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Pig + Fig Cafe Begins Move To New Space Monday

Finishing touches are underway today on the new location for the Pig + Fig Cafe at 11 Sherwood Blvd., in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Pig + Fig News:

The Pig + Fig Cafe is moving Monday from 35 Rover Blvd., to its new location at 11 Sherwood Blvd., in the former Bandelier Grill location. The move will take about a week to complete.

“We are going to try our hardest to be open before Mother’s Day weekend,” Pig + Fig co-owner Laura Crucet said.

Laura and her father Fernando Crucet, co-owner of Pig + Fig, signed a lease with James Chrobocinski last November and the three spent the last Read More

Walmart To NM Entrepreneurs: We Want Your Products

WALMART News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE Often times, the best ideas are right in our own back yard. So, why not you?
 
Attention entrepreneurs, Walmart is looking to serve up the big break you’ve been looking for during Walmart’s Open Call  scheduled for June 13, in Bentonville, Ark. You can apply now for a chance to secure a seat at a table with one of the company’s buyers by visiting walmart-jump.com; the deadline is May 4.
 
“In a world where there is incredible competition for foreign-grown and foreign-made food products, we’re working with Walmart to promote products made and grown
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Scenes From LANL Sustainable Fair Thursday

A crowd checks out the vendor booths at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Small Business Department’s sustainability fair Thursday at Fuller Lodge. Sustianable Acquisition Lead for LANL Maryrose Montalvo said 14 vendors participated in the fair, which showcased businesses’ sustainable products and services. She explained the participating vendors have blanket order agreements with the laboratory. While the businesses offer a wide range of products and services, they were able to promote their green services and products during the fair. The event was open to the public Read More

LANB Continues Decades Of Support To J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee

Courtesy/JROMC
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

As the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) approaches its 47-year anniversary, JROMC Chair Alison Pugmire shared the organization’s long history of support from Los Alamos National Bank.

Pugmire told the Los Alamos Daily Post Tuesday that for three decades the J. Robert Oppenheimer Committee has welcomed the financial support of LANB in funding scholarships for outstanding high school seniors as they head to college.

“We are proud of the remarkable students that we’ve been able to support Read More

Credit Analyst Ann Parsons Gives Back To Community

Credit Analyst Ann Parsons during an interview Monday at LANB. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Credit Analyst Ann Parsons has worked at Los Alamos National Bank fulltime for 12 years. Her first experience at the bank began in July 2000 as a student at Los Alamos High School.

She worked after school and each summer, graduated in 2001, and continued working part time while earning her undergraduate degree in business finance from Dixie State College in St. George, Utah and her MBA from Hawaii Pacific University in Read More

USDA Seeks Applications For 17th Year Of Rural Broadband Loan Program

USDA News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue April 17 announced that USDA is accepting applications for loans under its long-standing Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program to extend broadband infrastructure in eligible rural communities.
 
USDA has supported broadband infrastructure projects through this program since it was created in the 2002 Farm Bill and reauthorized under the 2014 Farm Bill.
 
The Agency has also announced that it is revising the process in which applications will be accepted under the
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Chamber Members Hear From Commercial Fire and Building Code Officials At Monthly Breakfast

Los Alamos County Chief Building Inspector Michael Arellano, right, and Los Alamos Fire Marshal Jeff Wetteland address Chamber of Commerce members April 19 at their monthly breakfast meeting. Courtesy photo

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce members heard from Los Alamos County Chief Building Official Michael Arellano and Fire Marshal Jeff Wetteland about commercial code enforcement at the monthly Chamber Breakfast April 19 at UNM-LA.

Arellano, who has been in code enforcement in Coloraro, Texas and New Mexico for more Read More

2018 Los Alamos Chamber Business Awards Voting Now Open

CHAMBER News:

Nominations for 2018 Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Business Awards closed April 21. The top five nominated businesses in each category have now moved on to the voting phase. To vote for your favorite Los Alamos Chamber businesses, visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LosAlamosChamberBusinessAwards

Voting is open to the public. Only Chamber members in good standing were eligible for nomination.

The awards are:

  • Retail Business of the Year Award
  • Family-Friendly Business of the Year Award
  • Best New Business of the Year Award
  • Woman Owned Business of the Year Award
  • Non-Profit
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Lloyd Rodriguez Retires From Smith’s After 28 Years

Lloyd Rodriguez is retiring from Smith’s Marketplace Sunday after 28 years with the company. Rodriguez began working for Smith’s in White Rock in 1990, moved to Los Alamos and then to Taos as store director before returning to Los Alamos where he serves as dairy manager. While Rodriguez says he will really miss his customers, his colleagues say they will miss his calm demeanor, his warm personality and his incredible work ethic. His retirement plans include spending more time fishing and woodworking. He and his wife Pamela hope to visit their son Jared who is serving in the U.S. Navy in Rota, Spain. Read More

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