Proudly we present exclusive interviews of the new teachers at the American School of Puerto Vallarta conducted by the Vallarta Today newspaper.

This school is well known by foreigners here in Puerto Vallarta as well as internationally. The American School of Puerto Vallarta has 27 years of successful experience in academic excellence and all teachers are Board Certified.

Andrea Citlally Curiel Rodríguez now carries the representation of Miss Vallarta 2013, this Saturday night she was crowned winner of the beauty contest coordinated by the City Hall of this tourist destination.

The mayor Ramón Guerrero Martínez as well as the president of the DIF Puerto Vallarta, Magaly Fregoso Ortiz, accompanied Andrea Curiel for her coronation made by the queen of the Festival of October of Guadalajara Natalia Villasante.

In turn were crowned first and second princess respectively, Dulce Guadalupe Sánchez and Blanca Esther Meza Rodríguez. It should be mentioned that in addition to the winners, the group of participants was also integrated by Valeria Magdalena Gutiérrez, Brisa Alondra Peña and Andrea del Rosario González, all of them worthy representatives of Vallartan beauty.

For about two hours this event took place in three stages, the first one where the six candidates were presented, and the presentation of the authorities, sponsors, judges and special guests, like the actor Ferdinando Valencia, Salvador Moreno and Álvaro Íñiguez couture designers, Conception Hinojosa host of Televisa as well as the municipal trustee Roberto Ascencio Castillo and the Councilman Humberto Gómez.

On the runways, the candidates wore cocktail and evening dresses, they also responded individually to questions of history, which gave the jury the possibility of defining for sure who would be the winner this year.

During the recess for counting the score, the audience was treated to performances of Perla Alarcón and La Boquita.

Finally, after Andrea Curiel was made known as pageant winner Miss Vallarta 2013, the hosts Elizabeth Castro and Adrián Padilla closed the night with the presentation of the singer Mariano Barba, creator of songs like “Una noche mas” and “Te amo” who provided to the public of Puerto Vallarta several of his hit records.

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The student community of the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Campus Puerto Vallarta was received by the principal, the teacher Luis Ignacio Zúñiga Bobadilla. The university official said that he was fully satisfied with the return of the students in undergraduate, graduate, continuing education and high school.

It is noteworthy that the teacher Luis Zúñiga pointed out in between lines the security that this educational institution has, which is certified by institutions like the Disaster Prevention Department and the Health Delegation of the government of the state of Jalisco.

It is noteworthy that students, both incoming and returning now have a new café concept, with the monitoring of nutritionists and the medical service of the institution. Será Numedic (Medical Nutrition) with eight months as such; previously working in offices, workplaces and home services, among other things, now work for Univa. The goal is to create a new concept for the benefit of the student community said the Dr. Juma Maan Mejía responsible for the medical service of the institution.

Specialized staff

It is noteworthy that those responsible for the new services are nutritionists: Eduardo Solís Celis, nutritionist, Noé Abraham Reyes Rosas, nutritional advisor, Adriel Romero Monterosas degree in Gastronomy. The kitchen will be attended by José Rosario Cuevas (Chef), Fátima de la Cruz Nuño (Nutrition student), and Luis Donaldo Vivanco (Food and Beverage A.A.S). The menus are based on the preference of the students, which is known by a previously applied survey.

Hygiene is a priority in this University from the entrance of its facilities, and the implementation of various disinfectants, detergents and special fluids in bathrooms, halls, corridors, library and administrative offices, which are services that regularize their activities after the holiday. In relation to cleaning this will be outstanding, it will respond to the health standards as noted by state health secretary and the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta, Zúñiga Bobadilla, and he added: "we intend to achieve the tranquility of our students and their parents, to give them the highest possible cleanliness and safety in our facilities. "

To finalize the university official said that the extraordinary work of cleaning will be permanent and will apply especially in the library, cafeteria and administrative offices where students and people seeking guidance or any educational service regularly gather.

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TVC Networks recorded on Saturday September 7 in Puerto Vallarta a special program called "Adopt Vallarta". It aims to show the friendly face to animals of this city through capsules of television programs.

The goal, according to the marketing manager of the company's television, Andrea Varona, is to show the actions in favor of animals that are performed in the city at civic associations involving PV Animal, Peace, Angelicat, SPCA, in addition to the animal collection center, in an event open to the public that will be taped and subsequently distributed to the pay channels TVC, TVC Deportes, Platino, Pánico, Cine Mexicano and ArtTVC, as well as youtube and social networks.

They will be addressing issues such as the result of the abandonment of pets in the streets. Also from 9am there will be free sterilization and adoptions of dogs and cats of all ages.

There will also be the participation of the private initiative, such as Westing Regina Hotel, labeled as "Pet Friendly", due to the facilities provided for visitors traveling with their pets.

