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Recently, in my role as a U.S. warden for Boquete, I sent the following email to the U.S. Embassy in Panama City: I have been asked whether SSA Form 7162, commonly called the "proof of life" form, can be returned to the embassy rather than directly to the SSA. Secondly, I have been asked (and wonder myself) if a downloaded form from the Internet can be completed in lieu of the bar coded form sent from the SSA? The problem here relates to mail service. Most expats receive their mail through a mail forwarding company, which generally is a post office box address in the States. But the SSA demands a physical address. If the form arrives at a Panamanian post office (the expat's physical address in the absence of home delivery here), many expats will never see it because they do not look for their mail at the local post office. Similarly, they worry about returning this important form via the Panamanian mail system as they view it as unreliable. Following is the response I received. (For those of you with short attention spans, I have highlighted the most important language.) Thank you for your e-mail. The Social Security Administration (SSA) sends the Report to the U.S. Social Security Administration form, which serves as their “Proof of Life” with a return envelope for the beneficiaries to return the form. It is recommended that you make a copy for your records before mailing the form. In regards to completing a blank form rather than the preprinted form with the barcode that is sent from the SSA, it is not possible at this time since they require that the form they mailed out be returned to them. The SSA will be mailing a second request in October to those beneficiaries that are required to complete the form and has not responded to the first request. The SSA will let us know when we can start completing the blank forms, which is normally after they have processed the forms returned to them and prepares a report of beneficiaries that did not comply with this requirement. At this point the beneficiary will be listed for suspension of their benefits which occurs in February/March of each year. The SSA regulations requires that the beneficiaries that are living outside of the United States should have a foreign mailing address on their record. The SSA should not be provided with a Miami address, since this could cause the SSA to suspend their benefits until the address is updated. To avoid this from happening it is important that the beneficiaries maintain their mailing address updated on their SS record and also that they verify their post office regularly for any mail that is sent to them. To update the mailing address, the beneficiary should send us an e-mail requesting an appointment to do this. For information on when you are required to complete with the proof of life process, you may visit the following link: https://panama.usembassy.gov/ssai.html For your reference, below please find a message that was sent out in June on the proof of life process. U.S. Embassy Panama Consular Section Federal Benefits Unit As part of the Foreign Enforcement Program, the Social Security Administration (SSA)has started sending out their Report to the U.S. Social Security Administration form, which serves as their “Proof of Life” to the mailing addresses on record with SSA. If you meet any of the conditions below, you are required to comply with this requirement this year: Beneficiary with a representative payee or Beneficiary aged 90 and over or The terminal digits of your SSN ends in 00 – 49 If you have not yet received your form, we recommend that you continue checking at the Post Office. As soon as you receive the form, please answer the questions applicable to you and sign it. Before mailing the form to the SSA, please make a copy for your records and mail the form with your original signature to the following address: Social Security Administration Wilkes Barre Data Operations Center 1150 E. Mountain Dr.Room 341 Attention: FEQ Analyst, FEQ Forms 7161-7162 Wilkes Barre, PA 18702-7997 Please note that at this time you can only submit the original form with the bar code sent by the SSA. It is not possible for you to request a blank form at the Federal Benefits Unit to comply with this process.

