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contending, some in alli-ances with others, Sunday’s elections were the largest in history, and so was the at-tendance of people exercising

their right to vote. Out of 15 state governorships that were being contested, the left-wing MORENA party won 10 showing that President AMLO’s populists' decisions are working. On the other hand, MORENA lost nearly 50 seats in the lower chamber of congress, losing also its majority, showing that people want to prevent AMLO’s from continuing to make risky Constitutional changes that are reversing Mexico’s eco-nomic progress. ,

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Los Cabos for the first time. Onagh was part of ‘Girls for a Change’ in Silicon Valley, CA. Her feeling back then was that most local children in Los Cabos didn’t have a real oppor-

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New Marina Approved. At BuenaVista, East Cape. Actually, the original permit was issued in 2009, but early this month the developer ap-plied for changes, reducing the original project by about half. The development has been named "El Anhelo Resorts & Marina," and will use an area of 2,293,435.82298 sq. ft. to build 34 floating docks with a ca-pacity for 356 vessels and two breakwaters at the East and West ends of the water body. Lodging and residences will

also be included. The project is owned by Francisco “Kiko” Vega, former state governor for Northern Baja. Stay tuned.

Fun, Food, Drinks and Art Every Friday. With a change

of time due to the increase in weather temperature, the “Viva la Plaza” art and restaurant walk will take place every Fri-day from 7:00 p.m. The venue

is still the Amelia Wilkes Plaza, located two blocks up from the Tesoro hotel in Cabo San Lucas. Streets around the event are closed to traffic, so there’s no reason not to go! Enjoy art exhibits, live music, wine tast-ing and more.

We Are Breaking Records Again! In a report released by Cicotur, the Center of Tour-ism Research and Competi-tivity, along with the GAP group that manages the San Jose international airport, Los Cabos shows an increase of 8.5 percent in tourist arrivals compared to 2019. That’s a comparison against pre-Covid numbers! The GAP group reports that a total of 324,500 tourists have landed in Los Cabos so far this year. The numbers do not include pas-sengers landing in the Cabo San Lucas airport or in private yachts. It seems that we will not have a “slow” season this year. Maybe the exception will be September, our rainy/hur-ricane month.

Number of Available Flight Seats Increasing. Following the recent notice that the FAA changed its safety rating of Mexico's regulators from a Category 1—the highest-rank-ing—to a Category 2, which prevents Mexican airlines from adding new routes, U.S. airlines are filling the void. Ac-cording to the Official Airline Guide, U.S. airlines are offering an average of 32 percent more seats on their routes to Mexico, to a total of 676,118 during this Summer.

U.S. Donated Vaccines go to Tourist Workers. One million Johnson & Johnson vaccines that the U.S. will send to Mexico as a dona-tion will be used for workers in the tourism industry. The announcement of the federal health authorities said that the first states to receive these will be our Southern Baja state and Quintana Roo, in the Mexican CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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The Relentless Rescuer: Isabelle Ann Tiberghien

BY SUSY BUCHANANIsabelle Ann Tiberghien

is nothing if not determined. The native of Biar-ritz, France, moved to Los Cabos 30 years ago and quickly saw a problem she could not ignore.

Traveling the dusty arroyos and roads of San Jose’s poorer neighborhoods, she noticed animals in deplorable s t ates of health. Injured, mange-ridden, preg-nant and starving. It’s not in her nature to stand by as an animal suffers, so she took it upon herself to begin a one-woman pet rescue, which she funded out of her own pocket

for more than a decade be-fore founding non-profit Baja

SAFE in 2007, whose mission is to protect and save San Jose’s stray animals, while helping

poor families as well.There are no municipal

animal shelters in Los Cabos, just devoted and selfless people like Tiberghien trying to make a difference. Over the years she has rescued thousands of animals.

As the population in San Jose has grown, the pet popu-lation has similarly exploded. “We get dogs almost every day. It’s constant,” says Tiberghien.

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Peruse the bajasa-fe.com website and you can’t help but be moved by the extraor-dinary before-and-after photos of the animals Tiberghien and her small team of volunteers have saved, nursed back to health, and found loving homes for. Around 90 percent of the dogs she rescues are shipped off to loving homes in the United

States and Canada, she says.Baja SAFE also offers free

spay and neuter clinics several

times a year serving over 300 pets a clinic, with veterinary fees covered by donations from supporters who share Ti-berghien’s goal of reducing the unwanted pet population. Pet owners are also sent home with a leash and collar, three days of antibiotics and two months of deworming medication.

Volunteer Linda Orozco firmly believes in what Baja SAFE is trying to do, and she’s hands-on with her support, always carrying a towel, collar, leash, water and canned food should she come across a stray in need of help.

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tionships with families and neighborhoods,” she says. "People need to know it is not OK to see an animal suffering, and that if they do, there is someone to call, day or night.”

And Baja SAFE needs your help. In years past a gala fund-raising event graciously hosted by Flora Farms in March has helped raise the bulk of their US $58,000 budget, but the pandemic meant that this year’s event had to be can-celled.

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Consular Agency Los Cabos has suspended routine Passport and Notary Services for U.S. Citizens due to the global impact of COVID-19. Emergency services remain available but limited to General Consulates NOT Consular Agencies.

The Agency will be working with limited operating hours for passport pickup only. IF you wish to pick up your passport at the Consular Agency, please send an email with your information to [email protected] – only passports pickup emails will be answered via this email.

Visitors to Baja California Sur are encouraged to register in the State Department’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), and review all present travel warnings and advice on the Depart-ment’s Mexico travel information page.

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Blue MiracleThe movie that saved a children’s shelter

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T h e W a s h i n g t o n Post calls Blue Miracle a made-for-the-movies story, which in the wrong hands could be

just another corny fable about an anonymous, ragtag group of underdogs coming from behind to win the day. Luck-ily, Blue Miracle dodges all those bullets. Thanks to the taste and shrewd judgment of director Julio Quintana, this

funny, heartwarming movie provides just the right combi-nation of adventure, character-driven humor, spiritual depth

and inspirational uplift."Some time at the end of

2014 and beginning of 2015 we were approached about writ-ing the story of Casa Hogar winning Bisbee by somebody that knew somebody for a potential book. After that,

somebody came back and con-ducted more interviews with Casa Hogar collecting more information that went on to create the movie, which started filming around 2017. At the very end, the production com-pany sold the property Blue Miracle to a film studio, and to be clear, there are no royalties that Casa Hogar receives from the film," said director Jayson Scirrub.

"The actual filming of Blue Miracle was done in the Domi-nic Republic and no real Casa Hogar people were involved in the filming of the movie. There was a cooperation with Casa Hogar and the produc-tion team and they do show real aerial drone shots of Casa Hogar at the end," added Scir-rub.

