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t the Tribune we want you to have the best experience possible while you explore Puerto Vallarta, the Bay of Banderas and Riviera Nayarit. Here are some helpful tips for traveling.

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 different routes can bring you from one end of the bay to the other and all the spots in between. If you’re going further than San Pancho, head to the main bus terminal to catch a ‘Pacifico’ bus. Current fare is 7.50 pesos 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. Make a note of the taxi number in case you leave something behind. Drivers typically do not carry change.

UBER: New in 2017 to Puerto Vallarta, Uber is still experiencing some growing pains particularly in the state of Nayarit. Uber is about 25-50% cheaper than a taxi, but this is subject to change. The benefits of using Uber are set fares and the ability to follow up directly with your driver if there is an incident or you leave an item behind.

MONEY EXCHANGE: Typically a bank will give you a higher rate of exchange than the exchange booths (Caja de Cambio). You will need your passport. Better yet, use your bank card to withdraw funds from any ATM. Note that ATM’s in the banks are the safest to use and charge lower fees.

DRINKING WATER: While Puerto Vallarta’s water has been

awarded a certification of purity for the past two decades, the quality of the water tested at the source 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: Falling in love with the street dog outside your hotel is easy to do and it’s also easy to bring them home with you too. The process is inexpensive and only takes a day or two. You need a certificate of health from a local vet among other things. For the most up-to-date information contact the Puerto Vallarta SPCA at spcapv@ gmail.com.

COMMON SENSE: Just as you wouldn’t walk around your hometown drunk and belligerent, it is not acceptable to do that here. While Mexico is a tolerant culture, basic politeness is appreciated. Don’t pee in the streets. Don’t flash your money or expensive gadgets. Pay attention to your surroundings.

Know where you are going. Pay your bills (and don’t forget to tip).

And have fun!

DRINKING AND DRIVING: First off – just don’t. The consequences are not worth it. Taxis or Ubers are cheap and plentiful. Fines are as much as 12,000 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.

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

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

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Calling in Mexico Calling phones in Mexico can be tricky. There are different codes you need to use depending if you are calling landlines or cellular phones and if they are local or long distance.

LONG-DISTANCE CALLS FROM WITHIN MEXICO For national long-distance calls (within Mexico) the code is 01 plus the area code and phone number. For international long-distance calls, first dial 00, then the country code (U.S. and Canada 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, the 10 digit number. Outside of the area code (but still within Mexico) dial 045 and then the 10 digit phone number. Cell phone to cell phone only requires the 10 digit number.

PHONE CARDS Phone cards (tarjetas telefonicas) for use in pay phones can be bought at newsstands and in pharmacies.

Pay phones do not accept coins. When buying a phone card for pay phone use, specify that you would like a tarjeta LADA. CALLING TOLL-FREE NUMBERS Some toll free numbers work from Mexico to the US and Canada, but many do not. Those that do work are often not toll-free. You need to dial a different prefix. To call the following toll free prefixes, dial as follows: 800 numbers Dial 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

Emergencies: 911 Red Cross: 065 Fire Department: 322.223.9476 Ambulance: 322.222.1533

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NAME PASS DATE NORWEGIAN STAR 2,900 06/03/2018 RUBY PRINCESS 3,782 06/03/2018 CARNIVAL SPLENDOR 3,200 07/03/2018 OOSTERDAM 1,848 07/03/2018 CARNIVAL SPLENDOR 3,200 14/03/2018 NORWEGIAN STAR 2,900 14/03/2018 GRAND PRINCESS 2,600 17/03/2018 CARNIVAL SPLENDOR 3,200 20/03/2018 NORWEGIAN STAR 2,900 21/03/2018 MAASDAM 1,258 22/03/2018

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NAME PASS DATE EMERALD PRINCESS 3,082 27/03/2018 CARNIVAL SPLENDOR 3,200 28/03/2018 NORWEGIAN STAR 2,900 28/03/2018

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Semana Santa is around the corner and we say goodbye to friends

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ast week I saw something that made me chuckle in a ‘that’s ridiculous’ sort of way.

A competitor was basically exaggerating about their successes to diminish the successes of the Tribune. I understand it. The Tribune has grown exponentially in the past two years, and that could be intimidating.

It’s always been my prerogative to support the community that supports the Tribune. We don’t need to cut each other down.

There are plenty of external forces telling half-truths about Mexico and Puerto Vallarta. It’s much better for everyone if we stand in support of each other and participate with integrity. Ok. Off my high horse.

The next weekend is the start of Semana Santa, so you have a few short days left to get out while the crowds aren’t crushing. During this time of year, most of the fundraising activities take a break while we participate in the week-long festivities of Easter. And this is sadly the time of year that many of the snowbirds head back to their thawing home in the north.

As a result of this exodus, we’ve had a couple of columns submitted lately extolling the virtues of Puerto Vallarta including a sweet piece from Bill Mackenzie.

If you can, view his article online because his photos are lovely.

This week is the last submission this season from Byron Ayanoglu (Bryron Recommends) and photographer Algis Kemezys, whose collage of ‘All Things Vallarta’ graces this week’s cover.

Note: Pam Thompson has not gone anywhere; she’s just been sick. I’m positive she will be back very shortly.

Easter for the past two years has occurred in late March, early April and that has shortened the season by a few weeks. This is unfortunate because not only are goodbyes tough but the weather of April is probably the best of the entire year.

The ocean is finally warming up, but we have cool breezes and no rain.

Then in May, while it’s a bit warmer, it’s not unbearable, we have so many fabulous events. There is Pride and the Altruism Festival and Restaurant (Two) Week and even more, this year it is Puerto Vallarta’s 100th anniversary as a municipality and 50th as a city. You know all the stops are being pulled for this extravaganza. If nothing else, you should come back for the entire month of May! In preparation for Semana Santa, I recommend stocking up on the basics and foods you can easily prepare at home. Don’t even think about driving, leave your vehicle at home, as the roads are a nightmare. Book any movie tickets or restaurant reservations well in advance. Depending on your

neighbourhood, consider earplugs or noise canceling headphones.

Now, it’s not all bad. The air of festivity permeates everything. You’ll see 100’s of jubilant families enjoying a place you’re lucky enough to call home. You’ll see businesses welled with customers, collecting as much revenue now as they can to weather out the quieter months of the summer.

This Friday is especially busy with the Mariachi, Margarita, and More! fundraiser in support of the Amapas Association, and the Crystal Ball fundraiser for the PV Pay Men’s Chorus and it’s the last Southside Shuffle of the season.

The theaters and cabarets continue to offer top-notch entertainment, including an adorable Kenny Rogers Tribune at Incanto and Luna Lounge this weekend.

I hope you all have a wonderful week. Please continue to support local businesses and say no to that straw. Sin Popote!

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his light signal was installed in 1932 and turned off in 1970. It matches the one on the Malecón. Boat captains had to line up both signals in order to safely enter the rocky area that was the first docking location for commercial ships and local panga

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Find this on a guided walk around historic Vallarta with Puerto Vallarta Walking Tours.

Stroll the cobblestone streets, typical of Spanish Colonial architecture, while absorbing the sights, smells and sounds of daily life.

Visit markets, historic buildings, and workshops. Get immersed in the culture while exploring areas you might not find on your own. www.puertovallartawalkingtours.com

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hen Juan Sebastian Palafox decided to start a gourmet hot dog business he looked for a supplier.

There wasn´t one. So, Juan turned to YouTube. He found a tutorial and with the help of a Kitchen Aid food processor that his dad lent him, Perros Locos was born. ¨They´re really more like the traditional bratwurst,¨ explains Juan. He practiced, with the help of a chef friend, basing his first creations on the known bratwursts of the world. When he had something good he opened a stand in Versalles in 2014. It was an immediate success. A year later he applied to and was accepted to sell the frozen brats in the Olas Altas Farmers Market and the prepared brats in La Cruz.

He really had to step up the production. The old Kitchen Aid only made 30 brats in 3 hours. A friend of Juan´s who had a butcher

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shop offered to sell him a grinder that had a tube for the casing. With the new machine Juan was able to make 300 brats in 3 hours.

Juan offers three flavors of brats. His biggest seller is the Panchofurter which is made with beef and smoked pork marinated in beer, chipotle, parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic and red onion. The Smoky Porky is made with pork and smoked bacon, roasted coffee beans, brown sugar, hickory, red bell pepper and cayenne pepper.

The Mexabrosa is a 100% beef brat made with cheddar cheese, jalapeño, cilantro, onion and paprika. He also sells four flavors of French fries—the Classic with salt and pepper, Fresh Chopped Rosemary, Homemade Cajun Spices and Provenzal ¨Garlic-Parsely¨.

You can find Juan at the Olas Altas Farmers Market on Saturdays, La Cruz on Sundays and at his newlyopened restaurant near the stadium, Perros Locos at the Dugout, Avenida de las

Americas, local 6, where he is open from 3:00-11 pm.

You can place an order at 553 666 7528 or juanse. palafox@gmail.com.

Olas Altas Farmers Market If you’re looking for the perfect spot to enjoy traditional Mexican crafts, live

music and delicious artisan food, look no further than the Olas Altas Farmers Market.

We offer over 90 booths of “Handmade and Homegrown” goodies as well as prepared foods such as tamales, tacos, homemade ice cream, paella, fish tacos, pozole, Indian food, empanadas, Thai food, gourmet hot dogs, vegan and vegetarian dishes and baked

goods, all just steps away from the famous Los Muertos Beach.

You can also find musical instruments, soaps, jewelry, meat pies, cheese, leather bags, jams and jellies, blown glass, produce, herbs, honey, baklava, cigars, clothes, paper mache figures and fermented foods.

We’re open from 9:30 to 2:00 pm every Saturday from the first Saturday in November to the last Saturday in April. We’re located in the Lazaro Cárdenas Park in Vallarta’s Emiliano Zapata neighborhood. For only 20 pesos an hour, you can park in the garage directly beneath the park.

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Mexican firm Akron opens first gas station

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Google Station wifi launches in Mexico Free service now available in over 60 locations in 45 cities

Zapopan, Jalisco, is the location of the first of 600 planned over next five years

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he Mexican automotive lubricants firm Grupo Akron is making its entry into the retail gasoline market today and plans to have 600 stations operating in five years’ time.

The station in Zapopan, Jalisco, is the first of 10 that will open this year.

The stations will sell Pemex fuels with Akron’s own brand of additives, Akrontech, which the firm said will allow motorists to improve their vehicles’ efficiency by 10%. Akrontech-added fuels, paired with a catalytic converter, can contribute to reducing emissions by 40%, it said.

“Motorists will soon see the savings after getting a gasoline that gives them better performance,” Grupo Akron CEO Joel Corona Coronado told the newspaper El Economista.

The company will build a 300,000-barrel fuel storage and distribution center in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, this year, giving it

“a strategic advantage” due to the road and railway infrastructure available for fuel distribution.

Akron plans to invest 1 billion pesos (US $53.2 million) in the new stations and distribution center during the next five years.

The location of the distribution center is central to the firm’s growth plans, which during the first stage entail reaching the nearby regions of Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, León and Lagos de Moreno. Later, Akron will expand across the country.

The firm is the 37th brand to enter the retail fuel market Mexico.

Also this week, the United Statesbased firm Gulf Oil is opening its first two gas stations on the Yucatán peninsula. Both are located in Mérida, Yucatán.

A third will open in the same city by the end of the month, and more stations will follow next month in the state of Campeche. Quintana Roo will see Gulf stations open in May, the company said.

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Mexican Professor Promoting Maya Methods to Teach Math to Kids

he mathematical system used by the Maya civilization, due to its tactile and symbolic characteristics, fosters the development of analytical and abstraction abilities essential for human beings, physicist Fernando Magaña, who is promoting the teaching of these methods in Mexico, told EFE. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) professor said that using the Maya system of memorization eases

the way to understanding, pure analysis and abstraction.

“Abstract thinking facilitates reasoning, it helps us make decisions, develop ways of thinking in flow diagrams, program things in terms of cause and effect,” he said, adding that it gave an important “push” to human development, allowing them to “blast off” as a species.

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echnology giant Google launched its Google Station wifi service last week in 45 cities across Mexico, including at Galerias Vallarta in Puerto Vallarta.

Google Station Mexico is a partnership between Google and Mexican internet service provider Sitwifi, through which existing hotspots are being converted to the former’s high-speed public wifi platform.

“Google Station will be available in more than 60 high-traffic venues across Mexico City and nationwide, including airports, shopping malls and public transit stations,” the

company said yesterday.

Google intends to be in more than 100 locations by the end of the year. Mexico is the third country in the world to get the free wifi service after a successful deployment in India and Indonesia.

Over 8 million people accessed the internet through 500 stations in India in the last month, Google said.

“Google’s mission is to make information accessible throughout the world; a good internet connection can give people access to a better education, better jobs, create more businesses and have better communication with their families,”

From 2010-2015, the academic trained teachers from indigenous communities in Maya math as part of a program undertaken by the Public Education Secretariat of the southeastern state of Yucatan.

And he still teaches these methods informally, by teachers’ request, both in Yucatan and in other parts of the country.

Indigenous children gather in the middle of the jungle to hear Magaña teach, and he shows them how to operate “the Maya abacus,” a table that the kids draw on the ground or by using a piece of old newsprint.

They fill the table with three kinds of “pieces” with concrete meaning and, using them, they are able to complete mathematical operations by moving the pieces among different columns.

The dot (the value of which is 1) is represented by a shirt button, the line (representing 5) by a bean and the snail (representing zero) is easily represented with a small stone.

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said Anjali Joshi, vice-president of product management.

“The idea is to . . . give web access to the more than 57 million Mexicans that don’t have internet today, and to many others that don’t have a good enough service,” said Miguel Alva, Google México’s marketing head.

Google Station access is completely free but carries advertising.

The full list of locations in Mexico can be seen at the Google Station website: station.google.com/ mexico/ Original: Mexico News daily

does not require anyone to learn multiplication tables to be able to perform operations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and even square roots.

It involves observing and interpreting what is observed, touching things, moving the objects around on the table to obtain results and, along the way, reasoning about what is being done.

The system “is more tactile, more concrete, but at the same time ... we get to abstract thinking,” Magaña said. The UNAM professor said that at age 4 children can learn to add and subtract within just one hour, to multiply in another hour and, in three or four hours, they are ready to undertake division.

And, “within a span of two or three months, a 4-year-old child can already represent numbers from one to 10,000,” a sharp contrast with the Mexican educational system, which prohibits children from learning anything beyond the number 99 in preschool, and never teaches them addition or subtraction.

The Maya math system is a base-20 system, in contrast to the base-10 system that we use today.

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Mexico first choice for US 2nd-home buyers Puerto Vallarta, San Miguel de Allende and Playa del Carmen the most popular locations

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exico is the most popular country in the Americas for United States citizens considering buying a second home abroad, a study has determined.

For one year starting January 2017, real estate website Point 2 Homes tracked Google searches within the United States that were related to purchasing a home in the region.

