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| Puerto Vallarta |
| September, 2006 |
El Nogalito and Palo Maria Creeks Cleaned
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The Department of Municipal Public Utilities carries out cleanup of water courses in the municipality in order to provide dignifying spaces for the enjoyment of Vallartans and visitors, and collaborating to preventive sanitation actions in the fluvial bodies. Last Wendesday August 2 it was the turn of El Nogalito and Palo María Creeks’ banks to be cleared of refuse by sanitation personnel.
Martin Vazquez, head of the Department, said that during the cleanup journey it was made evident the little interest and commitment that predominates among the people who visit these natural recreational places, since one-and-a-half tons of garbage was picked up from both creeks.
Vazquez Mendoza also said that these types of tasks have little effect on citizens, and it is the citizens who should get involved in these activities by adopting simple attitudes such as cleaning after themselves when picnicking here; however, he emphasized that the department will continue to work in this type of action that result in great benefit for the natural environment of Puerto Vallarta. Finally, he convoked Vallartans and tourists to “pick up their garbage and properly dispose of it by putting it into the nearest garbage bin or taking it back home and have the garbage truck take it away.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Xiutla Celebrates 12-Year Anniversary with Gala Performance
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 It was an intensely emotional evening at the Show Center of the NH Krystal last Friday, July 28 as the Xiutla Folk Ballet marked its twelfth anniversary with a Gala Performance.
The show began at 9:00, as students of the first, second and third levels took the stage. These are all aspirants to become members of the group’s first company. From that moment on, the audience was always in high spirits.
Among the dignitaries in attendance was Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez, as well as DIF President Gloria Cordova de Gonzalez, Chief of Arts and Culture Department Manuel Santana Encarnación and Argentinean dance teachers Martha Balocco and Hugo Batistini. Gloria Palacios Ponce was also in attendance at the gala.
After the students’ demonstration, which included dances from regions such as Chiapas, Michoacan, Oaxaca and Guerrero, the first company finally took the stage to present their first international number ever, dances from Spain. Then, Professor Barrios Limon took the floor to thank the audience for a great turnout and introduce his coworkers Jose Luis Mendoza, Raquel Rodriguez, Teacher Dolores and Luz Joya.
Professor Barrios, as he is known, thanked Manuel Santana for the support from the Arts and Culture Department in putting on the show, and the municipal administration, headed by Gustavo Gonzalez Villaseñor, for making great dreams of young Xiutla dancers come true. “Thanks to your office and the great Vallartense community we have been able to achieve great things”.
The performance went on with the presentation of the  Oaxaca program, the same one they presented at the Latin American Caribbean Summit in 1994. One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of the Nuevo Leon program by the founding members of the Xiutla. These children started a great dream that today enjoys international prestige. Regional dances from Veracruz were reminiscent of the victory of Xiutla over 37 other groups participation it the Guadalajara Fiestas de Octubre, where they received the gold medal.
The program included a space for a regional Argentinean dance, a gift from Martha Balocco and Hugo Batistini to Professor Barrios, with dancers wearing original costumes from 1974.
During the intermission, Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez presented the Folk Group with a Citation. Members of the company were also presented with recognitions, accepted by Maestra Raquel Rodriguez, joined by two dancers. The ballet, in turn, presented the mayor with a top recognition created by the ballet itself, a medal that symbolizes the recognition of the ballet to the City’s unconditional support to the promotion of Mexican folkloric dance.
The Jalisco Program closed the evening. This program earned the Xiutla the National Dance Award in Toluca, Mexico State. This way, 280 dancers had been on stage, including students, dancers of the first company and a group of students from the Ixtapa district.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Works at the Multiple Purpose Center Site Supervised
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Legislators, State Government and Municipal Dignitaries headed by Governor Francisco Ramirez Acuña were briefed on these important works
 Last Tuesday State Governor Francisco Ramirez Acuña and the Urban Development Secretary, joined by Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez Villaeñor and Deputies Enrique Garia Hernandez, Jose Maria Martinez and Salvador Cosio Gaona, paid a visit to the site where the Multiple Purpose Center is being built.
In the presence of representatives from the various sectors of local society and business, the details of this important work in the adjacent land to the El Salado Estuary were announced.
The head of the Urban Development Secretariat, announced that this work will be funded by the state government up to 100 million pesos in its first stage. So far, the sewer on Avenida Las Flores, the site control, geothermic and environmental studies, as well as the platforms of the public parking and the main building, are completed, as well as the service parking lot.
