Water, Light and Hope is the name of the inspirational festival that will be held Saturday, October 5, 4 to 10 p.m., at Chapala’s Cristiania Park.

National pride and patriotic spirits will grip the lakeside area over the next ten days as the populace gears up for the anniversary of the 1810 start of Mexico’s Independence struggle against Spanish rule.

Former Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado González, who currently holds an elective seat on the city council, is among 219 former City Hall employees who have filed labor suits against the municipality.

Few Lakesiders know about a local treasure that has been quietly presiding over our beautiful corner of the world on the razor’s edge of the Sierra Madres for the past four decades.

On a wet morning, under the kind of light but steady rainfall the locals call chipi-chip, Servando Flores Raygoza took off at the front of the pack of 60 runners lined up at the starting gate for Ajijic’s sixth annual La Campanaria Mountain Race, held Saturday, August 24.

Expect lively action at the Ajijic plaza this weekend as villagers come together to honor the memory of two of their most distinguished inhabitants: Julia Ramos Velázquez de España and Crescencio Ramos Heredia.