Tico Times Arenal Report Nov 16 2007

Casa Mañana

Every Wednesday we do our reportorial thing, submitting to the Tico Times, a national English -language newspaper, a short report of events at Lake Arenal. The reports appear on the Community Connections page of the Weekender section of the Tico Times. We post them to the website on deadline day, so they appear online 10 days before appearing in the Tico Times.)

Arenal Report for Tico Times November 16 2007

The belatedly rescued sloth

An animal rescue was performed in Chimurria recently to the premature delight of all who saw the tiny baby sloth or photos of it. Found at the edge of a field by a weed-whacking worker, the sloth was delivered to the owners of the field, Sonja and Chris Sullivan of San Luis. They sent the baby down to the Pumas Rescue Center near Canas, but it died as Las Pumas was preparing to send it to the Buttercup Rescue Center (sloth rescue and rehabilitation specialists) south of Limon. It is likely that the baby fell from a tree and its mother was then afraid - with very good reason - to descend to the ground, which she would do out of defecative necessity only about once a week.

Los Vientos, the huge new restaurant at Mario Martinez' Puerto San Luis Lodge and Yacht Club, was filled nearly to capacity on Friday, Nov. 2, to hear some fine local and visiting musicians

singing a type of music called "trova" to guitar accompaniment.

The audience seemed split 50/50 between Ticos and Gringos, most of the latter hearing these accomplished, confident and amiable musicians for the first time, only a handful of Gringos having made it so far to any of the three monthly Penas Culturales organized by Tilaran's Grupo Pro-Pena Cultural.

Tonight's fourth monthly Pena Cultural is likely to be much better attended by the expat community, freshly appreciative of these talented and very entertaining musicians. The program starts at 6 pm at the colejio (high school) auditorium in Tilaran. Entrance is free and donations are well-earned.

The local musicians who performed Nov. 2 at Los Vientos were Cristian Porras, Ana Maria

Alvarez, and Gustavo Wattson. The splendid visitors were Carol Cabeceta of Hojancha and the brilliant Olman Briseno of Nicoya. After the regular program,. Popular local folk rock musician B.B. Zuniga (formerly known as Bob Benjamin) took the stage, inspiring some of the Gringos to jump to their feet in amusing approximations of dance.

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