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LAHS NJROTC Holds Spring Awards Ceremony

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Cadet Caden Noakes, right, receives a Naval Science Outstanding Cadet ribbon from Cadet Cmdr. Jacob Torrez during Thursday’s Los Alamos High School NJROTC Spring Awards Ceremony. Courtesy photo

Scene from Los Alamos High School NJROTC Spring Awards Ceremony Thursday evening in the Parish Hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. Courtesy photo

By C/EN Hailey Jackson

The Los Alamos High school NJROTC unit Spring Awards Ceremony Thursday evening at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall recognized and awarded Cadets for unit participation, drill team, marksmanship Read More

Friends Of Los Alamos County Libraries Hosts $5 Book Sale April 28

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LIBRARY News:
 
Not many citizens of Los Alamos County are familiar with a third library in town inside the County Detention Center.
 
But for the few who have had the misfortune of being incarcerated at the Detention Center, the library is a place of distraction, enlightenment and personal improvement.
 
The Lora Belle Cole Library was dedicated Aug. 21, 2010 in memory of the woman who volunteered hundreds of hours, to fulfill the reading needs of the inmates, after she retired from Mesa Public Library in 1983. For 13 years, Cole made books available to inmates as part of the (then
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Scenes From Los Alamos Community Foundation Annual Nonprofit Conference At UNM-LA Today

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Los Alamos Community Foundation President David Izraelevitz with Los Alamos Daily Post Publisher Carol A. Clark, standing at right, and Post Lifestyles Editor Bonnie J. Gordon, seated, as he introduces them prior to their presentation, ‘Harnessing the Power of the Media’ today during the LACF annual Nonprofit Conference at UNM-LA. Photo by Laura Loy

Tony Fox, vice president of Institutional Advancement and Scholarships at the LANL Foundation, which provided funding support for the LACF Annual Conference for Nonprofit organizations speaks to participants at today’s event at Read More

LAPS Healthy Schools Initiative And JJAB Host 2nd Showing Of Screenagers

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LAPS/JJAB News:

he Los Alamos Public Schools’ Healthy Schools Initiative and the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) are excited to bring back the film Screenagers to the community during the first week of May to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month. Screenagers is the first feature documentary to explore the impact of screen technology on kids and to offer parents proven solutions that work.

The public is invited to attend a free screening of the film at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, at UNM-LA Building 2 or at the Los Alamos Middle School gym on Thursday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m. A short discussion Read More

Memorial Service: Betty Coleman Elkleberry April 27

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Betty Lou Coleman Eikleberry

COMMUNITY News:

A Memorial Service is scheduled for Betty Lou Coleman Eikleberry at 11 a.m., April 27 at First Baptist Church in Los Alamos. 

 
Eikleberry, age 87, passed away March 9, 2018 after a long illness. Her last hours were spent comfortably with her daughters and granddaughters, listening to stories and singing along with favorite show tunes, in particular, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma.
 
Betty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, one of five children, on August 2, 1930. Early in her marriage, she and her dear husband, Robert “Bob”
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Nerses ‘Krik’ Krikorian Dies At 97

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Nerses ‘Krik’ Krikorian. Courtesy Atomic Heritage Foundation

Staff Report

Renowned Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist Nerses “Krik” Krikorian died Wednesday at his home in Los Alamos at the age of 97.

He was a refugee from Europe, Manhattan Project veteran, postwar nuclear program worker, chemist and spouse to a Manhattan Project worker.

After World War II, Krikorian was approached to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He arrived Aug. 19, 1946 at 109 East Palace in Santa Fe.

He met his future wife Katherine “Pat” Patterson at Los Alamos.

Read more about Krikorian here and Read More

Bandelier: Free Entrance Launches National Park Week And Art Exhibit Opening At Fire Tower April 21

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Tyuonyi Pueblo in Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, Historic Fire Tower. Courtesy/NPS
 
BANDELIER News:
 
Bandelier announces that entrance fees will not be collected this Saturday, April 21, to kick off National Park Week. 
 
According to Superintendent Jason Lott, “It’s a great time to visit Bandelier before temperatures and visitation rise.” Bandelier provides opportunities for short walks to see archaeological sites, long hikes out into the Bandelier Wilderness, bird watching, taking photos of plants,
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Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center Hosts Fiber Crawl

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Scene from a past New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Courtesy photo
 
Scene from a past New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Courtesy photo
 
 
EVFAC News:
 
The Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center (EVFAC) has partnered with local artists, businesses, and cultural centers to open doors for the public to learn and experience the fiber arts for free 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., May 18-20, in the Second Annual New Mexico Fiber Crawl across northern New Mexico.
 
The event is open to anyone, and with a free 2018 New Mexico Fiber Crawl Passport participants can tour the many local artists’ studios, retail shops,
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