In order to get to Rocky Point from almost anywhere in the US, you have to travel thru the towns of Gila Bend and Ajo, AZ. Most of the time you’re just trying to get to Mexico or trying to get home and don’t think about the two little towns that provide the only bathroom breaks and food along the way. (Why is not included here, because Why?)
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“Can I touch one?” The boy stares at the 13 tiny creatures in the styrofoam cooler. A small crowd of people has followed the biologist as she carries the just-hatched Sea Turtles down to the spot where they were born. “Everyone please, we need to form groups. Each is responsible for one turtle.” Itzel Cardenas is the biologist in charge of protecting them. Today, she is here with representatives of PROFEPA (Mexico’s equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency), Alma Yanes, Sub Director for Ecology in Puerto Peñasco, the Mexican Navy (Marines), as well as CEDO, the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans. Together, they work to make sure that the nests of endangered sea turtles have the best chance of surviving until they are ready to venture out into the ocean
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A short history of the Santa Claus Club. We began in 1983 with a party on Christmas Day for 40 children in Cholla Bay. Over the next 31 years the party has grown to a record breaking year in 2013. In 2014 we shattered more records that have been kept with 60,040 pounds of food, 603 bicycles, 42,100 pounds of clothes, 1,501 family food boxes and 8,560 children given toys and school supplies. The party was held on Christmas Day thru 2006 and then in 2007 we changed to a year round format. We now go into the barrios on a weekly basis delivering door to door directly to the people that need our help the most. This gives us a better understanding of the day to day needs of the people we are trying to help. Our target group live in make-shift houses mostly construct
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Having tried many diets, I don’t believe in them! They are hard to follow and most people gain back all the weight they lost without changing their lifestyle. What I do believe in is eating healthy, and eating in a way that you can maintain as your everyday lifestyle
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and Rodeo Drive has everything you might need. From wonderful hand crafted Christmas ornaments to give your home that festive aire to last minute gifts for those hard to please people on your list. You can find the unique treasure that will surprise and delight!! And, we are of the theory that you should treat yourself to that one thing you’ve wanted but were hesitant to buy. You do deserve it.
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Guidelines on animals, plants, and products that may enter Mexico
