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The Jaltemba Express
The Almost Daily Newspaper for Jaltemba Bay and Surrounding Areas Circulation 1266
Aschenbrennner Hands Over Dough
The Fall Fundraiser was a great hit. It is absolutely wonderful that folks came together to help support the needy in the area.
Treasurer for the Fall Fundraiser, Jerry Aschenbrenner has presented Bob Howell and Vicky Flores - Fund Administrators with 45,000 pesos raised at the December 15, 2006 event.
Bob & Vicky are most appreciative for the efforts of the Jaltemba Express, Hotel California, organizers, volunteers, contributors and successful bidders; making this the most successful fundraiser held to date; raising twice as much as in 2005. Funds raised will be go a long way in helping Bob & Vicky with the large task of helping the needy in the area.
Plans are already underway for the 2007 fundraiser!
Good Morning - Buenos días.... and Welcome to Paradise
Thursday January 4, 2007...back to sunshine and great times
Headlines
UN Appoints Mexican to Top Humanitarian Post - Click here
Zapatistas Continue to Wear Black Ski Masks - Click here
Calderon: Long Drawn-out Offensive Against Drugs - Click here
Jaltemba News & Notes
San Pancho Music Fest 19-25 FEBRUARY
Started in 2001, the San Pancho Music Fest began with 12 performers in one day and grew to 116 performers over three days for the 6th annual event held in February of 2006.
On the last weekend of every February, a musical show is held in the Jardin de Grillo of Casa Puerco, #9 Calle Africa, San Francisco (San Pancho), Nayarit, Mexico.
The purpose of this fest is to show off the tranquil village of San Pancho, the musical talent of those residents who live in or are visiting the area, provide a common thread of joy between the cultural mix of those who reside in and visit the area.
THERE IS NO ADMISSION CHARGED. MUSICIANS PERFORM FOR FREE. NOTHING IS SOLD.
2007 SCHEDULE 19-25 FEBRUARY
MONDAY-FRIDAY The stage, sound & lighting is free and open for sound checks and jamming 9 am to 5 pm
OPEN PERFORMANCES (ALL NAYARIT TIME)
THURSDAY 6 pm to 9 pm
FRIDAY 6 pm to 9 pm "FRIDA'S EYEBROWS"
SATURDAY 2 pm to 10 pm - OPEN MIKE
SUNDAY 12 pm to 2 pm SPIRITUAL MUSIC
SUNDAY 2 pm to 9 pm OPEN MIKE
SUNDAY 9pm CLOSING WITH GALLO AND FRIENDS
9th Annual "el Famoso" Horseshoe Tourney Update
Those of you that wish to donate a raffle prize bring to the directors table the day of the event or give to Jan, Bill, Genie or Harry prior to the horseshoe event..
T-Shirts
Rumor is that all pithcers/staff volunteers will be receiving 2007 "EL FAMOSO" tee shirts... This is the first edition/collectors handed out to all participants....
The proceeds of the Horseshoe event will go towards the needy - administered by Bob Howell and Vicky Flores - Fund Administrators
La Peñita NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
The La Peñita Neighborhood Watch meeting will take place on January 9 at 4:00PM at the Hotel California. This is for all residents of La Peñita. You do not need to be a property owner to attend.
If you are concerned about keeping La Peñita a quaint, safe, clean village attend this meeting. Contact anesthesia94@yahoo.ca for more details.
Hotel California Donates Dinner for FORE!
Jorge Aceves Gives for Golf For a Cure
Steak? Those Famous Shrimpballs? What'll it be? Jorge has donated a dinner for FORE from the Hotel California to the 1st Annual Community Golf Challenge, on February 25, 2007, the Field of Dreams Golf Course, Campo Ensueño. Teams from throughout the Bay Area will compete for the Jaltemba Cup - the Best Golfers in the area. Each community will challenge the others to determine which Town receives the Cup. We are expecting a sell out crowd of 150 people including players, audience and media. All proceeds will go to Cancer Research, specifically the Dana-Farber Research Hospital in Boston, associated with Harvard Medical School. Their work has been a benefit to cancer patients throughout the world and they continue to be a leader in the field of cancer research.
The event will attract a large number of people because it involves community pride - the Best Golfers in the area. Each town will have at least one team representing their community. It will also have a number of smaller events within the event; Driving Competition, Putting Competition and potentially best Cheerleading Squad. The goal is to have a fun event and to raise money for a Cure to this deadly disease that has touched all of our lives.