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Tel.775-7746 Fax 774-5710 Loma Colorada, David, Chiriquí, Rep. de Panamá TO THE CHIRIQUI COMMUNITY: Nutre Hogar Chiriqui is a non-profit organization that treats 40 severely malnourished children who are transferred from the Malnutrition Ward at Hospital Materno Infantil Jose Domingo De Obaldia. We attend to our children’s needs with medicine, dietary supplements, education, and MUCH LOVE. Once the child is healthy and returns home, we provide an educational program for the family. This plan helps prevent other malnutrition cases and serves as a community awakening to other parents. Only through the trust and support of the people and companies that believe in our Mission, can we continue to carry on this loving work. We seek your kind assistance. Every year we have a campaign in which we ask for cash donations and for products needed at Nutre Hogar Chiriqui. To give you an understanding of the scope of our Mission, we need $25,000.00 per month to maintain our operations. THIS WEEK,FROM SEPTEMBER 14 TO SEPTEMBER 17 (WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY), FROM 12 NOON UNTIL 8:30PM, WE WILL BE AT FARMACIAS ARROCHA -THE ONE AT TERRONAL MALL. WE HAVE HAND PICKED PRODUCTS THAT ARE VERY BADLY NEEDED AT NUTRE HOGAR CHIRIQUI. SEPTEMBER 16 AND SEPTEMBER 17 (FRIDAY AND SATURDAY), WE WILL BE AT THE PRINCIPAL SUPERMARKETS IN THE DAVID RECEIVING DONATIONS. WE AGAIN HAVE HAND PICKED PRODUCTS THAT ARE VERY BADLY NEEDED AT NUTRE HOGAR CHIRIQUI. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, WE WILL BE COLLECTING CASH IN THE MAIN STREETS IN DAVID. You can always deliver donations for Nutre Hogar Chiriqui to our Trusted Partner, Fundacion Amigos de Boquete, in the Alto Dorado Mall next to Tae Kwon Do in Alto Boquete. Please help us give hope to these children who have so little. In case you need any further information please call Judy Tovar at 6617-4122 or Yira De Alvarado at 6676-0541. In the name of the children of Nutre Hogar Chiriqui we thank you for your help. Nutre Hogar Chiriqui Yira De Alvarado President judithtovar@hotmail.com

PLEASE HELP!!!! She is Patty, our friend Maureen Portilla rescued this tinny and skinny dog from a gas station with her 7 puppies. She was living under the rain. Now she is with us in their new and worm foster If you would like to help, please contact us, we need puppy food, cans food, vitamines, blankets and all the help that you can. Our phone numbers 65638686 / 69659423 or our email javierandmagalyhouse@gmail.com Facebook: Javier Madge Y Magaly Bustamante

The Boquete Birders Group announces a Boquete Backyard Birdwalk for new comers, visitors and new birders. It is an easy walk of about 2-3 hours through the back streets of Boquete Village. Join us and learn about our local birds. Bring Binoculars if you have them. DATE Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 LOCATION Plaza Los Establos (at the Gazebo) TIME 7:45 am (Ends about 11:00 am) Due to the popularity of this event, we are limiting the group size to 20 people. No dogs. Please RSVP byThursay, Sept 15 - For more information contact Lin Hall linhall@timetosteel.com 6872-8347

TWO EVENTS ONE PLACE Concert $20.00+itbm September 23th buy your ticket in advance and received $5.00 off (promo up to September 20th) two tickets courtesy for Members club Mexican Night $16.90+tax September 28th Members club $14.90+tax RESERVATIONS MUST BE DONE AT 730-8313 OR 6676-0653 Ana Elena Restrepo | SPA&Wellness Club de Hacienda Los Molinos Tel. (507) 730-8313 / Cel. 6983-8641 <http://www.losmolinoshotel.com/> www.losmolinoshotel.com CONOCE LO NUEVO DE HACIENDA LOS MOLINOS HOTEL aquí: <http://issuu.com/haciendalosmolinoshotel/docs/hlmboutiquehotel.pptx/0> http://issuu.com/haciendalosmolinoshotel/docs/hlmboutiquehotel.pptx/0 <https://www.facebook.com/BHLCR?ref=hl> <http://www.tripadvisor.com.mx/Hotel_Review-g298424-d1547468-Reviews-Boutiqu e_Hotel_la_Casa_del_Risco-Boquete_Chiriqui_Province.html> <http://issuu.com/haciendalosmolinoshotel/docs/los_molinos.pptx> <http://instagram.com/haciendalosmolinos>

YELLA FEVER at SEASONS Restaurant in Lucero If you haven't been to Seasons Restaurant in Lucero, you must come check out the amazing menu. If you love unusually delicious food with great service, come enjoy the best from our favorite chef in town, Craig Jacobs. And if you've not yet heard Yella Fever, what are you waiting for? This is the most fun music and entertainment you can find here in Boquete and it's all designed to keep you dancing, laughing and having a great time! Come join the fun. Music starts at 5:00 p.m. and the $10 cover charge gets you a free drink to get the party started.

