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Welcome­ to Casa Central. Our unique, creative­ home is in the lively ce­nter of North Guiones, Nosara. This special house, built with sustainability in mind, gives you the chance to live inside and outside near the clean beaches of Playa Pe­lada and Playa Guiones.

Get to Know Playa Pelada and Playa Guione­s: Natural Wonders

You can walk from Casa Central to Playa Guiones in just 4 minutes. The beach has excellent wave­s for surfing all the time, which makes surfe­rs love it. 

In an article written on surfline.com, Costa Rican professional Surfer Carlos (Cali) Muñoz created a list of the best beaches to surf in Costa Rica and the world , and of course, Guiones Beach made the top list. 

On a 12-minute­ walk, you will reach Playa Pelada. This beach is known for its pe­aceful feel and be­autiful coast. Both beaches are essential for tourism in Nosara, balancing fun and re­laxation perfectly.

Where­ Creative Style Me­ets Green De­sign

Casa Central has a glass ceiling that is 30 fee­t high. Sunlight fills the house, making it bright and inviting.

The house includes:

• Shaded patios.
• Areas to sit in the treetops.
• A big living room that gives you views of the sky.

Nature is a part of every part of this house’s design.

Bedrooms: A Mix of Comfort and Privacy

The house has three bedrooms that can fit seven guests. Each room has its bathroom and be­autiful wood and stone decorations. 

The rooms upstairs have a private patio with chairs and a view of the treetops. There are places for everyone to be together and also spots for quiet alone time.

Cooking & Eating: Tropical Atmosphere­

The kitchen is a cook’s delight with an indoor-outdoor se­tup. This area flows smoothly into the wide outdoor spot me­ant for dining. 

It boasts a stylish marble table. Host dinners or cook bre­akfast in this kitchen equipped with sle­ek steel appliance­s and stone counters.

Outside Living: Your Pe­rsonal Jungle Hideaway

The we­lcoming yards of Casa Central are made for re­laxation and social interaction. Each balcony fights off heat with a fan, accompanied by subtle­ gallery lighting that can be modified. 

The core jungle pathway and patios that stem from each bedroom let you soak in the gre­en beauty of Nosara.

Guest Pe­rks for a Smooth Visit:

• High-speed Wi-Fi, ideal for remote work
• Washer/dryer unit
• Air conditioning and fans
• Private gated parking
• Outdoor shower and surfboard storage
• Beach towels

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• 1-minute walk to the Gilded Iguana Hotel and amenities
• 2-minute walk to over 10 restaurants, bars, and shops
• 4-minute walk to Playa Guiones
• 12-minute walk to La Luna Restaurant and Playa Pelada

Staying at Casa Central isn’t just re­nting a vacation rental in Nosara; it’s diving into a blend of artistic style, e­co-friendly life, and Nosara’s enchanting be­aches. Come and discover the eclectic charm of this gree­n paradise; every corne­r is designed with your comfort in mind.

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At Casa Central, we believe that everyone deserves the chance to reach their full potential. For 67 years, Casa Central has helped thousands of children, older adults, and families by working to keep children and families safe, in their homes, in school, and in our center.​ Through comprehensive, family-centered programming, Casa Central is the conduit through which thousands of individuals build hope for the future while equipping themselves to achieve a sustainable, higher quality of life for the benefit of self, family, community and society.

Diana* and her three children became homeless after Diana made the decision to separate from a violent partner. With the support of La Posada staff and community partners, Diana was able to begin divorce proceedings, enrolled in a program to complete her Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, and secured employment. 

Ella*, a participant in the Adult Wellness Center, was saddened when the pandemic shuttered the program. Adult Wellness Center staff quickly pivoted and were able to provide remote services by either phone or video calls. Ella was overjoyed to continue receiving support and company through her calls with Adult Wellness Center staff and says, "Every week I have my breakfast, drink my coffee, and sit down and wait for my call from Casa Central."

Anne* sought the support and guidance of Casa Central's School Age Program when she noticed that her son Julio was displaying behavioral issues and he was struggling with e-learning. SAP staff were able to build a better bond and line of communication with both Anne, Julio, and his teachers that to this day is better able to support Julio and establish processes that enable successful e-learning.  

Marta*, whose father has Alzheimer's, is grateful for Casa Central's Home Care Services and the aide assigned to her father. "I know how difficult it is to work with my father due to his condition and the Home Care Aide has helped so very much! She is not only patient with him, but she treats and speaks to him with affection and respect, and even sings to him. I am very grateful for all that she does for my father."

