Tuesday Community Meeting

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

ALMOST EVERY TUESDAY 10:30 am to Noon

 Used Book Sale & Farmers Market 9 am to 12 noon

To become a Vendor  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:

February 14: Volunteerism Valentines Day is a great day to discuss love and giving. We are going to have a round table discussion with members of some of the more active local NGO's who are making Boquete a better place for all. This meeting will be about volunteerism and how you can get involved. Speakers and groups involved will include, Steve Bliss, representing both Contextual Solutions and Boquete Red Cross, Susan Peterson, representing  the handicap foundation (Fundacion Pro Integracion), Louise Orr, Buenos Vencinos, Dottie (the generous)  from Amigos De Animales, Panny Barrett Bid4Boquete

February 21:  Scott Yates will be speaking about the use of treated bamboo as a sustainable building product. Guadua bamboo, one of the top 10 bamboo species used in construction in the world, grows well and is native to Panama. There are some very interesting facts about bamboo, .and construction techniques for its use. Scott will discuss the use of more environmentally sustainable and less expensive building techniques using low energy embodied materials that are available in Chiriqui. There should be some great photos of local and world-wide bamboo projects.

February 28:  A Special Presentation by Prof Peter Bormann, visiting from Germany. Thank you to Beth Allen and Anayansi for arranging this opportunity to hear from a professional about Volcanos in Central America.  The topic is Nicaragua and it's Volcanoes,  also touching the devastating earthquake of 1972 and the tsunami of 1992, both phenomena closely related to the causes of volcanic activity. Panama has been shaped by the same processes and according to to the USGS Baru is just taking a nap.

March 6:  Briant Dominici will visit from Panama City. He is a biologist and will have a visual presentation called  , Panama Starts with a "P" as in Paradise...  things to do in Panama, ecology related.  About Panama in general, not specifically around Boquete.

March 13: "Organic Gardening in the Tropics".  The presenter is Justin Seeley who is a consultant with Finca Santa Marta.  He and his friend, Jenny have considerable experience farming organically in the tropics and will share some of what they have learned including the why, the how and the importance of making good compost.

March 20: Prof Bormann will return to discuss going beyond our planet Earth, through our solar system and far beyond into our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and even further into the Cosmos consisting of myriades of other milky ways. This talk which will give you a feeling of the awesome beauty and grandeur of the cosmos, of the forces of never ending creation, of the "Where" we come from and will go to, about the tremendous dimensions in space and time surrounding us "one-day flies" on the little but outstandingly beautiful, precious and unique little planet Earth whom we should care for.

March 27: Ursula Kiener Ford will visit to give us a Panama Tourism update. More details later.

April 10:  John Cole will talk about what it was like for a non-actor to get a speaking role in a major motion picture; Moneyball. He will talk about how someone goes from a member of a technical advising committee for the film to a role on the screen. He was a baseball scout for 25 years and plays the role of a scout in the film. A unique feature of the film is that scouts play the role of scouts wherever possible. A number of his baseball compatriots are in the film as well.  He will have a DVD of the film there and will  show the scene and explain how it was done. .

June 19: Carla Black : Heliconias in general, their natural history, adventures in their habitat, as well as care in the garden.

 

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:

Blood donors:  Mary Lynah at 6533-0967 or Clare Edmonds at 6887-6063
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.

Handicap Foundation of Boquete /Fundación Pro Integración, Capítulo de  Boquete,  is a nonprofit organization run by volunteers whose mission is to improve the quality of financially-challenged handicapped residents of the Boquete District and promote their integration into society.  For additional information visit our website http://funproinboquete.vpweb.com/  You can also request additional information or make a donation through Irene, at the book sale counter.

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