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Pictured from left to right, Don Casperson, Kiwanian and Key Club Mentor; dad Devon Engleman; Key Club MemberTaylor Engleman; Key Club Member Morgan Vaughn; Randy and Nancy Vaughn (Morgan’s parents), and Morrie Pongratz. Each student received a check from Kiwanis. Vaughn will attend Arizona State University and Engleman will attend The University of New Mexico.

The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation awarded seven scholarships to members of the Class of 2011.
The winners included Shannon Blair, Eli Chertkov, Morgan Vaughn, Taylor Engleman, Meghan Montoya, Keanna Cohen and Ellen Rabin.
Each of the winners was selected based on criteria such as  academic achievement and service to the community and to the public schools. Following their selection, winners are asked to select an Educator of Distinction.
The Educators of Distinction are those who had a significant impact on the winner’s development during their years at LAPS.
For her Educator of Distinction, Blair chose Advanced Placement American Literature teacher, Catherine Purananda.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will host a Flag Day ceremony Tuesday at its lodge, located at 1600 Trinity Drive.
The ceremony is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Hot dogs, chips, potato salad and pie will be served following the ceremony. The public is invited to attend the ceremony.
Flag Day was signed into law by president Harry Truman in 1949. It commemorates the day the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States of America in 1777.
The BPOE provides services to local communities through programs that support veterans and youth.
For more information on Tuesday’s event, visit the group’s website, www.elks.org.

The Los Alamos Mountaineers will host a presentation by Jackie Little as she describes her 65-mile paddle along the Sea of Cortez.
Little’s presentation, “Paddling the Baja Desert Coast with Dick Opsahl,” is scheduled for 8 p.m. June 15 at Fuller Lodge. The presentation is free and open to the public.
The trip, which was organized by Opsahl, a former Los Alamos resident, covered the distance of the coast from Loreto to La Paz.
Opsahl invited Little and 12 more of his friends on the trek. The seven days on the water were filled with pre-dawn fishing, six-to-eight hours per day of paddling, snorkeling, beachcombing, fine dining and more.

Nobel laureate Paul Nurse will deliver the 41st Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 23, in the White Rock Baptist Church (80 State Road 4).
The lecture, “Great Ideas of Biology,” is free and open to the public.
Nurse is the current president of Britain’s Royal Society, founded in 1660 to promote understanding of the natural world through observation and experiment, and the director of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, which when completed will be the largest biomedical research center in Europe.

The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation announced that three students from Los Alamos High School’s Class of 2011 have been awarded the Cerro Grande Scholarship.  
Alexander Austell, Paul Hemez and Rebecca Wright were chosen as the Class of 2011 recipients of the scholarship. To be eligible, students must have lost their family’s homes in the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire and have been enrolled in a Los Alamos Public School at the time of the fire.
Austell will attend the University of New Mexico and will study music performance and music education.
Hemez will attend Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he’s planning to study medicine.

Los Alamos Little Theater will hold a play reading session Thursday.
The reading, which will include scripts from LALT’s season-opening production, the 8-by-10 Short Play Festival, is set for 7 p.m. in the little theater’s green room.
Anyone who is interested in participating or audtioning for roles is welcome to attend.
Auditions for the plays will be held Sunday and Monday at the theater.

Bradbury Science Museum presenters Liz Martineau and Gordon McDonough will lead several events during the summer months, but they will have plenty of help.
A series of events, scheduled for Tuesdays between 10 a.m.-2 p.m., will be held at the museum. Along with the Bradbury Science Museum, entities like Pajarito Environmental Education Center, Los Alamos Historical Museum, Bandelier National Monument, Fuller Lodge Art Center, the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board and Assets In Action will sponsor the events.

The Los Alamos Master Gardeners will be hosting a Garden Fair at the Demonstration Garden on Central Avenue Saturday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
A wide variety of garden activities and seminars will be available for the gardening public. Tours of the garden, activities for children and information on a range of topics from plant selection, irrigation, gopher management, a plant clinic and a plant sale will be offered at the fair.
Master Gardeners will be available throughout the fair to talk about the diverse garden designs and answer questions.
This week has been designated National Garden Week by the National Garden Club. The National Garden Club, founded in 1929, is the largest volunteer gardening organization in the world.