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Last chance to drop your donations off at the Tuesday Market. Look for Alicia and Jane in the parking lot. The event is Sunday - help us make it a big success!

The owners/administrators of Chiriqui.Life (CL) website are very pleased to announce the sixth podcast in a new series that is called "Chiriqui Life Stories". This new series of podcasts is produced by Michael Schwartz. Quoting from the description of the Chiriqui Life Stories category: The subject of this podcast is Mike and Heidi Rehm, the owners of the Mike's Global Grill in Boquete. They tell their stories of their early years and then their initial professional careers before they met and worked in Alaska, again independently but in close proximity to each other. Then they both started working on assignment at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. That is where they met, got engaged, and later returned to the US and got married. Mike and Heidi ultimately end up in Boquete and buying what used to be called Tammy's Restaurant. This is indeed an interesting and certainly unique story that few people can envision. Access this podcast at http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/3519-chiriqui-life-stories-mike-and-heidi-rehm/. Podcasts are premium content on CL, which means that you need to be a registered member of CL and logged in. Membership on CL is free, so if you are not already a member, then register and listen to Mike and Heidi tell their story. If you would like to tell your story or recommend someone for an interview with the podcast producer, please send an email to Mike Schwartz at mikeseeemail@gmail.com. Marcelyn Jandreau and Bud Huber Owners/Administrators of Chiriqui.Life support@chiriqui.life www.chiriqui.life

