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Welcome

Here is some advice to make your trip a litt-le easier and more enjoyable.TIME ZONE: The entire state of Jalisco is on Central Time, as is the southern part of the State of Nayarit starting from San Blas in the north.

BUSES: A system of urban buses with di-fferent routes can bring you from one end of the bay to the other and all the spots in between. Current fare is $6.50 pesos per ticket and passengers must purchase a new ticket every time they board another bus. There are no “transfers”.

TAXIS: There are set rates within defined zones of town. Do not enter a taxi without agreeing on the price with the driver first. Price is per trip not person.

MONEY EXCHANGE: Although you may have to wait in line for a few minutes, banks will give you a higher rate of exchan-ge than the exchange booths (caja de cam-bio). You will need your passport.Better yet, use your bank card to withdraw funds from any ATM machine. Note that ATM’s in the banks are the safest to use and generally charge lower fees.

DRINKING WATER: For the 17th year in a row, Puerto Vallarta’s water has been awarded a certification of purity for human consumption. The quality of the water tes-ted at the purification plant varies greatly from what comes out of the tap at the other end. So do be careful. If you want to be doubly sure, you can pick up bottled water just about anywhere.

EXPORTING PETS: Fall in love with the street dog outside your hotel or a puppy on the Malecon doesn’t mean they can’t come home with you. The process is fairly inexpen-sive and only takes a day or two. You need a certificate of health from a local vet among other things. The time of year that pets can travel in the cargo section of the plane may be your biggest challenge. For the most up-to-date information contact the Puerto Vallarta SPCA at [email protected].

COMMON SENSE: Just as you wouldn’t walk around your hometown drunk and be-ligerent, it is not acceptable to do that here. While Mexicans are a forgiving bunch, ba-sic politeness is appreciated. For the guys, peeing in public is a major faux pas and if you are caught, can get you tossed in jail or an expensive fine. Pay attention to your su-rroundings. Pay your bills. Be courteous. And have fun!

DRINKING AND DRIVING: First off – just don’t. The consequences are not worth it. Taxis are cheap and plentiful. Fines are as much as 10,000 pesos. You can be taken to jail and your vehicle impounded. There are many checkstops on the weekends and you will be asked to blow if they suspect you have been drinking.

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Fernando Gonzalez Corona

DIRECTORLic. Arturo Martinez Rojas

EDITOR Lic. Madeline [email protected]

SALESSylvie [email protected]

EDITORIAL BOARD Marcia BlondinRaymond C. Beaty Lois EllisonJohn & Christie Forget Landon Hollander Nancy Van Landingham Robina Oliver

DESIGNER Cynthia Estela Andrade G. [email protected]

Cover Photo La Cruz, NayaritMadeline Milne

Calling phones in Mexico can be tricky as it is different than in the US or Cana-da. There are different codes you need to use depending if you are calling land-lines or cellular phones and if they are local or long distance.

Long-distance calls from within MexicoFor national long-distance calls (within Mexico) the code is 01 plus the area code and phone number. For interna-tional long-distance calls, first dial 00, then the country code (for the U.S. and Canada the country code is 1, so you would dial 00 + 1 + area code + 7 digit number).

Calling Cell Phones (from a land line)If you are calling from a landline within the area code of the Mexican cell phone number dial 044, then the 10 digit number including area code. Outside of the area code (but still within Mexico) dial 045 and then the 10 digit phone number. Cell pho-ne to cell phone only requires the 10 digit number.

Welcome to Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit

Phone CardsPhone cards (“tarjetas telefonicas”) for use in pay phones can be bought at news-tands and in pharmacies in denomina-tions of 30, 50 and 100 pesos. Pay phones do not accept coins. When buying a pho-ne card for pay phone use, specify that you would like a “tarjeta LADA,” becau-se pre-paid cell phone cards are also sold in the same establishments.

Calling Toll-Free NumbersSome toll free numbers work from Mexi-co to the US and Canada, but many do not. You need to dial a different prefix.

To call the following toll free prefixes, dial as follows:800 numbersDial 001-880-then the number 866 numbers Dial 001-883-then the number 877 numbers Dial 001-882-then the number 888 numbers Dial 001-881-then the number

Promote Your Next Event Free calendar listings in the Vallarta Tribune

Vallarta Tribune is an activity and entertain-ment guide and merely publishes information as it is provided by the advertiser or event host.

We do not assume responsibility in errors or omissions other than to correct them as soon as they are made known to us regarding event schedules, locations and/or prices. In addi-tion, we do not assume any responsibility for erroneous inclusion or exclusion of informa-tion except to take reasonable care to ensure accuracy, that permission has been obtained to use it, and to remove it as soon as is practi-cal upon receiving your notification of error.

We recommend you always confirm prior to attending or visiting an event or establishment. Weekly publication edited, printed and dis-tributed by Ediciones y Publicaciones Siete Junio, SA de CV

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LEGAL SYSTEM: Not knowing the law is not an valid excuse in Mexico or anywhere. If you find yourself caught in a legal situa-tion be aware that guilt is presumed until your innocence can be proven.

Calling in Mexico

This is a very difficult lesson to learn if you are visiting from the United States or Cana-da in particular. Immediately contact your consulate for assistance.

Municipal and Transit Police: 322.290.0507Fire Department: 322.223.9476Red Cross - Ambulance: 322.222.1533

CONSuLATESAmerican ConsulateNuevo Vallarta: 322.222.006924 hrs Guadalajara: 333.268.2145

Immigration: 322.224.7719Consumer Protection: 01.800.468.8722

Tourism OfficesJalisco: 322.221.2676Nayarit: 322.297.1006

Canadian Consulate322.293.289424 hrs: 1.800.706.2900

Emergencies: 060 Red Cross: 065

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ABOGADO O PARTIDO SIN ABOGADOMendocino County HHSA/Social service

Family & Children´s DivisionPO Box 839 , Ukinh CA 95482

Teléfono 707-463-7990 Fax 707-463-7748Superior Court Of California

County of Mendocino100 Nort State St. Ukiah CA 95482

NOMBRE DEL CASO: Isabella Leigh RangelLA CITACION DE COMPARECERPUBLICADA POR EL DEPARTAMENTO DEBIENESTAR Y SUS INSTITUCIONES DELCODIGO ARTICULA 294 (F) (7) (A)NUMERO DE CASO: SCUK-JVSQ-12-16505-011. Para Arturo Vargas Rangel y cualquier otra persona que esta reclamando ser el padre de Isabella Leigh Rangel, nacida el 8 de diciembre del 2004 en Santa Rosa, California, EEUU.2. Habrá un junio de Departamento de Bienestar y sus Instituciones el 6 de agosto del 2013 a las 9:00 a.m. en el Departamento F localizado en la corte superior mencionada arriba.3. En el juicio, las recomendaciones de la trabajadora social serán consideradas por la corte.4. La trabajadora social va a recomendar que la niña este libre de la custodia legal de usted, para permitir que sea adoptada. si la corte sigue las recomendaciones, todos sus derechos paternales serán terminado.5. Usted tiene derecho a estar presente en este juicio y presentar evidencia, y tiene el derecho de ser representado por un abogado. Si no tiene un abogado y no tiene manera de pagarlo, será nombrado por la corte para usted.6. Si la corte termina sus derechos paternales, la orden podría ser final.7. La corte procederá con este juicio este usted presente o no.

Fecha: 5 de junio del 2013CARYN A. DOWNING. Empleada Provisional porPEGGY MELLO. Diputado

La Citación de Comparecer Publicada por el Departamento de Bienestar y sus Instituciones Del Código Articulo 366.26 será publicada en las Siguientes fechas: 10, 17 y 24 de junio y el 1 de Julio del 2013.

Guadalajara Gets All Jazzed Up

The streets and bars of Guadalajara, Jalisco, are tuning up for the International Jazz Festival on August 2-11. Organized by Tónica, a civil association formed by young musicians, with the

backing of the US consulate in Guadalajara, the festival will feature artists of the stature of Peter Bernstein, Ben Allison, José James, Brian Lynch and Michael Davis.

An International Jazz Seminar will be held as part of the festivities, with conferences and an educational program that includes an audio production and engineering seminar and several intensive workshops with some of the world’s most talented jazz players. Music industry professionals will have the opportunity to attend round tables hosted by prestigious exponents of the genre, while a film program is just one of the fringe activities on offer in this quixotic encounter between the city and the sensual world of jazz. www.tonicagdlac.com

“El Foco” Linking identities on C7 Radio

Each week El Foco discusses local issues on the radio. Here is a recap of this week’s show. Tune in every Monday to learn more. At El Foco this past Monday we had the pleasure of recei-

ving María Eugenia Huesca (Maru for short), President and Founder of Bienestares, A.C.. Bienestares, whose name means Wellbeings, is a nonprofit organization which seeks to heal and develop communities through the human development of the family as a base. Bienestares A.C. works with 22 families in each community (Bucerías and Punta de Mita so far), starting with the parents and working to include their children and youth to promote integral development. For more infor-mation contact Maru at [email protected].

Don’t miss the chance to practice your Spanish with “El Foco” every Monday at 4:00 pm on 91.9 FM C7 Radio, or tune in at 4:50 pm for our English summary

More Flights to Vallarta

Recently announced by long time Puerto Vallarta advocate, Apple Vaca-

tions, new flights will soon be operating from many cities in the United States to Puerto Vallarta’s International Airport (PVR). New flight departure cities in-clude: Philadelphia, Pennsylva-nia; New York, NY; Saint Louis, Missouri; Rockford, Illinois; and Lansing, Michigan.

In addition to the new cities more flights from cities that al-ready offer service to PVR will represent an increase of 73% in the seats available on nonstop flights to Puerto Vallarta / Ri-viera Nayarit. An increase in the existing flights from the cities of:Chicago, Colorado; Dallas, Denver, Illinois, Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee, Wiscon-sin; and Minneapolis.

