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The Jaltemba Express
The Almost Daily Newspaper for Jaltemba Bay and Surrounding Areas Circulation 1 626

Los Ayala Photograph by Bill Bell
Photo taken from Bob and Suzy's House on the hill
Good Morning - Buenos días.... and Welcome to Paradise
Wednesday January 31, 2007
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Today’s Best Pics
Riding Horses in Los Ayala
Eric Nice Plays Mateja’s
Eric Nice will play tunes at Matejas Bar and grill today from 2 to 4. He has agreed to play here for the remainder of the season on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
“CARNIVAL 2007”
La Peñita de Jaltemba Nayarit from Feb 17 to 20.
We invite you to enjoy this carnival and most of all to join us in all activities upcoming
SATURDAY Feb 17 8:00pm beginning of the carnival:
Starting on main street (La Avenida) with the whole town participating in a parade with all the authorities from this county and people from our town. With a musical band following all the way to the rodeo ring Las Isabeles where there will be a rodeo with horse and bull riding and a dance afterwards...FREE!!!!
SUNDAY Feb 18 3:00pm great rodeo challenge !!
The two best teams of charros will go head to head. CHARROS DE PUERTO VALLARTA V.S. CHARROS DE HACIENDA LA PUYECA FROM COLIMA. At the end of the rodeo there will be a dance with BANDA MATONA at the rodeo ring Las Isabeles
$100.00 (one hundred pesos) for both of these events.
MONDAY Feb 19 8:00pm - 12pm
FREE DANCE ON THE AVENIDA. Come and have fun.
TUESDAY Feb 20 Starting at 10:00am
A great parade starting on the Avenida (at the bus stop) with all the schools, hotels, charros and the whole town. Join us and wear a great disguise.
At 5:00pm rodeo/dance at the rodeo ring. Las Isabeles with the internacional band “Original Banda Limon” de Don Salvador Lizarraga from Mazatlan Sinaloa, grupo Duranguense, “La Brigada de la Sierra and grupo norteño “Los Indomables” bulls from “La Guadalupana” and bareback riders from Ruiz Nayarit.
Come and enjoy yourself. $150.00 pesos
Ticket sales at these meat markets: Miramar, La Nayarita, and Nayarita II
Annual Margarita Challenge -- Tickets are Sold Out!
We have room for 2 more Contestants and additional Silent Auction Items -- Remember, all proceeds go to charity!
For those of you who have tickets, consider yourself lucky! We just sold the last ticket this morning!
We only have room for 2 MORE CONTESTANTS to participate. If you think you have a winning margarita recipe, email me now at MexicanaAlly@att.net. You can enter either category -- traditional (lime) or exotic (anything other than lime). And be sure to prepare a short song and dance, because the judges are expecting to be entertained.
Remember, all proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION go to charity. Please bring your items to Bob Howell (Flamingos #14, Guayabitos) ASAP so we can get them organized before the event. Hope to see you all there!
AMIGOS DE LO DE MARCOS INAUGURAL MEETING TODAY
WHO: All full or part time residents, native and foreign
WHEN: Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 11:00 am
WHERE: Marguerite’s Restaurant----Calle Luis Echeveria
WHAT: A discussion about ways the foreign and native residents can better integrate for the betterment of the Lo de Marcos community
Ginger’s Back - Medical System Praised
For two years Ginger has suffered with a bad pain in the back. She and the medical community back home thought it was her sitaica…..Numerous tests and numerous doctors’ appointments in Oregon didn’t alleviate the pain. There were no definitive answers and certainly no help.
Ginger just hasn’t been herself and certainly the “terror on the golf course” was not to be seen on the greens.
But that is all old news. Today Ginger looks radiant once again. The spicy Italian Virginia is ecstatic about the surgery to her legs. SHE IS NO LONGER IN CONSTANT PAIN. She and husband Byron can’t praise the medical staff at the Cornerstone Hospital in Puerto Vallarta enough. They talk about tests and results being performed immediately. They rave about the chief surgeon for the operation flying down from Guadalajara just for her. The attentive care of the staff. Ginger has her life back.
Welcome home Virginia!
(She wants to give a special hello to her grandkids Derek and Jon. Guys your grandma looks hot.)
La Peñita School Has Fans
A La Peñita school has fans here and in Saskatoon. La Peñita Deputy Mayor Pedro Figuaroa was at the school yesterday with wife Martha to celebrate the installation of the new fans and basketball hoops. The money for this equipment and a dozen or so softballs came from a group of Saskatoon visitors and residents headed by Doug and Karen Martin. The group has an auction in Canada for Zaney Mexican Items and the proceeds are donated to charity or good works. They raised over 3500 pesos.
Many of the group have stayed at the Hotel California and were convinced by George and Martha that this was a needy school that would greatly benefit from just a few dollars. The dollars were stretched a long way. Each of the two classrooms has fans that can blow your socks off and are sure to keep the youngsters cool in the high temps.
Teacher Jorge Gutierrez Vivanro looked pleased as he stood outside proudly at the basketball hoops. The small cemented court will provide inexpensive activities for the children. Already there are plans for a makeshift bowling game.
Thank you all. George and Martha for helping bring together two communities, getting the equipment and ensuring that every penny was well spent. To the very generous Saskatoon folks who remembered their tiny community when they returned to their Northern home and to Deputy Mayor Pedro Figuaroa who personally installed the fans in the classrooms
 
