Club Deprtivo Staff
Filiberto (Fili) Vargas, Club Manager

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Filiberto Vargas is the Club Manager. Although he was born in Hermosillo, his family moved to Kino when he was six years old. After finishing secondary school in Kino, he worked as a waiter at the Tortuga Veloz (now Jorge’s Restaurant). Other work included doing maintenance at the Jacquelyn Condos. Because his English continued to improve, his boss recommended him for a job with Kuomex, a Taiwanese seafood exporter. He started out as a translator, graduated to bookkeeping and finally ran  the entire operation, shipping four to five tons of pre-cooked sea cucumbers monthly! He stayed with them until the company closed in 1998.  Later on, he joined the Positive Impact program. His English was a valuable asset for Positive Impact, and he was with that program for many years. Later he worked for a Abundant Life Academy in Guadalajara, for Kino Bay RV, and Pargo Rojo. Fili and his lovely wife, Maria Socorro Rivera de Vargas have four children and one grandchild.


Betty Martinez, Office Manager

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Betty Martinez, fully bilingual,  joined the Club staff in 2012. She was born in Tepic, Nayarit, but she grew up in Utah. In high school she started service clubs, conducted food drives for the needy and, atthe same time, was enrolled in ROTC, and on the school newspaper staff. Betty started with a job at MacDonald’s restaurant as a cashier, but within a year she had been made manager. Previously, Betty worked at the the tourism office in Kino. From that vantage point, she began to learn about life in Kino. There she established a newsletter for Kino Bay tourism and helped found and run KinoFest. She brought her experience in food banks from the U.S. and applied it to establishing a food gifting program for needy families in Old Kino, and she’s always on the lookout for ways to serve. Betty was still working with the tourism office when she was hired part time by the Club to handle Rescue One over the summer. It didn’t take long to see what she had to offer; and by November of the same year, she became a full-timer in the Club office.

Raul Encinas Salazar, Maintenance

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Raul Encinas Salazar was born
December 3, 1985 in Hermosillo,
Sonora. Although Raul was born in
Hermosillo, he has lived his entire life in Kino Bay, attending school here as well. He studied International Commerce at the Universidad Kino in Hermosillo. He worked at sea for many years.
He also worked at the Super Bahia and in construction and electrical work with his father.  Most recently, he worked at Selecta in the Shrimp Larvae Lab.

He is very happily married to his wife Brenda Hernandez and they have welcomed two beautiful daughters named Maria Itzel who has just turned three and Liah Michelle who will be turning one soon.

His hobbies include watching movies and tv series and playing soccer in Old Kino. Raul isalso a Green Belt in Taekwondo and has participated in many competitions. He still trains and competes when able to do so. At the University, he also played basketball, soccer and American football. He is the son of Elodia Salazar from the Comisario’s Office..