The St. Regis Unveils Punta Mita Beach Festival 2013

The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort, in conjunction with Punta Mita Expe-

ditions and the Riviera Nayarit Convention & Visitors Bureau, recently announced the inaugu-ral Punta Mita Beach Festival 2013. This celebratory event will be taking place July 4 – 7, 2013, and will take full advantage of the golden shoresPunta Mita.

Whether it’s surfing, stand up paddle, stand-up paddle yoga, sandcastle building for the kids, a fashion show showcasing the latest in surf attire, or sipping on a margarita as you savor the delicacies of the ocean, this fun-filled weekend promises to be one to remember.

“One of the most alluring aspects of The St. Regis Pun-ta Mita Resort is our beautiful beachfront location, which will

be showcased in every regard as a part of the Punta Mita Beach Festival,” said Carl Emberson, general manager.

“We are very excited to un-veil this all-encompassing event to guests, involving world-class partners for experiences that range from surfing to fashion to culinary. With something for everyone, the Punta Mita Beach Festival will be another destina-tion event in Punta Mita, a bes-poke occasion unlike any other.”

The inaugural Punta Mita Beach Festival 2013 at The St Regis Punta Mita Resort inclu-des three nights’ accommoda-tions, your choice of any of the scheduled activities and events, as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner, including non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.

Editors Notes

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

So, this is lucky issue num-ber 13. In the past three months we have updated

the design of the newspaper, changed the content to be more local focus and news based, we have increased the number of pages, sorted out most (not all) of the distribution issues and we have brought in some really great writers that are committed to making the Tribune the best paper in the Bay.

So I ask you, Tell Me, lite-rally tell me, are you reading the paper? Are you heading out crack of dawn Friday mornings to grab the paper and a cup of coffee at Pages in the Sun? Or suiting up the dogs and heading to Starbucks to enjoy the paper with your grande caramel mac-chiato?

Perhaps you are sliding onto the bar stool at Yo-Yo Moe’s mid-afternoon for a cold one and a chance to catch up on the local news? Regardless how you found this fine paper, we would love to hear your fee-dback. From typos to kudos your comments are important to the growth and ultimate success of this publication.

Speaking of things that chan-ge (and things that don’t) we have the cloning ATM machines rearing their ugly key pads again. (Yes this happens the world over – even in picturesque Eugene, Oregon and sleepy St. John’s.) Please exercise caution and keep an eye on your accounts if you are using ATM machines.

Next week we will run some tips on how to protect your cards from cloning. In the meantime, we recommend you transfer only what you can stand to lose into a separate account and make all your withdrawals from there.

Lots of great events coming up and if you get a chance check out the Let’s Schmoooze in La Cruz event tonight (Friday June 21st) at the Ya-Ya Café from 11am-2pm and the Umbrella Downwinder on Saturday the 22nd also in the hopping town of La Cruz. June 29th has us celebrating and fundraising for the Firefighters and Lifeguards at the Cena con Causa at the Krystal Hotel and resort for only $300 pesos. We have Barbara Pe-ters Birthday Bash on June 22nd at her gallery Galeria Vallarta in Centro. Drop by for some treats and a chance to see Roger Lex work. All the event details can be found on page 21 in this week’s paper.

Hope to hear from you soon and perhaps we can grab a drink at one of the many things happe-ning around town this weekend. Send me an email at [email protected]


Mexico’s active Popo-catepetl volcano has been showing signs of

activity, spewing gas and ash for the past few weeks, June 17th saw one of the largest explosions yet. The volcano has registered a massive explosion spewing ash and incandescent rock almost 4 kilometers high. What makes this particularily noteworthy is that the video footage of the explosion is captured in perfect clarity. A few weeks earlier, a UFO was caught on video alle-gedly flying into the Volcano crater. No word on the wherea-bouts of the UFO now.

Around 4.5 million people live within a 50-kilometer ra-dius of the active volcano, 650,000 of whom are conside-red to be at high risk.

According to authorities in the state of Puebla, where the second-tallest volcano in Mexi-co is located, the incandescent fragments released in the blast fell as far as 2 kilometers from the crater. Director of Puebla’s Civil Protection department Je-sus Morales said that burning

’Don Popo’ Erupts from his Slumber

rocks sparked small fires around the volcano.

Mexico’s National Center for Prevention of Disasters (Cena-pred) said the volcano had retur-ned to its previous activity level, and that the volcanic alert level would remain at ‘yellow phase two.’ In addition, volcanic ash that was blown up to 4 kilome-ters into the air could be shifted by wind currents and then fall on Puebla, or even as far away as Mexico City, Cenapred warned.

Popocatepetl had previously been in phase two after breaking the record for the most volcanic emissions in one day – the 5,452 –meter-tall giant gave off 300

emissions in just one day in May.In December 2000, the vol-

cano registered one of its lar-gest eruptions in recent history, prompting the mass evacuation of the surrounding countryside.

With favourable weather con-ditions there is excellent video footage of the blast. No sign of the UFO though.

VIDEO LINKS

See the blast here: http://youtu.be/3ATDHCtaMBs

See the UFO here: http://youtu.be/Wk5qbQv7u1w

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IFC Invites you to Celebrate Christmas in July!

by Janie Albright Blank

Who needs snow?! The International Friend-ship Club (IFC) is

hosting a festive evening at the River Café on Saturday, July 20th including a Holiday dinner with all the trimmings! Get in the spirit joining with your fa-mily and friends in Vallarta to celebrate – best part is no need to wear a Christmas sweater and no presents to buy! However if you bring a new children’s toy or toiletry item you will be entered in a special raffle. There will also be live entertainment and a mini fashion show with “seasonal fas-hions” from Carol’s Boutique.

A welcome cocktail is inclu-ded and the cocktail hour begins

at 6:30 followed by dinner at 7:30. The elegant meal begins with Assorted Lettuce, Spiced Cheese, Plantain Banana, Gri-lled Chistorra and Apple Vinai-grette followed by Hand-carved slices of Tender oven-roasted Turkey paired with Roasted gar-lic mashed Potatoes and grilled Vegetables, served with a side of house-made Apple Sage Stuffing and Cranberry Mango Chutney. Dessert will be Pumpkin spice Crème Brûlée, a house-made pumpkin spice custard baked and topped with caramelized sugar.

The cost is $350 pesos and includes tax and tip. A Vegeta-rian menu is also available. As always, proceeds go to fund the Cleft Palate Program and other charities supported by the IFC.

Last Saturday, June 16th Layla’s Restaurante offi-cially opened its doors to

Vallarta’s fine dining lovers and we had the oportunnity to try this new concept of international and mexican fine cousine at very affordable prices.

Restauaranteur Rodrigo Vi-llar and his wife Isabel Cenil took the plunge and moved from New York to Puerto Vallarta with the idea of creating a new restau-rant where they could offer crea-tive dishes with excellent service in a comfortable and elegant am-bience.

With more than 25 years of experience in the gastrono-mic business Rodrigo is quite sure Layla’s will be among the ten best restaurants in Vallarta. Such thoughts of low season mean little to him as he declared “We will succed no matter what! We will pamper local customers with what they deserve all year round”.

Chef Mario Murrillo with a

There’s a New Restaurant in Town LAYLA’S RESTAURANTE

long history of cooking expe-rience in Manhattan presented his delicious creations. As star-ters we had Fried Oysters in chi-potle cream and mexican sauce presented in the shell over black beans and slices of lemon as de-coration. Then we tried a fresh Spinach salad with walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette and mus-hrooms sauteed in garlic. For the main course we chose the lemon trout fillet stuffed with shrimps, asparagus and mushrooms, le-mon cream with a green rice timbale, that yielded fantastic

flavors. We washed it down with a pitcher of Red Sangría.

Layla’s restaurant is well lo-cated at the Centro zone in front of Parque Hidalgo on Venezuela street, this privileged location gives us great views of the mou-ntains and the bay, especially at the terrace-bar located on the se-cond floor.

137 Venezuela Street, Colonia 5 de Diciembre.

Phone 322 222 2436 Open Tuesday to Satur-day 9am - 12 midnight

Sundays from 9am to 9pm

As a sign of the ever changing times it would appear that the Legali-

zation of Marijuana has drifted on a cloud of smoke, south to Mexico City. With a handful of US states and Canadian provin-ces, toying with the idea of de-criminalization or full out lega-lization, this movement doesn’t come as a shock. Mexico City has regularly reflected the more liberal and cosmopolitan views of the world at large.

As reported in the Huffington Post, Party of the Democratic Revolution is preparing legis-lation that would make it legal to smoke weed in Mexico City, news site Sin Embargo reports.

The legislation, which will be introduced in September, would allow people to grow marijuana at home, smoke it in designated places and carry up to 25 grams for personal use. Lawmakers say the bill aims to permit marijua-na use for medicinal reasons, but also opens the door to lega-lizing its recreational use. “Most marijuana consumers aren’t addicts,” Mexico City Deputy Vidal Llerenas Morales told Sin Embargo. “They aren’t criminals. They are functional people.”

News of the coming legisla-tion comes just days after ex-President Vicente Fox made a series of public statements

Mexico City to Consider Legalization

arguing in favor of legalizing the drug as a way to remove some of the profits away from drug cartels. Fox said earlier this month that he’d grow weed himself if it were legal.

But the country’s current Pre-sident, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in Spanish), is less convinced decriminalization is the way to go.

“I’m not in favor because it’s not just about legalizing marijua-na,” Peña Nieto told CNN shortly after taking office in December. “ It seems to me that this would open up the possibility that some sectors of the population could wind up consuming much more harmful things.”

More than 70,000 people have died from violence tied to the illegal drug trade since Peña Nieto’s predecessor Felipe Cal-derón launched a frontal assault on Mexico’s drug cartels in 2006.