Similarly, the destination will be promoted as an animal-friendly city, inviting visitors to enjoy it with their pets.

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He was quite a character of the Old Vallarta

The leader became ruler in four municipal governments

Carlos Everardo Robles Herrera was secretary general of the Federation of the CTM from 1974-1992, and four times alderman of Puerto Vallarta. When he died on Saturday night in Guadalajara he was 77 years old, and apparently he was about to publish a book on his memoirs that he had been writing for several years, shaping and writing the experiences not only in trade unionism and politics, but also Vallarta memories of the last century, where he was one of the creators of this tourist destination.
Also son of a trade unionist, Apolonio Robles Gil, although his father was a leader in the CROM, and Carlos Everardo, would become the leader of the CTM in Puerto Vallarta. He was born on May 14, 1936, in Corona Street in the property marked with the number 33. His mother was Enedina Herrera Herrera.
He had just turned 18 when on May 14, 1955, he obtained his first taxi permit, it was the sixth to be awarded in this city, then Carlos Everardo knew whom was to be fundamental in his union career, Heliodoro Hernández Loza. He was among the founders of the first taxi union, to constitute the section of the National Union of Motor Carriers.
"There were only seven site cars and we needed to be 23 drivers to form the union", he told in an interview 10 years ago to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the CTM in Puerto Vallarta. He recalled that in the worker parade of 1955, the CTM was a contingent that was not even a block away, and then a leader of the strongest labor union, CROM mocked them by saying "the dwarfs have already gotten angry", decades later in one of the last shows that headed the leader of the CTM in 1991, he said "well the dwarfs have already grown and plenty".
He happened to live in the times of unionism when the leaders were continuously reelected", he said when talking about his life in the CTM, where after 20 years as head of the Union of Trasportistas y Similares, he became in 1974 the secretary general of the Federation of the CTM, a position which he held until 1992.
It was also during his administration when he promoted housing actions that led the pattern for the first two housing units in Vallarta: Infonavit CTM and La Aurora.
Away for more than 20 years from the limelight of politics, he lived in Pitillal delegation, where in recent years he was engaged in writing his memoirs. He wrote from his memories of childhood, and of the time in 1963 when he was the interpreter of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor, because he knew English, which he had learned in the first language school that existed in Vallarta.
Or of those stories in his mobile-office, a white van, and that with his portfolio it was the office of the CTM, "when I got to the secretary general of the CTM, it did not have a brick cut in half" would say who during one of his many periods endowed this labor union with its own site, the building that was located on the street of Colombia, laying the foundation stone the maximum chief of the CTM, Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, also in what would be the sports unit of the CTM in Coapinole.
It was in the deed signing of the ten acres in Coapinole in which he would have a confrontation with Heliodoro Hernández Loza, as Robles Herrera wanted to do it on behalf of the unions of taxi drivers, but he was told that he had to do so on behalf of the federation.
"It was the permit holders and the drivers the ones who put the money; finally it was done as was asked by Don Heliodoro; it caused me pain; that was the only time I did not agree with who was always my guide and example".
The changes came
It was when Hernandez Loza's death, months after the death of his father, Apolonio Robles Gil, that amid a labor movement, Robles Herrera leaves the general secretariat in 1992.
"For me the absence of Don Heliodoro marked me, it was time to get away, and without him I knew that nothing could be the same", were the words of Carlos Everardo when he spoke about the ending of that chapter of his life.
"I think that I was able to understand that when don Heliodoro died, unionism would no longer be the same, so I left with the satisfaction of having given a heritage to the union, and the rest as they say is another story", this is how concluded the last interview he gave to this reporter in August 2003, when I was compiling the material for writing his memoirs, unpublished book at his death, which happened Saturday night.
Yesterday afternoon his remains would arrive to Puerto Vallarta, where they would be mourned at Funeraria San Jose, the remains of the CTM member who also passed to history as the only one who was alderman four times: first in the three years of José Vázquez Galván (1968 -70), after in the period of José Baugmarten Joya (1974-1977), later with Rafael González Pimienta (1980-1982) and finally in the administration presided by Rodolfo González Macías (1992-1995).