HAMMOCKS FOR HOUNDS
Hala has pulled through again!
Without a doubt, Hala's got the most gorgeous hammocks in the Bay Area. She has personally selected the best craftspeople in Merida and has worked with them to produce some of the most sought after hammocks in the country. These aren't the kind that you will toss after one season. No. She has selected the best fibers, the tightest weaves to ensure you get quality when you buy from her shop.
Once again, Hala has opened her heart to the community and given the Animal Rescue Group a Hammock to kick start their fundraising efforts. It is a beautiful brightly covered hammock chair, one of her most popular sellers, that will keep you swinging in your home in Paradise. It is the perfect gift for tourist or residents alike.
Carole Thacker at the La Peñita RV Resort and Spa will be auctioning this hammock chair as well as a few other great prizes in the next few weeks. You can purchase tickets from her at the La Peñita RV Park at Taco Tuesday and Hamburger Nights. If you are not a Park resident and wish to purchase a ticket write editor@ontheroadin.com and we will make sure you can get a ticket.
Repairs for the Bridge of Life
DO SOMETHING REALLY GREAT FOR EVERYONE AROUND YOU
Volunteers urgently needed to donate time and /or money to fix the walk and bike suspension bridge between La Peñita and Rincon on January 7th 2007 PLEASE MEET at the BRIDGE at 0700am. The estimate to fix is 1300USD and volunteers will be adding and pulling cable, replacing screws and boards, installing new cyclone fencing, installing two posts to stop the motorized vehicles that are tearing up the bridge, two trash barrels at each end. THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL APPRECIATE THIS IS THOSE WHO USE THE BRIDGE - BUT THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL REPAIR THE BRIDGE IS YOURemember folks that this is your community newspaper...if you would like to contribute any article, photograph, event or ad please feel free to by writing editor@ontheroadin.com
Letters to the Editor
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Editor,
Please add my vecina to your mailing list. Thanks for the good work.
Susan Schrandt
Editor,
I would like to subscribe. Please add my email address. Thank you,
Roger Cormier
Editor,
Thanks for adding our name to your mailing list We got our first edition today. We will be visiting friends in Rincon in Feb and are so excited to hear all the news about life in La Peñita and Rincon. I loved the restaurant reviews. See you in Feb Mad and Mark.
Dianna
Editor,
We LOVE your Jaltemba Express, and would like to subscribe to it. Our winter home is La Peñita and you are doing a wonderful job keeping us all informed!
Thanks to you both for all your dedicated hard work!
Jan and Elaine
FEATURE ARTICLE
Editor,
Thank you for the piece on Gifford and Esther Newlon (Feature Article). It is a nice tribute to our dear friends!
Jill Koncar - Salt Lake City
SAN PANCHO MUSIC FEST
Editor,
You might want to add The San Pancho Music fest, 22-25 February, to your upcoming events calendar. All musicians and spectators are welcome. "We charge nothing, Pay nothing, and Sell nothing"
John and Trish Alexander
AD & DONATION
Hello Dorothy, here is a photo of the trailer, with ad again if you will please put it in your next newsletter. Many thanks, and our contribution of syringes and time is to the Spay and Neuter clinic.
Hilary Sampson
OFFENSE at SMUG CANADIANS ARTICLE
I take offense to the letter about smug Canadians. For ever we have had to put up with Americans and their attitude that they are the most important people on this planet. Anywhere you meet one, be it on vacation or doing business dealings, you can sense their feelings of superiority. Its about time Canadians started talking back and not let them push us around anymore.
The reason we compare to the US, is because that is all we see-on TV, in the movies, on vacation-everywhere we are exposed to their way of thinking.
If sticking up for our policies and condemning the states for wanting to run the world makes me a smug Canadian in the eyes of the Americans, then so be it. But in my eyes I will always be a proud, friendly Canadian. In fact, we are compared to Mexicans because we don't have to be the centre of attention and we don't take over areas and make them like our home towns and cities.
Kim Bullock
(Editors Note: We do not share you opinion. We think that individuals should be judged by their individual actions and not berated because they are one nationality or another. Our American neighbor can be equally boorish as our Canadian or Mexican one. Or absolutely wonderful….Here in Paradise we find that the latter is pretty much the case AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE HERE.)
Humor -
Favorite Things - Submitted by Jos
A Texas country boy sees a sign in the restaurant reading "Happy Hour Special: Lobster Tail & Beer"
"Lord almighty!" he says to himself, "My three favorite things."
