Canadian Club
The Canadian Club meets Wednesday, November 28, at La Nueva Posada (Donato Guerra 9, Ajijic), when the special guest will be Robert Reid, the U.S. Travel Editor of “The Lonely Planet.”
Reid is frequently seen on television discussing travel trends and pens two dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks as well as for prominent print media publications.
He has visited most Canadian cities (Montreal is his favorite) and is willing to entertain local Canadians at the meeting with his observations.
The social hour will begin at 3 p.m. with Reid speaking at 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Guests pay 50 pesos each. Yearly club membership is 180 pesos and includes four 25-peso drink tickets. Get there early for this one. There will certainly be a houseful.
Early Holiday
The Upscale Resale shop is throwing a pre-holiday party on Wednesday, November 14, 1-4 p.m. for their friends and patrons.
Lots of decorations, Christmas trees and suitable holiday gifts are arriving each day. Besides enjoying the traditional punch and cookies, two lucky shoppers will win a set of four Waterford crystal tumblers in a drawing that will take place at the end of the party.
Volunteers hope that you will show up and help celebrate nearly three years of helping to support the Hope House and La Ola children’s homes.
Also being sold in November and December at Upscale Resale are raffle tickets to benefit La Ola. Winning prizes are 10,000 and 5,000 pesos at the drawing to be held at La Ola in Jocotepec on December 15.
Upscale Resale is located on the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar near Mom’s Restaurant and Maskaras Clinic. The new phone number is (376) 106-0882.
Seminar
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) seminars are back. The first of the season will be held on Tuesday, November 13, at noon in the LCS Sala and will be chaired by Fred Harland.
The seminar will feature (via TED Internet podcast) Yoav Medan, a specialist in MRI-guided ultrasound technology. He will show how MRI can locate trouble spots such as brain lesions and cancer and how ultrasound can then treat them; raising the possibility of a world using surgery with no knives involved. The seminars are open to all LCS members.
Champagne lunch
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church is inviting everyone to a yummy lunch of quiche, salad, home-made muffins and dessert on Friday, November 16. All this goodness will be centered on the women of St. Andrew’s modeling hot Regalorama Boutique fashions that you can buy at inspiring prices. The no-host bar opens at 1 p.m. and lunch (with piano music) following at 2 p.m. The cost is 170 pesos and both men and women are welcome. St. Andrew’s is in Riberas del Pilar on Calle San Lucas. The telephone number is 765-3926 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Navy League
The next meeting of the Navy League Lake Chapala Council will be on Saturday, November 17 at Manix Restaurant, Calle Ocampo 57 in Ajijic. The luncheon meeting will begin at 1 p.m.
The speaker will be Jorge Ochoa Ochoa, the Port Captain/Harbor Master of Lake Chapala. His presentation will provide information on the responsibilities of the Port Captain Office at Lake Chapala and the implementation of new procedures in the system of Harbor Masters.
Ochoa has opened offices and served as Port Captain in Puerto Marus, Nueva Vallarta, Acapulco and Cabo San Lucas after a long career on various ships of the merchant marine and in shipbuilding facilities. This is bound to be an interesting and informative talk.
If you plan to attend the meeting, please call or email Council President Denny Strole before November 15 at 766-0485 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
You need not have had prior military service to join the Navy League. The Council is open to all, regardless of nationality.
Bus trips
Next month’s Lake Chapala Society bus trip to Guadalajara will be to the Galerias Mall on Wednesday, December 5. The bus will leave from the sculpture in La Floresta at 9 a.m. This mall contains a plethora of well-known stores, including Liverpool, Sears, Best Buy, Krispy Kreme, Sanborn’s, as well as a food hall, cafes and many fine restaurants. Adjacent to the covered mall is Wal Mart, Sam’s, Costco and the Mega store. Sign up at the LCS table Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The round trip ticket costs 200 pesos.
There are still a few seats left for the trip to the crafts centers of Tonala and Tlaquepaque on Wednesday, November 14.
Christmas at Jaltepec
There are still a few tickets still left for the Christmas luncheon to be hosted by the Technical University in Hotel and Hospitality Management in Jaltepec, although the dinner tickets are sold out.
