Expat Living

Scott Weidman, director of Communications and Outreach for the Federal Voting Assistance Program with the U.S. Department of Defense, will give the presentation “Americans Can Vote – Wherever They Are!” At two venues in the Lake Chapala area on Wednesday, January 27. Weidman will talk at the American Legion Post Seven in Chapala from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and then at the Lake Chapala Society from noon to 1 p.m. 

Join the drive to combat winter chills that beleaguer the native tribes living deep in the mountains at the edge of northern Mexico’s Copper Canyon by attending the Tarahumara Blanket Party on Sunday, January 31, 1-5 p.m., at La Bodega Restaurant, 16 de Septiembre 124, Ajijic. 

The Lakeside Carolers have morphed into Lakeside Singers.  The group is now doing sing-alongs at various assisted living homes twice a month.

Christ Church Episcopal has been taking its “Church-in-a-Box” to La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family) church in Mazamitla since 2012.

Lakeside Presbyterian

On Sunday, January 24, the guest speaker at Lakeside Presbyterian Church will be Pastor Max DeBeeson.  His message is entitled “A Church With Vision.” Pastor DeBeeson takes as his texts Proverbs 29:18 and Acts 20:20. Worship begins at 10 a.m.

The Chapala police force again celebrated Three Kings Day by distributing apples to children along the Malecon and in the downtown area of Chapala.