Chili Cookoff organizers hand out handsome checks to local charities
Eight Lakeside charities were the beneficiaries of the profits procured from the Ajijic Chili Cookoff held in February at the Tobolandia water park.
Eight Lakeside charities were the beneficiaries of the profits procured from the Ajijic Chili Cookoff held in February at the Tobolandia water park.
Under the guidance of new director Candido Cardenas Flores, the Escuela Preparatoria Regional de Chapala may soon open its doors to lakeside expats for language instruction and other cross-cultural activities.
When Tepehua Community Center volunteer Connie Smith met Susan Shanley, the New York artist had just completed a large mural in an impoverished area of Ecuador. She was looking around for a space for another mural, particularly in an impoverished area. Smith convinced Shanley that she knew just the place – the Tepehua Community Center located in the hills above the town of Chapala.
Chapala Red Cross volunteers will take to the streets as of this weekend to seek cash donations from passing motorists. The annual roadside fund-raising campaign is slated to continue through April 15, spanning the busy Easter holiday tourist season.
During the annual Synod meeting, Christ Church Anglican Fellowship of Ajijic shared seating with another organized mission of the Diocese of Western Mexico in the Anglican Church of Mexico.
The three Mariposa projects at the Love in Action Children’s Shelter are bringing much needed identity and human contact to children who live without a family and often see the outside world as uncaring.
Esteemed, opinionated and often controversial Canadian journalist and author Allan Fotheringham (also known as Dr. Foth) will be the speaker at the next meeting of the Lake Chapala Canadian Club on Wednesday, March 14 at Hotel La Nueva Posada.