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  • Be There 05-15-13

    Today
    The Juvenile Justice Advisory Board’s next meeting will be 6 p.m. in Building 1, Camino Entrada Road, Pajarito Cliffs Site. The public is welcome.

    Fall highway cleanup at the Valles Caldera. 5 p.m., volunteers will meet at Ponderosa Campground, carpool to the stretch of road at the Valles Caldera. Bring work gloves, garbage bags will be provided. Any questions, call 662-2368.
    Thursday
    State chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party, John Billingsley will speak 7 p.m., in room 220 on the UNM-LA campus. All members of the Republican Party are invited.

    Lunch time concert with the M.A.D. Hatters horn trio. Noon at Fuller Lodge. Free, public is invited to bring a sack lunch.

    Cleanup along State Road 4. 5 p.m., at the Ponderosa Campground to carpool to Pajarito Group’s stretch of road at the Valles Caldera. Bring gloves and water. Trash bags will be provided. For more information, contact Ilse Bleck at 662-2368 or ibleck@yahoo.com.

    The Democratic Party of Los Alamos’ will show a short video by Bill Moyers’ followed by a discussion. The meeting is 7 p.m. at UNM-LA, Building 2. All Democrats are encouraged to attend.

    Los Alamos County DWI Planning Council meeting, 8:30 a.m., Los Alamos Police Department Training Room, 2500 Trinity Dr., suite A.

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  • Let’s go fly a kite this weekend

    Looking back at your childhood, what memories come to mind? Having family picnics at the park? Running through an open field with your friends? Gazing at the sky making shapes out of the clouds? How about attending the Los Alamos Kite Festival?
    For the 16th year, the Los Alamos Arts Council presents the Los Alamos Kite Festival on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the soccer fields in Overlook Park in White Rock. Children of all ages are welcome. Whether you build a kite, fly a kite, enjoy a picnic with family and friends, or just take in the artful scene, this is community tradition not to be missed.
    Thanks to the generous funding from Los Alamos National Bank, the Kite Festival will continue to be a free event.
    The Kite Festival weekend kicks off 7 p.m., Friday with the Summer Concert Series. Kite artists will be on the field with their kites on display and a night kite fly demonstration. In this event, small lights are attached to the kites before they are launched into the night sky. It is an amazing light show over White Rock.
    The main festival is held from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The day includes music, food, kite-building workshops for kids, and a lot of kite flying.

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  • In honor of the fallen

    This year’s Memorial Day community ceremony will be 11 a.m., May 27 at Guaje Pines Cemetery. This year’s theme is “Remembering those who have lost their lives for their country and a special remembrance of Vietnam.”
    Memorial Day is a national holiday to thank and honor more than 1,258,000 Americans that have given their lives for their country during wartime and conflicts around the globe defending freedom and way of life. More than 58,000 died in Vietnam and some 1,600 remain Missing in Action in Vietnam. At least 42 million citizens have served in the United States military during times of conflict.
    This year’s speakers include four living heroes and residents of Los Alamos who all served in Vietnam during the height of the conflict. They include Leland Lehman, Nick Mezins, Ed Miller and Dennis Hawley.
    American Legion officials said it would be an honor to have the community turn out for the ceremony at Guaje Pines. Lunch and socializing to remember the fallen will be at the conclusion of the ceremony at the American Legion Post 90, 1325 Trinity Drive.

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  • Senators vote for marketplace fairness

    In a rare bipartisan moment, something significant happened last week in the United States Senate and New Mexico’s two senators, Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, helped to make it happen by voting to end the chaos and misunderstanding surrounding the sales tax and online purchases.
    And good for them and the 67 other senators who joined in bipartisan passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act.
    One of the major fictions about commerce today is that Internet sales are immune from what we here in New Mexico call the gross-receipts tax, but is more commonly known elsewhere as the sales tax.
    Yet, while the great bulk of online sales do go tax free, so to speak, others are in fact legally subject to the sales tax in New Mexico and other states with such a tax.
    By law, any retailer with an outlet, store or office in a state where a consumer makes an online purchase is required to collect whatever rate the sales tax is levied. So if you live in New Mexico and purchase a coat from Eddie Bauer, you are obligated to pay the 5.125 to 8.6875 percent (depending on location) gross-receipts tax levied on that sale.
    Why? Because Eddie Bauer has an outlet in New Mexico.

