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It is with great honor to announce that ACCBoquete has leased the BCP (Boquete Community Players) theater and lobby area from Tap Out restaurant effective November 1, 2020. Knowing our dedication to Boquete, ACCBoquete was approached by TapOut to see if we had any interest in continuing a 12+ year tradition, the Tuesday Talks, etc. to the community of Boquete. The Boquete Community Playhouse (BCP) was created from a lot of sweat, hard work and money of a group of dedicated people.
BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) did not want to commit to more than 3 or 4 plays/musicals during 2021. TapOut owners are committed to paying for this under roof area to the owner of the building. As restaurant owners, they were looking for another group to take over managing this part of the building to help them cover their monthly rent to the building owner. A short time later, ACCBoquete saw this as an opportunity to carry on a tradition. At the same time, it is a way for ACCBoquete to carry out its own mission statement. BCP has graciously allowed us to use the theater equipment and assist in operating the electronic equipment for the movies, etc.
ACCBoquete's lease with TapOut allows BCP to host several plays and musicals during the year at their discretion and the remaining time ACCBoquete will host the Tuesday Talks, Sunday movies Dinner theaters and manage the theater for rentals for local groups to hold their meetings, and other activities. We can't allow an icon of Boquete to sit dormit. If anyone has ideas on uses of the theater, we are up for suggestions.
WHO WE ARE? For those that are not acquainted with us, ACCBoquete, is a non-profit Association, (Res. 02-PJ-02-2018). ACCB membership is made up of 50+ Americans and Spanish people. In English our name is “Association of Community Charity of Boquete,” and in Spanish it is “Asociation Cardad de la Communidad de Boquete,” but we go by the abbreviation, ACCBoquete.
ACCBoquete was started about 10 years ago and was called IPA. It was started by a group of police officers who retired here from the states. The organization was to support and assist Boquetes First Responders, Police, Fire and EMT's. Later the IPA began to expand to include aiding and assisting the Boquete community as a whole and also other local associations. After the expansion, we changed our name to ACCBoquete and formed a not-for-profit Association in Panama.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE: Over the years we have hosted 9 annual Christmas dinners collecting over 1000 wrapped gifts for the needy local children in Boquete. A 100% of donations of gifts and money collected in Boquete are distributed throughout Boquete's needy families and support to other Boquete charities. We take pride in supporting other Boquete charitable groups to help them achieve their goals. This is only a fraction of the things we have done.
ACCBoquete also worked with the Recycle Group in Boquete, financially and physically, to clean up the environment of Boquete and educate the children in local schools of the importance of recycling.
ACCBoquete has donated money towards children's back-to-school supplies and donated personal care items to the local abused or pregnant young girls in Boquete through San Juan Baptista Catholic Church.
ACCBoquete has repaired multiple vehicles for the police to get their cars back on the road to protect Boquete. We have purchased appliances for the police who are required to live in the police station while on duty for 12 days at a time. We have provided financial support for fallen officers families. Just this year we provided financial support to a policeman's family who died from Covid 19.
In 2020 we provided cell phones for local children so they could join their class and not fall behind in their schoolwork since every school is now conducting classes via the internet.
We also contributed to the purchased a spare battery ($300.00) for Rodny Moreno for his new fully automated wheelchair. Rodny is a young man who is a paraplegic who has a business assisting the Expat community with emergency services of all kinds.
Last year ACCBoquete was asked to take over the Children's Christmas Cookie party for the Boquete Indigenous and Panamanian kids at TapOut and BCP theater. In 2019 we had over 300 kids attend. Our members enjoyed it so much that we have decided to make this a annual event. We are in the process of planning another Cookie event on December 19th providing MINSA allows it. In order to be ready we are currently planning on providing a Christmas party for the kids in some form. Anyone interested in helping with this please contact Linda at lhart249@hotmail.com.
ACCBoquete has supported places like the Dog Camp, The Handicap Foundation, Hogar Triska, Esperanza, The Knitter and The Quilters, Buenos Vecinos, La Estrella School, Bricks Ministry, many local ministry groups, and much more.