Decriminalization has seen much success in other countries around the world including Por-tugal, Bangladesh, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and a few others Where posses-sion of small amounts of mari-juana is either legal or tolerated. Still other countries, like the U.S and Canada, have legalized me-dical marijuana in some areas.


June 21 - 27, 2013

VALLART PRIDE 2013 RAFFLE WINNERS

The Vallarta Pride Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the raffle winners from last Friday’s 1st Awards Event andFun-draiser at Paco’s Ranch in the Romantic Zone of Puerto Vallarta.

Prize winners are:Zuri ResendizWinner of a water generator, a value of $1,499 USD. It was donated by Stonewall Bar.

Tim LongpréWinner of a 1 week vacation at any RCI property, a value of $2,100 USD. It was donated by Almar Resort Luxury All Suites & Spa.

Dale CopperWinner of a 1 week vacation, a value of $2,100 USD. It was donated by Almar Resort Luxury All Suites & Spa.

Daniel CamachoWinner of a 4 in 1 vacation week, a value of $5,000 USD. It was donated by Almar Resort Luxury All Suites & Spa.

Sam EllsworthWinner of a 2 night stay at Hotel Blue Chairs Resort, a value of $300 USD.

The Vallarta Pride Committee has contacted each of thelucky winners to deliver their exciting prizes with their warmest congratulations.

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It was not long ago that I was sitting at my house in the city of Denver, in the state of Co-

lorado, in the country of – you guessed it - the United States. After transporting my body 1700 miles (2700 KM) to the country of Mexico, to the city of Buce-rias, to a home which is a hotel room: my same brain and body remain intact.

Only the context in which I find myself has changed. No longer do I expect to hear English every time I am on pu-blic transportation.

No longer do I expect to see those familiar American pro-ducts always occupying shelf space at the store.

No longer do I assume I will fit right in, not being looked at as an outsider, a gringo. For some reason, however, I find it neces-sary to say that I love it.

I love the speed of life. I love the differences you find, the sen-ses you interpret, the experiences you have. I love it all. One thing I don’t love at times is my inabi-lity to communicate.

There is one action I believe to be universal and understood by all living creatures: eye con-tact. For this, you don’t need words or expressions or tone of voice. In fact, you don’t even need to be conscious of it.

All you need to do is simply look. If what people say is true about eyes being windows to the soul, I believe it’s safe to say that

Myles Wallingford, Investours Intern

“I Contact”

eye contact is, essentially, the act of souls connecting. One thing I love about travel is exactly this. You don’t need to know a lan-guage to have a genuine connec-tion with another human being.

Last week on assignment with Investours, the organization I’m interning with, I attended a local community event to re-cord video footage of a basket-making class.

The teacher was an inspira-tional leader: a single mother of 5, a cancer survivor, and an ex-traordinarily hard worker.

She spoke to me through a translator about her life, her hopes for the women in her class, even about the symbo-lic value of art.

I could only comprehend about 20% of the words she spoke, but I understood 100% of what her legacy would be. I could feel the power of her words and presence.

I got goose bumps as she lea-ned in closer, eyes piercing into mine, to emphasize why these “mujeres” were so important to her (yes I do know that one- it means “women”).

So sometimes we don’t need to hear sounds in the form of language in order to associate them with ideas.

Sometimes in order to un-derstand a seemingly incompre-hensible person, all we need is a little bit of interest, a little bit of time, and to keep our eyes open.

Artist Roger Lex has clai-med Puerto Vallarta as his second home for

over 20 years now. He is an ac-claimed artist having painted a mural in the Las Vegas Conven-tion Center and a larger one in the Houston Astrodome.

Roger was also commissio-ned to paint the reproduction of the King Tut mask which was produced as a limited edi-tion lithograph and marketed through National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal and the Smithsonian.

Extremely collectible, his works are part of the collections of Tex Ritter and Ernest Tubb, Gran Ole Opry stars among others, and his art is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Naval History in Annapolis,Md.

Abstract artist Roger Lex Showing in Vallarta

Currently, Roger is now crea-tive director and owner of Tri Ad Creative Group. Previously he was the owner of two fine art galleries and curator for a third.

Roger believes his passion drives his art, the core of which originates inside the eye of his mind where he sees what others miss, whether of nature or man, realistic or abstract.

This vision is what he is dri-ven to capture in his art. He says “abstract paintings represent ‘energy’ captured forever on canvas.”

The paintings of Roger Lex will be featured at Galeria Vallar-ta at the Cocktail opening on Sa-turday, June 22, 6-9 p.m. Gue-rrero 187, #110, Puerto Vallarta Centro.


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A Bag of Goodies at the Old Town Farmers’ Market

Fill up your shopping bags with all sorts of “make it, bake it, grow it” goodies at

the Old Town Farmers Market–Tianguis Cultural. From deca-dent sweets to handcrafted Pre-Hispanic musical instruments, we’ve got it all for a fun-filled Saturday morning of shopping.

While you’re weaving through the stands of goods and services, be sure to check out the masterful weaving skills of Emi-liano Hernández Cruz, owner of Artesania de Oaxaca.

“I started crafting baskets as an eleven-year-old in Oaxaca,” says Cruz who weaves whimsi-cal baskets, bags and flowers.

“We hand select natural palms and cut them according to the traditional methods used by my family for generations.”

Once the palms are dried by the warmth of the sun, they are woven into colorful and handy products perfect for everyday

errands or special occasions. Using the same artisan techni-ques Cruz also hand makes a line of bags and baskets woven from durable plastic strips.

“Our customers appreciate the craftsmanship found in each of our woven bags and baskets,” says Cruz. “We are proud that our Artesania de Oaxaca pro-ducts promote the artistry and creativity of Mexican handicra-fts around the world.”

Your Artesania de Oaxaca basket is the perfect eco-friendly shopping staple for all of your Market purchases, including the delectable meat and deli pro-ducts from Carnes del Mundo.

Owned by Kyle and Irma Quast, Carnes del Mundo is a fa-mily-run business located in Bu-cerias, just 25km north of Puerto Vallarta.

“We started by making the foods we missed from home,” says Kyle Quast. “It was a time when the people of Vallarta

couldn’t just dart into Sam’s Club, Walmart or Costco for tas-ty meat products. I researched the local market and eventually made samples for the diners at my Marina based restaurant.”

The meat and deli products were a such a hit, that the Quasts soon opened Carnes del Mundo. Today, they continue to smoke many of their selections whi-le crafting their own sausages. With over 220 varieties, Carnes del Mundo offers the freshest, hard-to-find meats for a one-of-a-kind dining experience.

Fill up your bags with these Carnes del Mundo favorites:

Bacon – Guanaciale, pancetta, hickory smoked, hickory smoked pepper, Canadian pea meal and smoked CanadianBBQ – Brisket, chicken, pork ribsDeli Meats – Pastrami, roast beef, corned beef, hickory smoked ham, smoked turkey breast, deli sliced tongueGourmet – Pate and ostrich pate Jerky – Black or red pepper, te-riyaki, turkey, ostrich, regular Sausage – Brats, bangers, Ita-lian, Polish, kielbasa, breakfast, Texas hot link, Spanish chorizo

Don’t forget to pick up a variety of Carnes del Mundo’s sauces: BBQ, ranch, honey mus-tard, satay, teriyaki, horseradish and chipotle marinade. To place direct orders and schedule a free delivery, visit the Quasts at the Market or at their Heroe de Na-cozari #31 location in Bucerias. You can also visit Carnes del Mundo online.

Fill up your bag of goodies this Saturday at the Old Town Farmer’s Market – Tianguis Cultural. Located along Basilio Badillo between Olas Altas and Pino Suarez, the summer Market is open 9:30 am to 2 pm until the last Saturday in July, rain or shi-ne. For more information, visit www.oldtownfm.com or “like” us on Facebook.

A lot of the time I take people diving for the first time, I feel really sorry

for them. “Why?” I hear you ask “is that?”

Well, I once had a normal life and a regular job, and then I learnt to scuba dive. Now I live far away from “home” and could not work in the “real” world if I wanted to. I don´t think I could be this happy without diving as much as I do.

Diving is a very addictive sport. Once you learn to dive, all your vacations are going to be taken somewhere you can dive, and there is always somewhere new to put on your bucket list. Let me try and explain why.

The underwater world is quiet. The moment you drop be-low the surface of the water the worries and concerns of modern life fade away. You are in a fo-reign world, where strange crea-tures live and where the rules of physics that govern our everyday existence no longer apply. Gravi-ty disappears. For the duration of the dive you are an explorer who can navigate an environment few humans are privileged to expe-rience. In a way, divers are like astronauts - they escape their terrestrial existence! Unlike spa-ce travel, the training to safely explore the underwater environ-ment takes only days.

The relative safety and ease of scuba diving makes it a great way for many people to step back from their busy lives. Un-derwater, you cannot be reached on your cell phone, the latest

Addicted to Diving

Facebook updates are of no con-cern and Twitter is silenced. Life goes on pause and you are sim-ply alone with the water.

While unusual aquatic life and the bizarre environment consume your attention, to dive safely, you must focus on your immediate surroundings and ac-tions. A diver must manage his dive gear and monitor his depth, time, and air supply.

Someone told me once that all divers are trying to escape from something. Maybe that is true. Whatever drives us to vo-yage into the underwater world, whether it is a need for break or a simple penchant for explora-tion and adventure, diving pro-vides a welcome relief from our everyday lives. We emerge from the water refreshed, and ready to tackle our obligations on land from a new perspective. It is for me, just like doing meditation, but I can´t sit still long enough for that!

I had a guest jump on our boat yesterday with all of the worries of the world etched on his face. He owned a busy busi-ness back in Canada and chatted about growth plans and the effect the economy was having on his business all the way to the dive site. After diving, I did not hear a single reference to his company, only talk of the fish he saw and the diving techniques that he wants to improve. His face had relaxed and he was a different, happier man. He needed to dive and I don´t think anything else could do this to or for him.