 He pointed out that the total project will encompass 14 hectares, out of which the first stage covers 12 thousand square meters. The metal structure will begin construction within three months.
Sainz David explained that the construction of this center will not embody environmental hazards for the natural areas of the estuary, since it is being build on adjacent land to the “cushioning” area; therefore he stated “this is one of the reasons why in no event this site could represent aggression to the environment of the El Salado Estuary.”
Likewise, he added that the construction of this multiple purpose center is to boost the development of Puerto Vallarta by providing a new attraction for the city’s growth, a space that has been long-awaited by the different sectors of the municipality.
 In turn, the governor said that these works are the result of joined efforts by the municipal and state governments to keep the promise to Puerto Vallarta to make this center a reality for the destination.
“Congratulations, because here we work together, the municipality and the government, to give the response Puerto Vallarta needs” Ramirez Acuña said.
He indicated that on these grounds only the Multiple Purpose Center is to be built. No commercial or residential developments have a place in this zone, which will be a grand park for Vallartans, to make this project one that agrees with the ecological condition of the place.
The first stage of the multiple purpose center is to be completed by the end of the year, and is built after the Expo Guadalajara.
The center will occupy 5 thousand square meters and 7 thousand square meters will be taken by the access deck.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Vacation with Arts Summer Course
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The second “Vacation with Arts” summer course closed with great success. Over 150 participants, parents and dignitaries at the closing ceremonies
Cuale Cultural Center, in coordination with the National Actors Association and the Musicians Union CTM, join efforts to support impulse and diffuse arts in our municipality.
 Last Friday, August 11, the closing ceremonies of the second Vacation with Arts summer course took place at the Cuale Cultural Center Auditorium on Cuale Island. Classes were offered in three locations, The National Actors Association, the Musicians Union and the Cuale Cultural Center, in 18 disciplines; Acting, clay modeling, modern dance, drawing, painting, Arabic and Tahitian dances, singing, folkloric dances from Jalisco and Michoacan, drums, music, guitar, and piano.
Over 150 participants had the opportunity to improve their artistic skills, which they demonstrated at the closing ceremonies, where the guests of honor were the parents who applauded their children’s performances and took lots of photos.
 In attendance at the ceremonies were Rafael Yerena Zambrano, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers’ Confederation in Jalisco; Ernesto Navarro, Delegate of the National Actors Association; Pedro Verdin, and Luis Uribe, from the musicians union; Mayor of Cuautla Luis Robles, Manuel Santana Encarnación, Director of Arts and Culture Department; Santiago Garcia Escaeda, delegate of the Actors Association in Puerto Vallarta, and the Director of the Cuale Cultural Center Arturo Ortega, who was congratulated on a job well done.
Rafael Yerena referred to the undoubted relevance of having children use their vacation time in cultural programs that nutrture their soul and their mind, and recognized the authorities of Puerto Vallarta, Manuel Santana for joining efforts with the organizations in a task that results in benefits for the children.
 Manuel Santana, in turn, commented on the efforts on the part of the Department of Arts and Culture to bring arts to remote places, and said “I believe the work of de Department of Culture is to reach the communities, that’s why we are proposing the creation of 8 teacher positions, so colonias and districts can have access to the development of any artistic discipline. I think the tendency toward the democratization of culture has to do with this objective of reaching more and more the different sectors.” He added the Cultural Center meets this objective, but “we have the need to reach other sectors in far away places. We have done it with the Xiutla folk ballet, which is already working with 60 children in Ixtapa.”
He emphasized the involvement of parents in nurturing their children on culture too, and thanked them for their time and effort as well as their presence at the ceremonies.
Vacation with Arts closed among laughter and applauds, by handing out certificates to participants and teachers.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Recognition to Puerto Vallarta Firemen's Labor
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Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez recognized the spirit, courage and enthusiasm in the valuable labor of the Fire Department
 Last Tuesday, August 22, the Day of the Fireman was marked by the City of Puerto Vallarta with a homage to the effort, dedication and constant work the Fire Department puts in to safeguard the citizens’ lives and to act in contingencies caused by nature.
Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez Villaseñor, joined by Director of Public Security, Traffic and Fire Miguel Santana Estrada and Fire Corps Commander Braulio Eduardo Ramirez Garcia, celebrated with the members of the Fire Corps and their families in a lively get together.