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The month of September is the month of theater in Puerto Vallarta, so the Vallarta Institute of Culture (IVC) by the hand of the master Fabián Alberto Sahagun, director of the Municipal Theatre and the director and producer Edgar Treviño, present during the national holidays a large package of plays in the forum of the Cuale Cultural Center.
There are three scenic proposals, the first is "The Toothbrush", a play of the absurd to be presented every Wednesday of September at 8 o'clock at night. It is worth noting that this setting is winer of the Encounter of the Theatre of the Interior in Lagos de Moreno and won the first place in the category of Best Director at the State Theatre shows, where it also won for best actress for the performance of Veronica Muñiz.
"How to be Gay and not die trying" is the second of these scenic presentations and is dedicated to the homophobia of some people in the country. It is five murder cases of homosexuals, focused on the search of how to survive when the eyes of society are set on the topic with judgment and criticism. This work is also mounted by Producciones Raquítica, under Edgar Treviño, it is presented on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 o'clock at night.
In the case of the master Alberto Fabián Sahagún Orozco, director of the Municipal Theatre, he presents the play "Letters to the Divine Prisoner" winning piece of the Encounter of the Theatre of the Interior in Lagos de Moreno, created and directed by Alberto Fabian himself, which he only presents this Saturday and Sunday, at 8 o'clock at night, on the stage of the Cuale river Island.
Thus the Vallarta Institute of Culture invites the entire community to enjoy local talent through these three presentations of affordable theater 50 and 60 pesos per person respectively.

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*Becoming the first state-level institution to obtain such recognition, it will be in early November when the results are disclosed.

The System for Integral Family Development (DIF) of Puerto Vallarta credited the first assessment made by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) of the convocation to get the Distinction Inclusive Company "Gilberto Rincón Gallardo 2013".
This award is given to companies or institutions, public or private, for hiring vulnerable persons including (elderly, disabled and people living with HIV) and developing actions to promote equal opportunities and non-discrimination.
Magaly Fregoso Ortiz, president of the Municipal DIF led the meeting and assessment review that was conducted by the authorities of the Ministry of Labor and asserted that the municipal government works to protect the rights of people with disabilities, the elderly, women and all the Vallartans in conditions of vulnerability.
She reported that of the nearly 400 people who work in the institution, 80 of them were hired for being in a vulnerable situation and invited companies to join the project and especially to respect the rights of the people, regardless of status, sex, race, religion, sexual preference, age or disability.
Meanwhile, Barajas Violeta del Carmen Soto, Assistant Trainer of the DIF said that after the evaluation, the only thing that is missing is that the verifier committee makes a verdict and it will be in November when the results are disclosed.
Thus, the Municipal DIF System became the first institution in the state in having such recognition granted by the Ministry of Labor, which aims to encourage participation in the generation of employment opportunities for women and people in vulnerability.
It should be noted that Distinction Inclusive Company "Gilberto Rincón Gallardo 2013, is promoted by the Undersecretary of Labor Inclusion and its substantive areas, through the federal labor delegations, state operating committees and networks of labor relations.
The Labour Ministry expects that by 2013 at least a thousand companies receive distinctions of Inclusive Business "Gilberto Rincón Gallardo" for good labor practices.

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The head of the Ministry of Health of Jalisco (SSJ), Jaime Agustin Gonzalez Alvarez led Wednesday's ceremony marking the National Day of the Altruistic Blood Donor. In the event he said that the Blood Transfusion Center of Jalisco (CJTS) registered an increase in altruistic donation of blood, from 7 percent recorded last year to 20 percent today.

González Álvarez explained that this situation is due to the support received from some companies and "significantly, through the Federation of University Students of the University of Guadalajara, which has been following us and which has been more in contact with us. The youth come to donate blood altruistically".

The health secretary said that the interaction of his agency with the industry sector will continue in order to get voluntary participation.

He also clarified that the celebration around the altruistic donation is marked in the calendar for August 25, and he stressed the importance of giving a little blood to help others, because any person, at some point in its life, could require a transfusion. As an example, Alvarez Gonzalez himself donated blood at the end of the formal ceremony.

Meanwhile, the owner of CJTS, Maria Guadalupe Becerra Leyva said after the celebration of the International Day of Voluntary Donations, that two months ago there has been an increase in donations through 14 extramural campaigns, capturing in this period, 355 units of blood. "Today we reported 20 percent of charitable giving. The goal for next year is 30 percent", he said. He also assured that this objective can be achieved with the help of college students.

Jalisco collects on average 130 thousand units of blood per year, corresponding to 9.2 percent of the national collection, of which 70 percent comes from institutional blood banks: IMSS, ISSSTE, civil Hospitals and CETS.

In the State there are 35 blood banks, of which five are institutional and the rest belong to private companies.

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Social Communication
Municipal Government of Puerto Vallarta

* The courses and workshops are aimed at people who intend to learn a trade and start their own business

On September 2 will begin the school year 2013-2014 at the Center for Training and Community Development, which offers 18 workshops to the Vallarta population that wishes to learn a trade and start their own business.

"In the Training Center they are teaching skills that allow people to develop themselves personally and professionally and have the possibility of earning a cash income, besides creating jobs for others", said the director of the institution that belongs to the Municipal DIF, Mr. Cesar Venegas.