With an average of almost 64,000 monthly searches, Mexico was the clear winner.

Topping the list of most desirable locations to buy a home south of the border was Puerto Vallarta.

The resort city was the subject of over 10,000 monthly Google searches related to the purchase of real estate. Vallarta is also an extremely popular tourism destination.

More than three million foreign passengers flew into the city’s international airport in 2017, more than half of them from the U.S. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, was second favorite, with an average of 6,990 monthly real estate searches.

Point 2 Homes pointed to the “guarantee of an alluring cultural scene” as a key factor driving interest in the colonial city.

San Miguel de Allende was also named the world’s best city last year in annual rankings of readers of Travel + Leisure magazine, which likely spiked further interest in the destination.

Not far behind was Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo. Just over 6,500 monthly searches sought information about real estate in the Caribbean coast city.

The fourth most popular Mexican destination was Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, with 6,000 monthly searches.

The region’s pristine beaches and Los Cabos’ relative proximity to the United States were both likely factors behind its popularity.

Rounding out the top five was Cancún, which attracted an average of 5,380 monthly real estate searches from the United States.

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O estate in the area is the most expensive in the country.

Mexico City was some way behind the top five choices with an average of 2,660 monthly searches on Google.

Point 2 Homes also said that the average selling price of a home in Mexico is US $40,275. That is more than five times less than the median price in the United States, which is US $240,500.

Spending that amount in

Mexico purchases a two-bedroom detached home with private swimming pool in Playa del Carmen, 133 acres of land in San Miguel de Allende or a one-bedroom oceanfront condo in Cancún, according to current listings on the site.

The second most popular country for Americans thinking about buying a second home was Canada followed by Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Belize.

Source: Point 2 Homes (en)

ne of the most celebrated tropical fruits out there, mangoes are ripe for the picking in the next few months – both local and imported. Characterized by juicy, fibrous flesh and an oblong pit in the center, mangoes are refreshing and delicious. The mango is distantly related to the cashew, pistachio, poison ivy, and poison oak; native to southern Asia.

Mangoes are loaded with protective nutrients like vitamins C and A, potassium, and copper. They’re often referred to as “king of the fruit.”

There are over 1,000 known cultivars of mangoes available; however, the most popular varieties are Ataulfo, Tommy Atkins, Keitt, Kent and Haden.

In 2014, world mangoes exports were US$2.1 billion. Mexico was the top exporter in the world with $280 million usd accounting for 13.5% of the total market. India and the Philippines come in second and third for export values.

One of the most prolific and sweetest varieties of mangos, the Ataulfo (aht-ah-uhl-foe) is found throughout the Bay of Banderas and as you drive north through Nayarit you will see mango orchards aplenty. It has a smooth, creamy flesh, a small thin pit and holds the title of many people’s favorite variety of mango.

Here are a few of our favorite tips, tricks and recipes to savor this magnificent mango.

How To Pick A Mango Peak season for local mangos is from April to June – yes, only a few short weeks. When fully ripe, their skins turn from green to deep golden yellow and feel soft to the touch.

How To Cut A Mango 1. Slice off the two “cheeks” on either side of the flat oblong mango pit. 2. With a knife, gently cut a crisscross pattern into the cut sides of each “cheek,” taking care not to cut through the skin. Repeat with other side. 3. Turn both sides inside out and remove the inverted cubes of mango from the skin . . . or eat as-is!

Mango-licious Recipe Ideas Now that you can successfully pick the perfect mango and safely cut it, let’s cook! Here are some of our favorite fuss-free ways to savory this seasonal delight.

Sweet and spicy fruit cups: Sprinkle mango, pineapple and jicama with chile-spiked salt and a squeeze of lime-juice. Serve Mexican style in a cup with a skewer for easy eating.

Beverages: The Ataulfo’s lack of stringy fibers make it easy to purée making mango drinks a breeze.

Smoothie: mango, yogurt and fruit juice plus more fruits and veggies AguaFresca: mango, water, lime juice and agave nectar (add your favorite spirit for a tropical cocktail) Lassi: mango, milk, yogurt and dashes of sugar and cardamom Salsa: Dice mangos, red peppers, jalapeños and onion. Add chopped cilantro and lime-juice to serve with chips, tacos or grilled foods. Hint: add chopped cooked shrimp and chill for a delicious version of ceviche.

Desserts: Bake mangos into tarts, cobblers, tea breads and muffins or add diced or puréed mangos to sorbets, rice pudding and frozen pops.

Source: wholefoodsmarket. com, seriouseats.com, mango.org

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hursday the 22nd is busy, however; it is possible, with careful timing, to see everything! Starting with Paco Ojeda at Incanto with a 4 pm start on 500 years of ‘risque’ music. He has enlisted Alain Perreault’s help to sing something that made him blush on a little teaser on Facebook. Nobody will tell me what the hell it is, so I’m going there first! Second up is The Art Guild PV’s first of three events this week taking place at Venustiano Carranza 466, same locale as the Saturday Three Hens Market. A wine tasting/discussion of ‘Developing Creativity’. Bring a blanket or yoga mat to be comfy. From 5 to 8 pm, hosted

by Mari Bishop. A Figure Drawing Workshop with Bart Pass happens March 23 from 10 am to 1 pm. Learn how to draw nudes. The Art Guild PV’s third offering this week coincides with the Saturday Market and will be hosted by Barb Stenz. It’s called “Bedazzled Cactus.” Look for them on Facebook and reserve space!

Gary Thompson runs one of the oldest art galleries in Vallarta – Galeria Pacifico. He also gives two sculptures tours a week FREE! Both tours start at his gallery and

the evening tour on Thursday’s end up at Demetro Galeria across from Parque Lazaro Cardenas in Old Town.

Sculptor Jim Demetro is in the final stages of his latest life-size gift to the City - The Fishermen.

After Gary’s tour, you can listen to Jim explain why he is making the Fishermen (the story is enchanting) and how it will become bronzed.

Jim and Eva Demetro’s sculptor daughter Christina is helping her dad get the statue finished for Vallarta’s birthday on May 31. Stop by every Thursday for a glass of wine, peruse some great art and have a look at a few pieces of jewelry I have on permanent display there. Another significant happening is a fundraiser at the Demetro Galeria for R.I.S.E., the orphanage, on Saturday the 24th, from 4 to 6 pm. Tickets are 400 pesos at the door and include wine and nibblies.

Sunday has Latcho and Lobo at Incanto for Primal Groove. Some of the finest, fastest Flamenco you will ever see or hear. These two old friends are onstage recreating the music they made together 40 years ago tramping around Europe living with and learning from the gypsies.

This Sunday, March 25, is also the last Sunday night that Coco Tropical is open this season. That means it’s Rodolfo’s farewell performance. If anyone reading this is in a position to hire Rodolfo for an evening or two a week or for a memorial party, please contact me or see Rodolfo’s ad in this issue for other contact information. He has indeed touched the hearts of many; many Vallartenses this season and we hope to find him steady employment over the summer and into next season’s lineup somewhere.

To all who have helped with moving equipment, passing the hat around at dinner; for assisting Rodolfo and his wife Julia get to places safely and to those ears fortunate enough to have heard Rodolfo sing, thank you for listening. Full report next week on how the ultimate concert went!

My tennis-playing, canvas-painting, culture-spreading friend Francisco Partida called me up and asked for a meeting so off to Incanto for coffee we went. Francisco is looking for entertainers to perform at Fiesta Valle Dorado that runs April 1-8 in the main square of that pueblito just ten minutes from Bucerias. Francisco will pick you up here in Vallarta or wherever you live and make sure you get home safely. You’ll be fed and watered (there will be beer!) and you will entertain thousands of Nayaritas, and you’ll make lots of families and kids smile. In other words, there’s not much money in the budget for paying entertainers. Clowns are welcome, too! If anyone out there wants a shot at the big time, this could be your lucky break! Shoot me an email, and I’ll put you in touch.

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Byron Ayanoglu

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Byron is a memoirist, travel columnist, cookbook author, restaurant reviewer and novelist. He is currently working on his sixth novel which is tellingly entitled Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Vallarta al gusto

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yron is a memoirist, travel columnist, cookbook author, restaurant reviewer and novelist. He is currently working on his sixth novel which is tellingly entitled Puerto Vallarta, Mexico The first time I alighted on PuertoVallarta was just over fifty years ago. I was a young hitchhiker (saw every spectacular corner of Mexico “by-thumb” in six unforgettable months of traveling) and Vallarta was all about its downtown with the Malecon and the cathedral and the relaxed, beach-side, arty lifestyle its major attractions.

Today’s luxurious Zona Roman-

tica was a distant dream in those days, when that same district across the river was Vallarta’s poor barrio with posadas whose rooms cost about a dollar a night (to accommodate up to six hippies) and its beachfront a string of palapas and fish-fry stands.

I’ve been back here countless times since, and I’m quite resigned, even awed with the progress, not only by the renovated Zona, but also by the major hotel area, the Marina, the Nuevo, the super-markets, the fine airport, the world-class entertainments, the whole package. On the other hand, I like to be able to participate in all that, only when I’m in

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the mood. For my every-day, I prefer the timeless ambience of the city’s unchanged nooks and crannies, such as my current residence in an area just inland from the Mega.

Here’s how I describe it in the novel that I’m writing these days: My neighborhood is called Primero di Mayo -- named after Mayday, the Day of the Workers -- its flowering-tree shaded streets nestled in a wondrous valley on the skirts of a mountain that is covered in jungle.

It is an Ordinary district of an Extraordinary city.

Normal, everyday people live here, tranquil and respectful of each other, dressed for work in a rush weekday mornings and letting loose weekends in sexy clothes and street fiestas with loud music, tequila and even fireworks. There are many children in each family and dogs and cats and horses in corrals and chickens in coops behind the houses. It could be Anywhere, Mexico.

And yet, it’s only twenty minutes on the bus to the Extraordinary: Vallarta herself, the majestic bay, the endless turquoise pools, the sumptuous hotel rooms with parlor-size balconies extending over sapphire oceans, easy access to waterfalls and heavenly ponds and canopyrides and snorkeling among technicolor fish, wall-to-wall art galleries, luxe restaurants, relentless partying, the perfume of tropical flowers commingled with Mexico’s signature earthy smell of flesh sizzling on charcoal, free-flowing cappuccinos, open buffets loaded with an extravagance of food: a paradise carved out of the jungle for hordes of sun-seeking vacationers -- most in the glory of their “golden years” with some young-gay just for spice -- a place to escape whatever mundane besets one’s circumstances back home, a place to sit back and be diverted.

In a resort-city such as this the ordinary becomes extraordinary, because it’s not even perceived to exist. It is off the map, and that’s what I like about it best. It’s never about my own anonymity; on the contrary. In as Mexican a surrounding as this my foreigner-presence is most conspicuous. All my neighbors know who I am, even if only a few can pronounce my name.

I have been a famous caterer of film shoots and know enough tricks to prepare salubrious, tasty meals wherever I am, as long as I have a working kitchen like the one in my current apartment. Of course, a chef is only as good as his/her ingredients, which is where Primero di Mayo really kicks in for me. In my immediate area I have a fully stocked, humanely priced fruit/ veg store and, just as important for a

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Oscar, Mary, me and the dorado lover of fish/seafood like myself, the Pescaderia Liz. Deceptively compact, Liz is fully stocked with daily- fresh produce.

The owners Mary and Oscar know me and my tastes well, and they go out of their way to accommodate me and my budget. They understand my fetish for bonita-tuna (which I prefer raw as a tartare topped with lime-dressed avocado), for the heftier variety of ocean prawns (in a garlic, three-citrus stir fry along with mushrooms), octopus (slow-boiled as sashimi, and just as scrumptious in a tomato-based pasta sauce) and, at least once a week, dorado (in a soup or, alternately, breaded-fried).

Thing is, even a star-chef (I was dubbed “the best” by Robert De Niro and “food god” by Jason Alexander) gets bored with cooking about twice a week, and when that happens I have a wide choice of affordable eateries minutes from my flat. I can go for superb fish tacos, the ubiquitous chicken (grilled or roasted), menudo on Sundays, two-course comida corida lunches any weekday, Guadalajara-style grilled meat tacos, even sushi.

What I enjoy most in the

eating-out category is all the little impromptu “restaurants” that my neighbors operate out of their homes, with improvised seating and idiosyncratic hours. I love Signora Teresa’s pozole on Saturday afternoons and I’ve become addicted to the chorizo quesadillas of Signora Josefina on weekend nights, to recall just a couple of them.

There is no proper coffee bar in the barrio, so I make my own. On Sunday mornings I take my cuppa to the gate of my garden to watch the weekly amateur-league soccer game in the futbol field just across the alley. Most of the players are in their late-forties but they own the “moves” that they’ve been perfecting since they were toddlers.

It is especially great fun to watch a game that features the local Primero di Mayo team, which draws the attendance of all the locals who bring out their own chairs to sit around the edges of the field and cheer. And a superb celebration when our team wins, as they did last Sunday with a last minute goal, winning 3-2 (yay, team!).

Vallarta. Wonderful any way you serve it.

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Paradise and Parenting Leza Warkentin

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I am the preschool coordinator and nursery teacher at the American School of Puerto Vallarta. I am also both unsurprised and not a bit sorry that this list of my favorites is mostly about places to eat. If you can live in Vallarta without appreciating some of the good eatin’ around here, you have to be at least half Vulcan.

I’m Proud of You

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By Marcia Blondin

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first met Ricardo almost two years ago at the Marsol Friday Market where we were both vendors during the first summer that market stayed open. One of his first comments to me was that I had skin like an iguana’s tail. That we actually became close friends after that was a miracle! He does tend to say what he thinks which I appreciate. He assures me my face looks better after using his creams all this time!

As a result of emergency surgery six months ago, my hair starting falling out big time. It was sudden and scary as hell. The week it started, I ran to Ricardo for advice and he loaded me up with special soaps, capsules and four extracts to take. A month later, the shedding slowed and now two months later, my hair loss is back to normal. Bottom line is: the combination of herbs Ricardo gave me helped and I have stopped looking at wigs every time I go shopping!

Other friends here in Vallarta are using Ricardo’s fourth-generation family remedies and have their own stories to tell. Here’s one sent from Canada.

“At the end of November 2016 my Doctor was concerned about a mole on my upper thigh. I had it as long as I could remember but it was turning from brown to black.

By January it had turned red and grown and resembled a button mushroom. It was also open at the top and continually seeped fluid. A

biopsy in February 2017 confirmed a malignant melanoma.

The Doctor wanted to do a horrific operation going from the top of my knee up into my groin and removing my lymphatic system, which would have left me in pain and basically an invalid.

Ricardo started me on a treatment of 35 drops in the morning and 35 drops at night taken internally.

He also had me apply Extracto Hidroalcoholico de Chilcuatl drops on the melanoma. Next I took 35 drops of Moringa tincture every morning. Finally I started taking 20 drops of Annona every morning while still applying the Chilcuatl tincture.

