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The Jaltemba Express
The Almost Daily Newspaper for Jaltemba Bay and Surrounding Areas Circulation 1368
Photography by Bill Bell Gray Skies Jaltemba Bay
Good Morning - Buenos días.... and Welcome to Paradise
Thursday January 11, 2007
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HEADLINES
Mexican Troops Now in
Acapulco – Click here
Mexico Lawyer to Fight For US Journalist Killed in Oaxaca – Click here
100 Years Ago – Brewers Campaign Against Pulque – Click here
Calderon Promotes Latino Bonds at Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega’s Inauguration – Click here
JALTEMBA NEWS & NOTES
Support your local artists
(by Roberto Gil de Montes – Arts Beat Editor)
Ruth Suarez Cervantes's studio-shop is closing, after several months of operation at the end of the Avenida Emiliano Zapata. Ruth had to close her studio-shop after her rent was doubled.
Ruth has been creating unique fashion items which she featured at her studio-shop that she opened last summer when she arrived in La Peñita from San Miguel de Allende. She has worked with many clients with their fabric design needs; curtains, covers, dresses, blouses, purses, belts, not to mention one of a kind comfort pillows.
In a true artist spirit, Ruth announced to this paper that she plans to continue working out of her home. You can also stop and see her at the Thursday tianguis here in La Peñita. mailto:rth@hotmail.com.
Women’s Golf Day – All Time Record
24 ladies came out for Ladies Day at the golf course yesterday making it an all time record for attendance. Quickly becoming known as the friendliest women’s group in the area, they continue to encourage newcomers, residents and visitors to the area to come out and have a blast.
Herraldo, the golf course owner, is offering a 180 pesos special, including berg next Wednesday for non members and new comers.
Please note: Ladies should be at the course at 9:30 am and ready for a 10 am T-Off.
La Peñita Residents Association Meeting a Success
The La Peñita Residents Group Meeting was a success with over 30 people in attendance to discuss various areas of interest and concern. “Expect a report soon” says Mark O’Neill.
The group will meet next Tuesday at the Hotel California at 4pm and encourage everyone to come out and support efforts for the community.
MARKET DAY TODAY
Get down early for the best selection of veggies and merchandise. Congregate at Soley’s for a coffee or breakfast or Tacos & Beer at Hinde & Jaimes…..
One time/One man Performance Cancelled
Due to family illness, Randy's performance on the 13th has been cancelled.
Golf for a Cure
Registration Is Hopping
The Jaltemba Bay Express Golf Challenge Tournament, February 25 has sparked great interest in the community. Teams from towns along and surrounding the Bay Area will be playing off for the title and cup of Area Champions.
Gary Stackhouse, one of the lead organizers for the Tournament, encourages golfers to register as soon as possible to ensure they get to play. “We’re filling up the spots quickly” he warns.
The Tournament, which promises to be the first of an annual event, will raise money for cancer research. “All of us have been touched by this disease” says Stackhouse. “We can all play for a cure.”
The tournament costs $150 pesos plus green fees for non-members. This includes a big rib dinner and prizes. There will be games and activities for all. Participants must register with Gary golf_challenge@ontheroadin.com and include the following information:
Name of Team & Town
Team Captain (Phone & Email)
Names of 3 Team Members (Phone & Email) Registration must include the fees and can be dropped off at the golf course on Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday mornings at 10 am.
Make this an event on your calendar. Even if you don’t play golf, you can get out and support your town and a cure for this deadly disease.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Chris and Val are going to take you on a magical drive to a magnificent waterfall. You should meet at Hinde & Jaimes at 8 next Tuesday and be ready to drive your vehicle to the location. 4 wheel drives not needed.
Bring lots of beverages and food for a communal lunch. No Whiners. No Wimps.
FREE. Photography by Jaime Horton Junior Click on photographs to view in larger format
   
   
Lo de Marcos Film Festival – Spay and Neuter Clinic FUN D R A I S E R
What: Movie Man Friday starring Peter OToole as Robinson Crusoe and Richard Roundtree as Friday
1973 blockbuster filmed on the beaches of Lo de Marcos!