ACCBoquete just purchased $1000. worth of food for the families that have lost nearly everything due to ETA.
ACCBoquete has hosted 3 annual Oktoberfests at the Feria, we host BINGO night at La Posada (to resume on January 6, 2021) and will have our first Sausage Fest in March 2021. Of course this all depends on MINSA.
When the opportunity came along for us to have another means of raising money to support our mission, we agreed to manage it with plans to give $2000. more in the future to the community. The Community Theater is an icon that took a lot of hard work to create and pull together and it needs to remain in operation for the future of Boquete's growing community.
It appears we have offended people by calling the theater the ACCB Theater. This was only for a lack of a better temporary name. The original name BCP (Boquete Community Playhouse) has been changed to BCP (Boquete Community Pulse) which made no reference to the theater at all. With the approval of the original creators, we would like to refer to the theater as “Boquete Community Playhouse” rather than just BCP to eliminate confusion.
Our group, ACCB, like many other charitable groups are working without any compensation. Please help us to help the needy in Boquete with your suggestions, support and contributions.
Joe Hart
ACCBoquete President
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I truly understand Penny's comment and rightly so. Referring to the theater as ACCB Theater was not intended to be permanent nor to offend anyone. BCP originally stood for Boquete Community Playhouse. Just recently BCP has been changed to Boquete Community Pulse. I personally felt a disconnect from the theater. Using the BCP term, to me, no longer suggested the theater. No Tuesday Talks, no Sunday movies, the theater appeared to be neglected. When TapOut owners offered ACCB to manage it, our members discussed it and decided it was too much a part of Boquete to sit idle only to have 3-4 performances a year there. It has become an icon to the Boquete Community and deserves to continue with regular activities. We have talked about referring to the Theater by its full name, Boquete Community Theater, and not BCP. Penny, I'd like to hear your input and or suggestions. We have prepared an intro to our management of the theater which will be submitted today.
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Asociacion Caridad de la Comunidad de Boquete
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. It took awhile to get pictures with Rodny because of the rainy weather and other things beyond our control. So, at last we are able to report on the success of ACCBoquete's Fundraiser held August 12th at Big Daddys restaurant after the final delivery of donated money has been personally handed to the intended parties and pictures have been taken to share with you.
* We met our goal to help purchase a spare battery for the new electric wheelchair for RODNY MORENO's birthday. This wheelchair will enable Rodny to be as self -sufficent as he can be. Mark Heyer posted a more detailed report Sunday on News.Boquete with pictures of Rodny in his wheelchair. ACCBoquete handed Rodny $300.00 in cash to pay for the new spare battery.
We also we collected donations of Smartphones for students at ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF VOLCANCITO . The students use the cell phones to do their daily school lessons Sun and connect them with the teacher and the other students. Our goal was 3 phones and we received 6 phones plus $100.00 cash was received from our generous community. The additional phone were distributed to other students whose parents were not able to provide for them at other schools in Boquete. The cash was used to purchase sim cards, a missing charger for 1 phone, a missing memory card, and prepaid minutes for the students. Our own, Kathya de Chong headed up this project and presented the phones to Teacher Zulay Morelas ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF VOLCANCITO and the other students from a local school in Boquete.
In addition to the donation requests for Rodny and the Volcancito Elementary School some very generous people asked if they could give donations to The Dog Camp and of course, we were happy to be able to present Magaly and Javiar at THE DOG CAMP with a cash donation of $150.00.
We are always amazed at the level of generosity from the Boquete community. Its why we are here and its why we do what we do.
We want to thank all those that gave to one or more of these much-needed recipients.
The members of ACCBoquete
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Asociacion Caridad de la Comunidad de Boquete
ACCB needs your help!
As our mission statement states ACCB's purpose is support other local charities in Boquete. During the Covid-19 virus “season” the requests for donations from local organizations and groups has not diminished. We have made cash donations to The Handicap Foundation, The Dog Camp and La Estrella del Valley school. In addition, some of our members have personally purchased dog food and medicine for the Dog Camp in ACCB's name.
