Today's News

Happy holidays!
This week, we are still in the asset category of empowerment with a look at the asset of safety (#10).
I will stretch on this area, but bear with me for a minute.
This Saturday, the Trinity on the Hill will offer the best event of the season, the Children’s Bazaar.
The event allows families, with children in kindergarten through sixth grade, an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts on their own.
Children arrive at the church between 9 a.m. and noon, with a list of 10 names or less. Youth workers escort them to a special room, where they can purchase gifts to surprise family members on upcoming holidays.
The items are varied and the prices are more than reasonable, but the increase in the asset category of empowerment is huge.
It doesn’t matter what holiday you celebrate. Yes, I realize it is a Christian church, but think of all of the upcoming holidays, including birthdays, during which your children would love the opportunity to surprise the adults in their lives.
While the pint-sized shoppers go on their merry way, parents and caregivers are treated to baked goods, newspapers and the excitement yet to come.
Trinity on the Hill has thought of everything, as they even wrap the gifts and include gift cards for each item.

Police Beat items are compiled from public information contained in Los Alamos Police Department Records. Charges or citations listed in Police Beat do not imply innocence or guilt. The Los Alamos Police Department uses the term “arrest” to define anyone who has been physically arrested; served a court summons, or issued a citation.
Nov. 15

7:06 a.m. — A Los Alamos resident, 43, reported they were the victim of larceny of less than $250 in the 300 block of Rover Boulevard.

9:21 a.m. — A Los Alamos resident, 50, reported they were the victim of larceny of less than $250 in the 300 block of Shirlane Place.

9:29 a.m. — A Los Alamos resident, 70, reported they were the victim of a burglary from a vehicle or other structure in the 100 block of Kendall Drive.

12:52 p.m. — A Los Alamos resident, 47, reported they were the victim of a burglary from a vehicle or other structure in the 300 block of Valle Del Sol Road.

2:11 p.m. — A Los Alamos resident, 50, reported they were the victim of a burglary from a vehicle or other structure in the 300 block of Rover Boulevard.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Willis Whitfield, an award-winning physicist known for inventing the modern-day cleanroom, has died. He was 92.

Sandia National Laboratories, where Whitfield worked for three decades, announced Monday that Whitfield died in Albuquerque on Nov. 12.

Lab President Paul Hommert says Whitfield’s concept for a new kind of cleanroom came at the right time during the early 1960s to usher in a new era of electronics, health care and scientific research.

Dubbed Mr. Clean, Whitfield was born in Rosedale, Okla. He was the son of a cotton farmer.

Whitfield had his initial drawings for the new cleanroom by the end of 1960. His solution for dealing with the turbulent airflow and particles found in cleanrooms of the day was to constantly flush out the room with highly filtered air.

The Los Alamos School District is doing what it can to help students and staff as people come to grips with the passing of freshman Nikolas Ventura-Arencon, who died last week in a head-on collision on N.M. 4.

Another passenger in the car, Divine Fellers, 13, a Los Alamos Middle School student, remains at UNM Hospital in Albuquerque in stable condition recovering from injuries, according to Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department Captain Adan Mendoza.

Drivers Jennifer Ventura-Trujillo, 41, of White Rock and Dennis Bernal, 43, of Santa Fe, were released from Los Alamos Medical Center and Santa Fe’s Christus St. Vincent Hospital, respectively the night of the Nov. 21 crash. Mendoza said this morning that a careless driving citation was issued to Bernal on the day of the crash. Bernal also submitted to a drug screen, Mendoza said.

Mendoza said the investigation is ongoing.

“We are still doing interviews and talking to witnesses as well as waiting on lab results,” Mendoza said. “The investigation should be done in a timely manner. After all the work is done in the investigation, we will see if other types of citations or charges are warranted.”