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This isParadise...

By Marcia Blondin [email protected]

By Alexander SternbergInvestours Intern

Diary of an Intern

While all of us at the Co-op Market - held every Satur-day at the Paradise Community Center - are waiting for Vallarta´s first major rainfall, I want to introduce two

of our hardworking vendors…ladies first.Meet Lisa – originally from Finland and Vallartense for more

than three decades. Not only lovely to look at, she is smart and multi-talented. Already the author of two well received books avai-lable on Amazon; she is constantly showing up at Market with new things. Her hand painted Italian Renaissance reproductions on tile have been wildly successful and are adorning villas and condos all over Vallarta. Recently Lisa was shopping for something to wear in our blistering summers that would be attractive, light, airy and not hot! Not finding exactly what she wanted – out came her sewing machine and Palazzo Wear was born. Initially many vendors as-ked where her billowy flared pants came from and one order led to another and that, as they say, was that. See Lisa´s new brightly colored, reasonably priced collection every Saturday. She custom-makes pants, sleeveless dresses and tops to your exact measure-ments to keep you elegantly cool year round.

About 15 years ago Armando spent three months in the south of France on vacation. A chance visit to a rural farmer´s market piqued his interest in soap making and would ultimately lead to his life´s work. Many conversations with the elderly French soap maker inspired Armando to experiment with her family recipe when he returned to Mexico. He began growing his own herbs, trying various blends and scents and successfully created his own completely organic line of soaps. In2010, Armando branched out, knowledgeable enough from years of studying botanicals and skin types to begin creating exfoliants, body oils, creams, colognes and more. Today he has a full line of personal care products that you can first sample at our Market and purchase knowing they contain nothing artificial. His oil based products made from coconuts and almonds - never mineral oil! - are suitable for massage and aro-matherapy. One long hot soak immersed in Armando´s apple bath salts will have you back at Market clamoring for more!

In addition to their beautiful hummingbird feeders Phillip and Brenda are now making marionettes out of the same super clay; all you need to add are a few strings. Everything you purchase from this creative couple comes in a hand painted (by them, of course!) paper bag.

Look what´s coming to the Paradise Community Center: “Fas-hions for Charity” by Deja New! The brainchild of Vallarta busi-ness woman Kathleen Palmer will open this November featuring hundreds of donated items. Kathleen´s intention is to raise aware-ness in our community to the urgent needs of the 14 charities to which her store regularly donates clothing and – most importantly – cash. Lots more info to come and in the meanwhile visit Deja New Consignment, Jacarandas 280.

Until next week – find your umbrellas!

When walking through the ocean side of Bucerias, it’s hard to

remember that Mexico can be a dangerous and very frustrating country. It’s very easy to become trapped in the Bucerias bubble especially as I do much of my work on the computer in a cafe or at my hotel. It’s very easy to recline into the cushy, tourist-priced lifestyle, with the Deca-meron soundtrack thumping in the background.

However, in my three weeks of life in Bucerias the most grati-fying experiences I’ve had have come from the other side of the highway.

This past Friday, I had the chance, along with two other interns, to meet a local fisher-man named Javier who uses his catch to make ceviche, which he claims, will increase your stren-gth and vitality.

After devouring a kilo of his ceviche over the weekend, I think he might have a point. My fellow interns and I sat down with Javier to talk about his fis-hing technique, the development of his small business and his ho-pes for the future.

Javier is a gregarious charac-ter, constantly smiling and jo-king, and was natural in front of the camera as we filmed him for the interview. It was interesting for me to take a step back and watch my fellow interns in their element as one zoned in to the lighting, sound and filming of the interview and the other drew Javier’s personality out with in-terview questions.

I’m happy to be working with a very competent and ta-lented team. Furthermore, I am excited by the opportunity to venture into the other side of the highway, which might go unnoti-ced to the average tourist.

It’s easy to forget that this is a community with a very clear socioeconomic divide. There are some pretty incredible suc-cess stories of local businesses throughout this community and it only takes a few steps off the beaten path to find them. Javier’s ceviche recipe wasn’t passed down for generations in his fa-mily, it was something that he developed a passion for and has

built into a growing business that provides stability for his family.

The artisans and small busi-ness owners in Bucerias might have traditions passed down through generations but they do represent a community striving to improve their lives as well as providing important services and interesting, and in Javier’s case delicious, products.


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Paradise and Parenting

I know it’s June because I am no longer in the mood to create magic in my kids’

lunch bags. I’m certainly gra-teful for peanut butter and jelly (it’s organic, ok) at this time of year. Gone are the days of spe-cial, cut-out sandwiches and mom’s home-baked chocola-te chip cookies, folks. In other words, I’m slumping toward the finish line and I’m getting a leg cramp.

We’ve decided to spend our summer vacation in Vallarta this year. There are a multitude of reasons for this, one being that Vallarta is so full of interesting places to visit.

I can’t wait to be a tourist in my own town. Another reason is that we are all ready for a break, after a busy school year for the children and me, and a nonstop high season for my musician husband. It will be wonderful to have few responsibilities and a loose schedule.

The paragraph above is what I wrote to my friends and family in Canada. I left out a portion of the truth, which is included here, because they thankfully do not receive the Tribune there.

The real deal is that we went to Canada last summer, and the

Starting the Summer Vacation

big, nasty Canadian dollars cor-nered our little Mexican bank account on the schoolyard and held its arm behind its back until it cried empty.

My Canadian family and cir-cle of friends have no problem believing that we’d love to spend a summer re-discovering beauti-ful Vallarta without the crowds, hiking in the jungles, lolling around on the beaches and sip-ping fruity drinks.

But here we all know that in summer, any walking we do feels like a slog through a swamp. Oh sure, I love the beach in summer, as long as we go before 8:30am and as long no one speaks to me or asks me to play any type of sweat-producing sport such as dodge ball.

And by the way, I was telling the truth when I said I needed a break. However, two kids pers-piring, fighting, and running out of batteries on their Wii remo-tes usually tends to cut into the break time.

So then I check pinterest for project ideas and all I feel is a deep frustration that I can’t buy Borax in Puerto Vallarta so that we can make our own silly putty.

What we try to do is be crea-

tive with our summer activity planning. For example, a favori-te of my husband’s is called Let’s Go to the Store and Not Buy An-ything! The goal of this activity is to stay in free air conditioned comfort for as long as possible while not actually spending any money. It’s fun to browse for milk products and frozen french fries until the store manager gently asks if s/he can see some

ID. This activity is getting old for the younger family members, who have now figured out that the endless list making in the toy section doesn’t seem to pay off.

Well, we have picked up some tricks over the years of summer vacation desperation. We don’t actually have a pool, but we have made friends with people who do.

And, if we do enough activi-ties during the week like the store-browsing one, we can have some serious fun on the weekends.

I’ll continue to update you on our family’s shenanigans as the summer progresses (or degenera-tes… it kind of depends on your perspective). I’m pretty sure I can find some recipes for silly putty that won’t require Borax.

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Fire on the tip of everyone’s tongue

The wild but sophisticated bittersweet notes that characte-rize a quality mezcal, produced using traditional methods, is what has earned certain brands a place on the shelf alongside the most select spirits in the world.

Some 100 certified brands of mezcal are currently sold in delicatessens and bars in

over 30 countries. Casa Mezcal in New York and La Botica de la Condesa in Madrid are among the chicest establishments dedi-cated to this Mexican elixir.

The success of mezcal can largely be attributed to the way it is made. Small-scale traditio-nal processes are still favored because most producers believe mass production and market ing would jeopardize the flavor of a fiery beverage whose magic is the fruit of patience.

Each batch of mezcal has its own distinct flavor and aro-ma, depending on which one of 23 utilizable species of maguey plant –the only raw ingredient used in the making of mezcal– it is made from, the type of soil the plant grew in, the kind of still used and the master mezcal maker’s touch According to the blog for Mezcalito a punto de veneno, a brand of mezcal from Oaxaca that is highly praised by connoisseurs, “the flavor and aroma of mezcal will vary de-pending on whether the maguey was harvested in the wild or cul-tivated; whether its flower stalk was cut or not; whether it grew on a hillside, a gully, high up in the valley or low down; and how much sun it received during its life span. Other factors include the water and type of soil it grew in, the species and whether or not one single species of maguey or several were used.”

To cut a long story short, every time you take a sip of mez-cal, you are sampling a bouti-que beverage. Only regions that have been producing mezcal for centuries –the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Durango and 11 mu-nicipalities in Tamaulipas and one in Guanajuato– were autho-rized to make mezcal under the 1994 denomination of origin de-

Mezcal By Sandra Roblágui


cree issued by the Mexican go-vernment.

Mezcal as we know it today was first made in Mexico shortly after the Spanish Conquest, when Old World knowledge was applied to New World ingre-dients. The process has remai-ned virtually unchanged since the agave of Mesoamerica was first distilled by the conquista-dors using technology they had borrowed from Arab countries, according to Origins of Mezcal, an essay by Guillermo Marín, former director of the Center for Research and the Dissemination of Mexican Culture at the Oaxa-ca Institute of Higher Education IESO.

It takes around eight years for an agave or maguey plant to be-come mezcal. The mature plants must pass through an oven, fer-mentation tubs and a still befo-re they reach the bottle and are finally displayed on the shelves of exclusive bars in Mexico and abroad.Even in its most tradi-tional form, mezcal is experien-cing a boom that started less than 10 years ago. In the words of a partner of La Botica, one of the first mezcal bars in Mexi-co City, “when someone would come into the bar and we’d tell them we only sold mezcal and beer, they’d leave. I had to sit down with each of those first customers and explain to them the origin and characteristics of what they were about to taste. I spent eight months in a drunken stupor, but it worked: those first customers came back with others and passed on the knowledge.”

