Chris Clark

Mountain Students Get Into Nature During Field Trip

May 9, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Mountain Elementary School second graders on a field trip Thursday to the Los Alamos County Nature Center. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net

Mountain second graders learn about ways rock formations change. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net

The students take a closer look at rocks that form the local landscape. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net

Mountain second graders make the descent to see more rock formations during their field trip to the Nature Center. Photo by KayLinda

Kiwanis: Community Donates Hundreds Of Books

May 9, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Kiwanis member Kristy Ortega surveys just a few of the hundreds of books donated by pancake breakfast diners. Photo by Morrie Pongratz

KIWANIS News:

John Arrowsmith, chairman for the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast May 2, says breakfast “customers” brought in boxes and boxes of books to pay for their pancakes.

All of the books were given to the Rio Arriba Independent Libraries. The current and retired directors of the El Rito Library were among those at the breakfast, and Arrowsmith said they were “very excited.”

Eighteen Kiwanis members and five Key Club members worked

Letter To The Editor: ‘The Real Mommy Wars Are Playing Out In The Workplace’

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

By DANILA CRESPIN ZIDOVSKY, MPA

Albuquerque

Take a glance at any contemporary parenting blog, website or social media group and you’ll see the “mommy wars” playing out.

The battles range from helicopter parenting versus free-range kids to sling versus stroller, and cloth versus disposable diaper. While the battles (and the guilt that comes with them) are real, they are keeping our attention from the real mommy wars: the abysmal lack of national policies to protect new mothers in the workplace.

Almost three-quarters

Maria Gibson Receives LAGC College Scholarship

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Maria Gibson

LAGC News:

Los Alamos High School senior Maria Gibson is the 2015 recipient of the Los Alamos Garden Club (LAGC) college scholarship.

The award will be presented to her at the May 27 Honors Convocation.

Gibson will be attending New Mexico State where she will major in Range Land Science and Agricultural Business. She was chosen from Los Alamos High School to attend the DECCA National Business and Marketing event.

Gibson has worked as a Los Alamos County lifeguard and YMCA counselor. This summer she will work at the Los Alamos County

Letter To The Editor: ‘PTSD And Cannabis Use’

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

By Roy M. Moore

Los Alamos

In 1968 I spent the year in Vietnam where I played clarinet in the Marine Corps Band. I never had to shoot anyone, but I stood guard almost every night during that year.

The bunkers were manned by two men, so one stayed on guard for two hours and then woke the other to stand the next guard so the first could sleep. For almost my entire life, I have been on guard duty (the residents of LA should feel safe at least half the night) meaning that I still never sleep more than two hours at a time, with rare exceptions. Although I know a lot of veterans have suffered far worse than

Kiwanis Derby Party Nets $4K For Project Eliminate

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

K-kid teams with helpers Luke Kachelmeier helping team 1, Sara Shiina helping team 2 and RaeAnn Harp helping team 3. Photo by Don Casperson

KIWANIS News:

Los Alamos Kiwanis realized a total of $6,717 from ticket sales, donations, and betting at the May 2 Kentucky Derby Party.

Kiwanis First Vice President Lisa Wismer said $4,175.32 of that amount will go to Project Eliminate, the Kiwanis International-UNICEF campaign to raise $110 million and wipe out maternal and neonatal tetanus worldwide.

Kiwanis Treasurer Cindy Eaton, who handled the money

Rotary District 5520 Honors LAMS Student

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Sonyia Williams. Photo by Mike Antiporda, District PR Coordinator

ROTARY News:

Sonyia Williams, daughter of Lian and Matt Williams, was honored Saturday by Rotary District 5520, the 71 Rotary clubs of New Mexico and west Texas,
during this year’s annual conference in Clovis.

Williams is the student of Los Alamos Middle School Language Arts teacher Julia Agnew. She was selected as the District’s first-place winner in an essay competition based on Rotary’s 4-Way Test:

Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?

Luján: 134,000 New Mexicans With Student Loans Would Benefit From Bill To Allow Refinancing

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:

SANTA FE ― U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District highlighted the impact of legislation that would allow New Mexican’s with student loan debt to refinance their loans to take advantage of low interest rates.

Luján is a cosponsor of the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, which according to the Department of Education, would help 134,000 New Mexicans with student loan debt.

“Whether it’s buying that first home, raising a child, or saving for a dignified retirement, student loan debt is making it difficult

Heinrich, Udall Introduce Bill To Establish Wilderness Areas In Río Grande Del Norte National Monument

May 8, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. and Tom Udall, D-N.M. have introduced a bill to establish two wilderness areas, the Cerro del Yuta Wilderness and Rio San Antonio Wilderness, within the Río Grande del Norte National Monument northwest of Taos.

In 2013, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a previous version of the legislation.

U.S. Sen.Tom Udall

“For many years now, a broad coalition of northern New Mexicans has worked to conserve these two very special areas within

Udall, Price, Van Hollen Introduce Empower Act To Modernize Presidential Campaign Public Financing

May 7, 2015 by Submitted by Chris Clark

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. and U.S. Representatives David Price, D-N.C. and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. announced that they have introduced legislation to reduce the influence of money in presidential elections by empowering candidates who decline support from wealthy special interests.

With mega-donors exerting increasing influence on elections and increasing public disgust for out-of-control special interest electioneering, the Empowering Mass Participation to Offset the Wealthy’s Electoral