The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As you hang up your 2018 calendar, you may want to mark important Mexican civic holidays, traditional festivities and special events that will come up over the next 12 months.
A large delivery truck pulled up in front of Chapala’s Municipal Health Clinic Thursday, December 21, to drop off a load of donated medical equipment shipped in from the United States.
Jalisco Education Minster Alfonso Gómez and his counterpart from the department of labor, Tomás Figueroa, were in Chapala Monday, December 18, to deliver 455 buckets of vinyl paint and 301 containers of waterproofing supplies to the administrators of 22 public schools.
A few restaurants are serving up special dishes for the holidays. Here are a few we know about.
St. Andrew’s Anglican
This coming weekend, St. Andrew’s will celebrate the annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Sunday morning, and then that evening, Christmas Eve, and the next day, Christmas Day, we will celebrate God coming to us in the flesh in Jesus Christ.
Jewish Congregation
Shabbat Torah services are held the first and third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m., and Shabbat evening services and potluck every second and fourth Friday, 6 p.m. at the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation.
Children in the Lake Chapala region celebrate the holiday season by reenacting the Holy Family’s search for shelter in Bethlehem in the traditional Posada processions held in different neighborhoods every day December 16 through 24.
