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LAMC’s New CEO Embraces Community

LAMC CFO Steve Winegeart, right, welcomes new LAMC CEO John Whiteside. Courtesy photo
 

By MARY BETH MAASSEN
LAMC

 
It has been a busy week at Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC). Former CEO Feliciano Jiron was spirited away to manage another LifePoint Health hospital in Arizona and John Whiteside, a veteran healthcare administrator stepped up to manage LAMC and assume the role of interim CEO.

Whiteside most recently served as COO of a two-hospital system in Louisiana that also is part of the LifePoint Health system. As COO of the two facilities, he oversaw daily operations of the hospitals Read More

Stover Meets With Local High-tech Business Community

Sharon Stover, Republican candidate for House Dist. 43 State Representative recently met with members of the Los Alamos high-tech business community to listen to their suggestions on supporting high-tech businesses and start-up ventures in New Mexico. Brian D’Andrea, right, hosted the discussion. The meeting is part of a series of issue-centered discussions Stover is having with district residents to hear their views on the challenges facing New Mexico as well as potential solutions to these challenges. Additional listening sessions will include topics Read More

Community Internship Collaboration Launches 2nd Year

Spring CIC interns with their mentors at the final presentations and program graduation in May at UNM-LA. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Last year a group of local organizations, backed by an investment from Los Alamos National Security, LLC, launched the Community Internship Collaboration (CIC). The goals were to provide meaningful work experiences for students, provide local businesses an intern with a fresh perspective, and to help develop the workforce for our community.

The first year concluded successfully last spring, and the partners have determined the program will continue Read More

Los Alamos Masonic Cornerstone Laying Sunday

MASONIC News:

The community of Los Alamos is invited to witness a Masonic Cornerstone Laying for the new Unitarian Universalist Church Building at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. The Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons, Dennis Anderson, will preside at the ceremony. It is with pleasure that the local Los Alamos Masonic Lodge will join our Grand Master while he performs this ceremony.

Many cornerstones in public buildings across the U.S. and the world have been laid by Freemasons. The cornerstone at the base of the United States Capitol was laid in 1793 by President George Read More

Science On Tap: The Neutrino Yesterday and Today

CREATIVE DISTRICT News:

Science On Tap happens every third Thursday of the month, featuring a new topic each time. This month Keith Rielage will talk about neutrinos. Science On Tap begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at UnQuarked Wine Room, 145 Central Park Square.

Rielage is a neutrino physicist with Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Neutron Science & Technology group, and will share a brief tale of the discovery and study of the neutrino. Los Alamos scientists Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan discovered the neutrino in 1956. During the last 60 years, LANL has Read More

UNM-LA Community Education Offers Classes In Chinese, Interior Design And More

 
UNM-LA News:
 
The Community Education Department at UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) has announces its fall schedule.
 
Perennial favorites such as yoga, digital photography, Spanish, retirement planning and online legal studies are still in the lineup, while classes in modern astrophysics, conversational Chinese, green design and mindfulness make an appearance for the first time.
 
Community Education Program Manager Gabe Baca expressed his excitement about the start of the upcoming semester
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Scenes From 2016 Los Alamos County Rodeo

Bull riding Sunday during the 2016 Los Alamos County Rodeo at Brewer Arema. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
 
The end of successful chute doggin’ Sunday at Brewer Arema. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
 
Not quite out of the gate. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
 
Calf scramble – kids get ribbon off calf’s tail Sunday at Brewer Arema. Photo by Jennifer Bartram  
 
Roping Sunday at Brewer Arema. Photo by Jennifer Bartram 
 
Mr. Weismans farwell prayer Sunday at Brewer Arema. Photo by Jennifer Bartram 
Cowgirl bull
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