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Today's Features

  • Youth Food Project grows opportunities

    Los Alamos Youth Food Project gives youth opportunities to participate in the food project this summer. Youth can submit entries for a logo and slogan contest, increase their leadership skills in Garden Leadership, or explore the garden and its environment through iCare About Gardening camp.
    LAYFP is a youth-driven initiative. The project name was created and voted on by youth, the project is grant funded by the State Farm Youth Advisory Board and youth have the opportunity to voice their ideas and visions for LAYFP. LAYFP wants to continue youth input by having youth design a logo and slogan.
    The logo and slogan contest is open to youth of all ages. The winner will receive a prize and their logo will be on promotional items such as bags, hats, T-shirts and other items.
    All entries must be submitted by 9 p.m., May 31. Paper entries should be delivered to The Family YMCA’s front desk and electronic entries should be emailed to layouthfoodproject@laymca.org. Email original file and a pdf. All entries should have the contestant’s name, phone number and school on the back of the entry, or in the body of the email.
    The Garden Leadership program (Wednesday afternoons June and July) is designed for youth ages 11 to 17 to build leadership skills through garden-focused projects.

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  • Assets in Action: A typical day in the life of a teen

    When everything seems like it is going to hell in a handbasket, we would say my friend Connie must have been praying for you to have pateince.
    Welcome to May! OK, I’m not sure if this is the same for you, but I must be getting old. It isn’t possible that we have arrived in May again, wasn’t it just last May?
    When things couldn’t seem to get busier, when there couldn’t be more to do, then we have arrived at the final three weeks of the school year.
    My main goal today is to find the kitchen table. You see in some insane notion to get ahead on my filing, I decided to use the kitchen table to assist me to get organized during the task.
    Then life in general happened and alas, the kitchen table has been covered in files for much longer than anticipated, so today is the day!
    My point today is to remind you to inhale deeply and enjoy the final push, or at least to try to do your best.
    I have a great demonstration called, A Day in the Life of a Teen. It takes the audience on a quick trip in what could be an average day for a young person.
    What it ends up teaching you is that you just never know what a typical day holds, but you do hold the key to how you act for your portion of it.

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  • Pop psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85

    Joyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author, and television and film personality, has died. She was 85.

    Brothers died Monday of respiratory failure in New York City, according to her longtime Los Angeles-based publicist, Sanford Brokaw.

    Brothers first gained fame on a game show and went on to publish 15 books and make cameo appearances on popular shows including "Happy Days" and "The Simpsons." She visited Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" nearly 100 times.

    The way Brothers liked to tell it, her multimedia career came about "because we were hungry."

    It was 1955. Her husband, Milton Brothers, was still in medical school and Brothers had just given up her teaching positions at Hunter College and Columbia University to be home with her newborn, firmly believing a child's development depended on it.

    But the young family found itself struggling on her husband's residency income. So Brothers came up with the idea of entering a television quiz show as a contestant.

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  • Raw from 'The View': Barbara Walters to Retire
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  • Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.

    The "Martyrs of Otranto" were 813 Italians who were slain in the southern Italian city in 1480 for defying demands by Turkish invaders who overran the citadel to renounce Christianity.

    Their approval for sainthood was decided upon by Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, in a decree read at the ceremony in February where the former pontiff announced his retirement.

    Shortly after his election in March, Francis called for more dialogue with Islam, and it was unclear how the granting of sainthood to the martyrs would be received. Islam is a sensitive subject for the church, and Benedict stumbled significantly in his relations with Muslims.

    The first pontiff from South America also gave Colombia its first saint: a nun who toiled as a teacher and spiritual guide to indigenous people in the 20th century.

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  • News for retirees 5-12-13

    May 12-18, 2013

    For information, call the Betty Ehart Senior Center (BESC) at 662-8920, the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) at 662-8200 and “Day Out” (adult day care, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.) at 661-0081. Reservations must be made by 10 a.m. for daily lunches.

    Betty Ehart

    MONDAY

    8:45 a.m. Cardio

    11:30 a.m. Lunch: Meatloaf

    7 p.m. Ballroom dancing

    TUESDAY

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  • Animal Shelter 5-12-13

    The Los Alamos Animal Shelter, 226 East Road, 662-8179, has a great selection of onsite adoptable pets just waiting for their forever home! 