Janet* was referred to Casa Central’s Intact Family Services by DCFS where she successfully completed parenting classes. Janet states that her learned coping skills, which she implements when she is under stress frustration, allows her to enjoy her relationship with her daughter on a whole new level. 

Carmen* arrived at Casa Central’s Violence Prevention & Intervention program after an altercation between her daughter and her partner. Carmen admits that at first, she disliked the Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) treatment, but now realizes that this program has made her aware of the impact trauma has had on her daughter. Several months after continuing treatment, Carmen was granted the return of her daughter and they work together to heal their relationship. 

Rosie*, a homeless parent from our Early Learning Academy (ELA) Center-Based program who came to us from La Posada, was able to obtain and move into her own apartment with support from La Posada and encouragement from ELA. Rosie is presently in school seeking an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood, stating she was inspired by the teachers and team at ELA. 

Sara* did not use words during her first sessions with Casa Central’s Early Learning (ELA) Home-Based program staff and communicated only with signs. After just a few visits, Sara began to use words and can now combine two to three words to form sentences and can count up to 10! Sara is also able to follow instruction and recently was able to write her name. Sara’s mother admitted that she didn’t think Sara would be able to advance and praises Casa Central for the tremendous progress Sara has made in such a short time.

* Name was changed in the story so as to protect the identity of the parent and child.

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CASA was formed in October 1996 to serve soccer players and their families in the Greater Harrisburg Area including Lower Paxton, Susquehanna, West Hanover and other surrounding townships.  It is an association formed and run by the parents of youth soccer players. Players do not need to live in these areas in order to join CASA.

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Started in 2015 by ABC7 San Francisco News Anchor Dan Ashley, Rock The CASA is a labor of love combining Dan’s passions in music, philanthropy, community, and helping children in need.

The annual Rock The CASA benefit concert has raised over $150k to support CASA of Contra Costa County and Friends of Camp Concord. The event has sold-out 2 years in a row and will continue to grow in order to help more kids and make the world a little bit brighter.

The inaugural Rock the CASA concert was held in June 2015 and was billed as “an evening of music to support children in need.” That night, before a capacity crowd, legendary rocker Eddie Money took the stage. The night was an overwhelming success and set the groundwork for the next concert in March of 2016. That night, multi-platinum band REO Speedwagon performed for a soldout concert experience not typically seen in the quaint city.

From its inception, Rock the CASA has had tremendous sponsor support from top-tier companies and charitable foundations including the Simpson Family, John Muir Health, Taube Philanthropies, Mt. Diablo Recycling, San Jose Sharks Foundation, Wells Fargo, Phillips 66, Cole European, Scott Valley Bank, Mancini’s Sleepworld, PG&E, DVC, Stiffel, and many others.

Dan Ashley’s Rock the CASA has created a winning combination. Great music, community support, and corporate sponsorship are all working in harmony to benefit two robust organizations that are dedicated to serving children in need; Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Friends of Camp Concord (FOCC).

Rock The CASA  is a California non-profit public charity founded by  ABC-7 New Anchor Dan Ashley  for the purpose of benefiting charitable organizations that serve children in need.

Through a premier annual musical event,  RTC  generates funds for  Court Appointed Special Advocates ,   which provides volunteers to serve children placed into the foster care system because of abuse or neglect at home. The  Rock the CASA  annual concert also distributes an equal percentage of the proceeds to  Friends of Camp Concord , which sends hundreds of under-served children to summer camp at Lake Tahoe each year.

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Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Problem?

The environmental protection agency says “forever chemicals” must be removed from tap water. but they lurk in much more of what we eat, drink and use..

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. And this is “The Daily.”

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This month for the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency began to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals, known as forever chemicals, in America’s drinking water. But the chemicals, which have been linked to liver disease and other serious health problems, are in far more than just our water supply. Today, my colleague Kim Tingley explains.

It’s Wednesday, April 17.

So Kim, any time the EPA announces a regulation, I think we all sort of take notice because implicit in it is this idea that we have been exposed to something — something bad, potentially, lead or asbestos. And recently, the EPA is regulating a type of chemical known as PFAS So for those who don’t know, what are PFAS chemicals

Yeah, so PFAS stands for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They’re often called forever chemicals just because they persist so long in the environment and they don’t easily break down. And for that reason, we also use them in a ton of consumer products. They’re in makeup. They’re in carpet. They’re in nonstick cookware. They’re in food packaging, all sorts of things.

Yeah, I feel like I’ve been hearing about these chemicals actually for a very long time. I mean, nonstick pans, Teflon — that’s the thing that’s in my mind when I think PFAS.

