[News Boquete] Announcement about ACCBoquete managing the Boquete Community Players theater.

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Subject:	RE: Announcement about ACCBoquete managing the Boquete Community Players theater.
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:29:43 +0000
From:	Linda Hart <lhart249@hotmail.com>
To:	Penny Barrett <news.boquete@gmail.com>

It is with great honor to announce that ACCBoquete (ACCB) has leased the BCP (Boquete Community Playhouse) theater and lobby area from Tap Out restaurant effective November 1, 2020.   Knowing our dedication to Boquete, ACCB was approached by TapOut to see if we had any interest in continuing a 12+ year tradition, the Tuesday Talks, etc.  to the community of Boquete.   The Boquete Community Playhouse (BCP) was created from a lot of sweat, hard work and money of a group of dedicated people.

The newly named BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) did not commit to more than 3 or 4 plays/musicals during 2021.  However, TapOut owners are committed to paying for this under-roof area to the owner of the building.  As restaurant owners, they were looking for a group to take over managing this part of the building to help them cover their monthly rent to the building owner. In April, ACCB was approached by TapOut and a short time later, ACCB saw this as an opportunity to carry on a tradition and accepted the opportunity. BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) has graciously allowed us to use the theater equipment and assist in operating the electronic equipment for the movies, etc.

ACCB's lease with TapOut allows BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) to host their 3 or 4 plays and musicals during the year at their discretion and the remaining time ACCB will manage the Tuesday Talks, Sunday movies, Dinner theaters and renting it to local groups to hold their meetings, and other activities. We can't allow an icon of Boquete to sit dormant in between plays and musicals.

If anyone has ideas on uses of the theater, we are up for suggestions. Please contact Bill Hurley @ 6622-3778.

WHO IS ACCB? For those that are not acquainted with us, ACCB is a Panamanian non-profit Association, (Res. 02-PJ-02-2018). ACCB  membership is made up of 50+ Americans and Spanish people. In English our name is "Association of Community Charity of Boquete," and in Spanish it is "Asociation Cardad de la Communidad de Boquete," but we go by the abbreviation, ACCB.

ACCB was started about 10 years ago and was called IPA. It was started by a group of police officers who retired here from the states. The organization was to support and assist Boquete First Responders, Police, Fire and EMT's. Later the IPA began to expand to include aiding and assisting the Boquete community as a whole and also other local associations. After the expansion, we changed our name to ACCBoquete and formed a not-for-profit Association in Panama.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE: Over the years we have hosted 9 annual Christmas dinners collecting over 1000 wrapped gifts for the needy local children in Boquete. A 100% of donations of gifts and money collected in Boquete are distributed throughout Boquete's needy families and support to other Boquete charities. We take pride in supporting other Boquete charitable groups to help them achieve their goals.  This is only a fraction of the things we have done.

ACCB also worked with the Recycle Group in Boquete, financially and physically, to clean up the environment of Boquete and educate the children in local schools of the importance of recycling.

ACCB has donated money towards childrens back-to-school supplies and donated personal care items to the local abused or pregnant young girls in Boquete through San Juan Baptista Catholic Church.

ACCB has repaired multiple vehicles for the police to get their cars back on the road to protect Boquete. We have purchased appliances for the police who are required to live in the police station while on duty for 12 days at a time. We have provided financial support for fallen officer's families. Just this year we provided financial support to a policeman's family who died from Covid 19.

In 2020 we provided cell phones for local children so they could join their class and not fall behind in their schoolwork since every school is now conducting classes via the internet.

We also contributed to the purchase of a spare battery ($300.00) for Rodny Moreno for his new fully automated wheelchair. Rodny is a young man who is a paraplegic who has a business assisting the Expat community with emergency services of all kinds.

Last year ACCB was asked to take over the Children's Christmas Cookie party for the Boquete Indigenous and Panamanian kids at TapOut and Boquete Community Players theater. In 2019 we had over 300 kids attend. Our members enjoyed it so much that we have decided to make this a annual event. We are in the process of planning another Cookie event on December 19th providing MINSA allows it. In order to be ready we are currently planning on providing a Christmas party for the kids in some form. Anyone interested in helping with this please contact Linda at lhart249@hotmail.com.

ACCB has supported places like the Dog Camp, The Handicap Foundation, Hogar Triska, Esperanza, The Knitter and The Quilters, Buenos Vecinos, La Estrella School, Bricks Ministry, many local ministry groups, and many more with cash donations, gifts and food.

ACCB just purchased $1000. worth of food for the families that have lost nearly everything due to ETA.

ACCB has hosted 3 annual Oktoberfests at the Feria, we host BINGO night at La Posada (to resume on January 6, 2021) and will have our first Sausage Fest in March 2021.  Of course this all depends on MINSA.  

When the opportunity came along for us to have another means of raising money to support our mission, we agreed to manage it with plans to give $2000. more to the ETA Relief families.

The Boquete Community Playhouse is an icon that took a lot of hard work to create and pull together and it needs to remain in operation for the future of Boquete's growing community.

It appears we have offended people by calling the theater the ACCB Theater. This was only for a lack of a better temporary name. The original name BCP (Boquete Community Playhouse) has been changed to BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) which made no reference to the theater at all. With the approval of the original creators, we would like to refer to the theater as "Boquete Community Playhouse" rather than just BCP to eliminate confusion.

Our group, ACCB, like many other charitable groups are working without any compensation. Please help us to help the needy in Boquete with your suggestions, support and contributions.

                                                      Joe Hart

                                            ACCBoquete President

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