Yuma Date Festival Nov 17, 2012 8 to 4

                www.YumaMedjoolDateFestival.com

WHAT'S HAPPENING: Cooking demonstrations and contests using dates, equipment display, live music and entertainment, street vendors, art exhibit

The Inaugural Yuma Medjool Date Festival

 

Visit Our Live Stage For Local Music And Dance

DJ Noriega

Dance Etc

Yuma High Color Guard

Yuma Jam University

Yuma Jazzercise Fitnes Center

Jewel Of The Desert Belly Dance Group

Special Guest Appearance

Zarmineh Moody
And
The Jawhara Belly Dance Group

Learn To Cook With Medjool Dates At Our Chef Masterclass

Win Cash Prizes In Our Recipe Contest

Local and international Chefs Show their culinary expertise and create new and exciting dishes featuring Medjool Dates.

Chefs - enter for a chance to win $2500 for the   best new dish as decided by our judges.

Download your entry form here.

Think you can shake?
Enter our contest to make the best Medjool Date Shake ever!!

Do you have a  favorite Medjool Date recipe? Send it to us for a chance to win $1000.

 Click here for an entry form.

Join us or free coffee and Medjool Date Muffins ~ 8:00am - 9:30am

All You ever wanted to know about Yuma and Medjool Dates

Ask The Growers

Have a question about Medjool Dates?
Get answers from Gus Nunez and Steve Shadle
Two of the largest growers in the Bard Valley

See the exhibition of historic pictures, artifacts, equipment and more on display at the Art Museum

 

Merida,Yucatan Mexico Hotel

New Hotel opened in the State of Yucatan, Mexico. (Area does have an Airport).
Merida is the Largest City in the State of Yucatan and also the State Capital.
Not just any hotel this one is a Double Tree by Hilton. Very Nice.
The Base of the Structure is constructed w holey withing a Mansion from the 20th Century.
Featuring one hundred guest rooms, a business center, fitness center and an open air swimming pool.
For those that want a great deal for a reasonable price in a wonderful setting..

located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km (22 mi) from the Gulf of Mexico.
 The city is also  municipal seat of Muncipality of Merida the city and the areas around it.
The population of  Mérida is more than a Million people,  number 12th as the most populous metropolitan ranking.  Land area is over 331 square miles. Town in the Region are Kanasin, Uman and Merida
Merida has the highest percentage of indigenous persons of any large city in Mexico.
Outside influence is heavy favoring, French, British and Dutch.

For full information check Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merida_%28Mexico%29)

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Agents find $1.5M in pot hidden in truck

San Diego EAST COUNTY — U.S. Border Patrol agents at a Pine Valley checkpoint on Interstate 8 found more than $1.5 million worth of marijuana hidden behind a false wall in a big rig Sunday night.

The nervous demeanor of the truck driver, a 55-year-old El Salvadoran man, led agents to take a closer look at the tractor-trailer, which arrived at the checkpoint about 11 p.m., Border Patrol spokeswoman Mary Beth Caston said.

A drug-sniffing dog reacted to the trailer, and a search by agents turned up the false wall. Behind it: a little more than 1,000 pounds of pot with a street value of $1.5 million, Caston said.

The driver and drugs were turned over to a multi-agency drug task force, and the Border Patrol seized the tractor-trailer.

Question CCPOA withholding the News

My Opinion!
CCPOA California Correctional Peace Officers Association, good information Release.
Until now, last news release was October 19, 2012. Looks like they are withholding information from the Public before the Elections. Shame on them!

