Keith Woolford

It's my understanding that after presentations were made by the Minister of Security and the Mayor at the Tuesday Morning Meeting today about important community security and water issues, someone in the audience immediately asked the Mayor what he was doing about the unfinished building downtown. For crying out loud, where are some people's priorities?

President Varela was in town this afternoon to sign the order to proceed with a $19.5 million project to rehabilitate earthquake damaged Escuela Josefa Montero de Vásquez in Bajo Boquete and the Escuela Primaria in Gualaca. The Pres. alsotoured the new Market with Mayor Walker, local Representantes and Diputada Athenas Athanasadias.

Val B. is another person with out-of-whack electrical billing woes. As Dan suggests there may be leaks. I have a simple Amprobe to measure current draw but no recording device, which is probably what is really required to solve the mystery. Would be happy to look one day anyway, Bonnie.

President Varela arrived in David this morning to begin his work week in Chiriqui.

The developer is the Ricardo Perez family.

Sure. The biggest demand for power is in the biggest centers, and at the lowest elevations. I made the point because using AC in the home here can spin your electric meter like an old 78. Other consumption hogs are electric stoves, dryers, and water heaters, all of which can be operated far more cost-effectively here with gas. Hopefully conservation and new technology will save the planet from ourselves.

Something like 65% of all demand for electrical power in Panama is for air conditioning,

Tomorrow, October 27th, the Presiden'ts Cabinet meets publicly in Chiriqui, not sure where. On the agenda is a $300 million water and sewage project for David.

Our 1000 VA battery backup UPS carried the router and TV through the whole outage which is convenient. (except for the beeping) There is a new parallel national grid currently being constructed. I remember post.ning a progress report some time back.

Union Fenosa hasn't been around for a long time but names stick. U.F. was acquired in 2009 by parent Gas Natural Fenosa, a major European energy group whose primary focus is the natural gas distribution business, for about 16.8 billion Euros. Based in Barcelona but operating in Spain, Italy, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, and Panama, GNF has a client base of about 10,000,000.

Beautiful country Steve, went to Scout camp on Christie Lake near there once. Are you sure you would be able to live here without black flies and nickel-sized mosquitoes? We don't even have screens on most windows. Keith - very warm! A little west of Smiths Falls and a little more backwoodsy: Sharbot Lake area.

Stephen, it sounds like you would probably be better prepared than most in terms of adapting to imperfections that others find hard to deal with. Are you around Smith Falls or somewhere in that area?

The Sooke team chronicled their week here in Boquete on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FDBSooke It appears that snacks were gratefully received

This is Prostate and Breast Cancer Prevention Month in Panama First Lady Ana Lorena Castillo was present along with the Governor of Chiriqui

good evening, Pat. Your question should be directed to the AAC board of directors, don't you think?

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A Rotarian would be better able to answer that Marcelyn, but one would think so.

These firefighters work really hard to raise the required funds to make this journey. What a shame that the scrap vehicles in advance that are required for them to teach their skills weren't organized prior to their arrival. I understand that, as of yesterday, five more junkers were still required. Hopefully, that issue will be resolved quickly. http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/330466791.html http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/281504111.html

To the left of Subway in between phone stores. You can see the Apple service center logo top right. I took this pic when they were opening. Poked my head in the door and talked to a fellow who said he was the owner. He told me M stores are smaller volume Mac Stores. Same owners, same service. Good luck.

Hilary, this is a five year project. The design-bid contract was only let a few months ago and is now in the detail study process. You can see surveyors around town every day gathering additional data for the engineers to make critical decisions and draw their plans. I wouldn't expect to see any excavation or construction start for a while, but when it does the streets in downtown Boquete may well be a mess for years, and of course there will be service interruptions. In the meantime, I believe the new Mayor is doing his best to keep patching and improving the existing systems to meet the demands of an ever growing population. Tanks, pumps, and filters have come to be the norm around Boquete. Maybe in five years we won't need all that.

No problem agreeing with Bonnie. This whole 'report' should be discounted, imo, as the person who wrote it hasn't been here more than a month and is without local knowledge of the history or the future of Boquete's water systems, and/or how to live with them, as most folks have learned. As far as I can tell, this is just a rant by someone who didn't their homework before moving to a foreign country. Mayor Walker has had people working on repairs and improvements to the water service since the day he took office.

Close to Hotel Los Establos, the report says as many as 10 homes may be affected.

Ah hah! I'm wondering now if that's how my post about juvenile offender laws disappeared on Saturday. I know that I edited it. ..maybe it vaporized on a time-out infraction. Guess we know now how to delete a post within the given time frame. Agreed that ten or fifteen minutes gives a little more time for review and perhaps some sober second thought.

Well, I'm sorry Mr. Ferguson but being judged by you or any other uninformed people just isn't something that bothers me, nor should it. The fellow asked a question and I responded to him politely, emphatically, and truthfully. However since you seem to want, and perhaps merit, a juvenile response, have a listen here. This will be my last post related to boquete.ning <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pkgkWpyVLfg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

just can't seem to shake Barbie