The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) in Ajijic has planned a grand all-day “Free-esta” on Saturday, November 7 to celebrate the organization’s 60th anniversary. 

The Democrats Abroad have logged four events on the November calendar beginning with Democrat Watch Parties on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 14 at Salvador’s Restaurant in Ajijic. 

St. Andrew’s Anglican

Responding to those who wonder if the evening of October 31 is satanic or sacred, hellish or wholesome, Fr. Winston Welty’s sermon title for on Sunday, November 1 makes his view clear. “Baptizing Halloween” insists that the childlike humor of that night is a wonderful prelude to the celebration of All Saints Day. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m. Refreshments are served in the garden after the service. 

While extended Mexican families have many hands to keep up the tombs of their deceased relatives, who is looking after grave sites of foreigners buried at the Chapala cemetery, most of whom have no local survivors?

Lake Chapala area residents will note not a pause, but rather an intense burst of activity as Mexico’s idiosyncratic commemorations of All Saints and All Souls build steam this weekend, continuing through Monday, November 2, Dia de los Fieles Difuntos (Day of the Faithful Dead).

As a throng of devoted pilgrims accompanied the Virgin of Zapopan in the traditional Romería procession held last week in the state capital, Chapala’s faithful congregated for a simultaneous celebration at the waterfront Malecón.