In 2005, La Botica was se-lling two beers for every shot of mezcal. Today it’s the other way around: customers are or-dering two shots or “caballitos” for every beer. La Botica has se-ven branches, including one in the upscale district of Polanco in Mexico City, all of which offer some 50 types of white, golden and aged mezcal.

Mezcal has won over drinkers in cosmopolitan cities, not just in Mexico, but around the world. La Botica de la Condesa isn’t an isolated case. To grasp the extent of the mezcal revolution, all you have to do is enter the magic word “mezcal” and your city of choice on any Internet search en-gine. And judging from the num-ber of enthusiasts out there, it’s here to stay!

Originally published in Ne-gocios ProMéxico

Food

It takes around eight years

for an agave or maguey

plant to become mezcal.

the mature plants must

pass through an oven,

fermentation tubs and

a still before they reach

the bottle and are finally

displayed on the shelves

of exclusive bars in Mexico

and abroad.


Food

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By Gary R. Beck

Most travelers explore the region’s offerings for dining experiences

in various cuisines. Puerto Va-llarta has slowly risen to the top in culinary opportunities throug-hout Mexico. Many surveys rank the Bahía de Banderas area second only to the capital city, passing Guadalajara. Here we are blessed with an array of cul-tures and cuisines ranging from traditional Mexican to gourmet Mexican, Spanish to Italian, Japanese to Indian, South Ame-rican to German, Austrian and Swiss.

That is only the beginning. Prices range from budget like taco stands, street vendors and small cafés to reasonable and moderate, found much lower in price than comparable cities throughout the world. Expen-sive restaurants in the Puerto Vallarta area offer much more

Dining in Puerto Vallartathan food; rather an entire eve-ning experience: many places glowing with ambiance, deco-rated with beautiful local art accentuated by talented perfor-mers offering fine music, resul-ting in a most pleasurable event at prices lower than one has been accustomed.

It is not uncommon to en-ter a small eatery and disco-ver the chef/owner is from Italy and he makes his own pasta and pizza dough. Very fresh local ingredients are used in every creation, from fruits and vegetables to meats and seafood, adding a vibrant ex-plosion of flavors and smells. All ingredients are made safe though washing in purified wa-ter. Support is extended to the Jaliscan farmers who work long hard hours under the blazing sun, producing crops as their families have done for many de-

cades.For diners who have an in-

terest in learning more about the cuisine of Mexico, consider branching out from the usual ta-cos and enchiladas when visiting the myriad of places offering good home-cooked traditio-nal food. Have you sampled gringas, sopes, volcanes, molcajete dishes, enmoladas, chilaquiles and molé? Not all chiles are hot and hotter. Po-blano [as in chile relleno] and smoky chipotle [especially in a cream sauce] are ranked on the mild side, yet enhance the pre-parations with unique flavor. Menudo and pozole are two po-pular creations enjoyed by the locals and daring gringos.

In addition to hundreds of lo-cally grown vegetables, observe the fruits available for snacks, garnishes, salads, smoothies and desserts: mango, papaya,

pineapple, pear, guava, straw-berry, cantaloupe, watermelon, lime, apple, banana, coconut, passionfruit, starfruit, tama-rind, orange, tangerine, co-conut and guayaba. Carmen Miranda’s hat is plenty packed.

Perusing Italian menus one finds pastas including: fusilli, fettuccine, linguine, lasagna, ri-gatoni, tagliatelle, pappardelle, spaghetti, cannelloni, seashell, butterfly, gnocchi, tortellini, vermicelli, many of which are made in the restaurant’s kit-chen. Various breads as baguet-tes, ciabatta and focaccia may be freshly baked.

Banderas Bay is one of the world’s largest bays, measuring 26 miles from east to west and 20 miles from north to south.

The bay starts to the Nor-th in Punta Mita which is also the end of the Sierra de Valle-jo mountains and, to the south,

ends in Cabo Corrientes, part of the foothills of the Sierra del Cuale mountain range.

Logically, Puerto Vallarta teems with fresh fish and sea-food. Often found are: tilapia, huachinango [red snapper], do-rado [mahi mahi], sea bass, eel, marlin, oyster, clam, mussel, trout, salmon, octopus, crab, lobster, langostino [crayfish], halibut, squid, scallop, tuna and shrimp. Whether eaten raw, gri-lled, broiled, baked, smoked or sauced with anything from a creamy cilantro to ajillo garlic chile, the freshest fish available is a treat to the taste buds.

There is no need to sub-sist on “United States-style” hamburgers and pizza. When visiting Puerto Vallarta, Mexi-co, relax and explore the vast surprising treats right here at your fingertips.


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A traditional and magical festival will take place next June 29th in Mex-

caltitan, a northern Nayarit fis-hing village, that every year celebrates the island’s patron saints: San Pedro and San Pablo.

Teams representing the saints

will engage in a battle, and the winner will most likely be St. Peter, who is known as the cor-nerstone of the Catholic Church. They may be a little too heavy at times, but they’re in no way cheating.

This town is said be the mythical starting point for the pilgrimage of the Nahuatl tribes in search of Tenochtitlan, what is now essentially Mexico City and is depicted on the Mexican flag.

Since the arrival of the Spa-

nish, this small island lost in wet-lands has honored both apost-les. And if the Huitchilopoztli God did indeed commanded its people to undertake a pilgrimage in search of an eagle – or more realistically a more precise in-terpretation made by the Bouto-rini Codex – a heron devouring a snake, now San Pedro and San Pablo are the guides every year.

The festival is colorful and

unique. Shrimp-fishing sustains this region and the Saints sail out

Celebrate saints day in the Cradle of Mexican Culture

early in the morning, followed by a procession of parishioners, to bless the waters so that the traps set receive an abundance of plump fresh shrimp.

The life-giving mangroves create the shrimp’s habitat and provide the material to build an elaborate levee system that have been used for fishing since befo-re anyone can remember.

The blessings are followed

by a battle, and the whole town is split into two teams, each repre-senting one of the saints. The teams compete in a race throughout the island, followed by a rousing cele-

bration. Each team will chose their best sailors for the race, who will sail on enormous canoes carrying the image of their respective saint. They’ll circle around Mexcaltitan, propelling the canoe with sticks that are submerged to the bottom of the channels, just like they do in the trajineras in Xochimilco, and not with paddles like it’s done in the rest of the country. Every year, San Pedro’s team will invariably win.

“No, we’re not cheating. It’s

just that San Pedro is even more miraculous and it’s better to commend fishing to him, as we don’t want to annoy him. The

strongest contenders are always placed in San Pedro’s team, and this is why he always wins… but we’re not cheating, the competi-tion takes place like any other”, said Hector Apodaca, a guard at the Museo del Origen, which was built on this island to celebrate its designation as the ‘Cradle of Mexican culture’.

The joy, cheering and festi-

ve environment that surrounds the race is only the beginning of a fiesta as traditional as any, which includes dancing and ea-ting, as well as fireworks during the night, but more importantly,

framed by a natural environment of incomparable beauty.

LICK YOUR FINGERS

Eating at Mexcaltitan is a whole new experience. This is the place that gave birth to the original recipe of the ‘cockroach shrimp’, and in no other place can they be found as crunchy, the ideal snack to go along with a beer. Fish in the zarandeado style, shrimp tamales, shrimp pate and aguachile from Nayarit complete the feast.

Travel

HOW TO GET HERE

Mexcaltitan is located 21 miles northeast of Santia-go Ixcuintla, approximately 1 hour from San Blas and 2 hours from Tepic. From Santiago Ixcuintla you must take the road towards Sentis-pac, and continue on towards the La Batanga pier, where you’ll have to take a boat to the island. It’s recommended to sleep in San Blas when visiting Mexcaltitan, so the travel to and from the island can be made with ease. In San Blas, one can find a room in comfortable hotels like Garza Canela, Hacienda Flamingos and Casa Mañana, among other charming hotels.


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Education

By Leza Warkentin

This is our second install-ment in a series on choo-sing the right school for

your child in Vallarta. Last week I talked about the differences between the private and public system, and began a list, in or-der of priority (in my view) of what you as a parent should be checking carefully when visi-ting schools in PV. The first item was school accreditation. The next one I will be touching on here is teacher quality.

Obviously this one is tied to school accreditation, but it needs its own section. I cannot over-emphasize the importance of teacher quality. There has been so much research done on the impact good teaching has on students, one of the most recent being a study done by econo-

Choosing a school in VallartaPart 2

mists from Harvard and Colom-bia universities where they re-searched the impact of one year of good teaching. Nicolas Kris-toff of the New York Times put it this way in January 2012: “Ha-ving a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25 percent more likely to go to college, the research suggests, and 1.25 per-cent less likely to get pregnant as a teenager. Each of the students will go on as an adult to earn, on average, $25,000 more over a li-fetime — or about $700,000 in gains for an average size class — all attributable to that ace teacher back in the fourth grade. That’s right: A great teacher is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to each year’s students, just in the extra income they will earn.”

Be sure to ask if the schools’ teachers are teaching in their native language, since you will likely want your child’s English

teacher to be a native speaker. Check also for the percentage of teachers with their bachelors and masters degrees in their specialized areas.

Every school should be able to provide you with a copy of their school philosophy, mis-sion and goals. Read this care-fully and be sure that it coinci-des with your own.

If you cannot support what this school aims to achieve with its students, your child’s chance for success will be impeded. Ask about teaching methods, what sort of student support is avai-lable if this becomes necessary, and what sorts of methods are used to control student behavior. If extra-curricular activities or student leadership opportunities are important to you, don’t forget to ask the school what emphasis they place on these things. There are some schools with particular

religious programs, so be sure to find out more about these if that is important to you. You will also want to know what types of ethi-cal and community programs are being implemented in the school. Some schools are very active in the community, which again are important elements of leadership and values training.