Currently we have committed to the needs of Rodny Direct and Volcancito Elementary School.
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RODNY MORENO: aka Rodny Direct. Rodny is the 24x7x365 hotline assistance project that provides a kind of "911" style emergency assistance call-in telephone service. Rodny is a quadriplegic from birth, and so he needs assistance to do everything. He also is very dependent on a wheelchair. Rodny's current wheelchair is worn out. He needs a replacement wheelchair. Several Boquete area expatriates have already donated sufficient funds to cover the cost of the wheelchair, (The basic wheelchair comes with one battery, but a second one is strongly desired to keep Rodny mobile at all times while the other battery is charging.). The amount needed is about $250.00 to $300.00 to cover the full cost of the backup battery and its transportation from the US to Boquete. This young man has saved many a gringos over the years and likely to save many more.
2. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF VOLCANCITO: Zulay Morales, is the 4th grade teacher for this school. She is requesting support for 4 students in her group who do not have the technological media to receive their virtual classes. Their families do not have the resources to purchase the phones used to receive their lessons and do their homework. They need either Iphones or Smartphone phones and they DO NOT need to be new. We are asking for 4 donated used cell phones so these 4 children can continue classes and keep up with their grade level. If we do not collect the 4 used phones from the community we will be purchasing new phones for them through donations.
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ACCB will be setup at Big Daddy's outside porch on
Wednesday, August 12th from 10:00am – 12:00 noon
to accept donations for Rodny (Direct) Moreno and/or Volcancito Elementary School 4th graders.
ACCB is committed to donate to the Boquete community and since we have not been able to raise money hosting our bi-weekly BINGO night, musical fundraisers, Oktoberfest and SpringFest and all our other fun events, we are asking for donations at Big Daddy's.
PLEASE HELP US SO WE CAN HELP THEM!
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ACCBoquete was asked and gratefully responded to donating food to help the LaLa Estella del Valley school. ACCBoquete presented $200.00 to Mike Hill and Tony Ettlon for bags of food they had purchased. Mike, Tony and all the workers are doing a fabulous job in helping the school children and their families.
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First, I would like to say Thank You for all the interest in my crushed glass project!I got tons of responses to my post about turning glass to sand. I did say it was labor intensive and I have hundreds of dollars invested. Many people wanted to drop their wine bottles off at my house, but I do not have room in our 2 car garage to store boxes of bottles. And I cannot store anything on the outside of our home. Crushing bottles are labor intense as I explained in my first notice. Besides dropping off boxes of bottles there were others that wanted free sand. I have offered to sell bags of crushed glass as a replacement for sand for $3.00 a bag to help cover some of my cost.I have happily taken bottles from friends but sorry to say I cannot service all of Boquete. The Recycle group, which I helped develop with a few other great people in Boquete, are having their first recycling event this Sunday since the quarantine shut them down.My goals are to find someone that wants to stop glass going to the dump, and make a business out of this.There are machines available that can grind all types of plastic, from PVC to plastic car bombers, as well as dirty, all types of plastics. Then this is mixed with glass sand, and a coloring is added. This is heated with used cooking oil, and the results are compressed into roofing tiles, or fence posts or plastic lumber.The items are impervious to UV light, termites, incredible strong, and won't rot. That operation could put many people to work, and use all the glass bottles or window glass, as well as all types of plastic you could find in Boquete.Think about that!Thanks, Joe
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Help us support the Dog Camp with a dinner for Fathers Day from Big Daddy's
this Sunday, June 21st.
Call 6250-1948 to order.
