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The Almost Twice Weekly Newspaper for the Jaltemba Coast

Hinde and Jaime's Restaurant reopening a great success

Patty

Jaltemba Bay Animal Rescue

Advocating humane and healthy practices for animals in the Jaltemba area by promoting health, education, sterilization, adoptions, foster care and positive relationships with animals and their owners.

December 2006 to April 2008…One and a Half Years, 6 clinics and a Total of 642 Animals Spayed or Neutered in the Jaltemba Bay Area!!!

Upcoming Free Spay and Neuter Clinics

Our next clinic in the Jaltemba Bay area will take place in Guayabitos on November 13, 14 and 15th with clinic set up on the 12th and clean up on the 16th. Many thanks to Ja’Qui for the offer of her house for the clinic.

If anyone is willing to help by volunteering or donating food to feed our vets and volunteers, please contact me.

Other News from JBAR:

If any of you have space in your journey down to Mexico, we need kennels of all sizes, and flea and tick medication, particularly the spray. In addition, Molly wrote:

WE ARE DESPERATE FOR CAGES!!!!!!!! You can imagine how worn out they are after have a clinic EVERY single week!!! If you have any- or any connections- WE NEED THEM! DONATE THEM! BRING THEM DOWN!!! PLEASE!!!!

We also need:

Sterile gloves #8.5

Sterile gloves #7

Suture, 2-0 and 3-0 vicryl

Drape

Animals for Adoption:

PLEASE ADOPT PAYASO

He was the first and in the worst shape homeless beach dog I‘ve encountered here in Lo de Marcos, and is still awaiting a permanent home. Following this, his story, are before and after photos of this beautiful and intelligent animal, named “clown” in Spanish by people who thought he looked ridiculous. I had named him Atlas, for what he endured and for him to live up to, but he already knew his original name. I found him in an abandoned dark building, starving and literally bald from mange, skin cracked and raw in places. He laid on an old filthy foam pad underneath a picture of Jesus hung on a crumbling wall. He waited quietly to die, out of view of taunting and horrified humans. He was so gentle, and amazed and grateful for kindness and food. Through the local vet and internet searches I quickly learned all about mange and began aggressive treatments. Karen Olesen came to help me hold him at the onset, and I then discovered his back dew claws had grown and curled back into his skin, making it very painful for him to walk. These could only be cut with wire cutters so the ingrown pieces could be pulled out. This noble, trusting animal never once bit or balked, despite the fact that mange causes severe itching and surface pain. He slowly recovered, and I was quite relieved to see patches of hair growing back and weight gain. In time he felt well enough to begin to follow me on beach walks, and people who had seen him before were astonished to know this was the same dog, even more so that I was touching him. Many people believe the myth that the microscopic mange mite can infect humans.

Once, a young man on horseback on the beach began to chase him and try to lasso him, yelling to me that he’d get rid of him for me, thinking that Payaso was bothering me and my dog! Payaso still had, and has, some areas of no hair, which frightens people because in severe cases of mange some hair follicles can be permanently damaged.

Please consider adopting Payaso, now neutered, healthy and so well behaved. He is an excellent watch dog. I have multiple animals, as do his kind foster parents who are soon moving. Thank you so much!

Call Ann (327) 275-0235, pensadora@prodigy.net.mx

or Jim (327) 275- 0275

Thrown away

After TLC

PLEASE ADOPT ROCKY

Rocky was originally a La Penita de Jaltemba street dog, and, after getting fixed at a spay/neuter clinic was adopted by a Canadian man who lives in La Penita full time. This man now has significant health problems, is facing surgery and hospitalization, and can no longer care for Rocky. Rocky is well socialized, affectionate young, healthy and vaccinated, a good watch dog, and really needs a full time friend again. Can you or someone you know adopt him? Thank you!

Please contact Ann (English) at (327)275-0235, pensadora@prodigy.net.mx

Celia (Spanish) in La Penita at (327)274-2991

PLEASE ADOPT ROCKY

PLEASE ADOPT NEGRITA

Negrita was abandoned at a La Penita de Jaltemba spay/neuter clinic 2 years ago and was then fostered for months by an American woman until being adopted by a Mexican woman in Lo de Marcos. Recently she was found by Highway and returned to her former home, but her former owner no longer lives there and the owner of the home said to just dump this gentle girl by the highway again or at the beach. She is healthy, vaccinated, gentle, medium size, and a good watch dog. She really wants and deserves a full time friend. Can you help?

