:COLONIA BUENOS AIRES: It´s the first small neighborhood just off the libramiento (tunnel road), next to the Cuale river. It´s a mix of humble homes and much newer, nicer ones that sit up on the jungled hillside. PEACEAnimals had not visited this area for a couple of years because of low turn-out, even though there one sees in the streets. The clinic took place next to the river at "Salon Beto," a large, open-air, rental location with a red brick floor and tin roof. Located on the main road in the middle of the colonia and close to the local school, visibility and accessibility are great.
Clínica en colonia Buenos Aires - Salon de Beto foto credit: Anna-Maija Suutarinen
STERILIZATIONS IN COLONIA BUENOS AIRES, PUERTO VALLARTA - AUGUST 5-8
FEMALE DOGS/Perras: 53; MALE DOGS/Perros: 26; FEMALE CATS/Gatas: 33; MALE CATS/ Gatos: 14 TOTAL: 126 PLUS PREGNANCIES TERMINATED (ABORTOS):
1 DOG WITH 3 FETUSES; 1 CAT WITH 3 FETUSES
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN VALLE DORADO, NAYARIT - AUGUST 12-15:
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN VALLE DORADO: 2,120 PESOS
Mercado - todos los miércoles - Ixtapa - market day
Clínica en Ixtapa
DONATIONS TO PEACEANIMALS:
Molly Fisher - $50 US for vet team lunches at clinic in Coapinole - July 28-August 1 (Mexico City)
Michael Turner - $50 US (monthly)
Thomas le Grand - $200 US (Outremont, Quebec, Canada)
John Brooks - $35 CA (Newfoundland, Canada)
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN BUENOS AIRES: 860 PESOS
Clinica en colonia Buenos AiresVALLE DORADO, NAYARIT: Colonia Valle Dorado is just off the freeway across from affluent Nuevo Vallarta in the neighboring state of Nayarit. There is poverty and always a surplus of cats and dogs. I was in San Francisco visiting family that week. Dr. Poli said a pet owner had arrived at 1 AM the first day. By 6 AM every day, clinics were full, which disappointed several pet owners. A decision was made to return soon.
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN VALLE DORADO, NAYARIT - AUGUST 12-15:
Female dogs - 50; Male dogs - 25; Female cats - 50; Male cats - 22; TOTAL: 149
PLUS pregnancy terminated for 1 dog with 8 fetuses
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN VALLE DORADO: 2,120 PESOS
IXTAPA is the large municipality 30 minutes north east of Puerto Vallarta on the road to San Sebastián. PEACEAnimals has made multiple visits to this location over the years due to large number of animals in an area with many ranch communities. The government building across from the main plaza is almost always available. Wednesday, our first clinic day of the week, is also market day at the plaza. Fruit, plants and used clothing, etc. for sale. Not many in attendance this week.
Clínica en Ixtapa un poco antes de comenzar cirugía - shortly before surgeries begin
STERLIZATIONS IN IXTAPA AUGUST 19-22: Female dogs - 56; Male dogs - 18; Female cats - 48; Male cats - 30 TOTAL= 150
Perros:18; Perras:56; Gatos:30; Gatas:46 PLUS/Además (aborto) 1 pregnancy terminated for dog with 6 fetuses
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN IXTAPA: 820 PESOS (approx. $37 US = approx 25 cents per cat or dog)
Molly Fisher - $50 US for vet team lunches at clinic in Coapinole - July 28-August 1 (Mexico City)
Michael Turner - $50 US (monthly)
Thomas le Grand - $200 US (Outremont, Quebec, Canada)
John Brooks - $35 CA (Newfoundland, Canada)
V. Porter - $75 US (Vancouver, Canada)
Clare Leach - board member- Scottsdale, Arizona - $50 US (monthly and earmarked for dog food donations at weekly clinics).
Sharon Tognietti and Sarah Weber - $10,000 US (California)
EDUCATION PROGRAM: Due to coronavirus, on hold until regular classes resume.
OCTUBRE
EDUCATION PROGRAM: Due to coronavirus, on hold until regular classes resume.
COVID-19: For all Mexico, televised classes in time blocks by grade begin next week. Not every Mexican owns a television, but more own tv´s than computers. College and university classes will be held via computer. Hotel occupancy for July has risen from 0% to 24%. Some villa owners and managers say this is their best summer rental ever. Sheltering-in can be very pleasant here. Small city, beaches, rivers, jungle and open-air restaurants provide more than adequate social distancing.
These are strange and difficult times. Norma Kafer, board member, recently sent me an email saying, "Yesterday seemed the same as Thursday, seemed the same as last week, last month... I¨ve described this era as a run-on sentence without punctuation."
El Libramiento (Tunnel Road)driving south to the turn-off to colonia Buenos Aires
It is ongoing, this feeling of being slightly off balance, suspended in time, dangling in mid-air, waiting for life to be what we once knew, and knowing that it will be different.
