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Today's Features

  • Chamberfest event to begin Saturday

    A community event showcasing Chamber of Commerce member merchants, businesses and organizations. The weekend will have food, live music, a car show, giant sand pile, bubble pit and other family entertainment.
    ChamberFest will enliven downtown Los Alamos from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, on Central Avenue between 15th Street and 20th Street.
    Chamber members invite the public to visit their booth and learn more about their businesses. More than 55 businesses and organizations are participating either from their storefronts or from one of the many booths that will be located around Central Park Square.
    The weekend gets started 7 p.m. on Friday, with the Los Alamos County Summer Concert series featuring Warren Hood Band playing rock, country and blues from Austin, Texas, on Central Avenue and Main Street.
    There will be a variety of entertainment staged throughout the downtown on Saturday. The Nomads will be featured on the stage downtown on Central Avenue from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
    The sand pile sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank and Los Alamos County will form a mini-mountain on Central Avenue in front of C.B. Fox Department Store. Party to Go! will bring out a bubble pit, local vendors will come out to make festive summer foods and the classic car show will fill up the square with Corvettes, classics, hot rods and more.

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  • Play by local author to hit stage

    Salt and Pepper is a stage play by local playwright Robert F. Benjamin about aging with grace, courage and humor while exploring quirky, but realistic relationships and situations not unknown to those of a certain age.
    Eleven characters lead through seven intertwined tales that celebrate life’s drama of maturing in a culture immersed with denial about aging.
    Scenes are performed and produced by the Dixon Community Players.
    Interwoven via theme, characters, action and language, this collection of short plays elucidates contemporary aging. Characters strive for personal happiness in a culture unfriendly to aging. As Chris Heron, a film director says in the opener, Resting Places, “DD and B (Dying, Death and Burial) is on the rise. Everyone’s doing it,” he said.
    Several plays explore DD and B while others deal with rekindled romance, healing and gifts. Here are the play themes and brief synopses:
    Resting Places. Invisibility. Clash between an old woman, who is an actress fallen on hard times and a novice filmmaker over invisibility and illusions. To shoot his film he needs to evict her from her “resting place” on the cemetery park bench. Starring Kristen Woolf and Chris Heron.

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  • Be There 06-05-13

    Today
    Artwork by Richard Swenson. An ongoing exhibit during regular business hours at the Betty Ehart Senior Center, the second floor lobby. For more information call Peggy Pendergast at 412-7223.

    Sierra Club Presents: San Juan-Chama Water. 7 p.m., UNM-LA, building 6, room 612. Jack Richardson of the Los Alamos Dept. of Public Utilities for an update on San Juan-Chama water project, along with information on the county’s non-potable water system master plan. For more information contact Ilse Bleck at ibleck@yahoo.com, 667-8465.

    Kids Summer Gardening Class PEEC. Kids entering kindergarten through third grade can learn all about gardening, plant seeds, do art projects, learn the science behind the garden, and much more. Taught by Laural Hardin, certified arborist, intergrated pet management specialst and Montessori educator. 9 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesdays from 9-10:30 through Aug. 7. Register in advance at Pajaritoeec.org, or call or email for more information: 662-0460, programs@pajaritoeec.org.

    Jemez House Thrift Shop Bag Day Sale. All day. 1300 Sherwood Blvd. in White Rock.
    Thursday
    Los Alamos Farmers Market. 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Los Alamos Library parking lot.

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  • Assets in Action: What to say about one’s life accomplishments?

    During the next two weeks, I’d like to look at life from two perspectives.
    The first week is a look at life from one’s end.
    If you could think a moment about your own funeral, not in a morbid sense, but from the position of one that attends, what would they say about you?
    There’s a poem by Linda Ellis called, “The Dash.”
    It explains how the really important thing about your tombstone isn’t the date you are born or the date you die, but the dash that represents everything in between.
    Mac Anderson worked with Ellis to put the poem of, “The Dash,” in book form. Anderson, an entrepreneur, has made a philosophy and a business in concentrating on positive attributes.
    If you read any one of a variety of the inspirational resources, they help drive character, leadership or athleticism and put life in perspective.
    If you have been to a funeral for a really good person, did the words spoken make an impact on you? Has hearing about the life of someone good been enough to change you?
    So again, I bring you back to a seat at your funeral. Perhaps you aren’t sure of what would be said about you. Perhaps you can imagine what would be said and you aren’t happy about it?
    Well, you can start fresh any day and that change can start today.

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  • Be There 06-04-13

    Wednesday
    The Los Alamos Arts Council next Brown Bag Performance Series will be A Short-Play Sampler written by local playwright Robert F. Benjamin. Noon at Fuller Lodge. Free.