CALL ANA AT (327) 275-0235

pensadora@prodigy.net.mx

Celia (Spanish) in La Penita at (327)274-2991

Many thanks to the following people for their donations:

Linda and Larry Cornwall $200.00 CAD

Peggy Watson $50.00 CAD

Jane Hill $100.00 CAD

To Make a Donation:

Contact linchimes@hotmail.com or visit the following website with PayPal links to JBAR:

http://jaltembasol.com/Animal%20Rescue/Animal%20Rescue.htm

For questions and comments, please email: linchimes@hotmail.com

Thank you for all your support! Lin

Carnitas Uruapan Smokey Flavor A Labor of Love

By Adam Caddell

On a busy Thursday afternoon, the lunch crowd assembles around the block waiting in anticipation for some of Francisco’s delicious Smokey barbeque platters. “Here com

es the two o clock rush,” Fransisco tells me. “It’s Showtime!”

Francisco, the owner and manager of Carnitas Uruapan, had always wanted to be a chef since he was a little boy. “I would help my mother in the kitchen, when I wasn’t tall enough to see the stove.”

Francisco grew up in Guadalajara Jalisco, a four and a half hour drive from Jaltemba Bay. When he wasn’t attending Prepa, he was helping his family out in the kitchen.

“When my father left my mother, I had to take on more responsibilities while she worked full time for the family.”

Francisco began cooking up a storm and when he finished high school, he started his very own pizzeria, set right in his kitchen.

“I was young, and saw an opportunity to make some money doing what I enjoy,” said Francisco.

Soon Francisco was making hundreds of pizzas every week and delivering them to the schools in his area.

At seventeen, Francisco met and married his wife Carmen, despite parents on both sides telling him to be cautious. “We were young and in love; they couldn’t do anything!”

Francisco and Carmen worked for ten years in the pizza business and had two kids; Magaly and Paco. At this time they began feeling the need to try something new and they moved to La Penita. While on Vacatio

n, Francisco saw that a busy restaurant was for sale, due to the owners wanting to move back to Puerto Vallarta. “We moved in two years ago, and we haven’t looked back!” said Francisco.

The restaurant is a favorite with the locals and tourists, who can smell the mango wood smoke from Guayabitos. “That’s where the flavor is,” said Francisco, “It’s in the mango wood.”

Intrigued, I volunteered myself to help in rounding up the wood in order to make this fantastic food, but I had no Idea that it would be as labor intensive.

We headed off to San Pancho,

where Francisco’s friends have massive farm and brush land with trees ready to cut down. The bush was higher than my chest, but I was told to not talk so much. “Be careful” said Francisco as he motioned with his hand a curvy slithering snake.

This was the wrong day to wear shorts!

After walking for about a mile in dense bush, we chopped down dead wood into twenty five kilo logs and carry them over our shoulder back to the trucks. “Not many people know the work that is involved to make really good ribs, or chicken or carnitas”

“There is a lot of sweat and labor that goes into making great food. It’s the same anywhere.”

Fransisco takes out his chain saw and cuts down the logs into stumps - perfect for the fuel to make his food magical.

With sweat pouring down both our faces, Francisco laughs and says “I think we both just lost about a kilo.”

Letters

Hi Bill & Dot
We've been following your travels with much interest - what a wonderful experience!

I've attached a list of Vicky's Charitable Works as prepared by Ken & Bea. I'd appreciate it very much if you could post it in the Jaltemba Sol and encourage folks traveling to the area to help out Vicky where they can. Many in the community need help 'now' and Vicky through the generosity of so many has been able to help to try to meet that need!

Thanx for caring!

Jerry & Anita

An Accounting of Vicky’s Charitable Work 2007-2008

[Ken & Bea adjusted the English and formatted this report, and are posting it on Vicky’s behalf. If there are inaccuracies or bad translations from Spanish, blame us!]

