holiday

Arts, Music, Holidaze! Rocky Point Weekend Rundown!

Sponsored this week by the Mermaid’s Market – 1st and 3rd Saturdays @ Plaza Camarón (Fall-Spring) The marathon has begun! We’re talking about the “Lupe-Reyes” marathon of festivities in Mexico – stretching from Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Dec. 12th) through Día de Reyes (Kings Day – Jan. 6th). Plus, with the traditional holiday […]

Holiday Drives: food, warmth, and education

Sonoran Resorts Annual Food Drive! Now through the end of the year, the Sonoran Resorts is collecting non-perishable food items at any of their Sales offices. Wrecked at the Reef’s 4th Annual Blanket Drive! As cooler temps are now upon us in Rocky Point, there are many folks that don’t even have a blanket to […]

Revolutionary Day Parade set for Monday, Nov 17th

Preparations are underway for the annual Mexican Revolution Day parade, now commemorating its 104th anniversary. The parade is set to take place Monday, November 17th. José Iván Valle, Coordinator from the Office on Civic and Cultural Affairs, explains the parade this year has been reduced by 40% to make sure the parade is livelier, though […]

Honoring 208th Anniversary of Benito Juárez

This morning, March 21st, city officials and members of the Symbolic Lodge Juárez 1972 #6, commemorated the 208th Anniversary of Benito Juarez’s birth. During the ceremony, City Secretary Oscar Villavicencio accompanied by city officials and City Council members took part in an honor guard and placed floral wreaths on the Juarez bust (located at the […]

The Nutcracker 2013

On Saturday, December 14th, approximately 50 students along with a handful of parents from Destiny Dance Academy staged two presentations of Tchaikovsky’s  traditional holiday classic “The Nutcracker Ballet”.  Ticket sales and funds raised through raffle prizes announced at intermission of each performance will go to the local DIF (Office on Integral Family Development) as well […]

El Grito! VIVA!

On the evening of September 15th, the area around City Hall in Puerto Peñasco made way for a community fiesta, marking the 203rd anniversary of the eve of when Mexico’s struggle for Independence first began. Local dance groups, banda, and mariachi took the stage early in the evening while a “torch lit” procession of Independence […]

International Women’s Day 3/8

By: MoKa Hammeken *Excerpts first published in 2012* March 8th is a celebrated day that spreads across the world as an electric impulse, regardless of creed, language or culture: it’s International Women’s Day. For women who walk upon the earth and are able to turn the world around with solely a desire, this day is […]

Pastorela ~ Before the end of the world 12/20

By MoKa Hammeken During these December holidays, in addition to the posadas, pastorelas are also very much in vogue. Here in Puerto Peñasco various luminaries from the cultural sphere are going to present their own traditional pastorela on Thursday, Dec. 20th at the Municipal Auditorium entitled “Before the end of the world (an attempt at […]

4th Annual Grand Holiday concert 12/14

Enjoy the 4th Annual Grand Holiday concert by the Puerto Peñasco Symphonic Youth Orchestra at the Gran Salon of Peñasco del Sol Hotel. Concert to begin promptly at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14th. GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY! (Limited) Tickets available during orchestra practices at City Museum in the Malecon (near the Colosio statue), Mon – Fri  4 […]

Reinforcement of safety operations for the Holidays

City Press Release 0125 A recent press released indicates Municipal Police across the state will be strengthening accident prevention operatives during the December holidays. During the plenary session of the State Accident Prevention Board (Coepra), held in Hermosillo, it was stressed that Sonora currently ranks third nationally in the rate of fatal car accidents. This, […]