[News Boquete] Tuesday Meeting

TUESDAY at the BCP Event Center

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 except for commercial meetings which have no cover charge. The vendor pays the BCP for the time and space.

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.

Boquete Residents: Please vote on the current Boquete Guide Poll. It is on the BoqueteGuide.com on the right column under the ads.

This Week

Mar 26   John Cole will do a rerun of his presentation on Moneyball since it now showing on television here.

Starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, Moneyball is the story of Billy Beane, longtime General Manager of the Oakland A's in 2002-03. From a book by Michael Lewis, the film follows the historical happenings during and after a successful season and how the club had to retool after several free agents left for other teams. Many of the baseball scenes were populated with actual baseball scouts. In a flash back sequence Billy remembers when he signs with the NY Mets as an 18 yr old high school graduate. The baseball scouts in this flashback were Tom Gamboa and myself. All our lines and the lines of most scouts in various baseball related scenes, were ab lib. There was no script provided because the writers did not know what to say and left the scouts to their own devices.

This will be a behind the scenes look of how baseball scouts populated the process and how John Cole started as a technical advisor and moved to a speaking role in this film. We will look at how movies are made, the tremendous number of support people it takes in the process and how a number of baseball scouts like myself tried not to get stepped on in the process

April 2:  Ning a seminar. Boquete Ning is a powerful tool for information and communication in and about Boquete and the region. This seminar will be about how to use Boquete Ning effectively.

April 9:  No Meeting, preparations for Rabbit Hole the Play

April 16: Crime Prevention & Personal Safety Update :Mark Heyer will be addressing some of the recent criminal activity in the Boquete area, review personal home & safety measures and discuss the current status and future plans for Alto al Crimen.  

Bid4Boquete presentation of Checks to local charities 

If you cannot attend this presentation, we recommend you review the articles on home and personal safety in the Alto al Crimen-Boquete Crime Prevention   Please contact Alto al Crimen with any questions.

April 23:  Jorge Barraza Osorio, Criminal defense lawyer. Sr. Barraza is a specialist in criminal law and was the lawyer who was able to have Mr. Mcgraw, the shooter in an incident in Puerto Armulles released after a jury convicted him of murder. Bring all your questions about criminal law in Panama.

April 30: A New comers meeting, a question and answer about life in Boquete. I will select a focus topic based upon requests prior to the meeting.

May 7:  World Wide Medical will be speaking, no door charge.

May 14

May  21: No Meeting preparations for Bench Warmers

May 28

Jun 4

Jun 11

Jun 18

Jun 25

July 30: No Meeting preparations  for Proof

October 15: No Meeting preparations for Hank Williams: Lost Highway

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 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 Animales de Boquete (FADAB) provides spay/neuter clinics on the last Sunday of each month on the same street at Mike's Global Grill.  In addition, FADAB provides feeding stations around town and supports the rescue and adoption efforts for area homeless dogs and cats.  Donations for the large monthly expense of these projects are welcome and very much appreciated!  See us at www.fadab.org.  Click on the Adoptions button to find unconditional love.

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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