Expat Living

Emergency service personnel from throughout the lakeside region gathered Monday, April 11 for a heartfelt, full-color tribute to colleague Jorge Chavez Rameño who perished in a highway accident the previous Saturday night.

In contrast with the heated encounter with villagers in Santa Cruz de la Soledad experienced last week, Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado and key staffers received a warmer welcome and no fire-works at the public audience held Wednesday, April 13 at the Ajijic Plaza.

Under the supervision of Chapala Public Sanitation Department director Juan Cuevas (at left in black cowboy hat), a crew of street sweepers set to work last Saturday clearing litter and weeds from upper Ajijic’s Calle Encarnación Rosas.

Gran Kermes, fun-filled family fair to benefit the Programa Pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago (Pro-Niños), will be held Sunday, April 17, at Chapala’s Cristiania Park, with unprecedented backing from the Mexican community at large.

Now that the dust from a colossal three-day shindig has settled and the requisite number-crunching done, board members of the Mexican National Chili Cook-off completed their 2016 mission with the distribution of proceeds among seven deserving community organizations.

Ben White was re-elected as the president of the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) board of directors at the recent annual members meeting.