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Sound Off<br />
Continued from Letters... Page 3<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
I have a <strong>com</strong>ment about the Charro event you<br />
have there every year. I’ve been to Puerto Vallarta<br />
6 times now and have missed this event each time<br />
as there were no ads or promotions as to when this<br />
event starts. I stayed at the Hacienda this year with<br />
some other Canadians who have also been to PV<br />
many times, and they were also upset that there<br />
really were no promotions about the event. One<br />
of them had a chance to see the event a number of<br />
years ago and he said it was marvelous, but it was<br />
just coincidence that he was there at the right time.<br />
Would you please be able to let me know when it<br />
will be starting in 2012 so I can take my holidays to<br />
coincide with it? There are a number of Canadians<br />
that would love to see it. Thanks in advance.<br />
Diana Hall<br />
Dear Ms. Hall,<br />
The PV Mirror announced the event in its<br />
February 12 issue this year, as did Bay Vallarta,<br />
and pvscene.<strong>com</strong> on its web site.<br />
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Englishlanguage<br />
publications get much advance notice of<br />
this yearly event – unfortunately.<br />
In reality, there are two yearly events featuring<br />
those talented riders and their steeds, the second<br />
being on September 14 th – Mexico’s Day of the<br />
Charro.<br />
The Ed.<br />
4 www. .<strong>com</strong> March 12 to 18, 2011<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
Our friends Lynda and Joe Petty, who owned<br />
the B&B Casa Mirador here for many years,<br />
adopted a beach dog they named Starvin’ Marvin<br />
12 years ago. They had to put him to sleep a little<br />
while ago and I thought their account of how they<br />
came to be<strong>com</strong>e a family would make a lovely<br />
‘human interest’ story, as well as encouraging<br />
more people to adopt these poor dogs, or make<br />
donations to the spay / neuter<br />
clinics, or organizations that look<br />
after them.<br />
“Marv adopted us in late Jan<br />
1999. We were in line at Café<br />
de Olla when we saw this little<br />
3-legged flea bag limp cross<br />
Basilio... when he stopped at<br />
curbside for another scratch, I bent<br />
down to talk to him. He just leaned<br />
against me and I was a goner!! We<br />
did not find him again after we ate, so I checked<br />
back with the restaurant folks and in the area<br />
during the next week, but no one had seen him. The<br />
following week, we were eating with friends “al<br />
fresco” at La Piazzetta. When we paid the check<br />
and got ready to leave, there was Marv, sitting right<br />
next to Joe’s chair! So we scooped him up and the<br />
5 of us climbed into a cab and headed back to our<br />
B&B, Casa Mirador.<br />
The vet found that the reason for the limp was<br />
a dislocated back leg, but Dr. Julian did surgery<br />
on it and soon Marv was headed to his new home.<br />
By this time, it was February and Dr. J. thought<br />
Marv was probably under 1 year old, so we made<br />
his new birthday Feb. 24... my 50 th !<br />
He came home from the hospital with a big<br />
birthday bow and was the hit of the party.<br />
Someone we met in Old Town said Marv’s first<br />
mom was a lady who had to head back to the<br />
States and couldn’t take him. Whatever happened<br />
between that time and when we found him was<br />
unclear; but he started out very cautious of any<br />
foot movement and would snap if caught off<br />
guard, plus he was very afraid of being in a fenced<br />
area. He never got over being afraid of anything<br />
that smelled “el campo”, people or animal, and<br />
the smell of cooking venison or lamb sent him<br />
cowering in another room.<br />
Marv immediately took to his new “brother”,<br />
JJ, and loved chasing, and being chased, around<br />
and around the pool at Casa Mirador. He remained<br />
quite the little escape artist in his early years and<br />
loved riding on the front dash of the motor home<br />
in “retirement”. We had 12 wonderful years with<br />
our little buddy, and pray that he and JJ are now<br />
back together running the beach.”<br />
Hillary Herbst<br />
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