The film definitely created a lot of exposure for Casa Hogar where Jayson has been a direc-tor since 2015.

"It was very exciting when I got involved in talks about the movie. And I was here when Lady Gaga did her surprise visit in 2016, which led to a misconception that we didn't need any more funding when that in fact was not true. Peo-ple thought she gave us lots of money when she really didn't," clarified Scirrub.

"From the film though, we have received tons of social media explosion, which is re-ally what I expected with this movie. The film's audience was so much broader and wider and has led to a lot of people reaching out to us and it’s more than what we were expecting. Since the movie's release, we

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The third annual Life Luxe Jazz Experience returns to Los Cabos, Mexico November 4-8. This will be the second year the event will be held on the beach of the Omnia Day Club

in San Jose del Cabo.As Los Cabos’ premiere

musical event, Life Luxe Jazz continues its mission to build bridges through cultural ex-change and the universal

language of music. This one-of-a-kind experience offers four days of world-class music while showcasing top local cuisine, charitable health and wellness outreach to both participants and local com-munities, and through its Jazzing Around Los Cabos partnerships, providing guests expanded opportunities to enjoy the best of Los Cabos.

“We entered the new year feeling refreshed and opti-mistic about our plans to get back to the Luxe Life,” said co-founder and President of the Life Luxe Group, Dianna Clarkson. “We have such a star-studded lineup of both classic artists and contem-porary jazz artists, plus a few 'new to you' talents we are eager to share. A huge part of our mission to make the LLJ EXPERIENCE uniquely dif-ferent from other festivals is to always introduce our guests to new talent.“

The sophisticated mix of smooth jazz and R & B art-ists taking the stage this year include world-class talent like Jeff Lorber, Maysa, Eric Roberson, Leela James, Avery Sunshine, Naturally 7, Con-funkshun, Mike Phillips, Ra-heem DeVaughn, West Byrd, Hiroshima, Karen Briggs, and Bishop Marvin Sapp.

“Another aspect that sets us apart is the wonderful offerings that take place off

stage” added co-founder, Terry Powell. “Two of the most popular are our Sunday worship and Gospel Brunch, and our Jazzing Around Los Cabos Sunset Cruise.”

New in 2021 is the Mike Phillips Los Cabos Cup Golf Tournament, which will bring golfers from all over North America to compete at the prestigious and pristine Cabo

Real Golf Club, and Ladies on the Links, a golf clinic and outing held at Vidanta Golf. These exciting events bring together the Life Luxe Jazz Experience’s perfect four-some — friends, food, music, and golf.

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Sur. They have served more than one million patients dur-ing two and a half decades of service.

Led by Dr. Celia Casillas, the SADAT Diagnostic cen-ters provide honest, effective, efficient, reliable, timely and quality clinical diagnosis, im-aging and cardiology services during their office hours of 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., offering appointments online.

The Biotechnology Medical Company credentials of Dr. Celia Casillas start with her Faculty of Sciences Degree from the prestigious Universi-ty of Guadalajara. She has also specialized in immunology and most recently in molecular biology. Her 95 percent female staff are the backbone of the expanding SADAT Diagnostic clinics.

Celia Casillas discovered her passion for science from an early age where she first gradu-ated with an Assistant Nursing Diploma from her high school in La Paz, before leaving for her medical studies in Gua-dalajara, Jalisco. One of the greatest motivations behind her success and expansion has been her three children. Like their physician mom, they will head off to college soon and follow in their mother's footsteps. Casillas is a woman with a strong medical industry passion and entrepreneurial spirit of hard work, discipline, and determination who cares deeply about our health and well-being.

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Over the years, the after-school programs became very popular. More than 400 stu-dents were mentored by 40 vol-unteer coaches. Each year the number of students participat-ing continues to grow. These students are called “Agents of Change” and they have identified initiatives needed in their community to make it a better place. Some of the proj-ects have included violence against women, caring for the elderly, and anti-bullying. The programs strive to decrease the risk of children develop-ing unproductive or criminal

behaviors.At the beginning of 2020,

Gente Joven changed its name to Boys and Girls Club of Baja California Sur and became the 12th Mexican location. The new president, Sylvia Anne Rosina Tremblay, was born in Holland and moved to Mon-treal, Canada. Her last posi-tion before retirement was the CEO of Boys and Girls Club of South Coast, BC, a Club with 12 different locations in the Greater Vancouver area. The vice-president, Raúl Godin Ar-royo, was born in Mexico City.

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How Important Are We? For most airlines from the U.S., Mexico is one of the most important destinations. For

Southwest Airlines, for exam-ple, Mexico is the most impor-tant Latin American market. Los Cabos is their second most important destination with 9 routes, beat only by Cancun which has 12 routes. Southwest brings us tourists from Austin, Baltimore, Chicago-Midway, Denver, Houston-Hobby, Or-ange County, Phoenix, Sacra-mento and San Diego. Thank you, Southwest!

Quebec-based TV Series to be Filmed in Los Cabos. The singles of "L’île de l’amour" (The Island of Love ) will be

spending the fall under the hot Cabo sun. Quebecor Content and Productions Déferlantes announced that their luxuri-ous villa will be located in the heart of the magnificent landscapes of Los Cabos. Love Island is one of the most popu-lar reality television series these days. The show debuted in 2015 and has 17 different international versions — or 18 versions, counting the newly announced Quebec edition, L’île de l’amour. The TV se-ries is set to debut this fall on Quebec-based TVA. Gracias for the promotion!

U.S. Airlines Weighing to Weigh Passengers. As America as a country keeps getting fat-ter, which could throw off a plane’s true weight and bal-ance, airlines are thinking of weighing passengers before boarding an aircraft. This might begin with smaller air-planes in order to comply with FAA rules. The weighing would be random and pas-sengers might be allowed to opt-out. Stay tuned.

More Flights Return to

La Paz. Our state capital is seeing the resuming of flights from Dallas and Phoenix with American Airlines. The Phoe-nix flight will be landing three days a week while the one from Dallas will be here once a week. Flights to Loreto, which were to be suspended in April, will continue until September this year.

Access to Espiritu Santo Island Banned. But only for vessels over 82 feet long. The reason? Visits to the gorgeous island near La Paz have in-creased, and too many tourists come in large yachts and other

vessels that are disrupting the environment. These tourists come to swim with sea lions, whale sharks, dive, and bring dinghies to go to the various beaches around the island. Too many people, too much noise, say the local tour companies that use pangas and small boats to transport small groups of tourists. They also fear com-petition from companies from Los Cabos.