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10:30 in the BCP Theater Tuesday September 13 – This is the guy who might save your life!! Angel Rodriguez will speak on the science of volcanology and the early alert system he monitors on Volcan Baru. Angel was born in Panama but graduated from the University of Washington where he married his wife Carla Black. Angel has been a tinkerer and inventor all his life. In his previous life he made bicycles and computers. Spending winters in Volcan, Panama, Angel started building telescopes. He then turned his attention to making seismometers. He constructed the mechanical parts, designed and built the electronics and wrote the software to create his first seismographs. Eventually he built his own private seismic network. Presently he has a nice electronics lab, several 3D printers, a laser cutter, CNC mills, lathes and all the tools a maker might want. He has a passion for making seismographs, including affordable personal seismographs for your home. His Kickstarter campaign has 597 backers and has raised $99,258.00. Raspberry Shake your personal seismograph. Tuesday September 20 -- Merl Will-Wallace will speak on how to stay “Forever Young in Paradise!” Retirement, new income, new home, new language, new friends - how to assemble all the puzzle pieces in retiring to Panama and how to have fun at the same time. As good as we plan retirement offers many changes that come as a surprise. Learn the common pitfalls that occur in retirement and how to engage them in a conscious, positive manner – not stressfully. Merl is a coach and counselor who, for the last 20 years, has helped people navigate change for a more positive and fruitful life. He is the author of the book Awakening in Change. Tuesday September 27 – After living in Boquete for 5 years, Penny Ripple decided to move to Cuenca, Ecuador. Good thing she didn’t sell her house in Boquete because, after a year, she moved back to Boquete and will never leave again. Find out why. Her presentation will include a slide show and will also update her experience with current information about Cuenca. Tuesday October 4 – Dr. Alfredo Molto, high level plastic surgeon practicing in David will speak about advancements in plastic surgery and his work with Operation Smile in Panama. Tuesday October 11 – David MacKenzie will speak on “Diseases Are Your Friends” and are messages from your body (and God). Medicines are unnatural and toxic and just kill the messenger. David believes the great majority of diseases are caused by diet and lifestyle and we all need to know the biologically correct diet. Tuesday October 18 – Meet the Wardens. We will introduce Hank Landis and Bonnie Williams, the two new U.S. wardens, Tricia Daugherty, the British Consular Agent, and Mika Kosaki Oldham, Consul and First Secretary of the Canadian embassy. These folks will speak about what their respective embassies can and cannot do for their citizens, how and when to contact them, their citizen registries maintained by the embassies, and other pertinent topics raised by the audience. A must attend program for all U.S., Canadian and British citizens. Tuesday October 25 – Expats — Would it be helpful if you had someone you could trust to manage your affairs in the states while you enjoy your life in Panama? Could you use someone in the U.S. to handle your U.S. mail, medication needs, insurance, social security, bank or other companies in the U.S.? Richard Green of Expat Concierge U.S, will be talking about the numerous services he can provide. Richard is based in South Florida and has 30+ years of Operations, Management and Logistics experience. His website is www.ExpatConciergeUS.com.. FREE ADMISSION. Tuesday November 1 – Mark & Martine Heyer, Rodny Fuentes & Irma Castillo Smith present their group health insurance policies for members of Rodny Direct. Martine will speak on 2 or 3 different health insurance plans that exist and that will give discounts for group members. Rodny and Mark will be there to sign up folks for Rodny Direct. Irma Castillo Smith will be the plan administrator for the Rodny Direct group insurance plans. Tuesday November 8 – Allison Tilluma will speak about detoxification of the body, how the body naturally detoxifies, why it is necessary, and what we can do to support it in a nourishing and natural way. Allison is a local massage therapist, herbalist, and yoga teacher. She has been specializing in alternative medicine for the past 10 years after realizing Western medicine was not effectively treating her issues. Tuesday November 15 – Kevin Fisher (aka Sparky Boquete) will give a talk/demonstration on cutting edge light based wellness technology. These products are used for appetite control, cell repair, detoxification, sleep, pain relief, energy, stress, and inflammation control. FREE ADMISSION Tuesday November 22 -- Price Peterson, Peter Sterling, and Rodrigo Marciacq on the scientific and economic facts and the truth) about GMO products especially as they exist in Panama. Tuesday November 29 – Dr. Peter Juhos, owner of Natural Alternative Health, S.A. in David will speak about the programs his clinic offers. FREE ADMISSION Tuesday, Dec. 27 – Darrell Eash presents Camels & Chameleons (Learning to Thrive in a New Environment). How to understand and appreciate the differences between Latinos and Gringos, and how to adapt to and succeed in a culture and language different from your own. Darrell’s knowledge in this area comes from being born and raised in Venezuela, living there until he left for college in the U.S. He’s also worked among Latinos for nearly 28 years, and has traveled extensively to all but four Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. Darrell will address the 10 cultural differences between Latino and Gringo cultures and explain how they can harmoniously work together. Tuesday January 3 – Boquete Hospice and Health presents “Being Prepared.” Do you know the legalities in Panama if you were to die or become ill and unable to make very important medical decisions for yourself? Laws you're familiar with in your home country do not apply! Did you know that you must have enough cash on hand to pay a doctor to pronounce someone dead and to have the mortuary pick you up? No credit cards. No IOUs. What will you do if you're hospitalized in an emergency and can't express what medical treatment you want? And who can legally enter your home to feed your pets if you can't? What's your legal marital status? What about wills? There's a lot we ASSUME we know but we don't. Tuesday January 24 -- Alvaro Almengor of Hatstone Lawyers, a boutique law firm with five partners across four offices (Jersey, London, Panama and South Africa) will speak. They are primarily a corporate and private law firm, and work regularly on cross border structures for international clients. they regularly advise international banks, financial services business, foreign corporations, local business, public and private companies, directors, shareholders, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. In Panama, in particular, they have expertise in incorporating companies and foundations, construction and property, employment, immigration, taxation, corporate and commercial, succession planning and asset protection, cross-border transactions, new business establishment and general legal advice. FREE ADMISSION To suggest a speaker or topic for these meetings please email BCP Tuesday Meeting To become a vendor at the Tuesday market, email Elena Serracin

No kids of your own? Bring your neighborhood kids. Bring your house cleaner's kids, bring your gardener's kids. Free for all kids 12 and under.

