| A five-day fair
gets underway in Tronadora next Thursday, March 30. The much bigger
town of Tilaran will top that with an 11-day fair starting April 21.
Both towns will be vibrant with high-stepping horses, bull-riding
competitions, calf-roping, music, dancing, singing and much more.
Included at Tronadora is a chicharronada, which I do not think involves
chasing pieces of fried pork skin around the ring. The bull-riding
competition on Sunday, April 2, at 4:30 pm is dedicated to long-time
Arenal rancher Christina Glass, among others. There are no hotels
in Tronadora but there are lots of other accommodations within a few
minutes in Tilaran and around the south side of Lake Arenal.
The Arenal lunch ladies will
have their April potluck meal at the lovely new home of Sandy Shaw
on Wednesday, April 5, at noon. Sandy's home is a rather short distance
before the Hotel Tilawa on the road from Tilaran to Nuevo Arenal.
Her phone number is 695-8597.
The proud mother of a professional
football player has been busy decorating her home in the village
of San Luis (It's the attractive two-story largely glass box across
from the defunct Maria's Bar) though so far she's restricted the
many posters of her son in action to the walls of her study. Helen
Hollenbeck's son Steve Suter, now a member of the Hamilton Tigercats
in the Canadian Football League, graduated in 2005 from the University
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Maryland, where
he was a record-setting kick returner and special teams All-American
for two years. He spent much of the past season inactive with various
injuries but has hopes of a full recovery and a chance to catch on
with the Washington Redskins, the favorite team of his childhood.
Helen recently matched Steve with her own knee injury, though she
suffered hers when she fell out of a tree trying to strip it of matapalo.
Neither the Tigercats nor the Redskins are concerned.
June Griffin of Chimurria has
established further means of donating to the medical trip fund for
4-year-old Joshua Segura Alvarado, whom surgeons in St. Petersburg,
FL, want to examine on May 17. It seems a bit complicated - and
my punctuation may not help - but here are the transfer instructions
to wire money to the account that Coopemex Bank has set up for Joshua
at Scotiabank: 1) Intermediary bank: Bank One International Corporation.
ABA # FW026009797. Address 163 West Fifty First St, New York, NY
10019. 2) Beneficiary bank: Account 1060223 of Scotiabank Costa
Rica. Beneficiary: Account 21100037 de Coopemex. Amount: US ___.
June is working on the passport
and visa requirements for Joshua and his parents, who, if they are
able to make the trip, will be staying free at Ronald McDonald House
while Joshua undergoes MRIs and other tests to see if his huge jaw
tumor is operable.
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