitions are planned to assist with treating approximately 1,365 acres over a three-day period.
This controlled burn may produce some visible/noticeable smoke in our area depending upon wind and atmospheric conditions.
Smoke will be visible from Gillman, Jemez Pueblo, Jemez Springs, Cuba, Rio Rancho and Albuquerque.
Smoke from prescribed fire can be a nuisance to some people and a health concern for others, such as children, Read More
Football Game Canceled
LAHS News:
The C team football game for today has been canceled.
Capital does not have enough players to play. Read More
‘Deadliest Day’ for Child Pedestrian Fatalities
STATE FARM News:
Two Decades of Data Reveal Risks Beyond the Candy
Kids have a greater chance of being fatally injured by a car on Halloween than any other day of the year, including the Fourth of July and New Year’s Day.
State Farm®, the nation’s leading auto insurer, teamed up with research expert, Bert Sperling of Sperling’s BestPlaces, to better understand the risk kids face as they take to the streets in search of treats.
Sperling’s BestPlaces analyzed more than four million records in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) from 1990 – 2010 for children 0-18 years of age on Oct. Read More
Letter to the Editor: Attack Ads
By Khalil J SpencerIf Citizens United is not overturned or modified, the County is going to have to send us larger recycling and garbage bins at election season to handle the third-party PAC attack ads in our mailboxes.
In local races, we have to see each other on the street the next morning. PACs, on
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Oct. 18 to Oct. 24, 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.
Oct. 18 at 1:04 a.m. / A 31-year-old Fort Hancock, Texas man reported that he was battered in the 2400 block of Trinity Drive.
HERMAN NANEZ
Oct. 18 at 1:16 a.m. / Police arrested Herman Nanez, 46, of Amarillo, Texas in the 2400 block of Trinity Drive and charged him with battery and for an outstanding warrant.
Oct. 18 at 1:23 p.m. / A 51-year-old El Paso woman reported that she was the victim of Read More
Column: Management of Power – The Slytherins Have Won
Column By Elena Yang
Management of Power: the Slytherins have won
In the last entry, I noted that those who craved extreme power seemed to be one dimensional in their evilness and their use of power was inevitably unidirectional.
This doesn’t happen very often in real life – thank goodness – and probably even less likely in organizations, one hopes.
However, in modern organizations, most managers with a lot of power rather resemble those described for the Slytherin House members in Harry Potter books; by that I mean most managers, especially at the top levels, make their way (acquiring Read More
Bingaman and Udall Endorse Stephanie Garcia Richard
JEFF BINGAMAN
ELECTION 2012 News:
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall were in full support this weekend as they both announced endorsements of Stephanie Garcia Richard for House District 43.
“You have a lot of great candidates before you this election, but none more committed to the residents of HD43 than my friend, and your Democratic House candidate, Stephanie Garcia Richard,” Bingaman said in a news release. “I know Stephanie, I know she will work hard to provide tax relief to working families, bring jobs back to the district, and improve education.”
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Letter to the Editor: Rotary Expresses Gratitude
By Linda Hull, presidentThe Rotary Club of Los Alamos would like to thank the community for its generous support of our recent flower bulbs fund-raiser to support our annual end-of-year financial awards to Los Alamos High School seniors.
Through the hard work of a dedicated Club committee and the interest of our many customers, we also collected numerous donations of bulbs purchased for the new LAHS Memorial Garden, which is being designed and built through collaborations among our Rotary Club, Los Alamos Public Schools, Oasis Landscape, and Los Alamos Landscaping. Read More
Rinard Wins Embroiderer’s Gold Thread Award
CAROLE RINARD. Courtesy photo
EGA News:
Santa Fe Enchantment, the 2012 national seminar of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, will bring more than 600 needlework enthusiasts from across the country to Buffalo Thunder Resort in Pojoaque from Oct. 28 through Nov. 2.
Participants will attend classes in all facets of needle arts. Members of the local Pajarito Chapter of EGA are excited to have the opportunity to study with noted teachers without having to travel a long distance.
While registration for the seminar is now closed, the public is invited to come to Buffalo Thunder during that