Senior Appreciation Night Ends with French Toast & Prizes
The Kiwanis crew made eggs, sausage and french toast for Saturday’s graduating seniors to cap off Senior Appreciation Night early this morning. Photo by Karen Kendall
Senior Appreciation Night ended this morning with students heading to the Betty Ehart Senior Center for breakfast prepared by the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos.
County Recreation personnel drew names of seniors who attended all events of the evening.
The prizes won by those seniors included $500 cash, a lap top, Kindle Fire, TV/DVD player, docking audio system, Wii, $200 Best Buy gift card, $300 REI gift card, $200 REI gift Read More
Senior Appreciation Night Packed with Fun
Alicia Bowyer and Kurt Schramm duke it out in the bouncy ring during Senior Appreciation Night at the Family YMCA on Iris Street. Photo by Salvador Zapien
Students who graduated from los Alamos High School Saturday morning were invited along with their friends to celebrate begining at 6 p.m., the 30th year of Senior Appreciation Night (SAN.)
The event began with a BBQ at Fuller Lodge and ended Sunday morning with breakfast at the Senior Center.
The Los Alamos Recreation Division and the Family YMCA co-chair the annual celebration.
Chris Calhoun tackles the rock wall at the Family Y during Senior Read More
Los Alamos High School Graduation Day
Staff Report
Los Alamos High School held its annual Commencement Ceremony at Griffith Gymnasium. Following the ceremony, graduates gathered with friends and family outside the gym for congratulations and pictures.
Madalina “Ada” Ciuca and Aidan Bradbury-Aranda. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
Jin Park with proud parents, Min and Monica. Photo by Karen Kendall/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
Happy graduates. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
The field outside Griffith Gym was crowded with graduates, friends and family. Read More
School Board Selects LAMS Project Contractor
Los Alamos Middle School project rendering. Courtesy/Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
By Kirsten Laskey
The days of cold classrooms in 1960-era buildings are coming to an end at Los Alamos Middle School.
With the Board of Education’s approval of a contractor during Thursday’s special board meeting, LAMS $18.5 million makeover will begin this summer.
Eight contractors initially showed interest in the project and ultimately three returned proposals.
After holding interviews May 13, the evaluation committee decided on McCarthy, a builder out of Albuquerque with offices across Read More
National Honor Society President Advocates Community Service
By Bonnie Gordon
Paulina Majewska is the newly elected president of the Los Alamos High School Chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS) for the 2012-2013 school year.
Those invited to join NHS are chosen by a committee of teachers and staff at each school.
Although a high grade point average is a requirement, members are also selected for community service, school activities and leadership, Majewska said.
“Each member has the responsibility of doing a service project as a community volunteer,” Majewska said. “We meet once a month to discuss the service projects.”
In addition to individual Read More
Rotary District 5520 Honors Nate Delgado
Los Alamos Middle School student Nate Delgado was recently awarded third-place honors by Rotary District 5520 at its annual convention May 19 in Albuquerque. The eighth grader was recognized for his winning essay in the Four-Way Test Essay Competition, which is conducted annually throughout New Mexico and West Texas. The Four-Way Test is based on the principles of truth, fairness, good will, and friendship. Delgado is pictured with his parents, Patti and James Delgado and sisters Elise and Katie. Delgado is a student of Lorene Beckstead; the essay committee was led by Rotarian Linda King. Read More
Learn to Manage Chronic Disease
Los Alamos Cooperative Extension Service News:
Are you an adult with an ongoing health condition? Join a free 2-and-a-half hour “MyCD Workshop” sponsored by the Los Alamos Retired and Senior Organization, Los Alamos Cooperative Extension Service and the Family Y.
You’ll get the support you need, find practical ways to deal with pain and fatigue, discover better nutrition and exercise choices, understand new treatment choices, and learn better ways to talk with your doctor and family about your health.
If you have conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, high Read More
Letter to the Editor: LAPS Foundation Says Thanks
Good community citizens are not hard to come by in our small town.
We have those who care for the elderly and those who care for the very young.
The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation wishes to express its sincere thanks to the long-time proprietors of Central Avenue Grill, Min and Monica Park.
In a final act of kindness and with their eye on the many students and teacher in our fine public school system, the Parks invited everyone in the community for a delicious array of appetizers and beverages asking only that those in attendance donate $5 to the LAPS Foundation.
Donations Read More
Eclipse Shots From Overlook Park
The moon initially appears cloudy Sunday as the eclipse event gets underway at Overlook Park. Photo by Brian McCool
Brian McCool and his family purchased the optics in phases off eBay for less than $100. The rest of the telescope was built with parts from local hardware stores. It isn’t much to look at, but that isn’t important, he said.
The telescope used to take this group of shots of Sunday’s eclipse from Overlook Park is a home-built 8-inch reflector on a Dobsonian mount. Photo by Brian McCool
A bit of cloud remains. The man at right looks through a pinhole camera. Photo by Brian Read More
PEEC’s Nature Playtimes Have Changed
Pajarito Environmental Education Center News
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center will have shorter hours for its popular, free Nature Playtimes starting in June, and will also have a new teacher for the preschool program.
Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC’s Nature Playtimes offer a chance for the youngest kids to get out and enjoy nature on the Pajarito Plateau.
Each session offers time to explore outside, a craft or sensory activity, and stories and songs.
