Cayo Scoop! The Ecology of Cayo Culture

Mobility gear and medical supplies will be distributed at the Hearts of Christ Mission center in Roaring Creek on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 8th through the 10th. Call 633-5479 for more information. Thank you, Access-Life!

Feelgood story of the day.  Training at risk youths and providing them valuable life skills is a win-win situation.  This is a great story from Plus TV about the Enter Change Workshop.

"It all got started three years ago when Terry Stinson and his wife came on a mission trip to Belize.  The couple returned to Belize a year later from their home back in Bristol Virginia and started an organization by the name of Enter Change Workshop.  Their vision behind the workshop is to train young men from within that community in a trade and sharing the love of God with them at the same time...  Since its inception; approximately 20-25 person have been trained and pass through Enter Change Workshop."

Rowan Garel is now out of Cayo, and in the home stretch.  Congratulations, Rowan.  Channel 7 interviewed him while he was in Cayo.

"Through the majestic, rolling hills of the Cayo district - they appear as only a speck on the horizon, figures lost against the broad vista - a slender 14 year old, his friends and followers doing the impossible, the unthinkable - walking from Benque to Belize City.  Well-wishers greet them along the way with gifts and small contributions. Mugging for photos with the 14 year old - who after 20 miles in the unforgiving heat can still muster a smile for his fans.  Walking through Camalote today - Rowan Garel was coming up on 20 miles. But - clutching unto his father Joe for direction - he was still keeping a brisk pace. The prospects of an entire summer programme are riding on these slender shoulders, so he made sure to keep hydrated with his mother Milagro taking a turn on his arm and coming across Roaring Creek Bridge up on the end of today's arduous trek - which ended at Guanacaste Park."

There are pictures of Cayo birds all over this article.  From Cahal Pech, to El Pilar, to Roaring Creek, they are well shot.  

"We saw both male and female Rose-Throated Becards numerous times as they were adding onto their interesting round nest in a tall tree.  Both birds would fly into the woods, then come back with nesting material to add to the top of the nest.  The nest hole is in the side.  We didn't get a photo of the male, unfortunately, but this photo of the female that Barry took is the clearest bird photo of any he took, I think."

The new Roaring Creek Bridge is open!  

There are 5 Miss Earth Belize contestants, and 2 of them are from Cayo.  Idolly Saldivar, who is from Belmopan, and Katalina Jones, who is from Roaring Creek.  The pageant will be on Saturday, August 18th.  Good luck, ladies!

"Introducing the Miss Earth Belize 2012 delegates.  The Miss Earth Belize 2012 Pageant will be held on August 18, 2012 at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts in Belize City, Belize at 7:30pm."

We have our next Miss Belize!  Destinee Arnold, from Cayo's Roaring Creek, has won the pageant.  Congratulations, Ms. Arnold, the Queen of the Jewel!