Where is Your Papaya Coming From? Most likely, Mexico. With 44.7 percent of the world’s production, Mexico is now the world’s lead-ing papaya exporter, followed by Guatemala and Brazil as production grew 3.2 percent last year. Sales to the U.S. of the fruit, which is rich in vi-tamins A, C and B-complex, and contains minerals such as potassium, magnesium, fiber, folic acid and small amounts of calcium and iron, reached $86 million in 2020. ,

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“Tender, nuanced, lovely,…”These are the kinds of de-

scriptions the professional crit-ics use to describe Minari. The positive critical buzz propelled this movie to an impressive showing at the Oscars with six nominations, including Best Picture and four nominations

in the major categories of act-ing, directing and writing. Clearly, the movie industry is impressed with this film.

But audience reaction is much more restrained, with an IMDB audience rating just barely above average, ranking the movie in 16th place (out of 41). This is one of those movies that asks questions of a reviewer like - What is the rela-tionship between the technical

Minari quality of a movie and its abil-ity to move an audience? If a movie is really a superior work of craftsmanship, why doesn’t the viewing public react more positively? Is it a sort of elitism to argue that the movie-going public just doesn’t get what a nearly perfect movie should look like?

Now don’t get me wrong.

Just because Avengers: End-game earned billions of dol-lars does not mean that it is the best movie ever made. I get that popular culture and high art are not the same thing. But I’m not sure that is what we are talking about here. Not everyone is going to watch Minari in the first place. It isn’t advertised as an action-packed blockbuster, so it is safe to assume that people have to actually seek out this movie to watch it. So, I believe, it is accurate to state that a substantial number of people who are actually interested in seeking out this movie did not find it nearly as impressive as the professional critics and the movie industry.

Before I continue down this path, let me back up and talk about Minari as a movie. It springs from the mind of a single-person writer and director Lee Isaac Chung. His

vision for the movie is highly personal. As in the movie, he grew up on an Arkansan farm. Different from the movie, he left the farm, went to Yale to study ecology, but dropped out in his senior year to make movies. His first film, Mu-nyurangabo, premiered at Cannes to critical acclaim. Chung had been wanting to write a movie about his life for a while and finally did follow-ing the advice of Willa Cather to ‘cease to admire and begin to remember. Perhaps some of the film’s intensity is due to his self-reflection.

Clearly, Chung is bringing heavy Korean sensibilities to his film. And those sensibilities are implemented by the strong Korean actors he has cast. Steven Yeun made his name originally in the Walking Dead TV series but has recently found critical success in Ko-rean films such as Bong Joon Ho’s Okja. In Minari, Yeun portrays Jacob, a Korean im-migrant who is trying his best to resolve differences between his Korean background and his American dream of achieving independent success. He deliv-ers a compelling performance that mixes discipline with feel-ings for his family. His work here earned him an Oscar nomination for Leading Ac-tor. Yeri Han, an unknown to me, is Monica, Jacob’s wife. I enjoyed her performance showing a mix of feelings contrasting loyalty to her husband with uncertainty as she questions whether his choices are really in the fam-ily’s best interests. David and Anne are the two children and David, at least, has some very interesting interactions with his grandma which are important in understanding the intercultural dynamics as they operate on family

life. Yuh-Jung Youn won the Oscar for Supporting Actress for her performance as the grandmother. She delivers a

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Superfood recipe, for all you healthy people who love good f lavor and Mexican food!

Besides the widely known maize, pumpkins are with-out a doubt one of the most Mexican vegetables. Often represented in art and pottery, they are a staple ingredient in cooking. Native Mexicans, being the resourceful people they were, learned how to exploit every single bit of this veggie, from the stems to the flowers and seeds. First representations of pump-kin are found in ceremonial vases, paintings and sculp-tures found all over Mexico and dating back as far as 7000 years ago. Other times, pumpkin flowers were painted on ceramics as decoration. Although there is no defined meaning, many pumpkin-themed vases were found around mortuary offerings which leads historians to believe pumpkins were espe-cially valued. Pumpkins are also mentioned in popular Mexican legends and tales, closely related to the creation

of the world and being a part of God's gifts.

In the pre-Hispanic era, pumpkins were an essential part of the basic diet. The part most used was the “pepitas” or seeds. Pepitas were consumed toasted or ground and added to different dishes. Most of them are still cooked in a traditional way, like pipian, a special kind of green mole. Pepitas were extremely popu-lar because they were easily stored, abundant and did not go bad as easily as other in-gredients.

This time, I offer you a recipe called mole Verde or pipian Verde, from the state of Michoacán. It is located in western Mexico and has a stretch of coastline on the Pa-cific Ocean to the southwest. The word mole has a Nahuatl origin, coming from the word “molli” or “mulli” and refers to the act of grinding chiles, adding some kind of liquid, and creating a thick sauce. With a century-long tradi-tion, almost every region has its own version, sticking to the endemic ingredients of

the land. This particular variety

of green mole is defined by Michoacán’s original ingre-dients. In the eastern terri-tory of Michoacán, vegetables are abundant all year round because the weather is very good. If we add to these veg-gies some tomatoes, herbs, chiles and seeds the result is a delicious mole with a complex flavor and a rough texture. Green mole from Michoacán is usually served with chicken or pork, white rice and corn tortillas.

Before I give you this reci-pe, I must clarify some points:

-This is a complex and elaborate recipe. All steps must be followed to achieve a good mole, but I promise it is so worth it.

-This recipe calls for let-tuce. Any kind can be used. I do recommend using a green kind for the coloring.

-This recipe calls for pepi-tas, which must be peeled.

-In this recipe, lots of pork lard is used, but it can be substituted with vegetable or

olive oil. -This dish will take about

40 minutes of your time, and will feed eight people.

Ingredients: 8 lettuce leaves (1 oz)5 acelga leaves (chard)

(.5 oz) 4 green tomatoes (7 oz)2 poblano peppers (8 oz) 2 serrano chiles (.8 oz) 1 ½ cups of sesame seeds

(5 oz) 1/2 cup of pepitas (2 oz) 2 cloves of garlic (.2 oz) 3 cloves (clavo de olor) 2 whole grains of allspice 5 springs of cilantro (1.5

oz)3 sprigs of parsley (1 oz)6 cups of chicken stock (50

liquid oz) You could also use water, but it’ll taste better with chicken stock.

5 spoonfuls of pork lard (2 oz) or vegetable or olive oil

3 whole pepper grains Salt to taste Preparation: Work with the pepitas: 1. Place the pepitas in a

pan on the stove over medium heat. Roast them for about a minute, until slightly brown, moving regularly. Make sure you don’t burn them or they turn awfully bitter.

2. Put them in a blender once roasted and roughly grind. Do not turn them to powder. This mole is special for its texture, which comes from the pepitas.