Where: Restaurante Las Minitas, Playa Las Minitas, Lo de Marcos
When: Saturday January 13 open 5 pm movie starts 6 pm
Charge: 50p at the door
Support a great cause and see a classic video! The money raised goes toward the volunteer free spay and neuter clinics in our area
MAN FRIDAY
Robinson Crusoe is marooned on a South Seas island with a native man. Crusoe declares himself master and throws Friday in a cave when he rebels. Friday manages to escape and leaves Crusoe alone. Crusoe soon discovers he needs Friday's companionship and welcomes him back. Still they are both stranded; even a primitive hang glider fails to free them. After much difficulty they build a seaworthy craft and sail to Friday's island where his community cannot accept Crusoe or his standards. Unable to adapt Robinson Crusoe is destined to live out his life isolated and alone.
112 minutes in English filmed in 1973 on location in Lo de Marcos!
REMEMBER TO DRESS WARM REMEMBER TO DRESS WARM REMEMBER TO DRESS WARM
4th ANNUAL MARGARITA CHALLENGE
The 4th Annual Margarita Challenge is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7... So mark your calendar and start practicing your margarita-making skills and routine! This year, the number of contestants is limited to six... So if you think you've got a winning recipe, you must pre-register online to Allyson at MexicanaAlly@att.net. Only the first six contestants to enter get to participate. Tickets will be on sale later this week. Watch for details in the next couple of days.
Bridge Work Party a Success
Good news.
The Bridge for Life volunteer work party will resume next week. They plan to build a suspended hand rail and raise the chain link fence higher to make it safer. Be there or be square ...Sunday
Volunteers and donations are gratefully accepted.
Bells offer the “Almost Free” La Peñita Express Caravan
October 25 from Nogales Arizona to La Peñita Mexico
The Caravan will be free but you must take the 4 hour Bell RV in Mexico. Course (to be held on October 24th in Nogales) and book 1 month at the La Peñita RV Park. The cost of the course and additional materials is $200 per rig. Learn more about La Peñita RV Park click here.
To be considered completely registered and on the Caravan List, you must have paid in full for the 4 hour course and have booked at least one month at La Peñita RV Park. Because there is such high demand for this caravan, there will be no refund on the course.
Last year we turned down over 50 people that wanted to come on down. Sign up early as we will only be taking down a maximum of 30 RVs.
Pay now for the course! For more information click here
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SUBSCRIPTIONS & COMMENTS
Hi Dot,
Would you please put us on your list for receiving the Express? We live here in La Peñita for 6 months and would like to receive the newsletter. You and Bill are doing a great job covering the local news. Thanks.
Marilyn and Darrell
Hi Bill and Dot, we are here in La Peñita rv park and would like you to
please add the following email addresses to your list so we and some
friends can enjoy the news letter.
Thanks, Randy and Sharon
MISSED DELIVERY
Dot and Bill,
For some reason I did not get a Tuesday or Wednesday issue. Although I will be home this weekend, I am afraid I will miss something in the meantime. Thanks for keeping me informed while I was away.
Eleanor
(Editors Note: The Jaltemba Express is experiencing a Wildcat Strike with Mextel Pressmen Local 327. The internet is erratic. If you do not get the news, go to a past email. The link will provide the latest copy of the Newspaper. Or, better yet, make the Jaltemba Express a favorite in your web browser. If you miss a delivery just click on your favorites)
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Photograph by Jaime Horton Junior Guayabitos
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Humor
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
--Tom Clancy
Jaltemba Bay Animal Rescue
Meeting & Volunteers
General meeting of all interested volunteers for either the Los Ayala Free Spay and Neuter Clinic (Jan. 15 to 17th) or the Lo de Marcos Clinic (Jan 20th to 23rd) on Saturday, Jan. 13th at 10 a.m. at the clinic site located at Avenida del Estero South #215, Los Ayala.
There will be an organizational meeting to set up the clinic on Friday, Jan. 12th at 10 a.m. at the clinic site in Los Ayala.
If anyone has newspaper to line kennels, please bring it along!
We seem to have an explosion of puppies! Rosalie Hope rescued 6 small puppies and has now found homes for 4 of them. I am feeding two (either xolo or Chihuahua cross) in Los Ayala and there are 6 other homeless puppies approximately 6 weeks old wandering around the Residencial area. If you can help feed these puppies until we find homes, that would be a huge help! We are also in need of foster homes.
On a lighter note, we have sent three rescued dogs back by air to wonderful homes in the US and Canada and have a home for one more small puppy. Thanks to all of you who have given us so much support!