Hi my friends, I would like to say to everybody “Thanks a lot!”
I would like everyone to trust that everything they bring is used to help very poor people. This is why I do this kind of job. Bob and I always made sure the people are really poor as we would have no reason to help people who have no need of it. I hope everyone understands me. I promised Bob I would continue in this charitable work. As long as people help me, I plan to continue—without your help, I would have to quit.
I understand that this year is not easy, and that there are many financial problems. The economy is not good, but I trust God, and he will always put generous people in my way.
Thanks to everyone for helping with this effort. In Bob’s name, thanks a lot!
Don’t forget that I am only the transporter of your donations.

This season, I plan to place a notebook inside the rear door of the dispensary (the door will be open if someone is home) on a small table. People visiting the dispensary are encouraged to leave a note with their name, telephone number in Guayabitos or La Penita and e-mail address. If you are dropping off a donation, please describe what you are leaving, and if you wish to accompany me on a delivery trip, indicate that too or telephone me on my cellular at 322-141-9132. If the dispensary is locked, you may leave donations in the garage—access at the rear.
If you should wish to make a cash donation, I have found Western Union to be a good service. Delivery is quick, and there are no deductions. Address donations to:
VIRGINIA FLORES RAMIREZ
LA PENITA DE JALTEMBA, NAYARIT
C.P.63726 COMPOSTELA
NAYARIT, MEXICO.

FOOD PACKETS
Donations received were used to buy food for some 55 poor people every month. I know this a large number of people, but I have records of each of their names.

Groceries purchased and distributed include milk, rice, beans, flour, pasta, canned tuna, cooking oil, sugar, sugar, cookies and cinnamon.

From October, 2007 to September 2008, you have donated a total of 80 000 pesos. Expenses for that period were 132 191.54 pesos. [English adjuster’s note: It seems the need this past year was bigger than the finances by some 52 000 pesos. Hopefully her friends will help make up this shortfall when they visit this season.]

Month-by-month expenses (in pesos) were:
October, 2007 4 914.76
November 15 746.24
December 6 446.00
January, 2008 22 539.00
February 17 360.00
March 10 783.53
April 21 229.01
May 16 913.00
June 2 930.00
July 5 237.00
August 3 768.00
September 4325.00

Monthly expenses vary because the needs vary and supplies are bought and stockpiled for subsequent months.
The reported expenses include, in addition to food supplies, 11 maternity layettes and an ongoing scholarship of 500 pesos per month for one young person, Jumara Martinez, who is attending university in Tepic. This pays the young lady’s rent, which is very inexpensive for the location.

SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS
During the 2007/2008 season, 24 communities were visited to identify needs and deliver aid. Fifteen kindergartens, 23 elementary schools and 8 high schools received help as detailed below.

Physical Education Equipment:
23 sets of physical education equipment including soccer balls, volleyballs, basketballs and baskets and 37 first-aid kits

Supplies for Kindergarten children (243 students):
486 boxes of crayons,
243 colouring books,
243 pairs of scissors,
thousands and thousands of pencils,
215 packets of 10 pens,
28 boxes of chalk,
222 packages of coloured paper,
14 packages of Pla Doh
14 large erasers
120 packets of decorating paper
243 bottles of glue
243 toothbrushes, and
243 tubes of toothpaste (note: anyone who has accompanied Vicky on a school visit will know that students cannot escape a lecture on dental hygiene)

Supplies for Elementary School Students (635 students)
1270 notebooks
1270 pens
2540 pencils
635 rulers
635 geometry sets
150 pairs of scissors
635 erasers
635 pencil sharpeners
28 bottles of glue
635 coloured pencils, and
28 highlighters

Supplies for High School Students (269 in grades 7, 8 and 9)
538 notebooks,
269 binders,
269 geometry sets,
269 calculators,
269 rulers,
18 bottles of glue,
2000 sheets of white paper,
1076 pens,
1076 pencils,
269 coloured pencils,
36 boxes of highlighters,
269 toothbrushes,
269 small tubes of toothpaste,
50 rolls of dental floss,
80 backpacks,
5 computers (3 new and 2 used, but in very good condition), and
22 pairs of tennis shoes.

Computers, monitors and printers were also donated and delivered to an orphanage in Tepic for children learning to use computers, Candido Salazar, El Tonino and La Joya. I’m sorry I don’t have accurate records as to who donated which of these items, so Id better not begin naming people.

Saludos, Vicky the nurse.