The program is free and open to all, with no registration required.
Nature Playtimes have been running from 10-11:30 Read More
Prepare for Upcoming Transit of Venus with PEEC
PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER News:
Paul Mutschlecner. Courtesy Photo
At 7 p.m., Thursday May 24, local scientist Paul Mutschlecner will give a talk at PEEC about the upcoming transit of Venus across the sun.
The talk is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
And starting at 4 p.m., Tuesday June 5, PEEC will have a telescope available at the Center, at 3540 Orange St., for anyone interested in watching the transit.
On June 5, there will be a rare “transit of Venus” when the planet comes so precisely between the sun and the earth that its Read More
Los Alamos Public Schools Special Board Meeting
LOS ALAMOS PUBLIC SCHOOLS News
Special Board Meeting
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 5:30 P.M. at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater
AGENDA
1. Pledge of Allegiance
2. Call to Order
3. Roll Call
4. Presentations and Recommendations of the Superintendent and Information for the Board
4.1 2012/2013 Budget Approval
4.2 Budget Adjustment Requests
4.3 LAMS Construction Project
4.4 LAHS Construction Change Order
5. Adjournment Read More
Bilingual Montessori Students Given ‘Undeniable Advantage’
Courtesy/Montessori
By Kirsten Laskey
The Bilingual Montessori School is on a roll. Since opening its doors in 2008, enrollment has escalated, the location has changed and expanded and Owner Odalys González Fernández has earned a Success Client Award from the Small Business Development Center in 2008
Just what are the secrets behind the school’s success?
“We are known for having a welcoming, friendly atmosphere and nurturing environment,” Fernández said. “What we give parents foremost is peace of mind. We work with parent’s needs, wants, fears and desires. We operate Read More
Mountain’s Green Team Are State Champs!
The Green Team at Mountain Elementary School won the Aluminum Can Roundup State Competition. Photo by Karen Henderson
MOUNTAIN News:
Schools across America recycled more than 4.5 million aluminum beverage cans in the second year of a national recycling competition sponsored by the U.S. can industry nearly doubling last year’s effort.
The Great American Can Roundup raised $100,591 for school activities and local charities across the country.
More than 790 schools from all 50 states participated in the second annual contest, which runs each year from Nov. 15 (America Recycles Day) Read More
Animal Advocates Gather at Coffee Booth
Representatives from the Animal Protection of New Mexico organization made a presentation at the Coffee Booth Saturday to a group of people interested in protecting and caring for animals. Board President Anne Coller, right, with Los Alamos animal advocate Amy Storey. Anne explained that because of the recent announcement by the National Institutes of Health to accept the results of an independent report requested by Sen. Tom Udall and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the use of chimpanzees in research will stop. The senators are asking NIH to move the surviving chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Read More
Chamisa Students Host Leadership Assembly
Chamisa Elementary School Student Leader Robyn Hollis passes out bracelets to students and adults gathered in Chamisa’s Gymnasium for a leadership rally Monday spotlighting awareness that all students have amazing potential. Photo by Karyl Ann Armbruster
By Karyl Ann Armbruster
Authors Speak Series Presents Dr. Levine Thursday
LIBRARY News:
Mesa Public Library’s Authors Speak Series presents Frances Levine, PhD, Director of the New Mexico History Museum at 7 p.m., Thursday May 24 in the Upstairs Rotunda at Mesa Public Library.
Coummunity members and their out of town guests are welcome to attend and hear Levine speak about an intriguing episode in colonial New Mexico’s history, “In Her Own Voice: Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche Takes on the Spanish Inquisition.”
Among the many events lived in New Mexico’s Palace of the Governors, the administration of Governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal captures Read More
SFI: Seminar About Why Sex Ratios Vary
SFI News:
John Martin will present the talk, Sex Ratios at Birth Vary with Maternal Residence, Age, Parity and Their Interactions, at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday May 23 in the medium conference room at the Santa Fe Institute.
Martin is a Visiting Research Associate, School of Advanced Research; Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.
Abstract: The ratio of male to female births [(m/f) x 100] is reported to vary from 100 or less among national populations in southern Africa to 105-6 among national populations in Europe, Asia, and in the United States.
In northern Read More
Local Residents Shoot the Moon
Taken from Overlook Park, this evening’s beginning Moon during the eclipse. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
The full Moon. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
The ending Moon. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
This photo shot from Zuni and Los Pueblos in Los Alamos with a reflection in a Sony HDR-HC-7 movie camera. Photo by Joel M. Williams
The community fills Overlook Park in White Rock to watch tonight’s eclipse. Photo by Norm Delamater
Various devices were utilized to view the eclipse visible from Overlook Park in White Rock this evening. Photo by Norm Delamater
Historic Fires Most Likely Occurred in Spring
By Collin Haffey
The Ecology Group at Bandelier National Monument has been monitoring tree growth on a weekly basis for more than 20 years.
Several trees located in Bandelier are ringed with dendrometer bands or dendrobands, for short.
A dendroband is a small ribbon of metal wrapped around the trunk of the tree and connected to a spring slide that moves as the tree grows and is measured by a Vernier scale. It’s basically a fancy ruler.
This scale enables us to measure a tree’s circumference down to a tenth of a millimeter.
The banded trees are located in three clusters that span the elevation range Read More