Framed images of the Old Boys Social Club’s three decades of their annual BBQ & Bash adorn beams of the Community Center in Cholla Bay. Over those three decades, along with fiesta and BBQ, the OBSC has continually raised an average of $500 US yearly for the local Lion’s Club. In recent years, explains OBSC […]
Las Palomas Beach & Golf Resort is offering much more than the beach experience to visitors and condo residents. Last weekend, on April 2nd, in the relaxed environment of Las Palomas, Mexican signer Ximena Sariñana put on a concert for hundreds of youth and families gathered at the resort. Seated comfortably on the grass, resting […]
Approximately 20 minutes due southeast of Puerto Peñasco rests a calming oasis stretching along perhaps one of the most beautiful beaches in the region, where each greeting is met with a hand over one’s heart. Mayan Palace – also now featuring the Grand Mayan, and with plans to open Grand Bliss mid-2017. Fortunately, the road […]
For a third consecutive year, people are invited to register for the 5K and 10K Toma Color fun run, to take place this year on Sunday, April 24th. The Toma Color organizing committee, made up of young business professionals, held a press conference this past week to explain details of this year’s event, which aims […]
“The Monday after Super Bowl is the least productive day in the U.S.” This statement caught my eye Tuesday as it ran across the TV screen meant to help ease the doldrum of waiting in line at Banorte. “Yesterday was pretty productive,” I smirked, yet admittedly not at the office but as part of this […]
In recent years Puerto Peñasco has offered the natural spectacle of whale watching opportunities just off shore. Generally, January marks the beginning of the first whale sightings in the area, particularly for fin whales and humpbacks. This year, it wasn’t until February 2nd when the “whale watching season” began after numerous humpbacks were spotted about […]
Named precisely after the Sonoran state law focusing on persons with disabilities, the newly formed Ley 186 Puerto Peñasco Civil Association seeks to protect and provide support for persons with disabilities in the community. The association, presided over by Francisco Bercovich, hopes to raise awareness as to the rights of the more than 1000 individuals […]
RP360: Following weeks of anticipation, on the afternoon of Feb. 2, 2016, Oscar Preciado of Del Mar Charters was happy to announce the winter whales were back! This opens up a great opportunity for whale watching trips on local boats. Just last year, who can forget the incredible picture of a local SUP-boarder’s up close […]
The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO), in collaboration with the San Diego Zoo, invite Jr. high and high school students from coastal communities in the northern Gulf of California in both Baja California and Sonora to participate in CEDO’s 20th Environmental Contest entitled “Fishing for the future: Ecosystem is the […]
If we follow the song, we remember “on the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Twelve drummers drumming.” Rather than drummers, across Mexico the end of the Christmas season means arrival of the 3 Kings and, of course, toys (Día de los Reyes Magos)! This is particularly honored in southern parts […]
The Today show claims vacations with a purpose will be trending in 2016. For many across Puerto Peñasco, it’s easy to see we’re ahead of the trend. During the recent holiday break, under the motto of “Be Good, Do Good,” more than 50 volunteers from the Charity Anywhere Foundation traveled from Utah to the shores […]
This year, Puerto Peñasco said goodbye to don Jorge Pivac, one of the founders and early business leaders who breathed live into the local fishing sector as well as into industry across the city. After battling with an illness that had afflicted him for years, don Jorge Pivac Grgich began his final journey on November […]
By Guillermo Munro Palacio On the morning of December 24, 1952, I woke up missing the songs my mother would usually wake us up with daily. I went to look for her in the kitchen, where I found her measuring coffee into the coffee pot. “Your father didn’t arrive,” she said. There was sadness in […]
By Big Wave Dave This year there were 16 chili cookers, some veteran cookers and some first timers. All Chilis were extremely good, making it very hard to choose a winner. This year’s winner was 1st time cooker Rhea Dugan, 2nd place went to Randy Adams, and 3rd went to Darren Dodd for “Thunder Down […]
Numerous promising baseball players in Puerto Peñasco have had the opportunity to take part in youth baseball clinics led by the U.S. based organizing “Hands Giving Hope.” Henry de la Cruz, one of the main trainers of the annual clinic, indicated approximately 35 youth ranging in age from 13 to 16 benefit from these completely […]
I was told recently hatched turtles were going to be released, and just like that I got up from the computer and looked over at my daughter, thinking how she would like to witness such an event…. “Let’s go Sofia, put on your shoes and let’s go see the baby turtles, vamos, let’s go!” and […]