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Bon Voyage: Oscar Cordero, 16, (left) and Gabriel Cortés (16) are on their way to France Saturday to compete in Youth Planet Rugby with students from 34 countries around the world. Here, they receive their trip information from Pierre Cathala, director of the French Cultural And Cooperation Center for Central America. |
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| Government Invests in Water Services |
The government yesterday announced a $113 million plan to improve sewers and build new aqueducts around the country beginning next year.
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| U.S. Fugitive Arrested in Costa Rica |
Costa Rican authorities arrested a fugitive Texas nurse in San Isidro de Heredia, north of San José, Wednesday afternoon whom authorities have been trying to pinpoint for seven years on international parental kidnapping charges. |
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| Nestor Torres Visits Costa Rica
to Promote Music Education |
Armed with nothing more than his creative muse, his passionate vision for world peace and a heightened level of human understanding, Nestor Torres has come to Costa Rica to work with young musicians as part of the Culture Ministry's campaign to benefit the National Music Education System (SINEM).
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| Friday September 21 |
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International Peace Day
Peace Fair, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Plaza de la Cultura, 2,000 white balloons distributed in San José , 2-3 p.m.; Peace Gala, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Eugene O'Neill Theater, Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center, 231-3817, icorrales@infopress.net
Bingo to Raise Funds for Children
United for Children Association holds bingo tournament to raise funds for street kids, ¢10,000 (about $20) pays for bingo games and entrance, 7:30 p.m., Hotel Corobicí, San José .
National Symphony Orchestra in Concert
With guest conductor Roselin Pabón and guest musician James Sommerville (French horn), playing pieces by Schubert, Strauss and Mendelssohn, 8 p.m., tomorrow, 10:30 a.m., National Theater, San José.
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| Saturday September 22 |
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CEPIA Open House
Open house of the Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents), a nonprofit working with children from low-income families in Guanacaste, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Santa Cruz, 300 meters west of Cruce de Huacas, free entry, food for sale. Info: 653-8533 or 653-8365.
25 th Anniversary Celebration of Plaza
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la Cultura and Central Bank Museums
With music, clowns, cimarronas beginning at 10 a.m., Mestizo group and dancers at 11:30 a.m., museums open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., entrance ¢1,000 (about $2) Costa Ricans and $7 foreigners.
Ríos Tropicales Challenge 2007
Two-day mountain bike race, 150 km, includes transportation, meals, lodging, rafting, different categories, today and Sunday, 226-5074, 20207@riostropicaleschallenge.com
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| Sunday September 23 |
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Traditional Costa Rican Music Contest/Concert
7 p.m., Parque Mario Cañas, Liberia, Guanacaste.
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Edited By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff | aroberson@ticotimes.net |
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Government Invests in Water Services |
The government yesterday announced a $113 million plan to improve sewers and build new aqueducts around the country beginning next year.
President Oscar Arias made this announcement alongside Ricardo Sancho, president of the National Water and Sewer Institute (AyA), and Alfredo Ortuño, a representative of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, according to a statement from Casa Presidencial.
A chunk of this money came from a $68.5 million loan the bank made the institute; another $44.5 million came from the institute's own funds.
The project aims to guarantee “sustainability of potable water systems for the next 20 years,” improving aqueduct and sewer systems in the San José metropolitan area as well as in Puerto Viejo, on the southern Caribbean coast, the statement said.
It also seeks to benefit communities in the Pacific province of Puntarenas including Buenos Aires, Esparza, Palmar Norte, Coto Brus, Golfito, Jacó and Ciudad Neilly as well as parts of the northwestern Guanacaste province including Nicoya and Liberia. In the province of Alajuela, San Ramón, Palmares, San Mateo, Poasito and Atenas are included.
“We can't hope to be a developed country by 2021 if our system of sewers and aqueducts does not develop along with us,” the President said.
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U.S. Fugitive Arrested in Costa Rica |
By Blake Schmidt
Tico Times Staff | bschmidt@ticotimes.net
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Costa Rican authorities arrested a fugitive Texas nurse in San Isidro de Heredia, north of San José, Wednesday afternoon whom authorities have been trying to pinpoint for seven years on international parental kidnapping charges.
Chere Lyn Tomayko fled Texas in May of 1999, just six months after a Texas district court judge decided she and her boyfriend would have joint custody of their daughter, Alexandria Camille Cyprian, and that Cyprian would live in Tarrant County, Texas, according to a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report on Tomayko.
Three years after Tomayko left the United States for Costa Rica with Cyprian, now 18, and her other daughter, she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in Texas.
Based on information from an investigation by the international police agency Interpol, Costa Rican National Police stopped Tomayko in San Isidro de Heredia while she was driving with a minor authorities estimated to be 5 years old. It's not immediately clear whether the child is Tomayko's, nor did authorities indicate whether they know of Cyprian's location.
Tomayko has been living in Costa Rica for a decade and had been working as an English teacher in Heredia, where she also had her own horse ranch. Costa Rican authorities are now processing her to be deported.
Tomayko is the fourth U.S. fugitive Costa Rican authorities have caught in the past month. Authorities also arrested a storied Alabama outdoorsman at gunpoint in the central Pacific town of Herradura, a man who allegedly conspired to kill his ex-girlfriend while in jail then fled to Costa Rica and got a job at a San José travel agency and a man in the central Pacific town of Jacó wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly growing marijuana. |
Nestor Torres Visits Costa Rica
to Promote Music Education |
By Jody Steiger
Special to The Tico Times | editorial@ticotimes.net
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Armed with nothing more than his creative muse, his passionate vision for world peace and a heightened level of human understanding, Nestor Torres has come to Costa Rica to work with young musicians as part of the Culture Ministry's campaign to benefit the National Music Education System (SINEM).
“Terrorism and violence come from ignorance, from anger, from despair. Music and culture inspire and revitalize; they calm the human heart and alleviate the soul. My life and my work, as an artist and as a human being, is a manifestation of this understanding,” he said.
That understanding has manifested itself throughout a series of activities including a master class for young musicians and will culminate with a concert at the National Theater Saturday night together with the Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Tomorrow night's concert will include a program of classical and jazz music, an evening filled with the sounds of Mozart's Concerto in D Major for Flute and Orchestra and the rhythm of Latin jazz written by Torres and others.
Proceeds from the concert will go to SINEM. This initiative of the Ministry of Culture plans to extend the national reach of music education to students to include as many as 5,000 students by the year 2010.
Nestor Torres was born in Puerto Rico. He began studying flute at age 12. By age 18, he moved to New York, where he studied jazz and classical music at Mannes School of Music, Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. His education also included playing as a solo flautist in charanga orchestras, a Cuban music style that mandates improvisation.
Torres' career spans 20 years of performance with jazz luminaries such as Herbie Hancock and James Moody. He has shared the stage and recording studio with Tito Puente, Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin, among others. As a symphonic soloist he has performed with the New World Symphony, the Cleveland Pops and the Philly Pops.
In 2001 Torres won the Latin Grammy for “This Side of Paradise,” and has received numerous awards for his commitment to education and cultural exchange. He has traveled the world participating in numerous events, concerts and festivals promoting peace.
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