Recicladora de la Ribera de Chapala (RRC), the privately operated plastic recycling outfit located in Riberas del Pilar, has been forced to close its doors due to financial concerns and practical hurdles in a community that has not fully adopted the concepts of waste separation and reuse.

Instituto Internacional Octavio Paz (IIOP) has become the first lakeside learning institution to qualify for the International Baccalaureate (IB) World School network, with authorization to offer the IB Diploma Programme for the next term within its bilingual or Spanish-only high school level curricula.

Managing garbage is an expensive business for the municipality of Chapala. City hall ecology chief Moctezuma Medina Corona says it costs the government about 17,000 pesos to collect and dispose of 60 tons of refuse – an average of 1.3 kilograms per person –each and every day.

The Jalisco Water Commission (CEA) has emitted a gloomy forecast for Lake Chapala, predicting that it will shrivel over the next two years until the water level plunges to close to the record low marks of 1955 and 2002.

Experience Ajijic village life of yesteryear at the Jamaica del Pasado, a traditional fair set for Sunday, April 13, 4 to 11 p.m., at the central plaza.

A sign that kayaking is becoming the hip and trendy aquatic sport at Lake Chapala is the second annual mass paddling excursion programmed for Sunday, April 13.