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  • Tourism pros love N.M. true campaign

    Thank God for Texans and their money.
    Texans help explain the 3.3 percent growth of leisure and hospitality wage jobs over the past year, say hospitality executives.
    The situation offers a big, “nnaahhh, so there!” to those who whined about the state Tourism Department choosing an ad agency based in (gasp!) Austin. As in Texas.
    Around Taos, Texans are making life economically better, but things have not returned to the peak of 2007.
    Silver City gets fewer Californians than in the past, though Alaskans come. Activity is generally fairly good. Bus tours and RV owners are coming back. Along the Turquoise Trail drive north from I-40 to Santa Fe, business is pretty good. New York is one source of visitors.
    These impressions come from conversations at the Governor’s Conference on Tourism, held in Albuquerque in early May.
    Conference sponsors ranged from the corporately huge to the sort of very small business that seldom generates a headline. ConocoPhillips was the big guy.
    A couple of years ago the company decided it should talk to the people around it. Given that tourism people talk to many others, and given that ConocoPhillips is the state’s leading oil and gas producer, talking to tourism people seemed obvious.

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  • Man killed dribbling soccer ball to Brazil

     

    A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast.

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  • On The Docket: Local Courts 05-15-13

    The information on these cases was derived from the dockets of the Los Alamos Municipal and Magistrate Courts.

    May 8

    John Bishop Abraham was found guilty in Los Alamos Municipal Court of speeding 11 to 15 miles an hour over the speed limit. He was fined $75 and ordered to pay $6 in court costs.
    May 9

    Tina M. Forsman entered a no contest plea for failing to appear in Los Alamos Municipal Court and having an expired registration.
    She was fined $50 and ordered to pay $92 in court costs.

    Adelaida C. Valdez entered a no contest plea in Los Alamos Municipal court for having an expired registration. She was fined $25 and ordered to pay $46 in court fees.

    Mark L. Garcia was found guilty in Los Alamos Municipal Court for having an expired registration for his vehicle. He was fined $50 and ordered to pay $46 in court costs.

    Elizabeth C. Bennett was found guilty in Los Alamos Municipal Court of having an expired registration. She was fined $25 and ordered to pay $46 in court costs.

    Margaret E. Hempstead was found guilty in Los Alamos Municipal Court of having an expired registration. She was ordered to pay $46 in court costs.

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  • Report: State facing medical access difficulties

    SANTA FE (AP) — New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said Wednesday.
    A report released by the Legislative Finance Committee said state residents could encounter growing problems of access to medical care due to the potential need of 2,000 physicians, 3,000 registered nurses and as many as 800 dentists.
    Up to 172,000 uninsured New Mexicans are expected to receive medical coverage next year either through an expansion of Medicaid or a state-run health insurance exchange. “The number of health care professionals and their maldistribution throughout the state cannot adequately meet current demand, let alone the additional pressures brought about by the newly insured in 2014,” the report said.

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  • Update 05-15-13

    Meeting

    The Environmental Sustainability Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the community building training room.

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    County Council

    Los Alamos County Council will meet in a regular session at 7 p.m. Tuesday May 21 in council chambers.

    BPU meeting

    The Board of Public Utilities will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the DPU Conference Room, 170 Central Park Square.

    Farmers Market

    The Los Alamos Farmers Market is at 7 a.m. Thursday and runs until noon in the parking lot of the Mesa Library.

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  • District fetes retirees

    Colleagues and family saw a number of their peers off to retirement last Thursday, as the Los Alamos Public School District hosted a retirement party for 17 employees at Fuller Lodge.

    They included David Buckland, high school teacher; Paula Dean, assistant superintendent, Mary Jo Fischer, middle school teacher; Ernestina Garcia, instructional assistant at Aspen Elementary; Mary Kathleen Kelly, teacher at Chamisa Elementary; Elizabeth Kulka, teacher at Barranca Elementary; Loree Lynch, secretary; Marie D. Martinez, teacher at the middle school; Maxine Marrufo, custodian; Ruth McNiff, teacher at Barranca Elementary; Debbie O’Dean, a counselor at Aspen Elementary; Mary Plotner, teacher at Mountain Elementary, Ann Revelle, records specialist with student services; Carol Schoenberg, teacher at the high school; Margaret Sheridan, teacher at Aspen Elementary, Linda Valenti, social worker with student services and Barbara Wrobleski-Mullis, teacher at the middle school.

    “If I could add up the number of years and then quadruple it, that would probably be the number of students this group has impacted through the years,” Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gene Schmidt said at the retirement ceremony.

    In one of her last speeches as assistant superintendent, Dean gave a big thank you to the audience.

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