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I had the fortune to meet Kurt Betzel from Texas who also lives in Popa Uno here in

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Bocas who's family has a long history of being Rotarians and with our shared

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passion for Rotary clubs we started to think about what it could look like for

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Bocas and how we could get Rotary involved down here to support the

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community. So over the course of a couple years through surveys of the

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community and better understanding what Bocas residents wanted and how we

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could start our own club here just to really learn a lot about the process and

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eventually get to the point where we were ready to launch our own club this

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past February of 2019. My name is Kurt Betzel. I'm originally from Arlington,

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Texas.

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I am now a permanent resident of the Republic of Panama. I met Emily Tallendino

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and very quickly learned of our mutual love and passion for Rotary

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international. We both knew that for this community to

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progress it could

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with the

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presence of rotary which we learned after the fact that they've been trying

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to do that for about 15 years now and this time was

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now is the time.