The Fire Department is made up of 40 firefighters, 14 lifesavers and 15 volunteers. It is one of the most demanded corporations in the city, and they risk their own lives while protecting those of the citizens of Puerto Vallarta.
This is why, and in recognition to their dedicated work, the mayor expressed his satisfaction for the enormous asset each and every one of the firefighters represent to the city and its inhabitants.
 “To talk about a fireman is to talk about a human being at the service of our people, it is to recognize the great spirit and sense of community that they demonstrate with courage and enthusiasm, both the firemen and the volunteers that make up the corps” he emphasized.
As part of the celebration, during the comida party a raffle took place. CD players, tents, camping utensils, as well as bay cruises and meals in various restaurants, and hotel nights in luxury resorts were given away.
It is worth noting that Puerto Vallarta was recently ranked among the safest tourist destinations of Mexico, during the Convention of Police Chiefs of Mexican International Tourist Destinations and World Patrimony Cities.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Nixon-Diaz Ordaz Summit Commemorated
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 Municipal authorities and representatives of the different sectors of the society commemorated the historic event the night of Saturday, August 19.
It has been 36 years since the summit between presidents Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Richard M. Nixon took place at the Hotel Delfin, Puerto Vallarta celebrates also the important works of infrastructure that the meeting between the presidents triggered.
The ceremonies were attended by Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez Villaseñor, who shared with important personalities of the society and politics the meaningful event that marked the signing of the agreement to give back El Chamizal and the Ojinaga strip to Mexico, after a dispute that had gone on for several years.
 In this ceremony the vision and resolve of Governor Francisco Medina Ascencio was remembered. Thanks to his negotiation skills and his commitment to Vallarta, that this city became a favorite destination on an international level.
At the ceremonies Gonzalez Villaseñor was joined by Rafael Yerena Zambrano, Luis Reyes Brambila and Arturo Vazquez Serrano, as well as Mrs. Maria Eugenia Pulido to unveil a commemorative plate.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Ada Colorina Opens New Show in San Miguel de Allende
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On Saturday, August 26, Vallartan artist Ada Colorina opened an exhibition titled “Feelings in Color” in the Atenea Gallery of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
Ada Colorina has evolved artistically within the naïf style, and has earned a place in the select group of Vallartan artists of this school, among them the late Manuel Lepe, the pioneer of this style of painting in Puerto Vallarta, and Javier Niño.
 Ada Colorina has take her work beyond the borders, and along with it, the idyllic scenes of rural life in the north coast region of Jalisco, closely linked to the tropical forest and the Pacific Ocean shore. Her paintings speak, through a palette of intense tonalities, of the joy de vivre of the Mexican mestizos, their everyday work, their pagan-religious festivities, their close family relations, their friends and relatives making an extended social circle, and their intimate relation with nature and all living creatures. This is a world of which the artist herself is part; and of which she can speak in first person.
Ada Colorina becomes an ambassadress of the spirit of Puerto Vallarta, a spirit that endures in spite of the transformations imposed to our city by the advance of urban modernity.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
Student Exchange Strengthens Sisterhood Ties with Santa Barbara
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 Students from Santa Barbara learned Spanish and folkloric dance during two weeks, in an atmosphere of friendship and fraternity between both communities
As part of the joint efforts of the sister cities committees of these cities, through the Santa Barbara-Puerto Vallarta Student Exchange Program, young students from the neighbor country visited with the mayor and shared their experiences and expectations as to their activities in this exchange visit to Puerto Vallarta.
Mayor Gonzalez Villaseñor appeared very pleased to have the students visit him, and as a token of appreciation presented each of the girls with a copy of the book “A Puerto Vallarta for All” as well as a copy of the commemorative book marking 150 years of Puerto Vallarta history.
 Rebeca Vargas Moreno, program director, said that within this educational exchange it is sought to foment the friendly union and fraternity that prevails between the cities of Santa Barbara and Puerto Vallarta, channeled through the youth of both cities living together, which provides the opportunity for them to get acquainted with the folklore and the language of the neighbor country, and to learn about the values and social strength characterizing each community.
Likewise, she said that during the two-week stay of the students group, they took Spanish and folkloric dance classes, and announced that on that evening they were to have a Mexican night with the group of Vallartan students who visited Santa Barbara a few months ago, that would include a dance, poetry and song program.
Source: Ambito Puerto Vallarta Weekly Newspaper
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