On January 2018 I had blood work and an ultrasound done in Canada and found the cancer was nowhere else in my body. At this time the mole is almost flat and I am confident that it will be totally gone in time.

Thank you so much Ricardo for all you’ve done for me and from saving me from a potential life altering surgery.

Respectfully, Dale Hammond Ontario, Canada 03 Feb 2018” Powerful words for simple herbs that have been used in this country and others for hundreds of years.

You can find Ricardo Mazcal at Marsol Friday Market by the Pier from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm and at Three Hen’s & A Rooster Market every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm.

’m not going to lie, because somehow you can laser through all the layers of fluffy, motherly platitudes (Of course I like you all the time! Every minute!!), right to the ugly bone truth of it: we are entering uncharted territory now, and I don’t know what I’m doing about 64 percent of the time.

That’s a high percentage, and it probably scares you a little. I know it terrifies me.

You have changed in just a few short months, from the chatty, happy children who flopped all over me like puppies, to these broody, internet-savvy mini-adults who roll their eyes. At me. A lot.

But still, underneath the eye-rolling, are still the two of you, trying out your brand new wings, and even deeper underneath are kids who are scared to fall.

And you wonder if you do fall, if you’ll be able to get back up and try again.

So what I’m coming to realize is that it is my job to help you fly. And it’s also my job to make sure you stand up again when you fall. It’s my tremendous, absolutely staggering task to help another human being Figure It Out. I wish you could read my heart because in there you would see all that crazy, eye-popping love for you. And you would find everything you do that you think nobody sees.

It’s all there, lovingly tucked away, held for you until I hand it carefully back, in that moment where you’ve crashed in a plume of smoke and you can’t even imagine getting back up again.

Because you make me proud, in so many odd, mismatched ways that you would never guess in one million light years. It’s a pride tinged with a bit of sadness sometimes, with a heap of frustration a lot of other times, but always, always saturated in a mother’s unconditional love.

I’m proud when you get honor roll and stand up there onstage

with your certificate and a big camera-cheesy smile.

I’m proud when you don’t make the honor roll but your math grade goes up five points, because you (and I) have earned every last one of those points with hours of stubborn, often tear-filled determination over the kitchen table.

I’m proud of you when you sign up for the talent show to sing a song you wrote, despite the fact that you have never, ever sung a solo. But you get up there anyway and you give it all you’ve got, in front of all the people whose opinion is beginning to matter more and more.

I’m proud of you when you are too shy to sing a solo, despite the fact that we have spent many pesos and many hours driving you to your lessons. That’s where

I hear you sing Castle on a Cloud in a voice so pure and so sweet I have to pretend I’m focused on my cell phone so you won’t be embarrassed by your old crying mom.

I’m proud when you stand up for what’s right, when you call people out who are “just joking” about disrespecting women, or other races, or any marginalized group of people.

I’m proud when you get it wrong, act out in class or make a wrong choice, and you go on your own to find the friend or the teacher so you can apologize.

I’m proud when you go against the grain and do your own thing, like choose your own music, make your own friends, even if The Popular Kids will think your choices are childish or uncool.

I’m proud when you see an unfairness and tell me I’m wrong, even though it’s almost impossible to swallow in the moment, even though your delivery might need a bit of polish.

I’m proud of you, even when you crash and burn, even when you fail, even when you lay there for a moment to catch your break before getting back up. I’m honored to be by your side, putting back the broken pieces and nudging you to your feet again.

I may not know what I’m doing 64% of the time, but when I watch you taking your test flights I know I must be doing something right.

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Orlando Gotay, Tax Attorney

Sheryl Novak

Orlando Gotay is a California licensed tax attorney (with a Master of Laws in Taxation) admitted to practice before the IRS, the U.S. Tax Court and other taxing agencies. His love of things Mexican has led him to devote part of his practice to the federal and state tax matters of U.S. expats in Mexico. He can be reached at tax@orlandogotay.com or Facebook: GotayTaxLawyer. This is just a most general outline, and is of course, informational only and not meant as legal advice.

Sheryl Novak is an expat Canadian who has owned a home in Mexico for over ten years. She is the owner of SOLutions Mexico and The Furniture Store by SOLutions Mexico. She is an expert on sourcing all styles of furniture for all sizes of budgets, in Mexico.

tax@orlandogotay.com

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he IRS just announced the end, in six month’s time, of the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program. OVDP was specifically designed for taxpayers with exposure to potential criminal liability or substantial civil penalties, due to willful failure to report foreign financial assets. You did know that as a U.S. person, one is required to tell the IRS about many types of foreign financial assets, right? Thousands of taxpayers (over 50,000) became compliant through OVDP’s lifespan, netting the IRS billions in “found money”.

OVDP was designed to provide protection from criminal liability and a way forward to permanently resolving civil tax and penalty obligations. It will be gone as of Sept. 28, 2018, mostly because the number of participants has dropped extensively as of late.

The IRS takes that as a success.

So, OVDP is gone….what’s left?

In these things, the world is divided between “willful” and “non willful”. “Streamlined” filing procedures are an alternative for those who have less exposure on account of their failure to disclose foreign accounts, file Foreign Bank Account Reports or other mandatory information returns.

Those meeting “Streamlined” criteria will be subject to lower (or no) penalties depending on the individual cases.

sa.novak@solutionsmexico.com

A very quick overview of that: One must be able to certify one’s “non willful” status with respect to undisclosed assets, and not be under audit or criminal investigation.

Details get thicker as there are different paths for those deemed “resident” in the U.S. versus those that aren’t.

There are other initiatives for folks who were just derelict in not filing FBARs or information returns. Those procedures, as far as we know, will remain in place, just like “Streamlined”. “For now” I would say…as they can be terminated on no notice.

If you think that reducing the number of “come back to the fold” programs means a reduction in enforcement activities, think again. Stopping offshore tax noncompliance and evasion remain top priorities of the IRS. The new IRS Commissioner, a tax attorney, has significant experience in representing these types of clients. I’m sure he understands where the agency can improve procedures to detect recalcitrant taxpayers and raise more revenue.

If anything, I would expect these activities to continue.

I suspect that some type of OVDP replacement program may appear after September to deal with folks that don’t meet Streamlined criteria. “Willful” guys need a way to rest at night, too.

How to furnish a Rental Home

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lmost half of our customers over the last six months plan to rent out their home when they cannot be here themselves. It’s a great way to finance a home in paradise! To get a good return on their furniture and décor investment, here are some tips we provide to our clients.

Since the primary objective of a rental property is to generate income, you want your place to be visually appealing to attract renters. Selecting the right décor style is important.

Most renters prefer for new, clean and clutter-free properties.

Keep painted walls and large furniture in neutral tones. Add a splash of color with a feature wall and décor items such as pillows and throws. Rental properties with neutral colors book faster than those with too much color.

Avoid clutter. Review which critical pieces of furniture are required. If you have shelves in your bedroom closets, you probably do not need to get a dresser. The more furniture you add, the more could be damaged. Keep small décor pieces to a minimum and look for items that will not break if accidentally knocked over.

Don’t be afraid to invest in a good mattress. Most renters prefer a medium firm, coil mattress with a pillow top. Everyone remembers they place they stayed with a great mattress, and everyone remembers the place they stayed in an uncomfortable bed.

Another great buy is a waterproof mattress pad. Unlike the old days, the new ones are soft and made from a fabric help keeps your mattress stain free. Buy more than one. Having two mattress pads and duplicate sets of linens and towels means less cleaning time required between the time one guest checks out and the next checks in. No one likes to show up, and

their room is not ready. Although colors are pretty, your best bet for linens including sheets and towels are white. Hotels use white for a reason. White is an elegant color and whites do not fade. You can bleach them for cleanliness, and they can be washed with towels to speed up the time of cleaning between guests.

Glass tops help wood furniture last longer. Eight mm of glass on top of nightstands, coffee table, and dining table will protect your furniture from scratches and condensation rings. Glass tops are inexpensive and will make your furniture look newer longer.

To keep upholstered items looking new, you cannot is beat a performance fabric cover.

These fabrics repel liquid. I tested this to ensure it was as good as promised. I poured a glass of red wine on a sofa with a white color performance fabric and left it there overnight.

In the morning, I wiped the red wine off. No stain! The perfect solution to repel suntan oils, creams, and sweat!

If you enjoyed these tips, check out my article next week – I will share more!

Buying in Riviera Nayarit?

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Almacen Cocktail

AJ Freeman

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AJ Freeman is an adventurous spirit, serial friendmaker, and general enthusiast. He lives his everyday life hoping to demonstrate the nearly infinite potential for discovery and wonder on this small wet rock orbiting a dim yellow star in the backwoods of the Milky Way.

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t’s hard to miss the brilliant blue glow of this polished little wine bar on a walk through Centro, sitting just off Ignatio Vallarta two blocks past the Rio Cuale bridge. Almacen opened its doors recently to replace a lost local favorite, so the pressure was certainly on for the newcomers to deliver...takes more than a pretty neon sign to make an impression on me.

Take it from a guy who wears face paint: what’s inside has to be the best part, or else.

The Vibes: Almacen has a flavor all its own in the area, combining the extensive spirit selection of a true cocktail bar with the intimate allure of an afterhours lounge. The bar area strikes a delicate balance between urban and urbane, trimmed in wood with a backdrop of brick and bedecked with bottles and books because a life without either lacks its full luster.

The downtempo playlist and open air wine garden area made an ideal setting for compelling conversation, so it’s a fine place for wine and great for a date.

Stylish without being stuffy, a bit buttoned up, but not quite to the top of the neck...it’s a perfect place to write all your plans in pencil and let the night take the wheel. I, concordantly, can dig it.

The Vices: For me, a steaming plate fresh from the kitchen is the most effective advertisement an eatery can employ. Reading a list of ingredients from a menu is one thing, but there’s something about the sight and scent of something

truly delicious that makes it real, like running your fingers over a cashmere sweater as opposed to clicking it.

This is how I was introduced to the D’Evil Member, a perfectly medium lamb patty topped with goat cheese along with gouda, roasted peppers, and two crispy golden onion rings. As it floated by on ceramic wings, the entire physical world melted away around me and there was nothing on this plane of existence but a single sandwich and a hungry human. I had to have it.

Talking myself out of tackling the server and gleefully claiming some poor patron’s meal under traditional monkey rules, I ordered one for myself when it was our table’s turn.

The orders came, and just as I seized upon my prey my esteemed colleague Rachel suggested that we do a split-and-share for sampling purposes. Internally, I cursed her name with the fury of one thousand Suns, but in the spirit of workplace harmony the trade was made.

It was a damn good decision, as her choice was the BB Killer, a beef burger with gouda and onion rings along with bacon and homemade bbq sauce. Gotta love a good twist on a classic.

For the sake of journalistic integrity, I must mention that a miscommunication somewhere in the chain of demand on my second visit meant that I got the Gourmet Burger, a beef patty with the traditional fixings along with fried organic eggs, instead of

Mary’s worst nightmare.

It was the evening of the 17th and I’d had a few brews, so I’m just going to chalk that one up to my festive accent.

In any event, I do well in this line of work because of my openness to experience, so I took the opportunity to get further acquainted with their menu, and it did not disappoint. I also learned egg yolk is a worthy condiment for french fries, and learning is always beneficial.

It’s fine, just means I’ll have to go back again for it. Yes, I am accepting condolence cards.

The Verdict: With a lineup of signature drinks like the Magenta Bloom and Red Rose Vertigo and a well-executed menu, this hideaway in the heart of the city is very much worth your time.

Almacen Cocktail styles itself as a secret spot for the scene-savvy, and with its late night hours you could find dinner and drinks turning into so much more.

Maybe I’ll catch you there.

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Real Estate Express your heart when you buy your art! on the Bay Buy original art for your home. Love it, and don’t be afraid if it matches the sofa!

Cat Morgan www.rivieranayaritfun.com Cat@RivieraNayaritFun.com Cat Morgan is owner of RivieraNayaritFun.com and also NewEnergyConsciousness.com If you have any questions, comments please contact at Cat@ CatMorgan.me

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he holidays are upon us as Semana Santa holidays mark the end of the high season around the bay. What this actually means is that most of the expats and Canadians that come to visit from October to April / May are, or have already departed. It is definitely more noticeable around the North end of the Banderas Bay, as where the Puerto Vallarta and Old Town areas bring more tourism and business during the spring. With this said, during the holidays the entire bay area and on the coast of the Riviera Nayarit attracts hundreds of thousands of Nationals who are coming to spend their summer breaks and holiday vacations on the playa. Easter is on April 1 this year. ¿Estás listo? (Are you ready?) Also a note, Mexico time change is also on April 1 this year; time to spring forward one hour.

As new developments continue to build throughout the summer, their completion will be bringing in thousands of visitors creating more income opportunities for the locals, and not only during the high season.

These new structures are also creating avenues for new investments. Right now, folks that are now looking for rentals for next year are generally out of luck! If you’re looking for an investment opportunity, now is the time to purchase a condominium. These new buildings are presale and all are selling out quickly in Puerto Vallarta and on the north end of the bay as well.

LOS MUERTOS 46 SIGNATURE SERIES RESIDENCES UPDATE Yes, you read correctly! Los Muertos 46 is building additional levels and units going from the initial thirty-two to forty-six, creating one grand penthouse on the top floor, with two Sky Penthouses below, and a one bedroom penthouse and two jr. penthouses below …

All so spacious! The new plans include large unique floor plans, also offering extra large patio areas for outdoor living; all units with the best view that Olas Atlas/ Old Town offers. All of the Engineer Testing results have come back clean and the project is a go. What was once

Sold to a couple who were engaged at this very spot

I known as the “eyesore of Old Town” is now going to be one of the most attractive and appealing structures in all of Olas Atlas.

April 1 is also the day construction will commence with the delivery date estimated in December 2018/ January2019 for the first phase of buyers April 1st also marks the beginning of construction for the lobby, pool deck and onsite showroom and additional commercial space, with an estimated opening in October 2018 with stores and restaurants.

I spoke with Sheryl Novak, SOLutions Mexico Owner and President about the upcoming ‘Onsite Showroom’. She shared her plans with me. “At Los Muertos 46, we will be unveiling our first white glove “pop-up location” in Mexico.

This pop-up location will showcase the furniture available in our custom package for Los Muertos as well as additional pieces. It will be staffed by our in house decorator who will provide personalized service and also handle any upgrades the new owners want.”

It appears with all of the Engineer Testing Results coming back clear, this project is a go. What was once known as the “eyesore of Old Town” is now going to be one of the most attractive and appealing structures in all of Olas Atlas.

Who is ready for a HARD HAT TOUR?

am an artist that has been painting for over 30 years, and I have almost always had my studio and gallery to sell my work. If you are finally in the market to buy that very special painting that you will love every time you look at it, then you will want to read further.

Unless you’re an art gallery owner, a curator or an artist, chances are buying art is a very intimidating journey. You have heard the adage, “Does it match my sofa”?! Throw that thought out the window. Art is meant to express who YOU are and what you LOVE, not anyone else!! Step out of that place of fear around the process and have a great time!

