by amapaspv | Apr 3, 2017 | Events, News | Noticias, Street
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 provided by 40 top Vallarta restaurants and caterers, accompanied by Mariachi music. Margaritas flowed freely, along with goodwill, as Mexicans, Canadians and U.S. citizens dined and drank together, enjoying some amazing folkloric dancing, as well as Act II Stages star Brittany Kingery, who channeled Linda Ronstadt’s Cansiones De Mi Padre.
The event took in 88,000 pesos. After expenses, the money will be used by ANA and Viejo Vallarta to purchase a pair of pressure-washers to clean our respective areas’ streets and sidewalks – goodbye nasty street stains and odors, hello, cleanliness!
by amapaspv | Apr 3, 2017 | News | Noticias, Street, Uncategorized
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 side of Highway 200.
Our goal is a continuous hard-surface, all-weather sidewalk that will help residents, renters, visitors, and workers get from our homes in the hills of Amapas, down to the beach and into town without taking their lives in their hands, as they sometimes do when they have to step out onto the highway, sometimes having to dodge kamikaze cabs and 18-wheelers speeding around its many blind curves.
Our Project Supervisor, Fernando Hernandez, is working on a materials list and construction schedule that he’ll soon convert into a budget.
Next stop: City Hall, where we’ll present our detailed plans to the Planning Department for approval and support. Then the work will begin, first clearing overgrown vegetation and fallen rock from the path, then pouring the planned 1.5 meter wide sidewalk and constructing protective retaining walls and improving storm drains.
Phase One – pretty much opposite Paramount Bay – begins at the Villa Sausalito driveway, going north to the paved driveway opposite Villa Tizoc.
Once people see what we’ve accomplished, we hope they’ll chip in and help us finish our new sidewalk.
by amapaspv | Apr 3, 2017 | News | Noticias, Street, Uncategorized
Before Christmas, we improved safety, traction and the ride up Calle Hortensias from Highway 200 by installing new, meter-wide concrete tracks. Our thanks to our generous members on Hortensias and Gardenias who contributed north of $200,000 pesos to help ANA make it happen!
Soon after Easter/Semana Santa – when many of our snowbirds will have departed for cooler climes, and roadwork will inconvenience fewer people – ANA will resume our Hortensias Repaving Project.
The Final Phase will widen the 90 degree curve as you come up the hill from Highway 200 and approach Villas Loma Linda. Our goal is to make it easier for two cars going opposite directions to make the turn safely at the same time.
by amapaspv | Dec 28, 2016 | Garbage, News | Noticias, Street
Lately, we’ve all been noticing uncollected trash piling up around town – not to mention on our streets and driveways – and thinking, ‘Here we go again!’
But this may actually be a sign of better things to come.
A number of City administrations have wrestled with a long-term contract signed by a former mayor, giving Proactiva an expensive monopoly on trash collection. These struggles have resulted in extra costs, delays in service, etc.
However, the Davalos administration has managed to bring all this to a close.
Last week, the Proactiva contract was finally terminated, employees were let go, and at least some trash collection trucks were returned to City control.
What we are experiencing now – hopefully, temporarily – is the less-than-smooth change-over as Puerto Vallarta’s City Services takes control of all trash collection. That means hiring, or re-hiring, drivers and workers, etc.
This week, and for the first few weeks of January, City Services will attempt to continue the ‘old’ pickup schedule – the one we’re all used to. Between the change-over, the backlog, and the holidays, it probably won’t be pretty.
Viviana Teston, our ANA Administrator, has been on the phone, advising and reminding City Services that they’re falling farther and farther behind in our area – unfortunately, that’s all we can do for now.
And, of course, the timing couldn’t be worse for visiting tourists.
But, as soon as City Hall formalizes new routes, pickup schedules and rules, we’ll advise you via email updates like this one, and posts on our website and Facebook. And we’ll inform your Administrators, as well. It’s hard to look for the silver lining as you step over piles of uncollected trash on your way to dinner or the beach, but, this time, there may actually be one!
ANA will keep you posted.
by amapaspv | Dec 12, 2016 | Minutes | Minutas, Street
Todavía tenemos trabajo que hacer, en el que se estará trabajando el día de hoy.
El día de hoy no se llevará acabo ningún trabajo por ser día feriado para el ayuntamiento por el día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, pero el martes el equipo de Obras Públicas estará limpiando y removiendo el escombro, el Miércoles se verterá el cemento en el último tramo que conecta con la carretera.
Se seguirá trabajando un poco más, pero esto será después de año nuevo, cuando los trabajadores del ayuntamiento regresen de vacaciones.
Queremos agradecerles a los trabajadores por su trabajo duro y especialmente al Ing. Fernando Hernández por su dedicación y empeño como supervisor del Proyecto. Sin su determinación de conseguir que las huellas se terminaran y la calle pudiera ser reabierta antes de navidad, seguramente estaríamos todavía trabajando en la primera parte de la huella de subida.
Muchas gracias también a los miembros de Amapas y a los Edificios y Vecinos que contribuyeron con el dinero que fue necesario para conseguir este proyecto largamente esperado y muy necesario en nuestra calle.
Somos ANA. Y juntos logramos que las cosas se hagan.
by amapaspv | Dec 12, 2016 | News | Noticias, Street
We’ve got a little more work to do, but we’ll finish up this week.
No road work today, in honor of Sta. Maria de Guadalupe, but Tuesday our Obras Publica-supplied road crew will be busy clearing and removing the last of the debris, and Wednesday we’ll pour that last little section down at the highway.
There’s a little more to be done after that, but it’ll have to wait until the New Year, when we get our hard-working road crew back.
Special thanks to them, and to Fernando Hernandez, our dedicated and resourceful Project Supervisor. Without his determination to get the tracks laid and the road reopened before Christmas, we would still be trenching the first track.
Thanks, too, to the ANA members, Full Member Buildings, and neighbors who contributed the many pesos necessary to get this long-awaited and much-needed show on the road!
We are ANA. Together we get things done!
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