Sunday, June 23, 2013

[News Boquete] Fwd: Tuesday Meeting- Gardening in Panama



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

If you cannot read this email or wish to check for updates bookmark this LINK

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

Jun 25: Carla Black will speak. A few thoughts on starting a new garden in a new climate.

When we arrived in Panama all of us were enchanted by the year-round green landscape. Many of us feel inspired to surround ourselves with our private garden paradise. But gardening is different here! Or maybe you're contemplating your first garden ever.

I'll touch on a handful of gardening topics related to enjoying gardening in our adopted home.

July 2 :Open

July 9: July New comers meeting, discussing some of unique foods available in Boquete Markets and some ideas of how to use them. Let's talk Chowtreking!

July  16 No Meeting

July 23 No meeting

July 30: No Meeting preparations for Proof

August 6

August 13

August 20

August 27

Sept 10

Sept 17

Sept 24

Oct 1

Oct 8

October 15: No Meeting preparations for El Grande CocaCola

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.

Blood Donor Information
Mary Lynah 6641-1393
Johnnie Fernandez 6825-2171
Andrea Moss 6665-5398

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  You can also request additional information or make a donation through Irene, at the book sale counter.

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