Community

Rotary Club Hears Funding Needs, Honors Student

At the April 17 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, six regional organizations make short presentations about their recent initiatives and funding needs. Of the six finalists, four will be selected to receive $500 each from the Rotary Club. Back row from left, Lisa Zuhn (Juvenile Justice Advisory Board), Pauline Schneider (Los Alamos Retired and Senior Organization), Beverly Post (Rio Arriba Adult Literacy Program), James Barber and Eddie Crain (Healing America’s Heroes) and Ben Sandoval (YMCA/Espanola Teen Center). Front row from left, Laura Loy (Rotary president), Andre Read More

NNMCAB Discusses Recommendations For DOE On Energy Communities Alliance Waste Disposition Report

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board combined committee members meeting in Pojoaque April 18 discussed their proposed recommendations to the Department of Energy on the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) report on waste disposition to the Department of Energy (DOE).

NNMCAB member Dr. Stanley Riveles confirmed Sunday that he drafted the recommendations on the ECA repost, “Waste Management: A New Approach to DOE’s Waste Management Must Be Pursued” at the request of a NNMCAB subcommittee. He said the recommendations Read More

Northern Holds Heritage Arts Show & Reception

 

NNMC News: 

 

Northern New Mexico College is holding a Heritage Arts Show to highlight the work of continuing education students on Wednesday, April 26 and Thursday, April 27 at the Nick Salazar Center for the Arts in Española.

 

The show will be preceded by a reception 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 where community members can meet Northern’s student artists.

 

The art show will feature Spanish Colonial Furniture, Fiber Arts, and Retablos/Bultos created as part of Northern’s continuing education courses in heritage arts.

 

SPANISH COLONIAL FURNITURE
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Community Invited To Duane Smith Auditorium Re-Opening Ceremony 6 P.M. Thursday

The community is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially re-open the Duane W. Smith Auditorium at 6 p.m., Thursday at 1300 Diamond Dr. Courtesy/LAPS

The newly improved Duane W. Smith Auditorium. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

The community is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially re-open the Duane W. Smith Auditorium at 6 p.m., Thursday at 1300 Diamond Dr.

Light refreshments will follow the brief ceremony.

The Duane Smith Auditorium, originally called the Civic Auditorium, was built in 1950. It stood as the main facility in which local organizations could host plays Read More

8th Annual Run For Her Life 5K And 10K Results

Run For Her Life News:

 

Sunday’s 8th Annual Run For Her Life 5K and 10K Races sponsored by the Los Alamos Chapter of Hadassah began at East Park in Los Alamos.
 
Donald Gleason was the overall winner of the 5K distance recording a 32:20 and the first female was Laura Loy with a 32:50.
 
In the 10K race Lynn Bjorklund was the top finisher coming in at 49:28 and her brother Mark Bjorklund was the best male finisher recording a 50:19.
 

8th Annual Run For Her Life 5K and 10K Race Results:

Men 5K,19 and under

1. 34:11, Benjamin Peterson, Los Alamos

Men 5K, 40-49

1. 36:04, Argust KeKsis,

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Daily Postcard: Broad-tailed Hummer At Bandelier

Daily Postcard: A male Broad-tailed Hummingbird spotted at Bandelier National Monument. 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Bandelier joins others in celebrating the importance of birds in the world. Bandelier’s bird of the month for April 2018 is the Broad-tailed Hummingbird. Photo by Sally King Read More

Los Alamos Concert Association Presents Pianist Garrick Ohlsson In Newly Expanded Smith Auditorium

Garrick Ohlsson performs 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo

 

LACA News:

Distinguished American pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6 in the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos. Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, he will play works by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert.

Ohlsson remains the only American to have won Warsaw’s prestigious International Chopin Competition. His gold medal performance in 1970 launched a career that takes him to great concert halls around the globe.

A native of White Plains, NY, Ohlsson studied Read More

The Edge Effect Art Installation Opens At Bandelier

The Edge Effect: re-Imagining the East Jemez Landscape is now open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through May 6 in the Historic Fire Lookout Tower at Bandelier National Monument. The installation is by artists Kathleen Brennan and Shawn Skabelund. Photo by Kathleen Brennan
 
PEEC News:
 
The Edge Effect: re-Imagining the East Jemez Landscape is now open inside the Historic Fire Lookout Tower at Bandelier National Monument. The art exhibition will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through May 6.
 
Kathleen Brennan and Shawn Skabelund are the artists behind The Edge
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Scenes From PEEC 2018 Earth Day Festivities

Scene from Saturday’s Earth Day festivities at Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

Scene from Saturday’s Earth Day festivities at Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

Land of Enchantment Wildlife Foundation Chair James Robinson who also is a candidate for Los alamos County Council, holds an owl at Saturday’s Earth Day festivities at Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

Scene from Saturday’s Earth Day festivities at Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo Read More