For More information write Lin (linchimes@hotmail.com)
YOU may now give directly to the Animal Rescue fund. PLEASE GIVE BY CLICKING THE BUTTON BELOW All donations will be listed the following day
Hello Ms Bell,
I read the Jaltemba Bay Express Daily and would like to thank you for producing such a great media update on such a regular basis. My family and I were just in Los Ayala for two weeks and we truly love the area and the people.
The reason I am writing a request for a posting is that while in Los Ayala, during his early AM jogging, my husband came across three puppies living in an abandoned shelter. We really wanted to help these little pups, so we asked our friends, Lin and Jim, to help us. We originally did not think it would be possible to bring a puppy home from Mexico but we have had our dear little 'Queso' living with us since our return last Wednesday--and she is one happy puppy. As we already had two dogs here in Vancouver, Canada, we were unable to take all three puppies home with us--we certainly did think about it.
In an effort to let people know, I have been posting on the Jaltemba Bay Folk. My friend, Lin Chimes, suggested I contact you as more people w ould see an article about the puppies in the Express. Lin has emailed me to let me know that one more of the puppies is getting adopted tomorrow (Wednesday) and there will be a lone puppy left. My fear is that left alone, with two siblings gone, the last puppy may not make it.
These are beautiful little dogs: extremely intelligent, well-mannered, and very loving. It would be an absolute shame for the last puppy to not find a good home and to be left alone without any companionship.
So I am sending this request out to you and to all of the wonderful people of Jaltemba Bay--we can make a difference in this little puppy's life--he just needs a good home and someone to love him!
Thank you,
Cinnamon
PS. The spay and neuter clinic is just around the corner...please help out Lin, Jim and all the other fantastic folks who make this important event a reality. Every little bit helps and does make a difference to the dogs and cats of Jaltemba Bay!
Help out a dog in need click here
La Peñita RV Resort News & Notes
A Special Invitation to the residents of
La Peñita RV Resort Click Here
Raffle Tickets for Animal Rescue can be purchased on Taco Tuesday and Hamburger Night or at the Office
Chilli Cook off For more information click here
Spanish Classes
We have a Spanish teacher. She will be in the park 3 days per week, starting this week. There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board.
Sports
NEW La Peñita Team enters to the arena of high stakes Jaltemba Express Community Challenge cup
Casita de La Peñita Team for Feb. 25th..
Here is their team..
1. Bob (The birdie) Gibbs Captain
2. Ross (The Rocket) Hewett
3. Terry (The Tiger) Mohr
4. Ken ( The Krusher) McCrindle
Horseshoe Tourney Click Here for more informationGolf for a Cure
Registration Is Hopping
T he Jaltemba Bay Express Golf Challenge Tournament, February 25 has sparked great interest in the community. Teams from towns along and surrounding the Bay will be playing off for the title and cup of Area Champions.
Gary Stackhouse, one of the lead organizers for the Tournament, encourages golfers to register as soon as possible to ensure they get to play. “We’re filling up the spot quickly” he warns.
The Tournament, which promises to be the first of an annual event, will raise money for cancer research. “All of us have been touched by this disease” says Stackhouse. “We can all play for a cure.”
The tournament costs $150 pesos plus green fees for non-members. This includes a big rib dinner and prizes. There will be games and activities for all. Participants must register with Gary golf_challenge@ontheroadin.com and include the following information:
Name of Team & Town
Team Captain (Phone & Email)
Names of 3 Team Members (Phone & Email)
Make this an event on your calendar. Even if you don’t play golf, you can get out and support your town and a cure for this deadly disease.
