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Santa Fe Animal Shelter Launches ‘Name Your Own Price’ Adoption Event To Ease Animal Overcrowding

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SFAS News:

Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society (SFAS) is hosting a “Name Your Own Price” adoption event to help alleviate the already overcrowded shelter.

The promotion, which runs the entire month of January, allows people looking to bring home a new pet to name the price they want to pay for the adoption.

Beginning a new year at over-capacity conditions is not ideal, and new strategies are being implemented daily to provide the best care for the animals, SFAS Public Relations Officer Murad Kirdar said.

“We are putting out an urgent call to find homes for over a hundred dogs and to encourage Read More

Los Alamos Light Opera Seeks Volunteers To Build Set For ‘Matilda, The Musical’ At Duane Smith Auditorium

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LALO News:

The Los Alamos Light Opera (LALO) needs the community’s help! LALO is seeking volunteers to help build the “Matilda, the Musical” set.

Volunteers should report to Duane Smith Auditorium at any of the initial build days/times:

  • 5-9 p.m. Friday, Jan 6;
  • 11-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan 7; and
  • 11-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan 8.

Set Lead is Brad Gregory. Director is Wendy Lanchier.

Especially needed are painters, artists and a couple of carpenters. Please arrive in work clothes and bring gloves if you have them. The workshop is COLD, so dress appropriately.

Want to help? Have Questions? Contact lead set builder Read More

Dew Paws Rescue Seeks Adoptions For 11 Puppies

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Dew Paws Rescue is a foster-based rescue that pulls dogs and cats from high-kill shelters, removes them from situations of abuse or neglect, and accepts owner surrenders when able. Dew Paws Rescue is passionate about giving every animal a chance. Please email infodewpaws@gmail.com if interested in fostering or adopting. Dew Paws Rescue is based out of Santa Fe. Courtesy/Dew Paws Rescue Read More

Death Announcement: Juan ‘Rob’ Baldonado Has Died

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Death Announcement:

Juan “Rob” Baldonado, 53, passed away peacefully Dec. 9, 2022, at home in Los Alamos, N.M. Cremation has taken place.

An obituary will be published at a later time regarding details of a memorial and burial to be held at Guaje Pines Cemetery in Los Alamos in warmer weather.

The community is invited to post condolences, stories and pictures of Rob Baldonado’s life at www.riverafamilyfuneralhome.com. Read More

Los Alamos Prepares For Limelight With Release Of ‘Oppenheimer’

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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer during a scene filmed in Los Alamos for ‘Oppenheimer’. Courtesy image

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

This past March Hollywood paid a visit to Los Alamos. Director Christopher Nolan and his cast of A-list movie stars shot scenes for their movie “Oppenheimer” at several locations around town. 

The second trailer for the movie has been released and the movie is scheduled to hit theaters July 21.

In preparation of Los Alamos and its history being cast in a global limelight, Los Alamos County, Los Alamos Commerce and Development Read More

New Acting MAPR-Los Alamos Site Manager Announced

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Mary Scales

MAPR-Los Alamos News:

Mary Scales has accepted a temporary detail as Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR-Los Alamos) Site Manager. She will serve in this position for 120 days ending April 30, 2023.

Scales has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology/archaeology, and a master’s in historic preservation. To this position, she brings five years of federal service and professional knowledge in cultural resource management, project management, and Cold War Era site management.

She previously worked in the cultural landscape group in the Southeast Regional Office of Read More

SFCC Opens Applications For Free Weekend PROTEC Film & TV Production Assistant Training To Begin Feb. 11

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SFCC film students. Courtesy/SFCC

SFCC News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) in partnership with Santa Fe County, Stagecoach Foundation, Inc., and Santa Fe Film Office announce applications are open for a free training program to become a film and television production assistant.

Qualified applicants will get up to 160 hours paid work experience.

The Professional Readiness for Technical Careers (PROTEC) program will run on weekends and begins Saturday, Feb. 11 and continues through Sunday, Feb. 26 at Santa Fe Community College. Applications are due Jan. 31. More information Read More

Experience Silver City’s 2023 Chocolate Fantasia

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Mimbres Region Arts Council News:

SILVER CITY — The Mimbres Region Arts Council presents Chocolate Fantasia 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. This event is coming back with some changes that will keep public health a priority, and create a new experience for the community and business owners.

All the chocolates will be served at one main downtown site called The Chocolate Factory at The Hub Plaza, 601 N. Bullard St. This will allow quality and health standards to be more efficiently monitored.  

There will be a new fun activity called “The Golden Ticket”. Businesses will have chocolate Read More

Siegfried Hecker To Lecture In Duane Smith Auditorium

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Siegfried Hecker. Courtesy/Minesh Bacrania

LAHS News:

“How did North Korea, one of the poorest and most isolated countries in the world, in the crosshairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years, progress from no nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of 30 to 60 weapons today?”

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Siegfried Hecker will address that question and others when he speaks about his forthcoming book written with Elliot Serbin, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program, at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 in Duane Smith Auditorium .

Dr. Hecker’s Read More