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The Jaltemba Express
The Almost Daily Newspaper for Jaltemba Bay and Surrounding Areas Circulation 1376
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Signature Hole four under construction at El Monteon Golf Course see story and more pictures below
Good Morning - Buenos días.... and Welcome to Paradise
Friday January 12, 2007
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HEADLINES
Gibson to Attend Premiere in Mexico – Click here
San Blas Shipwreck Survivors – Fishermen? Smugglers? – Click here
Calderon Vows to Fight Tortilla Prices – Click here
Immigration Hurts Traditional Mexican Families – Click here
Superior Court – Arizona Can’t Seize Money Transfers from Mexicans – Click here
Canadian Man Dead in Acapulco – Click here
JALTEMBA NEWS & NOTES
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El Monteon´s Fields of Dreams golf course is currently undergoing a major upgrade that will add a whole new dimension to golfing in Jaltemba Bay. Although the total changes to the links are still under wraps, Heraldo, the course owner, took the Express on a tour of the course and showed us the two new holes under construction .
Holes four and five will see a dramatic change adding both length and difficulty to the course.
Hole four will be approximately 230 yards with the green ending up on a island placed in a natural spring fed pond. This will be a par four, the first for the links and has the traits of a signature hole.
Hole five will then becomes the longest hole on the course, well over 250 yards with another pond that most players will have to hold up on before trying to get to the green. Heraldo says that it will be definitely be a par four but could end up being a par five.
The two new holes are planned to be completed within a month, but most likely won't be completed until late March or April according to Gary Stackhouse.
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RESIDENTS GROUP Called “LOS AMIGOS DE LA PENITA”
New Name / Water Quality Issues
On Jan. 9 the first meeting of the residents of La Peñita took place at the California Hotel at 4:00 PM. Thirty two residents attended the meeting with many issues discussed. George, owner of the California Hotel, invited Jorge Rubio from SIAPA to explain the current water problems, the improvements made during the past year and the upcoming project to install new water lines and connect the new well in February
Continued click here
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. Corrected email mailto:
rthco@hotmail.com
One time/One man Performance Cancelled
Due to family illness, Randy's performance on the 13th has been cancelled.
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
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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.
UNEQUALLED GENEROSITY
Editorial - Dorothy Bell
We live in a very generous community.
Without a doubt the Bay Area has pulled together time and time again for various good causes. We have residents, both part and full time who contribute time and money to those in need. Whether they live in trailers or mansions; San Pancho, Chacala or any community in between; we collectively dig into our pockets and give what we can. Yes we give lots of money and devote hours and labor to projects we deem worthwhile.
Jaltemba Bay… sometimes this editor can’t keep up with you.
We have tried our best in this first year of a community-wide E-newspaper, to give public awareness to projects such as the Turtle Release, Animal Rescue, Augustine, the Needy, Schools, Ambulance Fund, Cancer Research, Bridge of Life etc. The problem is there are more good and worthy causes that we don’t have time to report or go unnoticed. We don’t intend to leave anyone out nor is it our intent to be selective in our reporting.
We will always report and emphasize an upcoming event for a charity or non-profit organization as the date approaches. That is what a newspaper does.
We are starting a new format and are building a linkable page with a summary of the ongoing projects. Each summary will have a linked page devoted to that organization and project. Here you can learn all the details; where & when to attend, what to donate, how to become involved. Animal Rescue and the newly formed Residents Association are two examples of devoted pages. More will come as time permits.
PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED. Take pictures. Write a summary. Tell us all how to get involved.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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I would like to sign up for your newsletter please.
We attended your seminar on Mexico and were wondering how do I get a password for getting on your website? It was in Langley and we enjoyed it very much. We are now thinking of maybe going to Mexico October 2007
Thanks again.
Ps. you were the one that told us about Skype and have been enjoying that ever since.
Harvey & Yvonne Funk
THANKS
Hello to the gang at this news paper thank you all so much for putting are properties in your classified section. They look really good and hopefully someone buys them I think they are both priced to sell. Thanks again. See ads in classified section click here
Jim and Brenda King
PHOTOGRAPHY
I love your photography, Bill - it is a delight! Today I took a photo on a side street in La Peñita, and would like to share it with you. Keep up the good work!
Elena
CANCER HELP ORGANIZATION NEEDED
There is a woman in San Pancho who has breast cancer. She has had the most radical mastectomy I have ever seen. She needs a test in Guadalajara soon and even at a reduced cost for her it will cost her $6800 pesos. Her brother works or owns a shrimp boat and has provided her fresh shrimp to sell to earn money for her treatments. She travels to Tepic on a bus for her chemo treatments and must travel alone because they can't afford the bus fare for a family member to travel with her. Is anyone aware of a cancer help organization in Mexico? I called the Susan B. Komen Foundation in Texas and they said they are not in Mexico. Any information would be so helpful.
Linda Gibbs
Photography
Photograph by Bill Bell View from the Bridge of Life
Weather
Humor
"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither."
--Steve Martin
Jaltemba Bay Animal Rescue 
Our total is now up to $2,741.39 USD!!!
A special thank you to the generous people who donated 2,900 pesos toward
animal rescue from the Residencial Area...their names are:
Micky and Freida Toliver
Keith and Lena Shearsdown
Harry and Mary Beckner
Bob and Mary Finzer
Lee and Tina Krause
Jerry and Shirley Vinyard
Arnie and Patricia Brake
Fred and Barbara Fosmire
Charlie and Mona Bryant
Siro and Susana Nadalini
Dr. Bruce and Jeanette Johnstone
Paul Mutch and Lacy Brunetti
Gary and Kathy Coplea
And a special thank you to Lacy Brunetti for collecting this money on our
behalf! Many thanks to: Ewe to You, Oregon Wool and Mohair Company who have donated $100.00 CDN in memory of Rose and Meg. Nancy Vickery for her donation of $55.00 CDN
IN Memory Of LiliMarlene and Dot.
My donation is in memory of LiliMarlene and Dot. Two lovely black and white
cats who died too young this year in our house. Lili had kitty leukemia and Dot was epileptic.
Nancy Vickery
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
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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
CHili 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
La Peñita Trailer Park Boys enter the race for the Challenge Cup!
The Jaltemba Bay Express Golf Challenge Tournament, February 25 has a new team to contend with and these guys won´t be intimidated. Carole Thacker of the La Penita RV Resort has promised to sponsor these four and the team can expect to be one the front runners to take the Cup. The Team left to right..Gary, Gunther, Larry and Bill (photo not available at press time)
  
Men's Day Winners Two Teams tied with four under par
Just some of the many golfers who turned out for men's day
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
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-
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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
Events & Activities
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Fasting Retreat
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Horseback Tours
Wanted
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Articles, Photos
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Accommodation
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Grill
Wanted Relationships
Services
Massage
Computer Repair
American Veterans Assistance
Taxis
Chiropractor
For Sale Miscellaneous
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Jewellery
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Mexico Road Logs & Driving Guides
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Mexican Auto, RV & Boat Insurance
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Spanish Course CDs
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Computer Repair
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American Veterans Assistance
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Taxis
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Chiropractor
For Sale RVs & Parts
Accommodation
Great Links
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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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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