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TRUTHS - by Cutshall
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6 How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car!
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m.; it could be a right number.
13. Think about this..., No one ever says "It's only a game" when his team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And RAP music will be the Golden Oldies!)
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint,you are probably dead.
Jaltemba Bay Animal Rescue
Contributions are Coming In! 1,340.34 USD
Tom and Bruce from Casa Libertad contributed $170.00, Linda M Caterer $100.00, Alexandrine Allard $50, Audrey Allard $50, Amélie Drolet $50, Charlotte Drolet $50, Julie Drolet $50, Pierre Etienne Drolet $50, Sarah Drolet $50, Anaïs Plante $50, Charles Plante $50, Cleo $25 (also a rescued dog!) & PicNic $25 (a dog Regine and Rene rescued from Los Ayala last year), Jane Hill $100.
Brenda and Jeff Bitkoff, Nina Steffins and Ed and Marylyn Doll for their kind offers of accommodation for the vets and their assistants.
Thanks to Nancy Milski and Rosalie Hope & Fay & Fred Hodson for their contributions of lunch for a day at the clinic in Los Ayala. Deb and Rick Martin and Heather and Rob Erickson who dropped off catheters, stethoscopes and other medical supplies.
Barry, Sheila and Pauline - over $200 of IV supplies, stethoscope, and linens
Dr. Jeff Schucker and Staff, VCA Feist Animal Hospital - Supplies
Current Needs
1 Volunteers to help with lunches and refreshments during the clinic
2.Volunteers to help with the clinic
3.Donations
Many thanks to those of you who have donated!
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
Speak Spanish - That Should be Your Goal! Learn Spanish Today
Can you Speak Spanish? How long have you been studying Spanish? Between high school classes, college classes and you own efforts you could easily have a couple years already under your belt. During this time you have likely built up a good Spanish vocabulary, along with a basic understanding of Spanish verb conjugation. But can you speak Spanish?
Why is speaking Spanish so hard? Would you feel comfortable approaching a native Spanish speaker and starting a conversation? Why not? Why is it so hard to speak Spanish even after years of study?
Beginning high school and college Spanish classes, as well as most self study Spanish courses start off by teaching vocabulary and verb conjugation. You practice speaking, but the focus is on the individual word or phrase. Lists of words are memorized and tests are given on verb conjugation. So when it comes time to speak, the words and phrases are separate in your mind. It becomes a matter of trying to pull all the pieces together and form them all into a sensible sentence, not just speaking.
The key to becoming more comfortable in speaking situations is to practice and learn the sentences as a whole, not in separate pieces. This way when you are trying to remember what to say, the whole sentence pops in your mind, not just one word. You will speak Spanish more correctly, more fluently and more confidently than ever before.
The Visual Link Spanish Course allows you to utilize this effective way of learning and practice speaking Spanish. In our free online demo lessons, you can see how we utilize these strategies to truly teach you to speak Spanish. You will be able to recall everything you learn and words will come into your mind as a complete sentence not separate individual words. You will already be on your way to speaking Spanish more fluently and more confidently. |
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La Peñita RV Resort News & Notes
Raffle Tickets for Animal Rescue can be purchased on Taco Tuesday and Hamburger Night or at the Office
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.
NEW YEARS Special Thanks
A special thank you to Cheryl Sholan for the great New Years Eve party a t the pool side the other night...Cheryl and her helpers Cornel and Lori who were selling drinks, plus numerous others that helped with the decorations made it another special New Years Eve. But, it was Cheryl that spent several hours burning CD's for music, purchasing balloons, building those beautiful blue and white balloon arches, plus acting as "DJ with the mostest" that made it the big hit that it was.....Thanks Cheryl, LPRVP is fortunate to have a volunteer like yourself.
Linda & Jim Ross
Those of you that wish to donate a raffle prize bring
to the directors table the day of the event or give to
jan, bill, genie or harry prior to the horseshoe event..