Feb. 22-25:
7th Annual San Pancho Music Fest:
T his event offers a bi-cultural showcase of volunteer musical talent. It is a "happening," not a totally planned and scheduled event. There is no entry charge and nothing is sold. All musicians are welcome; everyone else is invited to come and listen and enjoy the festival. Musicians need an audience, and an audience needs someone on stage - spread the word. Maps of San Pancho's restaurants are available, or bring your own sandwiches, beverages and chairs.
Tues-Fri: Open stage during the day for sound checks, jamming and scheduled musicians.
Thurs. Feb. 22: 7pm-The Redneck Mothers
Fri. Feb. 23: pm-Frida's Eyebrow, a talented group of local musicians led by Dana and Bob "Q" of San Pancho
Sat. Feb. 24: 2-10pm-live music, some planned but most are walk-ons; 4pm-Kindergarten of San Pancho
Sun. Feb. 25: 12-2pm-Spiritual music; 2-10pm-live music, some planned and some walk-ons; 4pm-Kindergarten of San Pancho; 8:30pm-Gallo & Friends will close the festival.
Tianguis HARDWARE TOOL Sales
Our favorite hardware store on the corner of Highway 200 and the Avenida is having a sale for his American and Canadian friends. Starting this Thursday, a 10% discount will be given on all TRUPER Tools. Drop in and see what he’s got.
Enrique Gomez Pina is the manager
of Ferretaria Jaltemba located on the Avenida on
the left hand side as you turn off Highway 200.
Friendly, helpful and understands English. Mr.
Pina will order in the part or hardware device
that you need and once in while he will even let
you try and find it in the back...a special
treat for those us who miss the self serve back
home.
5th Annual Fundraiser Fashion Show
Reserve Now for this Always-a-hit Event
Monday, February 26, 2007 at Estancia San Carlos
Lunch at 12:00 Fashion Show at 1:30
Cost: $225 pesos for Lunch and Presentation
There will be a No Host Bar, raffles, door prizes, items for sale by local artisans, and entertainment. The proceeds will go to La Tercera Edad - the Senior Center in La Peñita to assist in building a kitchen for the center. Tickets will be available as soon. Reservations can be made by e-mailing gerst4000@hotmail.com.
Ticket sales will be limited, so reserve your space early.