    Be sure to visit the Friends of the Shelter website: lafos.org, where you can get more information about volunteering, adopting, and donating. 

    All adoptable pets are microchipped, spayed or neutered, and up-to-date on vaccinations. Dogs are checked for heartworm!

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  • Church Listings 05-10-13

    Baha’i Faith
    For information, email losalamosla@gmail.com. For general information, call the Baha’i Faith phone at 1-800-228-6483.

    Bethlehem Lutheran
    Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, a member of the ELCA is at 2390 North Road. 662-5151, bethluth.com. Worship services are at 8:15 and 10:45 a.m., with coffee and doughnuts served between services during our Education Hour of classes for all ages. The preaching is biblical by our Pastors Bruce Kuenzel and Nicolé Ferry, the music is lively, children are welcome and abundant and a well-staffed nursery is provided. All are welcome.

    Bryce Ave. Presbyterian
    The church is located at 3333 Bryce Ave. The Rev. Henry Fernandez preaches, bapca.org, info@bapca.org. For information, call 672-3364.

    Buddhist
    Kannon Zendo, 35 Barranca Road. kannonzendo.org. Henry Chigen Finney, 661-6874. Meditation in the Zen tradition will be offered Wednesday evenings at the Kannon Zendo in Los Alamos.

    Calvary Chapel
    Sunday school classes for all ages at 9:15 a.m. Join us at 10:30 a.m. for worship and a study of the Biblical Jesus as He relates to people in our look at the Gospel of Exodus.

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  • Vacation Bible Schools

    June 10-13 United Church, 2525 Canyon Rd., 662-2971
    Theme: Cokesbury County Fun Fair
    1-4 p.m., Monday through Thursday
    For ages K through just completed fifth grade, no charge, grades 6-12 will serve as helpers. Meet in Graves Hall.
    Register online at unitedchurchla.com after mid-May

    June 10-14 La Vista Nazarene, 15 Grand Canyon Dr., White Rock, 672-3202
    Theme: Gotta Move — Keepin’ in Step With the Spirit
    9:30-11:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, for ages five through just completed fourth grade, no charge
    Register online at lavistanaz.org or email Pastor Raul Granillo at lavistanaz@lavistanaz.org

    June 17-21 First Baptist Church, 2200 Diamond Dr., 662-3712
    Theme: Yangtze River Adventure
    9 a.m. to noon, For ages four through just completed sixth grade, no charge
    Register online at fbc-la.org and follow links

    June 17-21 White Rock Baptist Church, 80 State Road. 4, 672-9764
    Theme: Colossal Coaster World
    8:45 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, ages four through just completed sixth grade, no charge
    Register online at wrbcnm.org

    June 24-28 Bethlehem Lutheran with Trinity on the Hill Episcopal. Assisted by Rainbow Trails Camp Counselors
    Meetings for families, 5-8 p.m., Monday through Friday
     

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  • Theologoical show to debut

    Starting Sunday, a locally produced radio program will be broadcast on KRSN 1490 AM.
    The name of the program is the Redeemer Theological Academy.  The speaker and producer of the program is Rev. Brian L. Kachelmeier who is the pastor of Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church.  
    The idea for the radio program came from the lecture seminars that have been offered at Redeemer Lutheran Church.  
    In the fall of 2011, Dr. Reed Lessing opened up the lecture series with the topic of Christ in the Psalms.  
    Lectures that followed focused on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. From the idea of offering free lectures to the community, the concept of making these lectures free on the internet through podcasting was birthed.  
    In January of 2012, the Redeemer Theological Academy website was launched.
     Since last fall, the Redeemer Theological Academy has been broadcast on KNGN 1360 AM in Nebraska as a weekly radio program.
    Now the Academy will hit the airwaves of New Mexico. Each episode lasts thirty minutes.
    Lectures on the Academy are designed to help you better understand how the church has confessed the Christian Faith throughout the ages.
    The first series of lectures will concentrate on the doctrine of vocation in which love God by serving our neighbor.  

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