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Glass bottle recyclingI have been working on recycling machines, and have built a machine that turns glass bottles to sand. Glass takes up a lot of space in landfills and reportedly, takes a million years to disintegrate. I now have glass sand, and if anybody has a small cement project that requires sand. I ask for a donation of $3. per (your) 5-gallon bucket. With glass sand there is no sifting, as there are no rocks big or small. My goal is to charge restaurants and taverns what they pay to have their glass hauled to the dump. Some restaurants pay an average of $100/month to refuse companies. I paid $300 for 2 new electric motors. I have made concrete samples using regular sand and glass sand, and it looks the same. I read that sand from the desert is not good for concrete as the edges are round. Regular sand and glass sand have square edges and are good for concrete. The internet says they use glass sand on golf course sand traps, as a top coat on lawns, in sand blasting, and of course asphalt and cement construction. A big difference is my sand it's almost a powder and regular sand is more granular, therefore glass sand is heavier comparing by volume. Glass sand in swimming pool filters, uses less, and I'd be interested to learn from those with such a filter, how it compares.Everybody asks is it sharp or dangerous to handle? That would make sense, but glass sand is no sharper than regular sand.The recycle center next to BBF Church rely on what China is accepting. One time it takes glass bottles that are clear only, and next week it is no glass at all. That recycle center has turned down pickle jars, while accepting clear wine bottles??What also is depressing is that beer bottles only from National Brewery are returnable. Corona, Heineken, Budweiser and all the imports are not returnable.Tin and aluminum cansI have built another machine that crushes cans, tetra-pak milk cartons, and more. The whole idea is to reduce the space that these items take up. When our Boquete recycle collects these items, they pay for a truck to haul this to the collection point near the border. This cost is high and may negate any profit in collect-ing these items. If the volume is reduced, less trips mean more profit.This machine will crush 2-3 cans a second. Unlike some can crushers that the can has to be perfect to fit in the devise, this machine takes them all. Aluminum cans are mostly flattened and tin cans are greatly reduced in size. It works best on rigid items and somewhat flattens a 3 liter plastic Coke bottle, but has no effect on small water bottles.If you are interested in my project, or need some sand, contact me.Joe Hart6521-2649
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Special announcement from @minsapma in Chiriquí.Dear Citizenship we want to invite you to take advantage of this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so you can get the dose of the influenza vaccine, as it will be the last days, they will be available in the fast car of Vaccination in Plaza Terronal.We reiterate until next Friday we will be providing this ease and later we will release how vaccination will be announced.We have successfully applied about 5 thousand vaccines at this point.We appreciate your attention.Nursing Department / Ministry of Health Chiriquí
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The other day 3 families from Boquete Country Club placed dinner orders. Each of us placed our own orders with Chris so we could specify any special add-ons or requirements and he told us what our individual costs would be. The 3 families coordinated a time for delivery. Ordering from one gated community made it easy and quick for them to get our meals delivered hotter than if they had to go to different communities. All of us were overwhelmed at the size of the orders and how delicious. We had enough for another days meal. Big Daddys has added more items on the delivery menu including a plant based hamburger to die for. Sent an order to our housekeeper (single mother of 3) the same day. They really enjoyed it. LETS KEEP THESE BUSINESSES WORKING.
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Just a reminder that anyone who purchased a ticket for the Saturday Sausagefest event scheduled on March 14th can come by San Francisco Plaza on Tuesday, March 17th for your refund. Refunds will be given as you turn your ticket into us. We will be sitting on the sidewalk outside of Mort's Bakery.
Despite having to cancel our fund-raising event, Boquete Charity Fest, this past weekend, the charities we were going to support still have financial needs to continue doing the amazing job they do for our community.
PLEASE NOTE: ACCBoquete has decided to proceed with giving cash donations to the charities we were going to split from our profits from the above fundraiser events between. Buenos Vecinos Boquete, Dog Camp, Escuela Estrella Los Valle, Handicap Foundation, Panama Princess League, and Casa Esperanza.
The need for money for these charities to continue to care for Boquetes needy never stops.
In light of that....we will have a donation bucket at a table on the sidewalk outside of Mort's Bakery where we will be refunding ticket money. If you wish to make a donation to the charities we are supporting, we appreciate any amount you donate to these worthy charities..
