The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On November 25, 1816, a ragtag band of Indian rebels surrendered Mezcala Island to General Jose de la Cruz, commander of Royalist troops assigned to hold the Lake Chapala region. The truce closed a remarkable though obscure chapter in the story of the country’s independence movement.
On hand for the opening of the Festival de las Aves, prominent lakeside birders John and Rosemary Keeling (center) joined event organizers Alejandro Juarez and Julieta Reinaldi to show off paper placements given out as souvenirs to encourage conservation of winged species like the roseate spoonbill, northern shoveler, white pelican and long-billed dowitcher.
Festivities to commemorate the 1910 outbreak of La Revolucion Mexicana along Lake Chapala’s north shore will span November 19 and 20.
Workers this week began to remove seats, wall coverings and the stage floor at Ajijic’s auditorium, as the project to renovate some aspects of the town’s premier performance space finally got underway.
Lakeside area activists cried victory over this week’s news that plans for building a parallel line of the Chapala-Guadalajara aqueduct have been scrapped by the Guadalajara metro area’s water authority (Siapa).
Flying with Aeromexico this month? Be sure to take a look at the November issue of its bilingual in-flight magazine Escala.
A local pediatrician is stepping up her efforts to find sponsors so young people at Lakeside can continue their educations.
The Collective for the Rights of Children (CODENI) will return to Ajijic Saturday, November 24, to open a photography exhibit, “Daily Images 2012,” in the second floor café at the Ajijic Cultural Center on the Ajijic plaza.
Just as huge flocks of white pelicans are flying in from the north to touch down at their winter home, the Festival de las Aves del Lago de Chapala welcomes them with the third annual celebration of the region’s rich and diverse winged wild life.
