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April 13, 2003 Dear Anna,
Build first and plan later?
 I
have been coming to Puerto Vallarta for about 15 years
and I always walk up the River Cuale, through Paso Ancho.
Now there is a big new bridge and what does it bring?
It seems that several places have become alternatives
for the city dump: one where the bus turns around and
one further up.
The traffic is intense, the dust
terrible, and if one explores a bit, there is building
with no permits, hillsides with all the trees cut, and
no adequate septic. It is possible, within a short time,
to take a paradise and kiss it good-bye.
I would wish that there could be
planning and enforcement to find a way to extend and
add to the variety of beauty in PV. If others feel as
I do, the enjoyment of riding horse back with excellent
horses and fine guides, will be lost along with the
stunning beauty of getting closer to the
mountain along the meandering river. It will be too
late.
 I
would like to think that there was a plan before there
was a bridge but the only evidence I see is in the sign
(the sign and the reality are in the pictures).
If each year one of the attractions
that has brought us back year after year, is lost, travelers
will look elsewhere. Also, many 100's of local people
come to the river each Sunday leaving a lot of basura
(garbage) to float down the river.
The well being of the delicate ecology
of the area needs protection for and by all. I would
write to city hall, if I could write in Spanish and
knew the appropriate people. I am casting a message
in a bottle down the river that says: HELP!
Sincerely,
Cynthia Ross
Dear Editor,
You had a letter published in your March 24 to 30, 2003
edition from the Johnson's about a $2,200. rental deposit
that they had sent. They ended up with no apartment
and the loss of $2,200. The same thing happened to my
husband and I. We wire transferred $1,500. U.S. to Marcia
Garcia in Puerto Vallarta last June to reserve an apartment
for February and March on the Malecon. We found out
in January that we had no apartment to stay in, and
we could not get any of our money back from Ms. Garcia.
She insisted the owner of the apartment on the Malecon
had our money and she was going to try to get it back
for us. She would not give me the owner's name or telephone
number. Marcia said she would return our money to us
because she was responsible for it.
We spent countless hours trying to get some of our money
back while we were in Puerto Vallarta for seven weeks.
We were unable to get any of it back. We had to pay
for last-minute rental accommodation and were not very
happy with scrambling at the last minute to find accommodation.
Please warn your readers to be very careful about who
they deal with for rentals.
We are returning next winter to Puerto Vallarta but
we have dealt with a long established real estate company
to find accommodation.
Broke and wiser
Wendy & Robert
Canada
Dear Editor,
I spoke to an employee in Sam's bakery
and was told they won't have cinnamon rolls anymore
because they don't have the aluminum trays to bake them
in… Guess they can't buy them anywhere. Has anyone
else heard this lame excuse?
M.M.
Dear M.M.,
Coming from Sam’s, anything
is possible. Remember that they stopped making cherry
pies because “the filling cost too much and they
were selling too fast”…
The Ed.
To Whom it May Concern,
The University of Guadalajara is
in the process of building housing for its students
in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The housing has
been built on land called "Mojoneras" which
WAS a beautiful and important estuary, but now has been
filled and dried. Hundreds of gulls and many other flora
& fauna have lost their habitat. Dozens of gulls
are dying every day. Many large black carrion birds
are waiting to eat the dead carcasses.
This entire construction has decimated
the eco-system of the estuary and the ramifications
are untold.
The university plans to do the same
type of project in another area which is ALSO an estuary!!!
- PLEASE help us to stop this atrocity before another
estuary area is destroyed! I am attaching photos taken
on April 7, 2003 as proof of the situation.
In Puerto Vallarta please contact
Rosa Limon at 222-2893.
Thank you for any help,
Roie Griego
Dear Ms. Griego,
According to our head investigator,
the university you are referring to is the UNIVA, not
the University of Guadalajara. The U of G does not have
any construction project going in Las Mojoneras.
The gulls and marine birds to
which you are referring forage for food in the city
dump and many of them die of botulism, so the presence
of turkey vultures is a blessing as they ensure that
diseases such as anthrax do not spread in the region.
In addition, the lagoons you
are referring to are not natural ones. They were created
when material was extracted to make bricks with.
In any case, our head investigator
will go out to Las Mojoneras this week to investigate
the matter personally from a biological point of view
and if there is due cause, he will contact the appropriate
authorities.
We all thank you for your concern.
The Ed.
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