Essay by guest blogger, Jack Hecker–We had just finished a golf game and were sitting around drinking beer and lying, which is what most of us do best. I explained I would not be playing the next week because I was going to Rocky Point. You mean Mexico? Are you crazy, they asked? They’re killing people left and right down there. My response was, would you go to Phoenix or Chicago? Besides, I spent many years working in downtown Cleveland. They’re not shooting little fat, bald Americans like me…
Fittingly labeled the “Retro Rocky Point Invitational Beach Volleyball Tournament”, Luis Garrido of Outta Town Productions (OTP) is reviving his Beach Volleyball Tournament after a one year hiatus. Technically, the tournament is an “open” event rather than an invitational, since Luis invites all beach volleyball aficionados to enjoy a weekend of fun competition on the beach in Rocky Point.
…you could pin it down to Saturday the 8th of December as events were taking place in the far reaches of Puerto Peñasco and beyond and community centers in the northern neighborhoods to the Esperanza para Los Niños shelter some 20 Kilometers outside the city…
Saturday December 29th is the date set for the return of Steve McCarty and Friends to Puerto Peñasco. They will be appearing at Chango’s Bar and Grill located on the entrance road to the Sonoran Spa and Sonoran Sea condominium resorts to help Chango’s celebrate their fifth year as the “In” place in Puerto Peñasco.
It’s almost as if nature set them up for a limited existence on earth. Although their ancestors have been around for a couple of million years, the tiny (in comparison) Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) porpoise lives in a very small area covering just 4,000 square kilometers of the 177,000 sq. km. Sea of Cortez.
About 15 years ago a Christmas Angel Tree program was started to help special needs children have a merry Christmas. You’ve seen the Angel Tree concept in U.S. malls where you can take a small angel from a large Christmas tree and each angel has a child’s name, age, clothing and shoe size and you can purchase and wrap a present that will go directly to the child.
With the exception of last year, that’s what has been happening in Puerto Peñasco on a slightly smaller scale—
With 17 of the 20 available exhibit spaces sold for the first event and a steady stream of customers and visitors from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM last Saturday, the inaugural Mermaid’s Marketplace held in Rocky Point’s Shrimp Park can be considered nothing short of a success.
Topping off the United Nations Organization’s World Disability Awareness Week beginning Monday December 3rd with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD 2012), our own Los Rolling Rockies Wheelchair Basketball Team are hosting a…
Watching Jesus Felix mixing, kneading, cutting and shaping the dough for dozens of different kinds of breads, rolls and sweet goodies is a lesson in skilled consistency, attention to detail, complete understanding of what it takes to make bread products beyond good to the top of delicious—and that’s before…
One of the oldest and more ubiquitous of those organizations is the major social assistance and family development program known as DIF (Desarrollo Integral de La Familia), founded in 1976 by the state of Sonora and designed to…
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