SUPER BOWL PARTY – Hinde & Jaime’s ANNEX
Tickets are now on Sale! 150 pesos I survived tee shirts too!
“ Plans have been approved by the boss” says Jaimes. “We’re going to have a Huge Superbowl Party in the Annex.”
Hinde and Jaimes will be hosting their Annual Super bowl Party once again this year at their new location. The H & J Annex is located 20 feet from their front door and gives the expected crowd lots of room…
There will be a BIG SCREEN TV so everyone can view the game. Mexican Entertainment will be provided by Roberto Curiel – a wonderful vocalist from Guadalajara who belts out Mexican Favorites.
Go to the restaurant now to sign up for a variety of pools. This is a MUST GO for all sports fans. Click Here
Los Ayalas School fundraiser
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Judy Cuenca
OLD STYLE COUNTRY MUSIC – Cindy & Hudd
Good morning. Thanks for providing such a great newspaper. Cindy and Hudd would like to invite all our old friends back to
'HINDE AND JAIME'S'
this Thursday at 6 pm for our brand of older style country music.
We would also like to invite anyone who likes the older type music to join us and sample some of HINDE'S famous and well known dinners.
We especially like to have the dancers.
Starts at 6PM and probably over by 7.30 as Cindy has to build up her fingers .
Hudd
EMS UPDATE
Last Saturday night at the Plaza in Guayabitos was great. The people enjoyed the Music and fire works. Due to the cold weather the Beer sales were slow but the people were great at digging into their pockets for donations. We raised another 3600 peso. THANKS TO ALL. We now have 16,000 plus. Our Defibrillator is approximately $3,000. US. We are also hoping to buy Portable Oximetres. The dream of the Defibrillator is close to reality and we have 2 more weeks at the Plaza in hopes of accomplishing this. Please come out and enjoy the entertainment and of course drink Beer or add to the donations.
Since putting this info in this paper I have been told that a lot of people did not realize we now have this service. We were able to get Protection Civil in one year ago (Jan. 23 2006) since then we have averaged 60 calls per month. This includes all the highway accidents and out areas between Las Varas and Lo de Marco. The 2 hospitals that we use are San Poncho and Las Varas. If necessary we also go to P.V. and Tepic. The State supplies this service as far as the wages for the men and the equipment. When I say equipment this is the trucks, ambulance and fire. The added equipment like life helping are at a minimum and are needed, medicines, defibrillators etc.
We had a request from an area to help with LIFE SAVING and WATER RESCUE. Life saving courses are obtainable here but have been unable to date to find available at this time someone to teach the Water Rescue. If anyone is experienced in this field could you please contact me at 274-1193. I will keep people up dated or if interested drop by the office at the entrance at Guayabitos. ALL HELP APPRECIATED.
Diane Bell
Hi Bells. Just a short note letting everyone know how much we miss
life around Jaltemba Bay. One day back to work had me scuttling home
to read all the back issues of the express that I had missed on the
drive home. Hi to all our friends at La Penita RV park and from
Jaltemba Bay animal rescue. Thanks to Carole for finding us a new
spot after we overstayed our welcome.
If you find 2 of those lots/fixer uppers of your dreams keep us in mind!
See you in November, Heather Erickson
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La Peñita hits the big time in Montréal's Gazette
We had some visitors last week and although they didn't expect to like us, the life and food editor of Quebec´s largest English Language Daily came away loving Jaltemba Bay...who could blame him. The following is his report
Animal Rescue
Thank You! Thank You! Thank you!
To all the fabulous volunteers & generous donors who helped make the first ever Lo de Marcos spay/neuter clinic a great success, both in the Quantity of animals fixed & in the quality of care given them! 
Without you the clinic could not have happened, & we are forever grateful! To work with so many concerned & caring people, so many of who worked tirelessly for long hours under less than ideal conditions, was a marvelous, memorable experience! Also marvelous was to experience the appreciation of the community residents whose animal friends were fixed and who understand the importance of controlling/reducing the dog & cat population!
In all, 89 animals were fixed (35 female dogs, 25 female cats, 16 male dogs, 13 male cats), & there were 11 additional consultations. All animals were dewormed & treated for fleas/ticks, & all animals that underwent surgery recovered and were either returned to their original owners or adopted. Only a few remain in foster care awaiting adoption. If you are interested in adopting an animal, young or adult, please contact one of us!
After all expenses, $6,140.87 pesos remain in the Lo de Marcos spay/neuter fund that can help pay for another clinic next winter season. We need & welcome your suggestions and feedback, & we & the animals would be blessed by your continued compassion & assistance! Most sincerely,
Ann Embury-Lewis, Karen Olesen, Anne Henshaw, Melanie Blair
RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Mario's Tortas
By Bill Bell
O nce in a while you find something simple but so tasty that it keeps you thinking about the last bite you had and wanting more...That´s what it is like at Mario's Tortas. I had read rave reviews on the Jaltemba Bay folk Message board and decided to try it out myself. I had the chicken tortas and it was everything others had said and more. Delicious to the last bite and as I write this I want another...but unfortunately it isn't open on Sunday. Toasted, filled with lettuce, tomatoes, a special sauce, chicken and avocados add a few jalapeños peppers (mild) and you are in heaven. So I will just have to wait. Opens at 8 am and closes at 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Located right across from the Conalep. You can´t miss the great big green building. There you will find Lupita and MARIO (Mario is the son of the Pina Colada owner. He speaks English they also serve great hamburgers and burritos. Like their sign says the ¨best of the best. Right across the highway from the La Peñita RV Resort and Spa
 