    Sierra Club Presents: San Juan-Chama Water. 7 p.m., UNM-LA, building 6, room 612. Jack Richardson of the Los Alamos Dept. of Public Utilities for an update on San Juan-Chama water project, along with information on the county’s non-potable water system master plan. For more information contact Ilse Bleck at ibleck@yahoo.com, 667-8465.

    Artwork by Richard Swenson. An ongoing exhibit during regular business hours at the Betty Ehart Senior Center, the second floor lobby. For more information call Peggy Pendergast at 412-7223.
    Thursday
    Los Alamos Farmers Market. 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Los Alamos Library parking lot.

    Michelle Harkey, owner of Mullein Leaf Massage, will give a Ruby K’s Community Hour presentation on how to put yourself into a peak state so that your life is on the path of an upward spiral. 5:30 p.m., Ruby K’s, 1789 Central Ave., Suite 2. For more information visit mulleinleafinstitute.com.

    Lions Club meets at 84 Barcelona in White Rock on the first and third Thursdays. We enjoy a meal and combine fun and social gathering with a business meeting. For more information, call 672-3300 or 672-9563.

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  • Dance film mocks stereotypes

    “Strictly Ballroom” (1992, rated PG) sparkles, struts and shrieks a warpath through the genre of dance competition dramas Thursday at Mesa Public Library.
    Writer and director Baz Luhrmann, known also for “The Great Gatsby” and “Moulin Rouge,” brings out all ballroom dancing’s garish best: the thick, horrifying make-up; the gaudy costumes; the tasteless trophy-seeking ambitions.
    There is very little joy of dancing for most of the competitors or judges in this film. But amid all the soap-operatic scheming and double-crossing, saunter Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) and Fran (Tara Morice). They love the steps, the rhythm, the freedom — a freedom that is threatened by ballroom bureaucrats who condemn any novelty on the dance floor.
    Sound corny? It is all very corny. The movie lovingly mocks every dance-movie stereotype, from the quintessential dance rebel to the partner who truly believes in him or her. There is nothing new here, but it’s all so fluffy and funny that I didn’t mind at all. And the dancing is pretty good to boot.

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  • Lots to do at the Y this summer

    The YMCA of Los Alamos has activities that will suit all members of the family.
    INSANITY
    The Family YMCA is offering INSANITY® classes. INSANITY® is a cardio-based total body conditioning program based on the principles of MAX interval training. Each workout is packed with plyometric drills on top of nonstop intervals of strength, power, resistance, and abs and core training moves.
    These classes are taught by Insanity-certified instructors and are available from 9-9:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 5:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays; and 6 to 6:50 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. These classes are free to Y members.
    Red Cross
    Infant/Child CPR
    The Family YMCA is now taking registration for the June 22 session of its American Red Cross Infant/Child Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation certification course.
    The course, taught by an American Red Cross certified instructor, provides training on how to respond to emergency situations, recognize the signs of a heart attack, and provide care for an infant or child who stops breathing, is choking, or whose heart stops beating. Participants who complete the course will receive American Red Cross certification.
    The next class will be held at the Y Express, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 22. Cost is $55 for YMCA members and $80 for program members, with a maximum of

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  • California Teen Invents Quick-charging Device

    A California high school student has created a new type of "supercapacitor." The San Jose teen's invention could help pave the way for cell phones that can be charged in 30 seconds.

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  • Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker was such an offbeat, irresistible charmer that we had to love her. And because she loved her bombastic husband Archie, we made room for him and TV's daring "All in the Family."

    It took an actress as smart and deft as Stapleton to create the character that Archie called "dingbat," giving a tender core to a sitcom that tested viewers with its bigoted American family man and blunt take on social issues.

    Stapleton, 90, who died Friday of natural causes at her New York City home, was the sweet, trusting counterpoint to Carroll O'Connor's irascible Archie on the 1970s groundbreaking show from producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin.

    "No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton," Lear said Saturday.

    While Edith faced problems, including a breast cancer scare, with strength, it was the demanding Archie who presented her greatest challenge. Stapleton made her much more than a doormat, but the actress was concerned about what the character might convey.

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  • LAYL seeking applicants

    Los Alamos Youth Leadership registration is due by June 27 at the Family YMCA. The application can be downloaded from the JJAB website. First Step Orientation will take place on Aug. 3 and 4, which will be an overnight camping event. Sean Hall will lead the team building session the first day. The following day will be a physical challenge for students to break out of comfort zones.

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