Deputy Chief Doug Tucker Tapped as Los Alamos County’s Newest Fire Chief
2009 July 2
Chief Doug Tucker
Los Alamos County Administrator Max Baker has appointed Deputy Chief Doug Tucker to serve as fire chief of the Los Alamos Fire Department.
Baker is on the agenda to make the announcement at Tuesday’s County Council meeting.
Read the full story in the Los Alamos Monitor.
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PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
MARKS NUCLEAR ANNIVERSARIES
Catholic Workers from Albuquerque, NM and other spiritual pilgrims
will be walking for peace, environmental protection and nuclear
safety from July 5th to July 15th 2009. They will walk south from Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to White Sands Missile Range, at
the Rosary Camp on the north side near the Trinity nuclear bomb site.
Other Catholics will hold their 20th annual vigil at the temporary
camp held each July 15th and 16th to pray the rosary for 24 hours on
“New Mexico Nuclear Disasters Day” (See below for more information).
About 10 people will be walking in peace, roughly 20 miles per day,
praying constantly with respect for the local people and the
ancestors who have inhabited these areas of New Mexico for centuries.
On July 10th, the interfaith Peace Walkers (including Buddhist
Nipponzan Myohoji monks) will take a break at Trujillo and Sunset Rd
SW (near Trinity House in Albuquerque’s South Valley, which houses
and feeds homeless folks year-round in the Catholic Worker tradition
of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin) around 11:00 am.
“New Mexico Nuclear Disasters Day” is July 16th because it is the
anniversary of two major nuclear disasters which spread radioactive
contamination across New Mexico and into Arizona and Texas. The first
was the “Trinity” test of the world’s first nuclear bomb, who’s
radioactive fallout spread eastward into Texas on the morning of July
16th 1945, contaminating water and animals and ushering the world
into the nuclear age—a moral and ecological nightmare which continues
globally. The second disaster happened near Church Rock in the Navajo
Nation on July 16th 1979 when a lake of uranium tailings was spilled
into the Rio Puerco river, spreading radioactive waste westward into
Arizona. The dam holding the toxic sludge broke at 5:30am—precisely
34 years down to the minute after the Trinity bomb test. Impoverished
Navajo farmers and other poor people in the Gallup area and beyond
were hit hard with poisoned water and livestock. Some of the people
in the area got cancer too. In Crownpoint this year, several
activities are commemorating the 30th anniversary of this disaster.
After joining the Rosary vigil near White Sands’ Trinity test site,
some of the Peace Walkers will leave New Mexico and resume walking in
California a few days later, then walk some more in Washington with
local Catholic Workers there, ending a three-state peace walk around
the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki days at the Trident
submarine base.
more info is available on the website : ttt.lovarchy.org
Contact Trinity House Catholic Workers regarding the Trinity To Trident
Peace Walk: 505.242.0497 or on the mobile phone during the Peace Walk:
505.379.6942
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