Click here for for past restaurant reviews
HUMOR – Submitted by Bob and Linda Gibbs
THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLF!
1. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
2. The game of golf is 90% mental and the other 10% is mental.
3. Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.
4. When you look up and cause an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.
5. Any change works for a maximum of three holes and a minimum of not at all.
6. No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.
7. Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.
8. When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
9. If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up, or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.
10. The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.
11. The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all your errors.
12. If it ain't broke, try changing your grip.
13. Golfers who claim they don't cheat, also lie.
14. Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.
15. A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent's luck.
16. It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you are lying 10.
17. Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.
18. Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
19. It's not a gimme if you're still away.
20. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
21. There are two kinds of bounces: unfair bounces, and bounces just the way you meant to play it.
22. You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10% of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90% of the time.
23. Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.
24. If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to lay up just short of a water hazard.
25. To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the speed of his back swing by his handicap. Example: back swing 30 mph x handicap 20 = downswing 600 mph.
26. There are two things you can learn by stopping your back swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: a) how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.
27. Hazards attract; fairways repel.
28. You can put "draw" on the ball, you can put "fade" on the ball, but no golfer can put "straight" on the ball.
29. A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.
30. If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker.
31. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint.
32. Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it
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La Peñita RV Resort News & Notes

Burger Night
Click here to view burger night photographs
A reminder to everyone with pets. PLEASE make sure you pick up after your
pets. This includes on the beach. Do NOT let you dogs out without
accompanying them. Do NOT let them do their business on other peoples' pads.
Only YOU can prevent strict leash laws!
Also, a reminder not to put any toilet paper in your holding tanks or in
toilets.
Electricity is extremely expensive. Please conserve. Water is also very
expensive so use conservatively.
Thank you
Carole
More RV Park News and Events 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
Tournament Format Set for Jaltemba Express Community Challenge Cup


Horseshoe Tourney Click Here for more information
Eric Nice plays Matejas Wednesday, Saturday and
Sunday 2 to 4 pm 
Craig ¨Shoe¨ Schumacher plays Tequila Willy´s
Saturday's 7 to 10 p.m
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY @ LA MESA LOCA AT THE PENAMAR HOTEL
GIANT PROJECTION SCREEN AND ANOTHER LARGE SCREEN TV 4PM KICK OFF
THE SPECIAL OF THE DAY IS ALL YOU CAN EAT RIBS, BAKED POTATO AND SALAD OR COLESLAW
85 PESOS PER PERSON 10 PESO BEER 15 PESO BAR BRANDS
FOOTBALL BALL POOL, COME IN AND ENTER AND CHECK OUT OUR MENU
OLD STYLE COUNTRY
MUSIC – Cindy & Hudd
Good morning. Thanks
for providing such a great newspaper. Cindy and Hudd would
like to invite all our old friends back to
'HINDE AND JAIME'S'
this Thursday at 6 pm
for our brand of older style country music.
We would also like to
invite anyone who likes the older type music to join us and
sample some of HINDE'S famous and well known dinners.
We especially like to
have the dancers.
Starts at 6PM and
probably over by 7.30 as Cindy has to build up her fingers .
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
SEEN AT
At Hinde and Jaime´s Vern Porter

