Scenes From PEEC’s Earth Day Festival

Submitted by Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin)
on April 22, 2023
- 7:44 pm

A crowd checks out the various booths and activities featured during today’s Earth Day Festival at the Nature Center. The Pajarito Environmental Education Center hosted the event while Enterprise Band & Trust sponsored the entertainment. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Zero Waste Team Member Sue Barnes shows off her fashion skills as well as her ability to reduce waste with a hat she created from materials that likely would have been tossed in a landfill. Barnes also volunteered during PEEC’s Earth Day Festival today at the Nature Center. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Atomic City Transit (ACT) PM Dispatcher Stephanie Conrad welcomes visitors to come check out one of ACT’s buses and get a reusable bag during the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

From left, PEEC Operations Manager Beth Cortright, Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities Water and Energy Conservation Coordinator Abbey Hayward, PEEC Executive Director Jillian Rubio, County Council Chair Denise Derkacs and Los Alamos County Sustainability Angelica Gurule hold up the County proclamation for Earth Day. Derkacs read the proclamation during PEEC’s Earth Day Festival today at the Nature Center. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos County Library System Youth Services Supervisor Melissa Mackey takes part in the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Steph Hagelberg sells her hand-made tie-dye apparel during today’s Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

From left, Sarah Hodzic and Susan Swartz of Wild Birds Unlimited participate in the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

From left, Los Alamos County Senior Deputy Clerk Tori Montoya and Deputy Clerk Allison Collins educate the public about voter registration and upcoming election dates during the Earth Day Festival. They remind the community of important dates for 2023 regular local elections: Aug. 29 is candidate filing day, Sept. 5 is write-in candidate filing day, Oct. 10 kicks off absentee by mail and early voting, Nov. 2 is the final day to apply for an absentee ballot, Nov. 4 is the final day for early voting and Nov. 7 is Election Day. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) Vice Chair Anna Llobet celebrates Earth Day today, which also is Oppenheimer’s birthday. In addition to taking part in the Earth Day Festival, JROMC will be hosting its lecture June 19 at Duane Smith Auditorium. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and members of the American Chemical Society, which includes Raul Gonzales, far left, Ashleigh Chov, Donivan Porterfield and Babs Marrone, showcase algae at their booth at the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos County Department of Energy staff, including Water and Energy Conservation Coordinator Abbey Hayward, left, and Public Relations Manager Cathy D’Anna, chat with the public during the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Bee City Los Alamos members Jenny Banh, left, and Ashley Sanders-Jackson offer native plants and wildflower seeds to participants at the Earth Day Festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com