You will regret not putting your tastes and eclectic style in the place you spend at least 60% of your time. If you decide to use a designer to help with your new space, be sure to listen, but also be sure that you love what they are suggesting! Choosing the art is a

very personal decision, and designers tend to want to flesh out their creations with their tastes and with art that does not clash with their design.

Your paintings and sculptures should be personal and reflect who you are, what you stand for, so choose carefully. Be bold, irrational, eclectic, sentimental, and political. It speaks volumes and gives you an opportunity to share stories that the artwork instigates when you have friends join you in your home! Express your heart through your art!

So much of purchasing art is also knowing the artist’s stories, feeling like you know them. They have such fascinating ways of thinking and expressing, and if you get the opportunity to meet the artist you are buying from, it is that much more valuable to you.

At one point in my career, I worked with an artist’s agent and was reminded how important it

was to share my story. I always tell myself when I begin a piece of the four P’s! Is it personal, is it passionate, is it purposeful is it political?

When I stand at the easel and begin to work these things must be present for me to stimulate ideas or the piece will fall flat. You, as the patron, would feel the difference.

My works all start with a story. My story as a woman and my journey, my story as a world traveler and how it affects me, my story of reincarnation: I have many stories that I share with myself to stimulate ideas for new works.

If you would like to talk to me, I am always available to share ideas about why and what you would want to have to hang in your home.

It is an adventure, a journey into what you love in life. You can find me at Constitucion 325, Old Town, call me at 858 261 8129 or drop by! Friday night is the Southside Shuffle, and we will be open. www.

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This is a Love Story Bill MacKenzie

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fter having retired on January 1, and having spent the winter in our new condo in Fluvial, my husband and I returned to our home in Omaha.

We have been back in the U.S. now for over a week.

No question about it, the city of my birth and where I have always called “home” is a good place to be raised, and a very comfortable place to live, if you can abide the arctic winters and subtropical summers, as well as a strong dose of social conservatism and racial segregation.

However, Omaha doesn’t hold a candle to the home of our choosing.

My husband and I both believe... actually we have determined...that our quality of life is so much more elevated in our new home in Puerto Vallarta, compared with the U.S. We can tick off any number of “quality of life” metrics you read about in all of those “Best Places to Live” and “Best Places to Retire” publications, and PV comes out ahead in almost all categories. Cost of Living. Public Safety.

Climate. Outdoor recreation. Public Transportation. Cultural Diversity.

Even health care and life expectancy. But in truth those things are only peripherally relevant to us.

While they all play a part in fostering a sense of security and contentment, they speak to the brain, and not to the heart or the soul.

Puerto Vallarta speaks to the soul.

No place is perfect. PV turns 100

years old this spring, and parts of the city show their age, but not always in a good way. The streets and sewer systems in older portions are antiquated. Cultural “inefficiency” and a certain level of political corruption exists. The Protestant Work Ethic that still exists in Omaha is largely unknown in Mexico. Or rather, it seems reinterpreted. Things happen when they happen, and not when they are promised to. Mañana doesn’t mean “tomorrow”. It means “not today”. If you invite people to dinner at 7 the expat guests may show up about 7ish, but you will be

lucky to find any Mexicans ringing your doorbell before 7:45. This is why the gods made tequila, and it is fortuitous that most great tequilas originate from Jalisco State.

Summers are filled with “3 shower” days.

But... Puerto Vallarta is quick to infect you with its beauty, and charm. And if that is not enough, it’s people will amaze you with their kindness and generosity to all, including total strangers. The children smile at you! Their hands are not grafted to an Apple or Samsung. Likewise their parents

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Vallarta- The Scents of Place

By Arlene Pervin

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actually look you in the eye, and smile.

Here is how I described my feelings about life on the fun side of a certain proposed wall. I feel like a child being given the keys to Disneyland, and told the rides are all free, and the concessions half price.

I can choose what rides to go on, and in what order. And I can ride any ride I want as many times as I want.

I may get sunburned, or exhausted by walking around all day, but boy oh boy, am I ever happy!

I also feel a sense of wonderment and discovery, not unlike when

I was a small child and everything in the world was new to me. Every day we are experiencing wondrous new things. Extraordinary foods to try. New places to see. New playas.

Mercados. Boat trips. Visits into the mountains. Or jungle. Small towns to experience. Then there are the numerous art galleries, featuring some of the most talented artists on the planet, including some we now count as our amigos.

Oh, and Costco is just across the street from our home. We walk there several times a week. That is simply not done in the U.S.

Yes, we are smitten. Almost weak-in-the-knees so. It just feels so right when we are there, to the point where we now feel lost and horribly adrift when we are away.

Omaha is a nice city. It helped to shape who I became. It will forever be the place of my birth, and for many decades it has served as my residence. But now I have a new favorite place to call my ciudad natal.

To our many friends in Vallarta, we will return soon.

To our friends in Omaha, come for a visit.

Mi Casa es su Casa.

here is an unmistakable difference between living in the tropics compared to a more northern climate, and that element is the beautiful world of smell. One of our five senses. Living in this area the richness of smell is like a song. It has notes and tone, and there is always a story behind it.

Tropical fruits sweeten the air.

Tortillas cook over comals, and the smell of corn escapes into the surrounding air. It is a smell of Mexico. Chilies, tomatillos, tomatoes and peppers, roast over flames in preparation of salsas and other Mexican dishes. Copal incense burns and smells like the ancient history of churches and of reverence and spirituality. Coffee roasters send out a burnt- like smell of burnt toast and coffee.

Walking by a fruit stand, the citrusy aroma of freshly squeezed oranges spritz into the air. The salt air I breathe as I walk the Malecon rides up my nostrils in a heady mix of salt, water, and air.

Tropical fruits like pineapple, papaya, and mango release their perfumes when ripe and when the skin is peeled away. The jasmine flowers release their sweet scent at night, a nocturnal intoxication that rides on the night breezes.

The smell of caramelized sugar escapes from the copper roasting pan that the candy vendors roast to entice customers, A combination of sugar and almonds is almost irresistible for the salivating palate Dried hibiscus flowers release their essences when heated in water to make the burgundy- colored drink called Jamaica.

Tuba vendors ply their drink, and the smell of the refreshing drink made from a coconut palm is fruity with a slightly fermented note.

The Hoja Santa leaves when rubbed remind one of sassafras and root beer. Tamales have a

subtle smell, of corn husks, banana leaves, and masa flour. Grilled fish and shrimp smell of the sea and life.

Corn on the cob, elote is roasted over charcoal and the scent of corn mixes with the hint of fire. Coconut desserts, called cocadas, emit their richness of coconut and honey from the triangular heap piled high on the vendor’s cart and Churros give off their sugary smell of sweet donuts, sugar, and hot oil, enticing the sweet tooth in anyone.

The tang of tequila wafts subtly from the tequileria shop as vendors offer tastes of one the signature drinks of Mexico. Molecules of the blue agave spirit the air.

The tortilleria emits a mix of corn and tortillas among the grinding noise of machinery and conveyor belts. The smell speaks of the life of the streets and simple necessities, the staple of a Mexican household.

In a tropical place, the smells intermix. The ripe and the putrid, the living, and the dying. They are individual and distinct as a shot of tequila, and always serve up a heady mix of tropical surprise.

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How to Access Mexican Healthcare with Your American Insurance Plan

By Sarah Norton

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hen I tell people I live in Mexico, they often ask me several questions, including “what happens if you get sick?” If you are an American or Canadian traveling or living here, accessing healthcare can be easy when you have the right tools. I recently sat down with Dr. Peter Gordon, an expat who has been practicing medicine in Mexico for almost twenty years, to discuss how he ended up in Puerto Vallarta and the easiest way to access the best medical care using your own insurance.

Dr. Gordon first came to Mexico in his youth looking for a medical education before returning to the American medical system.

Finding Mexico easier to navigate than Europe, he ended up at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. Affiliated with the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Organization, and others, the school was a great place to start and offered a very hands-on education. He studied for several years before returning to the U.S to begin his specialty training in Chicago and Troy, Michigan.

After finishing his training, Dr. Gordon was invited to stay on as faculty. He took over directorship of the office and eventually began to take over directorship of utilization review, which reviews patients being discharged. Having worked in a more administrative setting for almost ten years, Dr. Gordon began engaging in outside volunteer work, one of his favorite ways to get involved and give back to the community.

It was around this time that

he decided he was ready to get back to what he loved, which was helping people. He and his family began to see their lifestyle changing in Michigan and they didn’t like the direction it was going, so they moved back to Guadalajara where he started a solo private practice. After a few years, he realized there was a surplus of doctors in Guadalajara, and his practice was growing at a slower pace than he expected.

At this same time, Dr. Gordon had a friend who was encouraging him to relocate to Puerto Vallarta as doctors were badly needed there. While growing his private office after making the move, Dr. Gordon continued to dedicate his time to more volunteer work and different community groups, including the Navy League. It

was through this work with retired veterans that he became involved with Lakeside Medical Group.

When Dr. Gordon heard about the group’s program, he began inquiring about the possibility of expanding to Puerto Vallarta, as they were only working with doctors in the Ajijic area at the time. Lakeside Medical Group offers comprehensive medical care in Mexico covered by over 360 insurance companies in the U.S and Canada.

The group is 100% compliant with billing laws and can even accept Advantage Plans despite not being able to access benefits associated with Medicare A and B. Their network of providers includes physicians at locations owned and operated by the group, as well as a long list of independent providers including specialists, hospitals, laborato-

ries, diagnostic centers, out-patient facilities, and pharmacies.

Though Dr. Gordon is one of the many providers serving patients located in the Puerto Vallarta area, Lakeside Medical Group also offers services in the Lake Chapala area and will soon be opening a clinic in Sayulita.

The best part about Lakeside Medical Group is how easy everything is. Providing quality care is important to them. They do all the work to search out trusted facilities to partner with and you know you can always feel comfortable with who you are seeing, even if you are just traveling and need to visit urgent care in an emergency.

Accessing their services is as easy as filling out a registration form, there are no fees or expenses to the patient member aside from an occasional small

copay. They handle all the billing between the provider in Mexico and your insurance in the U.S. or Canada, which means that the group covers any bills and payments to the providers, including hospitals.

Depending on your coverage, you can come in and see Dr. Gordon or one of the group’s other doctors for as little as $100 pesos, or visit a hospital for only $500 pesos and rest easy knowing the rest is taken care of. Lakeside Medical Group contacts your insurance provider so you don’t ever have to deal with any paperwork or wait to be reimbursed.

One of the reasons Dr. Gordon and other doctors or facilities choose to work with Lakeside Medical Group is because it is a benefit to their office as well.

It allows them to increase the volume of patients they see without having to go through the red tape with insurance providers.

Being paid by an American insurance company, a process that normally takes six months to a year ends up having a turnaround time of fifteen to thirty days when it is processed through Lakeside Medical Group.

The uniting factor between providers like Dr. Peter Gordon and Lakeside Medical Group is that they both strive to help people. They believe that healthcare should be simple and affordable no matter where you are and will do what it takes to make that happen. To learn more about their services visit www.lakemedicalgroup.com

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enny Rogers tribute artist Marty Edwards actually looks and sounds just like Kenny himself! His tributes have become a huge hit! March 24 7pm.

Paco Ojeda On Music Presents Risqué. Lecture, featuring pianist Dennis Crow. A no holds barred survey of the bawdiest music spanning five centuries. Special guests will perform. March 22 4pm.

Hulda Hix presents Vibology, a creative blend of traditional reggae with popular American music. Mar. 22 9:30pm.

DUENDE and Bohemia Viva play ‘Together’ for an evening of soaring vocals, beautiful instrumental performances and rhythms.

March 23 6:30pm.

Gospelicious Gospel Brunch featuring the Holy Host Singers and pianist/Music Director David Troy Francis. Hosted by Tracy Parks.

March 25 12pm.

Lobo & Latcho reunite in ‘Primal Groove’. Encore performance.

March 25 7pm.

Tina Turner Tribute ‘Truly Tina’ starring Samira. Spot-on performance with all-live vocals. One night only, March 26 7pm.

Media Luna plays high-energy Flamenco, Rock, Huapango.

Special guests. March 26 9:30pm.

Bohemia Viva’s ‘The Sound Garden’ plays on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, with varying theme nights weekly.

Classic stage comedy ‘Greater Tuna’, starring Ron Spencer and Tracy Parks is chock-full of eccentric characters with small minds and big hearts. Final performance this season, March 27 7pm.

In the piano bar Jean-Guy ‘Jay-Gee’ Comeau plays piano Mon. and Thurs. at 5pm. Special guest flutist Andrea

Hulda Hix Jupina will join on Thursday, March 22 at 5pm.

Singer-songwriter Zoe Wood plays originals/covers on acoustic guitar Mon. at 7:30pm.

Tongo plays Latin/Cuban rhythms on his handmade flutes/ drums on Tues. at 7:30pm. Also mornings daily starting at 10am with Joby Hernandez on the riverside terrace.

Joby Hernandez plays pop/rock favorites on guitar Wed. at 5pm.

Also mornings daily on the riverside terrace starting at 10am with Tongo.

The Red Suitcases play classic rock/pop Sun. and Wed. at 7:30pm.

Open Mic is Thurs. at 7:30pm.

‘The Joanie Show’ starring Joan Houston and Bob Bruneau Fri. at 5pm.

Bingo with Pearl is Sat. at 4pm.

Special guests including Ballet Folklorico Tradiciones and Amber the male belly dancer.

Moruno plays Mediterranean, Arabic, Flamenco Sat. at 7:30pm.

Pianist Dennis Crow plays stan-

dards and showtunes Sun. at 5pm, Mon. at 10pm, Tues. at 5pm and Fri. at 7pm with singer Luis Villanueva.

Salsa dancing/lessons is held on Wed. & Sun. at 8pm on the upper terrace.

Happy Hour daily 2-6pm.

All-new, ‘The Zen Hour’, is 4-5pm daily. Quiet time in the piano bar to enjoy a conversation or hold a business meeting. 2x1 show tickets offered during that hour only on select current shows.

Limited quantities. Entertainment starts at 5pm.

For online tickets with no booking fees and more detailed information visit www.IncantoVallarta.com No cover in the piano bar. Box Office hours are 9am to 11:30pm daily. Casual dining is always available. Contact General Manager Gilberto Figueroa for group and special event bookings at Incantopv@gmail.com.

Incanto is located at Insurgentes 109 (at the Rio Cuale). Call 322 223 9756 for reservations.

Introducing Media Luna

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edia Luna (Half Moon) is a band that plays upbeat and exciting instrumental acoustic music. They write their own songs, as well as cover traditional music from Mexico and around the world. The band recently relocated to Puerto Vallarta from San Miguel de Allende, where they are extremely popular. Their music style is fast, upbeat and high-energy, allowing audiences to see the music, as well as hear it, and includes Flamenco, Rumba, Rock and Huapango (Mexican folk dancing music). The varying back-

grounds of the band members allows them to create a rich mix of musical flavors in an exciting and very entertaining presentation.