Absolutely. Yeah, this class of chemicals has been around for decades. And what’s really important about this is that the EPA has decided, for the first time, to regulate them in drinking water. And that’s a ruling that stands to affect tens of millions of people.

So, help me understand where these things came from and how it’s taken so long to get to the point where we’re actually regulating them.

So, they really actually came about a long time ago. In 1938, DuPont, the people who eventually got us to Teflon, they were actually looking for a more stable kind of refrigerant. And they came upon this kind of chemical, PFAS. The thing that all PFAS chemicals have is a really strong bond between carbon atoms and fluorine atoms. This particular pairing is super strong and super durable.

They have water repellent properties. They’re stain resistant. They’re grease resistant. And they found a lot of uses for them initially in World War II. They were using them as part of their uranium enrichment process to do all these kinds of things. And then —

Well, good thing it’s Teflon.

In the 1950s is when they really started to come out as commercial products.

Even burned food won’t stick to Teflon. So it’s always easy to clean.

So, DuPont started using it in Teflon pans.

Cookware never needs scouring if it has DuPont Teflon.

And then another company, 3M also started using a kind of PFAS —

Scotchgard fabric protector. It keeps ordinary spills from becoming extraordinary stains.

— in one of their big products, Scotchgard. So you probably remember spraying that on your shoes if you want to make your shoes waterproof.

Use Scotchgard fabric protector and let your cup runneth over.

Right — miracle product, Scotchgard, Teflon. But of course, we’re talking about these chemicals because they’ve been found to pose health threats. When does that risk start to surface?

Yeah, so it’s pretty early on that DuPont and 3M start finding effects in animals in studies that they’re running in house.

Around the mid ‘60s, they start seeing that PFAS has an effect on rats. It’s increasing the liver and kidney weights of the rats. And so that seems problematic. And they keep running tests over the next decade and a half. And they try different things with different animals.

In one study, they gave monkeys really, really high levels of PFAS. And those monkeys died. And so they have a pretty strong sense that these chemicals could be dangerous. And then in 1979, they start to see that the workers that are in the plants manufacturing, working with these chemicals, that they’re starting to have higher rates of abnormal liver function. And in a Teflon plant, they had some pregnant workers that were working with these chemicals. And one of those workers in 1981 gave birth to a child who had some pretty severe birth defects.

And then by the mid 1980s, DuPont figures out that it’s not just their workers who are being exposed to these chemicals, but communities that are living in areas surrounding their Teflon plant, particularly the one in Parkersburg, West Virginia, that those communities have PFAS in their tap water.

Wow, so based on its own studies, DuPont knows its chemicals are making animals sick. They seem to be making workers sick. And now they found out that the chemicals have made their way into the water supply. What do they do with that information?

As far as we know, they didn’t do much. They certainly didn’t tell the residents of Parkersburg who were drinking that water that there was anything that they needed to be worried about.

How is that possible? I mean, setting aside the fact that DuPont is the one actually studying the health effects of its own chemicals, presumably to make sure they’re safe, we’ve seen these big, regulating agencies like the EPA and the FDA that exist in order to watch out for something exactly like this, a company that is producing something that may be harming Americans. Why weren’t they keeping a closer watch?

Yeah, so it goes kind of back to the way that we regulate chemicals in the US. It goes through an act called the Toxic Substances Control Act that’s administered by the EPA. And basically, it gives companies a lot of room to regulate themselves, in a sense. Under this act they have a responsibility to report to the EPA if they find these kinds of potential issues with a chemical. They have a responsibility to do their due diligence when they’re putting a chemical out into the environment.

But there’s really not a ton of oversight. The enforcement mechanism is that the EPA can find them. But this kind of thing can happen pretty easily where DuPont keeps going with something that they think might really be a problem and then the fine, by the time it plays out, is just a tiny fraction of what DuPont has earned from producing these chemicals. And so really, the incentive is for them to take the punishment at the end, rather than pull it out early.

So it seems like it’s just self-reporting, which is basically self-regulation in a way.

Yeah, I think that is the way a lot of advocacy groups and experts have characterized it to me, is that chemical companies are essentially regulating themselves.

So how did this danger eventually come to light? I mean, if this is in some kind of DuPont vault, what happened?

Well, there’s a couple different things that started to happen in the late ‘90s.

The community around Parkersburg, West Virginia, people had reported seeing really strange symptoms in their animals. Cows were losing their hair. They had lesions. They were behaving strangely. Some of their calves were dying. And a lot of people in the community felt like they were having health problems that just didn’t really have a good answer, mysterious sicknesses, and some cases of cancers.

