UPDATE Panama: October 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Halloween en el Rincón Aleman

HOLA AMIGOS

SOLAMENTE HOY DISFRUTA

EN EL RINCÓN ALEMÁN

CERVEZA SANGRE PAL VAMPIRO

PAULANER SALVATOR 2x1

NO TE LO PIERDAS!

Reservaciones: 2640590 / 6784-6098

[News Boquete] Panama Heroes 2013 Competition

Thank you everyone who voted for Father Adonai in the Panama Heroes 2013 competition. Although he didn't win, he did receive $10,000 which is a great prize and will be truly helpful to his mission work.

If you'd like, click on the links below to see the Father Adonai's video & short speech at the award presentation this past Monday night. Also, you can click on the video of the winner being announced, very exciting and glamorous!

Isn't it great? Good works are happening all around us in our adopted country!

Laurie & Kelly Collier

http://www.tvn-2.com/heroes/videos.asp?id=12779

http://www.tvn-2.com/heroes/

[News Boquete] Special Halloween Dinner at George's Fireside Inn

[News Boquete] Live Music with the Boqats at Amigo's Monster Mash

Halloween Night the Boqats will be performing live at Amigo's Monster Mash with all your favorite oldies of the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's. Featuring Edgar Vargas on guitar, Gary Whiting on bass, Skip Blythe on vocals and Albers Saldana on drums, come dance the night away with songs by Van Morrison, James Taylor, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Wilson Pickett, The Blues Brothers, Allman Brothers, Edgar's Winter Group, and other great artists of the past. Halloween costume party, door prizes, games, spooky food and drink specials guarantee the best party in town. Join us for Amigo's 5th annual monster mash starting at 7pm.

Don't miss the best party in town!!

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

[News Boquete] Halloween at Mike's

[News Boquete] VIC Discount Card provides year round special prices

The Haven VIC Card system is in its 4th year, providing all year round special pricing for our VIC cardholders - facials $27.50 (with Spa naturals that are organic and chemical free), relaxation massage $35.00 (55mins) and acupuncture $36.00

You don't need to wait for special offers as you can enjoy great prices all year round at The Haven so you can have treatments when you want!!

After your treatment you don't have to rush off, you can relax in our tranquility room with a free herbal or green tea and/or fresh lemon water

The exceptions are Christmas Day and New Years Day

Sonia Jones
The Haven Health Spa Hotel

Boquete, Panama

www.boquetespa.com

Tripadvisor -

Hotel 2013 - Certificate of Excellence

Travellers' Choice

Spa 2013 - Certificate of Excellence (separate)

Hotel 2012 - Certificate of Excellence

[News Boquete] Rotary invitation - Join and Serve

Please respond again...

After the following invitation to

investigate the local Rotary Club was

sent out on Monday, I suffered a computer glitch and lost the names

of those who responded. Please write or call again.

[News Boquete] BJBF2014 merchandise now available!

Howdie, all Blues&Jazz lovers in Chiriqui and beyond,

our new, beautiful line of merchandise for the 2014 Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival is now available for purchase at the Boquete Tuesday market and at upcoming pre-festival events. A beautiful new festival tile, baseball caps, coffee mugs, a thermos cup, beer bottle coozies, shopping bags, t-shirts and tank tops (yes ladies, tank tops!!!) are available in various colors, and the prices are generally lower than last year!

At the same places you can also sign up for membership to the BJBF FEDORA CLUB, a very special club for very special people! Get VIP status at the festival and enjoy benefits worth about $100! Check it out here: http://www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com/the-fedora-club.html

Fedora club memberships and festival tickets will also be available for online booking via our website in early November.

You can help us enormously with financing the festival by buying your festival gear, club membership and festival tickets as early as possible!

Only 16 weeks to go to another great Jazz&Blues festival in Boquete! Yeehaaaaw!

Hans-J. Lebuser

webmaster, 6519-7876

webmaster@boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com

www.boquetejazzandbluesfestival.com

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

[News Boquete] Exercise Ball Classes to resume this Friday, November 1st at the Haven.

Come join-in this very Fun and Rewarding Class!

Great for developing greater flexibility, strength, ease of motion, coordination, and balance! And for creating long, lean muscles! Highly appropriate for those on a healing regime and working with back, knee, shoulder and/or hip conditions, or for anyone wanting to "Get in shape and add quality and quantity to his or her life!"

Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, 9:30-10:45 a.m., $6 per class.

All materials- mats, balls, hand-weights & stretchy bands- provided.

Pay as You Go. As they say in the Nike ad- Just Do It!

There's nothing like starting now in the present!

About the Instructor. Susan Clare has been teaching exercise and fitness for 22 years. She is a certified Integrative Yoga Therapist, was a Personal Trainer and a licensed Massage Therapist in the U.S. for 30 years and is presently enrolled in a Pilates Certification Program. Susan is passionate about natural health-care, movement and fitness and loves teaching classes using the ball, believing it totally avails itself as a creative integration of multiple techniques.

Questions? Susan Clare can be emailed at suzeclare@gmail.com

[News Boquete] THE BEST HALLOWEEN PARTY IN CHIRIQUI

LOTS OF CHOICES TO PARTY HALLOWEEN NIGHT

BUT…ONLY ONE PLACE WITH THE LIVE ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC OF B3.