This is a 90 min. show in the main theater. Monday, March 26 at

9:30pm at Incanto.

Also watch for them on Fridays at Incanto at 8pm starting April 6 in the main theater. For tickets and more information visit IncantoVallarta.com

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March Heats Up at Luna Lounge With More Exciting Shows

By Debbie White he entertainment has been phenomenal at Luna Lounge this season. There are only a few dinner shows left to enjoy, as high season comes to close. The level of musical talent has been unbelievable this year, with many shows selling out! You’ll want to see these final performances in March at the North Shore’s premiere entertainment venue.

‘The Crazy Bitches’ continue performing every Tuesday and Wednesday through April 4, with fantastic music, gorgeous costumes and some side-splitting humor. After your delicious meal from the grill, Miss Diva Divine and her gals will entertain you with their musical parodies and adult comedy starring celebrities like, Beyoncé, Celine Dion, Cher, Madonna, Tina Turner, and more!

This past week, we saw the sensational return of the ‘Rod Stewart’ show. Doug Varty sang the hits of this British rocker, with numbers like, ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy,” “Forever Young,” Maggie

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With the look, the moves and voice of this musical superstar, once again, we loved Doug’s performance!

The annual ‘St. Patrick’s Day Show’ took place on Friday and

evening!

‘Bohemia Viva› returned to the Luna Lounge stage last Monday night, delivering more incredible harmonies. Their breathtaking delivery of both popular English and Spanish songs, once again, made this beautiful duo from Argentina a Luna Lounge favorite.

Andrea entertained us with humor and interesting stories, between each song and their music was spectacular!

Coming up on Thursday, March 22 is the debut of The ‘Kenny Rogers’ tribute. Marty Edwards looks so much like the real Kenny Rogers that you’ll do a double take! Marty knows just how to sing and perform like the real deal!

You’ll love hearing the hits like, “Lady,” “Lucille,” “The Gambler,” “She believes in Me” and “You Saturday of last week. We heard Decorated My Life.” This is a show fantastic Irish tunes from the ‘Shag that you’ll definitely want to see!

Harbour Band.’ The traditional And wrapping up the enterIrish mea of Corned Beef and tainment season will be Dwight Cabbage along with Beef Guin- Blake and The Groove Band on ness Stew was a delicious treat! Saturday, March 24, presenting And Hugh and Alice Gaffney were a stylish, new show! Dwight and our genuine Irish hosts each his band will deliver an evening

of R&B and Pop music, with hits from Barry White, Bill Withers, Grover Washington, Sam Smith, John Legend and more!

As a headliner on cruise ships and venues around the globe, Dwight Blake is the ultimate entertainer! And with his new band, Dwight’s talent really shines! And some of the audience will enjoy dancing the night away to the smooth, sexy sound of Dwight Blake and the Groove Band!

This week on Friday, March 23, there will be an All-You-Can-Eat meal from the BBQ for only 160 pesos. Luna Lounge will be open until the second week of April, with their end of the season blowout party announced in next week’s Vallarta Tribune article.

For tickets and information about Luna Lounge shows, go to www.lunaloungebucerias.com The entertainment season isn’t quite over yet, so don’t forget to bring your friends and guests along with you for an evening of fine dining and fabulous entertainment at the North Shore’s premiere entertainment venue!

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Celebrate Passover Seder on March 30

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uerto Vallarta Jewish Community invites you to our annual Passover Seder on Friday, March 30, 2018, at 6:30 PM at the River Cafe located on the River Cuale. Our traditional Seder will include dinner consisting of gefilte fish, matza ball soup, brisket, roast chicken, roasted herb potatoes, steamed mixed vegetables, dessert, coffee, tea, and kosher wine.

Reservations, accompanied with payments, are requested. For group seating, reservations should be made for everyone in the party at the same time. The cost for the Seder is: Adults, 850 pesos or $48 USD, children 5 to 10, 425 pesos or $25 USD and free for children 4 and under. Please make your reservations by March 20, 2018 with the River Cafe via Paypal.

Volunteers are needed to hand out and collect the Haggadahs kippas, song sheets, to perform the candle lighting ceremony, and to help children with the four questions. For general information, special needs, and to volunteer, please contact Donna at helth1@ sbcglobal.net.

“My Friends Call Me Sam”

The Story of a Famous Tribute Artist Merv Buchanan merv@uvs.com

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rom the time she was a young girl, Canadian tribute artist “Samira” loved to sing and dance. She loved music and dreamed of a future as an entertainer. But her parents didn't think that was an acceptable career choice.

They frowned upon the lyrics, choreography and revealing costumes favored by female pop stars. So Samira had to settle for being a “closet pop star”, entertaining her friends at occasional house parties.

When Samira was a teenager, she happened to see the music

video for Tina Turner's hit song “What's Love Got To Do With It”.

She loved Turner's husky voice, the way she dressed and moved. She became an instant fan and discovered that she could imitate the singer in every way.

For fun, she entered a rock star impersonators contest and won first prize. A story about her sensational performance appeared in the newspaper.

This did not go over well with her parents who forbade her from competing again. So once more her dreams were shelved. Instead, she became a successful, sought after fitness instructor.

Fast forward a dozen years and Samira, now a successful career

woman, decided not to let her dreams turn into regrets. With the help of her savvy and supportive husband, she decided to give show business another try. Together, they launched “Truly Tina” her sizzling tribute to Tina Turner. Samira's depiction of the reigning “queen of rock” was so powerful and timely it became a worldwide phenomenon almost overnight. Over the past decade, Samira has literally toured the world.

From her home base in Vancouver, she has performed across the Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia and the middle east.

In endless contests and reviews critics all seem to agree that Samira, who does not use her last

name for privacy reasons, is the best Tina Turner tribute artist in the business.

Asked why she thinks Truly Tina is so successful, Samira replies “First of all, I'm a fan. I enjoy performing Tina's songs, but rather than try to be an exact replica of Ms. Turner, I include some of my own personality. And I don't take myself too seriously. I certainly don't think I'm Tina Turner. My name is Samira, but my friends call me Sam”.

Incanto presents Truly Tina for one performance only on Monday, March 26th, at 7PM. More info is available at www.IncantoVallarta. com and elsewhere in The Tribune.

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“Giving Back” How A Kind Act Changed Marty Edwards' Life Merv Buchanan merv@uvs.com

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arty Edwards is known in Canada, the USA, Australia, the UK, Asia and Mexico as a very popular, crowd pleasing Kenny Rogers tribute artist. He has performed on network TV shows like Oprah and Jay Leno and enjoyed feature articles in numerous newspapers and magazines. But that wasn't really the plan. What started out as a plan to help others, unexpectedly turned into a twenty year career.

In 1998, Marty organized a benefit concert featuring a group of fellow musicians to help raise funds for abused children. “Me and my band had always enjoyed the support of our fans and I thought this would be like giving some of that support back”, When he didn't have enough acts to fill the bill, Marty's wife suggested he do a few of the Kenny Rogers impersonations he often did to entertain his family and friends. “I only

started doing the Kenny Rogers thing because people were always saying I kinda looked and sounded like him”. As it turned out, Marty's “Kinda Kenny” was the highlight of the show. The fundraiser was a huge success and what was intended as a one time thing turned into a series of sold out shows and a career that has taken him around the world.

As a young man, Marty Edwards was shy and introverted, but he found that becoming Kenny Rogers for a while helped him break out of his shell. “I suddenly realized that if I wanted to be a Kenny Rogers tribute artist, I must not only look and sound like Rogers, I also had to carry myself with his confidence and swagger. To be successful, I had to be a bit of an actor”.

Life has a way of testing us and in 2016 Marty Edwards was faced with what seemed like an insurmountable test, when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. “I thought my life was over, so I began putting my affairs in order.” But the surgery

was successful and he made a full recovery..

Always concerned about the welfare of others, Marty makes a point of promoting the “FIT” test, a non-invasive screening procedure

Artisan Markets & Events

There are regular markets called ‘tianguis’ that occur in many neighbourhoods throughout the week. You can usually buy fruits and veggies, clothing, household items. The markets and events here represent local producers, artisans and entrepreneurs. Unless noted (*) most run from the first week of November through April.

FRIDAY *Marsol Friday Market by the Pier - 9:30 am -1:30 pm Open every Friday all year located on Francisca Rodriguez street Sayulita Mercado del Pueblo - 9am -2 pm SATURDAY Olas Altas Farmer’s Market - 9:30 am - 2 pm at Lazaro Cardenas Park *Three Hens & a Rooster Market 9 am - 1:00 pm Every Saturday all year, locate at Venustiano Carranza 466 SUNDAY Huanacaxtle Farmer’s Market - 9am -3pm - Located at La Cruz Marina TUESDAY Riviera Market 9am - 2 pm Located in Nuevo Vallarta in the parking lot behind the Casino.

WEDNESDAY Bucerias Forever Spring Market - 9am - 1pm -Lazaro Cardenas / Javier Mina - Opposite La Vida condos *Vallarta ArtWalk - 6 pm - 10 pm See their map for locations.

Bohemio Artisans Co op - 625 Lazaro Cardenas, Old Town Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 10 - 2 THURSDAY Bucerias ArtWalk - 7-9pm - along Lazaro Cardenas Marina Vallarta Night Market- 6 pm -10 pm - along the marina

he got his start.

Marty appears at Incanto March 21st & 24th and at The Luna Lounge on March 22nd.

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designed to detect early signs of cancer. Known in the entertainment industry as a team player, generous with his time and talent, Marty is always available to support a worthy cause. After all, that's how

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f you have an event you’d like to include here, please email editor@vallar tatr ibune.com.

Non-profit/community events are listed free of charge. For a calendar of all events visit vallartatribune. com/eventos Tuesdays – Malecon Sculpture Tour from 9-11am - Meet the artists, learn about the sculptures that line the Malecon and support the local library. Starts in front of the Millennium Sculpture (in front of MacDonalds) Wednesdays – Vallarta Artwalk from 6-10pm through 13 galleries in Centro. See advertisement for more details.

Thursdays – Evening Malecon Sculpture Tour. Starts at 6pm at Galeria Pacific on Aldama in Centro and ends at Demetro Galeria across from Lazaro Cardenas Park.

Friday, March 23 Mariachis, Margaritas and More The event, will include a gourmet ‘tasting’ buffet provided by 25 restaurants, dancers and mariachi entertainment. Seating

is limited – only 200 guests Doors and bar service open at 6pm, buffet service starts at 7pm. $900 pesos info@amapaspv.com.

Friday, March 23 Crystal Ball – An Evening Under the Stars 6th Annual Fundraiser for the Puerto Vallarta Gay Men’s Chorus 7:00 pm at Casa Karma Boutique Resort 1800 pesos. info@pvmenschorus.org Saturday, March 24 Demetro Art Gallery Reception for R.I.S.E Orphanage Lazaro Cardenas 169 from 4-6pm 400 peso donation includes Wine and Appetizers. Meet the children from RISE. March 25 – 31 Holy Week Get ready for Holy Week and Easter! Plenty of sun, sea, and, sand with a lot of activities for everyone to have a wonderful vacation.

Friday, March 30 Traditional Passover Seder at 6:30 PM at the River Café.

Reservations with payments, are requested. Adults, 850 pesos or chil-

dren 5 to 10, 425 pesos free for children 4 and under. Please make your reservations by March 20, 2018 with the River Cafe via Paypal. More info: helth1@sbcglobal.net.

Sunday, April 1 Easter Bonnet Brunch Taste at Casa Cupala $3000 pesos in prizes for each category: 1) Most original, 2) Most fabulous, 3) Best theme Brunch $429 peso Portion of proceeds to SETAC April 25-28 Cuisine Of The Sun 2018 Villa La Estancia – Third annual gourmet Food and Wine Festival will bring together some of the biggest names in food as well as top chefs from around the world. Toll Free: 1 800 831 1191 May 6 Altruism Festival Annual fundraising festival featuring top restaurants that supports twenty local charities. Hosted at the Marriot CasaMagna. Stay tuned for more details.

May 25-26 RHA Festival in Punta Mita rhafestival.com

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6th Annual Chili Cook Off Round-Up

Another beautiful Saturday at Kurt Sinner’s El Rio BBQ along the Rio Cuale in Paso Ancho. Hollis again did an outstanding job on the riblets this year Dennis Rike & Donna Wong

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he Jay Sadler Project, sponsor of the fund-raising event raised $101,000 pesos, thanks to our participants: 104.3 wake up show on Saturday morning with Michael Nolan, Radio Universidad Guadalajara 9 to 11, Anglers Anonymous, Captain Don’s Sports Bar, Casa Anita and Corona Del Mar, D’Z Route 66 Diner, El Torito Sports Bar, Escondida Sports Bar, Kelly’s Pour Favor, Lighthouse Specialty Foods, Luke’s Bar, Murphy’s Irish Pub on the Malecon, Nacho Daddy Restaurant Emcees Pearl Burrus, Vera Carp with Jim Sullivan (Event chairman) presenting a to a raffle prize winner & Sports Bar, Navy League/R.I.S.E. and Torpedos Football Americano. and developing the welfare of the as a way of living that enhances In addition, PV Cupcakes donated Mexican families. the lives of all who enjoy catching $4,180 pesos from the event to The REFUGIO INFANTIL SANTA fish. They promote and protect our charities.

ESPERANZA (Children’s Shelter of local fishery and support fellow Sponsor: Print PV, Patron Hope), also known as R.I.S.E. has fishermen. Encourage passing Tequila, StratosMedia Vallarta given children in Puerto Vallarta, fishing skills on to the next geneEmcees were Pearl Burrus hope for a better life. R.I.S.E. is a ration to keep our sport alive! The and Vera Carp. Two of the 22 zany non-profit shelter for babies and only requirement for membership characters from Greater Tuna, a children up to the age of 14 who is a passion for fishing. The initial satirical comedy about small towns, have been turned over by DIF. DIF objective is to bring 4 to 6 veterans small minds and big hearts, now is a Mexican government organiza- American/Canadian combat vets playing at Incanto in Puerto Vallarta. tion that protects the rights of chil- plus one sponsor to Puerto Vallarta All 22 characters are portrayed dren. Scholarships to play Torpedos for 5 days of FISHING AND R&R. by two men, Tracy Parks and Ron American Football.

Arrive Wednesday July 25th and Spencer. There are 42 lightning fast Torpedos American Football A.C. depart Monday July 30th. costume changes in the show which – Pop Warner youth football for boys Wayne Lucas of Luke’s Bar is will keep you laughing from start to and girls ages 7 to 17. Donations are working with the Canadian police finish. For tickets please visit www. made for equipment. association on this project. The Jay IncantoVallarta.com.

Jay Sadler Community Relations Sadler Project has pledged $20,000 Chili Serving Area Popularity Vote: Projects A.C.– In 2017, 30 projects pesos in support.