You should definitely check on the academic results of the schools you visit. While the philosophy of the school is very important, you need to know if the school is doing what it says it will do in its philosophy and mission statement. One way to find this out is by checking on SAT scores for high school, and some type of standardized tes-ting in the lower school.

You can see how the school does in relation to other schools, and you can also see if this is the kind of school that

would be beneficial for your own particular child.

The last area I will mention is the schools’ physical facilities. This one may be important to you depending on your child’s interest and abilities, but a beautiful playground and huge soccer field will not necessa-rily reflect the quality of the school’s education.

Certainly a school should pay attention to the whole child, which includes physical, social, and emotional development, but the academic facilities of a school should then be up to the same standards. Next week we will finish our series with some advice about the school visit– what you should be looking for and what questions you need to ask on the tour. We will also provide a list of some private schools in the area with contact information.



Riviera Nayarit

Visit Lo de Marcos, Nayarit

The western coast of Mexi-co has been referred to as the Mexican Riviera, but

is now widely known as the Ri-viera Nayarit, with Lo de Marcos located between San Pancho and Rincon de Guayabitos off of the 200 highway. Vacation towns like Puerto Vallarta and Sayulita have made the area known the world over and little pueblos like Lo de Marcos have been able to draw in visitors who are looking for a more authentic experience when vacationing in Mexico.

Until the late Sixties and early Seventies, Lo de Marcos was essentially swampland dot-ted with the occasional palm grove harvesting coconuts and processing the oils.

Early settlers fished the abun-dant waters and hunted alligators in the bogs to sustain themsel-ves. There is a lovely estuary at the North end of the playa that is still houses alligators, although not many are sighted.

The coastal areas of Nayarit were very sparsely populated with little or no modern ameni-ties like electricity or reliable ro-ads until, as so often is the case, Gradually, infrastructure was added and tourism supplanted agriculture as the driving eco-nomic force of the area and for forty years now the locals have been hard at work earning the vacation dollars of thousands of visitors each year.

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Fun onthe Riviera

Nayarit

AFFORDABLE AUTHENTICITY

Lo de Marcos has an official population of fewer than 2,500 people during the summer and off season, and around 7000 visitors during the peak winter season. Lo de Marcos is not the splashy and polished scene found further south in Puerto Vallarta.

What it is, is a genuinely Mexican town on the coast – meaning a very casual atmosphe-re with authentic Mexican foods and customs that can be hard to find in the big tourist spots.

It is rural Mexico with enough amenities to make a stay comfortable yet unadulterated enough to allow visitors to feel

they are relatively disconnected from society. Prices are lower than the more southern pueblos for rentals and food. You can still go out for Huevos Rancheros on the playa for $25-30 pesos.

RV’ING IN NAYARIT

One of the most popular ways that folks visit during the season is by an RV, and these folks re-turn each year to their favorite RV parks.

Lo de Marcos has an abundance of beachfront RV parks that line the ocean, with several other RV parks close to the beach.

THE BEACH

The beach is clean and well maintained by the locals. The Lo de Marcos Amigos fund-raise and pay hired hands to have trash picked up on a weekly basis and to keep the town square clean. There are a few non-profit orga-nizations that help the communi-ty of Lo de Marcos, one being La Casa de Los Ninos, a children’s community center that keeps kids active in a healthy way, and celebrating life.

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Lo de Marcos has some great surfing off of the point at the South end of the playa, and it is also important to note that the South end of the playa is also the best place for swimming, as the rest of the beach can have a strong undertow, making it diffi-cult to get in and out of the water.

It’s a also a good idea to learn a bit of Spanish or come armed with your phrase guide,

as most of the native locals do not speak or understand very much English.

See you on the beach! You can find out more about

Lo de Marcos at allLodeMarcos.com and RivieraNayaritFun.com

Cat Morgan is owner of the RivieraNayaritFun.com Regio-nal Network, and can be reached at [email protected]

Hollywood arrived and virtually overnight

Lo de Marcos and the Mexican Riviera

became a popular hideaway for the rich

and famous.


June 21 - 27, 2013

Vallarta Tribune Your best source for English news in the Bay of Banderas

Riviera Nayarit

Gringo Hill Heads to Highway

The Bottleneck, Dead Man’s Curve, The Ala-mo; these are the names

of some rather treacherous obs-tacles that line the one road into and out-of Gringo Hill. After many slammed breaks and near collisions, the community of Gringo Hill teamed up and said, “no more!”

Donn Sanders, Santo Comi-nos, and Gabriel Gallegos de-cided to team up and make this long discussed project a reality. The community had long been tired of the narrow, winding road that bottlenecks just before the beer depository at the entrance to Gingo Hill; and there had long been talks of building a road to the Punta Mita Highway to avoid big SUVs trying to squeeze in between the massive wall of the Alamo and the opposing wall face.

However, nothing seemed to make much headway. A good guess as to why would be, ever-yone was out surfing. But, wo-

By Riley Hunter

Sayulita Life

Originally Published By Sayulita Life

rries continued to arise about the safe evacuation in event of an emergency, and no one wanted to ding-up their golf carts or collide surfboards either!

Their first step was to get the permission from the govern-ment, which as we know, could have been a daunting task. They found an attorney who had the right way with words and befo-re they knew it, they had a team of 8 government officials and a translator from the municipality on top of Gringo Hill, ready to sign off on the new road plan!

After the “road was clear” so to speak, and they had the go-ahead, offers for the contract be-gan to pour in.

Donn and crew heard figu-res ranging from 95k to 25k, and didn’t want to either pay too much or build a road that cars would slip on at the first hint of moisture from the summer ra-ins. They quickly ruled out the lowest offers that proposed to use cobblestone, which becomes slippery when wet, and finally chose a proposal that included 8-inch concrete with rebar, retai-ning walls, a scored surface for traction, and even pipes to con-nect a future sewer system.

Once this was done, they soon realized that they had ac-crued some out-of-pocket expen-ses and needed to bolster their community e-mail list to gather donations and support from the residents of Gringo Hill.

Donn and his wife began emailing, door-knocking, and putting in some good grassroots work to get this project funded.

Soon, their email list went from 30 to 50, and landowners were walking up and flying in to see the project and donate their per-sonal funds! They managed to raise 21k (4k short) just before the start of the project with the help of residents and benevolent business owners like the those of Don Pedro’s.

But Donn and the team had come too far to put the project on hold. They chose to go ahead, and either pay extra costs with personal funds, or attempt to rai-se the remaining money as they go. With the road half-finished, and an expected end date of mid-June, Donn and the crew are still emailing and fundraising away! Donn says,

“It honestly has been a lot of fun. It was a surprising amount

of hard work to fundraise and get the project kick-started, but it has been really wonderful to see the Gringo Hill community come together, and people are re-ally excited about the new road. I have walked up several times with home and land owners to show them the progress, and they think it’s great! Everyone is super excited.

The new road will even allow two cars to pass at once from op-posing directions! Surprisingly, that is something new for Gringo Hill! We will definitely have a celebratory party next high sea-son! I know we can raise the last few dollars to get this finished.”

Once again, in true Sayulita fashion, our caring and concer-ned citizens have come together and have made good things hap-pen for the community!

We are so glad that people like Donn and the rest of the team are constantly striving to make Sayulita a better place. This is why Sayulita is such a visitors paradise and a utopia for us residents alike. When closing the interview with Donn, he had one last comment,

“Now don’t go and make me look like a hero, it was rea-lly everyone else’s work that got things done. Gabriel, Santo, and the community did a wonderful job.

But, my blues music band does play at Don Chow’s du-ring the high season, so just tell everyone to come see us play on Mondays!”

Originally Published on Sa-

yulitaLIfe.com. Reprinted with Permission.

Inscription des Canadiens à lʼétranger Nous vous encourageons à utiliser le service dʼInscription des Canadiens à l’étranger si vous voyagez ou habitez au Mexique.

Nous pourrons ainsi communiquer avec vous dans le cas dʼune urgence à lʼétranger ou dʼune urgence familiale au Canada.

Inscrivez-vous en ligne à lʼadresse voyage.gc.ca/inscription ou par courriel, par télécopieur ou en personne.

Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec l’Agence consulaire du Canada à Puerto Vallarta :

Registration of Canadians Abroad We encourage you to sign up for the Registration of Canadians Abroad service if you are travelling or living in Mexico.

Registration enables us to reach you in case of an emergency abroad or inform you about a family emergency in Canada.

Sign up online at travel.gc.ca/register or register by mail, fax or in person.

For more information, contact the Consular Agency of Canada in Puerto Vallarta:

Plaza Peninsula, Local Sub F Boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio 2485

Zona Hotelera Norte, 48300 Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, México

' 52 (322) 293-0098 / 293-0099 | 7 52 (322) 293-2894 | * [email protected]



Travel

Hotelito Desconocido provides an experience like no other, combining

the spice of “roughing it’ with full bodied seasoning of luxury. It’s not a place for technology

NATURAL SANCTUARY FOR YOUR SOUL

Hotelito Desconocido Sanctuary Reserve and Spa

By Madeline Milneaddicts or those who enjoy the incessant bass of the all-inclu-sive, or those who are afraid of bird songs or the gentle shuffle of turtles in the sand.

It is a place so unique that it could well be the greatest desti-nation on earth. Hotelito Desco-nocido, (precious little known

hotel) as it is charmingly ca-lled, is set on sixty kilometers of pristine UNESCO protected bird and turtle sanctuary, loca-ted about two hours south of Puerto Vallarta in the exclusive Costalgre region.

It offers twenty seven pri-vate palafittes with intricately

woven thatched roofs, all the-med around the Mexican lottoria cards (similar to Bingo but with more personality) and set back on the estuary.