3. Transfer the ground pepitas to a bowl.

4. Add ½ cup of chicken broth to the pepitas and stir into a paste. Reserve.

Blend the rest of the in-gredients:

1. Devein and remove the seeds of the poblano chiles, liquefy and reserve.

2. Roast sesame seeds for about a minute and a half the same way you roasted the pepitas, until golden brown moving regularly.

3. Place sesame seeds in a blender, along with the let-tuce, acelga or chard, green tomatoes, serrano chiles, gar-lic cloves, cloves (clavos de olor), allspice, cilantro, pars-ley, a cup of chicken broth, and pepper grains.

4. Blend until smooth and reserve.

Cook the mole. 1. In a pan, melt the lard

or heat the oil. 2. Fry the pepita paste for

about 5 minutes until well cooked, stirring regularly.

3. In the pan, add the liq-uefied mixture, the rest of the chicken stock and salt.

4. Cook the mole for about 20 minutes, until the color turns more intense and the consistency thickens. Stir oc-casionally.

5 . Ser ve over cooked chicken or pork.

Enjoy with a side of white rice and some tortillas.

Pro tip: if you have leftover mole on your dish after you’ve eaten the chicken or pork, mix it with the white rice. This is not very “proper” per se but it is absolutely delicious, and as my grandfather used to say, if you’re at your house, eat under your own rules! ,

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10 Organizing Hacks that Will Change Your Life (a little)

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the benefits of maintaining organization may stretch far beyond the obvious. Organi-zation in your life can reduce

stress and decrease the time required to complete tasks, which can lead to better eating habits, better sleeping habits, and better overall wellness.

Unfortunately, being orga-nized isn’t as common as you’d

hope. The average American spends one year of their life looking for lost or misplaced items, and more than 25 per-cent of people say they aren’t more organized because they don’t have time to put organi-

zation systems into place.So while creating a compre-

hensive organization system would obviously be a good idea, who among us actu-ally has time right now to put towards something like that? Apparently, about 80 million Americans don’t. There’s hope for us time-starved, hard-working adults. A little creativ-ity goes a long way to make your home more organized and things more accessible. We’ve gone ahead and taken the liberty of being creative for you and came up with ten quick and straightforward ways to be more organized today—yes, right now.

Double hang clothes with soda can tabs.

Time: 5 minutes. Cost: $0.00

Unless you’re someone that regularly gets rid of clothes you don’t wear, you probably don’t have a lot of closet space. You can clear some up without having to go spend money on closet organizers. Simply take the tabs off cans of soda (or whatever cans you’re drinking) and run the hook of a hanger through the top circle on the tab. Take a second hanger and run it through the bottom hole, and now you can double hang clothes and save some closet space. You could even triple

hang clothes if you wanted, as well as put similar gar-ments together to save time when looking through your closet.

This coat hanger trick can double your closet space

Use toilet paper rolls and shoeboxes to store cords.


The ultimate challenge when it comes to staying or-ganized is managing charg-ing cables and cords for your electronics. Somewhere in everybody’s house is a drawer or bag packed full of chargers and headphones that without fail are tangled to the point of insanity. You can end that today. Take old

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paper towel or toilet paper rolls and line them up in an old shoebox. Simply glue or tape them to the bottom of the box and then store your cords inside the rolls. You could even label each one on top of the box and leave a corner for charging blocks. It may sound cheap (and we ad-mit it is), but your cables will magically stay tangle-free.

Put sheet sets inside pil-lowcases.


Keep your bed sheet sets together with what is prob-ably the easiest hack on this list. After you’re done wash-ing and folding sheets, stick the whole set inside of the pillowcase before putting them away. Now each sheet set will be kept together, and there’s no more searching for them in your linen closet.

Wash socks in a mesh bag.

Time: However long it takes you to put socks in a bag. Cost: $5.00

Tired of losing socks in the mass of clothes in your washing machine and dryer? Of course, you are. Take a small mesh bag and place all your socks in it, then only wash and dry the bag. All your socks will still get cleaned, they’ll stay together, and they’ll thank you.

Jumbo clothespin mail sorters.


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mail, magazines, and other tree-killing wastes pile up if they aren't taken care of. It’s more stressful to take care of if you're trying to wrap your arms around disorganized cha-os. Solution: purchase some jumbo clothespins, label them, and hang them on the wall, and you can have all your mail sorted and not taking up space on your counter or desk (and definitely not forgotten in your junk drawer.) The only caveat here is that you do need to take care of this mail because jumbo clothespins won’t hold 604 bills. They will eventually run out of space, but maybe that’s the extra motivation you need to take on the bills.

Oh, and when it comes to bills, most companies allow for e-bills and automatic pay-ments. Just a thought.

Use bread bag tabs to label cords.


Hack number two showed you how to take care of char-gers and other electronic cords when they aren’t in use. What about the cables that are plugged in behind your computer? Have you ever had the problem of needing to unplug something and not knowing what is what in that powerstrip? Try labeling them with old bread tabs. Any time you buy a loaf of bread, save the little square tabs and label them with a corresponding cord, then hook them onto the wire and never again will you have to track cables to their devices to figure out what they go to.

If you don’t eat bread, we’re deeply sorry. We’re sure your happy friends who still eat bread will let you have their leftover bread bag tabs.

Store plastic bags in old disinfecting wipe containers.


Every single home has a place somewhere where they have a bunch of grocery bags. You go grocery shopping, you bring home a bunch of bags,

and you need somewhere to stuff them. Well, how about an old container of disinfecting wipes? It's big enough to hold quite a few bags, and you can pull them out one at a time like tissues, instead of picking through a huge tangled bunch of bags and having to fight for one.

Use a magazine holder to keep tin foil and plastic wrap organized.


There’s not really a great place for a bunch of rectan-gular containers like those that hold tin foil unless you’re willing to make your own. The good news is that making your own is quite easy and you won’t need to find a place to cram those things anymore. You can purchase a magazine holder

for around $10-15. Just hang it on the back of the pantry door using a command strip or any other adhesive used on wood. Then take all your tin foil or saran wrap containers and store them there. They’ll be easy to get to and won’t take up the all too precious space in your kitchen.

Hang trash bags on a paper towel roll.


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Heading to Costco? Add an extra bag of dog food to your cart and Baja SAFE will come pick it up and bring it to the scores of foster fami-lies. Become a foster family yourself, adopt one of Baja SAFE’s rescues, or help fly a dog to their forever home in the United States or Canada by becoming a pet escort. Baja SAFE will take care of all fees and paperwork. Ti-berghien is also looking for an intern to help her with the day-to-day tasks of running a rescue, which she does in addition to her regular jobs.

