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Review of the Capital Improvement Projects applications began on Monday night at White Rock Fire Station #3, with a good public turnout.

The meeting marked the first in a series that will be held in an effort to review the applications that were received during the CIP cycle, which opened in October 2008.

The CIP process began when Council reviewed and endorsed a new CIP Development Flow Chart for all CIP projects in July 2008.

Ever feel like you are stuck, that there are metaphorical walls barring you from achieving your goals? Pam Houghteling’s new business, Awareness Enterprise, LLC, offers a way to break down those walls.

Houghteling describes Awareness as an umbrella group for two main modalities, which are, Access Energy Transformation and the Feldenkrais Method.

Newly sworn-in Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., met Thursday with Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio in Washington, D.C.

In discussing the laboratory’s budget, Udall described Anastasio as “upbeat. He felt good about this budget year,” said Udall during an interview from Washington Thursday evening.

The laboratory’s future looks bright, too, he said, explaining that strong science is needed in all of the challenges facing the world.

Storm Hurwin is the new advertising director for the Los Alamos Monitor. He grew up in Los Angeles and got his degree in political science from San Jose State University in the San Francisco Bay area.

Hurwin ran his own advertising and publishing agency in Monterrey County, Calif., later expanding into Tucson, Ariz.

His experience includes managing restaurants and most recently directing the production of 11 publications in the Niche Publications Group in southwest Florida for Breeze Newspapers, a division of Ogden News.