Mexico Unveils Emergency Spending
BBC News
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Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, flanked by his Treasury Secretary, Agustin Carstens, left, and his Economy Minister, Gerardo Ruiz, speaks at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. Calderon is proposing $4.4 billion in emergency spending next year to boost growth and jobs despite the world financial crisis. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Mr Calderon's plan boosts spending on roads, schools and houses.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has announced plans for $4.3bn (£2.5bn) in emergency spending on infrastructure to help Mexico amid world financial woes.

In a televised address, Mr Calderon warned that Mexico faced a fall in exports, investment and remittances as a result of the US economic slowdown.

Mexico and Brazil, Latin America's biggest economies, have also acted to prop up their falling currencies.

Their central banks auctioned dollars from their reserves on Wednesday.

It was the first time in five years that Brazil had taken such a step and came after a slump in the real's value.

The Mexican central bank moved to auction off $2.5bn after the peso fell to a record low of 14 against the US dollar.

Speaking later, President Calderon insisted that Mexico's banks were solid despite the global economic crisis.

But it was clear that the slowdown in the US and elsewhere would have repercussions in Mexico, including a decline in demand for Mexican exports, less investment and fewer tourists, he said.

"At the same time, many migrants who send money from the US to their families, either now have no job or are afraid of losing it, which suggests there will be less in remittances sent to Mexico," Mr Calderon said.

The spending plan, which needs to be approved by the Mexican Congress, was "not a financial rescue but will focus on strengthening the motors of our economy," he said.

The emergency spending proposals include:

• stepping up public spending, especially on infrastructure including roads, schools, houses and prisons
• the construction of a new oil refinery
• a programme of help for small and medium-sized businesses

Mexico's economy, long dependent on the US, had dealt relatively well with the global credit crunch but the fall in the peso has signalled that the country is now facing a difficult time, analysts say.

Bad News for Anglers and Game Fish in

Mexico
Pete Thomas - LATimes
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Dorado such as this large specimen landed by Matt Miller off Cabo San Lucas are a prime target for longliners, even though they're supposedly off-limits to commercial fishermen. (Pete Thomas/Los Angeles Times)

Outposts has learned that Mexico has amended its controversial shark-fishing regulation (NOM-029) to allow a 30% rate of incidental bycatch to commercial longliners holding shark permits.

What does this mean to anglers who enjoy traveling to destinations such as Cabo San Lucas and Baja California’s East Cape region?

An increasingly diminished fishery, over time, for glamor species such as dorado and marlin.

That’s right. This is unsettling news for everyone but the longliners who, with their miles of baited hooks, are now allowed to keep and sell species reserved for sportfishing under a separate law.

Sportfishing interests and conservation groups were aware of the push for such an amendment. But it was published into law, quietly, last Friday, catching opponents by surprise.

"This is disastrous. We have complete and utter disorder in our Mexican fisheries," complained Minerva Saenz, who presides over the sportfishing association in Los Cabos.

The longliners had already gained inroads into coastal waters, with various restrictions, under NOM-029. Now they’ve been given a stamp of approval to target the more lucrative species.

(Only the naive believe the longliners are even after sharks, or that they'll adhere to a 30% bycatch rate, which they’re being asked to monitor in their log books.)

And to think just last week there was positive news. Baja California Sur authorities seized two longline vessels in Magdalena Bay. On board were 10-12 tons of dorado, also known as mahi-mahi.

But this is a federal fisheries issue and CONAPESCA, Mexico's fisheries agency, for no sensible reason, continues to side with the commercial fishing industry.

Said Mike McGettigan, founder of the Portland, Ore.-based conservation group SeaWatch: "It's the most absurd legislation you've ever seen, but it flies in Mexico."

From a conservation standpoint, it's a step backward into a mountain of manure, to be sure, serving as proof that a powerful lobby, up against a loosely-organized opposition, can get what it wants if it tries long and hard enough.

The fight is not over. A major campaign to overturn NOM-029 is being mounted. But another battle has been lost by opponents of the regulation, and it's clear who enjoys the upper hand. Outposts will publish developments as warranted.

Mexico-Related Books to Read this October
Ed Hutmacher - MexicoBookClub.com

For more information on these or other books with Mexico-related themes, please visit MexicoBookClub.com.