He said that the quota of the workshops that will begin on Monday of next week run from 15 to 20 people. In most courses there are morning and evening hours.

Have you thought about learning a trade and improving yourself? In the Training Center there is the offer of 18 workshops including: beauty culture, sewing, baking, crafts in bar, piñatas, crafts in textile paint and packaging

In addition to English, spa therapy (massage), fashion and design, nails, volleyball, karate and dance.

On Saturdays there is the offer of the workshops: maintenance and repair of air conditioners, food and beverage preparation, computers and basketball.

It should be noted that the courses are certified by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) through IDEFT. The requirements are two passport-size photographs, original birth certificate, and a copy of the voter registration card and curp.

More information in the phone 299 6434 or in Ecuador street, esquina 21 de Marzo of the colony Coapinole.

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In 2013, as part of the National Crusade "No Hunger" promoted by the Federal Government, the System for Integral Family Development (DIF) Jalisco will invest 437 million 711 thousand 357 pesos in their food programs, which will benefit 324 thousand 850 people in the 125 municipalities of the state that are deficient in their diet.

It also aims to operate jointly with the Ministry of Development and Social Integration (SEDIS) of the state and municipal DIF, besides with the actual beneficiaries, up to 40 sustainable community kitchens, in order to generate a greater impact in reducing hunger.

The general director of DIF Jalisco, Consuelo Jiménez González del Rosario said that the welfare agency will direct its efforts in three of the five areas comprising the National Crusade, one of these is to promote an adequate nutrition for people in poverty.

"We will also help to reduce acute child malnutrition and to improve indicators of weight and height, and we will promote community participation and mobilization of people against hunger and poverty", said González Jiménez.

She explained that, currently, one million 628 thousand 724 citizens of Jalisco suffer food shortages, which represents 22.1 percent of the total population of the state. In 78 municipalities, less than 25 percent of the people live in this situation, while in the other 47, the range of people who have trouble meeting nutritional needs is between 25 and 50 percent.

Gonzalez Jimenez added that DIF Jalisco undertakes a social commitment with a two-track approach: "First we will address the issues of immediacy, but we will also create conditions for improving production and income capabilities."

The planning director of DIF Jalisco, Melanea Leonor Orozco Llamas said that this model is currently working in the community of San Andrés Cohamiata, in the municipality of Mezquitic, where there was a survey of 311 households, of which, 103, in which 574 people are living, had severe food shortage.

"We want those who are in severe food scarcity to become beneficiaries of the dinning that is being enabled there", she said. She also expressed confidence in that "with all the other charity that they already have, such as pantry, breakfast and other kinds of rations, the rest of the people can be covered".

Another strategy that the DIF Jalisco will implement will be to strengthen social and human capital, so that individuals and groups are active subjects of their own development. For this the vocation of Community Development Centers will be redirected to generate value-added chains.

In Jalisco, the National Crusade "No Hunger" of the Federal Government will be implemented in six townships: Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, El Salto, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Mezquitic.

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Classified as the first event of its kind in Puerto Vallarta, Tattoos 4 Food on Saturday grossed over 29 thousand dollars in kind for the foster home Máximo Cornejo.

The event started at 9 am in the studio Vallarta Ink, where eight tattoo artists, served people that attended to get a tattoo and in exchange donated nonperishable food, cleaning supplies and diapers. The last tattoo was finished at 10pm.

José Sanjuan, one of the organizers said that this first edition was a turning point to continue with similar events each year to support various associations.

"It is the first time in the history of Vallarta that an event like this is made, but we had friends who came from Guadalajara, Tepic, San Luis Potosi, Monterrey, and we know that we will do it again next year," said Sanjuan.

After the event a party was held which had a cost of 30 pesos, with which fruit and vegetables were bought for the foster home.

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The local deputy, Gustavo Gonzalez Villasenor, went to the town of San Sebastian del Oeste where he cut the inaugural ribbon of the Artisan Expo Sale of Soyatán 2013, to support the arts and culture, as well as the work of artisan groups in their development and the improvement of their economy. González Villaseñor pledged to continue working hard to keep supporting the bill and contribute to tourism promotion and the marketing of artisanal creations. During the opening ceremony, the local legislator received from the President of San Sebastian del Oeste, Yecenia Pulido, an award for providing support to the event, in which the deputy stressed that she will continue supporting women in remote communities in their training in craftsmanship and other trades as this allows them to grow, to be better people every day and contribute to the welfare of their families. It is noteworthy that this exhibition will be open to the public from August 15 to 18 in the corridors of the City Hall of San Sebastian del Oeste, where one can find traditional, frayed, beaded accessories, embroidery, among other handmade items, as well tasting typical dishes of the region.

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