And so they initiate a class action lawsuit against DuPont. As part of that class action lawsuit, DuPont, at a certain point, is forced to turn over all of their internal documentation. And so what was in the files was all of that research that we mentioned all of the studies about — animals, and workers, the birth defects. It was really the first time that the public saw what DuPont and 3M had already seen, which is the potential health harms of these chemicals.

So that seems pretty damning. I mean, what happened to the company?

So, DuPont and 3M are still able to say these were just a few workers. And they were working with high levels of the chemicals, more than a person would get drinking it in the water. And so there’s still an opportunity for this to be kind of correlation, but not causation. There’s not really a way to use that data to prove for sure that it was PFAS that caused these health problems.

In other words, the company is arguing, look, yes, these two things exist at the same time. But it doesn’t mean that one caused the other.

Exactly. And so one of the things that this class action lawsuit demands in the settlement that they eventually reach with DuPont is they want DuPont to fund a formal independent health study of the communities that are affected by this PFAS in their drinking water. And so they want DuPont to pay to figure out for sure, using the best available science, how many of these health problems are potentially related to their chemicals.

And so they ask them to pay for it. And they get together an independent group of researchers to undertake this study. And it ends up being the first — and it still might be the biggest — epidemiological study of PFAS in a community. They’ve got about 69,000 participants in this study.

Wow, that’s big.

It’s big, yeah. And what they ended up deciding was that they could confidently say that there was what they ended up calling a probable link. And so they were really confident that the chemical exposure that the study participants had experienced was linked to high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and pregnancy induced hypertension.

And so those were the conditions that they were able to say, with a good degree of certainty, were related to their chemical exposure. There were others that they just didn’t have the evidence to reach a strong conclusion.

So overall, pretty substantial health effects, and kind of vindicates the communities in West Virginia that were claiming that these chemicals were really affecting their health.

Absolutely. And as the years have gone on, that was sort of just the beginning of researchers starting to understand all the different kinds of health problems that these chemicals could potentially be causing. And so since the big DuPont class action study, there’s really just been like this building and building and building of different researchers coming out with these different pieces of evidence that have accumulated to a pretty alarming picture of what some of the potential health outcomes could be.

OK, so that really kind of brings us to the present moment, when, at last, it seems the EPA is saying enough is enough. We need to regulate these things.

Yeah, it seems like the EPA has been watching this preponderance of evidence accumulate. And they’re sort of deciding that it’s a real health problem, potentially, that they need to regulate.

So the EPA has identified six of these PFAS chemicals that it’s going to regulate. But the concern that I think a lot of experts have is that this particular regulation is not going to keep PFAS out of our bodies.

We’ll be right back.

So, Kim, you just said that these regulations probably won’t keep PFAS chemicals out of our bodies. What did you mean?

Well, the EPA is talking about regulating these six kinds of PFAS. But there are actually more than 10,000 different kinds of PFAS that are already being produced and out there in the environment.

And why those six, exactly? I mean, is it because those are the ones responsible for most of the harm?

Those are the ones that the EPA has seen enough evidence about that they are confident that they are probably causing harm. But it doesn’t mean that the other ones are not also doing something similar. It’s just sort of impossible for researchers to be able to test each individual chemical compound and try to link it to a health outcome.

I talked to a lot of researchers who were involved in this area and they said that they haven’t really seen a PFAS that doesn’t have a harm, but they just don’t have information on the vast majority of these compounds.

So in other words, we just haven’t studied the rest of them enough yet to even know how harmful they actually are, which is kind of alarming.

Yeah, that’s right. And there’s just new ones coming out all the time.

Right. OK, so of the six that the EPA is actually intending to regulate, though, are those new regulations strict enough to keep these chemicals out of our bodies?

So the regulations for those six chemicals really only cover getting them out of the drinking water. And drinking water only really accounts for about 20 percent of a person’s overall PFAS exposure.

So only a fifth of the total exposure.

Yeah. There are lots of other ways that you can come into contact with PFAS. We eat PFAS, we inhale PFAS. We rub it on our skin. It’s in so many different products. And sometimes those products are not ones that you would necessarily think of. They’re in carpets. They’re in furniture. They’re in dental floss, raincoats, vinyl flooring, artificial turf. All kinds of products that you want to be either waterproof or stain resistant or both have these chemicals in them.

So, the cities and towns are going to have to figure out how to test for and monitor for these six kinds of PFAS. And then they’re also going to have to figure out how to filter them out of the water supply. I think a lot of people are concerned that this is going to be just a really expensive endeavor, and it’s also not really going to take care of the entire problem.