October is a good month to finish off the lighthearted fare we feasted on through the summer and start getting ready for more serious fodder in the months ahead.

Here’s a handful of good reads recommended by MexicoBookClub.com that should satisfy anyone’s appetite — a few to help while away the hours and a couple that will make you sit up and think, all of them by authors eager to share a thing or two about Mexicanidad.

First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century (Author: David Lida; Riverhead Books; 2008) This is a wildly informative exposé on Mexico City by transplanted New Yorker David Lida who has made the heaving capital his adopted hometown the last fifteen years. Much of what Lida reveals about the sprawling megatropolis could easily serve as a macrocosm for all of Mexico, but for hungry readers wanting a real taste of Mexico City itself, skip the slap-up meals the mainstream travel guides churn out and sink your teeth into First Stop in the New World. With journalistic objectivity and genuine fascination, Lida dishes out nitty-gritty, eye-opening vignettes that chronicle the best and worst of the biggest, most complex city in the world.

¡Caramba! (Author: Maria Martínez; Anchor Books; 2005) The title of this rollicking tome just about sums up the adventures of Martínez's six motley characters careening around the make-believe border town of Lava Landing, California (a kind of Twin Peaks meets Peyton Place locale). Our heroines, Natalie and Consuelo, are two Mexican-American chicas who set off on, well, a mission from God: they head for Mexico on a quest to rescue Consuelo's dead father from purgatory, where he has been forced to serve the ultimate penance—learning English as recompense for his multiple sins. Sound zany? It is, and wonderfully so. In one fell swoop, Martinez’s debut novel mixes magical realism, pop culture, oddball humor and picaresque experiences into a Thelma-and-Louis-in-Mexico telenovella. This is fun chica-lit you'll enjoy.

Return to the Same City (Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II; Poisoned Pen Press; 2005) If you've never read any of Taibo's books featuring the roguish, one-eyed existentialist, Mexico City gumshoe Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, then you're in for a treat. In past episodes, Belascoarán has been shot, knifed, beaten up, slashed and killed – then brought back to life in Return to the Same City, the fifth in Taibo's series of detective novels. Here the resurrected private eye is hot on the trail of a notorious man called Estrella who leads Belascoarán on a wild and dangerous goose chase, from Mexico City (where mysterious characters easily blend in) to Acapulco (where the C.I.A. muscles in) to Tijuana (where a mariachi band serenades with bullets). In many ways, Taibo's Belascoarán is like a tour guide escorting readers through the mysterious, shadowy corners of Mexico's underworld.

Ask A Mexican (Author: Gustavo Arellano; Scribner; 2007) A hilarious and instructive look at Mexican-American culture by Gustavo Arellano who answers serious, curious and often irreverent questions about Mexicans. Culled from Arellano's popular syndicated column, the blunt questions and candid answers serve up plenty of give-and-take pontificating: the questions—some addressing Mexicans as 'greasers' and 'beaners'—pull no punches, and are met with equally in-your-face slapdowns by Arellano. Anglo Americans won't always agree with his spicy opinions, but we would be fools not to heed them. The book is, after all, a Mexican's point of view, and Arellano knows how to make his case with enough conciliating wit to make the word gabacho sound outright endearing to even the most fogeyish gringo.

Guacamole Dip: From Baja — tales of love, faith, and magic (Author: Daniel Reveles; Sunbelt Publications; 2008) Tecate isn’t only the name of a popular Mexican beer; it's also a real town, just a stone's throw south of the California-Mexico border. But experienced through the stories of Daniel Reveles, you'd think the Baja puebla is a hundred miles deep into the heart of Mexico. Reveles has a knack for making everyday life speak louder about Mexican culture than any textbook, though the seven short stories in Guacamole Dip (his fourth book of tales from Tecate) could comfortably fit in any sociology or anthropology classroom. The sometimes magical but always fascinating characters this time around include a private investigator, a benevolent witch, a matronly shopkeeper and a doughnut maker, to name a few. Each of them has a humorous or poignant story and through Reveles' masterful retelling, their tales are sure to deliver the smiles or tears fans have learned to expect.

Ed Hutmacher is Editor in Chief of MexicoBookClub.com. For more information on these or other books with Mexico-related themes, please visit the website.

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