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.

Oaxacan weavers Lucio and Antonieta Ruiz will station a temporary workshop at the Ajijic plaza from Wednesday, April 16 through Sunday, April 20 to demonstrate the labor intensive handiwork involved in creating a traditional Zapotec tapete (rug).

A group of 39 San Juan Cosalá children were treated to a first-ever trip to the Guadalajara Zoo.

Pedro Garcia Aguilar, the new head man at the Lake Chapala area’s division of the Secretaría de Movilidad, comes to his job with clear leadership goals.

Personnel from the Chapala Ministerio Público (district attorney’s office) and the human rights division of Jalisco’s Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) set up for business at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) campus on Tuesday, April 1, making good on the recent pledges of Governor Aristótoles Sandoval and Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera to enhance service to local expatriates who become the victims of crime.