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HALLOWEEN

FOOD – DRINK - & DANCING

WHEN: THURSDAY; OCTOBER 31^ST

TIME: 5:00 PM TO 8:00 PM

WHERE: DELICIAS DEL MAR

(PREVIOUS LAS RUINAS LOCATION / NEW MANAGEMENT)

ACROSS THE HIGHWAY FROM LAS BRISAS

PRIZE FOR BEST COSTUME

[News Boquete] Halloween at La Jungla

JUNGLAWEEN : 3rd Annual

*When: Oct. 31st

*Where: JUNGLA

*Time : KIDS 4:00-6:00

Kids Buffet, Candy Stations, Haunted Hostal, Grave Yard Walk, Costume Contest, ZooBoo

BYOP /Pumpkin Contest, Games !!!!

6:00-8:00 Kids Crafts & Movie in Hostal

*ADULTS Time : 6:00-8:00 while kids do crafts and watch a movie !!!!!

Adult Buffet and Scary Punch

Costumes Please !!!!!

Or Come as Yourself But Please Do Not Scare the Children/ Animals !!!!!!

Please Come and Enjoy A Haunted Fun, Scary GOOD TIME !!!!!

Tickets in advance :

Adults : $5.00 / Kids : $3:00

At The Door :

Adults : $8.00 / Kids: $5.00

SEE EVERYONE AT JUNGLAWEEN !!!!!

Jungla / 69686910

[News Boquete] Still time to be a vendor at the Sunday Flea Market

This Sunday at Chiriquí Storage location (17km marker northbound on the Boquete/David road), just north of the Terpel station separating the road to Potrerillos.

YOU CAN STILL BECOME A VENDOR and join the already 30+ vendors signed up for this Sunday - just email chiriquistorage@gmail.com or call Linda at 6714-2487

Featured this week are lots of people with household items and tools to sell, Cameo wines, maybe a specialist to give you a manicure; in addition the food vendors include Neil from the Branding Iron with pizzas, Ramon and Fanny with special batidas and Mexican style food, Embrey with his Texas BBQ, check this out - SUSHI !!! And Ron Miller with goodies from Finca Santa Marta, THE COOKIE LADY from Volcan, and last but not least PENNY'S FAMOUS HOT DOG STAND (still only $1 for a dog) (Hope I didn't miss any other food vendors - if I did please let me know!)

Gates open to the public 10:30am this Sunday November 3 - don't miss this event - it gains in popularity every month!

Linda

[News Boquete] Fwd: A victory for the community in Volcancito this weekend

The last two months have seen a series of at least four terrifying home invastion robberies in the Alto Boquete and Volcancito areas, in addition to more minor burglaries. As we have observed in past difficult cases, it is often an observant citizen that breaks the case. So it was this weekend.

Most of you know that a violent robbery took place last Thursday night in Volcancito, sending the victim to the hospital, the forth such attack in less than two months. On Friday, Alto al Crimen commissioned a private investigator to follow up. On Saturday, he was working with the police in Volcancito.

At about 1:15PM, the Boquete Hotline operator received a call from a resident reporting suspicious activity at a neighbor's house that was unocupied. He immediately contacted the officers who were working in the area. They arrived at the scene within minutes and observed two men running away from the residence.

A chase ensued, warning shots were fired and the suspects attempted to flee down a steep cliff, with the result that one of them fell to his death. His companion was captured and on Sunday, three additional suspected members of what the police described as a gang, were arrested.

The police suspect that these men have been responsible for the majority of the break ins and violent assaults in the last few months. In particular, they suspect that the man who died was responsible for the violent aspects of these crimes.

Over the weekend a variety of residents called in to the Hotline to report suspicious activity or to have vacant houses checked out. They reported that the police have invariably responded quickly, cheerfully and efficiently. Indeed, it was one such call that resulted in the arrest of these suspected predatory criminals.

It is evident from a number of reports that two men were going up and down Volcancito Road asking questions about residents, pretending to be buying mangos or other tricks to get close to houses and scope them out.

Perhaps the most important security feature for every residence is some kind of entry control for your property - a gate with a doorbell, some sort of fencing or wall. Just like you have a front door on your house, you need one on your property as well. Every legitimate visitor will pass through your entry after being acknowledged by you or your workers. It should never be possible for a stranger to wander onto your property, talk to your workers, peer in your windows, without being invited.

Every one of the recent violent home invasions occurred in a house without any entry control. None of them had a working security system, nor a panic alarm. These facts were carefully scouted before the big boys with the guns were called in. If scouts can't get in, the big guys most likely won't visit.

Obvious cameras and motion sensor lights will also discourage the scouts from entering your property and thus will reduce the chances of your house being put on the hit list. The same applies to workers who enter your house. They have the opportunity to scope out your defenses, and since you need them from time to time, the best stategy would be to let them know that your defenses are robust.

We will update this bulliten when more information becomes available.

Alto al Crimen and the Boquete Hotline is supported by your donations. If you already have a Resident ID, consider going to the membership web site https://altoalcrimen.wildapricot.org and upgrading yourself from a legacy member to a Donor Member. If you would like to join AaC and receive a Resident ID and house plaque, please visit https://www.altoalcrimen.org and follow the links for "Register for ID."

The Alto al Crimen Team