Certified End-of-Life Care Practitioner Loretta Downs will coordinate a four-session Making Friends with Death workshop sponsored by the Heart of Awareness Buddhist Community. Downs has been a companion to the dying for 30 years, and is founder of Chrysalis End-of-Life Inspirations. She holds a masters degree in Gerontology, is also a certified senior advisor and past-president of the Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition.

The fun-packed Fiesta Mexicana sponsored by the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) is scheduled for Saturday, January 31 from 2:30 to 7 p.m. at the group’s 16 de Septiembre campus in Ajijic. 

Issuance of Jalisco drivers licenses at the Chapala branch of the Secretaria de Movlidad (SeMov) has been suspended for more than two months due to a breakdown of the office’s link to the agency computer system. 

The prime suspect in a rash of home break-ins in central Chapala is under the lock and key of law enforcement captured during a dramatic police chase fit for the script of a cops-and-robbers action flick.

Firefighters from Chapala, Jocotepec, San Nicolás de Ibarra and San Juan Cosalá will be looking for glory on the grassy pitch of Chapala’s main soccer field in the day-long Torneo de Fútbol set for Saturday, January 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The competition schedule calls for preliminary games starting at 10 and Noon, with the championship match to capture the winner’s trophy following at 2 p.m. 

With the 2015 election campaign season now on the horizon, a large field of contenders has emerged to chase the seat as Chapala’s next mayor, with a single female standing out in the line-up.