Help for Disabled Handicapped and Alzheimer

Departments Nationwide should review this type of service.
t's a heart-stopping moment when a family member realizes their loved one who has Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia has wandered away. But the Yuma County Sheriff's Office is looking into a method that will help them and other law enforcement agencies find those lost loved ones faster.
Lt. Darren Simmons said while the Yuma County Sheriff's Office is currently comparing the prices of several different systems, it plans to introduce a GPS tracking system sometime in the near future that will allow them to track a wandering patient quickly.
“I'm still trying to find some funding right now,” Simmons said. “It's about $5,000 to $6,000 to get all the basic software and two bracelets. Additional bracelets cost about $350.”
Simmons explained how the sheriff's office envisions the program working, saying they would sign out a bracelet to a family who has a loved who suffers from a disease that causes memory loss, and the family would pay the monthly activation fee, which is similar to paying a cable bill.
“We would have the tracking system so that if their loved one walked away, all they would need to do is contact us, and we would upload the coordinates and find out exactly where their loved one is at,” Simmons said.
The bracelet, which would be worn by the senior, constantly emits locational data — much like a cell phone — that the sheriff's office will be able to superimpose over a satellite mapping program, if that person is ever reported missing.
“Technology has come along way,” Simmons said. “You can ping them and get a fairly close location, within 60 meters, which is 180 feet. They have to be wearing it and not take it off though.”
Simmons said the sheriff's office keeps a binder of area residents who have wandered off before, which contains updated information and a current photo, so deputies know who it is they are looking for if that person ever goes missing again.
“It also helps because it tells us where we found them last time,” Simmons said. “Around here you can wander out in to the desert so quick. It's hard to find anybody out there. It's like trying to find a needle in the haystack.”

Six Die in Death Ceremony Torreon, Coahuila

6 Die Partaking in Holy Death Ceremony in Mexico

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Six people were killed in northern Mexico while taking part in a Holy Death ceremony on the Day of the Dead, when millions of Mexicans pay homage to their late friends and relatives, prosecutors said.6 die
The incident occurred in the city of Torreon, Coahuila state, when several armed men burst into the ceremony at around 5:00 p.m. Friday.
Authorities with the state Attorney General’s Office said the assailants opened fire with high-caliber weapons, leaving four men dead at the scene. Two others were seriously wounded and died later at a local hospital.
State police and army soldiers were on the scene as the investigation began.
The Holy Death cult, popular among drug traffickers and some other Mexican criminals, is a blend of Christianity, Indian traditions and folk beliefs that arose in the 1940s in poor Mexico City neighborhoods and subsequently spread throughout the country.
Condemned by the Vatican, the cult is not recognized as a religious denomination by the Mexican government.
The Holy Death cult, which claims to have 5 million members around the world, has its principal church in Mexico City.
In another violent incident Friday morning in the same city, four dismembered bodies were left outside a federal prosecutor’s office by suspected organized criminals.
The body parts of two women and two men were found in plastic bags inside a vehicle, prosecutors said.
Authorities also found a threatening message whose content was not revealed.
Torreon has been controlled in recent years by the Los Zetas drug cartel, but a challenge leveled by the rival Sinaloa mob has led to numerous turf battles.

Foreign firms battle Mexicans over wind power

Mexico is putting up wind-power turbines at a breakneck pace, and the expansion is pitting energy companies against the Indians who live in one of the windiest spots in the world.
The country is posting one of the world’s highest growth rates in wind energy, and almost all of it is concentrated in the narrow waist of Mexico known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where winds from the Pacific meet winds from the Gulf of Mexico, spawning places so wind-blown that one town’s formal name is simply “Windy.”
The largely indigenous residents of the isthmus complain that the wind farms take control of their land, affect fish and livestock with their vibrations, chop up birds and pit residents against each other for the damage or royalty payments. They also claim they see few of the profits from such projects.
President Felipe Calderon has made the inauguration of wind parks one of the main focuses of his administration’s ambitious pledge to cut Mexico’s carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2020, and Tuesday — as he has done before — he stopped by the state of Oaxaca to inaugurate a new clutch of wind turbines, praising the extra income they provide for some farmers.
“Yes, you can fight poverty and protect the environment at the same time. This is a clear example,” Calderon said.
So far in 2012, Mexico has posted a startling 119 percent increase in installed wind-power capacity, more than doubling the 519 megawatts it had last year. Mexico had only 6 megawatts when Calderon took office in 2006.

Distrust from residents

It was mainly Spanish and U.S. firms that built the huge wind towers crowding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Only four of Mexico’s 17 wind farms are located outside the isthmus.