Today's News

The local contingency of swimmers that participated in the 2009 Senior Olympics in Las Cruces at the end of May found success with three participants winning medals in 20 events.

The participants included longtime Los Alamos residents Dan Miles and Bill and Maureen Hudson.

The Hudsons both participated in the 80-84 age group. Bill is a former coach of the Los Alamos High School swim team and he helped coach himself and his wife.

Bill took first place in the 50-yard, 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke and he took second place in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle.

This week we look at the next 20 steps on the path, the External Assets. These are the Assets that as adults on the sidelines, we can directly impact.

These are the easy assets, the ones we don’t have to make too much of an effort to demonstrate. Think about it, honesty, integrity, responsibility, you may occasionally have to intentionally think about them, but it doesn’t take much to do the right thing.

The results are in from the 13th annual Hazmat Challenge, hosted this week by Los Alamos National Laboratory. The competition featured hazardous response teams from New Mexico and Oklahoma.

This year’s first place winner was the Midwest City, Oklahoma Fire Department with the Farmington Fire Department in second place and Española Fire Department coming in third.

“Last year, Farmington won and Midwest City came in second,” Brad Lounsbury said. He is a longtime hazardous materials technician and the LANL hazardous devices team leader.

Last week the nation’s governors met in Biloxi, Miss., for the National Governors Association’s summer convention.

And guess what? They all said they were broke.

Surprise, surprise.

And a message they sent loud and clear is that the states cannot afford to pick up any extra expenses.

There has been some talk in Congress that the states should be forced to make up some of the expenses that the feds are now paying, from health care to national security.