1st Place - Nacho Daddy - Chili #3 Jeff Dana, a veteran of Iraq and nity Relations (COMREL) program were completed and in 2016 18 2nd Place - Hotel Casa Anita - Chili #2 projects. During the past 5 years Afghanistan is leading the effort in provides necessary resources 3rd Place - Escondida Sports Bar 100 projects. www.jaysadlerpro- Puerto Vallarta. Stan Francis who to improve various charities - Chili #13 ject.com. Anglers Anonymous is a finished 2nd in the Popularity Vote and non-profit institutions in the Professional Judging Vote: Banderas Bay area. non-profit fishing club located on provided the chili.

1st Place - Captain Dons – Chili #12 the Central Coast of California with 100% of proceeds raised goes The Jay Sadler Project is an 2nd Place - American Legion/ memberships all the way to the San toward putting veterans on boats for approved IJAS Charity and works Anglers Anonymous – Chili #9 a full day of all expense paid fishing! with the Fundación Punta de Mita.

Joaquin Valley.

3rd Place - Nacho Daddy – Chili #3 The Jay Sadler Project Commu- The Foundation can issue a tax They exist to help promote fishing Music provided by: Zoe Lewis, Mikki Prost, Da Crew and The Texas Embassy Blues Band featuring vocalist Sean Moore All proceeds from the cook-off go to local charities and the community: Estancia Sabrina Projecto Busca un Amigo A.C. – Day care center for children with disabilities.

DIF New Life Home for Boys – Young boys who have had a troubled past.

Scholarships to play Torpedos American Football. This year one boy was awarded a full scholarship to Monterrey Institute of Technology to play football. DIF is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening Team Anglers Anonymous 2nd place Popularity Vote Team Torpedos American Football

deductible 501 C receipt for donations from the US and similar receipts for donations received from Canada and Mexico.

Thanks also goes out to the PV Municipality, DIF and Transito for their assistance on highway banners announcing the cook-off. www.jaysadlerproject.com

CHRIST CHURCH

BY THE SEA English Services & Communion in the Anglican ~ Episcopalian Traditions

PALM SUNDAY~ MARCH 25 ~ 10 A. M. Commemoration of Jesus’s Entrance into Jerusalem

MAUNDY THURSDAY ~MARCH 29 ~

6 P. M.

The Last Supper of Jesus Christ on the night of His Betrayal

GO0D FRIDAY ~ MARCH 30 ~ 10 A. M. The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His Death on Calvary

EASTER SUNDAY ~ APRIL 1 ~ 10 A. M. Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Worship with us at our NEW LOCATION Plaza Genovesa ~ Center Courtyard Palapa Blvd. Francisco Medina Ascensio 2015

All are welccome to ccomplete their forty day journey with us christchurchbythesea.org ~ mypvchurch@gmail.com

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The Curse of the Guachimontones

By Joel Hansen Originally published in Mexi-Go! Magazine

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he ‘Los Guachimontones’ (wha-tchi-mon-tones) and I have a bit of a checkered past. I have attempted to visit them on at least a half-dozen occasions before I finally found success.

Sometimes while in Guadalajara for business I would simply run out of time to see them. Once I tried to see them only to have the transmission on my relatively new and reliable car breakdown. Then during Semana Santa, bound and determined, I left Puerto Vallarta with more than twelve hours to make the four-hour journey, only to arrive at the gates well past closing and no amount of pleading or offering of “donations” was going to get me past the gatekeepers. This is more a statement on the craziness of choosing to drive anywhere in Mexico during the holy week then it is of the policies of the UNESCO heritage site, but none the less I felt like my attempts to visit Los Guachimontones were being thwarted by powers beyond my control.

Not to be denied, rising early and rousing my son and amateur archaeologist, we headed north from Ajijic towards Guadalajara, then west to the lakefront town of Teuchitlán, which was in the midst of a fiesta judging by all the streamers and the carnival rides in the plaza. The Los Guachimontones sits about a kilometer outside of the town plaza. As we drove up to the parking lot, we passed by a tour bus struggling to make its way down the curvy, narrow road, and I was concerned about the site being overflowing with visitors but knew there was hope that we would finally see these 3500-year-old pyramids.

We found a few cars in the lot, and after purchasing a bottle of water for the ten-minute hike to the site, we headed out. As we climbed up the paved path, we met a couple from Guadalajara struggling to ride their bicycles while enjoying a can of Estrella while trying to take a photo of themselves. My son offered to snap the picture of them, and they were happy to tell us that this was their tenth visit to Los Guachimontones, and they often come just to have a picnic among the ruins.

Leaving the happy couple, we made our way to the first smaller pyramid which is more of a burial mound, and I could see the kid was

a little disappointed, however, that quickly changed when we caught our first glimpse of the 60-foot main pyramid and the rest of the “town.”

Entering into the site, we came

his life as a sacrificial offering.

Leaving the court with the thought that maybe second best was ok, we caught sight of the main pyramid.

I asked what he was doing. “Looking for hidden passageways, obviously” was his answer, indicating that I was an idiot for not thinking of it first across the ball field that at one time was the largest in Mesoamerica at 110 meters long. The game, ullamaliztli, was played with a heavy round stone covered in natural rubber which players could hit with their hips. All the male skeletons found at the Teuchitlán site have broken hips. The game was played from sun up to sun down and often used as a way to settle political disputes. At the end of the day, the captain of the winning team would receive the great honor of losing

We walked in a clockwise motion around the main pyramid, down the boulevards, until we had circled the entire site. I began to notice the boy pushing and prodding on various rocks, so I asked what he was doing. “Looking for hidden passageways, obviously” was his answer, indicating that I was an idiot for not thinking of it first.

The Los Guachimontones site was only really discovered by the archaeology community recently and the story of how Phil Weigand

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and his wife, art historian Celia García de Weigand made the ruins of Guachimontones their life work is legendary now. In 1963, Celia and Phil were on vacation in the Tequila Valley near the small town of Teuchitlán. During the trip, she discovered many large obsidian blades at the bottom of a natural swimming hole. (Obsidian was highly valued in pre-metal cultures for its ability to hold razor-sharp edges.) The find intrigued Phil, then an archaeology field assistant in Zacatecas. Together the couple located a vast obsidian workshop, where millions of blades and sharp pieces of rock were piled up to three feet deep across two acres at the foot of the extinct Tequila volcano.

Archaeologists already knew of the region’s ancient shaft tombs.

Dating to the first centuries A.D., these tombs had small burial chambers at the bottom of vertical cuts up to 60 feet deep. Many had already been plundered of their valuables, including nearly life-size seated figures, at the beginning of the twentieth century. But despite the sophistication of the tombs and figures, the area was still widely considered a cultural backwater compared to Mexico’s Central Valley and the Yucatán. In archaeological terms, the tombs existed in a vacuum. Virtually nothing was known about the people who made them.

“We planned to spend a summer, or at most two,” Phil says of their initial project in the valley.

That changed when they discovered remnants of large, round buildings scattered around the region. Nothing like them had ever been seen before in Mexico--or anywhere else.

During their first field season in 1970, the Weigands examined aerial photos of the valley. “We found hundreds of buildings shaped like concentric circles, mostly around the volcano,” Phil says. “They were everywhere!”

A 217-acre site above the town of Teuchitlán called Los Guachimontones was especially interesting. After struggling up the side of the volcano, Phil recalls, “We finally reached a circular compound whose beauty, symmetry and monumentality far exceeded the

expectations we had formed from the aerial photographs.” Impressive circular structures covered with vegetation sat on a natural platform overlooking a vast, lush valley.

Though local farmers knew of the site, it was virtually unknown to the outside world, archaeologists included.

The Weigands had discovered a new civilization, one to which they devoted the next 30 years of their lives.

What they had found was a ceremonial center, the heart of what the Weigands named the Teuchitlán tradition. This complex society, responsible for the area’s shaft tombs, reached its peak between 200 B.C. and A.D. 350, when more than 50,000 people may have lived within 15 miles of the Tequila volcano. At its height, the Teuchitlán tradition was the cultural center of West Mexico, with unique, complex architecture and a trade network that stretched from Guatemala to Arizona. 1 The boy and I spent some hours exploring the ruins, and in that time we rarely spoke, only to answer his questions, “What God did they worship here?” “Mainly a god named Ehecatl” “Was there lots of bloody sacrifice like with the Aztecs?” “Not really, Ehecatl was a peaceful god, mostly they burned corn to him” I could tell that this answer didn’t satiate his video game induced ADD, so I told him about the Voladores and how each one of the round pyramids once had a pole in the center of it and the “birdmen” would tie themselves to these poles and fly around in honor of Ehecatl the god of wind. We had seen the birdmen of Veracruz ceremony before, and the thought of a man flying around the top of the sixty-foot pyramid seemed to appease his need for action and the lack of sacrifices.

On our return to the car, we reflected on the fact that we had enjoyed the site almost exclusively to ourselves and that I had finally made it to Los Guachimontones without incident.... or so I thought.

Returning to the town of Teuchitlán for a much-deserved Tecate (and limonada for the kid) we watched the final of the Euro champions’ league in a packed cantina of mostly Chelsea fans.

When it was discovered that I was cheering for Bayern Munich the good-natured teasing began.... of course, the curse wouldn’t have been complete without my team losing heartbreakingly in penalty shots and the entire bar exploding in celebration with many jubilant smirks directed towards me.

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Semana Santa in Puerto Vallarta

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emana Santa is just a few days away and soon the beaches and streets will be even more crowded. There are always many events planned for this week long event and this year is no different. More than just a chance to escape to the beach with your family, Semana Santa is the most important religious week in Mexico.

Each community celebrates the holiday with its own regional flavour, however, popular with the whole country is the breaking of cascarones, colored egg shells filled with confetti, over the heads of friends and family. Churches will be filled with those attending Mass on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and families will take this opportunity to be together.

Semana Santa (Holy Week) is the week leading up to Easter.

This is a very important holiday in Mexico. Most schools have two weeks vacation at this time, both Semana Santa and the following week, which is referred to as Semana de Pascua. There are abundant religious celebrations, but it’s also a time when Mexican families head to the beaches and tourist attractions.

Dates of Semana Santa: From March 26 to April 1 Semana Santa runs from Palm Sunday (Domingo de Ramos) to Easter Sunday (Domingo de Pascua), but since students (and some workers) enjoy a two-week break at this time, the full week preceding Easter as well as the following week comprise the Semana Santa holiday.

Travel During Holy Week: Since schools in Mexico have a two-week vacation period at this time, this is effectively spring break for Mexicans. This tends to be the hottest and driest time of year through most of the country, making the beach a magnet for those wanting to escape hot city streets. So if you’re planning to travel to Mexico during this time, be prepared for crowds on beaches and at tourist attractions, and make hotel and travel reservations well in advance.

Religious Celebrations: The religious observances of Semana Santa do not take a back seat to beach fun, however.

Processions and passion plays take place all through the country, though different areas celebrate in different ways and certain communities have more effusive celebrations.

Understanding (and Surviving) Rip Currents

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Among those places where Holy Week is celebrated en grande are Taxco, Pátzcuaro, Oaxaca and San Cristobal de las Casas.

Jesus’ final days are evoked in the rituals that take place during the week.

Palm Sunday - Domingo de Ramos On the Sunday prior to Easter, known as Palm Sunday, the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem is commemorated.

According to the Bible Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the people in the streets laid down palm branches in his path. In many towns and villages in Mexico on this day there are processions reenacting Jesus’ triumphal entry, and woven palms are sold outside churches.

Maundy Thursday - Jueves Santo The Thursday of Holy Week is known as Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday. This day commemorates the washing of the feet of the apostles, the Last Supper and Jesus’ arrest in Gethsemane.

Some Mexican traditions for Maundy Thursday include visiting seven churches to recall the vigil the apostles kept in the garden while Jesus prayed before his arrest, foot-washing ceremonies and of course Mass with Holy Communion.

Good Friday - Viernes Santo Good Friday recalls the cruci-

fixion of Christ. On this day there are solemn religious processions in which statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary are carried through town. Often the participants of these processions dress in costumes to evoke the time of Jesus. Passion plays, dramatic recreations of the crucifixion of Christ, are presented in many communities. The largest takes place in Iztapalapa, south of Mexico City, where over a million people gather every year for the Via Crucis.

Holy Saturday - Sabado de Gloria In some places there is a custom of burning Judas in effigy because of his betrayal of Jesus, now this has become a festive occasion. Cardboard or paper mache figures are constructed, sometimes with firecrackers attached, and then burned. Often the Judas figures are made to look like Satan, but sometimes they are made to resemble political figures.

Easter Sunday - Domingo de Pascua You won’t come across any mention of the Easter Bunny or chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday in Mexico. This is generally a day when people go to Mass and celebrate quietly with their families, though in some places there are festivities with fireworks, and jubilant processions with music and dancing.

n light of the high waves, rough conditions and the dozens of rescues at the beaches around the Bay of Banderas over the past few weeks here is some relevant information on recognizing rip currents and what to do if you should find yourself in one. A rip current is a narrow, fast-moving channel of water that starts near the beach and extends offshore through the line of breaking waves.

At the Beach When you first get to the beach, the best thing you can do is swim near a lifeguard. And then if you have questions about if the conditions are hazardous or not, ask a lifeguard. And then many beaches have things like a flag system, or other forms of communication to be able to tell you if the conditions are hazardous.

But if you go to a beach without a lifeguard, when you get there, you want to make sure you know how to spot a rip current, and if you get caught in one, know how to get out.

And then when you go in the water, always bring flotation.

Always let a lifeguard make a rip current rescue, because often, the people that try to make rescues themselves end up being the ones who drown. Instead, the best way to help is to throw them something that floats and immediately get a lifeguard for help.

What to Do If you do get caught in a rip current, the best thing you can do is stay calm. It’s not going to pull you underwater, it’s just going to pull you away from shore.

Call and wave for help. You want to float, and you don’t want to swim back to shore against the rip current because it will just tire you out. You want to swim out of the rip, parallel to shore, along the beach and then follow breaking waves back to shore at an angle.

Spotting a Rip Current Spotting a rip current can be difficult, and really needs some practice.

But when you go to the beach, start off by staying back from the water.

Rip currents are easier to see at an elevated position, like a dune line or beach access, and then look for places where waves aren’t breaking, so flat spots in the line of breaking waves. And then also where there’s maybe foam or sediment in the water being transported away from the beach offshore.

Before you go to the beach, always check your local beach conditions. Look at the wave forecast. If you have waves two to three feet high or greater, you could have strong rip currents. And then look to see if there’s a hazardous rip current statement for your local beach. And then always check the tide as well.

Rip currents often occur at low tide, and if you’re going to the beach during a period of low tide, just be mindful that strong rip currents could occur.

Rips are not caused by weather People often misunderstand and think that rip currents only occur during bad-weather days at the beach but actually, you can have strong rip currents with sunny days and waves of only about two to three feet high. And the reason for that is that rip currents aren’t really caused by the weather. They’re caused by the waves and other factors like the tide and the shape of the bottom.