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Due to Government cancellation to all events we are greatly disappointed to cancel the Boquete Charity Event scheduled for Friday March 13 (Wine Tasting and Silent Auction Dinner at Boulder 54) and Sausagefest on Saturday March 14th has been postponed indefinitely. Any tickets sold at MBE can get a refund there. All other tickets sold can come to Morts Bakery, Tuesday March 17th from 10-12 for a refund on your Saturday event tickets.
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The Boquete Charity Fest is this weekend. Friday night dinner reservations are filling up. Contact Linda Hart @ lhart249@hotmail.com to place your dinner order...Chicken, Fish or Vegan Steak.
Don't forget the Blind Wine Tasting at Boulder 54 on Friday, March 13 from 3pm-5pm $15.00 per person
and Saturday, March 14 from 1pm-10pm Sausage fest with 3 local restaurant vendors. Vote for your favorite. Live music with Still Kickin from 1-4pm and OS ALMIRANTES FROM 8-10pm. $10. at the door. 1 free beer and lots of fun.
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Event details: 3 individual events held in 2 days. Choose 1 event, 2 events or all 3.
Friday, March 13th 3pm to 5pm. $15.00 per person
RSVP for headcount purposes only.........lhart249@hotmail.com
Wine Tasting Social featuring 8 different wines supplied by a wine distributor. Event will be held in the courtyard by the river at Boulder 54. We will supply canapes to cleanse your palate between wines. To make it interesting it will be a "blind" wine tasting and you will judge which one you like the best and at the end will tally the votes to determine the #1 wine.
Bidding for the Silent Auction items. Silent Auction will continue through the dinner. Winner does NOT have to be present to win.
Friday, March 13th 5pm to 8pm $20.00 per person
RSVP required......lhart249@hotmail.com with number of people and dinner selection.
Dinner at Boulder 54. Seating for dinner begins at 5pm with beverage served first. Take this time to look over the silent auction items and place your bids. Your pre-ordered dinner selection will be ready to serve at 6pm.
Dinner menu.......................... Salad
1. Smoked Chicken w/sticky orange glaze, roasted potatoes, and veggies or
2. Fish w/spicy pineapple, roasted potatoes and veggies or
3. Vegan steaks w/veggies, roasted potatoes and veggies
Dessert: Bread pudding with Panama Red Rum.
You must RSVP to Linda Hart at lhart249@hotmail.com with your dinner choice by March 11th.
Silent auction will close at 7:30pm and winners will be announced at 8pm. Winning names not there will be contacted. Payment and pick up day will be agreed on.
Saturday - March 14th - Boquete Sausage Fest at TapOut 1pm - 10pm
Entrance fee is $6. p/person in advance until March 6th. March 7th to day of the event is $10. p/person
Tickets available at MailBox Etc; ACCBoquete booth at Tuesday morning Market, or Members of ACCBoquete.
Entrance fee includes 1 free beer from TapOut and live entertainment. Wristbands will be given to paid attendees.
Still Kickin 1-4PM (Gringo Band) and OS ALMIRANTES 8-10PM (Panamanian Band)
There will be 4 vendor booths selling their specialty sausages, side dishes and other items of their choice at their booth. Each vendor will have their own booth and will set their own prices starting at $5.00. You will pay them directly. Vendors will be:
* Richard from Sugar and Spice
* Chris from Boulder 54
* Jens from Pasteleria Alemana
* Shirley & Curly Sausage from Oktoberfest
Vote on the best sausage before you leave.
THIS IS A CHARITY EVENT TO HELP OTHER LOCAL CHARITIES. THE MORE MONEY WE COLLECT THE MORE WE CAN GIVE.
If you are unable to attend any of these events, donations will be accepted at the ACCBoquete booth at the Tuesday market March 3 and March 10 at ACCBoquete BINGO night at La Posada on Tuesday March 2nd from 5-7pm, or by contacting Linda Hart at lhart249@hotmail.com.
