ARTS AND CRAFT YOUTH PROGRAM IN BENQUE AND SUCCOTZ TOWNS

BENQUE VIEJO AND SAN JOSE SUCCOTZ TOWN, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM, FORM ARTS AND CRAFTS TEACHING CLASSES WITH POLICE

The ARTS and CRAFTS program is organized by Captain of ZONE 4 of the Neighborhood Watch Program, Samuel Bruce. The objectives are to keep children off the streets, but also to get the children away from too many hours watching television and get more intellectually stimulated and active. The positive influences on the community are being felt says; Superintendent of Police, Ms Dezerie Phillips in command of the Police in Benque Viejo. This is a new strategy of COMMUNITY POLICING.
Zone lieutenants are Amin Avilez, Irma Puc, and Marco Tesucum. The new Quadrant Leader is Isela Tesecum and the program is for children between 6 and 13 years of age. The way of life in these two Western Highway towns near to the Guatemalan frontier, no longer is farming, via the clearing jungle method, of milpa agriculture practical. The towns are become modern and expanding rapidly to consume all the surrounding area, which once, not so long ago, in my memory, was rural forest. Across from San Jose Succotz Town, the tourist buses regularly bring foreign visitors to traipse up to the Xununtanich Mayan temple complex on the top of the overlooking hill. The surrounding area has many small Mayan ruins going back over 5000 years. People have lived here since the last ICE AGE, so say the archeologists. This area is the Mopan River valley, water pathway, used by feuding Mayan kingdoms during the recent 3000 years of modern human history. The Mopan River is a famous long standing trade route into the highland kingdoms of the Mayan Empire. There are ruins like El Mirador bigger than New York City, not more than a 100 miles away in Guatemala, of which some of the more ancient sites have stone writings going back 7000 years of history. Far longer than the braggadocio modern human history, Egyptian and Hebrew writings of just 5000 years of the Middle East. There has been a good life in this part of the world for thousands of years. With a climate of ETERNAL SPRING who could ask for more?