Fuentes Verdes Ecological
Association continues its efforts to make sure lake area developers
get all necessary permits and meet all regulatory requirements so
that further harm will not come to Lake Arenal and buyers will be
protected from unanticipated problems. FV President Ed Zurica and
Secretary Sandy Shaw spent an hour on local Spanish-language station
88.3 September 22 at 8pm to 9pm being interviewed about the environmental
problems facing this region, an extremely important source of Costa
Rica's energy and irrigation. Ed included the following comments in
a recent email: "We spoke once again at the municipality meeting
Wednesday the 20. I was happy to see that with each presentation more
of the council is participating in the discussion. Most of those that
spoke agreed that the real issue is the Arenal Cuenca and the protection
of its resources. Poco a Poco as they say.
"It seems [the Ministerio of] Salud in Liberia as well as municipal
engineers are interested in not only our opinions but our ideas about
what constitutes good septic systems and we will be assisting them
in some design planning as well as helping with pursuing violations."
Sandy Shaw recently compiled
for Erin Van Rheenen's book Living Abroad in Costa Rica a set of
Buyer Beware points to help those planning on buying property in
this country. An early look at her draft can be had on the News
page of the website www.casamananabedandbreakfast.com. What the
Arenal region lacks in funkiness is
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made up for by Equus
Bar and Restaurant, located mostly on a hillside at the western end
of the lake. The restaurant serves a lot of meats cooked at a barbecue
a few feet up the hill. Diners are often forced to wrestle the extremely
heavy pieces of log that serve as seats a few feet here or there to
avoid the wind-blown smoke. But the food is not only good but inexpensive
and so are the drinks. Wilder yet is Equus's mostly open-air Pukku
Waiku Discoteque, a rocky sanctuary accessed far up the hillside via
a winding path. It opened again on September 16 with promises of a
racily clad group helping to inaugurate the season. With or without
said draw, it's open Saturday nights from 8 pm to 2 am. There's a
cover charge of about $5.
A daytime draw not far from
Equus is Casadelagua Café and Art Studio. They're now serving
breakfast and lunch as well as coffees and pastries. It's a pleasant
lakeview stop between Nuevo Arenal and Tilaran. Federase Cafeteria,
an Italian Restaurant, opened September 20 in Tronadora. Early reports
were favorable. It turns out there is one other place in Tronadora
serving meals. It's the Texas Bar, where you can get pizza.
This US absentee voting information
probably comes too late for use this November, but it may depend
on the state you're from. If you want to try for an absentee ballot,
go to the website www.VoteFromAbroad.com and follow the instructions.
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