Erics frames Good news you have 2 weeks to get your art work ready. Bad news is you will have to wait 2 weeks to get your art framed. See you September 24 It is about time. Time to display those memories and good times. Gather up your drawings and paintings. Need some framing ideas? Want to see some of my latest frames? Check out my face book page. https://www.facebook.com/Erics-Framing-Services-484172795114545/ Make a appointment now ericinpanama@gmail.com Eric Carlson www.rambalajunglelodge.com

Hola Current & Future Yoga Practicioners :-) I am excited to announce that there are now THREE kinds of Yoga offered at La Villa Coffee Shop and Roastery, at the BCP. The information is as follows: HATHA YOGA Saturdays 9 - 10 am (please note: every 3rd Saturday when the Foodie Market is scheduled, class will not be held.) $6.00 A Hatha Yoga class that is relatively gentle, slow and great for beginners or students who prefer a more relaxed style where poses are held a bit longer. As this class develops it is able to be custom-tailored to the group's needs in the spirit of traditional yoga where asanas (poses) were 'prescribed' for various conditions (ie, back pain, tight shoulders, and a multitude of other aliments / afflictions.) … Hence, the more you attend practice -- and provide feedback -- the more supportive and deep the practice will become! and… YOGA NIDRA - This is a NON-PHYSICAL type of yoga. Tuesdays 6 pm approx 45 - 60 min $5.00 Experience complete relaxation with 'yogic sleep' (aka Yoga Nidra). While resting comfortably, you are guided on a specific journey (which includes rotation of consciousness around the body, connection with breath, and archetypal visualization) that produces profound and proven results. The meditations are crafted to stimulate different areas of the brain while inducing complete physical relaxation. Wear comfortable clothes. Pillows and blankets will be provided. and… per usual, there are still FOUR ASHTANGA CLASSES every week as follows: ASHTANGA - Short Form Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9 - 10 am $6.00 This is an active class, structured on the main poses from the Primary Series (described briefly below). Focus is on the breath. Poses are held for five breaths and are interconnected with flowing movements. The same sequence is repeated each class, building strength, flexibility and focus… so that eventually your practice becomes a powerful moving meditation! This class is open to beginners, but is not a "gentle" type of yoga. ASHTANGA - Primary Series Thursdays 9 - 10:30 am (90 min) $9.00 This is an active 90 minute class, practicing the full Primary Series which is arranged in a time-tested sequence designed to specifically align the body, strengthen the nervous system, and increase spinal flexibility. Emphasis is placed on breathing (Ujjayi), energy locks (Bandhas), gaze (Drishti) and transitions (Vinyasa). Poses are held for five breaths and are interconnected with flowing movements. The same sequence is repeated each class, building strength, flexibility and focus… so that eventually your practice becomes a powerful moving meditation. The Full Series is a challenge, but the results are life-changing! ALL CLASSES held at La Villa Coffee Shop & Roastery at the BCP. Mat Rental available: $1.00 Mats available for purchase: $20 www.ashtangayogaboquete.com Namaste, Joy 6426-0843

The 9th annual "Falls Prevention Awareness Day" will be observed on Sept. 22, 2016 — The first day of fall ! The event raises awareness about how to prevent fall-related injuries among older adults. The theme of this year’s event is "Ready, Steady, Balance: Prevent Falls in 2016." To support this important effort, I've included some information and links below . . . Kevin Reilly KR