Business

With renovations making way for a new private dining/meeting room at the Dixie Girl Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos, Mark Hartman, right, of Mark The Electrician Inc., removed the 10 chandelier wall sconces lining the Quark Room at the former Central Avenue Grill June 19. Ken Nebel of Fuller Lodge Art Center assists in removing the large ceiling chandelier. Bonnie Gordon observes the operation from ground level. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Chandelier wall sconces rest on the bar after all 10 were removed from the walls of the former Quark Room. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Co-owner Tina Martinez awaits the lunchtime crowd at her “David’s Dogs” hot dog stand on Central Avenue across from the Municipal Complex construction project. She and her husband, David Martinez, set up the mobile restaurant in the parking lot in front of their primary business, “David’s Old Fashioned Barbershop.” Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Diners eat David’s Dogs hot dogs Thursday at an outdoor table set up on the sidewalk in front of David’s Old Fashioned Barber Shop on Central Avenue. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Travis Weaver of White Rock and his family won Metzger’s $1,000 spring shopping giveaway  during a drawing Tuesday at the store at 128 State Road 4. Store Manager Dan Saxton said the store will host another drawing for a $1,000 fall shopping giveaway in December. “When a customer comes into the store while the Spring and Fall Merchandise book is active, they fill out an entry form and put it in the box, no purchase necessary,” he said. The White Rock Metzger’s store is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week and now sells major appliances from the Whirlpool family of Read More

From left, Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce staff including Amber Jimerson, Claire Roybal, Member Services Coordinator Katy Korkos, Los Alamos Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider, Architect Steve Shaw and Rashaud Archuleta of the Chamber were among a variety of community members invited to taste lunch menu selections and provide feedback to management at the Dixie Girl Restaurant today. The highly anticipated opening to the public of the new restaurant on Central Avenue is set for Tuesday. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Dixie Girl Owner Denise Lane discusses today’s test Read More

1. The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
3. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
4. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
5. The Green Chile Bible, Albuquerque Tribune
6. Survival under Atomic Attack, US Government
7. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
8. 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
9. Inside Box 1663, Eleanor Jette
10. Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area, Northern New Mexico Sierra Club*

Design Your Biggest Dream

What is your biggest dream? Build it for Uli’s Annual Lego Design Competition…

Entries will be accepted Saturday July 14 through Monday July 16, during regular store hours.

Judging takes place Tuesday July 17. 

The Awards and Play Day is Thursday, July 19. 

Uli’s Los Alamos is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8  p.m., Thursdays and noon to 4 p.m., Sundays.

Call 662-4558 for more information.

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Photo: Business Advisor Katie Stavert at the UNM-LA Small Business Development Center Thursday afternoon. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By Carol A. Clark

She went away to college to study accounting and last spring, Katie Stavert returned home and is helping business people through her work as a business advisor at the UNM-LA Small Business Development Center in downtown Los Alamos.

“Meeting people and helping them is so great,” she said. “A business is a living, breathing thing that must be nurtured and my clients are all very busy running their own businesses Read More