Chiriquí Chatter

I just received the following email.
The Moon Valley Jazz Night at the historical house of the Tribaldos Family is coming.
Our musical host will the the group Sin Ensamble Jazz.
7:30p.m.
Saturday 30th of August
Your contribution US$20.00 per person, includes dinner and music.
Tickets for sale in Cocina Rica in David and the Oasis B&B at Boquete.
This is the [...]

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I just received the following email.
Do you know that at the  Jose Domingo De Obaldia Hospital in the City of David, are born approximately 23 children and the majority are Gnobe Bugle?
This is the main reason of the Diaper Campaign organize by the Ladies Committee of the Lions Club of David. A goal for this [...]

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I had mentioned that I was helping a local store put together a PC running Linux. The store, INFOX, is now ready and the PC is in place. It is running openSUSE 11.0 KDE and has sign-ons in both English and Spanish.
I removed the Gnome capability for now, as I felt it created too complicated [...]

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I have a post ready to go, but with the speed I am getting I can’t upload the photo. C&W failed me again.

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This post brings the number of posts in Chiriquí Chatter to 2,500. The number of comments is currently 9,336. Akismet has caught and quarantined 40,460 spam comments to this point. Bad Behavior blocks over 1,500 more spam attempts per week.
I will use this milestone, to say thanks to all those that continue to frequent Chiriquí [...]

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I received the following information, about the 2009 Panama Calendar, from Carmela L. Gobern.
The Panama Calendar 2009 will go on sale the first week in November 2008. This is our 23rd year of publication of this project, which annually benefits several charities.
The theme of the Panama Calendar 2009 is “Promoting our Panamanian Folkloric Dances” [...]

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I received the following email announcement from Boquete:
Boquete Community Players is putting on its Second Annual Art Show in August…. the feria de ARTE which is being held in the Salon Orquidea of the main Feria Building.
feria de ARTE kicks off at 7pm on August 15 with a Gala Opening Reception for BCP members (only) [...]

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I spent a fair amount of time trying to decide what material to use for Dario’s class today. I finally decided to use one of John Grisham’s books. I have had it on the shelf to be read, so I will kill two birds with one book. I will get started reading this novel and [...]

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Yesterday’s post received a comment with a video that is worth watching. In case you rarely read them, I will call your attention to this ONE.
Now go have a wonderful day and don’t take things forgranted.

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Last night we had one heck of a big rain. Complete with some of the biggest thunder bumpers I have ever heard. It looked like the fourth of July outside.
Every time it would thunder, all of the car’s alarms would go off because of the ground shaking. I had just downloaded a program and was [...]

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