Each is built on stilts to les-sen the impact on the land and without electric lights to disturb the night sky. As evening rises

an attendant lights a pathway of candles from your cabana to the hotel lobby and El Diablo (the Devil lotteria card) restaurant. Once your eyes adjust you’ll wonder why you don’t live like this everyday.

The spa offers exclusive tha-lassotherapy treatments based

GETTING THEREPlayón de Mismaloya 48460 La Cruz de LoretoTomatlán, JaliscoDrive South along Highway 200Towards Manzanillo Approx 100 kmsAfter the town of El Tequesquite You will see signs for Hotelito. You are almost there. A right turn and another 15 kms will find you in paradise

WHAT TO BRING

Take advantage of the solitude and catch up on your summer reading. Pack a few games to play over candle light. Don’t forget your walking shoes and a sun hat to enjoy the 60 kms of protected white sand beaches.


June 21 - 27, 2013


Real Estate

John K. Glaab - The Settlement Company

The Mexican Association of Real Estate Profes-sionals (AMPI) and Mexi-Go! a Canadian mar-keting strategy company, have signed a partner-

ship agreement. The signing took place at the recent, successful AMPI/NAR sponsored event “Viva-Mexi-co, an investment, resort and second home forum,” in San Jose del Cabo.

Key items in the agreement include the use of the two entities’ logotypes in bulletins and other material, issuance, and AMPI participation in the upcoming Mexi-Go! Expos. (Held in September 2013, one will be in Vancouver and another in Calgary.) Mexi-Go! will also promote the AMPI referral program to its Canadian database.

AMPI will host two seminars at the Mexi-Go! Expos in September. One will be aimed at educating Canadian Real-tors on AMPI’s referral plan. A second seminar will focus on the value for Canadian investors in working with a mem-ber of AMPI.

Commenting on the agreement, Linda Neil, Director of AMPI’s International Commission said, “The growth in the number of Canadians buying retirement and second homes in Mexico has increased substantially in recent years. Since only a few Mexican states have real estate licensing laws it is important that buyers deal with a member of AMPI.”

Mexico, Canada Sign Real Estate Marketing Agreement

on the theory that exposure to sea air and immersion in warm seawater, mud, clay, and pro-tein-rich algae helps restore the body’s natural chemical balance and once balanced you can soak in the special saline pools.

The apothecary wall in the spa is filled with potions and creams and houses gorgeous an-tiques over one hundred years old. Many of the furnishings are from the owners’ private collec-tion and others still are crafted onsite by the local towns people.

Most of the food is grown in the resort’s organic farm and there are plans to be fully sustai-nable in the near future. Half the fun of the beachclub is getting there. Hail a passing row boat or charter one of your own. The beachclub is on the Pacific ocean and offers uninterrupted pristine white sandy beach for miles in each direction.

If the ocean is not for you, and it may not be as the waves and currents can be strong here, there is an Olympic-sized ocean-front infinity pool that offers submersed hammocks and an embedded hot tub. Your biggest challenge may well be how to move from the pool hammock

to the hot tub and back to your hammock without spilling your fresh squeezed lime margarita.

The days are peaceful, filled with beachcombing, a soak in the pool, a row or bike ride around the grounds and deliciously or-ganic freshly prepared meals.

The evening are set to the sparkle of the stars and candlelit paths lead you to back to natu-re. Hotelito captures the essence of the land, respects the natural, and embraces the colour and cra-ft of Mexico, while managing to infuse luxury and quality into everything it does. It’s inspiring hotelito.com


Sports

REACH LOCALS AND VACTIONERS Advertise with Vallarta Tribune

I don’t know who will win Game Seven tonight between Miami and San Antonio, but

you do. By the time you read this we will have a new NBA cham-pion. I am writing this column Thursday evening just minutes before tip-off in Miami, and according to my editor I do not have the power to “stop the pres-ses” to wait for the results and if I don’t get my article in before deadline she will find something “that is interesting to people” to fill my space.

You see me and the editor go way back, she has had to endure my sports obsession for a long long time she has been dragged to sporting events all over the world. From watching backroom Muay Thai matches in Chiang-mai to bringing a book to some of the greatest baseball cathe-drals in America, she has been there and done that and I think she might be over it. And my sports obsession.

She recently told me that “I live in Mexico, If I never see another Canucks game again I will be just fine” Considering how they have disappointed us

You already know the answerBy Joel Hansen

for forty years I guess I can’t re-ally blame her, but as I wait for game seven to tip off I can’t help but feel a little excited, nothing compares to a game seven and to make it even that much more special I am watching the game here in Mexico, cold beer in hand, the ocean a stones throw away. Nothing could be better.

So I submit this article without knowing the fate of King James, will he be a hero or a goat? He is the most divisive person in sports and one of the most fascinating. Tip-off is ap-proaching and I am 5 minutes past my deadline, my phone is ringing and I bet it is my tire-less editor, I better hit send, but not before predicting a second championship for James and the Heat, as much as that pains me.

Stay tuned next week as I take Madeline to our sons season opening football game, I wonder what book she will bring?

Ed.- To be fair, baseball is really boring. If I have 3 or 4 or 11 ‘free’ hours I think I’m better served catching up on my trashy novel and catching a siesta or two. Plus it’s a usually a good place to catch a tan.


June 21 - 27, 2013Calendar Events

Please be sure to contact the venue to confirm all events.

La Bodeguita Del MedioPaseo Diaz Ordaz 858, Malecon” 322.223.1583 Tues-Sun 9:30 2:00 am

El Jardin del Pulpo Coral 66, La Cruz de Huanacaxtle” 329.295.507110:30 am 12.30 pm

La PalapaPulpito#103, Playa los Muertos” 322.222.5225 Mon-Sun 8:00am 1:00pm

Benito’s Paninoteca Bar Nima Bay, Local 12, Marina Vallarta” 322.209.0287 El Patio de mi Casa Guerrero 311 esq. Matamoros 322.222.0743

Encore Lazaro Cardenas51, Bucerias329.298.0140 Wed-Mon 9:00 am 10:00 pm

The River Café Isla del Rio Cuale Local4 Centro 322.223.0788 Vitea Libertad Edificio Malecon 2, Centro” 322.222.8703

El Rio BBQ Bar Felipe Angeles 245 Col Paso Ancho 322.184.1200 Tue-Sun 11:00 am 7:00pm

LIVE MUSIC VENUES


PVSPCA ADORABLE

DOG IN THE SPOTLIGHT...OREO

Oreo is as sweet as a coo-kie, hence his name. He is very cuddly and

good with other animals. Oreo is about two years old. And, at only 4.5 kilos, he is the perfect travel companion since he can even accompany you in the plane’s cabin. Please contact us at [email protected].

Our sanctuary is preparing for the difficult summer months when Vallarta’s economy that depends on tourism is at a low and many animals become ho-

With the purpose to cele-brate Canada’s 146th anniversary and to co-

llect donations for the Biblioteca los Mangos, the Consular Agen-cy of Canada and the Biblioteca Los Mangos are organizing two events for Canada Day this July 1st. The two events will be the exclusive presentation in Puerto Vallarta of the movie “CICLO” from Andrea Martinez Crowther and a BBQ celebration at the end of the presentation for all Cana-dians and their Mexican friends.

The movie “CICLO” is the story of two brothers, Arturo and Gustavo Martínez who left their hometown Pachuca, Hidalgo on bicycles May 1st 1956 with only 100 dollars in their pockets and the desire to cross the continent. Eighty-two days later they arrive in Toronto, not knowing this feat would change the entire route of their lives and their family tree.

The two brothers are the father and uncle of the mo-vie Director Andrea Martinez Crowther. Fifthy-four years la-ter, Arturo and Gustavo- now in their 70s- retrace the same path, in an exploration of memory, the cycle of life and the unavoidable

Celebration of Canada’s 146th Anniversary in Puerto Vallarta

passage of time. The movie is in Spanish and English but with subtitles only in Spanish. You can find more information on the web page www.ciclofilm.com.

At the end of the movie there will be a celebration for Canada Day at the Biblioteca Los Man-gos from 7:00 to 10 PM. Lyne Benoit, Consular Agent of Cana-da and her guests will celebrate with you.There will be the sin-ging of Canadian and Mexican anthems, music, raffles, games, BBQ and beverages at a reasona-ble price. All the money collec-ted from the sales will go to the Biblioteca Los Mangos.

Come and celebrate Canada Day in Puerto Vallarta at the Bi-blioteca Los Mangos!! Sugges-

ted dress code is casual red and white.

The Biblioteca los Mangos is the only Public library in Puerto Vallarta and survives on dona-tions from the public. They offer more than 80,000 services every year to the population of Puerto Vallarta and areas.

MOVIE: CICLOJuly 1st, 2013 at 5:30Tickets at the door at 4:30Cost is 20 pesos per person

Tickets are available at: Canadian Consulate M- F 9- 5 Located at Plaza PeninsulaBiblioteca Los MangosAvenida Francisco Villa 1001Puerto Vallarta

meless. Help us continue our efforts. To use your credit card to make tax deductible donations through PayPal, go to our website www.spcapv.com/donate

Las AdelitasAv. Fluvial Vallarta 234 322.293.7778

Beboteros Diaz Ordaz 565 Malecon 322.113.0099

Café Roma Encino 287 Centro Mon-Sun 10:pm -3:00 am

Murphy’s Irish Pub Morelos 484 Altos 1, Centro 322.113.0373

Philo’s Delfin15, La Cruz de Huanacaxle”329.295.5068 Thu-Sat 8:30 pm

Barcelona Tapas Matamoros esq 31 de Octubre Centro 322.223.0831 El Dorado Pulpito # 102, Playa los Muertos”322.222.4124 Que? Pasa Aquiles Serdan 625, Col Emiliano Zapata 322.223.4006

Trio Guerrero 264 Centro 322.222.2196 Mon-Sat 7:30 pm

Cena con Causa to Benefit

Vallarta Firefighters

On June 29th attend the ‘Cena con Causa’ coor-dinated by DIF Puerto

Vallarta in support of the fire-fighters and lifeguards who work tirelessly to protect our citizens and visitors. Funds raised will support training and equipment. Join the 90 person strong team and celebrate the efforts of these important community members.

