by amapaspv | Aug 18, 2016 | News | Noticias, Street
If you live in Horizon, Terrazas Del Mar or La Cima III, you may have noticed the new cement curb on your way up Los Pinos – now painted warning yellow – with a ‘No Parking’ sign embedded in it.
With City Hall and the owner of the property where erosion is undermining the pavement locked in a finger-pointing contest about who is responsible to repair this dangerous condition.ANA worked with Proteccion Civil and Obras Publicas to get the curb installed to prevent further erosion from the summer rains while we continue to work for a safer and more permanent solution.
Meanwhile, parking on the undermined pavement is potentially dangerous – to both the street and the illegally parked vehicle. If you see cars parked in front of our new curb and ‘No Parking’ sign, note the details – make, model and color, license plate – and call, or ask your Administrator to call, Transito at 322-22-680 82. They will ticket and/or tow illegally parked vehicles.
by amapaspv | Aug 16, 2016 | Events
This year’s Pulpito Drag Derby was held on Thursday, May 26, kicking off Vallarta Pride’s climactic weekend of parties, parades and events, and doubling attendance from the previous year.
Volunteers helped backstage, ran our seven crazy Challenges, and sold T-shirts, beer, water, and bets on who would be the $5,000 peso First Prize winner.
Our expenses, itemized below, including a $5,000 peso donation to local charity S.E.T.A.C., totaled $96,201.20 pesos. Income, including sponsorships for the overall event, Challenges, and individual Drag Contestants, totaled $149,070 pesos, leaving us with a net profit of $52,868.80.
A heartfelt thank-you to our volunteers, and for your participation and support!
See you at next year’s Pulpito Drag Derby –
The Pulpito Drag Derby 2016 Organizing Committee
EXPENSES
Stage, Talent and Meetings: $ 5,924.00
Equipment Purchases & Rentals: $19,011.00
Manager & Labor: $ 8,800.00
T-Shirt Purchase: $14,000.00
Challenges & Props: $10,961.00
Posters & Advertising: $ 2,200.00
Beverage Costs: $ 5,955.20
Prizes & Awards: $24,350.00
S.E.T.A.C. Contribution: $ 5,000.00
TOTAL EXPENSES: $96,201.20 PESOS
INCOME
Sponsorships: $80,000.00
Drink & T-Shirt Sales: $32,070.00
Bet Sales: $37,000.00
TOTAL INCOME: $149,070.00 PESOS
NET PROFIT: $52,868.80 PESOS
by amapaspv | Aug 8, 2016 | News | Noticias, Street
Hello, and thanks for your contribution to ANA’s Hortensias Repaving Project!
Thanks to you, ANA met our $200,000 peso goal to pay for materials and supervision for constructing a pair of grooved cement tracks from the highway intersection, up to the fork in the road just below La Cima I, where it connects with Gardenias.
As we reported in recent eNewsletters, collecting the funds was Step One. We hoped that the City would be able to start work before the summer rains, but that didn’t happen. ANA has been working with Obras Publicas to schedule what they tell us is a very ambitious and logistically complicated project. But Amapas isn’t the only colonia on the City’s To-Do list, so we have to compete with our neighbors, and be patient, but persistent.
As those of you in town now know, we’ve been having regular summer downpours. While the thunder-and-lightning shows have been entertaining, they’re not good for outdoor cement-work, never mind digging up a steep hillside road that has been turning into a storm-drain on an almost daily basis.
While we’re waiting out the Weather Man…
ANA, in the form of our Administrator, Viviana Teston, has been working steadily to keep our project front-and-center at City Hall.
In June,because of concern about the time passing by, ANA wrote officially to Mayor Davalos himself, informing him of the project, that our members have put up the money, and requesting his personal approval and support.
We’re pleased to report that our letter spurred conversations between the Mayor and the Director of Obras Publicas, with Mayor Davalos giving our project his support.
That’s a very big deal, but not quite the ‘magic wand’ we’d like it to be. So we’re continuing to press for a specific start-date, and have requested an in-person meeting with Mayor Davalos to keep a spotlight on Hortensias.
As we hope you know, your Neighborhood Association has many other irons in the fire – check out our next eNewsletter for details – but Hortensias Repaving is our first priority, and we’ll keep you posted periodically on our progress.
If you have questions or suggestions, please email us at info@amapaspv.com.
Thanks for your continued patience and support, for both the repaving and ANA –
Your ANA Board
by amapaspv | Jun 14, 2016 | News | Noticias
Our top priorities this summer are:
Addressing the erosion that threatens Los Pinos. We are working with Proteccion Civil, Obras Publicas and the property owner, to achieve temporary protection to get us through the summer rains, and a permanent, long-term solution to shore up the street for good.
- Repaving Hortensias. Thanks to our generous members and neighbors, we have raised $200,000 pesos for construction materials, and are working with Obras Publicas to schedule the work.
- Improving Trash Containment/Building Containment Boxes. We are working with both residential and business owners to put three or four closed containers on the streets to keep black-bagged trash out of sight and ‘out of smell’ between regular trash collection pickups.
- Amending, Improving & Reauthorizing District 9’s Plan Parcial. We are working with independent experts and members of the Planning Department to improve and reauthorize the Plan Parcial, originally passed into law in 2012, to improve responsible development in Amapas.
All these neighborhood priorities require the permission, cooperation and support of City Hall for successful completion. Your Board has worked hard to foster good working relationships with City officials. We’ll do our best to turn that hard-earned goodwill into progress on our four big priorities.
by amapaspv | Jun 14, 2016 | Events
The third annual Pulpito Drag Derby, kicking off the big Vallarta Pride/Memorial Day weekend, featured 16 high-heeled Drag Contestants competing for $8,000 pesos in cash prizes as they raced up and down Pulpito sidewalks and tackled 7 wacky Challenges. Angie Star, sponsored by Coco’s Kitchen, won the Pinnacle Resorts First Place check for $5,000 pesos – for the second straight year. La Morena, sponsored by La Noche, took 2nd place for $2,000, and Blondies’ Karla Fifi finished third, taking home $1,000 pesos.
The event, hosted at a brisk and hilarious pace by Mexico City-based comedian/drag chanteuse Hugo Blanquet and co-hosted by local real estate star Marc Serrao, began with a Wet T-Shirt Contest (Men’s Division). Ten strapping young men in tight white T-shirts rode ‘Max,’ the Mechanical Bull, to the delight of some 2,000 spectators, were hosed down in the Pose Down, soaking their t-shirts (some of which had to be removed), as they were judged for ‘Hotness, Wetness, Physicality, Personality and Physicality.’ The three judge panel declared Brandon Karim the Wet T-Shirt Winner.
A thoroughly mixed crowd of Norteno visitors and Nationals filled Pulpito Plaza – the intersection of Pulpito and Olas Altas – buying souvenir t-shirts and betting on the Derby contestants. Bets placed on the winner won three times their face-value in Pulpito Pesos, good for food and drink at many local bars and restaurants.
Our special thanks to our sponsors, and the two dozen ANA members and neighbors – you know who you are – who volunteered their time and energy to run the Derby, manage the stage, wrangle the contestants, judge the events, and sell bets, beer and t-shirts!
Thanks to many generous sponsors and great crowd participation, this year’s Derby netted $50,200 pesos for street improvements and lighting in the Pulpito area, plus an additional $5,000 pesos to local charity SETAC.
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