Work crews from the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) have been out in the field throughout August in an effort to correct the recurrent power failures that have plagued La Floresta residents during this year’s rainy season.

Recalibrating for the final haul of his three-year term of office, Chapala Mayor Joaquin Huerta has named two new officials to fill department chief vacancies and shuffled around several other top staffers to other positions.

For years, the brave men of the Chapala Fire Department were largely ignored by the local community, which has been blissfully unaware of the difficult conditions they  are forced to labor under.

Much is now changing, thanks  in large part to the efforts of local organizations and their networks that extend into the United States.

An exhibition of traditional Mexican equestrian arts will be presented in a fiesta atmosphere Sunday, August 31 at Ajijic’s Lienzo Charro arena, located on Calle Revolución, a block and a half south of the highway.

Workmen are going gang busters to finish repaving Ajijic’s Calle Revolución after Chapala’s Public Works Department chief Elia Ibarra resolved a minor dust-up with town administrator Hector España over the project blueprint.

Tapping excellent political connections, innate business sense, abiding love for his hometown and the proverbial Luck of the Irish, John Francis O’Shea Cuevas seems to have everything going for him to lead Jocotepec to a bright and prosperous future.