By Kirby Vickery & Freda Rumford from the October 2012 Edition BACK AT THE RANCH There are two major Haciendas and many smaller growers of coffee in the Comala area. The Hacienda San Antonio nestles in the shadow of the Volcan de Fuego. The 1913 eruption of the Volcan de Fuego was particularly violent and threatened […]
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By Karen Trom from the October 2012 Edition Why Isn’t My Workout Working? I recently received an e-mail from a reader who has made some good choices but is getting frustrated that she isn’t seeing big changes. We talked a bit about what she has been doing and decided that while she is on […]
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By Freda Rumford from the September 2012 Edition Mexico currently has an egg shortage. Some egg producers have been hoarding eggs to the point that prices have soared. This, in a country which has the highest egg consumers in the world. There has been a summer epidemic of bird flu in Mexico’s egg industry which […]
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By Freda Rumford from the September 2012 Edition Seasonal Service They will be flying non stop to Manzanillo from Calgary every friday from Nov 2nd to April 26th 2012 Times are: depart YYC 1005 arriving ZLO 1603 depart ZLO 1650 arrive YYC 1906 (yyc-Calgary, ZLO-Manzanillo) Please check out Westjet.com for availability, flight times and pricing. […]
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By Cheryl Weaver from the September 2012 Edition Yesterday, I took the bus for an appointment that was a long way from where I live. It was the usual scenery I have seen dozens of times going to Valle Las Garzas until we came to a stop light, and those couple minutes clarified something profound […]
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By Vivian Molick from the September 2012 Edition “Pass the Buck” Do you ever wonder where or how these types of phrases originated? I do, so I went to check it out. Today the meaning has come to mean “trying to avoid blame or responsibility by passing it on to someone else”. But, of course, […]
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By Karen Trom from the September 2012 Edition Are you Toxic? Do you clean, bathe, breathe, and eat? Then the answer is probably yes. Pretty much everything is our life from our food, our lawns, our house and personal hygiene exposes us to chemicals. Some of these have immediate toxic effects but others are slower, […]
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By Karen Trom from the August 2012 Edition Sugar, Sugar! I ran across some very disturbing trivia while researching this article about sugar. The Archie’s song “Sugar Sugar” was the Number One song of the year in 1969 in both the United States and Canada. I like that song but with all the great music […]
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By Freda Rumford from the August 2012 Edition Fairly recently, we have had additions to our family. The first is a mostly Siamese cat whom we called Ming-tu after a similar cat who lived with us years ago, when the family still with us was both younger and larger, named Ming. Over the weeks the […]
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By Terry Sovil from the August 2012 Edition In this final article on the “Real Mexico” we will take a look at the Electrical Industry. This comprises companies that manufacture home appliances and transmission/ distribution and control of power (transformers, generators, switches, regulators and engines). Mexico’s competitive advantages have attracted investments from large companies which […]
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