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The Placencia Breeze –May 2010- Page 4Dates You Need To Know !May 1st - Labor Day & Alvin Brown’s BirthdayMay 4th - Natalie Young’s BirthdayMay 6th - Doyen Gardiner’s BirthdayMay 9th - Andre Brown’s Birthday & Mother’s DayMay 11th -Penny Dial & Alva Leslie’s BirthdayMay 13th - Dwayne & Hubert (Tuca) Young’s BirthdayMay 14th - Adriane Taylor & Jamie Bone’s BirthdayMay 16th - Captain Morrell Young’s BirthdayMay 21st - Alyssa Faux’s BirthdayMay 23rd - Kai Parham’s BirthdayMay 24th - Commonwealth Day & Diana Eiley’s BirthdayMay 26th - Karen & Hubert Young’s AnniversaryMay 31st - Susan Young’s BirthdayVillage Council ElectionsThe villages of Placencia and Seine Bight held their villagecouncil elections on Sunday April 18, 2010. This was a part ofthe nationwide village council elections which began in parts ofthe country as early as mid April and will run into June. Theseelections are held on Sundays and the community elections mustbe staggered due to the large ratio of villages to Elections andBoundary officials to oversee the elections.The Placencia Breeze is excited about the two new councils thatwill be overseeing our peninsula. Placencia Village CouncilChairman Charles Leslie Jr and Seine Bight Village CouncilChairman Francis Palacio both recently attended a PlacenciaBTIA general meeting where they enthusiastically pledged tohave the councils work together to make improvements to thepeninsula.Look out for a full introduction of both councils in next month’s issue ofthe Breeze!!!!NOTICEFor a more efficient and effective garbage pickup service, PlacenciaSanitation Co. is reminding is customers of their responsibilitiesand obligations:♦ ALL garbage must ALWAYS be bagged in strong, durablebags;♦ Bagged garbage must be available for pickup by 7 a.m. ONLYon pickup days;♦ Bagged garbage must be available for pickup in an easily♦accessible area;Garbage containers/retainers must be well-maintained at alltimes.Failure to comply will result in garbage not being picked up and/ora Litter Violation Ticket. For more information kindly contact theoffice of Placencia Sanitation Co/Placencia Water Board at 523-3273 or 523-4036.Reduce, Re-use, RecycleJune 25 th , 26 th , 27 thLOBSTERFEST 2010ARTS & CRAFTS/FOOD BOOTHS:Register from now until May31 st ,2010Pay only $125.00After June 1 st - Pay $150.00.For more information /or tosign up please contact thePlacencia Village CouncilOffice at 523-3396.
Spotlight on Placencia BTIASunova Beach Gift ShopGillian Zabaneh moved to Placencia in October, 2000. Shortlyafter moving to Placencia, she started working at ParadiseVacation Hotel and slowly started to put small gift shop items inthe office. After three years, Gillian started contemplating theidea of opening a gift shopseparate from the hotel.Placencia was growing andshe thought the time wasright to follow through withthat idea.She spoke to her aunt, KarenRoe, who was already in thegift shop business in BelizeCity and after a little bit ofbrainstorming, they decidedto go into business together.Soon after, Sunova BeachGift Shop was beingconstructed on the sidewalkin Placencia Village andfinally opened its doors onMarch 13, 2003. It was asmall white and yellow building that was stocked with smallsouvenirs and a few t-shirts. After a couple of years, they decidedthe gift shop needed some changes. Some minor renovations weremade and a lot of bright colors were added. Not only were theyselling small souvenirs, but they branched out selling other itemssuch as jewellery and beachwear. That was fine for a couple moreyears, but with all of the new items they were carrying, theyneeded more space. So, the gift shop was expanded with anaddition over half the size of the original building.Today, Sunova Beach Gift Shop carries all sorts of items such as avariety of Belizean souvenirs, beachwear, jewellery, DVDs andCDs, home decor, Belizean literature, and the list goes on. Karenand Gillian are once again thinking of expanding the business a bitselling an even wider variety of souvenirs as well as expandingtheir line of beachwear. Sunova Beach Gift Shop offers a 15%discount to BTIAmembers and everyTuesday is 10%Tuesday, withdiscounts throughoutthe entire store. It islocated on the sidewalkbehind the Tipsy Tunaand is open Mondays –Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. –noon and 2:00 p.m. –6:00 p.m.The Placencia Breeze May 2010- Page 5Developing community-based monitoring systems:A workshop for sustainedparticipatory learning and action onconservation and climate adaptationinterventions at community levelMay 2010Target Communities:Belize - San Pedro, Ambergris Caye and PlacenciaHonduras - Sandy Bay and Punta GordaBackgroundWorld Wildlife Fund (WWF), through it climate change adaptationproject for the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR), has been supportingefforts of communities within Belize and Honduras in mappingtheir vulnerability to climate threats and setting up communitybased adaptation mechanisms to reduce risks and increaseresilience to climate threat drivers. These mechanisms vary frommangrove restoration (for shoreline stabilization) to trying toinfluence local development plans, among others, and were linkedto participatory vulnerability assessment studies. The project aimsto assist local communities in addressing climate hazards, and tomonitor impacts from their climate adaptation interventions (toincrease coping potential) and resource conservation efforts.Through this proposed workshop, the project aims to assistcommunities in reflecting on their progress and effectiveness todate, to determine what activities or initiatives needs revising oradopted, and to set-up a framework for a community-led long-termmonitoring system for learning from conservation and climateadaptation interventions.Workshop overviewWWF hopes to help communities set up a system whereby theywould be able to monitoring the impact of their conservation andadaptation interventions to better inform their learning andadaptation process. The workshop will be strongly focused onlearning and structured to build capacity of target communities toinstitutionalize the process of adaptation planning. Given thisapproach, communities will be better equipped to monitor andevaluate their interventions for the long-termContinued on pg 10Placencia Peninsula TaxiDrivers/ OperatorsAssociationTo/From Number of Persons Fare $ BZ$Placencia Village 1 $6.00Limit Village Inn 2 or More $3.00 EachPlacencia/Turtle Inn 1 $12.00Saks 2 or More $6.00 per PersonPlacencia/Airstrip 1 $12.002 or More $6.00 per PersonPlacencia/Rum Point 1 $14.002 or More $7.00 per PersonPlacencia/Serenity 1 $14.002 or More $7.00 per PersonMiller’s Landing 1 $17.002 or More $7.00 per PersonPlacencia/Robert’s Grove 1 or 2 $22.00Luba Hati/Seine Bight 3 or More $8.00 per PersonPlacencia/Maya Beach 1 or 2 $40.003 or More $15.00 per PersonPlacencia/Plantation/Zeboz 1,2 or 3 $50.004 or More $15.00 per Person
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