Water tanks, solar heaters, bathroom fixtures, roofing panels and sacks of cement were distributed to 650 Chapala area families this week to complete the delivery of home improvement supplies budgeted for 2020 and provided through the “Jalisco Revive tu Hogar” social assistance program.

In addition to the persons named in last week’s edition of this newspaper, new faces are still emerging on the local political landscape in the final days for filing registrations to seek official candidacies in Chapala’s 2021 mayoral race.

After a sharp spike during December, Chapala’s official Covid-19 death toll has shown a downward trend over the first six weeks of 2021.

Passersby may get a sense that Spring has sprung along Calle Colón, Ajijic’s central north-south thoroughfare where personnel from the Delegacíon this week nailed up dozens of plastic flower pots holding geranium plants in bloom on the exterior walls of homes and businesses.

Isaac Trejo Gracián, a key Chapala City Hall official, has revealed that he was the target of a recent telephone extortion scam.

Pack a big red bus with portable carriers, load them up with 58 Mexican mutts and make a quick dash for the border.