HELP NEEDED

We must find 10 employees willing to work on New Years Eve.  Please ask the people who work for you if they would be willing work New Year's Eve!!!!.

Also NEED clean BATHROOMS and a couple of PortaPotties!!! Where/Who?
 

DIRECTORS & COMMITTEES

Please be aware that the Principal Director, Diane Mahan, has made the following suggestions for Directors and Committee members.  Please make note of assigned responsibilities and confirm or deny your acceptance to Diane Mahan at Diane@akumal-villas.com and/or Steve Clouther at clouther@prodigy.net.mx

Principal Director & Co-ordinator - Diane Mahan

Communications Director - Steve Clouther

Music & Sound Director - Denny Mahan

Lighting Directors - Michelle & Glenn Clousineau

Security Director - Joel Datica

Food Director - Marcy Essy

Bar Directors - Myrna Bush & Mariano Lozano

Advertising Directors - Dani Knod & Scott Brown (posters, flyers, tickets)

Miami Herald Advertising Director - Lucy James

Floor Design & Set up Director - Bob Mulgrew

Poster Distribution Committee - Dani, Scott, Katie, & Joel

Flyer Distribution Committee:

COCONUT CABARET BENEFIT

Now, here's the really good news.  The Balzac Rock Band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada has agreed to play another concert on Monday, January 6, 2002 as a benefit performance for the Coconut Cabaret 2003 -all proceeds go towards the expenses of putting on the 2^nd Annual Coconut Cabaret sometime in 2003.

 Tickets for the January 6^th concert cost $20US, and they provide $10US in drinks.  Same rules apply as for December 31^st; i.e. no discounted tickets.  A "new" set of tourists is expected for this concert.

 There will again be three 50 minute sets of live music, but this concert will begin at 6:30 PM and conclude at 11:00PM.

 Tickets are not yet available for this January 6^th concert, but agents, managers, and owners are free to solicit reservations from their guests who will be here in Akumal for that week.  SELL!!!  SELL!!!  SELL!!!!  SELL!!!!!!
 

PROJECTED PROFIT/LOSS STATEMENT

The expenses for the New Year's Eve party cover the expenses for the January 6^th concert, so the Coconut Cabaret Benefit on 1/6/03 should be pure profit.

ADDITIONAL NEWS FROM AROUND TOWN

 FERRIES TO/FROM FLORIDA - ALL IS VERY TENTATIVE

The word is that three (3) ship lines are talking about ferry service between Florida and Calica, and they are all talking about starting service in November. 

Yucatan Express     See http://www.yucatanexpress.com

Beginning this November, a new luxury cruise ferry service - the Yucatan Express -will begin operating between Tampa, Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula (Cancun/Calica).  The Yucatan Express is operated by Scotia Prince Cruises which has operated a luxury cruise/ferry between Maine and Nova Scotia for 33 years.

 Yucatan Express passengers will sail on the M/S Scotia Prince.  It is a 8 deck luxury cruise/ferry capable of sleeping 1,100 passengers.  It carries 200 cars or a combination of cars, tractor-trailers or motor coaches. It provides 5 star dining, Las Vegas-style gambling (200+ slots, table games including craps, roulette, blackjack and Poker), topnotch entertainment, and duty-free shopping.  The M/S Scotia Prince is the ultimate in customer service. 

Yucatan Explorer    See http://www.yucatanexplorer.com

The Yucatan Explorer, Inc., under the banner of Americas Seaways, proposes the launch of a unique transportation link across the Gulf of Mexico, connecting Tampa, Florida with two of Mexico's most popular destinations.  A modern cruise ferry vessel, the M/V Yucatan Explorer will operate two separate round-trip departures from Tampa to the Yucatan each week.  The departures will alternate between the Port of Calica, just south of Cancun and the Port of Progreso, only a few miles north of Merida.  The transit time is approximately 32-hours. 

Maya Lines     See http://www.mayalines.com

Maya Lines is a Ferry Transportation Company operating across the Gulf of Mexico, connecting Miami, Florida with Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula (Cancun/Calica).  Currently the web site says, "We are starting operations in November 2002 with brand new vessels recently delivered from the shipbuilders."  Maya Lines operates 3 primary business segments, including Passengers transportation (Tourist & Trans immigrants) and Automobile transportation (Ferry service for Cars, RV's, Motorcycles, Buses).  The third business segment is Cargo transportation.
 

RESTAURANT CLOSINGS

It is the low season here in Akumal, and most of the restaurants are closed for the next couple of months.

*   Turtle Bay Cafe -closed to October 15^th, tentatively

*    La Lunita-- closed for September and maybe October

*    Que Onda - closed for September and maybe October

*    Lol Ha - closed for September & October, but serving extended menu and hours at the beach bar

PRODIGY INFINITUM

It ain't here yet, but it's coming later this year.  Prodigy Infinitum is a new service based on ADSL (Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line), and there are three levels of service:

 'Prodigy Infinitum 256

Rec 256kbps         Send 128 kbps      Cost $2,999 pesos          Monthly $499

 Prodigy Infinitum 512

Rec 512 kbps        Send 256 kbps      Cost $2,999                    Monthly $899

 Prodigy Infinitum 2000

Rec 2.0Mbps        Send 512 kbps      Cost $2,999                    Monthly $4,999

 They have a demo system set up at Telmex in Playa Del Carmen, and it has a "connect speed" of 10,000,000 bps.  It is a lot faster than my modem and a "connect speed" of 40,000 bps, but it is not really BLAZING fast.  I asked "When in Akumal?"  They have it in Cancun and Playa del Carmen, and over the remainder of 2002 they are working it into the towns along the Riviera Maya to Tulum - by the end of the year.  See www.miembrosprodigy.net.mx
 

THE AKUMAL BOWLING CONSORTIUM (ABC)

The pre-season bowling consortium was kicked off on September 12 at the Kukulcan Plaza ten-pin bowling lanes, and the early results show that Steve Clouther has high average, high series, and high game in the men's division, while Ingrid Clouther leads the women's division with high average, high series, and high game.  Interesting enough, Steve & Ingrid Clouther also lead the mixed couples division as well.

 The pre-season schedule continues the week of September 15 at Kukulcan Plaza.
 

GET WELL BUTCH

Butch had his second emergency lung surgery last week.  Chris took him to a doctor because of some strange bacteria or fungus problem, which might require a surgery.  He was bringing him back from that consultation when he started having breathing trouble again, so Chris stopped at an emergency clinic thirty miles up from here, and they did X-rays and said his lung had collapsed again!!!!!  He has had a collapsed lung, and the doctors apparently are going to remove part of it. 

 Butch is home from the hospital, but he goes back in a couple of weeks for the big one.  He still has a tube in him and is taking pain pills.

 Their address in Gavelston is

Butch and Francys & Chris McCasland
4902 Crockett Blvd.
Galveston, Texas 77551

 Do not hesitate to send or call in your own "Get Well" message.  Butch would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

 E-MAIL ADDRESSES

This issue of The Akumalian has a fairly wide distribution over three different distribution lists, and because of that, some of you may receive it twice.  Others will not receive it, because the e-mail address is 'bad' or there is no e-mail address on file.  Recipients can look at the addresses and suggest corrections and additions.
 

SUMMARY

The Akumalian is in place primarily as a communication vehicle for the New Year's Eve party and the eventual Coconut Cabaret II.  There is no commitment to a regular schedule or contents.

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