We will be giving the following charities donations from the proceeds raised from these 3 events: Buenos Vencinos, Boquete Dog Camp, Escuela Estrella Los Valle, Handicap Foundation, Panama Princess League, Casa Esperanza as well as others.
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ACCBoquete's 4th Annual Oktoberfest......Saturday, October 3, 2020....1-8pm.
More information to follow.
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Mark your calendars for a very special fun filled weekend...March 13th and March 14th, 2020.
Friday, March 13th we begin with a 🍷wine tasting party 🍾with booths along the riverfront between Boulder 54 and TapOut. Wine tasting will be followed by a special dinner and silent auction at Boulder 54.
Saturday, March 14th, again along the river front walkway, International Sausage Festival presented by local Boquete Chefs. From 1-4pm music featuring oldies and gringo dance music at the band shell at TapOut. From 6:00-9:00pm music will switch to Panamanian in the band shell.
More information on times, cost, local chefs, etc. to follow.
Any questions email March Rosen - bglbyz1@aol.com, Joe Hart - jhartpi@hotmail.com or Linda Hart - lhart249@hotmail.com.
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ACCBoquete is looking forward to a exciting 2020. But first we want to say thanks to all of our supporters for a great 2019!
ACCB 2019 Actitivites
- Jan. Elvis Presley birthday fundraiser for the Knitters and Quilters;
- Feb. Fundraiser at Big Daddys for Bricks Path Ministries for kids school bags;
- Apr. Palm Sunday dinner at Boulder 54 to raise money and collect Easter baskets for needy kids in Boquete;
- June started our bi-weekly Bingo games and still going strong;
- August, Elvis Memorial Tribute fundraiser for the Panama Princess Baseball League ACCB sponsored;
- October 5, the 3rd annual Oktoberfest;
- Dec. 1, 9th annual Christmas party at Boulder 54 to raise money and collect wrapped gifts for Boquete needy kids;
- Dec.6 &7, Sponsored Christmas concert at BCP for gifts and food for needy families;
- Dec. 14, Christmas party for 400 kids of Boquete
- Dec. 24, A Thank-you Bar-B-Q at the police station for all Boquete First Responders. While everyone else is with families celebrating Christmas the PD, Firemen and EMT's are on the job protecting us and
- Dec. 31, and finally, another Thank-you Bar-B-Q at the police station for all Boquete First Responders.
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ACCBoquete has hosted many events in 2019 but the kids Christmas party on Saturday, Dec. 14th was by far the best. ACCBoquete members who worked it and the volunteers walked away with the true meaning of Christmas in our hearts that day. Best we can calculate is a total of nearly 400 Panamanians and Indigenous kids were bused or car pooled or somehow made their way to BCP and Tap Out to see Santa and Mrs. Claus, eat hot dogs, sandwiches, cookies, punch and get gifts. There was face painters, balloons, 2 pinatas, 2 cartoons in the theater, several crafts tables to be creative and so much more. This will certainly be an annual event for ACCBoquete. Anyone who asks what does ACCBoquete do????? We strive to make a difference to the entire community of Boquete. If you were not able to share this wonderful experience, here are some pictures. Enjoy........
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ACCBoquete would like to say thanks to all that came to our Christmas dinner and provided us with 150 gifts to start our collection to give to other charitable organizations for distribution to needy kids of Boquete. Thanks to Chris Young and Boulder 54 fabulous staff for a great meal and excellent service as usual. A big,big thank you to our Christmas Carolers, Debbie Philips, Jeanie Miller and Kati Murphy for their best performances ever. It was a bitter sweet performance as Debbie is leaving Boquete and this was their last performance. Also a big thanks to Jeanie Fitzsimmons on the flute, Mike Webber for his sound equipment and Phil Bennett for technical skills. And lets not forget about the surprise visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus to start the Christmas season off right! Thanks to everyone.
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The Christmas Concert sponsored by ACCBoquete at BCP on December 6 & 7, 2019 was a huge success. Both performances had a packed house and everyone said it was the best Christmas concert ever. We received 297 Christmas gifts for the needy children of Boquete as well as two large boxes of non perishable food. Thank you to everyone that came to get into the Christmas spirit and help to make a lot of Boquete children happy. Thank you so much.