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Many who live in a home-owners’ association (HOA) recognize its value, but it can be difficult for some homebuyers to look past the common misconceptions

about HOAs. Beyond dues, rules, and regulations, there’s so much more that defines an HOA and makes it an enjoyable place to call home. To help clear the air about living in an HOA, read on to learn what’s a myth versus fact when it comes to settling down in one.

Myth: HOAs aren’t suit-ed for young-adult living.

FACT: Many of today’s HOAs are forward-thinking and progressive. As the de-mographics of homebuyers begin to shift, communities are adapting to the wants and needs of their future

Living in an HOA: What’s Myth Versus Fact?

residents. With millennials en-tering the home buying market at an increasing rate, more and more communities are offering more experience-based ameni-ties, like upgraded pools and

large playgrounds, investing in technology, getting social, and going green.

Myth: Architectural re-views make it difficult to upgrade your home and in-crease your property value.

FACT: One of the main reasons people buy into an HOA is the consistent property values, and the architectural review is an integral part of that. An architectural review occurs when a homeowner submits planned changes to the aesthetics of their property, also known as an architectural request. The architectural re-view board will then approve

or reject the proposed changes. Without it, there’s no way to enforce the standards of homes in a community.

Myth: The rules and regu-lations are too stringent and impede on your liberties.

FACT: A well-run asso-ciation provides the proper framework for a great commu-nity living experience. Estab-lished rules and regulations are designed to promote harmony and prevent problems like loud music, barking dogs, and neglected lawns before they become a real issue. They also provide guidance on the usage of common spaces, meeting areas, and activity centers, so neighbors and community members have equal oppor-tunities to come together and socialize.

Myth: Neighbors don’t look out for one another.

FACT: The biggest emo-tional benefit to living in an HOA is a real sense of togeth-erness. Whether it’s a condo-minium or a master-planned community, you, your neigh-bors, and your association team are in it together. This benefit can be especially cru-cial for people who don’t have family close by, as neighbors often become their chosen family. Additionally, those who live within a community often have similar lifestyles, which helps build camaraderie. If and when there are issues between neighbors, the board of direc-

tors can be called upon to help resolve community conflicts. An advocate for all homeown-ers living within the commu-nity’s rules and regulations, the board can help enforce an existing rule or guide home-owners towards a mutually agreed-upon resolution.

Myth: Residents don’t have a voice.

FACT: From barbecues to board meetings and commit-tees, there’s plenty of oppor-tunities for neighbors to meet each other, create personal bonds, and do good for their community. An HOA is de-signed to foster engagement in fun activities and associa-tion duties, but it’s the board’s responsibility to encourage involvement and offer open lines of communication with residents. One of the best ways to get involved is to join the board, but there are other ways to make your voice heard, like attending board meetings and joining committees.

Myth: There are too many hidden fees.

FACT: HOAs generate their operating funds by collecting fees and assessments from members. This money al-lows the HOA to carry out its responsibilities, including maintaining shared spaces, saving for future repairs and improvements, and enforcing community guidelines.

Before you buy a home that’s part of an HOA, make sure you’re familiar with any fees you may be responsible for paying. You’ll need to decide for yourself if these fees are worth it.

Myth: Board members only act for the good of them-selves, not the community.

FACT: The most significant responsibility of the board of directors is to act in the best interest of the association. A board member’s decision should never be made only to benefit themselves or a select group of people. Most boards have a mandated Board of Directors Code of Professional Ethics. This code outlines

expected behavior regard-ing integrity and objectivity, technical standards, conflicts of interest, and more.

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try to look at the proposals; I know they are all lies. I think we need to wake up as a soci-ety and realize that we are a country with so much poten-tial but are always under idiots for rule. Three years from now we will have a president who is already picked by the main people who run politics here, so why bother anyway.

Rogelio Saez, 31, produce distributor. I don’t consider myself exactly politically sav-vy and I know it’s wrong, but the more I learn, the more confused I am. I am not happy with the outcome, but who really is? We have a bunch of political parties that are only alive to suck money out of people’s pockets. The middle class is disappearing and more families are considered poor. Everything is more expensive and we can’t keep up because

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Hands down the most impressive gamefish to hit the scales at the event was a huge 234-pound yellowfin caught by "Team Let’s Go" by angler Ryan Griffin earning them $31,000 USD which was 1st Cow Tuna of the Year to be brought to the scale.

Cabo San LucasJune has brought with it

extraordinary billfishing with boats releasing double-digits– striped marlin, sailfish, and yes, another swordfish landed!

On top of that, there were enough yellowfin tuna and bull dorado to put smiles on the many anglers taking advantage of the excellent weather and exciting fishing.

The first big Cabo tourna-ment of the year, the Triple Crown Of Fishing hosted by Pelagic, had 50 teams consist-ing of 213 anglers caught and released 140 billfish, 11 dorado, seven yellowfin tuna, and three wahoo.

Hands down the most im-pressive gamefish to hit the scales at the event was a huge 234-pound yellowfin caught by "Team Let’s Go," earning them $31,000 USD, which was the

first cow tuna of the year to be brought to the scale.

Closer to shore, dorado, roosterfish, jack crevalle, along with a few kawa-kawa (white bonito) showed in the count. For those looking for some fresh fish for dinner, pargo, cabrilla, and snapper that were caught bottom fishing were perfect! …Pisces Sportfishing

LOCATION: The best lo-cations have been Arriba de la Herradura, the 1150 Spot, Chileno and Abajo Punta Gor-do.

W E AT H E R C O N D I -TIONS: The sea temps have been from 79- to 81-degrees, clear and calm, with 3- to 5-foot swells and with light winds in the afternoon. The afternoon air temps have been 72- to 84-degrees.

BEST LURES: The best bait or lures were alive or dead

caballito, mackerel, ballyhoo, sardina, and a variety of large, brightly-colored pushers, and Rapala-style lures, as well as Hoochies.

Puerto Los Cabos Local ocean temperature is

in the 78-to-80-degree range, winds have been at times from the north and then from the south, but have not been too much of an issue for anglers, as it mostly picks up later in the day. The ocean conditions have been favorable.

Marina bait vendors have found good supplies of healthy-sized sardina, as well as some caballito and mullet, with other options being slabs of squid and ballyhoo. Offshore fish-ing has been centered near the 95 and 1150 Spots mainly for striped marlin, but also a few dorado and yellowfin tuna being found as well. Most of the inshore and bottom action has been in the direction of La Fortuna, Cardon, Iman, San Luis, and Vinorama. On the San Luis grounds, tuna was being hooked every day. The fish were finicky – some days better than others, and anglers were fortunate to land one or two, though some had four or five. Also, more sea lions and sharks were making a presence. Most of the yellowfin we saw ranged in the 20- to 60-pound range, although there was one 234-pound tuna landed Friday off these same grounds. The best bet was to drift fish with sardina, squid, or slow-trolled caballito or bolito if you hap-pen to jig one of those candy baits up.

