Today's Features

Sock Hop 2011 was a hit

The 2011 Fabulous Fifties Sock Hop was an evening of cross-generational fun with participants from babies to great-grandparents. Young people stepped in to volunteer.  Old Fashioned hamburgers, root beer floats and Coke were served — all made possible with help from Smith’s Food and Drugs, Hot Rocks Java Café, Daniel’s Café Haagen-Dazs and the Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
Secundino Sandoval donated a watercolor, “Companionship,” which was won by Cindy Martz. Music was provided by DJ Tim Gallegos, who donated much of his fee to the Family Council programs. Elvis was out of town, so Fonzie (aka Jeff Favorite) stepped in for him as MC.

Six Los Alamos students won the UNM-PNM statewide Mathematics Contest this year. There were 22 finalists.
They were recognized for their accomplishment at a banquet at the UNM Student Union April 16.
From left to right, John Pawlak, High School Math teacher; Martin Loncaric, Los Alamos High School, won second place in 12th grade and fifth place overall; Donald Poston, Aspen Elementary, won first place in fifth grade; Alexandr Wang, Los Alamos Middle School, won first place in eighth grade and first place overall; Vincent Tang, Los Alamos Middle School, won fourth place in eighth grade; and Zeynep Unal, Aspen Elementary GATE teacher.

During April, we have been working on the asset category of “Constructive Use of Time.”
This category contains Assets 17-20 and kicks off with, “Creative Activities.”
Creative activities are defined as: “Young person spends three or more hours per week in lessons or practice in music, theater or other arts.”
Spring break offered us a nice taste of actually having time to do something constructive.
The break neck speed is about to start and we’ll soon arrive at summer.

When you call the Y on any given day, you often find someone like Katie Rosenbaum on the other end saying, “It’s a great day at the Family YMCA.”  
Thursday it was indeed just that kind of day, marking the Y’s official grand opening of the Los Alamos Teen Center.  Los Alamos County funds the center, which hopes for a permanent facility in the future.
Local dignitaries including Los Alamos Living Treasure Mary Brooks, County councilors Ron Selvage and Vincent Chiravalle, Father Colin Kelly and Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Gene Schmidt attended the ribbon cutting and luncheon.