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Its that time again to mark your calendars for
ACCBoquete's 9th annual Christmas charity dinner
Sunday, December 1st, 3 PM and 6 PM
You are cordially invited to join us at
“Boulder 54”
Fundraiser menu: Traditional Southern Baked Ham dinner with ALL the fixins.
$18.00 per person
Music provided by Boquete's own Christmas Carolers and special appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus.
ACCBoquete is devoting the entire month of December activities for the needy families and children in Boquete!
HELP BRING OUR KIDS JOY.
We are starting off with our 9th annual dinner at Boulder 54 by asking you to bring a wrapped Christmas gift, for a boy or girl from ages baby to 12 years old.
Please identify on the gift who it is for and the age group (i.e. Boy-12, Girl-9 or baby). These gifts are distributed to our local charitable organizations for needy
Boquete children. We have made a lot of children happy over the years....let's do it again.
“RESERVATIONS REQUIRED”
There will be 2 seating times.... 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM. There will be tables for 2 people, 4 people, 6 people or 8 people. If you have a group you would like to
reserve for please indicate how many and their names so you can be seated together.
Please contact Linda Hart 6716-1151 or lhart249@hotmail.com
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Just a reminder Oktoberfest is just around the corner. Advanced $8.00 tickets are now on sale at Mail Boxes Etc. in Boquete and David, BCP Tuesday market at Tap Out bar in the hex room, and ACCBoquete members.
Mark your calendar for great music, a German food, beer (both cans and on draft, authentic German Pretzels and pastries.
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ACCBoquete Childrens Christmas Cookie Event
in Asociación de Caridad de La Comunidad de Boquete (ACCBoquete)
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In 2019 ACCB was asked to take over the Children's Christmas Cookie party at Tap Out, because no one else wanted to do it, and keep the tradition created by Erin Ross of the Boquete Community Playhouse alive. The Children's Christmas Cookie party included a special Christmas movie "in Spanish", face painters, the Pinata's, arts and crafts tables and hot dogs and cookies to die for and Mrs. and Santa Claus to hand out little gift bags to each child. That was our first year and when it was over, every ACCB member that worked that day said it was the best event we had all year and we promised Erin Ross ACCB would not let what was so near and dear to her heart, ever not happen. There were nearly 400 children at that event.
So here we are, a year later facing the COVID 19 issues but we are determined to keep our word to Erin. So trying to determine if we would be able to have the children come to the theater and do all the fun things, we were advised that most likely MINSA would not allow the children to gather in such a large group. So we are doing the next best thing. We have made arrangements for the school bus driver from House of Hope (Casa de la Esperanza) if he could deliver the Christmas gift bags to all the children, around 200+, to the same children he delivers food to every week. House of Hope is very excited for us to do this but cautioned us that MINSA may be shutting some areas down during the holidays. We are confident that won't happen and are proceeding on with our plans to make Erin's dream continue. Our plan is to make delivery to all the children in the Comarca's on Saturday, December 19th. We have also arranged for delivery to Jaramillo and Las Naranjo's the same day. We anticipate we will reach out to 300-400 kids giving them something special for Christmas. If we're lucky, we might even have Santa Claus help with the delivery.
In order to accomplish this, we will need volunteers to bake or buy cookies to accommodate this many children. If you can help, please contact Edie Baxter @ 6760-9426 or email Linda Hart at 6716-1151 as soon as possible.
We will be putting all the goodies including the cookies in the gift bags for the kids Thursday, Dec. 17th at the Club House in Boquete Country Club.
This is a long time tradition for The Boquete Community Playhouse so please help us to keep our promise to Erin Ross and make some children very happy. The little girl pictured below was taken last year at the Tap Out location and her face tells the whole story. She has become our poster child so to speak.
Thank you for your continued generosity. Boquete expats are the best! Thank you.