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fishing for tuna with sardina, others also hit on Rapala- type trolling lures. At least there are a few wahoo.

With surface action still a bit spotty, many are concentrat-ing their efforts closer to shore over the rocky high spots or trolling right along the beach stretches. Roosterfish action has been slow to get going, considering this is now peak season and will be for the next month. Everything has been a bit different, slow to get going this season. We did see some roosterfish that were close to 50 pounds. There were more jack crevalle than anything else close to shore, though there were quite a few sierra hanging out in the warmer waters.

Off the bottom, in depths ranging from 60 to 200 feet, we saw a wide variety of species. We even had a 20-pound Cali-fornia sheepshead, as well as yellowtail, amberjack, fortune jack, bonito, black skipjack, pompano, island jack, sur-geonfish, yellow snapper, red snapper, spotted rose snapper, barred pargo, leopard grouper, broomtail, and pinto cabrilla, and of course, triggerfish, a couple of which were monsters.

Most charters were coming in with an average of a dozen fish. Many of the smaller cabrilla and snapper are being released, which is a good thing, that we strongly recommend. …Eric Brictson, Gordo Banks Pangas

East Cape Water is clear, flat, and con-

sistently 80 degrees. There are light winds.

The air is warming, with highs in the low 90s, cool morn-ings, and blue skies

Many pods of porpoise are being seen from 12-to 50-miles offshore. They are hitting bright Hoochies almost exclusively, plus a few on Cedar plugs. There are limits of 10- to 50-pound tuna for all anglers.

There are plenty of stripers mixed with a few sails on the inside banks from 2-to-6-miles off La Ribera, with multiple releases for anglers targeting them. Anglers are loving the ballyhoo!

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He is an Industrial Engineer from Universidad Iberoameri-cana with a degree in Finance at ITAM in Mexico City. Mau-ricio Balderrama, their Secre-tary, is the managing director of the Cabo Surf Hotel which is part of the Balderrama Ho-tel Collection. Patricia Green Pratt is the founder of the Green Scholarship Program created in 2006 and a division of the Charity Development of Los Cabos.

The goal of the organiza-tion remains the same: to give the youth of BCS the op-portunity to learn and social-

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All of their pillars offer amazing and interesting pro-grams. The Human Develop-ment pillar offers a program

called Youth Biz (developed by Young Americans Center for Financial Education in Denver, CO). It is designed to teach youth about entrepreneurship and how to turn their dream and passion into a business. During the 2020 online edi-tion, these young kids lived a true business design experi-ence. After a competition, the winning team created a sanitizing box to facilitate the disinfection of mobile objects. The Sports pillar hosts an an-nual race named Friendship Race 2k and 4 k where medals are awarded. In February 2020, before the pandemic, more than 300 children and youth participated. Most recently, through the agents of change program, a social change proj-ect was started that seeks to inform and raise awareness about caring for animals. They joined forces with Casa Sheila, another local nonprofit whose focus is to reduce the popu-lation of stray animals. The agents organised a raffle and all proceeds will go towards the upcoming CS free spay/neuter clinic.

Their office is currently lo-cated in La Playita San Jose del Cabo although a few months back they got an offer from the Mexican government to move into a new building located in El Caribe Bajo. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cabo San Lucas where kids are the neediest and experience the worst living conditions.

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The other academy nomi-nation was for the score and I certainly agree with this one. With music largely composed by Emile Mosseri with song contributions by Yeri Han (Monica), the soundtrack is nearly perfect. In a mix of orchestral and electronic mu-sic, Mosseri captures Korean themes in a modern style. The two songs (“Rain Song” and “Wind Song”) where Yeri Han contributed are just beautiful embodiments of their title subjects. You might want to download this score. It is beau-tifully subtle.

And there we are back to that word ‘subtle’, which some-how just perfectly describes this movie. Reread the review snippets I quoted at the be-ginning of this review. Subtle, tender, nuanced -- that’s what this movie really is all about. There is nothing in your face about Minari -- no jolts, no real surprises, nothing jarring. There are a couple of unantici-pated events that stir things up

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towards the end of the movie, but there is nothing here that will unsettle you.

But at the core, this raises the question of what exact-ly should we expect from a movie? I remember years ago arguing that a work of art need not be “beautiful” in order to be “good”. I argued that the true function of art was to arouse emotion and/or stimulate ideas and that the value of a work of art was in how successful it accomplished that. So, for example, a horror flick might be considered ter-rifically good if it succeeded in leaving the viewer with total disgust. There doesn’t need to be anything “beautiful” about watching blood pour or guts spill, but if the intent of the film was to arouse disgust, then it is a “good” work of art to the extent that it does that.

So what, exactly, does Mi-nari leave us with? Are we stimulated to action? Are we driven to intense sadness? Do we revel in feelings of suc-cess? Unfortunately, I can’t find the feeling in this movie. It is considered a ‘drama’, but I didn’t cry anywhere during

the film (and, ask my wife, I cry at a lot of movies!) I didn’t leave the film energized to do battle with political conserva-tives (the Arkansans in this film might be a little biased, but they never actually DO anything bad). I might have some vague sense of apprecia-tion for what it is like to come to America and try to actually live the American dream. (But I will leave it to the viewer to determine how successful the film is in creating that feeling.)

In the end, I finished the movie and felt a certain calm. I think you appreciate this movie much like you might enjoy fine French wine. French wines are frequently described with words like ‘balanced’, ‘tender’, ‘nuanced’, and ‘subtle’ - just like this movie. And one doesn’t usually drink French wines by themselves. They go beautifully with food, drawing out flavors that you wouldn’t get otherwise. Drinking a French wine by itself isn’t really a terrific experience, unlike a robust Napa Valley Cabernet or a lush Williamette Valley Pinot Noir.

Technically this movie is

just fine. But unlike a French wine, what are you supposed to pair this movie with so you can draw out all its subtleties? As a famous commercial asks, “Where’s the beef?” I can only summon up 3.5 stars. (But enjoy the music!). ,

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pompano as well.There are a few big bull

dorado coming in daily on hoochies and ballyhoo mixed with the tuna and billfish.

Roosterfish- as usual for this time of year can be found along all beaches, which is not much pressure with all the outside ac-tion. …Rancho Leonero

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ing with lots of action for the most part. There were a couple of bumps here and there and maybe one panga did poorly or an area just didn’t produce. Or some folks swung for the fences and spent their day chasing more elusive species like tuna or wahoo that just didn’t show.

