Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - The Puerto Vallarta Garden Club April meeting will once again be held at Di Vino Dante, Basilio Badillo 269-A, 2nd Floor, on April 21st at 5:00 pm.

Our guest speaker will be Señor Fernando Vasquez, Puerto Vallarta Director of Public Relations for the Department of Ecology. This will be a very good time for us to learn first-hand about some of the plans the city of Puerto Vallarta has as it relates to the greening of the city.

We also will be electing new Vallarta Garden Club officers. The three candidates to be presented are: David Muck - President, André Lategan - Vice President, and Leslie Rutledge - Secretary.

David splits his time between PV and Santa Fe, New Mexico having sold his successful software company. He was first attracted to Puerto Vallarta because of the natural beauty of this area. As a garden lover, it seemed a perfect fit for him to volunteer for the PV Garden Club. He was instrumental in the success of the Club's January fundraiser, the Fiesta Blanca Gala.

André lives full time in Puerto Vallarta and has served on the Garden Club board for this past year demonstrating his leadership capabilities. Originally from South Africa's beautiful wine country, he brings an excellent background in horticulture as well as a honed appreciation of what beautification can bring to an area.

Leslie moved full time to Puerto Vallarta this past summer. She has a degree in Graphic Arts and spent her professional career in the printing industry implementing technology and teaching organizations to run efficiently. She has enjoyed seeing the results of the Garden Club's work as she walks around the Puerto Vallarta and believes she has good skills to help the Club set and achieve its goals this coming year.

Nominations for these offices will also be taken from the floor at the meeting. If you are interested in serving on the Board in another capacity, please contact our current President, Bonita Mott, bonmott(at)hotmail.com. There are many important roles for volunteers to take within the club. Please consider serving.

The P.V. Garden Club - "Beautifying Vallarta" - supports not only a more beautiful, clean and verdant city, but is making it more attractive to tourism, thus creating a vibrant economy to support all the other great causes in Puerto Vallarta.