Tuesday Community Meeting

Reply To:	Lee Zeltzer <lee.zeltzer@gmail.com>

ALMOST EVERY TUESDAY 10:30am to Noon

 Used Book Sale & Farmers Market 9 am to 12 noon

To become a Vendor, call Daneisa Vergara 6918-1651

 or Email BCP Theater Manager

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WHERE: BCP Theater & Event Center, Across Feria Bridge from Downtown Boquete, on the right.

To suggest a speaker , Email the Moderator

COST: $1.00 to cover the room rental, collected at the door to the theater.

MAIL TO USA: If anyone is going to the U.S. this week, please pick up stamped mail from Irene at the Used Book Table or, contact her at 720-4880. If you have mail to go to the U.S., please give it to Irene at the Used Book Table.

This Week   From cacao to chocolate:  Ever wonder where chocolate comes from? Found throughout Panama, the large colorful cacao fruit contains the seeds from which chocolate is made. Drawing from her experience working with cacao farmers in the province of Bocas del Toro, Peace Corps Agroforesty volunteer Elsie McIver will cover topics such as the harvesting, fermentation and drying of cacao, chocolate making, cultural traditions and  health benefits of  this extraordinary fruit.

There will be no speakers from December 20 – Jan 3. We will start again January 10th.

January 10: Mort Rabkin will give us a lesson on baking bread. The Rye guy is going to share the how to make an excellent healthy loaf.

January 17: Thomas McCormack the man responsible for delivering containers of medical goods to Chiriqui is going to speak to us about  the customs and culture of Chiricanos and a little about how and his my foundation was started.

January 24 :  This is special meeting and due to the subject matter probably of interest only to those who pay US taxes, or should pay them. It will be a long meeting at least 90 minutes so come prepared.

UPDATE FROM AN IRS VETERAN: We have all heard about the new IRS reporting rules set to go into effect for the 2011 tax year. How will it affect the way we conduct our financial affairs? What is the impact on reporting foreign real estate holdings? What can we expect in terms of increased IRS enforcement? Steve Mopsick is a former IRS manager and senior IRS attorney with 41 years of experience inside and outside the government.  His private practice focuses on offshore compliance, IRS problem solving and he has spent the past two years assisting more than fifty American families with a wide variety voluntary disclosures  and other tax matters. Steve will give us an update on the new law and will be available to consult for free with anyone who would like to stay after the meeting.

 Jan 31: Dimetrio Javier Diaz of ABoquete a local innovator will discuss the organic food production and pest control  Dimetreo was a recent nominee for a prize as one of the leading innovators in Latin America. His efforts are right here in Boquete and will have impact on our food chain.

February  :  Gilberto Barria Vallarino  : A presentation designed to give you a taste of the potential of methods that enhance body awareness  to reduce or eliminate pain.  The methods used at BodyMind Dojo by Gilberto, have been used successfully by scores of Boquete residents over the past four years. Gilberto trained for six years in NYC with Ilana Rubenfeld who introduced him to the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique and her own integration of these two methods:  Rubenfeld Synergy.

March is Tourism month and I am looking for speakers on what to do in Boquete if you are not a couch potato

Important Boquete Contacts

IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS
Alto al Crimen
Emergency Service number
6477-6662
English and Spanish spoken
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Other emergency numbers:
Boquete Police: 720-2145, 720-1222
Cell phone in Police car: 6885-5829
Boquete BOMBEROS (Fire Dept): 720-1224
Note: Spanish speaking only. Learn how to describe your location in Spanish.

Boquete Hospice and Health Support
Hospice hotline 6781-9250
Website – BoqueteHospice
Helping the terminally and seriously ill with Health Support.

Buenos Vecinos de Boquete
Buenos Vecinos de Boquete is a small group of volunteers who deliver food supplies to the handicapped and elderly on a monthly basis. You can make donations at the Tuesday meeting. For more information, see Irene at the meeting.

Bid 4 Boquete  

Visit at www.bid4boquete.com This organization is Boquete's equivilent of the United Way. One donation for many causes. Bid4Boquete can use volunteers as much as money.

Used Book Sales
Well over 350 used books DVDs and CDs for sale and U.S. stamps
for your mail. All proceeds from the book sales are equally divided between Handicap Foundation of Boquete, Buenos Vecinos and Carolina Alvarez Concepcion who is blind. Now also selling Milagros Pinzon's book about Boquete for $5.00 and Stanley Heckadon-Noreno's book "Naturalists on the Isthmus of Panama" for $15.00. Donations of books, Cds, DVDs, magazines and jigsaw puzzles will be gratefully received.

Amigos de los Animales, the group that sterilizes, provides feeding stations and supports the rescue and adoption of dogs and cats is always looking for dog and cat food and monetary donations for medicines as well as clinics.  See Carole, Cat, or Heather at the "animales" booth near the auditorium door for your donations.  Do a good deed and foster or adopt a rescued animal.  Check our web site for more information.  www.fadab.org   Click on the Adopt Me button to see the wonderful animals available.

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