Cayo Scoop! The Ecology of Cayo Culture

The 2024 Voice of the West Elocution Contest will be televised tonight at 7pm on TNC.

The Rotary Club is planning another Coffee for a Cause to raise funds to eliminate polio. It'll be on Saturday the 21st of October at Odette's.

'Take action by drinking coffee with us!!!!

Let's help to End Polio Now worldwide!!!!

Save the date and join us for our Coffee for a Cause- End Polio Now Event!!!

See you there!!!!!'

UPDATE - Postponed due to weather.  Will be later this month.

The Benque Rotary are inviting everyone out on Saturday and Sunday, from 7am to 6pm, to help create the first Ecological Mural in Belize. It'll be made out of plastic caps.

'You are cordially Invited!  The Rotary Satellite Club of San Ignacio Benque Viejo invites you to participate in the first Ecological Art wall project with the use of plastic caps.  Creating awareness from the example and creativity of actions in favor of the planet is the movement.'

Rotary's Maternity Project has started, and they are accepting donations, which can be dropped off at the Sacred Heart College gate. They are trying to obtain baby clothes along with baby products and post-partum care products.

'This project aims to provide after-birth care packages to mothers and their newborn children of different low-income communities and educate them on the importance of after-birth care.'

The Benque Rotary is having a raffle to raise funds for their Primary School Scholarship Program, which will help students in need. There are 33 different prizes you could win. Tickets are $20, and the raffle drawing is June 18th at 2:00pm.

'The Rotary Satellite Club of San Ignacio Benque Viejo presents their First Annual Grand Raffle: Celebrating Belizean Father's.

Get your tickets for $20 each. All proceeds will go towards our first Imagine Primary School Scholarship Program which aims at benefiting selected students from all primary Schools in the Cayo West Constituency.'

The Benque Rotary Club is having their A Season to Remember concert next Saturday the 17th at Mount Carmel Church at 8pm. Proceeds will go towards scholarships.

'Join us on December 17 at 8:00 pm at our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Benque Viejo Del Carmen.  Support us at our first annual Fundraiser event “A season to Remember“

Our Rotary Club aims to provide scholarship programs to as many underprivileged students in our seven primary schools in the area'

The 2nd Bio-Barrier has been installed, this one being placed on the Mopan river at Garbutt Falls in Benque.  The bio-barrier helps to catch trash, and is made of recycled plastic bottles.  Thanks, Rotary, and everyone that helped with this amazing initiative!

Pictures of the event, and videos of the event.

"Last Sunday March 8, 2020, our club installed a second bio-barrier on the Mopan River. This will greatly help to trap floating solid plastic from continuing its way down into town. This barrier will help us identify Benque Viejo's waste and to be more conscious about the importance of clean Waters...

It takes a great deal of work to make the barrier and install it. It will trap floating trash and debris which will then be bagged and removed from the river. Thank you to the Club members, the Rotaract Club of Benque and other community groups and members who are making this clean-up effort so effective!"

Congratulations, Delsiemae, Bart, and Brendan!  They all received the Paul Harris Fellow Award for their commitment to helping the Cayo community. 

"Three people from the Cayo area were honored with the prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship awards by District Governor Jose Antonio Interiano Torre. Paul Harris started Rotary in 1905 and the fellowships acknowledge people who serve their community in the spirit of Rotary's founding principles. Delsiemae Vernon was celebrated for her longstanding service to the Cayo community, Brendan O'Donoghue, a San Ignacio Rotarian was honored for his service to our club, and Bart Mickler received a stone in his existing Paul Harris pin recognizing his long service to our club and the Cayo community."

Rotary is sponsoring an orthopedic clinic at La Loma Luz Hospital and the Western Regional Hospital on July 10th.  Thanks, Rotary!

The Rotary Club of Belmopan's 16th annual Wine & Cheese fundraiser will be held on Saturday, February 24th. Proceeds go towards the Belize Children's Project.

Feelgood news of the day. The 5 Rafael Cal Memorial Scholarship graduates were honored last night.  Congratulations, graduates!

'Last night we were honored to celebrate our graduates. These 5 students were awarded “The Rafael Cal Memorial Scholarship “ and are now graduating highschool. Last night the student with the highest GPA was awarded the “Paulita Bedran Tertiary Scholarship.” We look forward to seeing these five youths achieve their dreams in the future.'

Rotary's Coffee for a Cause will be held at Odette's on Saturday the 27th from 9am to 4pm.  The fundraiser will have desserts from Sweet and Savory, along with frappes and other coffee drinks.  

'The Rotary Club of San Ignacio is having a one of a kind Polio Plus fundraiser. Coffee for a cause is a pop- up coffee shop with two certified Baristas crafting delicious coffee drinks. Drinks will include hot, Iced and Ice blended drinks. We will also be having delicious desserts by Chef Jesse Mas. Our menu is coming up soon.'

The Voice of the West Elocution Contest will be televised on TNC on Thursday the 30th at 7pm. Thanks, Rotary!

Congratulations to all the winners of Rotary's 2021 Voice of the West!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CM-O617FPSz/

"Congratulations To The Winners of Voice of the West 2021:

The Biobarda has been installed on the Mopan in Benque, and it's working well.  They've already cleaned it, and they got quite a bit of trash out of it.  A huge thanks to everyone involved with this amazing effort.  Beta No Litta!  

More pictures.

"The Rotary Satellite Club of San Ignacio Benque Viejo with the guidance from Guatemala’s Ministry of Environment and Natural resources, Todos por un Mundo Verde 'FCD EYG' sister organization in Guatemala and with the support of Mayor of Benque Mr. Marconi Sosa, Friends for Conservation & Development, FCD Environmental Youth Group, Bowen & Bowen, friends of Rotary and the community of Benque and friends across Belize. The first bio-barrier better known in Guatemala as “Biobardas” has been successful installed in in Belize in the Community of Benque del Carmen Town. This is just one of the many that will be installed in the various communities across Belize."

Rotary's 2018 Elocution Contest will be next Thursday, February 8th, at Hode's.  Everyone is invited to show their support. 

"This is our 16th annual Voice of the West contest for high school students in the Cayo distict.  It is an elocution competition for students to speak to their classmates and the public."

Video of the day.  If you missed the Intermagia Magic shows that the Rotary Club brought, you can see some of the highlights in this video, and video mashup 2, courtesy of Taco Girl. 

Read her entire article here: http://tacogirl.com/making-the-impossible-possible/