Sad News: 
Ralph Osborne, one of our founding board members, died on August 18th of COVID-19 in Puerto Vallarta. He was 81. Ralph was a full-time resident and had lived here since 2005. Ralph loved animals and all things beautiful. Originally from New York, at the age of eight he was sent to boarding school in Arizona because of his asthma. Surrounded by dogs and horses, he learned how to ride. Later, as a young man, he missed the equestrian riding team for the U.S. Olympics by just one person. After graduating from Northern Arizona University, Ralph moved to New York City, where he served as president of the International Institute of New Jersey, an organization that resettles refugees. He recently retired as president of C.S. Osborne & Co., an international manufacturing firm, family owned and operated since the Civil War. Ralph enjoyed adventures in 150 countries and had plans for more. He was an active and supportive member of the local Episcopal church. Ralph was also a board member and great supporter of the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens, where all four of his rescue dogs are buried. If visiting the gardens, you can see the land he purchased and donated across the Horcones river. It will remain wild and beautiful and where his ashes will be scattered. Ralph Osborne was an extraordinary person - kind and good, generous and curious, modest and joyful, loving and very lovable. So many people have lost a wonderful friend.
Ralph Osborne, one of our founding board members, died on August 18th of COVID-19 in Puerto Vallarta. He was 81. Ralph was a full-time resident and had lived here since 2005. Ralph loved animals and all things beautiful. Originally from New York, at the age of eight he was sent to boarding school in Arizona because of his asthma. Surrounded by dogs and horses, he learned how to ride. Later, as a young man, he missed the equestrian riding team for the U.S. Olympics by just one person. After graduating from Northern Arizona University, Ralph moved to New York City, where he served as president of the International Institute of New Jersey, an organization that resettles refugees. He recently retired as president of C.S. Osborne & Co., an international manufacturing firm, family owned and operated since the Civil War. Ralph enjoyed adventures in 150 countries and had plans for more. He was an active and supportive member of the local Episcopal church. Ralph was also a board member and great supporter of the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens, where all four of his rescue dogs are buried. If visiting the gardens, you can see the land he purchased and donated across the Horcones river. It will remain wild and beautiful and where his ashes will be scattered. Ralph Osborne was an extraordinary person - kind and good, generous and curious, modest and joyful, loving and very lovable. So many people have lost a wonderful friend.  |
| Playa Rosita, Puerto Vallarta - mirando a la lluvia sobre el valle de banderas - looking north at rain over banderas valley |
It´s hurricane season, which brings blurred, grey watercolor skies, breezes, cooler weather and often drenching rains. On August 18th, the weather report was that Hurricane Gevieve had reached category 4 west-southwest of the neighboring state of Colima. Intense rains were predicted for Vallarta. They didn´t arrive, but high, white-crested waves did. Surfers were spotted in the bay in front of the disappeared beach under the bridge spanning the río Cuale. 
A small, three-year old boy wearing a black mask stands on the bridge with his smiling young mother. From Leon, Mexico, the little boy has never seen the ocean before. He stands very still, extends his right arm, points at the bay and in a soft, serious voice, says, "Agua."
Olas altas - frente del río cuale
On August 19th, at approximately the same time the pirate ship sent off its celebratory display of fireworks over the blackened bay, my seventh grandchild, an 8 lb. 1 oz. girl, was born in San Francisco. She joins two brothers and a sister that I frolicked with last week at a beach during the heat wave. The new baby´s sister, age eleven, told me, "I´ve cried before, but it was always when I was sad. This is the first time I´ve cried tears of joy!"
On August 19th, at approximately the same time the pirate ship sent off its celebratory display of fireworks over the blackened bay, my seventh grandchild, an 8 lb. 1 oz. girl, was born in San Francisco. She joins two brothers and a sister that I frolicked with last week at a beach during the heat wave. The new baby´s sister, age eleven, told me, "I´ve cried before, but it was always when I was sad. This is the first time I´ve cried tears of joy!"
Rodeo Beach, San Francisco - last week during a heat wave - 3 nietos en un día caloroso
CLINIC SCHEDULE/HORARIO PARA LAS CLÍNICAS:
Agosto 26-29 - San Vicente, Nayarit . colonia Villas Miramar calle Sardina #79
clínica en Ixtapa
SEPTIEMBRE -
2-5 - Valle Dorado, Nayarit
2-5 - Valle Dorado, Nayarit
9-12 - Mezcalitos, Nayarit
16-19 - Coapinole (Demonio Blanco), Puerto Vallarta
Calle Francisco I. Madero 569, entre 20 de mayo y 1 de junio. Casa lavanda sin número frente de una palmera.
16-19 - Coapinole (Demonio Blanco), Puerto Vallarta
Calle Francisco I. Madero 569, entre 20 de mayo y 1 de junio. Casa lavanda sin número frente de una palmera.
23-26 - Puerto Vallarta
30-3 de octubre - Puerto Vallarta
7-10 - Puerto Vallarta
14-17 - Puerto Vallarta
21-24 - la Cruz, Nay. - The Kids Club - sponsored by the Mahoney Foundation
28-31- Punta de Mita, Nay. - Casa Comunidad de PEACE PUNTA DE MITA -
sponsored by the Mahoney Foundation
Noviembre
4-7 - Puerto Vallarta - TBA - esperando confirmación
11-14 - Pino Suarez, Tomatlán
18-21 - Bucerias - PFL
25-28 - San Juan, Nayarit
diciembre
2-5 Puerto Vallarta
9-12 - Puerto Vallarta
VACACIÓNES HASTA EL 4 DE ENERO 2021
Marzo - 10-13 - la Cruz, Nay. - PFL
Marzo - 10-13 - la Cruz, Nay. - PFL
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