Right. And if you step back and really look at the bigger problem, the companies are still making these things, right? I mean, we’re running around trying to regulate this stuff at the end stage. But these things are still being dumped into the environment.

Yeah. I think it’s a huge criticism of our regulatory policy. There’s a lot of onus put on the EPA to prove that a harm has happened once the chemicals are already out there and then to regulate the chemicals. And I think that there’s a criticism that we should do things the other way around, so tougher regulations on the front end before it goes out into the environment.

And that’s what the European Union has been doing. The European Chemicals Agency puts more of the burden on companies to prove that their products and their chemicals are safe. And the European Chemicals Agency is also, right now, considering just a ban on all PFAS products.

So is that a kind of model, perhaps, of what a tough regulation could look like in the US?

There’s two sides to that question. And the first side is that a lot of people feel like it would be better if these chemical companies had to meet a higher standard of proof in terms of demonstrating that their products or their chemicals are going to be safe once they’ve been put out in the environment.

The other side is that doing that kind of upfront research can be really expensive and could potentially limit companies who are trying to innovate in that space. In terms of PFAS, specifically, this is a really important chemical for us. And a lot of the things that we use it in, there’s not necessarily a great placement at the ready that we can just swap in. And so it’s used in all sorts of really important medical devices or renewable energy industries or firefighting foam.

And in some cases, there are alternatives that might be safer that companies can use. But in other cases, they just don’t have that yet. And so PFAS is still really important to our daily lives.

Right. And that kind of leaves us in a pickle because we know these things might be harming us. Yet, we’re kind of stuck with them, at least for now. So, let me just ask you this question, Kim, which I’ve been wanting to ask you since the beginning of this episode, which is, if you’re a person who is concerned about your exposure to PFAS, what do you do?

Yeah. So this is really tricky and I asked everybody this question who I talked to. And everybody has a little bit of a different answer based on their circumstance. For me what I ended up doing was getting rid of the things that I could sort of spot and get rid of. And so I got rid of some carpeting and I checked, when I was buying my son a raincoat, that it was made by a company that didn’t use PFAS.

It’s also expensive. And so if you can afford to get a raincoat from a place that doesn’t manufacture PFAS, it’s going to cost more than if you buy the budget raincoat. And so it’s kind of unfair to put the onus on consumers in that way. And it’s also just not necessarily clear where exactly your exposure is coming from.

So I talk to people who said, well, it’s in dust, so I vacuum a lot. Or it’s in my cleaning products, so I use natural cleaning products. And so I think it’s really sort of a scattershot approach that consumers can take. But I don’t think that there is a magic approach that gets you a PFAS-free life.

So Kim, this is pretty dark, I have to say. And I think what’s frustrating is that it feels like we have these government agencies that are supposed to be protecting our health. But when you drill down here, the guidance is really more like you’re on your own. I mean, it’s hard not to just throw up your hands and say, I give up.

Yeah. I think it’s really tricky to try to know what you do with all of this information as an individual. As much as you can, you can try to limit your individual exposure. But it seems to me as though it’s at a regulatory level that meaningful change would happen, and not so much throwing out your pots and pans and getting new ones.

One thing about PFAS is just that we’re in this stage still of trying to understand exactly what it’s doing inside of us. And so there’s a certain amount of research that has to happen in order to both convince people that there’s a real problem that needs to be solved, and clean up what we’ve put out there. And so I think that we’re sort of in the middle of that arc. And I think that that’s the point at which people start looking for solutions.

Kim, thank you.

Here’s what else you should know today. On Tuesday, in day two of jury selection for the historic hush money case against Donald Trump, lawyers succeeded in selecting 7 jurors out of the 12 that are required for the criminal trial after failing to pick a single juror on Monday.

Lawyers for Trump repeatedly sought to remove potential jurors whom they argued were biased against the president. Among the reasons they cited were social media posts expressing negative views of the former President and, in one case, a video posted by a potential juror of New Yorkers celebrating Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Once a full jury is seated, which could come as early as Friday, the criminal trial is expected to last about six weeks.

Today’s episode was produced by Clare Toeniskoetter, Shannon Lin, Summer Thomad, Stella Tan, and Jessica Cheung, with help from Sydney Harper. It was edited by Devon Taylor, fact checked by Susan Lee, contains original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Chris Wood.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has begun for the first time to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals known as “forever chemicals” in America’s drinking water.

Kim Tingley, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, explains how these chemicals, which have been linked to liver disease and other serious health problems, came to be in the water supply — and in many more places.

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Kim Tingley , a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

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“Forever chemicals” are everywhere. What are they doing to us?

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