Rumor is that all pitchers/staff volunteers will be
receiving 2007 "EL FAMOSO" tee shirts... this is the
first edition/collectors handed out to all
participants....
jimmy howell (tournament director) barbqueguy1@yahoo.com
Hinde and Jaimes   
Georges Sunset Bar and Grill
Wow Martha has outdone herself !!!! she will be making shrimp balls or BBQ your own steak (filet mignon) or half and half but here comes the yummy part......they all come with Martha's Mexican "sloppy joes" that's delicious CHICKEN MOLE ON A BUN...MMMM...MMM...MMMM...so see you here from 5pm till 9pm at the SUNSET BAR AND GRILL
PIZZA MADNESS
.Click Here for a complete calendar in a glance of Jaltemba Bay Activities
For a more detailed description of Events Click here
JANUARY
Jan 9: La Peñita Home Owners Association
FEBRUARY
Feb 10 Annual Horseshoe Tournament - Check-in will be at Mateja Restaurant on the beach, Rincon de Guayabitos on Friday February 9, 2007. The Tournament is the next day.
ONGOING
Sunday Artistic and Cultural will be held Sundays - December 17th, 24th and 31st in La Peñita at 9:00 a.m to 5 pm next to the garden of La Peñita in the basketball court.
Monday AA Meeting. English speaking "Friends of Bill W" meet every Monday & Thursdays at 4 pm at Penamar Hotel in Rincon De Guayabitos, Room #13. The Penamar Hotel is located next to Tonota's II.
Wednesday Women's Golf Every Wednesday
Erik Nice performs at Mateja's Every Wednesday for Happy Hour 2-4
Enrique Preciado Performs at the Bavarian 6 pm Gardens Wednesday. Romantic, Oldies & Dancing
Thursday Market Day La Peñita - Every Thursday approximately 8-2
AA Meeting. English speaking "Friends of Bill W" meet every Monday & Thursdays at 4 pm at Penamar Hotel in Rincon De Guayabitos, Room #13. The Penamar Hotel is located next to Tonota's II.
Men's Day Every Thursday Golf
Friday Erik Nice performs at El Capitan in Sayulita 1-3 on the beach near Don Pedro's on Friday
Redneck Mothers perform every Friday Night at the Bavarian Gardens
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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Feature Classified
24 foot Coachmen, 1978
Well used but in good condition, no rust or
termites, stored under cover at Bodegas y Bodegas (owner at Lavasol
laundry in La Peñita). Contact owners at 48 Bahia de Banderas, Los Ayala
Price is 3800U$D hsampson@bctree.com
Pierce County Computers Will Help Children in Rural Mexico
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| Children in the Mexican village of San Pancho will benefit from a plan to donate surplus Pierce County computers. The effort is spearheaded by Bill Garrison, chief investigator for the county prosecutor's office. (Pierce County) |
Surplus Pierce County computers are about to begin a new role helping Mexican children to learn. Fifty computers complete with monitors are being cleaned and serviced before being shipped to Mexico for the children of San Pancho, a fishing village an hour’s drive north of Puerto Vallarta.
The shipment was arranged by Bill Garrison of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “Computers are all but unknown in the average family residence, and access to technology is almost nonexistent,” Garrison said. “The need is enormous.”
Garrison, chief investigator for the prosecutor’s office, has been working for months to arrange for the shipment, which is scheduled in late December or early January. Alaska Airlines will transport the computers to Puerto Vallarta at a significantly reduced price. Garrison originally planned to take them to Mexico by truck.
The project still has cash and equipment needs, and he reluctantly is letting county employees know that in the event some want to help. “I basically just decided that I am going to make this happen. There is no group conducting fundraisers -- just a few friends that are providing help and support,” he said.
Tax-deductible contributions can be made to Computer Technology Investigators Northwest, a nonprofit organization that works with law enforcement agencies. The computers were donated to CTIN, which in turn will donate them to another nonprofit, Entre-Amigos. Cash donations can be sent to CTIN, c/o Franklin Clark, PO Box 1417, Puyallup, WA 98371. Clark is CTIN’s executive board president.
Air freight, customs broker and local trucking costs are estimated at between $1,000 and $1,500. While computers and monitors are provided, Garrison needs such equipment as surge protectors, routers and DSL modems.
Garrison and his wife, Karen, first visited San Pancho (also known as San Francisco) 10 years ago. “It is an unspoiled and beautiful piece of paradise located away from the elite resorts that seem to be everywhere in the Mexican Riviera,” he said. “We fell in love with the community and returned year after year, eventually buying a small lot and building a casita for our retirement. The people are honest and hardworking, and the community became special to us.”
They discovered that the local government lacked tax revenue and was unable to provide adequate services. School suppies and textbooks are in short supply. Most kids quit school to take menial jobs. Technology is virtully nonexistent -- even the Mayor’s Office handles its daily business using a manual typewriter with carbon paper. “The sad thing is that these are bright people, most of whom are bilingual and have the potential to succeed if given the chance,” Garrison said.