However, everyone who chased what was there got plenty of fish.

Frankly, our La Paz fishing was far better. If you wanted to load up the ice chest, the dorado continued to be more than ac-commodating. You just need to find the right spot. There’s a lot of floating sargasso (kelp paddies), but not every spot is holding fish.

The sargasso attracts sardi-na and other baitfish, especially flying fish that are laying their eggs and for the dorado, it’s like a floating buffet. If you hit the right spot, it can be non-stop action. Some of the “paddies” hold the younger 5–to-10-pound fish. But other paddies hold 15-to-30-pound and larger dorado that are putting the wood to some of the anglers. A good many large fish are getting lost, but still are plenty of fun.

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starting to see a few dorado as the sargasso moves south but mostly the bite has been for a variety of fish including jack crevalle, snapper, pargo, cabrilla, bonito, amberjack, yel-lowtail, pompano, yellow jacks. Roosterfish between 10- and 50-pounds are still prowling the beaches!

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and avoid potentially mis-placing things is to hang your kitchen bags and trash bags on a paper towel holder. They already come in rolls, so all you have to do is hang up the holder. It’s as simple as finding an open area of a concealed wall (we imagine you don’t want your trash bags easily visible in your kitchen) and hanging a paper towel holder.

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big part of. And since then, we have been showing everyone the high-quality operation that is 100 percent helping every child here," continued Scirrub. He emphasized that Casa Hogar is a non-profit or-ganization with integrity and transparency.

The streaming on Netflix film stars Dennis Quaid as fishing boat captain Wade Malloy. It is about a scrappy team of youngsters who enter the world’s richest fishing tour-

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nament, hoping to save their orphanage with the Bisbee’s Black and Blue fishing tourna-ment prize money.

At the time, Hurricane Odile's devastation of Los Cabos led the Bisbee fam-ily of directors to allow local

fishermen to enter the pricey tournament free of charge and Casa Hogar orphanage admin-istrator, Omar Venegas, landed a 385-pound blue marlin, the biggest of the tournament, winning more than $250,000 for Casa Hogar.

And while the film is highly fictionalized, here's what is true. Hurricane Odile dam-aged the building in mid-Sep-tember 2014 when the storm hit Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, wreak-ing havoc on the city of Cabo San Lucas. The cash-strapped Casa Hogar orphanage, which provided food, shelter and educational opportunities to underprivileged boys (and eventually girls, too) was put under an even greater financial burden. An average of 40 boys called the then six-year-old orphanage home at the time.

The Dennis Quaid Wade Malloy skipper's real name is actually Ernie Cossio, who is a Cabo San Lucas native who runs the successful charter fishing business Ernie's Cabo Fishing. Cossio also doesn't share many similarities with Dennis Quaid's character, who is a washed-up fisherman. Nor has Cossio ever previously

cheated to win the tourna-ment. Also, Captain Ernie Cossio's vessel, nicknamed Mucho Bueno, is a much nicer and far more capable boat than the rundown vessel Dennis Quaid captains in the film, which is fittingly nicknamed Knot Enough.

It also actually took Omar Venegas 43 minutes to reel in the winning marlin and Team Casa Hogar actually gave all of their $258,325 in prize money to the struggling orphanage that had been looking after the boys on the team.

"There is heartfelt gratitude from Casa Hogar to the many people who have shown inter-est in our work and decided to assist in some capacity. We operate completely from donations and new donors motivated by the Blue Mira-cle movie have really helped us to get on track for the 2021 budget. On May 28 the day after the movie's premiere we had over 70,000 visits to our website. That was incredible,'' said a very thankful Jayson Scirrub. ,

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Baja Inspired Chocolate Winning Awards For NorCal Couple

BY KATHRYN REED

A sack of unfamiliar beans sitting in a Baja kitchen was a sweet discovery for Susan and Jeff Mall.

While the couple was well versed in the culinary world, chocolate making was not part of their repertoire when they

took over the food and beverage operation at Rancho Pescadero. Today they are winning awards at international competitions

for their bars of dark chocolate.The couple started in 2010 as

consultants for the Baja Califor-nia Sur resort. At the time they

owned the highly acclaimed Zin restaurant in Healdsburg in California’s Wine Country. In December 2014, they sold the restaurant and in February 2015 they were working full time just steps from the Pa-cific Ocean as executive chefs at Rancho Pescadero.

“We inherited the ingredi-ents from the previous chef,” Susan Mall shared. “We had never seen cacao beans and we didn’t know how to make chocolate.”

A little research helped the Malls figure out what to do with the beans—roast, peel, and turn them into something edible. It took a few tries, and a realiza-tion the recipes they found online were subpar.

This is when they got cre-ative. Because the Malls had honed the understanding of food profiles through their restaurant work they were able to create unique recipes and heighten the flavors of their chocolate bars.

“We had to learn how to tune our palates,” Susan Mall said of acquiring a refined taste for high-end chocolate. Today, they are close to being equivalent to wine sommeliers by being able to dissect what is in a piece of chocolate. While chocolate and wine are a natu-ral, well-known pairing, the Malls have pairing sheets for their chocolate with cheese.

In Baja, it was a bit of a bootleg, MacGyver-type opera-tion as the couple used trial and error to figure out the process and the tools needed to make it happen. The Indian wet stone grinder was not suitable for tortillas so it was put into the chocolate operation. The wood oven was perfect for roasting the beans.

Hotel guests got in on the action by becoming free labor when it came time to peel the beans. They found it to be an interesting activity one often doesn’t experience on vacation. When the chocolate was done, those same guests got to nibble on what they helped create. Many would buy handfuls of bars to take home with them.

Rancho Pescadero profited from all the sales, not the Malls.

The duo didn’t anticipate the Rancho Pescadero gig be-ing permanent or long-term; having made a commitment of 18 to 24 months. By the end of July 2016, they were headed north—for personal and pro-fessional reasons.

(Rancho Pescadero has been closed since 2018, with a reopening expected in 2022. Then it will come under the Hyatt Unbound Collection umbrella.)

What the Malls took from Baja was a desire to turn their prowess for chocolate making into a business. Thus, Volo chocolate of Windsor, Cali-fornia, was born. In Latin, the word "volo" means to want or to desire.

It’s an appropriate name be-cause after one bite you will de-sire another, and another, then a square from a different bar. This is high-end, artisanal chocolate that ranges between 62 percent and 73 percent darkness.

A nod to Mexico goes into each bar, as cinnamon is part

of every recipe. Sea salt, often from Baja, is part of the mix as well. When they were in Baja the salt came from Guerrero Negro in Baja Sur.

In Baja, finished chocolate was wrapped in foil whose original purpose was to be a hamburger wrapper.

