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Standing on a mountain ridge, Bill Black, an elderly fisherman, pointed to a distant fishing stream and said, “The Forest Service has cut me off from those quality waters by closing a perfectly fine access road.”

The road in question is an eastern spur off of Forest Service 144 near the northwest corner of the Valles Caldera.  He said his bad knee will not allow him to walk a steep road leading to the stream.  

“I can get there in my truck, but not walking,” he said.

Local engineer and worldwide mountaineer Chris Horley has joined a growing number of volunteers contributing their expertise to Cambodia’s Hope, a nonprofit organization for orphans.

“Given the development of so many different projects as we grow, there are plenty of needs to be met so we have been developing a volunteer program over the last 18 months,” co-founder Marvel Kellogg said.

Rene Bass Feldman died peacefully on Friday, September 26th, after a brief illness. Rene was born in Brooklyn, NY, on March 12th, 1933. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1957 and a Master of Science degree in computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972.

Rene was a staff member at The Los Alamos National Laboratory before moving to Chevy Chase, MD, where she was a staff member at the University of Maryland. In addition to science, she enjoyed cooking, reading and discussing all things interesting.

With temperatures dropping and cool weather quickly setting in, it’s hard to ignore the fact that winter is right around the corner.

With Old Man Winter comes the usual headaches; icy roads, slush, hazardous driving conditions and a plethora of other hassles associated with the winter months.

In addition to the usual winter worries, Los Alamos residents seem to have another worry which may be affected by inclement weather: The Diamond Drive Phase II project.