Rip currents can occur anywhere you have breaking waves, like large sandy beaches on the open ocean. But they can also occur where you have hard structures, like jetties, or piers, or even rocks jutting out into the ocean. In terms of the tide, usually rip currents are going to occur more at low tide when you have waves breaking over the sandbar near shore. And that’s the third part, the sandbars.

Usually you’re going to have strong rip currents where you have significant sandbar near the shore with a channel in it. More information at ripcurrents.noaa.gov

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The Bucerias

Life in la Cruz

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By Kiri Westby

Cindy Bouchard

kiri.westby@gmail.com

cindy@VillaAmordelMar.com

Kiri Westby is an international activist and a writer, whose unique blogs have been featured on HuffPost and Good Morning America, and translated into multiple languages. Kiri is a mother of two and a practicing Buddhist, who was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the globe. She recently relocated with her family to Bucerias. Nayarit.

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his week’s Beat started out investigating community recycling and ended in a traditional Irish feast to celebrate San Patricio, a Mexican custom that dates back to the Mexican-American war*. Mexico has proudly honored their fallen Irish soldiers for centuries and with in Bucerias’ vibrant expat community, St. Patrick’s Day has become a favorite annual event in Bucerias… but I digress.

Monday morning I set out determined to solve a personal dilemma that I imagine many of us face: What to do with my expanding recycling pile in the corner of my ever-shrinking kitchen? And, to be honest, I questioned if everything in those awkward bags was even recyclable here? I am a child of the ‘70’s/’80’s movement to institute household recycling, a campaign that saw the US go from recycling 9.4% of its municipal rubbish to 32%. My birth home of Boulder, Colorado sets the gold standard for free, curbside recycling and composting. Once I pondered the consequences of single-use plastic—the petroleum needed to produce it; the islands of it consuming our oceans; the carcinogenic properties released as it ages—it became unconscionable just to toss plastic in the trash.

Luckily, some concerned individuals named Barry and Larry felt the same way and started Bucerias’ first community recycling program in 2006. A quick read through their history online tells me they’ve had quite the learning curve when it comes to establishing and maintain a recycling program here—from widespread theft of neighborhood containers and signage; to failed attempts to work with dangerous glass and toxic diapers; to bankruptcy of a key local partner. Today, they’ve ironed out a program to recycle plastics with

a #1 or #2 in the triangle imprinted on the container (everyday items include water bottles, soda bottles, household cleaning bottles, milk and yogurt containers, and paint canisters), and all forms of aluminum cans (from beer to beans to cat food, just please rinse them out!). They currently maintain around 200 collection baskets around town, which volunteers empty Mondays on the ocean side of the highway, and Thursdays on the inland side. They are still unable to recycle glass or cardboard, as it requires more professional facilities.

I chatted with Amigos de Bucerias’ Recycling Coordinator Neil Lamb.

He shared, “I think a couple of things that the public—both foreigners and Mexicans—need to know is that we are all volunteers serving Bucerias, we operate year-round on a skeleton crew, and all the proceeds from our recycling program go back into other community projects. One such project is streetlight repairs! This, in turn, improves safety and security for the entire Bucerias community.” He was also pleased to report that pick up on the inland side of the highway has doubled this year, due in large part to more locals getting onboard. Neil informed me that for the low price of 300 pesos, anyone can sponsor a collection basket and that they’re always looking for donations of 208

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a sold-out crowd at The Luna Lounge liter sized Black garbage bags.

Recycling became popular in the US when we began to see it as a community issue, a common denominator for public good, not a tedious chore. Thanks to the vision and hard work of many, Bucerias is a beautiful and clean place to visit and live. The more Bucerias affects the sensibilities—and sense of accountability— of both visitors and locals, the more we will be able to expand our recycling goals.

I ended my week dining with a family that has had a significant impact on Bucerias—from starting The Shamrock bar, to running The Twisted Rose restaurant, and now operating The Luna Lounge, bar & cabaret—Hugh and Simon (and Alice) Gaffney-Lopez bring a unique IrishMexican flavor to our town. We broke bread with more than 100 people in honor of San Patricio and talked about how restaurants can, and should, be leaders in recycling and trash clean up. As my margarita mixed with traditional corned beef and cabbage, the Irish tunes of the Shag Harbour band tapped an almost-Cumbia beat, and my Mexican waiter proudly declared himself “Irish for a day!” I felt nothing short of inspired by the caring, fun-loving, and multi-cultural community of Bucerias, doing our best to develop responsibly together, to learn from one another’s hard-earned wisdom, and to build upon each other’s sincere efforts towards positive change.

The San Patricio Battalion, made up almost entirely of Irish immigrant defectors who chose to fight with Mexico in the Mexican-American War, rather than continue to suffer as second-class citizens in 1840’s America.

Cindy Bouchard, an expat Canadian runs a Boutique Inn, Villa Amor del Mar in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. She and her husband Chris are living and lovin’ in Vallarta–Nayarit. If you want more info on La Cruz or desire… A very special vacation contact cindy@VillaAmordelMar.com

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y appreciation of St. Patrick’s Day this year was as big as George Evely’s heart! Leprechaun day as I call it is all about the FUN! We experienced it a day early as we had planned to watch the Shag Harbour Band on March 17th but didn’t realize they’d sell out so darn fast! So when George told us Luna lounge was putting on a second show we got the tickets, grabbed some friends and enjoyed every minute of corned beef and toe tappin’ heaven!

The band befriended Hugh Gaffney at the old Shamrock Pub in Bucerias in 2007, and played there for St. Patrick’s Day in 2008. Last fall they made a commitment to the Luna Lounge and were welcomed to play there with open arms.

The founding members of The Shag Harbour Band rocked us with Dave Arsenault on acoustic guitar and lead vocals, George Evely on the button accordion, and Dave Wilson on bass guitar The first time I saw/heard George Evely playing the squeezebox was up on stage with Philo’s shuffle band in La Cruz. It never occurred to me that it could be part of a ‘normal’ band let alone enhance the experience! Since then I’ve come to enjoy George’s musical talents and love it when others point “Is that an accordion with a rock band?”

George or as many of us call him, Jorge, was born and raised in Carbonear, Newfoundland. He’s a kind and very humorous man always sharing a joke. His beautiful, quiet wife, Brenda, always smiling at her love.

The Evely’s started coming to the area when his band-mates daughter got married in 2007. La Cruz has been their ‘home away from home’, five months per year since 2011.

Before that they enjoyed Puerto Vallarta, Punta de Mita and Bucerias.

George’s pre-retirement years included fourteen years in the Canadian military and twenty years in Canadian Public Service. Their La Cruz time allows them friends, leisure, and music. When in Canada, they enjoy their home of 34 years

and motorhome trips.

The band we relished the eve of St. Paddy’s day was created when former band mates got together in 2000, renaming themselves the Shag Harbour Band. They played all over Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley.

They’ve played in Europe (when Dave was posted in The Netherlands) and in Mexico (at Dave’s daughter’s wedding) in early 2007. Dave moved to Nanaimo, Vancouver Island in 2007, and the band reunited to play from Port Hardy to Victoria.

George told me what inspires him is “Being on the green side!” He enjoys the bay; fishing for Dorado locally and out to the bancos for tuna Various sailing and cruise excursions were a pleasure.

Although he doesn’t favour a specific cause, George says; “If there’s room for me to play in any local band that is playing to raise funds; count me in!”

George believes the changes to the area are for the better and that the Marina development has been good for the local economy.

I admire his favoutite quote “Gotta pulse and my feet are moving!” His proudest moments… “From small to large; too many to mention. He loved playing with Philo and the shuffle band for 6 years”. He’d recommend others to visit La Cruz “to experience the Serenity and Pace of “old Mexico”.

Say hi to George on Thursday’s when he plays with the Shuffle Band at the Octopus Garden Tree house!

George says “Chances are good” that they’ll be back and playing in Banderas Bay again. I for one hope so.

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Los Bambinos turn Semana Santa into Giving Back

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uring over a decade performing together, Los Bambinos strive to support community organizations in Puerto Vallarta annually. This season, the group has selected a fabulous local organization Corazón de Niña as the recipient of their donation, with a twist!

The four Morales brothers are pleased to open the stage to one of the young men growing up in the Corazón de Niña home, Axel Solis. I met Axel a month ago at the Corazón de Niña annual Valentines Day Gala event.

He sang La Llorona and explained in great English the story behind the song. I felt moved to offer this talented young man a musical immersion experience.

Like a respectful mother, I asked permission from Melissa (the mother of the nearly 50 children who call Corazón de Niña home)

if I could invite her son Axel to perform with Los Bambinos. I trusted that Los Bambinos could be swayed to modify their show for a couple of weeks. Axel was so excited to receive the invite!

After their first rehearsal, Los Bambinos expressed that they were delighted to share the stage with such a talented young man. Inspired by music, Axel fills Corazón de Niña with song.

He will continue his passion

for music by embarking on a music study program at a University in Guadalajara this upcoming semester.

Los Bambinos are happy to show support to the Corazón de Niña home and Axel’s University endeavor by donating a portion of all show and merchandise proceeds during the two weeks of Semana Santa/ Spring Break to this noble cause.

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mance at Bambinos Trattoria Friday, March 30th, and Friday, April 6th, as a part of Los Bambinos’ regular two-hour show “FIESTA LATINA!” Reserve your table now, for the best seats in the house and enjoy a great night out, while supporting budding artist Axel Solis!

Come to Bambinos Trattoria to feed your body with an authentic Italian meal, while Los Bambinos

Happy Hour 2x1 Drinks from 9-11pm Spaghetti Boloñesa with a glass of house red wine for only $165 Live Music Thursday-Saturday 7:30-9:30 March 22 - 28, 2018

Now with air conditioning Open Tuesday to Saturday from 5-11pm

Venustiano Carranza 276 Zona Romántica 223 2267

nourish your soul with heartfelt harmony and masterful music Los Bambino’s six weekly, 8-10 PM shows: Monday & Tuesday Beatle Mania: Tribute to the Beatles Wednesday & Thursday Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Friday & Saturday Fiesta Latina | Latin Party featuring Axel Solis March 30th and April 6th Each of their shows highlights the tasteful mix of traditional and International tunes that Vallarta loves about this talented group.

Los Bambinos present their shows at Bambinos Trattoria (www.bambinostrattor ia.com) located at Aguacate #314, at the corner of Carranza street in Old Town Puerto Vallarta, just before Mundo de Azulejos.

Dinner seating begins at 6:30 PM Music starts at 8:00 PM. Bambinos Trattoria is Find show and ticket Information online or (322) 222-4357, English spoken.

See you at Bambinos Trattoria!

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ADORABLE DOG IN THE SPOTLIGHT...AFRICA & MAX

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e got an email from a rescuer who knew of a family moving and planning to simply release these two beautiful Boxers onto the street to fend for themselves. We did not want to see that happen so made room for them at the sanctuary.

Africa is a female weighing 33 pounds and Max is a male weighing 44 pounds and they are about 1.5

years old. We would love to see them adopted together. They both have a medium high energy level and love to play with other dogs as well as humans. Both are well behaved on their walks. We think they would make wonderful family dogs as they are so playful and loving. Both have been sterilized, dewormed and vaccinated. If you would love to adopt these two bundles of joy, contact us at spcapv@gmail.com for an application to adopt.

SPCA of Puerto Vallarta

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e sure and come by to visit us at the Olas Altas Farmers Market each Saturday from 9:00 am until closing at 2:00 pm.

The market is located in Lázaro Cárdenas Park. This is in addition to our presence at the Marina Art & Market each Thursday from 6:00 pm until 10:00 pm. Be sure to come by and say hello. You can pick up one of our special “Kiss my Mutt” t-shirts or a special bag made locally by our friend Lisa Love. All these items and a few other goodies can be yours for a small donation which helps support our rescue efforts. Your donations are always welcome and needed!

We have scheduled tours to our sanctuary, by reservation only, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you have your own transportation, please let us know. To reserve a spot on a tour, contact us at spcapv@gmail.com.

We appreciate any donations you can bring for our rescues and if going to the sanctuary, please feel free to bring treats for the staff as they truly appreciate it. Those items we ALWAYS need include: collars and leashes; toys and more toys! both stuffed and hard plastic (no soft plastic as they can chew off pieces and swallow); large towels; blankets;

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By John Warren his season, which is now coming to an end, has been a stellar one from many points of view for the International Friendship Club. (IFC) The club attracted over 600 members this year and each of them gave something special to the club and each of them benefited in some way.

Some people buy the membership only for the discounts available from local restaurants, which generously support the club, and we never see them again. Never mind, their $350 pesos add to the pot.

Some members use the club as a place to meet old friends and to make new ones and they were able to do that this season by playing bridge on Friday afternoons, enjoying a game of bunco at Natcho Daddys on Thursdays, attending Monday night “Movie Nights” and by coming to the Social Hour and the Dinearounds that took place every Friday evening.

Other members improved their minds or their bodies by attending Dan’s history lectures on Friday mornings, guest lectures on Thursday evenings, Spanish lessons on four different levels, bridge lessons, yoga and meditation.

Dozens of members have volunteered to help make this town a better place. Our cleft palate program has been supported by the medical team that flies in from Guadalajara every three or four months and the “ground crew” that find accommodation for them with generous supporters, drives them around, sets up IFC offices for the assessments and then cares for the kids and their parents on surgery day.

Around fifty people volunteer for the Home Tours that have run each Tuesday and Wednesday from November to March. A director has approached our super homeowners and arranged for them to open their homes to us. Others have greeted the customers, written out the

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name tags, taken the money and have been docents and guides on the buses. The owner of the Sea Monkey Restaurant has generously provided space to us throughout the season and allowed us to base our operations at his restaurant. It has truly been a community effort and has seen close to 2,800 tickets sold this year. A terrific season!

Other volunteers have taught English to Mexicans twice a week for ten weeks and have built bridges between our two cultures. Our dental outreach program in Boca De Tomatlan has provided free dental care to care to children in that village and from the surrounding villages along the coast and in the mountains.

The members of the Education Committee and of the Charities Liaison Committee have met with the charities for which they are responsible to make sure that the club’s financial support is being spent responsibly and asked the charities about their future requirements.

The Clubhouse has been maintained and upgraded during the year, the website has been kept up to date, social events have been held at the beginning if the season, Christmas and the end. An annual budget was prepared and all the income and expenses have been controlled by our Treasurer and by our excellent office manager; the

only paid staff member of IFC. Not only has the club kept the cleft palate and the dental outreach programs going but our members fundraising activities have supported many educational, cultural and social service organizations. They include: ALAS, Escuela de Canto, American School, Arroyos de Esperanza, Biblioteca Los Mangos, British American School, Orquestra Escuela de PV, SETAC, I AM PV, Volcanes Education Project, Dr. Luz Services, Casa Hogar Maximo Cornejo, Corazon de Niña, Dives in Miseracordia, Clinica Sta. Barbara de Rehabiltacion Vallarta, Pasitos de Luz, Salvation Army and CANICA .

