Fleets of small vessels will leave port at Chapala’s Club de Yates this weekend as the Copa Porche regatta kicks off the first segment of Sailing Week Mexico 2018.

Mexican actor-screenwriter Julio Aldama Jr. heeded the call of “roll cameras” this week as production began on “En La Linea,” a feature length film to be shot over two weeks at various Chapala locations.

Despite several major public works projects yet to be finished, the Chapala government is undertaking additional street upgrades at three points in the Tepehua neighborhood.

Pastor Ken Armstrong has announced that the Little Chapel by the Lake is beginning a special relationship with the Instituto de Formación para el Trabajo de Estado de Jalisco (IDEFT), to provide career training for local, Spanish-speaking students (ages 15 through adult).

The Northern Lights Festival de Febrero, a normally joyous occasion featuring an international array of musicians assembled lakeside for two weeks of aural art, was darkened by sudden tragedy Friday, February 16, when accordion virtuoso Alexander Sevastian died of a heart attack in his room, just a few hours before he was slated to perform with Toronto-based jazz group Quartetto Gelato. He was just 41 years old.

Lakeside’s 40th annual Chili Cookoff fires up Friday, February 23, running through Sunday, February 25 at the Tobolandia Water Park located on the Chapala-Ajijic highway just west of the Libramiento junction.