PIZZA MADNESS
Ricardo's Pizza is offering a 15% discount on food items on their menu between Noon and 2 pm - an incredible bargain on GREAT already well-priced pizza and Italian foods. (offer not to be combined with other offers) Benny or Tracy are on hand to give you very special service you are accustomed to. Now through to the end of January...A great place for lunch and to get away from those left over turkey sandwiches
Want pizza for dinner? ASK your server for the Large Pizza and get two free beers. What a deal! You must tell your host that you heard about it in the Jaltemba Bay Express to get the above specials-
Hinde and Jaime's Restaurant
Poker Day every Monday at Hinde and Jaimes and Friday at Tequila Willys
Click Here for a complete calendar in a glance of Jaltemba Bay Activities
For a more detailed description of Events Click here UPDATES ARE COMING SOON
Click on the event for more information
The Jaltemba Express Classified Section
We've gotten too big for ourselves and had to set up an entire section Please click here to view the following items in the Jaltemba Bay Classified Section
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For Sale RVs & Parts
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Please click here to view the above items in the Jaltemba Bay Classified Section
Feature Classified
Hotel – Bungalows for Sale
Asking Price $269K USD
- 20 minutes north of Sayulita
- Titled Land
- One block from ocean
- Perfect income generator
- Create your own B&B dream
- Clean and ready to rent
- Owners unit on property
 
 
These apartments consist of a two bedroom two bath owners apartment or rental unit with it own approx 400 sq.ft private patio deck with partial ocean view and view of the river. Also included are 11 studio apts. and 3 motel rooms.
The apts. are furnished. There is city water and city sewer and also a well. There is a roof top patio with a 360 degree view of the mountains, ocean and town nice views.
We are located approx.15 minutes north Sayulita and 55 minutes north of the airport. In the town of La Penita, the motel is located one block from the ocean and one block from the river that separates Rincon de Guayabitos and La Penita, and only a couple blocks from the weekly street market or flea market where Mexicans crafts are sold.
The bungalows .have older style tiles; they are not new but they are clean and fully functional. This could be used as a bed and breakfast or simply rented as is.
Parking is on the street there is no parking lot.
Ph. 327-275-0141
Cel.322-228-6353
E-mail: bungalowscasarey@hotmail.com
DUPLEX FOR SALE
Located 10 minutes south of Rincon de Guayabitos or 10 minutes north of Sayulita in the town of Ursulo Galvan.
The main house is a two bedroom, 2 bath home with A.C. covered parking, laundry facilities, swimming pool with large entertainment area next to the pool.
The second apt. is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath with large patio. The property is approx. 620 sq. Meters or 6200 sq. feet and covered construction is approx. 220 sq. Meters or 2200 sq. feet. The property is titled and priced to sell at $124,000 U.S.
Ph. 327-275-0141
Cel.322-228-6353
E-mail: bungalowscasarey@hotmail.com
  
  
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More Of Us Will Need Passports - Soon
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| If you do want to obtain or renew a passport, you can get information online from the Travel Industry Association GetAPassportNow.com. The National Passport Information Center can be reached at 877-487-2778. |
Here's another nagging reminder about impending passport changes, especially for those planning a last-minute beach getaway in January or February.
If you were hoping to fly to the Caribbean or Mexico, you'd better have a passport.
New rules will require all air travelers to the U.S. to have a passport by Jan. 23, including U.S. residents and citizens returning home by air from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
It usually takes six to eight weeks to obtain a passport, or about two weeks if you're willing to pay for expedited service.
But if you don't have time for that or simply can't be bothered, here are some alternatives.
You could take a cruise that visits Mexican or Caribbean ports, since land and sea travelers won't need a passport for those destinations until 2008 at the earliest. You could stay within the 50 states, and pick a beach in Florida, like Bahia Honda State Park in the lower Florida Keys, or in Hawaii, like Kahala Beach in Oahu. You could head for Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are both U.S. territories.
Or drive or take a bus tour across the border to Mexico. From San Diego, head for Tijuana or Rosarito in Baja Calif.; from Tucson, Ariz., drive to Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point; and just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, is Matamoros.
If you do want to obtain or renew a passport, you can get information online from the Travel Industry Association www.GetAPassportNow.com. The National Passport Information Center can be reached at 877-487-2778. |
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Will S.S.A. Provide Medical Benefits in Mexico?
David Lord - PVNN
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| Different sizes of prostetic limbs rest on a work bench in the Prosthetics Lab of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. Since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003, Walter Reed has treated 5,437 soldiers from "Operation Iraqi Freedom." (AFP/Jim Watson) |
Veterans Benefits in Mexico do exist and equal Social Security benefits here are equally deserving. I will host an exploratory research commission by visiting graduate students of the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs, University of Texas: Alex Gunter, Marinna Zolezzi, Michelle LaLonde and the project manager, P.H.D. David Warner.
We will tour medical facilities here in the Puerto Vallarta area that currently provide medical coverage to U.S. Veterans. I see this as another step in providing care to the U.S. retired community here in Mexico.