Bars to this day are still hand-wrapped, though au-tomation is coming soon. A person can wrap one bar in a minute, while a machine can do 60 in the same amount of time.

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A Day in RosaritoOr what’s like to live here being a Gringo

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"Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way down-

stairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed

my hat. Made the bus in sec-onds flat." Living here in San Jose del Cabo without a car and being a late riser, I can relate to these Lennon/McCartney lyrics.

I had planned on shipping my car from the U.S. to Cabo, but it died on me a week be-fore that plan was to set sail. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as I got some money from selling the car back to the dealer, but that's not all. After calculating all of the expenses of having a new car down here I discovered that walking, taking the bus, and Ubering would be much more cost-efficient. Moreover, I've met more people by walking around my barrio than I would have by jumping in my car every time I needed to go out.

I live in Rosarito, which could best be described as a sleepy town 30 to 45 minutes from Cabo San Lucas, the rol-licking main tourist destina-tion. Rosarito is a 15-minute walk from downtown San Jose which comes to life every night due to the plethora of bars and restaurants. Thursdays

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work of art. They are images of quilts with a color scheme of cream, orange and brown that have been created by Jeff Mall’s aunt, Cathy Shanahan.

The beans the Malls first worked with were from Chi-apas, the southern-most state on the mainland of Mexico. The problem was the quality fluctuated. Today, Volo’s beans are sourced from Guatemala and Haiti.

“The quality level of the bean is ultra-premium,” Susan Mall said.

While the beans are foreign, other ingredients are more lo-cal, such as from Clover Dairy, Petaluma Hill Dairy, Merchant & Miller Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and Wolf Coffee.

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[email protected] They also have a FB page where they update their monthly calen-dar of classes and activities. https://www.facebook.com/cnynbcs ,

businesses, in turn, support Volo by carrying the bars. It is the “turndown chocolate” at the Montage resort in Healdsburg.

In summer 2019 Volo in-troduced the MexiCali and Chocolate Orange bars. The MexiCali has chiles and dried cherries, while the other has a candied orange peel.

Volo has eight chocolate bars, with No. 9 being talked about. The 73 percent Deep Dark Chocolate is the No. 1 seller, with the 70 percent Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Crunch close behind.

In 2019, Volo entered the Academy of Chocolate com-petition with its MexiCali and Chocolate Orange bars. Both earned bronzes; the former in the Milk Bean-to-Bar Flavored category and the latter in the Bean-to-Bar Flavored Category. There were 1,500 entrants rep-resenting 46 countries.

In 2020, Chocolate Mocha earned a bronze and the Dark Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt & Brown Butter a silver in the Milk Bean to Bar Flavored. The 73 percent Deep Dark Choco-late garnered a gold for Dark Bean to Bar Flavored. It was one of 43 golds in the whole competition.

“I call this chocolate reimag-ined. It explodes and lingers,” Mall said.

In 2020, Volo produced 37,000 bars of chocolate. Each year the company has grown. It was on target to grow 15 to 20 percent in 2020—then the pandemic hit. Wholesale orders dropped by 70 percent, while online sales took off. A federal loan helped keep the company going.

An advantage to being in Sonoma County is the choco-late can be made year-round. Operations had to come to a halt in Baja in May because it got too hot and humid. Choco-late should not be refrigerated. The ideal storage temperature is between 62 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit. In the right climate chocolate never goes bad.

With the growing popular-ity of Volo, the Malls know the 500-square-foot space where

the chocolate is made is not go-ing to be enough. Next door is the office and where inventory is kept. It too will need to be bigger to keep up with demand. They might also need more employees. They only have 2½ others working at Volo.

The back of each wrapper says, “While living & working as married chefs in Mexico we fell in love with traditional Mexican ingredients including cacao/cocoa beans grown in Mexico for 1,000s of years. We

incorporated cacao into sweet & savory preparations which led us into the world of making Mexican-style chocolate. Now back home in Sonoma County, we are continuing to make chocolate in the same tradition we learned in Mexico.”

While the Malls don’t have a professional reason to return to Baja Sur, the annual writ-ers’ workshop in Todos San-tos keeps them in touch with Mexico, where this chocolate craze all got started. ,

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Arroyo Squatters Have Free Electricity, Tidy Streets and a Water ParkBut a big storm could wash all that away

BY WALTER MELON

Every year during hurri-cane season, squatters living in arroyos become a topic of conversation and concern. Building a shack in the middle of a dry river bed doesn’t incur any danger for most of

the year, but when rains and storms threaten, evacuating these people – an estimated total of 15,000 in the Los Cabos region – their safety becomes the city’s responsibility and burden. No one wants to see a

repeat of what happened on November 4, 1993, when a freak rainstorm dumped buck-ets of rain on Los

Cabos and completely washed away a federal housing project that the municipality had allowed to be

built in the middle of an ar-royo. Also destroyed were the newly constructed bridges at El Tule. Water can be a powerful thing and flash floods can be quite deadly.

What would make someone build a home in such a haz-ardous area? Necessity. Quite simply there’s little affordable housing available for these workers, who have mostly come to Los Cabos from the interior of Mexico – states such as Guerrero, Oaxaca and Veracruz — to perform manual labor. There is also little avail-able land, as even though it looks like there’s a big cactus patch out there behind the town, it’s all owned by vigilant people with security guards who will chase off squatters the day they arrive.

But the government is more tolerant of squatting in the ar-royos, so that’s where they grav-itate. On a recent visit to the arroyo that’s at the entrance to

Cabo on the toll road from the airport, we were surprised to see that a cohesive, organized, and tidy little barrio has sprung up out of the chaos usually as-sociated with squatters. Yes, the shacks are made of scraps of wood and sheet metal, with shower curtains for doors and tarps for roofs, but every home is fenced and has an address.

Some even appeared to have a guest house. One of them had added a second story.

There are beauty parlor shacks where you can get your hair highlighted and cut, a nursing shack where you can get shots, a church shack, sev-eral grocery store shacks, shade tree auto mechanics, a laundry, a barbershop, a butcher shop, and a chicken restaurant com-plete with mariachis on the weekend.

They also enjoy free elec-tricity and water because they steal these services right under the government’s nose. On our visit, a CFE truck drove right past power lines with “diablitos” which are wires tapping into the overhead power lines running directly to the shacks. They didn’t even take a second look. There have been very stern signs posted on the outskirts of the barrio warning that anyone caught littering will be reported to the authorities, and, indeed, the dusty streets within the barrio’s confines are clean as a whistle.

Despite repeated attempts to interview individual resi-dents, all refused. Water is also stolen. squatters form an orga-nized, unified, and proud little barrio. Let’s just hope a storm doesn’t wash all of their efforts away. ,

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