Monthly Meeting and Great Speakers

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The BCP Monthly Membership Meeting is Friday, October 7, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. - LaVilla Café aka the Hex Room - this is an open meeting. BCP Members and all interested are welcomed to attend.  ALL TALKS - 10:30 IN THE THEATRE Tuesday October 4 – Grief and Loss: Linda Pleissner, will talk to us about grief and loss how to deal with it. She will speak about deaths in her life and unacknowledged grief. Other subjects she will cover will include support groups, pets, facing the brevity of life, finding your passions and defining your new normal.    Tuesday October 11 –Nutre Hogar: Yira De Alvarado and Judith Tovar will speak about their work with Nutre Hogar of Chiriqui. Nutre Hogar is a private organization created in 1988 by Monsignor Romulo Emiliani and a group of volunteers, in order to recover and prevent severe malnutrition of children of the most impoverished communities of our country. 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. They attend to the children’s needs with medicine, dietary supplements, education, and MUCH LOVE. To give you an understanding of the scope of their Mission, they need $25,000.00 per month to maintain operations. http://nutrehogar.org/ 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 – Light-based Wellness: 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   SNEAK PEAK - NOVEMBER TALKS: Tuesday November 1 – Insurance: 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.