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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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Articles, Photos
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Services
Massage
Computer Repair
American Veterans Assistance
Taxis
Chiropractor
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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
Poncee Offers a Great Fishing Deal - Captain Poncerelli from Chacala is offering a great deal on fishing tours. The boat takes six fishers and is fully deep sea equipped for fishing. The cost is $45 per hour .....not much more than gas. Get your group together and give him a shout. Then all you need to do is pack your lunch!
Jeeze I can almost taste those Dorado. email: sescobido@aol.com or call him at 01-327-219-4067

Deep Tissue Massage
Problem Areas, Healing & Balancing
Gentle Massage for Relaxation
REIKI, AROMATHERAPY OILS & BACH FLOWER REMEDIES as Needed
(She is a fully qualified REIKI Master)
$25USD / 250 pesos for 1 – 1 ½ hour sessions
VIBRATION MOVEMENT CLASSES
For tension, better posture and overall improvement in yourself
$5 USD / 50 pesos for half an hour
Monday & Wednesdays from 9am at the La Peñita RV Resort (By appointment)
Other times and locations by appointment 045-(327)-102-1598.
Mexican Auto, RV and Boat Insurance
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It's a Small World
David Lord - PVNN


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| Published author Robert McLane (L), David Lord and his dog, Lunar (C), and Earnest Spencer. |
As a new member of the Puerto Vallarta Writer's Group, imagine my surprise to meet a fellow Veteran and his visiting publisher, who just happens to be a former Marine who's life may have been saved by my fire team in Khe Sanh in Vietnam.

The Veteran's name is Robert McLane, and we are in the company of many of Vallarta's finest writers. The Writers Group and the people that make it up are a mix of talented individuals that share a common desire to encourage folks to share their experiences, knowledge and talent by reducing creativity to writing.

The Group, and the Guests that speak there, cover every possible topic and guide one another to the ultimate goal of publishing a book. New to the Group over the last eight weeks, I have been attending the Saturday morning meetings.

However, the week before last I missed a meeting and during the following week I heard about the presentation by Robert McLane. His book "Stop War America" was published recently and he had read some passages from it.

Robert is living and writing in Yelapa. His experience in the Viet Nam War as a Marine tied him to me automatically, but what made the knot tight was his unit - he was at Khe Sanh, not during the Siege, but soon after.

This Marine and his book are about the War and the return home. It is a true account of how he was treated by the V.A., his family and particularly the Anti-War Movement, his return to America from fighting in Viet Nam and the new anti-war realities at home.

The book tells of the battle within himself: pride of service as a U.S. Marine vs. being with the anti-war movement. The undisciplined, scruffy looking veterans claiming the right to educate America through protest and dissent.

The courage to fight as hard for peace as you had for war. To do this even while the faces of those that gave their all in that war were fresh in memory. It took courage to admit that you were used for political gain, not for the national survival.

To support by necessity those who had belittled us, calling us the pawn's of the military-industrial complex. It's a book that is a demonstration of real life as a warrior for Peace. So read the book: on with my story.

With Robert was his Publisher, Earnest Spencer, the owner of Corps Publishing who had come down from California. Earnest was introduced as a best-selling author of the book "Welcome to Viet Nam, Macho Man." Speaking on his association with Robert first, Earnest went on to describe his own life's path on becoming a publisher.

Later, after our introduction, he asked who I had served with. When I replied, "Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines," he threw his arm around my shoulder, saying, "I'm Captain Earnest Spencer, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines." He asked the date and location where I got hit and I told him somewhere in Quang Tri Province, just before dusk on May 9th... "Jesus," Earnest said, "I watched your assault on the machine gun take place, it was in Leather Neck Square and that machine gun had been firing on my position all afternoon."

Thirty-nine years later, at a Puerto Vallarta Writer's Group, I meet a visiting former Marine who's life may have been saved by my fire team, and he becomes the future publisher of the book I'm writing about Veterans Benefits Outside America.

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