It’s time for the Puerto Vallarta 4th Gran Perrotón at the Los Mangos Library on Fco. Villa in Pitillal. January 26th and 27th, from 9 am until 4 pm.

There will be dogs…

Admission is 20 pesos.

This is a very popular event and the fourth annual fund raiser for the patronage of the pound. Monies raised help pay for sterilizations and physical improvements to the acopio (pound). Tickets are 20 pesos each – less than $2.00 U.S.

SPCA de PV will have two booths: one selling our t-shirts, personalized dog tags and dog grooming services by Marcela Escalante and the other is the adoption booth – filled with wonderful dogs. People who hate dogs should not attend. People who love dogs should….

One of the dogs available for adoption:

by Pamela Thompson

On the last Wednesday of each month the International Friendship Club will be holding a mini-bazaar! If you would like to clean out your closets and make a little money, please reserve a table (space is limited) as soon as possible by contacting Lisa Love at 223-2150 or mliisal (at) yahoo.com

The cost of a table is $50 pesos and any money made from your sales, is yours! Open to all types of sales – from handicrafts to gently used clothing. As well, pass the word to your friends! Remember that one person’s junk is another person’s treasure, so spread the word as well, for those that want to do some shopping!

Tables will be set up at 10 am and the will be doors open from 10:30 am until 2 pm. So whether you want to make a little money or spend some – a good time and some great shopping will be had by all!

How to Fill Your Spirit and Your Stomach and Make the World a Better Place

by Polly G. Vicars

There are “how to” books on everything from “How to Lose 10 pounds in 10 days” to “How to Become an Overnight Millionaire” and probably most don’t really work. But I guarantee this “How To” and it will be ‘Oh So Easy!’

Your part is to buy an advance $150 peso ticket to Becas Vallarta’s fund-raising breakfast for January 22 at the prestigious Restaurant La Palapa and arrive at 9:30 am. Then while ‘filling your stomach’ with delicious breakfasts prepared by gourmet chefs and served by smiling, courteous and efficient waiters, buy some raffle tickets for dinners in fine restaurants, jewelry, stays at Boutique Hotels, divine chocolates, pewter and glass wares and a few surprises all donated by wonderful Vallarta business people. Now how easy is that?

And how better to fill ones spirit than to share the largess we have that enables us to live or vacation in this paradise by the sea? And who better to share with than the ambitious and bright, but severely economically challenged, 250 or so Vallarta girls and boys?

Your pesos will fund yearly stipends of $450 USD to senior high and $600 USD to university scholarship students; uniforms, school and gym shoes, calculators, dictionaries, paper and pens to junior high scholarship students.

That really fills my spirit and puts a smile on my face and will yours as well, as we in Becas Vallarta have a strong conviction that education of the populous is the first step in ridding this old world of some of its many woes.

Certainly, the owners of the restaurants who are participating in our monthly fund-raising breakfasts and the businesses that are contributing the raffle items must believe that as they regularly go all out to make the events memorable!

Our thanks to Vitae and La Hacienda who hosted the first two breakfasts, and of course to La Palapa for this one and to Le Bistro which will be hosting the February 26 event.

For tickets to the January 22nd La Palapa Breakfast or the February 26th Becas Breakfast at Le Bistro, call:

• Conchas Chinas » Buri Gray at 221-528
• Old Town » Polly Vicars at 223-1371 or Margi Tolton at 223-1835
• Marina » Mariel Fregoso 221-0789

See ya’ll there!

WEBSITE: http://www.puerto-vallarta.com/amf/index.htm
EMAIL: becasvallarta (at) gmail.com

January Breakfast Club at Boca Bento
by Pamela Thompson

Since December’s Puerto Vallarta Breakfast Club meeting was a sell-out, raising $10,894.20 pesos for New Life Mexico, January’s meeting will once again be held at Boca Bento, located at Basilio Badillo #180 on Vallarta’s South Side.

Scheduled to be held on January 4th at 10 am, this month we will be supporting the local Salvation Army, so we ask that you bring donations of gently-used clean clothing and shoes (for all sizes and ages), blankets, towels, toiletries or dry goods (beans, rice, canned goods.)

You’ll enjoy your choice of 3 breakfast menus, prepared by Coco and her talented team for just $80 pesos per person, the chance to visit with old and new friends, and the opportunity to browse through interesting wares from five unique vendors, who’ll be selling everything from soap to glass products.

We hope to see you there! However, since December’s meeting was sold out, if you plan to attend January’s Breakfast Club meeting, we ask that you please RSVP as soon as possible!

For more information please call Pamela Thompson at (322) 222-9638, 044-322-107-7007, Nextel 145-6912 or send an email to pmt15(at)hotmail.com.