Thursday, December 31, 2015

[News Boquete] Yard sale cancelled


Sorry folks, but we are canceling our yard sale for this Saturday (at the Whipple's). Some friends have bought most of our items, so we don't want you to make the trip to our house and be disappointed. There are still some things available, so please shoot me an email and I will provide you with a list. 

Thanks for your understanding. 

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[News Boquete] 3 black Labs need homes

Three Black Labradors are in need of a loving home. They are around 4 to 5 years old and healthy. They are neutered. Very well behaved and sweet with different personalities. If you would like to arrange to see them to see which one would be suitable for your family, please let me know.

If you are nervous about making a commitment before you introduce them to your home,  I can arrange a one, two or three day trial. I will come with the dog to your home to get them settled and aware of the new surroundings. If this does not work out then I will re-home.

Please contact me at ganstey1@gmail.com

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[News Boquete] THE REDHEAD IS BACK IN TOWN!



-----Original Message-----
From: Clare Taylor <clare@tab-lowcountry.com>
To: 'Penny Barrett' <pjbarrett@aol.com>
Cc: 'Penny Ripple' <chiriquiwoman@gmail.com>; 'Jim Wasson' <jwasson@pilartrading.com>
Sent: Thu, Dec 31, 2015 3:26 pm
Subject: THE REDHEAD IS BACK IN TOWN!

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[News Boquete] Xmas Children Party.


Club Rotario de Boquete and Miguel Castilllo are all set to go with the
CHILDREN CHRISTMAS PARTY ON DECEMBER 31, today!

People stats gathering at around 3:00/3:30 pm.

We will have a goodie bag ( fruit, cookies, candy and chocolate ) and a sandwich for every child who comes to see Santa. And there will be toys for children ages 1-8 years old.

We hope that " TIA BELL" will surprise the children.
Every year she has been part of this event painting children faces, making cute animals with balloons and just giving so much fun to these children.

The event will take place on the street behind the newly build Boquete Market. This is the big building diagonal to Romero Supermarket.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO DONATED TOYS/MONEY TO MAKE THIS EVENT POSIBLE.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
-Gwen, our wonderful "helper" who took it upon herself to collect toys/$.
-Art Cafe for their cash donation.

And to all the " anonymous " people who came to the Tuesday Market with toys donations and money.

HOPE TO SEE MANY OF YOU THERE.

And, stay tune, Club Rotario de Boquete is, has been and will continue working for our community.
We will have more good news in 2016.

WE WISH EVERYONE A HEALTHY, HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2016

CLUB ROTARIO DE BOQUETE.

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[News Boquete] HUGE Multi Family Yard Sale January 16


HUGE

 

Saturday January 16

From 9am to 3pm

At the Amigos De Animales Building in Alto Boquete           

(across from Super Centro Ivan's)                                    

 

No Early Birds!

 

Housewares, clothing, electronics, furniture, appliances and much more!

 

Don't miss it! 

 

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[News Boquete] Happy New Year




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[News Boquete] The Tuesday Presentation -- video link to last Tuesday's

BCP has had several requests to publish last Tuesday's meeting presented by Darrell Eash and entitled "Camels and Chameleons -- Which Are You?"

The meeting room was almost completely full and there were rave reviews for Darrell's presentation.

Here's an opportunity to remind the community that BCP tries to present an educational, informative, and entertaining speaker every week. If you have not yet purchased your annual membership to BCP, please stop at the table outside the theater door next Tuesday and ask the ladies about it.

Here's the link:
http://prezi.com/fux24aj_eioe/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

[News Boquete] Finca Tangara Vivero and Landscape Consulting


December 30, 2015

To: the Boquete Community

From: Peter Sterling, Finca Tangara.

This is a reminder that our vivero is again offering various trees, shrubs, and perennial flowers for various objectives: ground cover, windbreak, decoration, reforestation, to attract birds and butterflies. We have limited quantities and lack many interesting plants, but at a customer's request, we will find seeds or cuttings. We also offer landscape consulting and pruning lessons – we will visit your site. 

     As in 2015, all proceeds are donations to the Biblioteca de Boquete – to build its endowment fund.

We await your inquiries or orders:

psterlin@gmail.com; 6652-2763

For photos google the scientific name (where given) or consult https://ctfs.arnarb.harvard.edu/webatlas/findinfo.php?specid=5833&leng=english. This Smithsonian atlas is very helpful for identifying by local names, leaf patterns, seeds, etc.

Windbreak

corpuchí. Fast growing, bushy when pruned; unobtrusive flowers and fruit in dry season attract birds (e.g tanagers, parakeets).

 

cipré. (cyprus). Handsome, dense foliage, easily topped to maintain density. Fairly rapid growth.

 

pine. Rapid growth, gets very tall; good shade and aroma, but not much for birds.

 

eucalyptus pintado (Eucalyptus deglupta). Rainbow-colored bark, straight and tall trunk, branching high, grows fast.

