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Hekab Be Biblioteca Auction a “Pouring” Success!

June 29, 2016 0

A BIG thank you to an interesting group – the AASB has helped our library for over 7 years and their story is heart warming as well as interesting.  Sergio Valenzuela of Akumal… you gotta love it FACEBOOK fame(https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoveAkumal/), is one of the original members of this group and continues [……]

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Vecinos de Akumal Norte Notes

June 21, 2016 0

Notes from the Kitchen Cabinet Meeting of June 16th   Good Morning, Members! Our Agenda SEWAGE PLANS Sewage Committee Meeting was organized by Carlos Ortiz and included representatives from the hotels, local businesses, and social organizations. The goal set for us is to build a sewage removal and treatment system [……]

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CEA Turtle Season 2016 in Full Swing!

May 31, 2016 0

    The 2016 CEA Tortuga Team has been busy with the arrival of the mommas!  A good number of Loggerheads are coming onto every beach.  It looks to be another great season!!  All efforts from beachfront properties doing their part in keeping obstructions off the beach and lights out [……]

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Best Shirt April 2016

May 31, 2016 0

Friday, April 1, 2016, once again was Best Shirt night….it was a good mix of happy people enjoying one another’s company, eyeing the competitive shirts, and-even a few April Fool’s Day joke attempts.  The crowd unanimously decided the gathering was composed of “wise” people–not “fools”–but” winners” all!  AkumalNow welcomes a new [……]

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Community Service in Akumal – It’s a Good Thing!

May 31, 2016 0

When corporate retreats reach out to Akumal for team-building community events, everyone wins! An International Institution while in Cancún for corporate meetings took time out to journey to Akumal for a day of community service. Centro Ecológico Akumal directed 80 employees for a day of short-term volunteering. Half of the group [……]

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you wanna horse around?

May 31, 2016 0

“The “you wanna horse around?” question was happily answered by Kentucky Derby Akumal-Style goers on the first Saturday in May while sipping traditional juleps and Cueva juleps at Turtle Bay Bakery and Café which also served a Derby-inspired menu.  Paul Sanchez handled the purchase of the tickets quite ably as [……]

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A Cancer Vaccine?!

May 30, 2016 0

A vaccine for cancer?!  In 180 seconds, Kawther Ahmed, a fifth-year graduate student in the UI College of Pharmacy, explains her cancer-vaccine research in easy-to-understand terms. Like Carl Sagan did with the stars. “The problem with cancer is the immune system does not see tumor cells as anything dangerous, and [……]