The benefit Buffet Dinner will include live music, and an auction with great items up for bid.

Starting at 6:30 pm at the Krystal Hotel and Resort, tickets are $300 pesos.

Tickets are available at the Fire Department located at Ave-nida Las Américas 565 in Colo-nia Lázaro Cárdenas as well as from volunteers on the Southsi-de, in the Marina, Bucerías and Nuevo Vallarta.

For more information, con-tact Gary Green at 322-150-7214 or email gary(at)andalesonthebay.com.

Celebrate Summer on the water

What better place than the water to celebrate the summer solstice? In La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, summer will be cele-brated on Saturday, June 22 with an Umbrella Downwinder

and Paddle Rally with a wind-filled drag race through Marina de La Cruz from Ikuai to Oso’s Oyster Bar.

To participate in the Umbrella Downwinder, meet at the Marina Restaurant Ikuai Sailor Pub at 2:00 pm to sign up for the Drag Race, which begins at 3:00 pm. Ikuai Sailor Pub will provide a special “Sum-mer Sailstice” lunch from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm at Happy Hour prices.

If you wish to enter the SUP Paddleboard Rally, participants should be at Oso’s Oyster Bar at 5 pm to register for the race, which begins at 6 pm. If you need a board, Pacific Paddle will provide one a demo board for free use during the event.

Prizes sponsored by the local businesses of La Cruz will be awar-ded in each category.

After the races, kick back and enjoy a relaxing dinner, a full moon bonfire, and Live Music by “Deep River” at Oso’s Oyster Bar. With amazing sunsets, balmy ocean breezes and live music, this is the way La Cruz celebrates the arrival of summer!


Philanthropy

For visitors to Puerto Vallarta who wish to do a good deed for the less privileged in our paradise, this is a list of some of the many organizations that could benefit from such kind gestures. If you would like your organization recognized here, please email details to editor @vallartatribune.com

American Legion Post 14: contribu-tes to the community through fund raising and providing resources and manpower to improve Day Cares, Senior Homes, Schools for the Disabled and Deaf, Public Schools in rural areas and other private institutions needing building maintenance www.americanlegion14.org

Asilo San Juan Diego home for the el-derly - Contact: Lupita Sanchez Covarrubias Tel. 222-1257 or [email protected] or visit the website www.mexonline.com\asi-losanjuandiego.htm

Asociación Down - The Foundation for assistance to persons with Down’s Syndrome – Contact: Ana Catalina Eisen-ring at 224-9577.

Banderas Bay Women’s Shelter - Safe shelter for women & children victims of domestic violence. Enables women to become financially independent through jobs, education and non-interest micro loans, professional counseling for them & their children. www.compassionforthefa-mily.org

Becas Vallarta, A.C. – provides scho-larships to approximately 300 high school and university students. Donations are tax-deductible in Mexico and the USA. Polly Vicars at (322) 223-1371 or Buri Gray at (322) 221-5285. www.puerto-va-llarta.com/amf

Bucerias Bilingual Community Cen-ter Support local families in Bucerias. 16 de Septiembre at calle Matamoros www.buceriasbilingualcommunitycenter.org

Casa Hogar - a shelter dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned, aban-doned, disadvantaged or vulnerable chil-dren.- Contact: Luz Aurora Arredondo at 221-1908, Rita Millan (322) 141-6974. [email protected]

Non-Profit and Charitable OrganizationsCentro Comunitario SETAC-GLBT

- provides essential services to the GLBT community, including physical & mental health treatment and referrals, education & recreation, free AA meetings, English classes, HIV testing and counseling. Paco Arjona 224-1974 or [email protected]

Clinica de Rehabilitación Santa Barbara - Rehabilitation of the handicap-ped. Contact: Laura Lopez Portillo Rodri-guez at 224-2754.

CompassionNet Impact - forms stra-tegic partnerships & initiates programs that provide opportunities for people living in chronic poverty to transform their own li-ves. Bookmobile, homes, jobs creation, loans, English & computer classes, emer-gency food, medicine & clothing, etc. Tax-deductible in Canada & the U.S. Cell: (322) 133-7263. [email protected]

Cruz Roja (Red Cross) - handles hos-pital and emergency service in Vallarta. It is the only facility that is authorized to offer assistance to injured people on the street, transport them to their facility or other ones indicated by the injured person. Contact: 222-1533, 222-4973

Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) A municipal service, part of the fe-deral System of Family Services that as-sists not only in times of emergency, but also with ongoing education, health, and training programs for the whole family. Contact City Hall 222-0058

Discapacitados de Vallarta, A.C. (DIVAC) association of handicapped indi-viduals dedicated to helping one another. - Contact: Ivan Applegate at 221-5153.

GrupoEcològico de Puerto Vallarta – Contact: R.C. Walker at 222-0897, [email protected]

The International Friendship Club (IFC) - a registered charitable organiza-tion in Mexico listed as Club Internacio-nal de la Amistad de Puerto Vallarta A.C. The IFC supports the Cleft Palate Surgery Program & families in need. Funds are rai-sed through Membership & Home Tours. - Contact:322-222-5466. www.ifcvallarta.com. [email protected].

Navy League - Meets and greets vi-siting Naval vessels from all nations, as-sists in the transportation of donated me-dical supplies from the U.S., organizes work groups to paint and repair schools and other public/charitable facilities, and operates the local Toys for Tots program. Contacts: Bill Clark at 222 3616 or Jerry Lafferty at 221 6156. www.vallartana-vyleague.org.

New Life Mexico - a British Cha-rity working in Mexico. Challenging Child Poverty with Health and Education Programmes. Contact: [email protected]

Pasitos de Luz (Mamas Unidas por la Rehabilitación de sus Hijos) - substitute home for low income children with any type of handicap, offers rehabilitation ser-vices and special support to their families. 299-4146. www.pasitosdeluz.org

Pro Biblioteca de Vallarta - raises fundsfor Los Mangos Public Library. Tax-deductible receipts for Mexico and USA. Contacts: Ricardo Murrieta at 224-9966 or Jimmie Ellis at 222-1478.

Proyecto Pitillal, “Busca un Amigo” - association created by underprivileged mothers of paralyzed children who need society’s help. Contact: 299-4495.

Puerto Vallarta Garden Club: Beau-tify and protecting the environment. Open to all: Mtgs held at Paradise Community Center, third Thursday every month at 11am from October to May.

www.vallartagardenclub.com

PuRR Project - a no-kill cat shelter with approx. 250 resident felines living in a natural environment, un-caged, kittens in the Kitten Nursery, on-site clinic with daily veterinarian services. www.purrproject.com

Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza Shelter for children. Donations are tax-deductible in Canada and the U.S. Con-tact: Madre Mari at 222-7857 or Sudy Coy at 222-5765. www.ccshf.ca

Roma’s Kids - educate the children of the Volcanes and surrounding area, to provide them with the skills necessary to become employable by the major industry here in Puerto Vallarta – tourism: math, English and computer programs a priority. 100% goes to the kids. www.kids.roma-mexico.com

Toys for Tots Vallarta - is a non-profit organization that is celebrating 15 years in Puerto Vallarta. Distributes toys and cons-tructs playgrounds for less-advantaged kids in the Puerto Vallarta area during the Christmas holiday period. Contact: Jerry Lafferty 322 221 6156 or Lourdes Bizarro [email protected].

SPCA PV – provides private vet costs for rescued animals, volunteers to create & maintain a data base of adoptions, to walk dogs at the foster home, Casita de Guadalupe, foster homes for dogs & cats, trap & release program for feral cats, etc. www.spcapv.com

un MañanaBrillante (A Brighter To-morrow) - partnership of Americans and Canadians to support the ColegioMexi-coAmericano. Contact: Margi Baughman [email protected] or David Bender [email protected]

Vallarta Botanical Gardens - To build Mexico’s greatest botanical, rwesearch & education of plant life, city beautification programs, bird watching, etc. Donations to the Vallarta Botanical Gardens are tax deductible in the USA. Contact: 223-6182 or [email protected].



June 21 - 27, 2013

Challenge your brain! Sudoku is easy to play and the rules are simple. Fill in the blanks so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain only one of each of the numbers 1 through 9.SUDOKU

easy medium hard

Brain Teasers

LABYRINTHSome other words of four letters or more containing the hub letter N: anil, anti, ayin, barn, bran, hint, lain, lint, nail, nary, rain, rani, rant, tarn, than, thin, tiny, yarn, bairn (Scot), blain, brain, brant, briny, inlay, rainy, riant, train, binary, brainy, in-tray, litany, ratlin, rhinal, thinly.

GLADIATORSome other words of five letters or more containing the hub letter R: agora, altar, aorta, argal, argot, aroid, artal, atria, goral, grail, griot, groat, laird (Scot), largo, radio, raita, ratio, riata, taira, tiara, trail, triad, trial, adroit, aor-tal, argali, atrial, lariat, latria, radial, tailor.

HuB-WorDs How many words can you make from the letters in the wheel? Each word must contain the hub letter N. Can you find a 9-letter word and at least 20 other words of five letters or more avoiding proper nouns?

How many words can you make from the letters in the wheel? Each word must contain the hub letter R. Can you find a 9-letter word and at least 20 other words of five letters or more avoiding proper nouns?

FREEZINGCan you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, Vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

Antarctic, arctic, arctic circle, arctic fox, blizzard, Freezing, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacier, husky, ice,Iceberg, icebreaker, ice field, ice floe, ice shelf, Icicle, igloo, north pole, penguin, permafrost,Polar bear, sled, sleet, snow, snowshoe, Snowstorm, south pole, whiteout.

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