LOS PINOS UPDATE: August 25, 2017
Last month, ANA sent an official letter to Mayor Davalos, with copies to the relevant City Departments – Obras Publicas, Planning, Proteccion Civil, and Transito – requesting a written statement of City Hall’s response to the report of our Civil Engineer, declaring...
English 101 – Puerto Vallarta Police Advance Their English Skills
While the majority of ANA members were beginning their annual migration back North, the Amapas Neighborhood Association (ANA) began an English as Second Language (ESL) Program for the PoliceDepartment. Based on the conversations between the police and ANA, while we...
LOS PINOS PROGRESS REPORT Thursday, July 6, 2017
dictamen meIn our May Update, we reported on our meeting with Mayor Davalos, our top priority being City action on the undermining of Los Pinos pavement. In June, we interviewed Civil Engineer Antonio Mercurio, of Construcciones Mercurio, and hired him to perform an...
REPORT: PULPITO DRAG DERBY 2017
This year’s fourth annual Pulpito Drag Derby, a major event in Vallarta Pride, was, by all accounts, a big success. Attendance nearly doubled at our ‘neighborhood block party’ from 2016, filling Calle Pulpito from Olas Altas to Calle Amapas with so many spectators...
Amapas Reclycling Program
Amapas Neighborhood Association started a Recycling Program two years ago. It has been a high learning curve and one that we continue to master. Monthly we collect around 200 kilos of PET (Polyethylene terephthalate), which is the most commonly recycled plastic...
VEA Report #2
Reporting Crime and Police Response Procedures As part of ANA's Collaboration on Crime Prevention VEA is Vallarta’s new neighborhood-based crime prevention program – sort of a ‘Neighborhood Watch’ on steroids, providing instant reporting via Whatsapp, VEA is an...
MARIACHI’S, MARGARITAS & MORE
On March 23, mostly Gringo ANA co-hosted our first bilingual, bicultural celebration of international friendship with mostly Mexican sister association Viejo Vallarta (part of Emiliano Zapata) at the Lions Club, and it was a blast. Over 300 guests sampled great food...
ANA’s NEW VEA PROGRAM: ‘Neighborhood Watch’ on steroids
Your Amapas Neighborhood Association has an excellent relationship with our local police. That’s one reason they invited our colonia to participate in the new VEA Program – a sort of ‘Neighborhood Watch on steroids’ with an added Whatsapp element to ensure a rapid...
ANA DONATES NEW 911 RADIOS TO VALLARTA POLICE
911 has finally arrived in Puerto Vallarta as a universal emergency phone number – and the operators speak English! But to get truly rapid response throughout greater Vallarta, it’s necessary to upgrade the radio transmissions of our emergency responders: police and...
HIGHWAY SIDEWALK PROJECT: Neighbors Pledge Pesos
Some generous ANA members in Paramount Bay have pledged about $3,000 USD = $60,000 pesos to fund Phase One of ANA’s Highway Sidewalk Project. As reported earlier, ANA commissioned an architectural plan for improving the partially paved path that runs along the west...