Daily Archives: October 8, 2009

AMPI Charity Golf Tournament

October 8, 2009

Register on BajaCharity.com. Just click on this image!

Register on BajaCharity.com. Just click on this image!

Enjoy an October day of golf over Columbus day weekend in the beautiful location of Real Del Mar Golf Course ending with a catered dinner and dancing to the sounds of a big band. Save the date of Sunday, October 11th. Golf is open to all who want to play for $125 USD pre-registration, or $150 USD day of the event. Dinner & Dancing is $40 USD per person.

This will be a 4 man scramble, check in at 8:30 AM, play at 10:00 AM. There will be prizes, auctions, silent auctions and all around great camaraderie for a field of 145 golfers.

Dinner and dancing will be open for non golfers as well and we encourage the community to join us for this festive evening.

You will be helping the children and their families of Rosarito with the cooperation and participation of three of the City’s most involved charities; DIF Rosarito, Flying Samaritans, and Boys & Girls Club with AMPI, Rosarito Board of Realtors. read more »

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Registration Underway For November 7 Rosarito-Puerto Nuevo Half Marathon

October 8, 2009

Registration Underway For November 7 Rosarito-Puerto Nuevo Half Marathon

Registration Underway For November 7 Rosarito-Puerto Nuevo Half Marathon

ROSARITO BEACH, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO—Registration is underway for the fifth Rosarito-Puerto Nuevo Half Marathon on Nov. 7, an event that organizers hope will attract 600 participants in various categories.

Categories for the event along the Pacific Ocean are men, women 18 to 24; 25 to 29 30 to 34; 35 to 39; 40 to 44; 45 to 49; 50  to 54; 55 to 59  and over 60 years. There also is a wheelchair category.

Trophies will be awarded for first, second and third place in each category, including wheelchairs. Cash prizes for the winners are first $400, second $300 and third $ 200.

For winners in the wheelchair categories first will be $150, second $100 and third $50. The winning Rosarito residents in men and women’s categories will each receive $200. They must prove at least three years of residence.

Commemorative medals will be awarded for the first 150 men and 50 women who finish and shirts given to each participant. read more »

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Readers chime in with memories of Mexico

October 8, 2009

By Logan Jenkins – San Diego Union Tribune

Rosarito Beach Fishing Pier

Rosarito Beach Fishing Pier

As you’ll see, I’m not alone in my self-imposed exile from Mexico, the bleating theme of last Monday’s column.

But my aging gringo ballad, freighted with nostalgia but spooked by narco-terror and congestion at the border, misses what’s verdad on the ground, many were quick to point out.

“You do not have to miss Mexico,” lectured Diane Kane of San Diego. “After years of living in and traveling to Baja, neither we nor any of our friends have any negative experiences to report. . . . In fact, we have had nothing but polite, friendly dealings with the locals.”

For a reality check, Kane prescribed a weekend at the Rosarito Beach Condo Hotel and a wine-tasting tour to renew this native son’s faith in what always seemed to be San Diego’s equal (if not better) geographic and cultural half.

Robert Gutierrez of Escondido sounded a similar theme.

“Both my family and I have so many wonderful memories that would never have occurred if I had allowed the warnings of people, whose only knowledge of Mexico is gained from newspapers and television, to have kept me on this side of the border.” read more »

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