Public Works Projects

For more information about the projects listed below, please e-mail lacpw@lacnm.us, call

662-8150, or visit the “Projects” link at www.losalamosnm.us. Please slow down and use caution as you travel through these construction areas.

Eastern Area 2 Concrete, Paving & Utility Project– Phase 2:

RMCI continues to use a 15-passenger van to transport pedestrians through the Canyon Road construction site. The van circulates every 5 to 7 minutes while RMCI is working, typically 7 a.m. to 5-7 p.m.

Monday, June 10, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Jan Nijman Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam

The Slum as Organism

Abstract: Urban slums have proliferated throughout the developing world in cities of the so-called global south. In Mumbai, India, over half of the population of 12 million is now said to live in slums, a greater number in absolute and relative terms than ever before, despite a range of successive policies aimed at slum eradication or rehabilitation.

LANL News:

• Researchers probe ‘pseudogap’ phase boundary, solve decades-old mystery

Tiny crystals, probed with a device called a resonant ultrasound spectrometer, are helping solve the long-time mystery of “pseudogap behavior” in copper oxide superconductors.

Described by an international team including Los Alamos scientists in this week’s Nature magazine, the research explored a compelling question in superconductivity, that of the strange metallic behavior of copper oxide (cuprate) materials

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

The weather in Fort Worth has been one of many very pleasant surprises during the Cliburn Competition. The oppressive heat and humidity one expects at this time of year have been blessedly absent.

The Bass Performance Hall, however, maintains the arctic chill typical of every interior space in the city. No wonder the Cliburn’s back stage “mom” keeps a heating pad on hand, reportedly clutched like a teddy bear by the competitors before each performance.

The

STATE FARM News:

• Check the air conditioning. You may want to have a professional inspect the entire system;
• A service professional should inspect the radiator, pressure cap, belts, and hoses;
• Check the cooling system, and if necessary, get it serviced; and
• Check the air pressure in all tires, including

The entrance to Camp Elliot Barker. Courtesy photo

GSA News:

Girl Scouts — past or present — and community members are invited noon to 2 p.m. June 15 to Camp Elliott Barker to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the camp.

There will be a ribbon cutting, open house with tours of the property and cake. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. 

Ribbon cutting will take place at 12:15 p.m. at the new entrance off of Westridge Road  A second ribbon cutting will take place at 1 p.m. at Hoffman Hall to celebrate the newly renovated facilities and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the

Beloved children’s librarian Melissa Mackey will teach four special classes at PEEC this summer for kids ages 8-12.

Elements will have sessions on earth, air, fire and water. The classes will be held the second and fourth Wednesdays of June and July from 2-3:30 p.m. and costs $8 or $6.50 for PEEC members.

June 12, the theme will be earth, and kids will get to build their own mud town! Mackey will help kids make mini adobe bricks, and will share stories and information about local mud-house building, both modern and ancient.

Diane (Helen Rynaski), left, and Karla Eoff (Joyce) share a private moment in a public place. Courtesy photo

The theatre fills for 'Salt and Pepper' at the Toolshed Theatre in Dixon Friday night. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

They say aging is no fun. Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin’s new play, “Salt and Pepper,” proves that wrong.

The play had its world premiere last night at the Toolshed Theatre in Dixon, the brand new home of the Dixon Community Players.

“Salt and Pepper” is really seven one-acts that go

LWVLA News:

This month's League of Women Voters Lunch with a Leader is 11:40 a.m. Thursday June 13 at Mesa Public Library.

Dist. 43 Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, D-Los Alamos, Sandoval, Rio Arriba and Santa Fe if the featured speaker. She is a native born New Mexican who grew up in Silver City, attended Columbia as a pre-med student but graduated with a degree in political science. Besides being active in politics, she has taught in several countries, in several states, and in both public and private schools. Richard now teaches 3rd grade in Pojoaque.

This is the final year of the Cerro Grande Scholarship, a scholarship awarded to Los Alamos High School Seniors whose homes were a total loss in the 2000 fire and who are graduating in good standing from Los Alamos High School. 

The winners of this year’s awards were enrolled at Mountain Elementary School and were about to complete kindergarten at the time of the fire.

The sale of the book Cerro Grande Canyons of Fire, Spirit of Community has funded this award since 2001.

This year’s winners are Theresa Sandoval and Morgan Schake.

Sandoval plans to become a high school

Melanie Martinez and Ted Trujillo with the New Mexico Small Business Development Center Service Excellence and Innovation Center Award. Photo by Delores Trujillo

The Sandoval County Small Business Development Center (SCSBDC) has received the New Mexico Small Business Development Center Service Excellence and Innovation Center Award from the United States Small Business Administration (USSBA.)

The formal announcement was made by John C. Woolsey, district director of the USSBA, New Mexico District office located in Albuquerque.

LADOC News:

Registration for the next session of dog training classes offered by the Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club (LADOC) will begin June 10.  

Classes this session include Puppy Kindergarten, Basic Manners, Intermediate Agility, Recall and Competitive Obedience, and will begin the week of July 8.

Class schedule, registration guidelines and registration form will be available on the LADOC website  at http://ladoc.dogbits.com/ and at the LADOC building at 246 East Road, Los Alamos.

Registration is first-come, first-served,