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Puerto Vallarta News NetworkVallarta Living | May 2008 

Out and About in Puerto Vallarta
email this pageprint this pageemail usTwila Crawford - PVNN


Author Doug Danielson and his wife Karen currently reside in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
 
Doug Danielson's first novel, Shore Loser, a mystery adventure about the '95 America's Cup, can be purchased at The Book Store and Once Upon A Bean in Vallarta. It also can be purchased through Amazon.com. His next novel, Wet Dreams, about a Viet Nam vet suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, will be in bookstores this fall. You can read more by going to Doug-Danielson.com.

One of the very busy boat captains in Marina Vallarta, Doug delivers nine to twelve yachts a year from Mexico back to the United States. He just returned from taking a 64-foot wooden fishing vessel from Vallarta to Marina Del Ray, CA. This week he takes a 52-foot power boat to Newport Beach, CA.

"On a previous trip delivering a 63-foot ketch," Doug relates, "we started taking on water 24 hours north of Cabo San Lucas. The bilge pumps kept stopping up with debris from the bilge, and we had to use the holding tank macerator pump to evacuate the water." Doug and his crew turned back to Cabo to implement repairs and then continued the voyage to San Diego without further incident. When waters are calm on his trips, Doug often can write magazine articles or chapters for his books.

An ecology expert reports the white foam we see now along the shores in the bay is "plantas microscopicas," normal for this time of year and should disappear when the rains come.

U.S. citizen and former Vallarta businesswoman, Rebecca Roth, charged in the Tri-West Investment Club fraud, would remain behind bars for another 23 years, if Mexico's federal prosecutors get the appeal of her nine-year jail sentence in place. The appeal process probably will cover at least another year and a half.

Roth has been held in the Puente Grande women's prison outside Guadalajara for 26 months, with Brenda Martin who recently was released to Canada. Roth was found guilty in court of knowingly handling illicit funds and participating in organized crime.

In review, investigators from the U.S. Dept. of Justice of the Tri-West Investment Club fraud on the Internet estimate the crime ring netted about $60 million dollars, perhaps as high as $100 million dollars.

Described as a disgraced Edmonton, Canada, area real estate agent, Alyn Richard Waage set up the Tri-West Investment Club after fleeing Canada in 1998 to avoid prosecution on at least 30 counts of mortgage fraud. He and others settled in Puerto Vallarta.

Waage was arrested at the Puerto Vallarta airport in April 2001 with $4.5 million dollars in undeclared funds. After other activities and after filing of many charges in the U.S. in May 2003, Waage entered a guilty plea and was to pay full restitution to his victims. He currently is serving a 10-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, NC, and is due for release in September 2011. Those swindled have yet to collect lost investments.

Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporaneo art festival takes place May 28th - June 1st, filled with exhibitions and activities around town. Go to PvArteContemporaneo.com for further information.

A national fireworks competition will be Friday, May 30th, at 8 pm at the sports facility across from the Sheraton Hotel. This is a lead-up to the April 2009 International Fireworks Symposium, a world gathering of the pyrotechnic industry.

Wise Wo-men founder, Darla Fowler, International seminar speaker, will discuss the family support of her brother with a diagnosis of cancer, at 10 am on Wednesday, May 28th at the International Friendship Club, Libertad and Miramar. Darla calls her presentation, "The Ultimate Gift, Denzil's Story, Touching and True."

One of Vallarta's angels who helps so many, Margaret L'Ecuyer, and Terence Blocka, Edmonton, Canada, are engaged to be married in the fall in Vallarta. They soon depart for trips to Italy, Alaska and Canada before the nuptials.

Remember Pat Henry's art show on June 6th at 6 pm at her studio at 183 Jacarandas (between Madero and Aquiles Serdan.)

Pastries now are available at the Artisan Bakery, on Morales near Allende! The sweets are available about 8:30 am. Enjoy!
An award-winning journalist, Twila Crawford lives in Puerto Vallarta, where, in addition to contributing articles to BanderasNews, the Vallarta Tribune and other local publications, she writes Out and About in Puerto Vallarta, an informative column that offers inside information about who, what, why, where and when it's happening around Banderas Bay.

Click HERE to read more articles by Twila Crawford.



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