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Announcement about ACCBoquete managing the Boquete Community Players theater at Tap Out


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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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