 

 

Cover crop

velvet bean (Macuna pruriens) -- legume cover crop for restoring exhausted soil and protecting hillsides against erosion. Good forage for cattle and goats.  Seeds are available.  

 

Reforestation/landscaping/attract birds

roble (Tabebuia rosea). Heart-stopping pink or white blooms that last a month or more Dec-May. Handsome arbor with heart-shaped leaves.  If topped when young, it grows like a candelabra.

 

guayacan (Tabebuia ochracea). Beautiful form (similar to roble), brilliant yellow blooms March. (grows in Palmira ~ 1100m/3300ft). Lowland species (T. guayacan) is similar.

 

orchid tree (Bauhinia variagata). Legume. Smallish tree; white or purple-pink flowers remininscent of orchids. Flowers all through dry season into rains.

 

macano (Diphysa americana). Legume Deeply furrowed, rough bark. Brilliant yellow, pea-like blossoms December-January. Hard wood. Legume, so good for soil. Used for living fence as well as reforestation.

 

palo machete (Erythrina lanceolata). Legume. Clusters of scarlet, machete-shaped flowers, heart-shaped leaves. Seed pods gnarled and twisted with red beans inside.  Used for living fences and as coffee shade and nitrogen fixer (legume).  Birds eat the flowers and pierce them for nectar.

 

poró (Erythrina poeppigiana). Legume. Spectactular orange flowers  November-March.  Tanagers, orioles. Legume good for coffee shade; improve soil by fixing nitrogen. Large stands bloom in the hills above Boquete. Look upward!

 

The Erythrinas not only fix nitrogen, but produce a rich leaf litter and make great animal fodder.

 

african tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata , flame of the forest, llama del bosque). Gorgeous scarlet flowers year round, grows fast; soft wood. May be invasive along the Canal, but no evidence of spreading in Chiriqui.

 

yellow trumpet flower (Tecoma stans). Beautiful blooms + fruit beloved by birds. Grows fast, can get fairly large, but can be controlled by pruning.

 

Macrocnemum roseum – bright pink flowers; trunk with interesting fluted growth pattern.

 

corotú (Enterolobium cyclocarpum). Spectacular spreading branches (most beautiful specimens along the Interamerican), but grows well in Palmira. Beautiful dark green foliage; seed pods resembling human ears; legume.

 

guabo (Inga).  Several species. Legume used for coffee shade and nitrogen fixing.  Flowers Jan-April. On our farm flowers attract orioles, honey creepers, humming birds, tanagers.  Attractive, spreading canopy and thick foliage.  Grows fast.

 

nance (Byrsonima crassifolia). Gracefully branched with flat canopy (reminiscent of African savanna).  Orange-yellow flowers March-June. Does well in old pasture with poor soil. Fruit eaten locally.  

 

cedro amargo (Cedrela odorata). Attractive, shiny foliage; fine wood used for cabinetry and furniture.  

 

mameicillo (Quercus xx) . Grows huge from gigantic acorns. Flourishes at 1000m and above.  Some very old, magnificent specimens along Pipeline and Quetzal trails.

 

mata hombro (Cornus disciflora). Tall, handsome; dogwood family; quetzals eat the fruit. Flourishes at 1000m and above. Fast growing.   

 

Lauracea (avocado and relatives)

sigua (Nectandra cuspidata) – grows well around 1000+meters (Boquete and Palmira). Clusters of pale flowers (late Jan-February); then small, avocado-like fruit beloved by numerous tanagers, parakeets, etc. 

 

aguacatillo (Bielschmiedia pendula). Grows along the Pipeline Trail, Culebra Trail, and Quetzal Trail in Bajo Mono. Above 1500 meters.  Favorite food of quetzals and other trogons.  Fruiting heavily at 1800meters in March. If you live high in Jaramillo, Palo Alto, Alto Quiel, it's a must. 

 

Bambito ( ) – same family, larger fruit. Cultivated at Quetzales Lodge and Cerro Punta.  

 

guarumo (Cecropia obtusifolia). First to establish itself as second growth, does fine in poor soil.  Trunk ringed with leaf-scars, branching and leaving at top, with dangling, spaghetti-like flowers in canopy.  Feeds birds, sloths, howler monkeys. At first sight can be confused with papaya.  A signature "tropical" tree.  Grows fast, soft wood.

 

guava (in Spanish, guayava).  Small tree, native to Central America. Fruit great for jelly and sauces if you pick it before larval infestation. Most appeal is for its shapely form and patterned bark. Often parasitized by mata palo, fatally so unless care is taken to remove it.

 

jamaican nettle (Trema micrantha). Fast growing, short-lived "pioneer" tree; good for birds. Grows well above 1000m. Good for reforestation of old pasture because grows fast, improves soil conditions, then gives way to longer lived trees interplanted[PS1] .

 

Decorative flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies

butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica). A tropical milkweed. Grows perennially and self-seeds, spreading but not aggressive.  Attracts monarch butterflies whose handsome larvae feed on the leaves.