The Garrisons became acquainted a couple years ago with Nicole Swedlow, who founded Entre-Amigos in California to help the San Pancho children.
She organized a school with classes in reading, English, Spanish, art, swimming, ecology and even yoga. She solicited the local expatriate community to buy textbooks. “Karen and I donated $250 to buy textbooks for the 8th grade,” he said.
Swedlow worked with both the local and state governments. The result was creation of Bilioteca San Pancho, the village’s first library services. “Soon the need for access to computers and the Internet became obvious,” he said.
Garrison contacted Pierce County Information Technology, and 50 surplus computers were given new life, so to speak.
“These computers will be incredibly useful to the kids of San Pancho,” he said. “They could change their futures greatly for the better.” |
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Feature Article
Gifford and Esther Newlon: Early Residents of Rincon de Guayabitos
Meet Gifford Newlon. Gifford envisioned the first condominium development in Rincon de Guayabitos. Born in 1915 in Fairview, Montana, Gifford has traveled in Mexico for over 40 years. Now 91 years old, he recalls the early days of Rincon de Guayabitos which he first visited in the 1970’s. At that time, he was working as a land-use planner for a Hawaiian based company. The company was interested in a possible development in Mexico and hired Gifford to locate a likely spot along the Pacific coast of Mexico. After a year of wandering along the coast, Gifford and his wife Esther were most impressed by the small village in the tropical paradise known as Rincon de Guayabitos.
In those days, Rincon was a small fishing village with a few houses, a couple of small hotels and some small “rustic” restaurants famous for their fresh fish and shrimp dishes. Mostly, it had breathtaking views of the ocean and a beautiful, unspoiled beach. Back then, it was only a camera stop for vacationers on their way to more developed areas of Puerto Vallarta, San Blas and Guadalajara. They would snap photos of the fis herman pulling in their nets along with the beautiful sunsets with the backdrop of the island, La Penita de Jaltemba, seen from every location. At night during certain seasons, the sand on the beach came alive with thousands of tiny crabs scurrying about.
Original 1970 Casita on property of Playa Linda Condominios
As fate would have it, the Hawaiian company which employed Gifford was bought out and the new owners were no longer interested in developments in Mexico, but Gifford and his wife, Esther, had fallen in love with Rincon. He decided to try his own development, on a modest scale, so they could remain in their new paradise-found. He was following a family tradition: his grandfather had founded the town of Newlon, Montana, and his father founded Fairview, Montana. Developing in Rincon would be Gifford’s dream. 
1980 Playa Linda Condominios
He sold his house in California, sold a few stocks and bought a casita on a one acre parcel right on the beach. The house had been built by a Canadian, one of the first non-Mexicans to occupy property there. In those days, foreigners could not develop property on the beach without a bank trust and a Mexican partner who held controlling interest. He acquired a partner for the project and they planned the first condominium project in the state of Nayarit. (Later, when the Mexican laws changed, he was able to buy out his partner. However, the title still remained legally held in the bank trust)
To overcome the hurdles of complex real estate transactions with complicated legal terms, all in Spanish, Gifford relied on the
Spanish courses he had taken at UCLA in his early days. At first he was shy about his language skills, but an argument with a cab driver in Mexico City proved to him that he had mastered the language! Now he is completely fluent and can easily switch between English and Spanish.
The ground was broken for the Playa Linda Condominios (named for his daughter, Lynda) in 1974. Gifford and Esther lived in their original casita while the condos were being built all around them. The building project provided Gifford and Esther with an occupation and a lifestyle until the final unit was completed in 1990.
2007 Playa Linda Condominios
(Nestled between Stephany’s and Villas Buenavida )
Gifford and Esther enjoyed their 40 years in Mexico and are well known by most of the locals in Rincon and La Penita. They loved to have people over and could be seen dancing and partying at all of the local restaurants. Although Esther passed away in 2002, Gifford is still going strong today. He now lives most of the time in California with his son, Michael and daughter-in-law Lorraine in the Santa Rosa Valley, near Camarillo. He travels to his Playa Linda condo paradise about three times a year these days, accompanied by his son Michael or his daughter Lynda. He plans to return in late January 2007. Drop in and say hello to Gifford, one of Rincon’s earliest developers.
Gifford & Esther with daughter-in-law Lorraine; grandchildren Jamie and Michelle
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