The Veterans Administration pays claims at local care providers, so why doesn't the Social Security Administration? Certainly the tax payer/citizens of America deserve the same benefits received by America's Veterans when it comes to health care outside America.
My company, American Services, will be hosting seminars in the Puerto Vallarta area over the next year to gather registered support of retired U.S. residents living full time here in Mexico or those spending several months here each year. Watch for the dates and location to be announced.
Higher Medicare Payments - An estimated 1.65 million seniors will be subject to higher Medicare Part B premiums in 2007, and for many, the higher cost will be due to a one-time increase in their income in 2005. The premium increase is due to Medicare means testing, which will begin being implemented for the first time on January 1, 2007.
As a result, seniors who had an atypical increase to their income in 2005 - due to the sale of a home or cashing in an IRA, for example - may not only have to pay taxes on that income, but will also be subject to higher Medicare Part B premiums, which cover doctors' visits, tests and outpatient hospital care. Some seniors could have to pay as much as 83 percent more for those services in 2007 than they did in 2006.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is anticipating a flood of complaints following the implementation of these changes and is estimating that of the 1.65 million people affected, about 20 percent - or 377,000 - will have questions about means testing and the higher costs, and 10 percent of those will disagree with the decisions made and ask for a review.
Because means testing was not announced until 2006, seniors making financial decisions in 2005 were never given the time or opportunity to plan for their retirement in the context of the changing rules. That inability to plan will likely affect a large number of seniors in the years to come.
In October, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that for the first time since Medicare was created 41 years ago, the Part B premium would be "means tested," meaning seniors with incomes of $80,000 per year or higher will pay more for services than lower-income seniors. It also introduced a scale of premiums which goes up as income rises.
The federal government has set up a process of screening individual income tax returns each year before deciding on Part B premium charges - which will continue to impact more seniors in the future.
For example, the cost to seniors in 2007 is based on information contained in income tax returns filed for 2005, which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shares with the SSA, and premium charges for 2008 will be based.
The American Legion will have its monthly meeting at Steve's Bar on Basillio Badillo on the 3rd Wednesday of January at 3 pm. All 2007 memberships cards are to be distributed. A discussion of Department Executive Meeting being held in Guatemala, March 22nd 2007, will be on the agenda. All post 14 members please attend and guest are welcome.
NAVY LEAGUE and TOYS for TOTS
I have been a member of the Navy League for six years, and each year participate in the distribution of Toys for Tots. I now include guest from the U.S. and Canada to help distribute toys out to remote areas outside of Puerto Vallarta. I strongly recommend this program, as it the best in Vallarta for rewarding you back with memories that will last the entire year. Anyone can join the Navy League and support the community.
VETERAN'S WITH PTSD AT HIGH RISK FOR HEART DISEASE
The link between PTSD and coronary heart disease has long been suspected, but Laura Kubzansky, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health care, and colleagues, contend that their study appears to be the first to demonstrate a prospective association.
The findings came from a prospective analysis of 1,946 men (ages 21 to 80) enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. The investigators reported in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
This pattern suggests that individuals with more severe PTSD are not simply prone to reporting greater chest pain or other physical symptoms, but may well be at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, Dr. Kubzansky said. "It is striking," she added, "that the results were maintained after controlling for depressive symptoms and were similar with two different measures of PTSD symptoms."
Veterans that experience chest pain may have coverage under the insurance of the VA Foreign Medical Program, even if the service connected disability is not directly associated with the current adjudicated disability, result of PTSD, and therefore be secondary to the compensated disease entitles medical insurance coverage right here in Mexico, which will reimburse the cost of treatment on income tax returns filed for 2006.
 David Lord served in Vietnam as combat Marine for 1st Battalion 26th Marines, during which time he was severely wounded. He received the Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Citation for his actions during the war in Vietnam. In Mexico, David now represents all Veterans south of the U.S. border all the way to Panama, before the V.A. and the Board of Veterans Appeals. David Lord provides service to Veterans at no fee. Veterans are welcome to drop in and discuss claims/benefits to which they are entitled by law at his office located at Bayside Properties, 160 Francisca Rodriguez, tel.: 223-4424, call him at home 299-5367, on his cell: 044 (322) 205-1323, or email him at mophmx@@yahoo.com or david.lord@yahoo.com.
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