Survivors
The next Survivor’s Night will be held on Monday, September 24, 6 p.m. at La Bodega Restaurant (16 de Septiembre 124, Ajijic). This is not a forum where those attending testify to what they have survived – everyone has survived something. It’s an opportunity to be with other survivors and have a good time. Be there!
Genealogy
The Genealogy Forum will meet on Monday, September 24, 2-4 p.m. in the Sala at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).
This month’s presentation is called “Finding Your Family Stories.” You will learn where to look for the stories that add so much to family history. Also take along some of your favorite family stories that you have found and tell how you found them. The Genealogy Forum meets the last Monday of the month.
Spanish class
Introductory Spanish classes at the Lake Chapala (LCS) will start on October 2 and will be held each Tuesday of the month, noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuition for the four-week program is 150 pesos, including all materials.
Registration for these upcoming classes is under way at the LCS office on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. LCS membership is required. Additional information can be found on the LCS website at www.lakechapalasociety.com.
LCS is located at Calle 16 de Septiembre 16-A in Ajijic. The telephone number is 766-1140.
Thanksgiving
The Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Post 7 invites everyone to join them in celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday, October 8.
Cocktails start at 1 p.m. and dinner at 2 p.m. The menu will feature roast turkey with homemade stuffing and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, broccoli salad, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie with or without whipped cream. There will be a 50/50 draw and, as is the custom with some Royal Canadian Legions, a meat draw. The price for this event is just 150 pesos and tickets are available at the post, Morelos 114 in Chapala, or from some members. Telephone (376) 765-5752 to reserve.
Dinner at Jaltepec
Jaltepec Centro Educativo, the university training young women for work in the hospitality industry, will hold a fund-raising dinner Wednesday, October 17, with the no-host bar opening at 6 p.m. (Tim Welch will provide the cocktail music.)
The menu is beet crepes with fresh cheese, main course choice of fish Papillote (foil wrapped) or chicken breast with Parmesan cheese, either with asparagus and tomato salad with white wine vinegar dressing. Dessert is Black Forest Cake. Tea or coffee comes with the dinner (regular or decaf).
The donation is 350 pesos per person for the dinner. Contact Linda Buckthorpe at 766-1631 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before Tuesday, October 9 with your main course preference. Tickets will be available for pick up from Multiva’s reception desk as of October 10.
Your attendance will help the needier students of this technical university. The support makes a difference, not only to these young women but also to their families as the economic standard of those families is raised.
Thanks
Some of the families of the children helped by Programa Pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago will say thanks for the help they have been given with a “kermes” (small country fair) on Sunday, October 21, in Chapala’s Cristiania Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The mothers will donate their cooking and serve up a delicious selection of Mexican food. There will also be a bazaar.
Chapala City Hall will donate all proceeds from tickets to enter the park (five pesos for adults, two pesos for children), the use of the swimming pool and the lavatories to the program. Everyone is encouraged to come and have a great time.
Fashion show
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church will sponsor its annual Regalorama Fashion Show on November 16. The show is a forerunner to the fund-raising event that benefits several local charitable organizations. To that end, St. Andrew’s is looking for donations of “gently used” clothing (men’s, women’s and children’s) to be used in the fashion show.
Take clothing donations to St. Andrew’s Anglican Church office Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and noon. St. Andrew’s is located in Riberas del Pilar at San Lucas 19. Call the office to arrange pick-up at (376) 765-3926.
Good news
Martha Nussgen says the classes in nursing and elder-care sponsored by the Chapala Family Development Agency (DIF) are now filled and almost all the women (aged 18 to 50) have their own financial sponsors. Thanks everyone for reading and responding.
Looking for junk
Libby Townsend of the Tarahumara Project is looking for your junk for her upcoming annual giant yard sale.
You can take your donations to the Guadalajara Reporter office in Plaza Bugambilias, Monday through Friday from 10:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Or, if you have a lot of stuff or can’t make it to Plaza Bugambilias, call 766-1167 for pick-up.
Folks in Guadalajara or in neighborhoods around Lake Chapala can collect their stuff together and call for the truck. She’ll accept anything as long as it’s legal, she doesn’t have to feed it, freeze it or clean up after it.
The yard sale is held each fall to benefit the free Tarahumara hospital in the Copper Canyon (Santa Teresita).
Christ Church Anglican
Christ Church Anglican Fellowship will celebrate the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost on September 23 with the Holy Eucharist Rite I, 9:30 a.m. at The Little Chapel by the Lake.
The topic of Father Danny Borkowski’s sermon is “Servant of the Servants of God,” based on Mark 9:30-37. There will be a joint fellowship time for Christ Church and congregation of the Little Chapel by the Lake at 10:30 a.m. Christ Church people please park on the left hand side of the driveway.
Unitarians
The Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Santa Margarita 113 in Riberas del Pilar.
Sunday, September 23, the program will focus on balance, honoring the Autumn Equinox when there is equal day and night. Presented by Kathy Koches and Jan Steinbright, the presentation will take up the topics of balance in our lives and in nature. Everyone is welcome. A luncheon get-together will follow. For more information please call 766-1119 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. This is a welcoming congregation.
St. Andrew’s Anglican
“A Children’s Sermon” is on tap at St. Andrew’s Sunday, September 23. Worship begins at 10 a.m. and is always followed by a time of refreshment and fellowship. The church is located at Calle San Lucas 19, just a block south of the carretera in Riberas del Pilar.
Presbyterians
Pastor Ross Arnold’s message at Lakeside Presbyterian Church on Sunday, September 23 is “Building for the Kingdom.” It’s about growing, loving, healing and just being more.
Worship begins at 10 a.m. The Friday morning interactive Bible study at 10 a.m. continues in the book of Acts.
Friday, September 28, the Church is hosting a free movie, “Love’s Abiding Joy,” at 6:45 p.m. Popcorn is included! The church is located on the mountain side of the Carretera just west of S&S Auto and Bubba’s Restaurant.