 

lantana (Lantana camara). Flower nearly indistinguishable from milkweed, but plant has square stems. Blooms perennially. Butterflies and hummers.

 

porterweed, verbena (Stachytarpheta franztsii). Perenial, blooms year round, attracts butterflies and hummers.

 

DO NOT plant the local morning glory. Beautiful but powerfully invasive.

 

Decorative shrubs

powderpuff (Calliandra haematocephala). Handsome shrub with ever-blooming bright red, puffy blossoms. Hummers.

 

coral bush (Jatropha multifida). Handsome shrub with red blooms that take the form of coral.  Easily grown.

 

marmalade bush, sombrero chino (Streptosolen jamesonii). Brilliant orange flowers for hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. Ever-blooming, grows all over Boquete.

 

golden dew drop (Duranta erecta). Green leaves with purple flowers, green leaves with white flowers, varigated leaves with purple flowers - all with yellow berries. Hummingbirds like the flowers, other birds like the fruit.

 

fire bush, zorillo real (Hamelia patens). Shrub to treelet (can be pruned back). Red-orange tubular flowers. Hummers like the flowers, tanagers,etc like the fruit.  In habits sunny forest gaps or disturbed ground; excellent for native-species landscaping.

 

Fruit

Navel orange (Washington)

Valencia

Sour orange (naranja agria, Citrus aurantium)

Avocado (mantequilla)

Uchuva (cape gooseberry). tart/sweet yellow fruit; looks like cherry tomato

 

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[News Boquete] BCP Monthly Membership Meeting

BCP Monthly Membership Meeting

Friday, January 8
2:30PM - 4:00PM
BCP Hex Room

All are welcome. BCP members, members of the community, visitors. Join us at the BCP Monthly mmebership Meeting on Friday, January 8

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[News Boquete] ZUMBA SUMMER FEST 2016


 
 


HELLO ZUMBALOVERS!!! FITNESS ADDICTS!!!
WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US TO SWEET AND DANCE
 "ZUMBA SUMMER FEST" 
IN DAVID, AT LA BIRRIA (FUTBOLL FIELD TURF) AT 6 PM T0 9 PM
WE WILL HAVE TO AMAZING CLASESS:
ZUMBA KIDS AND ZUMBA FITNESS
WHO WILL BE TEACHING: FROM DAVID, GINA WONG AND LINETH HERNANDEZ
AND FROM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JAVIER ALVAREZ
COME AND ENJOY THE PARTY!!!!
INFOS:  giarobic@hotmail.com
 

Gina Wong

Fitness Professional

6437-0565

facebook: CORPO Studio by Gina Wong

giarobic@hotmail.com

 

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[News Boquete] Happy New Year From the Library



Opening Hours
Boquete Library

Thursday, December 31th
Open from 9:30 am to 12:30 am

Friday, December 1st Closed

Saturday, December 2nd Closed






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[News Boquete] Team Trivia Menu Change


We have been unable to find enough top grade ham for 80 people so we have had to change our menu for January 5th.

Homemade turkey pot pie
Cesar salad
Peach Cobbler
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Nancy
cell  6857-9536
Boquete, Panama

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

[News Boquete] HOW DO I DONATE TO ALTO AL CRIMEN?


There have been several enthusiastic responses to the announcement of Franc Lugo as our new AAC Hotline operator, both by email and in person.  Perhaps the most common question we have received is, "How do I make my donation to Alto al Crimen?"

You can leave cash or a check payable to "FUNDACION ALTO AL CRIMEN" with David van Harn at his Alto al Crimen table (where he sells beautiful wood turnings).  It's on the north side patio at the Tuesday Market.  You can also put a check into an envelope labeled "ALTO AL CRIMEN" and leave it at Mail Boxes, Etc.  You can deposit a check to the AAC checking account at San Francisco Plaza, using account number  850054030.  Finally, you can make an online ACH account-to-account transfer from most banks to Scotia Bank, using the same account number.

To be sure that we know who made the donation, please write your name (and residence ID number, if any) on envelopes and checks.  In the cases of deposits of cash, checks or ACH transfers directly to Scotia Bank, send us an email to studiotomaspanama@gmail.com with your name and resident ID number (if any) to let us know you made the deposit.

If you are already registered and have a residence ID but have not made a contribution in a year or more, please make a donation of $20 or more now.  If you use a calendar on your computer, phone, iPad, etc.  make an annual reminder entry so that you won't forget your donations.  The AAC Hotline is sort of like an insurance policy---you fund it and hope you don't need it.

If you are not yet registered for the AAC Hotline, go to altoalcrimen.info, click the big red rectangle on the right side of the opening page and register online.  Then you can donate to David van Harn or in one of the other ways.  Net registrants should include a $10 one-time donation for the resident ID plaque.  Your plaque will then be available later at Mail Boxes, Etc. or from David van Harn at the Tuesday Market.

Bob Gregory
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