In the interest of saving lives and assuring the best possible care for patients facing medical emergencies, Cruz Roja Chapala’s International Volunteers committee (CRIVC) has developed a handy and low-cost Medical Information Kit that can serve as a vital guide for first responders and doctors.

With the 2014 United States election cycle now in progress, the Guadalajara Consulate General sponsored an outreach session on the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) on Tuesday, January 14 at the Lake Chapala Society headquarters in Ajijic. 

Since time immemorial, humans have traced rustic pathways into the mountain range overlooking Lake Chapala’s north shore. One of the trails that has become a popular route among hikers and mountain runners, as well as generations of highland farmers and hunters, leads out from upper Ajijic to El Tepalo, the first of three waterfalls located in the Cerro de la Chupinaya.

Inspectors from Chapala’s regulations office and local police are keeping a watchful eye on the Rancho del Oro site where a cellular phone transmission tower has been under construction.

Four well-established authors will rub elbows with local scribes during three days of activities scheduled for the 10th Annual Lake Chapala Writers Conference, set for February 26 through 28 at Ajijic’s Hotel Danza del Sol.

The Chapala government is well along the path to running one of the most up-to-date and technically sophisticated municipal land registry offices in Jalisco, if not the nation, according to the city’s Catastro director Juan Carlos Pelayo.