Expat Living

Staffers at the Chapala Country Club and the Vista del Lago homeowners association are now well prepared to come to the rescue in medical emergencies after completing a course in advanced first-aid techniques conducted by Cruz Roja Chapala. 

Each year Cyndie Zikmund leaves her San Jose, California home to devote her two-week vacation leading groups of underprivileged children in a series of delightful songs, dances and art and craft exercises, designed to help them learn about other cultures and to build their self-confidence. 

The most painless place to pay is the nearest Recaudora (State tax office). It will take a matter of minutes unless the date you go coincides with the last days of January through April when long lines of customers show up to pay annual auto registration fees. 

Lakeside area motorists looking for a mechanic shop to take cars and trucks for inspection to comply with Jalisco’s obligatory emission testing program will find an authorized station at Taller Mecánico y Hologramas, Zaragoza 375 in central Chapala, open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,  telephone 765-2141.

A class of 70 municipal police officers from Chapala, Jocotepec and other lakeshore region communities were awarded diplomas for completing a three-week training course in basic criminology conducted by professors from Guadalajara’s Colegio Libre de Estudios Universitarios (CLEU).

A large container truck pulled up at the Villa Infantil de Guadalupe y San Jose last week loaded with non-perishable Heinz foods, fruits and other supplies with an estimated value of around 120,000 pesos.