Good Eats for Good Deeds By: John Plotkin
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Recycle by sharing with a friend or return to East Capers Rack! Read the color version online at www.eastcapearts.com Free / Gratis Good Eats for Good Deeds By: John Plotkin The Fourth Annual Taste of the East Cape is just th around the corner! Saturday, December 7 in De La Laguna Park, fifteen great chefs will be offering tastes of their menus to raise money for Rotary’s projects benefitting the local community. Finish the night with home-made ice cream and fresh brewed coffee and dancing to local favorite “Revolving Door.” The bar opens at 5pm. Food is served at 6pm and the music, by Revolving Door, starts at 8pm. Each at- tendee gets 10 tastes and one free beverage. A Fifty/ Fifty raffle will offer attendees the opportunity to win while donating. The Taste is a Fun Raising Fund Rais- er! Here’s the lineup Restaurants: Aguacatering, Beans & Rice, Carmen’s Place, Casa Las Flores at Tres Palapas, La Casita, Ce- sar and Trini from Pizza Gourmet, Costa Palmas (La Ribera), El Gecko, Restaurante Green’s, La Hornilla (El Cardonal), Joe’s Pizza, El Minero (El Triunfo), La Playa, La Providencia (La Ribera) and Smokey’s Grill and Cantina. Dessert: by Zopilotes (San Bartolo) and coffee by Café Encinalito. Drinks: Beer from Baja Brewery, wine from Los Bar- riles Wine and Tequila plus Rotary’s famous margari- tas. This event is an annual sell out so don’t procrastinate! cember 2019 January Issue2020 89 Tickets are 30USD or 600 Pesos. For tickets, stop by e the offices of Land and Homes, come by the Saturday D Community Market or contact Ian Gibson ([email protected]) or John Plotkin ([email protected]). Please help Rotary and our generous restaurant, dessert, coffee and beverage sponsors help our community. 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Read the color version online at www.eastcapearts.com mature plants may lengthen as much as 3 cm in a year. you the same, if not better, show you were treated to Asociación de Artes last March – and we are planning some fun surprises! The stock, fragrant flowers are white tinged with rose By: Chris Courtright and appear Mar-June. They are open in the late after- We will have the great traditional Mexican Folkloric By the time you read this, the first Asociación de Artes entertainment, the great selection of food booths, the noon through midday of the next day and are visited by bats at night, birds and insects during the morning. The event, the Holiday Art Show at Colina del Sol, will be beer/wine garden and once again, the hand selected fuzzy, tan fruit, with bristles rarely more than 1 cm long history. As always, it is a great time to catch up with vendors with the one of a kind products. We have friends, see great one of a kind handmade items, shop for gone back to our roots with verifying that you are see- and pale pink to bright red flesh, matures during the gifts or yourself and get in the festive mood for the up- ing the best of the artists available in the Baja who summer. coming holidays. I venture to say that it was a great will be showing the best and widest variety of prod- Cardón , a near-endemic, is found mainly in BC on fundraiser for us, just in time to pay for the school sup- ucts. most of Gulf islands and coastal Sonora south to Guay- plies shopping that we do in the fall. mas. It grows on rocky southwest hillsides of Sierra de Festival de Artes is where we have our big Silent Auc- San Pedro Mártir, in the southern Desierto de San Feli- tion and Raffle baskets which is a huge fundraiser for Our next event is the Artist Studio Tour on February pe, and level plains from San Felipe and El Rosario us. Our team scours the area to get some fantastic 12th, from 10am – 4pm. This unique show allows you to southward to the tip of the Cape Region. It is found things donated – the stuff you want and are going to go to about 15 different local artists homes to see where most abundantly in the deep soil of alluvial fans. Trave- buy anyways. This is your opportunity to get the the magic happens. And as a bonus, there are more than ling south, the first real cardinal (Cardón forest) is found things you need and at the same time, help us fulfill in Arroyo El Rosario 16 km east of the town. Cardón is one artist at many of the homes. So, you can see many the mission of Asociación de Artes – which is to help often mistaken for the Saguaro of Sonora and Arizona, more artists for no more travel! The homes are in Los the children and youth of the East Cape area. We al- Carnegiea gigantea, but the Saguaro does not grow in Barriles to Buena Vista, so it is easy travel, and all close ways have lots of shade so you can hang out all day BC. by. And as luck would have it, many of the artists are and shop, eat, drink, be entertained and repeat it all clustered together or side by side. Pre-sale tickets are st several times that day! If you have friends coming for Birds often peck at the fruit, exposing and eating the in- available at Baja Beach Boutique – starting Feb 1 . th a visit, tell them to plan their trip around March 15 ner pulp and black seeds. Other animals visit the Cardón Make sure you mark your calendars for this fun day! so they can go to the Festival de Artes too!! including several species of woodpeckers, orioles, doves, bees, flies, and butterflies. Hawk’s nests can oc- Then we go into BIG Festival de Artes at Palmas de Cor- Each year we find something new we need to do to th casionally be seen in the higher branches. Sometimes tez on March 15, 2020. This is the 27 annual - which is help the school kids. Our big push this year for the 19 deep scars can be seen in the cactus flesh where cattle amazing to be around for so long! We will provide for have browsed. In the Cape Region, iguanas can some- Continued on Page 4 times be seen peering out of vacated woodpecker holes.