It’s difficult to get a feeling of success just by reading words on a page but if you ever visit one of these organizations you’ll know how successful IFC has been. See the look on parent’s faces when they take in the miraculous results of surgery on their daughter with a cleft palate, take a trip to Corazon de Nina on a Tuesday morning and see how the 50 or so kids there greet “Mama” and “Papa” when they come home from school or listen to the voices of ALAS raised in song at Act11. Do that and you’ll know how successful IFC and its members have been this season.

Many thanks to Madeline and her staff for all their support!

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sweaters and coats; post-surgical cones (both the cone shaped and donut inflatable ones). Our rescues are now fed a total raw diet so please refrain from bringing any dog food or treats, but we do have healthy homemade treats available (at cost) for the dogs when you visit the sanctuary. To see our animals available for adoption, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/spcapv.

There are photos and also individual albums of our rescues as well as a bit of their history. Please be aware that our adoption fee within Mexico is $2,000 pesos. Contact us at spcapv@gmail.com to obtain an adoption application.

To make donations via PayPal, select the “Donate” option on our Facebook page www.facebook. com/spcapv or on our website at http://spcapv.com/donate/.

You can drop off any donations for the SPCA at the Olas Altas Farmers Market, the Marina Art & Market or at Hacienda San Angel located at Calle Miramar 336, above Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in El Centro. Get involved…rescue, adopt, foster, volunteer, donate or educate. You can learn more about the SPCA Puerto Vallarta by checking us out at www.spcapv.com/ home or on Facebook.

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In Puerto Vallarta the Vallarta Tribune is available for pick up at the tourist offices in the main plaza as well as in Park Lazaro Cardenas.

You can shop and pick up a copy of the Tribune at the Friday Marsol Market, the Olas Altas Farmer’s

Market and the ‘Three Hens and a Rooster Market, on Saturdays and at the Amigo’s de La Cruz table at the La Cruz Sunday Market. In addition to all of our advertisers, look for the Vallarta Tribune in restaurants, resorts, galleries and salons around

the Bay of Banderas and north into Sayulita. We distribute 10,000 copies in high season every Thursday.

Marina Vallarta: Benittos, The Coffee Cup, Re/Max, San Javier Hospital, Marriot Resort Nuevo Vallarta: Eddies, Barra-

cuda’s, Nopalitos, US Consulate, Chasers Sports Bar. Bucerias: The Furniture Store, Yo-Yo Mo’s, Luna Lounge, Esquina 22, The Lateral Cafe La Cruz: Oso’s Oyster Bar, Octopus Garden, Britannia Pub

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The opportunities continue to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in Puerto Vallarta and the Banderas Bay Area

Dennis Rike & Donna Wong Current Projects in Progress: San Juan Diego – http://asilosanjuandiego.com.mx/ Hyatt employees and Julien Fruchier Yoga Retreats & Co. continue to make the improvements. Painting was the primary focus for the month of February. Below is the Yoga group.

They have made 7 visits over the last few months.

DIF new Life Home for Boys – Located in Colonia Coapinole. It is a home for young boys from ages 7 to 16 who have had a misfortune in their lives. The home is managed

by DIF, the Social Services part of the Municipal Government. Repairs, painting and lights installation to be done. DIF donated 10 gallons of special color paint and lighting fixtures. We now have all the material and are focusing on doing the necessary masonry repairs, then the painting begins. The JSP sponsors boys who want to play American Football via the Torpedos. Last year 11 boys participated. One of those boys was awarded a full scholarship to Monterrey Institute of Technology to play American Football.

Lo de Marcos – Ursulo Galvan, Nayarit, Mexico Basketball Clinic - February 21, 2018 Mike Guajardo Pasco of Washington state has 35 years experience in playing, teaching and coaching basketball. He became the most successful basketball coach in Pasco High School history. Inducted into PHS Hall of Fame in 2003.

Fritz is a lifetime student of basketball and coached at the college level for 5 years. Basketball provided many positive opportunities for him during his life. Fritz has lived in Lo de Marcos for 12 years and feels it is important to give back to the community we live in. He believes they all have passion and gifts they can share.

Sean O’ Brien is a young and energetic high school basketball coach and a volunteer from Canada. Back home he provides private sessions in tutoring basketball students. He extended his trip by 1 week to assist

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in the Basketball Clinic. In addition to the many excellent basketball mentors mentioned above that donate their time, a local business owner Stu Nelson, a public officer/ commissioner donated basketballs and nets. Stu Nelson is from Stu’s Team Sports (Pasco, Washington State) and was a significant contributor to the success of the clinic.

The clinic included fundamental drills, shooting, ball handling, rebounding and defense. Age of the boys and girls are 8 to 15. T-shirts were given out after the clinic.

Fritz feels the community response and kid’s excitement during and after the clinic were a joy to be a part of. Many of the kids were and are ready for another clinic. There is some consideration being given to another clinic in May. Also there is an opportunity to conduct a similar clinic, but focusing on baseball, that could gain momentum based on the results from the recent basketball clinic. Aurora Recreation Center Bodega (Behind Walmart and Gale-

rias) - New shelving and racks for ladders.

Vista Hermosa – Reduce size of bolder in the field, add additional dirt, move and cement 2 goal posts.

Fencing where required for the soccer field and volleyball court.

Chili Cook Off – Event Saturday, February 24th – Separate press release giving details.

New Projects and Event coming up: Two Kindergartens - Luis Medina, Colonia Ixtapa and Manuel de Jesus Clouthier del Rincon, Colonia Las Canadas. These are in partnership with the Navy League. Building maintenance.

Colonia Playa Grande Playground – Repairs to playground, fence and painting.

Children’s Cancer Screening Center - Finish tiling the last 3 rooms.

Salvation Army – Colonia Mojonares - Big roof job, painting and repairs, Metal -- green and blue Christ Church by the Sea – Allan D. Affleck Community Relations

Director is looking to extend their outreach program through working with the JSP and a weekly feeding program. Velas Vallarta Hotel/ Condo - Working to bring them on as a partner in the projects. Same

as Marriott, Hyatt and Julien Fruchier Yoga Retreats & Co. Mango Festival – July 7th or 8th - With the Sister City Program of the Rotary Club. www.jaysadlerproject.com

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Three Hens & A Rooster Market V. Carranza 466 Saturdays 9 to 1 Contact Pat Thunherst Wagner at ptwagner@comcast.net

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The Bazaar is coming!

Next Tuesday, March 27th from 10 to 2, peruse an array of home furnishings, from glassware to refrigerators; artwork to kitchen sinks; sofas and loveseats and more. If you have a household full of stuff you want to get rid of, see Sherry this Friday at Market for more information.

Join us – it’s fun!

Everyone’s favorite silver beach vendor, Jorge, has a table strewn with bright shiny new pieces. His lovely daughter is an able assistant.

If you’re looking for unusual – particularly big pieces of silver jewelry – Jorge will have it.

If he doesn’t, he can have it made for you by next week!

Right across from Jorge you’ll find Lalo basking in his old-world luxurious, velvetladen table on which you will see nothing new ever!

In the business for more than 50 years, Lalo has a keen eye for exquisite collectible pieces of jewelry going back to the 1920’s.

Some more recent – still

vintage - costume jewels dazzle the eyes with sparkling colored rhinestones.

Look for brooches, pendants, earrings (some clips!), necklaces and bracelets. There are no rules anymore so mix and match to your heart’s delight.

Don’t forget our Bazaar next week!

The Marsol Friday Market by the Pier is open year-round from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm.

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MURPHY’S irish pub Located on the Historic Malecon across from the lighthouse statue (El Faro) beautiful sunset views every night!

Aprons - Pillows Masks - Cooling Ties

Delicious traditional pub menu.

Live Rock Music - Wed - Sat @10:30pm Watch all sports w 2 satellites.

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Three Hens & A Rooster Market V. Carranza 466 Saturdays 9 to 1 Contact Bill Kelly at

484 Morelos - 2nd floor - Centro Vallarta Open daily 11 am

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veryone loves chocolate. It makes everything better even La Dulce Vida’s zucchini bread, now appearing on occasion (or by order!) blended with chocolate and with sprinkled chocolate chips on top. An extra tasty treat - on a piece of Andrea’s sinfully chocolate zucchini bread place a thick slice of fresh mango.

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Roman sells gorgeous bamboo-fiber scarves that he accessorizes with silver wire and semi-precious stones. Take a look at the variety of polished stones he has! He knows all of them by name and where they were found/mined.

They are all beautifully set in silver.

Bill Kelly has new aprons weekly at his Fabulous Fabric Fellows Boutique.

And, as you can see by the photo, he makes a great model.

Pandemonia Boutique is still running a close-out on women’s clothing, shoes, and sandals. Wine bags, hand-sewn with heavy duty cotton and beribboned, make lovely gifts; they are also on sale – see Pat’s ad in this issue.

The Art Guild PV has three events this week – first on Thursday, March 22 from 5 to 8 pm; the second

on Friday, March 23 from 10 am to 1 pm. The third will be during Market hours on Saturday. See their Facebook page for more information and to register.

Be sure to visit all our vendors and stock up on delicious well-prepared food to take home and don’t forget dessert!

Three Hens & A Rooster Market is open Saturdays year-round from 9 am to 1 pm at Venustiano Carranza 466in Old Town Vallarta.

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or visitors to Puerto Vallarta who wish to support the less privileged in our paradise, this is a list of some of the many organizations that could benefit from such kind gestures.

Alano Club of Puerto Vallarta - to provide resources to keep you in touch with your recovery program while you are visiting Puerto Vallarta and the surrounding area RecoverPV.com Amigos De Bucerias - to help make Bucerias a better place to live, work and visit. Projects include community improvements, food drives and help for the needy.

AmigosDeBucerias.com Los Amigos de Jaltemba several community efforts to improve and enhance the lives of the people who live in the Jaltemba Bay area.

LosAmigosDeJaltemba.com Amigos de La Cruz de Huanacaxtle: Contributing to the quality of life in La Cruz through cultural, educational, environmental and charitable assistance programs. Tax Deductible. www.amigosdelacruz.org

American Legion Post 14: Raises resources and manpower to improve facilities needing building maintenance americanlegion14.org Amigos del Magisterio - Food delivery to workers at the PV dump, their families and schools in Magisterio and Volcanes. Also, food to New Beginnings, Pasitos de Luz. amigosdelmagisterio.com Asilo San Juan Diego Home for the Elderly - Housing and care facilities for senior citizens www.asilosanjuandiego.com.mx Banderas Bay Women’s Shelter - Safe shelter for women & children victims of domestic violence. compassionforthefamily.org Becas Vallarta, A.C. – Provides scholarships to high school and university students. Tax-deductible in Mexico and USA. becasvallarta. com CANICA - Centre for Children with Cancer. Provides aid for treatment and services including transportation to GDL. canicapv.org.mx Casa Hogar - A shelter for

orphaned, abandoned, disadvantaged or vulnerable children. maximocornejo.org Cheryl’s Shoebox - increase the quality of education in disadvantaged schools throughout the Banderas Bay region by providing shoes, and school materials to students as well as educational supplies to teachers. cherylsshoebox.org Clinica de Rehabilitación Vallarta- Santa Barbara AC Therapy for physical and speak rehabilitation, for childrena and adults. rehabilitacionfisicapv.com COLINA Spay and Neuter Clinic - Free and by-donation sterilization clinic in Old Town. Only open Sundays.

FB/@ColinaSpayAndNeuterClinic CompassionNet Impact Canada – Changing the lives of people living in chronic poverty. Job creation, education & more. compassionetimpact.ca Corazon de Niña - A safe, loving, home-environment for 50+ children and youth rescued from

high-risk situations. Donations & volunteers always welcome! Totally self-funded. fundacioncorazon.mx Cruz Roja (Red Cross) Handles hospital and emergency service in Vallarta. It is the only facility that is authorized to offer assistance to injured people on the street.

Desayunos para los Niños de Vallarta A.C. Feeding programs, education programs, day care centers for single mothers.

FB/@desayunosvallarta Ecology and Conservation of Whales, AC. - research, protection and conservation of Mexico`s natural resources, specially the Humpback Whale in Banderas Bay. www.ecobac.org entreamigos Centro Comunitario Educativo - Focus is to increase educational opportunities for the children of San Pancho in Nayarit Mexico. entreamigos.org.mx.

Families At The Dump: Supporting families living in the landfill or garbage dump thru education and sustainable opportunities. familiesatthedump.org Food Bank of Puerto Vallarta - collects and distributes 30 tons of food each month to approximately 800 families.

BancoDeAlimentosPV.org.mx Fundacion Punta de Mita - Promote sustainable community development in Punta de Mita and around the Banderas Bay in the areas of community development, education, environment and health. fundacionpuntademita.org Friends of PV Animals - Volunteers working to enhance the lives of shelter animals. friendsofpvanimals.com Grupo Ecológico de Puerto Vallarta: To protect the ecology of Banderas Bay. grupoecologico.com Grupo Pro Sayulita - to bring together the Sayulita community and to recognize and preserve the benefits of its cultural and ecological diversity while improving the quality of life in Sayulita. ProSayulita.org International Friendship Club - Provides medical, educational and social services to those in need in Puerto Vallarta and area. www.ifcvallarta.com Manos de Amor por Bahia - A home for 15-30 children that provide these children with food, clothing and shelter, ensure that they attend school and church, and give them a safe haven for as long as necessary. www.manosdeamor.com

Lions Club Puerto Vallarta offering medical services for the blind, disaster relief and building elementary schools LionsClubs.org Mexico Ministries & Mission, Inc. raises funds to support the poor in Vallarta. christchurchbythesea.org Puerto Vallarta Garden Club - striving to improve and beautify Vallarta through planting trees and flowers in public areas.

VallartaGardenClub.com Puerto Vallarta Navy League AC – Constructs playgrounds, organizes work groups to do painting and light repair work for other charities, schools and government facilities.

New Life Mexico - Focusing on social, health and education programmes both in Mexico and Guatemala matching donors to projects. www.newlifemexico.com Paraíso Felino AC - Refuge and Adoption Centre for cats and kittens in the Bay of Banderas. www.paraisofelino.com Pasitos de Luz - Substitute home for low income children with any type of handicap, offers rehabilitation services and more. pasitosdeluz.org PuRR Project – no-kill feline rescue providing homeless cats and kittens a recuperative stay with the ultimate goal of adopting them out to loving homes, sterilized, vaccinated and disease free. www.purrproject.com PEACEAnimals - Free mobile spay/neuter clinic operating 48 weeks a year, primarily in Puerto Vallarta. Tax-deductible. peaceanimals.org Pro Biblioteca de Vallarta - raises funds for Los Mangos Public Library. bibliotecalosmangos.com Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza Orphanage for children. www.ccshf.ca Roma’s Kids - educate the children of the Volcanes and surrounding area. Math, English and computer programs a priority. 100% goes to the kids. www.kids.romamexico.com SETAC - Effectively reduce the incidence of HIV / AIDS in Puerto Vallarta and ​ promoting respect for human rights of people living with HIV / AIDS.setac.com.mx SPCA PV – Provides shelter and vet services to rescued animals. www.spcapv.com

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