The event on Wednesday, December 12, begins at noon with a no-host bar and complimentary hors’d oeuvres. Los Cantantes Choir will present a taste of their most recent accomplishments at 1:15 p.m. and lunch will begin at 2 p.m.
The menu includes cold carrot soup with orange, roast turkey with sausage stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce and potatoes with seasonal vegetables. Dessert will be rose water with raspberry-wrapped sponge cake.
A donation of 400 pesos per person gets you into the luncheon event. Please RSVP before Tuesday, December 4 to Linda Buckthorp at 766-1631.
Your attendance will help the needier students of this school. The young women who graduate from this school find good jobs and are able to help their younger siblings get educations and raise the economic standard of their family units.
For the critters
The monthly cat and dog food drive is on for Thursday, November 15, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Animal Shelter pet food store.
Your purchase helps the Animal Shelter cats as well as Anita’s Animals or your choice of animal rescue group.
You can make a purchase of dog or cat food any time if you can’t make it to the food drive. Just inform the clerk as to which animal rescue group the purchase is for and the shelter will hold the donation purchase for pickup. (Don’t forget to tell the rescue group that they have something waiting for them.)
There are sill “in-coming” kittens and puppies from this last birthing season. Besides buying food for adult cats and dogs, consider a donation of kitten or puppy food.
Fundraiser
Los Niños de Chapala y Ajijic (NCA) will hold a fundraiser on Saturday, December 1, 4-11 p.m. on the grounds of the Lake Chapala Society. The 250-peso ticket includes great music by Anikan and luscious BBQ ribs and chicken from Tony’s Restaurant and one margarita or soft drink. Tickets are on sale at the Lake Chapala Society, Diane Pearl Colecciones, Actinver Ajijic, the NCA Bazaar (east of S&S Auto), Salvador’s (Wednesday Tianguis only), Mel’s Diner (at the back of the Ajijic Hotel), the NCA Chapala office at 765-7032 or by calling (376) 108-0303.
Prayer
A weekly Centering Prayer group is now meeting at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Riberas del Pilar. They meet from 10:30 a.m. until noon on Tuesdays. Centering Prayer is a form of meditation in the Christian tradition. All are welcome. Please contact Erin Knox at 766-2713 for information.
Presbyterians
Do you ever wonder if you’ll be good enough for God? Pastor Ross Arnold’s message on Sunday, November 11, “Calling the Doctor,” from Mark 2: 13-17, will show you why you can stop worrying. Worship begins at 10 a.m.
The Friday morning interactive Bible study at 10 a.m. continues in the book of Acts.
Set aside November 15 to join Lakeside Presbyterian Church for their Thanksgiving Dinner celebration. It’s free and includes turkey with all the traditional side dishes. Just RSVP to Pat Courtney at 766-1404 so they know how many turkeys to roast.
The church is located on the mountain side of the Carretera just west of S&S Auto and Bubba’s Restaurant.
Christ Church Anglican
Christ Church will celebrate the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost on November 11 with the Holy Eucharist Rite II at The Little Chapel by the Lake at 9:30 a.m. The theme of Jim Powers’ sermon is “Self-denying Sacrifice,” based on Mark 12: 38-44. There will be a time of joint fellowship for the congregations of Christ Church and the Little Chapel by the Lake after the 9:30 a.m. service of Christ Church and before the 11:15 a.m. service of the Little Chapel. Powers will preach the same sermon at both services.
Unitarians
The Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Sta. Margarita 113 in Riberas del Pilar. November 11, in honor of U.S. Veterans Day, Marion Blackmer will give a talk entitled “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” The presentation will be mostly music with some commentary. There will be a coffee hour following the service. For more information call 766-1119 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
St. Andrew’s Anglican
St. Andrew’s returns to its “high season” schedule on November 11 with two services each Sunday: one at 9 a.m. and the other at 11 a.m. There will be the usual time of welcome, fellowship and refreshment in between the services.
This week the Bible readings at St. Andrew’s confront us with the contrast between cultural values and God’s values. The examples of two widows are held up: one down to her last meal and the other down to her last penny. The story describes the decision each ones makes.
St. Andrew’s is located at Calle San Lucas 19, just one block south of the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.